The card itself is on the way. Need to get drives yet. I really want a nice looking rackmount box... but I don't even have a rack yet. Would love to be able to get matching 4U ATX and disk enclosure cases. My current home server is a crappy old dual p100 tower, but I'm getting ready to build my rackmount dual athlon server. Heck, I may even build more than one, eventually, cluster the things. The fibre channel raid is primarily going to be used for my soon to be rackmounted DirecTivo's (only have 2 so far, gonna up it to 4 directivos soon).
I'm sorry, but the experimental data is inconclusive at this point. It may very well allow FTL data transmission. Besides, it's not like one of the hobbyist uses for this will be realtime control of Kuiper belt probes. It's moot.
QE won't allow near perfect encryption. What it will allow is a transmission medium that is untraceable geographically and one that is eavesdrop proof.
But then, it may not even be that. Unless you manufacture these things yourself, under direct supervision, there is no way to know that the gov hasn't placed a second pair of QE particles in the device... sure, you can open it up and look, which collapses the damn thing. Besides, why would you want to distribute keys anymore? So you can talk safely over the phone? Hello McFly, assuming that you can trust the QE transciever in the first place, just speak over it... eavesdropping is impossible.
But I can see how it would be cool to connect QE pairmates up to gigabit ethernet transcievers. Just plug it into your switch, and you have perfect wireless networking that is without distance or interference limitations.
You are a dumbass. That your post was modded anything other than -5, Retarded only serves to further destroy what little respect I still have for the moderation system.
LDAP is ***NOTHING*** like what he needs. It's not even close. You even say what LDAP is for in your post, but you state it in a way that makes it seem almost irrelevant. I feel like barfing.
He needs a SQL database, with maybe 20 minutes worth of design. Hell, not even anything complex, a small number of tables/relationships. I just don't understand anymore. 500,000 accounts on slashdot, and I'd bet my life 75% of them are trolls.
My god. You even have a relatively low user id. This makes no sense. It may be that the sole purpose of the universe, the single reason it was created, is simply to torture me with stupidity like this. I honestly can't think of any other plausible explanation.
Sometimes, you have to love ebay. I still need a few drives, for which the smaller ones go about $1 per gig. 256 drives before I run out of room. The only thing that will hurt me price wise, is a decent rackmount drive case. Software raid, at very nearly the max theoretical throughput.
SCSI was nice, but it is dead. IDE is alive, but it sucks. Fibre channel is seen as an enterprise-only tech, and they no longer have use for the small stuff on their SANs. I'm not so proud that I won't humbly accept their table scraps.
Oh, and before anyone else mentions it... I don't have to use expensive fiber. That's only for ridiculously long cable runs. 20 meters max for stp cat5. More than enough.
Apparently, you have no idea how *fragile* quantum entanglement is. In any other case, you might be right, but not this one.
Hell, even with conventional technology "locks" some are good enough that only the talented can manage to "pick" them. And we are talking about a case where if the majority can't defeat it, then there is no point in defeating it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that recognizes just how cool QE networking would be. However, if the corps or gov get ahold of it first, it will be a bad thing. Incredibly bad.
QE transcievers by their very nature, are untraceable. Say you and I have a dialogue via anonymous email, and we agree to exchange a transciever pair. I go to Central Park at midnight, and pull the transciever pairmate out of a trashcan... we can network now, without knowing who the other is, or where they are. Chain 20 people together like that, and warez (just one example) would be unstoppable.
So, if you are part of the gov, how do you stop this? You make sure that eash QE transciever is built in such a way, that it can't be tampered with without unentangling. Then, you build a GPS reciever into it, connected to a second QE particle. It's pairmate will be in the Federal QE Network monitoring center... they'll be able to narrow it down to within a few feet geographically. It will allow them to sniff all traffic traveling through the QEnet, and will pinpoint where it is coming from.
You're infinite bandwidth will only be useful for a (nearly) infinite amount of advertising and some overpriced pay content.
The only hope we have, is that it's somehow simple to make your own QE transciever, and that someone anonymously publishes on the web just how to make your own. Make it underground.
This isn't hurting the assholes/lawyers that are trying to squash bnetd though. It's hurting the programmers that wrote great games like war2 and diablo.
Double whammy for us, I would think. You people cuoldn't be more confused about what this really means. What's next, celebrating the death of one of the corporate attourneys, the only one who had the dissenting opinion to just leave bnetd alone(not that there is such a lost soul at Vivendi)?
Easy for you to say. You don't have to worry about losing the business, and not being able to feed your family.
I'm all for telling small non-athletic women to stay out of dark alleys at midnight in the bad part of town. But when they get raped in daylight, I don't blame them for not being able to fight back either.
Also, if I ever get a chance alone with the sick **** of a rapist like that, they will be missing reproductive organs when I leave. This also applies to the patent attourneys in this case. Someone needs to post their home address here.
You can't afford more than the $30,000. And the $30,000 is probably even a "just barely". So spend it, and remove your problem.
However, don't spend it on a license fee. Over a period of a few months, withdraw that money as cash, perhaps for a petty cash funds, something that is hidable. Then, hire a hitman.
$30,000 should buy one death, and maybe even up to 2-3 deaths, should the asassin plan these things during one of their "patent fucking" meetings.
I am semi-serious. They are no longer petty thugs trying to steal your extra cash, these people are extorting a sum of money large enough to cause serious pain to a small business. They are the modern day equivalent of vikings running roughshod through your village raping and pillaging... asking them to stop, or asking some other power to intervene simply isn't going to do the job.
And as for the usual "the USPTO is really screwed up, it needs fixing" mutterings... when will you people learn that the system can't be fixed. This isn't something that is 98% ok, and needs to be tweaked, this is apparently ruining some peoples lives, whether you realize it or not. How many jobs were lost, when they had to pay $30,000 each in blackmail, rather than hire some techs to do a server upgrade, etc? And they aren't the only ones pulling stunts like this.
Kill the fuckers. Just be careful, and don't get caught. Or at least, make sure your lawyer picks me when it comes time for jury selection.
Better, would be 2 letter initials + random 4 digit number. Soc Security #'s would be bad, as would any incrementing scheme. Though, I've worked at a few Fortune 10 companies before, they *might* start having namespace problems there (4 digits is 10,000 possibilities). I don't particularly like 3 letter initials though (some people don't have them) or 5 digits (starting to go overboard). I definitely don't recommend dropping below 4 digits, even in a small business enviroment. 4 digit random number makes it tough to even guess the account name, at least until that starts filling up.
Guys, advice like this is relevant to the question asked. What *is* on topic here, if not someone pointing out flaws in a common account naming scheme?
You gotta have a better reason than that, for why it's non-trivial. There are so many non-trivial software problems, but converting color values isn't one of them.
So they want to manipulate it in CMYK colorspace? No biggy. We give them a new color chooser widget that displays colors in that format, but under the hood its still RGB. It's not that big of deal?
Why hasn't happened then? Because these dimwits wait 5 years to even tell anyone 1 problem, and still, they aren't telling the Gimp developers directly... I'll have to do that. At this rate, it could be awhile. That is, if there are actually any other showstopper problems.
Dude, I'm citing very nearly facts here. I wasn't present to hear it myself, but most agree that Arafat's wife (an american, if I'm not mistaken) said these things there. I never commented on whether Clinton believed it or not, I think I remember even her acting shocked at something that was just too ridiculous to believe.
I don't like Bush either. Or Gore, or Clinton (either one). I generally don't like the LP candidate, nor did I care for Nader or Perot. I'm not sure I'd vote for myself, since I truly know how big an asshole I am... at least with the other candidates, you can pretend they aren't.
How much does a pro license for Adobe Photoshop cost? Even a small design house could probably afford to pay $2000-4000 (PS Lic. $600 x 3-7 seats), and have a gimp developer fix CMYK support in a few days. Unlimited licensing, too, so it would be an even bigger bargain for big graphic art firms.
Not that I could do it, but CMYK seems really trivial too. Yes, this seems like a good answer, but maybe no one has ever told the gimp developers this? First time I've ever heard it was here.
It's just a scheme that uses 4 numbers for a color, instead of 3, right? Seems like a simple math problem to me (though I can barely explain the difference between subtractive and additive primary colors). The bigger challenge, would be adding CMYK gui interfaces that work well. Probably amount to a conversion to CMYK format at save time, and maybe YACCW (yet another color chooser widget). This simply can't be that tough (though any patent has surely ran out by now, right?)
Hell, I almost want to play with the source, just to show these idjits up, and answer their one valid criticism. C'mon guys, even I don't think Gimp is 100% perfect... you can't find ANY other legit flaws? Gimme a break.
Yes, I agree that interpreting signals beamed onto your property is nothing evil or or thieving. Make no mistakes though, the law isn't on your side (not even in Canada anymore). What is even worse, apparently DirecTV has the technology to aim where they send this signal. I'm not sure how finegrained it is (doubtful that it can send to your neighbor subscriber, but not to you), but they no doubt improve it slowly just so the burden isn't placed on them. Much easier to buy laws.
Dealers though? Dealers ARE stealing. If anyone has the right to sell this signal, and I'm not sure anyone does have it, it most certainly is DirecTV's right, and theirs alone. Dealers aren't selling things at a modest price, so that they can make a living, or anything like that, they are profiteering. No excuses or justifications are possible. The very thing they are selling, is watered down, so they can continue to sell it longer, and jack up prices. That's why I would love to see some asic emulation VHDL show up anonymously on the web. Would destroy their access card black market, would make the supply for all practical purposes unlimited and just totally screw everything over.
Not sure we should go into much detail with this conversation here, but those DSS retailers are thieves, even by my admittedly low moral standards.
It would be like them, to have the tools to throw things wide open (and become modestly rich doing so) but hesitate because they are too short-sighted and want to continue with their status quo. They steal from DirecTV, and steal from the consumers too. My god, with average viewing habits, it costs as much or more to pirate the signal, than it does to just subscribe. And there is no hassle when an ECM strikes, either... how much is that worth?
Hypothetically though, let's say some guy uses this technique to grab that crypto key. That guy buys a $250 FPGA-PCI prototyping card. He loads pitou on the machine, to emulate most of the access card... and a crypto core from opencores.org onto the FPGA to emulate the asic. Boom. instead of driving 1-3 recievers off of a legit 3.5mhz asic, you'd have an FPGA running at 100mhz. No access card even necessary... and FPGA cards have legitimate uses besides pirating DirecTV.
God, I love being a hardware hacker. Even a no-good bum talentless hardware hacker, is better than not being one at all.
Wouldn't mind being able to do this to a DirecTV access card. Grab that juicy elliptic crypto key...
Seriously though, this works well for unlocking locked out cards, and reading the rom... but for other info that may be in a rom not directly accessible to the 8051 mcu, this isn't very valuable. Also, some of the nicest info, might not even be in a rom, but weaved into a crypto asic.
Still, if you can alter the value of a register with the microscope... could you actually read out by hand the values stored in a masked rom? Or reverse engineer an asic?
Oh, we always got the other side. Like when Co-president Hillary Clinton visited the women's international conference in the middle east, and Yasser Arafat's wife informed her (and through her, our entire nation) that those sneaky jews were poisoning palestinian wells late at night, and performing hideous vivisection on palestinian newborn infants in the hospitals (which mysteriously are always run by jews, a conspiracy?). Why, after I read that once or twice, it finally hit me... these palestinians were valiant freedom fighters trying to rid their land of oppression.
What you really mean, is the internet is a great medium for spreading the propaganda that you favor. Oh well. Humanity accidentally creates an even greater learning tool (internet) than the computer, and fools figure out how to use it to become even greater fools. There must be some principle at work here, that I just can't reduce to a single thought/sentence yet.
Well, that's just sick. Blender sucks ass. I may be a zealot, but I'm not retarded. People that are claiming that gimp's interface is obtuse have never used Blender.
Not that I get any satisfaction out of saying that... I've yet to find a decent modeller/animator for linux (POVray does kick some ass for rendering... then again, there are several other good renderers too).
Never used maya, but it does seem complex. My guess is that complexity is a symptom of a powerful tool, not complexity for confusion's sake(like Blender).
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The card itself is on the way. Need to get drives yet. I really want a nice looking rackmount box... but I don't even have a rack yet. Would love to be able to get matching 4U ATX and disk enclosure cases. My current home server is a crappy old dual p100 tower, but I'm getting ready to build my rackmount dual athlon server. Heck, I may even build more than one, eventually, cluster the things. The fibre channel raid is primarily going to be used for my soon to be rackmounted DirecTivo's (only have 2 so far, gonna up it to 4 directivos soon).
I'm sorry, but the experimental data is inconclusive at this point. It may very well allow FTL data transmission. Besides, it's not like one of the hobbyist uses for this will be realtime control of Kuiper belt probes. It's moot.
QE won't allow near perfect encryption. What it will allow is a transmission medium that is untraceable geographically and one that is eavesdrop proof.
But then, it may not even be that. Unless you manufacture these things yourself, under direct supervision, there is no way to know that the gov hasn't placed a second pair of QE particles in the device... sure, you can open it up and look, which collapses the damn thing. Besides, why would you want to distribute keys anymore? So you can talk safely over the phone? Hello McFly, assuming that you can trust the QE transciever in the first place, just speak over it... eavesdropping is impossible.
But I can see how it would be cool to connect QE pairmates up to gigabit ethernet transcievers. Just plug it into your switch, and you have perfect wireless networking that is without distance or interference limitations.
Am I bad, you're right on the 127 figure. Not that I'll get close to that either.
You are a dumbass. That your post was modded anything other than -5, Retarded only serves to further destroy what little respect I still have for the moderation system.
LDAP is ***NOTHING*** like what he needs. It's not even close. You even say what LDAP is for in your post, but you state it in a way that makes it seem almost irrelevant. I feel like barfing.
He needs a SQL database, with maybe 20 minutes worth of design. Hell, not even anything complex, a small number of tables/relationships. I just don't understand anymore. 500,000 accounts on slashdot, and I'd bet my life 75% of them are trolls.
My god. You even have a relatively low user id. This makes no sense. It may be that the sole purpose of the universe, the single reason it was created, is simply to torture me with stupidity like this. I honestly can't think of any other plausible explanation.
Sometimes, you have to love ebay. I still need a few drives, for which the smaller ones go about $1 per gig. 256 drives before I run out of room. The only thing that will hurt me price wise, is a decent rackmount drive case. Software raid, at very nearly the max theoretical throughput.
SCSI was nice, but it is dead. IDE is alive, but it sucks. Fibre channel is seen as an enterprise-only tech, and they no longer have use for the small stuff on their SANs. I'm not so proud that I won't humbly accept their table scraps.
Oh, and before anyone else mentions it... I don't have to use expensive fiber. That's only for ridiculously long cable runs. 20 meters max for stp cat5. More than enough.
Um. Whatever. Go back to troll school, you need more practice.
Not all laws are good. That doesn't mean I dislike the good ones.
Duh.
Apparently, you have no idea how *fragile* quantum entanglement is. In any other case, you might be right, but not this one.
Hell, even with conventional technology "locks" some are good enough that only the talented can manage to "pick" them. And we are talking about a case where if the majority can't defeat it, then there is no point in defeating it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that recognizes just how cool QE networking would be. However, if the corps or gov get ahold of it first, it will be a bad thing. Incredibly bad.
QE transcievers by their very nature, are untraceable. Say you and I have a dialogue via anonymous email, and we agree to exchange a transciever pair. I go to Central Park at midnight, and pull the transciever pairmate out of a trashcan... we can network now, without knowing who the other is, or where they are. Chain 20 people together like that, and warez (just one example) would be unstoppable.
So, if you are part of the gov, how do you stop this? You make sure that eash QE transciever is built in such a way, that it can't be tampered with without unentangling. Then, you build a GPS reciever into it, connected to a second QE particle. It's pairmate will be in the Federal QE Network monitoring center... they'll be able to narrow it down to within a few feet geographically. It will allow them to sniff all traffic traveling through the QEnet, and will pinpoint where it is coming from.
You're infinite bandwidth will only be useful for a (nearly) infinite amount of advertising and some overpriced pay content.
The only hope we have, is that it's somehow simple to make your own QE transciever, and that someone anonymously publishes on the web just how to make your own. Make it underground.
Since when have human beings not been murderers?
Is murder bad, and illegal? We are discussing the legal aspect of all this, and how it is enforced. That enforcement aims to make things more fair.
Why am I bothering to explain this to a troll?
Apple does something business savvy.
Damn, it is sweet looking though.
This isn't hurting the assholes/lawyers that are trying to squash bnetd though. It's hurting the programmers that wrote great games like war2 and diablo.
Double whammy for us, I would think. You people cuoldn't be more confused about what this really means. What's next, celebrating the death of one of the corporate attourneys, the only one who had the dissenting opinion to just leave bnetd alone(not that there is such a lost soul at Vivendi)?
Easy for you to say. You don't have to worry about losing the business, and not being able to feed your family.
I'm all for telling small non-athletic women to stay out of dark alleys at midnight in the bad part of town. But when they get raped in daylight, I don't blame them for not being able to fight back either.
Also, if I ever get a chance alone with the sick **** of a rapist like that, they will be missing reproductive organs when I leave. This also applies to the patent attourneys in this case. Someone needs to post their home address here.
You can't afford more than the $30,000. And the $30,000 is probably even a "just barely". So spend it, and remove your problem.
However, don't spend it on a license fee. Over a period of a few months, withdraw that money as cash, perhaps for a petty cash funds, something that is hidable. Then, hire a hitman.
$30,000 should buy one death, and maybe even up to 2-3 deaths, should the asassin plan these things during one of their "patent fucking" meetings.
I am semi-serious. They are no longer petty thugs trying to steal your extra cash, these people are extorting a sum of money large enough to cause serious pain to a small business. They are the modern day equivalent of vikings running roughshod through your village raping and pillaging... asking them to stop, or asking some other power to intervene simply isn't going to do the job.
And as for the usual "the USPTO is really screwed up, it needs fixing" mutterings... when will you people learn that the system can't be fixed. This isn't something that is 98% ok, and needs to be tweaked, this is apparently ruining some peoples lives, whether you realize it or not. How many jobs were lost, when they had to pay $30,000 each in blackmail, rather than hire some techs to do a server upgrade, etc? And they aren't the only ones pulling stunts like this.
Kill the fuckers. Just be careful, and don't get caught. Or at least, make sure your lawyer picks me when it comes time for jury selection.
Better, would be 2 letter initials + random 4 digit number. Soc Security #'s would be bad, as would any incrementing scheme. Though, I've worked at a few Fortune 10 companies before, they *might* start having namespace problems there (4 digits is 10,000 possibilities). I don't particularly like 3 letter initials though (some people don't have them) or 5 digits (starting to go overboard). I definitely don't recommend dropping below 4 digits, even in a small business enviroment. 4 digit random number makes it tough to even guess the account name, at least until that starts filling up.
Crackmoderation strikes again.
Guys, advice like this is relevant to the question asked. What *is* on topic here, if not someone pointing out flaws in a common account naming scheme?
You gotta have a better reason than that, for why it's non-trivial. There are so many non-trivial software problems, but converting color values isn't one of them.
So they want to manipulate it in CMYK colorspace? No biggy. We give them a new color chooser widget that displays colors in that format, but under the hood its still RGB. It's not that big of deal?
Why hasn't happened then? Because these dimwits wait 5 years to even tell anyone 1 problem, and still, they aren't telling the Gimp developers directly... I'll have to do that. At this rate, it could be awhile. That is, if there are actually any other showstopper problems.
Dude, I'm citing very nearly facts here. I wasn't present to hear it myself, but most agree that Arafat's wife (an american, if I'm not mistaken) said these things there. I never commented on whether Clinton believed it or not, I think I remember even her acting shocked at something that was just too ridiculous to believe.
I don't like Bush either. Or Gore, or Clinton (either one). I generally don't like the LP candidate, nor did I care for Nader or Perot. I'm not sure I'd vote for myself, since I truly know how big an asshole I am... at least with the other candidates, you can pretend they aren't.
How much does a pro license for Adobe Photoshop cost? Even a small design house could probably afford to pay $2000-4000 (PS Lic. $600 x 3-7 seats), and have a gimp developer fix CMYK support in a few days. Unlimited licensing, too, so it would be an even bigger bargain for big graphic art firms.
Not that I could do it, but CMYK seems really trivial too. Yes, this seems like a good answer, but maybe no one has ever told the gimp developers this? First time I've ever heard it was here.
It's just a scheme that uses 4 numbers for a color, instead of 3, right? Seems like a simple math problem to me (though I can barely explain the difference between subtractive and additive primary colors). The bigger challenge, would be adding CMYK gui interfaces that work well. Probably amount to a conversion to CMYK format at save time, and maybe YACCW (yet another color chooser widget). This simply can't be that tough (though any patent has surely ran out by now, right?)
Hell, I almost want to play with the source, just to show these idjits up, and answer their one valid criticism. C'mon guys, even I don't think Gimp is 100% perfect... you can't find ANY other legit flaws? Gimme a break.
Well, I do this for the fun factor.
Yes, I agree that interpreting signals beamed onto your property is nothing evil or or thieving. Make no mistakes though, the law isn't on your side (not even in Canada anymore). What is even worse, apparently DirecTV has the technology to aim where they send this signal. I'm not sure how finegrained it is (doubtful that it can send to your neighbor subscriber, but not to you), but they no doubt improve it slowly just so the burden isn't placed on them. Much easier to buy laws.
Dealers though? Dealers ARE stealing. If anyone has the right to sell this signal, and I'm not sure anyone does have it, it most certainly is DirecTV's right, and theirs alone. Dealers aren't selling things at a modest price, so that they can make a living, or anything like that, they are profiteering. No excuses or justifications are possible. The very thing they are selling, is watered down, so they can continue to sell it longer, and jack up prices. That's why I would love to see some asic emulation VHDL show up anonymously on the web. Would destroy their access card black market, would make the supply for all practical purposes unlimited and just totally screw everything over.
Not sure we should go into much detail with this conversation here, but those DSS retailers are thieves, even by my admittedly low moral standards.
It would be like them, to have the tools to throw things wide open (and become modestly rich doing so) but hesitate because they are too short-sighted and want to continue with their status quo. They steal from DirecTV, and steal from the consumers too. My god, with average viewing habits, it costs as much or more to pirate the signal, than it does to just subscribe. And there is no hassle when an ECM strikes, either... how much is that worth?
Hypothetically though, let's say some guy uses this technique to grab that crypto key. That guy buys a $250 FPGA-PCI prototyping card. He loads pitou on the machine, to emulate most of the access card... and a crypto core from opencores.org onto the FPGA to emulate the asic. Boom. instead of driving 1-3 recievers off of a legit 3.5mhz asic, you'd have an FPGA running at 100mhz. No access card even necessary... and FPGA cards have legitimate uses besides pirating DirecTV.
God, I love being a hardware hacker. Even a no-good bum talentless hardware hacker, is better than not being one at all.
Wouldn't mind being able to do this to a DirecTV access card. Grab that juicy elliptic crypto key...
Seriously though, this works well for unlocking locked out cards, and reading the rom... but for other info that may be in a rom not directly accessible to the 8051 mcu, this isn't very valuable. Also, some of the nicest info, might not even be in a rom, but weaved into a crypto asic.
Still, if you can alter the value of a register with the microscope... could you actually read out by hand the values stored in a masked rom? Or reverse engineer an asic?
This could kick some serious ass.
Oh, we always got the other side. Like when Co-president Hillary Clinton visited the women's international conference in the middle east, and Yasser Arafat's wife informed her (and through her, our entire nation) that those sneaky jews were poisoning palestinian wells late at night, and performing hideous vivisection on palestinian newborn infants in the hospitals (which mysteriously are always run by jews, a conspiracy?). Why, after I read that once or twice, it finally hit me... these palestinians were valiant freedom fighters trying to rid their land of oppression.
(*Best Super-hero struggling voice*) "Must... turn... sar... casm.... mode.... off!!!"
What you really mean, is the internet is a great medium for spreading the propaganda that you favor. Oh well. Humanity accidentally creates an even greater learning tool (internet) than the computer, and fools figure out how to use it to become even greater fools. There must be some principle at work here, that I just can't reduce to a single thought/sentence yet.
Well, that's just sick. Blender sucks ass. I may be a zealot, but I'm not retarded. People that are claiming that gimp's interface is obtuse have never used Blender.
Not that I get any satisfaction out of saying that... I've yet to find a decent modeller/animator for linux (POVray does kick some ass for rendering... then again, there are several other good renderers too).
Never used maya, but it does seem complex. My guess is that complexity is a symptom of a powerful tool, not complexity for confusion's sake(like Blender).
And you fail to mention even a single one of these failings. How typical.