Actually the parent is wrong. The bahavior os f2k($temp) is different than f2k($temp is rw) in that Perl will assume a constant variable by default. So no, you don't *have* do, unless you want to make your parameters read-write. Which could lead to less lines and variables later on.
Putting the current SCO thing aside, what do you think about software producer liability? Microsoft recently made a big deal about increasing how much they'll "protect" their customers, but that's mostly a PR stunt. Do you think that there will be a major court case incolving IP that "slips" into software, and that it might change people's trust in Open Source software?
True, this particular instance isn't very useful in practice, but that wasn't exactly my point. I was trying to point out that a tenfold increase in *any* cracking algorithm is fairly significant, and an accomplishment not worth dismissing.
You obviously aren't a computer scientist (or a computer hacker). What they got was a power of ten increase (roughly). This is a significant improvement because it is not simply incremental. Look at it this way: Let's say it usually took 200 days to crack a password. A company could enforce a 90-day (3 month) requirement to change passwords, and a brute force technique would have roughly a 1-in-2 chance of getting a password in any given 90-day period. Now they increased it by a factor of 10.
Now it takes 20 days to crack a password. If the company want to keep the same level of password security, users would have to change their passwords every 7 days!
This is weird... on the site in Opera 7 (I guess their method of "faking" and IE signature works) a search fails because they add a trailing \ to the URL "buymusic.com." I'm running Linux.
I wonder if this is a mistake, or a purposeful "breakage" to get people to actually use IE?
Also, I'm sad to see TMBG are on this service. Too bad I already bought their mp3s from another site!
I'm sure that the US will start to find someway (oil) to recoup the costs. I can imagine this line of thinking, "Hey, we saved your country from a dictator! You *owe* us free oil for ten years. Don't like it? We can always make another regime change..."
Scary!
Wow, where to begin...
A virus is *actually* a piece of code that cannot run on its own, but instead must be within a host file. A virus also always replicates itself my infecting other files. (if it can run on its own, it's a worm. If it doesn't replicate, it's a patch).
And viruses don't "exploit bugs" at all. They simple append their code into a file (usually the beginning) or into a file (unused code, etc) and then "point" the program to run that code. Save deleting every executeable on the system, or having some massive signature checking system in place, there's no way to totally prevent viruses.
Why don't they fix them? It seems almost paradoxical, if you find.53 errors per thousands lines of code and fix them, then you'll have 0 errors. But since we can only fix errors we can detect, we only detect errors we can fix. Ok, it's too early on a Monday morning...
Nice troll! It would be super if we gave every major company a total monopoly, and we all had to pay extremely high costs to insure that we don't harm ourselves by buying an "inferior" product. Heavens, consumers *might* even start making their own purchasing decisions! Oh no!!!
I hope you're a troll, and the person who wrote this comment sees how absurd it is.
I guess my e-mail to Blizzard about their actions against Freenet tore the company apart! I'm sure glad tech support forwarded it to the head developers...
Er...
Considering that you have to call a long-distance phone number (for the first 30 days) and then it's $1.25/minute after that, I wouldn't exactly say they "support" their commercial Windows XP drivers, either.
Looks like they put their drivers back on the website. They were not there when the story was posted. Now if only they'd update them to support X 4.3...:)
Define "Radeon." I have a Radeon 8500LE that their binary driver supported completely. I can't be certain (since I didn't own one) but i'm pretty sure their binary driver also have 3d accelleration to Radeon 7000 cards. I'm less sure about the old, original "Radeon" cards.
ATI themselves "used to" provide an XFree86 driver themselves. you could download it from their own website, and it came with a very nice program that would auto-generate the correct Xfree86-4 config file. It looks like they're dropping support for it, now.
I know all about freenet, don't worry:) My work isn't to re-invent the wheel, it's more for fun than anything else. I'm sure another system (freenet, etc) will explode just like Kazaa did, eventually.
Actually, what I'm almost positive this will do is harbor a new breed of file sharing programs that completely mask the identity of the people sharing the files. I've been working in my spare time on a model that would act as a double-blind P2P protocol where any node can download any file, but neither the sender nor the receiver knows anything. It's trickey, and it's easily "breakable" by collusion, but I'm still working on it:)
With the single exception of Photoshop (and maybe anti-aliasing), I don't see why you couldn't do all the rest of that stuff at the same time. Maybe you just needed to learn how to use Solaris!
But I still fail to understand why. If you don't want a faster computer, then don't buy one. But you're completely wrong that "it's just numbers." Sure, one step up a mountain is only one little step where no one can tell the difference. But then you take another step. And another. Before you know it, you've travelled 10, 100, 1,000 feet. That 40-minute video compression might take 39 minutes on the next step up, then 37, but eventually it will only take 1 minute, or less.
So don't dismiss numbers, especially if you can't see far enough to add them up!
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Actually the parent is wrong. The bahavior os f2k($temp) is different than f2k($temp is rw) in that Perl will assume a constant variable by default. So no, you don't *have* do, unless you want to make your parameters read-write. Which could lead to less lines and variables later on.
Putting the current SCO thing aside, what do you think about software producer liability? Microsoft recently made a big deal about increasing how much they'll "protect" their customers, but that's mostly a PR stunt. Do you think that there will be a major court case incolving IP that "slips" into software, and that it might change people's trust in Open Source software?
True, this particular instance isn't very useful in practice, but that wasn't exactly my point. I was trying to point out that a tenfold increase in *any* cracking algorithm is fairly significant, and an accomplishment not worth dismissing.
You obviously aren't a computer scientist (or a computer hacker). What they got was a power of ten increase (roughly). This is a significant improvement because it is not simply incremental. Look at it this way:
Let's say it usually took 200 days to crack a password. A company could enforce a 90-day (3 month) requirement to change passwords, and a brute force technique would have roughly a 1-in-2 chance of getting a password in any given 90-day period. Now they increased it by a factor of 10.
Now it takes 20 days to crack a password. If the company want to keep the same level of password security, users would have to change their passwords every 7 days!
This is a pretty big issue.
This is weird... on the site in Opera 7 (I guess their method of "faking" and IE signature works) a search fails because they add a trailing \ to the URL "buymusic.com." I'm running Linux.
I wonder if this is a mistake, or a purposeful "breakage" to get people to actually use IE?
Also, I'm sad to see TMBG are on this service. Too bad I already bought their mp3s from another site!
I'm sure that the US will start to find someway (oil) to recoup the costs. I can imagine this line of thinking, "Hey, we saved your country from a dictator! You *owe* us free oil for ten years. Don't like it? We can always make another regime change..." Scary!
no, actually moderating them "funny" means that they get past everyone's filters (unless you penalize "funny" which makes slashdot hard to read!
I give up though, slashdot moderation is one of the biggest failures that I've seen from an experimental system.
Don't mod trolls funny, it only encourages them!
Well, we both bit big on this troll, but I think the ifnromation we got out was good :)
Wow, where to begin...
A virus is *actually* a piece of code that cannot run on its own, but instead must be within a host file. A virus also always replicates itself my infecting other files. (if it can run on its own, it's a worm. If it doesn't replicate, it's a patch).
And viruses don't "exploit bugs" at all. They simple append their code into a file (usually the beginning) or into a file (unused code, etc) and then "point" the program to run that code. Save deleting every executeable on the system, or having some massive signature checking system in place, there's no way to totally prevent viruses.
Why don't they fix them? It seems almost paradoxical, if you find .53 errors per thousands lines of code and fix them, then you'll have 0 errors. But since we can only fix errors we can detect, we only detect errors we can fix. Ok, it's too early on a Monday morning...
Did you even read the article? I suggest you learn to read, excerisze this newfound ability, and then re-read your own comment. Jeeze!
Nice troll! It would be super if we gave every major company a total monopoly, and we all had to pay extremely high costs to insure that we don't harm ourselves by buying an "inferior" product. Heavens, consumers *might* even start making their own purchasing decisions! Oh no!!!
I hope you're a troll, and the person who wrote this comment sees how absurd it is.
I guess my e-mail to Blizzard about their actions against Freenet tore the company apart! I'm sure glad tech support forwarded it to the head developers...
Er...
Considering that you have to call a long-distance phone number (for the first 30 days) and then it's $1.25/minute after that, I wouldn't exactly say they "support" their commercial Windows XP drivers, either.
Looks like they put their drivers back on the website. They were not there when the story was posted. Now if only they'd update them to support X 4.3... :)
Define "Radeon." I have a Radeon 8500LE that their binary driver supported completely. I can't be certain (since I didn't own one) but i'm pretty sure their binary driver also have 3d accelleration to Radeon 7000 cards. I'm less sure about the old, original "Radeon" cards.
ATI themselves "used to" provide an XFree86 driver themselves. you could download it from their own website, and it came with a very nice program that would auto-generate the correct Xfree86-4 config file. It looks like they're dropping support for it, now.
I know all about freenet, don't worry :) My work isn't to re-invent the wheel, it's more for fun than anything else. I'm sure another system (freenet, etc) will explode just like Kazaa did, eventually.
The upcoming Cyberwarfare! At $950/machine, do you think each will come with IIS installed? Talk about ecurity!
Actually, what I'm almost positive this will do is harbor a new breed of file sharing programs that completely mask the identity of the people sharing the files. I've been working in my spare time on a model that would act as a double-blind P2P protocol where any node can download any file, but neither the sender nor the receiver knows anything. It's trickey, and it's easily "breakable" by collusion, but I'm still working on it :)
Hit that submit button one second too quickly ;)
I just have to chuckle, I wonder what really goes through his head (Bill Gates) when he gets Spam e-mails to help him "Get out of debt NOW!!!" Heh...
With the single exception of Photoshop (and maybe anti-aliasing), I don't see why you couldn't do all the rest of that stuff at the same time. Maybe you just needed to learn how to use Solaris!
But I still fail to understand why. If you don't want a faster computer, then don't buy one. But you're completely wrong that "it's just numbers." Sure, one step up a mountain is only one little step where no one can tell the difference. But then you take another step. And another. Before you know it, you've travelled 10, 100, 1,000 feet. That 40-minute video compression might take 39 minutes on the next step up, then 37, but eventually it will only take 1 minute, or less.
So don't dismiss numbers, especially if you can't see far enough to add them up!