Re:Where do you draw the line?
on
The Spyware Inferno
·
· Score: 4, Informative
You don't have to bury it in the EULA and install spyware through the back door to do ad supported software. ICQ, Opera, and many shareware products incorperate ad sponsorship into the product in a manner that most users do not find offensive and which does not completely destroy the usefullness of the computer on which it is installed.
Probably not very usefull for robotic nav, unless it can do quick and dirty differential GPS from a pair of cheap GPS units. Most of the techniques talked about are usefull for very precise post processing of captured signals.
More precise != faster in fact precise generally == slower. You have to take more measurements to get the data needed for input into the more precise modeling algorithms, but it allows you to calculate location VERY precisely (down to mm if you can get measurements over a day or two).
Because DCOM behavior was seriously changed. Debugging through DCOM, especially remote debugging is hampered under SP2. It's not really much of an issue as people that should be programming should know enough about the changes to know why their environment is behaving differently, if they don't then good ridance as they shouldn't be programming anyways.
As others have pointed out the problem is bigger because file hashing is not the sole use of MD5, it is also used for password hashing. The problem with password hashing is that with a collision you don't need to have the origional password, a data set that hashes to the same value can be used for entry because the only thing the password checking function can check is the hashed value. The solution to a slightly broken hash function is to either use the same function to hash the password with two different salts or use two different hash functions, either way the chances of a collision value hashing with either the salts or two different functions is astronomically small.
Set the CPU cycles for DOSBOX, I run 40K cycles per second and MOM plays just as fast as it did on my 486-SX 33. It won't play any faster no matter how many cycles above that I throw at it, seems to have a delay loop built it. Also have you tried virtual PC, I think the sound emulation is better there.
That shouldn't be a problem, just hack the inf file to add the custom resolution. It's not hard and would allow you to run up to date detonators/catalyst's.
Probably the ideal for a cheap home NAS is a small PC with 4 SATA channels and a 2x5.25" to 3x3.5" SATA enclosure. Run software RAID5 over the drives since even Gb ethernet is going to limit performance more than the CPU. Total cost is about $1,200 for a half TB capacity, 512MB ram and an Athlon 2100+.
Dude you are a moron. Seriously. Security through obscurity refers to obscuring or failing to reveal the method of security, not to obscuring the data path (which is what encryption does). A good security system is one which has been published and picked apart by all interested parties and agreed to be secure, if you obscure a weak security system then all it takes is a single individual revealing your security mechanism for it to be broken.
Bah, why is it that there is no chipset with 48 PCI-e lanes? For full performance I would think you would need 2 * 16x lanes for video and another 16x lane to be shared by the rest of the peripherals. Yet both the NForce 4 and the Tumwater chipsets only have 32 total lanes, so the second card is bandwidth starved.
Actually they don't, they have a single dedicated PCI Express x16 slot, and a physical x16 slot which is electrically an x4 slot coming off of a different x16 bus. There is no chipset with two dedicated x16 buses for single slots AFAIK.
I wonder if a pair of 6600 GT's SLI'd would perform better than a 6800 Ultra? If so you could get more performance for a lot less $. Of course you would need a mobo with dual 16x PCI Express slots, which from searching NewEgg doesn't exist (or is so rare they don't carry it). Btw how DO they expect you to run SLI if you can't find a board with two PCI Express x16 slots?
Exactly. You could accomplish EXACTLY the same thing by ripping to CD (which iTunes and FairPlay allow), then encode the cd with AAC Lossless. There I have circumvented the protection offered by the Airport Express. Well, ok I can't sniff random peoples tunes this way but is that really a major problem that the copyright holders should be worried about as apposed to say the fact that their general hostility towards new technologies means that those technologies invariably get used by pirates first?
The Treo line is the Palm with phone integration. Basically it is sofar the ultimate fusion of phone and PDA (though "normal" phones are coming closer all the time).
Well in Ohio in alternative to car insurance is like a half million dollar escrow account that the state holds. This is only feasible for large corporations who are self insured and who do not wish to use the paperwork services of an insurance company (this is how most self insurance is actually done).
Nope, greenhouses work by allowing the infrared light in which hits the material in the greenhouse which in turn conducts the heat to the air. This air is small in volume and thus is easily heated by the relativly high energy per volume from the solar energy. For more info see this article at howstuffworks.
It was a long term goal of slowing the US by encouraging us to embroil ourselves in silly patent litigation. It was dreamed up by the great, great, great, great, etc grandfather of Harry Seldon.
Uh, SP2 wasn't RTM'd until yesterday so there is no way of knowing if that is the final code or not. I don't think I would be using anything but a copy with the same MD5 as the file from MSDN.
Holly cow, that's bigger than ALL of windows 98! I know there are a TON of improvements in SP2 but the size is kind of crazy, I guess SUS would have been a good idea even at small clients =)
Slashdot Mirror
You don't have to bury it in the EULA and install spyware through the back door to do ad supported software. ICQ, Opera, and many shareware products incorperate ad sponsorship into the product in a manner that most users do not find offensive and which does not completely destroy the usefullness of the computer on which it is installed.
Probably not very usefull for robotic nav, unless it can do quick and dirty differential GPS from a pair of cheap GPS units. Most of the techniques talked about are usefull for very precise post processing of captured signals.
So, yes then...
Uh, No.
More precise != faster in fact precise generally == slower. You have to take more measurements to get the data needed for input into the more precise modeling algorithms, but it allows you to calculate location VERY precisely (down to mm if you can get measurements over a day or two).
No, it means you can do precise calculations with cheap equipment. Most of these functions cost thousand of dollars if done in hardware.
Because DCOM behavior was seriously changed. Debugging through DCOM, especially remote debugging is hampered under SP2. It's not really much of an issue as people that should be programming should know enough about the changes to know why their environment is behaving differently, if they don't then good ridance as they shouldn't be programming anyways.
As others have pointed out the problem is bigger because file hashing is not the sole use of MD5, it is also used for password hashing. The problem with password hashing is that with a collision you don't need to have the origional password, a data set that hashes to the same value can be used for entry because the only thing the password checking function can check is the hashed value. The solution to a slightly broken hash function is to either use the same function to hash the password with two different salts or use two different hash functions, either way the chances of a collision value hashing with either the salts or two different functions is astronomically small.
Set the CPU cycles for DOSBOX, I run 40K cycles per second and MOM plays just as fast as it did on my 486-SX 33. It won't play any faster no matter how many cycles above that I throw at it, seems to have a delay loop built it. Also have you tried virtual PC, I think the sound emulation is better there.
That shouldn't be a problem, just hack the inf file to add the custom resolution. It's not hard and would allow you to run up to date detonators/catalyst's.
Probably the ideal for a cheap home NAS is a small PC with 4 SATA channels and a 2x5.25" to 3x3.5" SATA enclosure. Run software RAID5 over the drives since even Gb ethernet is going to limit performance more than the CPU. Total cost is about $1,200 for a half TB capacity, 512MB ram and an Athlon 2100+.
And if they were smart and unscrupulous they would make a fortune shorting the financial markets =)
Dude you are a moron. Seriously. Security through obscurity refers to obscuring or failing to reveal the method of security, not to obscuring the data path (which is what encryption does). A good security system is one which has been published and picked apart by all interested parties and agreed to be secure, if you obscure a weak security system then all it takes is a single individual revealing your security mechanism for it to be broken.
Bah, why is it that there is no chipset with 48 PCI-e lanes? For full performance I would think you would need 2 * 16x lanes for video and another 16x lane to be shared by the rest of the peripherals. Yet both the NForce 4 and the Tumwater chipsets only have 32 total lanes, so the second card is bandwidth starved.
hehe, reminds me of this penny arcade strip =)
And John Romero had a HOT girlfriend. Sucessfull nerds attract women because they have money and are usually considered "sensitive".
No, PCI-X predates PCI-Express (shortened to PCI-e). It is a 64bit PCI 2.1 standard running at either 100 or 133MHz.
Actually they don't, they have a single dedicated PCI Express x16 slot, and a physical x16 slot which is electrically an x4 slot coming off of a different x16 bus. There is no chipset with two dedicated x16 buses for single slots AFAIK.
I wonder if a pair of 6600 GT's SLI'd would perform better than a 6800 Ultra? If so you could get more performance for a lot less $. Of course you would need a mobo with dual 16x PCI Express slots, which from searching NewEgg doesn't exist (or is so rare they don't carry it). Btw how DO they expect you to run SLI if you can't find a board with two PCI Express x16 slots?
Exactly. You could accomplish EXACTLY the same thing by ripping to CD (which iTunes and FairPlay allow), then encode the cd with AAC Lossless. There I have circumvented the protection offered by the Airport Express. Well, ok I can't sniff random peoples tunes this way but is that really a major problem that the copyright holders should be worried about as apposed to say the fact that their general hostility towards new technologies means that those technologies invariably get used by pirates first?
The Treo line is the Palm with phone integration. Basically it is sofar the ultimate fusion of phone and PDA (though "normal" phones are coming closer all the time).
Well in Ohio in alternative to car insurance is like a half million dollar escrow account that the state holds. This is only feasible for large corporations who are self insured and who do not wish to use the paperwork services of an insurance company (this is how most self insurance is actually done).
Nope, greenhouses work by allowing the infrared light in which hits the material in the greenhouse which in turn conducts the heat to the air. This air is small in volume and thus is easily heated by the relativly high energy per volume from the solar energy. For more info see this article at howstuffworks.
Would those be firefighter in the sense of Farenheight 451? Because those are the only firefighters I would advocate for the Patent Office.
It was a long term goal of slowing the US by encouraging us to embroil ourselves in silly patent litigation. It was dreamed up by the great, great, great, great, etc grandfather of Harry Seldon.
Uh, SP2 wasn't RTM'd until yesterday so there is no way of knowing if that is the final code or not. I don't think I would be using anything but a copy with the same MD5 as the file from MSDN.
Holly cow, that's bigger than ALL of windows 98! I know there are a TON of improvements in SP2 but the size is kind of crazy, I guess SUS would have been a good idea even at small clients =)