I think Kasparov should read this book. He is getting ridiculous about his conspiracy theories. World does not revolve around him. He is beaten, goal achieved, the programmers of Deep Blue have lives, too. And I am not surprised that they want to keep Kasparov out of it.
I am a huge trek fan, but I didn't go to Nemesis, because I am boycotting MPAA etc since beginning of the year. How is that as a new year's resolution?
I had once proposed Greece and Turkey should unite to solve their problems with each other, in a discussion list. I still don't know how I thought it was possible, but Window uniting with Linux sure surpasses the craziness of my idea.
the important thing is the intention. if it is not possible to determine the direction of Kabe (not East, muslums do not worship sun), then you pick up a direction and then worship in that direction. same with body, if it is not possible to move your body, you can worship with eyes, or only with thought.
to quote from cryptogram: "If you have ever wondered how the special anti-shoplifting tags you see on merchandise work, this article is a real eye-opener!"
Don't get me wrong. RFID tags are, on the whole, a useful development and a compelling technology. They permit retailers to slim inventory levels and reduce theft, which one industry group estimates at $50 billion a year. With RFID tags providing economic efficiencies for businesses, consumers likely will end up with more choices and lower prices. Besides, wouldn't it be handy to grab a few items from store shelves and simply walk out, with the purchase automatically debited from your (hopefully secure) RFID'd credit card?
Since when did the businesses lowered prices because of efficieny increased? I think only their profit margin will increase. It must be more cost effective to deal with a few disturbed customers than to tolarate shoplifting.
I agree with you that the situation in Guantanamo is not related to crackers getting into websites. However:
- This is a matter of opinion, and the poster obviously either thinks they are trying to get related, or are already related.
- The situation is so bad that I am not surprised to see this. If someone saw an oppurtunity to give people a wakeup call, I can't blame him/her.
I am sorry maybe I used the wrong word. Let me tell you about an incident: US is asking Turkey to open its land and bases and stuff for an operation in Iraq. And they are openly saying we will pay for any expenses, just tell us if you want loan or payment. Now, some innocent people will undoubtly get killed in this war, what is the price of life of an innocent person? How do you pay that. My impression is that it means nothing to the US government, since those people are not Americans. OK maybe this is not arrogance, what would you call it?
I am not judging the whole nation by a few idiots. e.g. I certainly appreciate the Americans that go to Iraq to become a human shield. But there is something that can be called `American arrogance' there is a definite disrespect for human life if that human is not American, among your society. Think of the people American government holding in Cuba right now. Could they do this to American citizens? What is the difference? American citizens deserve rightful trial but others don't? Again, I ask you, what would you call it?
I just would like to quote from a classic, "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo:
One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on
the point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man,
being at the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money,
out of love for a woman, and for the child which he had had by her.
Counterfeiting was still punishable with death at that epoch.
The woman had been arrested in the act of passing the first false
piece made by the man. She was held, but there were no proofs
except against her. She alone could accuse her lover, and destroy
him by her confession. She denied; they insisted. She persisted in
her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to the attorney for the crown.
He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded,
by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading
the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was
deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she denounced
her lover, confessed all, proved all.
The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with
his accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was
expressing enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate.
By bringing jealousy into play, he had caused the truth to burst
forth in wrath, he had educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop
listened to all this in silence. When they had finished, he inquired,--
"Where are this man and woman to be tried?"
"At the Court of Assizes."
He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?"
...I'm gonna burn Karma for this one for SURE.
No you won't. Not with the infamous American arrogance dominating slashdot.
The muslims are already having hard time in the States, you think this idiotic and wrong stereotype will help that situtation? Oh sorry, you don't care. My general impression is an American would not care for the well being of another human as long as that person is not American and looks/thinks like him.
This is assuming the key has 2^2048 entropy. If that is so, it is hopeless, however if the entropy of the key is lower, which it is for many microsoft products, then it can be cracked in smaller amount of time. See Bruce Schreider's writings about this topic.
Hi,
I am an astrophysicist, and I like physics and astronomy a lot. I also think the extra terrastial research, whether it is for life or the planets that can support life or to travel to those systems, is very interesting and exciting. However, I am looking at the situation at earth and cannot see how we can justify to focus our efforts to reach other planets while we are screwing Earth itself.
Why are people planning to reach these planets etc? Is it easier to avoid the problems on earth, are these people living in crystal towers or do they just not care, or what? What am I missing here?
The USA is at the frontier of science but also arguably the most hated nation in the world. Is this situation inevitable? Isn't there a way to balance things?
There has been some posts about that this will cost a lot of money. I don't understand the legal system of the USA. How can trying some company could cost money to the state? Are they paying the DAs for overtime? Aren't the DAs and other people who work for the state get paid whether there is a case they are trying or not? And also how come this will cost a lot of money only because MS has a lot of money? I can understand that as a person I need to hire good lawyers to fight MS, but I don't think states would hire new and expensive DAs to deal with this case. Are they hiring consultants? What am I missing?
I don't have an objection to hobbits, but for fast
internet connection... I am a physicist who lives in Evanston, it gets terribly cold here, and having a fast internet connection at home prevents me to go to office on cold weekends. Yes, I go to office on weekends, as I said, I am a physicist.
I believe people would have legitimate reason to see hobbits as well. What are you going to do when your kid insists (in her very convincing way) to see the latest Disney movie? Tell her about monopolies? I guess it is possible but not outside Dharma's family;-)
Why the virus or the worm should respect any restriction brought by the operating system? Doesn't it make more sense to prevent the connection at the
computer that is attacked rather than attacking computer? But then how do you distinguish an attack using eg.SSL from a legitimate connection?
So the abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning.
At last I know what is really bothering me about all these new kids learning C++ and leaving plain C out. It is not that I am lazy or against change. Next time I give advice to the undergrads working in my office I'll make sure to quote this.
First, it is impossible to go through databases without risking damaging somebody's piravicy. Second, it is very hard if not impossible to catch up with the expansion of information available electronically. Third, and maybe most important, this doesn't solve the problem.
The solution to terorism is not hunting terorists down. It should be done of course, but more resources should be allocated to remove the fundamental reasons why people become terorists, why they become pawns of other people. You cannot get rid of malaria just by vaccinating people, you have to dry the swamp. But, again, of course, vaccination should continue in the meanwhile. I just don't think it logical not to spend any resources on swamp drying, while so much money goes to smart bombs etc.
Hey they underestimate the amount of pirated musid. I actually burn MP3's on those CDR's so I fit 10 albums in a single CD, so only 10% of media is paid for:-{}
Actually closing an account will not necessarily lead to bouncing of email. An ISP or any email service provider might choose to delete all email that doesn't arrive at a legitimate address. It makes sense too, to prevent spam to use too much bandwidth. I feel for her, and I think she has a case because the ISP did keep her email, but if they did not use it as a leverage for her to pay them, I don't think ISP can be responsible for not telling the senders of the emails that she did not actually receive those emails.
last time I checked you could install two SID chips for 6-way sound. not counting getting 5-way sound from a single chip, I still cannot imagine how they did that!
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I think Kasparov should read this book. He is getting ridiculous about his conspiracy theories. World does not revolve around him. He is beaten, goal achieved, the programmers of Deep Blue have lives, too. And I am not surprised that they want to keep Kasparov out of it.
I am a huge trek fan, but I didn't go to Nemesis, because I am boycotting MPAA etc since beginning of the year. How is that as a new year's resolution?
I had once proposed Greece and Turkey should unite to solve their problems with each other, in a discussion list. I still don't know how I thought it was possible, but Window uniting with Linux sure surpasses the craziness of my idea.
the important thing is the intention. if it is not possible to determine the direction of Kabe (not East, muslums do not worship sun), then you pick up a direction and then worship in that direction. same with body, if it is not possible to move your body, you can worship with eyes, or only with thought.
one answer: because you can :-)
that is the joy of hacking.
to quote from cryptogram: "If you have ever wondered how the special anti-shoplifting tags you see on merchandise work, this article is a real eye-opener!"
I agree with you that the situation in Guantanamo is not related to crackers getting into websites. However:
- This is a matter of opinion, and the poster obviously either thinks they are trying to get related, or are already related.
- The situation is so bad that I am not surprised to see this. If someone saw an oppurtunity to give people a wakeup call, I can't blame him/her.
I am sorry maybe I used the wrong word. Let me tell you about an incident: US is asking Turkey to open its land and bases and stuff for an operation in Iraq. And they are openly saying we will pay for any expenses, just tell us if you want loan or payment. Now, some innocent people will undoubtly get killed in this war, what is the price of life of an innocent person? How do you pay that. My impression is that it means nothing to the US government, since those people are not Americans. OK maybe this is not arrogance, what would you call it?
I am not judging the whole nation by a few idiots. e.g. I certainly appreciate the Americans that go to Iraq to become a human shield. But there is something that can be called `American arrogance' there is a definite disrespect for human life if that human is not American, among your society. Think of the people American government holding in Cuba right now. Could they do this to American citizens? What is the difference? American citizens deserve rightful trial but others don't? Again, I ask you, what would you call it?
...I'm gonna burn Karma for this one for SURE.
No you won't. Not with the infamous American arrogance dominating slashdot.
The muslims are already having hard time in the States, you think this idiotic and wrong stereotype will help that situtation? Oh sorry, you don't care. My general impression is an American would not care for the well being of another human as long as that person is not American and looks/thinks like him.
Does anyone know if this sequence is there for security purposes? It looks like this might lead to a spoofing vulnerability.
This is assuming the key has 2^2048 entropy. If that is so, it is hopeless, however if the entropy of the key is lower, which it is for many microsoft products, then it can be cracked in smaller amount of time. See Bruce Schreider's writings about this topic.
as a matter of fact I already am in the states as a graduate student.
Hi,
I am an astrophysicist, and I like physics and astronomy a lot. I also think the extra terrastial research, whether it is for life or the planets that can support life or to travel to those systems, is very interesting and exciting. However, I am looking at the situation at earth and cannot see how we can justify to focus our efforts to reach other planets while we are screwing Earth itself.
Why are people planning to reach these planets etc? Is it easier to avoid the problems on earth, are these people living in crystal towers or do they just not care, or what? What am I missing here?
The USA is at the frontier of science but also arguably the most hated nation in the world. Is this situation inevitable? Isn't there a way to balance things?
There has been some posts about that this will cost a lot of money. I don't understand the legal system of the USA. How can trying some company could cost money to the state? Are they paying the DAs for overtime? Aren't the DAs and other people who work for the state get paid whether there is a case they are trying or not? And also how come this will cost a lot of money only because MS has a lot of money? I can understand that as a person I need to hire good lawyers to fight MS, but I don't think states would hire new and expensive DAs to deal with this case. Are they hiring consultants? What am I missing?
I believe people would have legitimate reason to see hobbits as well. What are you going to do when your kid insists (in her very convincing way) to see the latest Disney movie? Tell her about monopolies? I guess it is possible but not outside Dharma's family ;-)
Why the virus or the worm should respect any restriction brought by the operating system? Doesn't it make more sense to prevent the connection at the computer that is attacked rather than attacking computer? But then how do you distinguish an attack using eg.SSL from a legitimate connection?
So the abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning.
At last I know what is really bothering me about all these new kids learning C++ and leaving plain C out. It is not that I am lazy or against change. Next time I give advice to the undergrads working in my office I'll make sure to quote this.
Thank you very much...
First, it is impossible to go through databases without risking damaging somebody's piravicy. Second, it is very hard if not impossible to catch up with the expansion of information available electronically. Third, and maybe most important, this doesn't solve the problem.
The solution to terorism is not hunting terorists down. It should be done of course, but more resources should be allocated to remove the fundamental reasons why people become terorists, why they become pawns of other people. You cannot get rid of malaria just by vaccinating people, you have to dry the swamp. But, again, of course, vaccination should continue in the meanwhile. I just don't think it logical not to spend any resources on swamp drying, while so much money goes to smart bombs etc.
Hey they underestimate the amount of pirated musid. I actually burn MP3's on those CDR's so I fit 10 albums in a single CD, so only 10% of media is paid for :-{}
They are way ahead of you baby...
GO COMMODORE!
Actually closing an account will not necessarily lead to bouncing of email. An ISP or any email service provider might choose to delete all email that doesn't arrive at a legitimate address. It makes sense too, to prevent spam to use too much bandwidth. I feel for her, and I think she has a case because the ISP did keep her email, but if they did not use it as a leverage for her to pay them, I don't think ISP can be responsible for not telling the senders of the emails that she did not actually receive those emails.
YES!!!
last time I checked you could install two SID chips for 6-way sound. not counting getting 5-way sound from a single chip, I still cannot imagine how they did that!