Is that kinda like squaresoft's marketing of the Final Fantasy series.
O the last one was good, but wait until you see this one. I think there was
a slashdot review of this topic.:) Oh and can't forget CmdrTaco's
posting of the discussion on FFXI
Here is a link to the MIT distribution
site for PGP freeware. I haven't tried the GNU
Privacy gaurd yet, but the MIT site seems to be more comprehensive in comparison.
For instance they have a.exe for Windows 95/98/NT/2000! and the Macintosh and
a Command Line version for UNIX. Although you need One of these flavors of UNIX:
Sun Solaris for SPARC version 2.51 or later; AIX 4.2 or later; HPUX 10.20 or later;
and of course Linux x86 Red Hat (RPM) 5.0 or later. To encypt mail they use something
being developed on sourceforge [woo hoo] called Mailcrypt
. It does say on the Mailcrypt site that they now support both PGP and GnuPG.
So now I am not sure of the difference between the two.
it took the equivalent of a set of supercomputers running for five days,
24 hours a day, to find the key.
That is impressive! Can anyone find more information related to what type of
Parallel Computing Method they used to crack the 40 bit? Did they use a SGI
or an cluster of Linux/NT machines?
In the New Scientist article I saw an interesting quote "If you go
much beyond 56 bit it is outside the realm of possible."
It certainly is within the realm of possibilities that in a couple of years when Quantum Computing is more developed even
128 bit encryption won't be considered a "safe" level. Now that is a technology that we should
keep a close eye on!
Thinking of downloading a free share program, ever wonder how RIAA can attack
you? The following was taken from their website outlining how the DMCA can be
used against you and I.
"The DMCA law also delineates the responsibilities of Internet service
providers (ISPs) in cases of infringement online. For example, the law formalizes
a notice and takedown procedure between ISPs and copyright owners. It is now
clear that when an ISP is aware it is posting or transmitting infringing content,
the ISP must act to remove the infringing works or it may be liable for any
resulting damages." snip
So what has RIAA been
up to? The following is proof that they have been busy using their precious
DMCA.
The RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit seized 1,257,796 illegal CD-Rs by midyear 2001, this
is up 133% compared to midyear of 2000. Here is a link
to a pdf with their mid year statistics for 2001; and then I will end my rant
on RIAA because I don't want to get too offtopic:)
On Cnet they keep track of the most
popular mp3 search utilities. Morpheus comes in first this week with slightly
less than a million and a half downloads; it has an impressive 42 million total
downloads. Remember back to the height of Napster's popularity, they had a supposed
200 million users. This number shouldn't be compared to the number of total
downloads due to the possibility of users creating multiple accounts.
Also on Cnet, Napster
2.0 beta 10.4 the one that was reviewed in the article has a ghastly approval
rating of 0.099. That means that less than one hundredth of the people that
downloaded the new pay-for-play Napster actually liked it. Going through the
user reviews of the products it appears that they find that Napster falls short
of the free clients, it certainly is apparent that it does not yet have the
user base that Free Nappyster enjoyed.
For the electronic junkies out there I would recommend a less well known file
sharing client known as SoulSeek.
You can download it not from
Cnet, but from their own website. The latest version is 104 and it includes
dedicated techno/electronica service with a great user base; "Private messaging
capabilities with both online and off-line users; Folder based file-sharing,
which allows for more convenient browsing and downloading; Fine-grained control
over file-sharing, with the ability to restrict access to a select list of users,
as well as the ability to disallow access to specific users; Fine-grained transfer
queue management, with the ability to restrict the number of uploads and downloads
per-user and in total; File searching with users in room or in user list; Wishlist
that takes search patterns for easy automatic notification when certain files
become shared; A generic personalized recommendation system." snip
Now that these Pier to Pier file sharing networks have taken over, they are
looking for ways
to make money. Maybe to pay their programmers and lawyers. Beware of the
adervistements that come bundled along with the install for the more popular
sharing clients, such as Audiogalaxy. These bundled programs are known as SpyWare.
-If I metamoderated myself I would care more about karma
[taken from article]
"It used to be that a person sitting in one place could get or send information anywhere in the world," said Jack Goldsmith, a professor of international law at the University of Chicago. "But now the Internet is starting to act more like real space with all its limitations."
Mr. Goldsmith doesn't realize how long the tax limitations to selling goods and services within the continental U.S. has been in effect. When he says that the Internet is "starting" to act like unified body with limitations as the commerce that is performed over it, he is falling short due to his shortsighted view of how the internet actually works.
The exchange of finances over the internet will be regulated and the level of regulation will be expected to increase as the globalized business initiative seeks to find profitable net models.
We already can see over the past few years the amount of services on the net has increased dramatically. The article refers to offshore gambling activities. I remember reading in an article about U.S. citizens whom moved to the Latin American countries to start their own offshore online casino operations.
If this article and post had any originality they would have done some research to look at the most profitable location to place online casino's. I am interested in extending the businesses of already successful casino's located in the best Casino town/country that I know of, Las Vegas.
Hopefully my comments will illicit some response from the Slashdot readers.:)
damn I just wrote a whole big thing.. previewed it.. and then hit back space
cause the spacing on it sucked.. and lost the entire thing..!!!!
Rewrite that slashcode guys!!!
:)
Uh anyone who has the time. MAYBE THE AUTHOR... Be willing to post links to
the actual location of the pictures of this device.. I couldn't find them with
the hyperlink that the AUTHOR included in his post. This seems like just another
article posted by someone whose only concern is to post as many articles as
possible without taking the time to research the subject and his posting properly.
An extension of Training Day movie reviews.
on
Review: Training Day
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Movie Reviews
Training Day
Here is a link to Amazon's
review of the movie. Here is a link to Yahoo's
review of the movie. [User Rating: (4.1/5) ]
"Training Day," for most of its length, is genuinely thrilling, explosively
cynical about life on the streets and in the squad cars. More strikingly, it
lets Washington play a really juicy heavy: hard driving, acid-tongued Detective
Sgt. Alonzo Harris. Harris is Washington's meanest, most brutal and dangerous
character in years -- an L.A. cop who's adjusted so completely to life among
the wolves that he's become a wolf himself. Washington is magnificently vicious
and wily in the role."
"Dares to be a cop movie based on character and not on pyrotechnics."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN
FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The film works a bit better as a vehicle for Washington, and it often
gets by on his devilish charm. But it loses all its punch as he becomes more
hissable."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Washington's performance is so good, in fact, that it may temporarily
blind you from seeing that the movie has obscured its message."
-- Sean Means, SALT
LAKE TRIBUNE
All
Posters.com as a poster of the show if you are looking for one.
Here is the director Antoine Fuqua's filmography.
I was interested to see if he was an action director that is continuing his
specialization or if he directed mainly heart felt drama's and was crossing
genre's. With a limited filmography that includes previous B+ rated action flicks
as The
Replacement Killers, it seems that he has the background to provide us with
an entertaining medium grade action flick. I would definately see this movie
over The
Musketeer.
Re:Article directly from the man, about the change
on
The New Zelda
·
· Score: 1
I agree !!
Each language has it's advantages and disadvantages. Java has a greater potential for building web connected devices and web based applets than C++ because of all the built in functionality. This does not mean that because the language does one thing good we should use that language for every programming task.
Slashdot Mirror
"not just another Linux distro?"
Is that kinda like squaresoft's marketing of the Final Fantasy series.
O the last one was good, but wait until you see this one. I think there was a slashdot review of this topic. :) Oh and can't forget CmdrTaco's
posting of the discussion on FFXI
Here is a link to the MIT distribution site for PGP freeware. I haven't tried the GNU Privacy gaurd yet, but the MIT site seems to be more comprehensive in comparison. For instance they have a .exe for Windows 95/98/NT/2000! and the Macintosh and
a Command Line version for UNIX. Although you need One of these flavors of UNIX:
Sun Solaris for SPARC version 2.51 or later; AIX 4.2 or later; HPUX 10.20 or later; and of course Linux x86 Red Hat (RPM) 5.0 or later. To encypt mail they use something being developed on sourceforge [woo hoo] called Mailcrypt . It does say on the Mailcrypt site that they now support both PGP and GnuPG. So now I am not sure of the difference between the two.
it took the equivalent of a set of supercomputers running for five days, 24 hours a day, to find the key.
That is impressive! Can anyone find more information related to what type of Parallel Computing Method they used to crack the 40 bit? Did they use a SGI or an cluster of Linux/NT machines?
In the New Scientist article I saw an interesting quote "If you go much beyond 56 bit it is outside the realm of possible."
It certainly is within the realm of possibilities that in a couple of years when Quantum Computing is more developed even 128 bit encryption won't be considered a "safe" level. Now that is a technology that we should keep a close eye on!
AudioGalaxy IMHO is the best free client out there . The others such as MusicCity's Morpheus, Bearshare, Limewire, and KaZaA all have been held accountable for copyright violations. You might remember the slashdot article entitled P2P vs. RIAA: RIAA Wins. Now aren't we glad that our government passed that wonderful law called The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[pdf]?
Thinking of downloading a free share program, ever wonder how RIAA can attack you? The following was taken from their website outlining how the DMCA can be used against you and I.
"The DMCA law also delineates the responsibilities of Internet service providers (ISPs) in cases of infringement online. For example, the law formalizes a notice and takedown procedure between ISPs and copyright owners. It is now clear that when an ISP is aware it is posting or transmitting infringing content, the ISP must act to remove the infringing works or it may be liable for any resulting damages." snip
So what has RIAA been up to? The following is proof that they have been busy using their precious DMCA.
The RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit seized 1,257,796 illegal CD-Rs by midyear 2001, this is up 133% compared to midyear of 2000. Here is a link to a pdf with their mid year statistics for 2001; and then I will end my rant on RIAA because I don't want to get too offtopic :)
On Cnet they keep track of the most popular mp3 search utilities. Morpheus comes in first this week with slightly less than a million and a half downloads; it has an impressive 42 million total downloads. Remember back to the height of Napster's popularity, they had a supposed 200 million users. This number shouldn't be compared to the number of total downloads due to the possibility of users creating multiple accounts.
Also on Cnet, Napster 2.0 beta 10.4 the one that was reviewed in the article has a ghastly approval rating of 0.099. That means that less than one hundredth of the people that downloaded the new pay-for-play Napster actually liked it. Going through the user reviews of the products it appears that they find that Napster falls short of the free clients, it certainly is apparent that it does not yet have the user base that Free Nappyster enjoyed.
For the electronic junkies out there I would recommend a less well known file sharing client known as SoulSeek. You can download it not from Cnet, but from their own website. The latest version is 104 and it includes dedicated techno/electronica service with a great user base; "Private messaging capabilities with both online and off-line users; Folder based file-sharing, which allows for more convenient browsing and downloading; Fine-grained control over file-sharing, with the ability to restrict access to a select list of users, as well as the ability to disallow access to specific users; Fine-grained transfer queue management, with the ability to restrict the number of uploads and downloads per-user and in total; File searching with users in room or in user list; Wishlist that takes search patterns for easy automatic notification when certain files become shared; A generic personalized recommendation system." snip
Now that these Pier to Pier file sharing networks have taken over, they are looking for ways to make money. Maybe to pay their programmers and lawyers. Beware of the adervistements that come bundled along with the install for the more popular sharing clients, such as Audiogalaxy. These bundled programs are known as SpyWare.
-If I metamoderated myself I would care more about karma
[taken from article]
:)
"It used to be that a person sitting in one place could get or send information anywhere in the world," said Jack Goldsmith, a professor of international law at the University of Chicago. "But now the Internet is starting to act more like real space with all its limitations."
Mr. Goldsmith doesn't realize how long the tax limitations to selling goods and services within the continental U.S. has been in effect. When he says that the Internet is "starting" to act like unified body with limitations as the commerce that is performed over it, he is falling short due to his shortsighted view of how the internet actually works.
The exchange of finances over the internet will be regulated and the level of regulation will be expected to increase as the globalized business initiative seeks to find profitable net models.
We already can see over the past few years the amount of services on the net has increased dramatically. The article refers to offshore gambling activities. I remember reading in an article about U.S. citizens whom moved to the Latin American countries to start their own offshore online casino operations.
If this article and post had any originality they would have done some research to look at the most profitable location to place online casino's. I am interested in extending the businesses of already successful casino's located in the best Casino town/country that I know of, Las Vegas.
Hopefully my comments will illicit some response from the Slashdot readers.
For a group project, even though it is a CS group, I think they did a great job of laying everything out.
uh .. i found some nevermind ... it looks cool!!
Definately Not off topic
damn I just wrote a whole big thing
cause the spacing on it sucked
Rewrite that slashcode guys!!!
:)
Uh anyone who has the time. MAYBE THE AUTHOR... Be willing to post links to
the actual location of the pictures of this device.. I couldn't find them with
the hyperlink that the AUTHOR included in his post. This seems like just another
article posted by someone whose only concern is to post as many articles as
possible without taking the time to research the subject and his posting properly.
Training Day
Here is a link to Amazon's review of the movie. Here is a link to Yahoo's review of the movie. [User Rating: (4.1/5) ]
Chicago Tribune said this about Training Day.
"Training Day," for most of its length, is genuinely thrilling, explosively cynical about life on the streets and in the squad cars. More strikingly, it lets Washington play a really juicy heavy: hard driving, acid-tongued Detective Sgt. Alonzo Harris. Harris is Washington's meanest, most brutal and dangerous character in years -- an L.A. cop who's adjusted so completely to life among the wolves that he's become a wolf himself. Washington is magnificently vicious and wily in the role."
"Dares to be a cop movie based on character and not on pyrotechnics."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The film works a bit better as a vehicle for Washington, and it often gets by on his devilish charm. But it loses all its punch as he becomes more hissable."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"A taut -- if violent -- police thriller."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Washington's performance is so good, in fact, that it may temporarily blind you from seeing that the movie has obscured its message."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
All Posters.com as a poster of the show if you are looking for one.
Here is the director Antoine Fuqua's filmography. I was interested to see if he was an action director that is continuing his specialization or if he directed mainly heart felt drama's and was crossing genre's. With a limited filmography that includes previous B+ rated action flicks as The Replacement Killers, it seems that he has the background to provide us with an entertaining medium grade action flick. I would definately see this movie over The Musketeer.
Here is the link to make it easier for everyone
Cube News
I agree !! Each language has it's advantages and disadvantages. Java has a greater potential for building web connected devices and web based applets than C++ because of all the built in functionality. This does not mean that because the language does one thing good we should use that language for every programming task.