Personally I would recommend teaching BASIC or Pascal to high school students. Both of them were more or less designed for teaching or beginners.
Students that are not interested in computers can at least make little songs using beeps in BASIC in a few minutes with a little teaching but hopefully can continue learning more about programming or computers.
ditto, but im waiting for permanent data erasure to become a little more mature. i understand the wear leveling incorporated into SSD can cause current programs to stumble.
The mean time to fail in the new SSD's is a bucket load better that most regular HDD's.
I don't quite understand why some people are so opposed to monthly traffic caps in principal.
You can say "Yes, I want to be able to download as much as I want!", but there are also positives to caps. (at least in theory)
With lower caps, the ISP can provide faster traffic to all users as the power users will not be already using the bandwidth and can sell cheaper plans if they know a set of users will only be using 20 or 50 gig instead of potentially using 500 gig.
Personally I would rather pay less for a 24mbps connection and 20 gig/month than pay more for a 8mbps connection with unlimited data.
You are thinking too small if you think the poorest people in the world spend their money on lotto tickets.
I'm sure some of the poorest people in America might spend their money on gambling, but the real poor people, those in third world nations don't have the luxuries of buying lotto tickets, they struggle not to starve to death or not die from drinking the polluted water.
If you have clean water, food and shelter, you are not poor by world standards. To say these people "deserve" it sickens me, but again I will pass it off as your ignorance for thinking the "world" is only the "USA".
Most Australian metro areas are pretty much surrounded by dry Australian bush. Frequent controlled burnings are carried out all the time in most areas to make sure that no giant uncontrolled fires break out because we let dead leaves build up for 30 years.
I believe Sydney does not though, and I believe they had a several hundred kilometer fire a few years ago (thats about 150 miles)
I think they mean it records DVD's.
Either way its stupid, why would you label it as a tool that can only record DVD's when it can record so much more?
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What we have here is a precedent where an ISP has decided not to show you the page you asked for, but rather the page they thought you should look at - and without telling you.
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They did infact tell you exactly what was happening. I am a Bigpond customer and they presented you with a nice clear page saying that you are being redirected to the idol site. It also says if you REALLY wanted to see the porn stars site, than click here. You only had about 3 seconds to read it all and click, but you still had the opportunity.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein
I don't think it can be said much better.
Well that was from the first attempt, but they quickly extended it to the read MD5 soon after.
I have tested the collisions on my home computer, freebsd 5.0 with the standard MD5 function that comes with it and they come up same hashes but different files.
I am really hoping that my version of MD5 is the real version.
phats garage: Not quite. You only need tweak the second image. Its not that you know what hash to target but you know the origional image data.
So for a longer explination for notthepainter, you would create "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" and generate a MD5 sum. You would then slightly modify "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" with the explits you want, and then some extra changes that will not break your program and fiddle with these "extra" changes until you get the same MD5 from the first image.
The main point is that both images are nearly identical and for now only certain changes will be able to be made based on the limitations of the exploit found. So for a certain exploit it may be impossible with image A, so you recode image A to be slightly different with the same functionaly and create a MD5 hash for that. Then you hope you can create your evil image from your new image.
I thought of this too, and I think it will be quite a good solution atleast for a fair while. I'm sure with enough time, more computer power and better techniques that people will be able to get just about any hashes they want with whatever data they want. (I think this is what pre-imaging is about)
One extra thing, I think I just clicked onto your exact point of confusion.
In the current attack from what I have seen, the origional document makes hash A, and then the origional document is slightly modified to make hash A again from the modified document. I don't think they can make hash A without the origional document, its just too hard.
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Dragon Age is a PC game that was ported to console, possibly the same for Mass Effect 1 and 2.
I was hoping for the Thirty Meter Nano-Telescope (TMNT)
Personally I would recommend teaching BASIC or Pascal to high school students. Both of them were more or less designed for teaching or beginners.
Students that are not interested in computers can at least make little songs using beeps in BASIC in a few minutes with a little teaching but hopefully can continue learning more about programming or computers.
ditto, but im waiting for permanent data erasure to become a little more mature. i understand the wear leveling incorporated into SSD can cause current programs to stumble.
The mean time to fail in the new SSD's is a bucket load better that most regular HDD's.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ssd+mean+failure+vs+hdd
Between the 10,000-100,000 writes and the logic used to try not to rewrite the same place over and over they do quite well.
I don't quite understand why some people are so opposed to monthly traffic caps in principal.
You can say "Yes, I want to be able to download as much as I want!", but there are also positives to caps. (at least in theory)
With lower caps, the ISP can provide faster traffic to all users as the power users will not be already using the bandwidth and can sell cheaper plans if they know a set of users will only be using 20 or 50 gig instead of potentially using 500 gig.
Personally I would rather pay less for a 24mbps connection and 20 gig/month than pay more for a 8mbps connection with unlimited data.
Man I haven't laughed that hard at a comment for... like years!
Lucky I live in Australia, the MPAA has some other name here with which to sue me.
Slashdot said $1250/day yesterday and $32,600/day today. Will hate to see how much they loose a day for copyright violations in about a week!
I am guessing in this context "discrete" means seperate from the motherboard.
You are thinking too small if you think the poorest people in the world spend their money on lotto tickets. I'm sure some of the poorest people in America might spend their money on gambling, but the real poor people, those in third world nations don't have the luxuries of buying lotto tickets, they struggle not to starve to death or not die from drinking the polluted water. If you have clean water, food and shelter, you are not poor by world standards. To say these people "deserve" it sickens me, but again I will pass it off as your ignorance for thinking the "world" is only the "USA".
That is why you edit the documentation to make the bugs into real documented features!
I work for a domain name company and my boss throws huge amounts of money at google. He seems pretty happy with the results too.
Most Australian metro areas are pretty much surrounded by dry Australian bush. Frequent controlled burnings are carried out all the time in most areas to make sure that no giant uncontrolled fires break out because we let dead leaves build up for 30 years. I believe Sydney does not though, and I believe they had a several hundred kilometer fire a few years ago (thats about 150 miles)
I think they mean it records DVD's. Either way its stupid, why would you label it as a tool that can only record DVD's when it can record so much more?
They had computers in the early 1900's?
I would be very happy to pay 5 cents per song for good quality reliable portable downloads. Can't see it ever dropping that low though.
*cut*
What we have here is a precedent where an ISP has decided not to show you the page you asked for, but rather the page they thought you should look at - and without telling you.
*cut*
They did infact tell you exactly what was happening. I am a Bigpond customer and they presented you with a nice clear page saying that you are being redirected to the idol site. It also says if you REALLY wanted to see the porn stars site, than click here. You only had about 3 seconds to read it all and click, but you still had the opportunity.
And that is exactly what they did.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein
I don't think it can be said much better.
Its just a standard USB drive. If your OS doesn't support it I don't think its oakleys fault.
It is too difficult to get a match if image A is unknown, its like A is a hint for how to produce that certain hash and that hint lets them make B.
I have tested the collisions on my home computer, freebsd 5.0 with the standard MD5 function that comes with it and they come up same hashes but different files.
I am really hoping that my version of MD5 is the real version.
phats garage: Not quite. You only need tweak the second image. Its not that you know what hash to target but you know the origional image data. So for a longer explination for notthepainter, you would create "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" and generate a MD5 sum. You would then slightly modify "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" with the explits you want, and then some extra changes that will not break your program and fiddle with these "extra" changes until you get the same MD5 from the first image.
The main point is that both images are nearly identical and for now only certain changes will be able to be made based on the limitations of the exploit found. So for a certain exploit it may be impossible with image A, so you recode image A to be slightly different with the same functionaly and create a MD5 hash for that. Then you hope you can create your evil image from your new image.
I thought of this too, and I think it will be quite a good solution atleast for a fair while. I'm sure with enough time, more computer power and better techniques that people will be able to get just about any hashes they want with whatever data they want. (I think this is what pre-imaging is about)
In the current attack from what I have seen, the origional document makes hash A, and then the origional document is slightly modified to make hash A again from the modified document. I don't think they can make hash A without the origional document, its just too hard.