The dual-screened Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong was the best!
Every time I open my DS I'm reminded of that game. It and Snoopy Tennis entertained me on long car rides... and when the batteries died you could push on the LCD screen for some cheap entertainment.
A manager need only cite one example of a bad use (viruses or tighter bandwidth, for example) and that school's board of education will approve locking down access for everyone. For example, various types of e-mail attachments are often blocked because of the potential for worms and viruses. This is the way many worried IT managers deal with new technologies they don't know anything about.
Is there anything that can be done with BitTorrent that can't be accomplished with HTTP or FTP? I know that many schools block ports 80 and 23 for incoming traffic for the same reasons stated above.
Is it important to find security holes? Do you care if a hacker exploits a vulnerability to make their vote count more than yours? Do you like your kids to play in the same sandbox that cats defecate in?
Unless the software is to be used only by you or is in a protected 'sandbox', it needs to be as secure as possible.
Everybody has a computer. Microsoft could sell a official software version of Xbox that runs on a modern PC. They could even give that software away with an Xbox Next.
I wrote and have bookmarked this one-liner (works in IE and Mozilla): javascript:for(i=0;i<=(document.links.l ength-1);i++)document.links[i].href="view-source:" +document.links[i].href;alert("Done");
There are an infinate number of math expressions that, when evaluated, equal your given BIG number. Your goal would be to minimize the number of symbols/characters in your expression. This approach could work but it would be difficult to generically create an expression (although it could be in machine language) that was physically smaller than the source file. I don't think the theory is so stupid. Now... the implementation...???
All you have to do is break the data into chunks... 4 bytes for example. Next calculate the sum of the bytes (using their ASCII codes) in the chunk. Then (this is the hard part) you determine the permutation (from a list of possible permutations) of 4-byte chunks of data for that sum. All one has to do is transmit the sum and the permutation... two numbers... and you can use all sorts of fear inducing math to compress it even more. For better compression, change your chunk size to a bigger number. Also, you can re-compress your data (or even other compressed data) for smaller size. You can even stream it. The one drawback though... it takes lots and lots of cycles to compress and even more to decompress.... (sigh). At least it got me an A in one of my early CS classes!
Not to give anyone any ideas... but if you want access to personal information, a school with pathetic security measures is a much easier target than the DMV. As an Oregonian who works for an educational institution, I'm less bothered by the DMV problem then the potential security problems at the schools. Of course, we shouldn't have to worry about this problem because everybody has good ethics right? Don't even get me started...
Just imagine, while running during PE... a prankster with some new shoes could charge up a battery. Later, while in the locker room, he (or she possibly) could shock one of his buddies without having to be on a carpet. A kid with shoes like that could be the envy of the entire school! I think I've seen the Emperor zap Luke one too many times.
Hello.... "Jedi Knight" is not a religion. This is like saying a monk is a religion. To be a Jedi Knight, you must first be a Jedi. As a Jedi, you should understand the Jedi Code:
There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.
Instead of saying your religion is Jedi, you could say you are a follower of the Force and that includes being a member of the Sith.
If you still believe you are a Jedi Knight... remember that the story of your people is found in the fiction section of the library. I realize that this story is supposed to be funny but making fun of peoples' religious beliefs is not at all humorous. 8^)
Why are we trying to "...hold a rational conversation on [crypto] right now" anyway? We should be trying to understand our enemies' reasons for existance. If their quality of life was as good as ours, they wouldn't attack us (otherwise you would see more American terrorist attacks.) It's unfortunate that people think crypto is even part of the problem because there would still be terrorists even if there was no crypto. Even if the government outlaws crypto, people will still use it... I know I will.
The goal of public key cryptography is to make it take so long to crack the encrypted message that by the time it was decrypted, the message would be useless. The algorithms must be publicly agreed upon or else they are useless to the public. Terrorists would be stupid to use some crypto system that has known vulnerabilities. If I were a terrorist I would develop some obscure system that only needs to be distributed to a few of my crazy friends. I could personally distrubite the algorithm(s) via disk or something. There is really no need for terrorists to even have to communicate with each other after one or two in-person meetings. The only way to stop terrorists from communicating with each other in privacy is to get rid of the terrorists and their reasons for existing. Oh yeah... to all you terrorists out there: (( oethluyIikanbprsd!wf))
(13,5,4)(23,43,4)(12,127,4)(21,213,4)(9,87,4)(33 ,2 48,4)(23,2,4)(14,149,4)(35,2,4)(30,14,4)(37,39,4)
With all of the money spent on highly available servers and bandwith by all of those major corporations. The only site that we shouldn't have access to is http://www.wtc-top.com/! Thank you Slashdot... you truly have the "Stuff that matters."
This is almost the same thing I said in my post. You wouldn't want it to propagate via the worm technique though... it must remain strictly confined to the intended network (otherwise you might fix potential clients.) On a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if the virus writer(s?) worked for a company that offers this type of service. Look at eEye: they found the vulnerability, got credit from Microsoft, and make money with vulnerability assessment services. Corporate ethics: Make it hard to tell the good guys from the bad.
Create a anti-virus that downloads the patch from MS and works in a worm-like fashion with a twist. Limit your propagation to a single domain. You would need to have detailed reports of course. Sell your service to lazy admins and make a pretty penny (for doing nothing.) Sell a new version every time a new virus comes down the pipe. Be sure to include license information that makes it clear you will not be liable for misuse of your program. It could work.
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The dual-screened Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong was the best!
Every time I open my DS I'm reminded of that game. It and Snoopy Tennis entertained me on long car rides... and when the batteries died you could push on the LCD screen for some cheap entertainment.
A manager need only cite one example of a bad use (viruses or tighter bandwidth, for example) and that school's board of education will approve locking down access for everyone. For example, various types of e-mail attachments are often blocked because of the potential for worms and viruses. This is the way many worried IT managers deal with new technologies they don't know anything about.
Is there anything that can be done with BitTorrent that can't be accomplished with HTTP or FTP? I know that many schools block ports 80 and 23 for incoming traffic for the same reasons stated above.
Is it important to find security holes? Do you care if a hacker exploits a vulnerability to make their vote count more than yours? Do you like your kids to play in the same sandbox that cats defecate in?
Unless the software is to be used only by you or is in a protected 'sandbox', it needs to be as secure as possible.
Gates and Co. didn't get rich by giving away software. This approach seems to have worked well for them in the past.
Everybody has a computer. Microsoft could sell a official software version of Xbox that runs on a modern PC. They could even give that software away with an Xbox Next.
How could anybody compete with that?
I wrote and have bookmarked this one-liner (works in IE and Mozilla):l ength-1);i++)document.links[i].href="view-source:" +document.links[i].href;alert("Done");
javascript:for(i=0;i<=(document.links.
There are an infinate number of math expressions that, when evaluated, equal your given BIG number. Your goal would be to minimize the number of symbols/characters in your expression. This approach could work but it would be difficult to generically create an expression (although it could be in machine language) that was physically smaller than the source file. I don't think the theory is so stupid. Now... the implementation...???
All you have to do is break the data into chunks... 4 bytes for example. Next calculate the sum of the bytes (using their ASCII codes) in the chunk. Then (this is the hard part) you determine the permutation (from a list of possible permutations) of 4-byte chunks of data for that sum. All one has to do is transmit the sum and the permutation... two numbers... and you can use all sorts of fear inducing math to compress it even more. For better compression, change your chunk size to a bigger number. Also, you can re-compress your data (or even other compressed data) for smaller size. You can even stream it. The one drawback though... it takes lots and lots of cycles to compress and even more to decompress.... (sigh). At least it got me an A in one of my early CS classes!
Not to give anyone any ideas... but if you want access to personal information, a school with pathetic security measures is a much easier target than the DMV. As an Oregonian who works for an educational institution, I'm less bothered by the DMV problem then the potential security problems at the schools. Of course, we shouldn't have to worry about this problem because everybody has good ethics right? Don't even get me started...
Just imagine, while running during PE... a prankster with some new shoes could charge up a battery. Later, while in the locker room, he (or she possibly) could shock one of his buddies without having to be on a carpet. A kid with shoes like that could be the envy of the entire school! I think I've seen the Emperor zap Luke one too many times.
Instead of saying your religion is Jedi, you could say you are a follower of the Force and that includes being a member of the Sith. If you still believe you are a Jedi Knight... remember that the story of your people is found in the fiction section of the library.
I realize that this story is supposed to be funny but making fun of peoples' religious beliefs is not at all humorous. 8^)
Why are we trying to "...hold a rational conversation on [crypto] right now" anyway? We should be trying to understand our enemies' reasons for existance. If their quality of life was as good as ours, they wouldn't attack us (otherwise you would see more American terrorist attacks.) It's unfortunate that people think crypto is even part of the problem because there would still be terrorists even if there was no crypto. Even if the government outlaws crypto, people will still use it... I know I will.
The goal of public key cryptography is to make it take so long to crack the encrypted message that by the time it was decrypted, the message would be useless. The algorithms must be publicly agreed upon or else they are useless to the public. Terrorists would be stupid to use some crypto system that has known vulnerabilities. If I were a terrorist I would develop some obscure system that only needs to be distributed to a few of my crazy friends. I could personally distrubite the algorithm(s) via disk or something. There is really no need for terrorists to even have to communicate with each other after one or two in-person meetings. The only way to stop terrorists from communicating with each other in privacy is to get rid of the terrorists and their reasons for existing. Oh yeah... to all you terrorists out there: (( oethluyIikanbprsd!wf))3 ,2 48,4)(23,2,4)(14,149,4)(35,2,4)(30,14,4)(37,39,4)
(13,5,4)(23,43,4)(12,127,4)(21,213,4)(9,87,4)(3
With all of the money spent on highly available servers and bandwith by all of those major corporations. The only site that we shouldn't have access to is http://www.wtc-top.com/! Thank you Slashdot... you truly have the "Stuff that matters."
This is almost the same thing I said in my post. You wouldn't want it to propagate via the worm technique though... it must remain strictly confined to the intended network (otherwise you might fix potential clients.) On a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if the virus writer(s?) worked for a company that offers this type of service. Look at eEye: they found the vulnerability, got credit from Microsoft, and make money with vulnerability assessment services. Corporate ethics: Make it hard to tell the good guys from the bad.
Create a anti-virus that downloads the patch from MS and works in a worm-like fashion with a twist. Limit your propagation to a single domain. You would need to have detailed reports of course. Sell your service to lazy admins and make a pretty penny (for doing nothing.) Sell a new version every time a new virus comes down the pipe. Be sure to include license information that makes it clear you will not be liable for misuse of your program. It could work.