If what you XOR against is generated in a cryptographically sound way, then the cyphertext is also cryptographically sound.
I'm not usre whether you're trolling, or just being serious, but in some circumstances, XORing can weaken a cipher. Take as an example WEP, which is based on RC4 encryption, but rather than encrypting the transmitted data itself with RC4, it XORs its data with an RC4-generated repeating stream of data. RC4 by itself would be sound, but the way of applying it makes the setup weak.
The attack against WEP does not attempt to crack RC4 (i.e. find out the WEP keys programmed into the access point), but it merely tries to find out portions of the blocks XORed against the data.
Given how "easy" it was to reel him in with a simple web-bug, I'd say that this is the more likely proposition: a "friend" of his wanted to "thank" him for some favor or other, and in order to do so, he sent rather unsubtle threats to best buy, with the victim's return e-mail address. As it is trivial to forge e-mails using open proxies in China or elsewhere, there is no easy way to trace these mails to there real source.
You don't even have to be in trouble with the law at the time, you just have to show up on the radar, and suddenly you're being harrased about your Disney World vacation.
And this is bad exactly how?;-) Maybe if word got around that you can get harassed for a Disney World vacation, we might one day again have copyright that are limited in time.
Btw, at least the 0xCAFEBABE bug doesn't open up the barn door for all viruses and trojans to come in and have a jolly good time in your computer, unline that infamous ActiveX bug! And with 1.4, performance is not that bad either.
FDIV error: yes, it was division, not addition. However, conditions ware far less specific as Intel would have liked us to believe...
CISC vs RISC: you correctly pointed out that Pentiums still are CISC (even though they nowadays have a RISC core)
And you've missed the following hooks:
CAFEBABE: that's java's magic number. The code that used to lock up Pentium II's was F00FC7C8
Hyperthreading and the OS's job: no, hyperthreading does not do sth which the OS normally would do. It just pretends that there is a second processor. The OS is still responsible to assign threads to both virtual processors, just like it would do with two real processors!
Note to moderators: mod grand-parent down. It is obviously a troll (albeit a rather well written troll!). If you absolutely must mod it up, at least use Funny rather than Interesting
Faxes are a huge part of our business - prescriptions are legal documents, we can only accept originals or copies faxed directly from doctor's offices (and for some drugs, even those are not allowed). Many doctor's offices also refuse to business by phone at all, but strictly by fax, simply so they, like us, can keep paper trails for everything. Without signatures or copies of signatures, we'd be up sh*t creek in case anything were to go wrong.
Maybe you should move to Florida. Somehow, our favorite V1*gra spammers don't seem to have these kinds of problems...
legal weight (I think US Courts recognize faxes as legal documents)
How can this be, given how easy it is to forge faxed documents?
Recently heard on the radio that there is currently a scam running where fraudsters pretend to be vacationers wanting to reserve some holiday accomodation. They ask the prospective landlord for an account number (to pay the rent), and for a signed confirmation of reservation.
Some quick pasting work, and the landlord's bank gets a signed fax asking to transfer all money out of the account to one of the fraudsters...
That means you (or the admins) have not yet fully understood how they can manage desktop systems.
This is understandable. There is a lot to read.
But in the end it will be possible to protect the systems against the user (somewhat) and still be able to manage them, even defragment.
So keep on studying!
And I thought the main selling point of Windows was that it was easy enough that any baboon could install/user/administer it. If that is not actually true, wouldn't it make more sense to just install Linux instead? At least, you wouldn't need to defrag...
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The parent post is not Offtopic, but rather an idea that is considered as heresy in some circles. Thus, Ontopic. But I guess the moderator really meant Troll or Flamebait but didn't dare to serve as a too obvious object lesson...
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Guantanamo Bay
Invading an innocent country under false pretenses
Deliberately plan the assassination of a foreign head of state ("decapitation strike")
Showing off war prisoners and making a mockery of them ("carefully check his head for lice" and "let's shave off his beard, but please leave the moustache on, so that we can recognize him!")
Shooting innocent civilians ("collateral damage")
Blatant election fraud
Attack against his own people, so as to serve as a pretext to go to war in order to help his buddies at Enron to construct an oil pipeline
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Oracle is horribly overpriced and doesn't perform
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any better than MS SQL Server (tm), unless carefully tuned by an expensive expert. And this expensive tuning must be repeated for each minor change of schema, or even for a simple change in load.
Disney should have its coproate charter revoked...
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... for perverting the minds of our children, and for pushing Congress to make copyright terms infinite (for all practical purposes).
Why is the above offtopic? The story is about unpopular ideas, I was just citing the example of one. Seems one moderator fell into the trap... (well not completely: he had enough sense to use Offtopic, rather than Troll or Flamebait, but everybody understands the purpose of his mod...)
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Don't know. Whatever green is on a greenback!
- put dead president into scanner
- click File->Acquire->ScanImage
- click File->Print
Now, try the same in Photoshop CS!Speak about yourself, Bushlover! I'm a European, and am not using any stinky Fahrenheit!
I'm not usre whether you're trolling, or just being serious, but in some circumstances, XORing can weaken a cipher. Take as an example WEP, which is based on RC4 encryption, but rather than encrypting the transmitted data itself with RC4, it XORs its data with an RC4-generated repeating stream of data. RC4 by itself would be sound, but the way of applying it makes the setup weak.
The attack against WEP does not attempt to crack RC4 (i.e. find out the WEP keys programmed into the access point), but it merely tries to find out portions of the blocks XORed against the data.
And this is bad exactly how? ;-) Maybe if word got around that you can get harassed for a Disney World vacation, we might one day again have copyright that are limited in time.
And your post is just a trawl!
Btw, at least the 0xCAFEBABE bug doesn't open up the barn door for all viruses and trojans to come in and have a jolly good time in your computer, unline that infamous ActiveX bug! And with 1.4, performance is not that bad either.
- FDIV error: yes, it was division, not addition. However, conditions ware far less specific as Intel would have liked us to believe...
- CISC vs RISC: you correctly pointed out that Pentiums still are CISC (even though they nowadays have a RISC core)
And you've missed the following hooks:Note to moderators: mod grand-parent down. It is obviously a troll (albeit a rather well written troll!). If you absolutely must mod it up, at least use Funny rather than Interesting
So, first they empty your toner cartridge with their spam, and then propose you to sell a new one. Smart businessmen!
Maybe you should move to Florida. Somehow, our favorite V1*gra spammers don't seem to have these kinds of problems...
How can this be, given how easy it is to forge faxed documents?
Recently heard on the radio that there is currently a scam running where fraudsters pretend to be vacationers wanting to reserve some holiday accomodation. They ask the prospective landlord for an account number (to pay the rent), and for a signed confirmation of reservation.
Some quick pasting work, and the landlord's bank gets a signed fax asking to transfer all money out of the account to one of the fraudsters...
cuming
Congratulations!
This is understandable. There is a lot to read.
But in the end it will be possible to protect the systems against the user (somewhat) and still be able to manage them, even defragment.
So keep on studying!
And I thought the main selling point of Windows was that it was easy enough that any baboon could install/user/administer it. If that is not actually true, wouldn't it make more sense to just install Linux instead? At least, you wouldn't need to defrag...
The parent post is not Offtopic, but rather an idea that is considered as heresy in some circles. Thus, Ontopic. But I guess the moderator really meant Troll or Flamebait but didn't dare to serve as a too obvious object lesson...
The only Flamebait comment in the whole story! Groovy!
Unless you are a catholic priest. And no need to masturbate either, that's what your choirboys are for!
... why did they leave the moustasce ?
any better than MS SQL Server (tm), unless carefully tuned by an expensive expert. And this expensive tuning must be repeated for each minor change of schema, or even for a simple change in load.
The mouse is truely evil!
Bush should make an alliance with Iraq to invade Britain, and smoke Blair out of his spider-hole!
Why is the above offtopic? The story is about unpopular ideas, I was just citing the example of one. Seems one moderator fell into the trap... (well not completely: he had enough sense to use Offtopic, rather than Troll or Flamebait, but everybody understands the purpose of his mod...)