It's a play on deus ex machina - a god appearing out of the heavens, as it were, and cleaning everything up. In this case, it's a sudden wrapping-up of the story through gold. If you've read Cryptonomicon, you'll understand.
To be or not to be, that is the question:-)
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind:-P to suffer:-(
The slings and arrows:-(( of outrageous fortune:-(((
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them? 8-) To die X-P, to sleep -_-,
No more... I can't handle mangling Shakespeare this badly.
> The ozone will oxidize the aromatic organic molecules...
Obligatory nitpicking: the word you probably want is "odiferous", not "aromatic". "Aromatic" has the specific connotation of containing benzene-style aromatic rings, which not all odiferous compounds contain.
MAC addresses aren't guaranteed to be unique, and they're useless for routing. You can look at the IP address on a packet - whether IPv4 or v6 - and quickly tell where it should go next. You can't do the same with MAC addresses, though: routers would have to keep a table of every single MAC address on the Net (!!) to route packets properly.
The paper used an incorrect (wrong endianness, I think) implementation of MD5. You can reverse every chunk of 4 bytes in the data in the paper, or just look around for someone else who did the same thing.
RTFA: "Obviously, there's no way to cram an internal optical drive into the tiny Mebius..."
A CD is 12 cm wide, and the Mebius is 15 cm wide. An optical drive would be nearly as large as the entire computer!
They had reached the bottom of the escalator. "Meet you at the top," said Garner, reaching into his ashtray. Anderson stared, jolted, as an invalid's travel chair became a flying saucer. An Arm using an illegal flying machine? An Arm?
Anderson rode up the stairs, whistling. This trip might be fun after all.
bash is a shell, not a terminal. And some terminals support more than 8 colors - xterm and rxvt support 64 colors and a modifiable palette, but nobody uses those features, mostly due to the lack of backward compatibility.
8 colors (plus bold, plus underline, plus standout, plus....) should be enough for anybody.
Wikipedia sez: Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984) (Docket Number: 81-1687), is also known as the Betamax case. The Supreme Court of the United States found that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for home use is considered fair use, and that the manufacture of devices, such as Betamax or VCRs, to facilitate that is legal. Arguments were presented on January 18, 1983, and re-presented on October 3, 1983. The decision was announced on January 17, 1984. [source]
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I think I speak for all of us when I say: "Crap. I hope this can't be expanded to a full-on attack on MD5 or SHA1."
(SHA1 and MD5 are used heavily in all sorts of systems for password verification and message integrity checks. "Breaking" them - which would involve the discovery of a way to easily create a message with a given hash or create two messages with the same hash and specific content - would have all sorts of nasty implications.)
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"You can't fight in here!"
We've all noticed the "extra" links below the stories by now. But take a closer look:
Online Books
Dev Tools DevChannel
Online Operating System Books
Online Security Books
Compare the best prices on: Software/Utilities
(well, fair enough)
The song
OpenBSD 3.6
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(links from the story)
Security whitepapers
Best deals: Security
More Security stories
(blah, blah, blah)
It's funny. Laugh. whitepapers
Best deals: It's funny. Laugh.
More It's funny. Laugh. stories
(WTF?!!)
(And "It's funny. Laugh. whitepapers" don't even include anything funny.)
Operating Systems whitepapers
Best deals: Operating Systems
More Operating Systems stories
(Why, yes, I have an operating system here, for sale cheap...)
BSD whitepapers
Best deals: BSD
More BSD stories
(Best deals on BSD?!)
Someone needs to improve the logic on this.
It's a play on deus ex machina - a god appearing out of the heavens, as it were, and cleaning everything up. In this case, it's a sudden wrapping-up of the story through gold. If you've read Cryptonomicon, you'll understand.
To be or not to be, that is the question :-) :-P to suffer:-( :-(( of outrageous fortune :-(((
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind
The slings and arrows
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them? 8-) To die X-P, to sleep -_-,
No more... I can't handle mangling Shakespeare this badly.
The US Military.
Hee hee.
I wouldn't be surprised if ozone did, but ozone will also affect a lot of non-aromatic compounds as well.
Obligatory nitpicking: the word you probably want is "odiferous", not "aromatic". "Aromatic" has the specific connotation of containing benzene-style aromatic rings, which not all odiferous compounds contain.
MAC addresses aren't guaranteed to be unique, and they're useless for routing. You can look at the IP address on a packet - whether IPv4 or v6 - and quickly tell where it should go next. You can't do the same with MAC addresses, though: routers would have to keep a table of every single MAC address on the Net (!!) to route packets properly.
DOH. Was thinking of HP's player. Ignore parent comment.
Then I want some of what you're smoking, because they're identical.
zMUD: Savitar works well, or any of a number of programs ported from Linux. (TinyFugue, for example)
The paper used an incorrect (wrong endianness, I think) implementation of MD5. You can reverse every chunk of 4 bytes in the data in the paper, or just look around for someone else who did the same thing.
source that you can look at != source you can legally modify and redistribute ("open source")
RTFA: "Obviously, there's no way to cram an internal optical drive into the tiny Mebius..." A CD is 12 cm wide, and the Mebius is 15 cm wide. An optical drive would be nearly as large as the entire computer!
Anderson rode up the stairs, whistling. This trip might be fun after all.
-- World of Ptavvs
Not the first time. Apple licensed the Macintosh to several clone companies for a few years sometime around 1997.
There are open-source Flash plugins and readers, you know...
He might want to mention these issues to the GLterm developer, then.
Seconded. GLTerm is the best native terminal I've yet found for OS X. I use rxvt (under X11) for most of my terminal-ing, though.
8 colors (plus bold, plus underline, plus standout, plus....) should be enough for anybody.
Wikipedia sez: Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984) (Docket Number: 81-1687), is also known as the Betamax case. The Supreme Court of the United States found that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for home use is considered fair use, and that the manufacture of devices, such as Betamax or VCRs, to facilitate that is legal. Arguments were presented on January 18, 1983, and re-presented on October 3, 1983. The decision was announced on January 17, 1984. [source]
A link, even: linky
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/images/sol der/video_final/iss.mpg
As the solder heats up, a little drop of flux starts to spin rapidly around the ball of molten solder. It's a seriously weird effect.
"Crap. I hope this can't be expanded to a full-on attack on MD5 or SHA1."
(SHA1 and MD5 are used heavily in all sorts of systems for password verification and message integrity checks. "Breaking" them - which would involve the discovery of a way to easily create a message with a given hash or create two messages with the same hash and specific content - would have all sorts of nasty implications.)