See this documentation on phoneme mode. There's a way to make TTS (text-to-speech) take input as phonemes instead of words: for example, try "[[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl".
Freenet actually had problems much like this the last time Slashdot posted a story about it. The problem is actually that too many new nodes are being added to the network, none of which contain much data. All these "empty" nodes are creating a large network which contains little data. Hence, new users will start having problems with not finding any data near them -- their requests are only reaching the new, empty nodes.
Slashdotting? Not quite. But something similar, perhaps.
Dasher is apparently a mouse-based input method that does a sort of wierd zooming thing -- described as "Attack of the Killer Alphabets". Could be useful for hands-free use, like for a quadraplegic, but not especially good for general use. Keyboard is still faster if you've still got full use of your hands.
Buffer overflows are a result of sloppy code missing length checks.
Timing attacks are completely unrelated -- they are a result of code running predictably enough that the timing of a response leaks information. They are not a general security breach -- this is an isolated case where a large number of requests to a modSSL server could leak the server's private key -- but nothing else.
Yikes. Looking at that page, I seem to have found a Mozilla license violation -- they've obviously made changes to Mozilla code to create that behaviour, but there's no source code in sight.
Heck, the iBook is Apple's last remaining G3 machine. Of course it's slower... it's the slowest machine in their lineup. If you plan to do video editing, you'd be insane to use an iBook... get a PB G4.
You don't really need to restart your machine to set up the root account under OS X... there's a menu option in one of the NetInfo configuration apps to "Enable root account". Much easier than rebooting the machine, heh.
Most people without some degree of hearing loss can `hear' CRTs like you describe. It's well within the normal adult human hearing range -- most people just don't listen for it.
That thing killed me no less than twice today. I swear that the Blizzard developers must have had nightmares about upper management mandating new features or something. Blah.
Heck, requiring a "million-bit key" is a sign of weakness. If the key is larger than the message, then with a strong cipher any plaintext should theoretically be possible. A truly strong cipher can make a message secure with a small key.
And the claim of "two million people" having tried to crack the code is bogus. Most of these people probably haven't had any cryptographic training.
I haven't had any experience with this myself, but I've heard about some programs that supposedly allow one to use a CD-RW as a dynamically rewritable drive. (Like a floppy, in other words.) I would expect similar problems with such a configuration. Anybody tried this?
Apple uses a semi-proprietary desktop environment known as Quartz for most GUI apps. X11 is a compatibility environment that partially maps X11 calls to Quartz calls, as well as doing some stuff of its own.
Yes, X11 apps now coexist with Cocoa (native OS X) applications on a single desktop. (However, there are still some focusing oddities. Oh well.)
These are Apple extensions to X11, but they will unfortunately not benefit Linux users -- it's all bolted to Quartz, and that's where all the acceleration is taking place anyway. The XFree86 acceleration is just as good, if not perhaps better. What's so cool about this is the integration with the standard OS X interface.
(Disclaimer: I've been using X11.app for a almost a month now. X11 for OS X (OS X11?) isn't new, and neither is this source. But that's what you get here...:)
According to a few sources and AFAIK, telephone wiretapping devices are illegal (to use?) in the USA. Is there any reason keylogging hardware -- or software! -- should be any different?
Note to self: whenever logging into an untrusted machine, check along the keyboard cable to computer. If you see anything strange, unplug it and crush it under leg of handy chair.Crunch. Oops, was that your keylogger?
Seriously, devices like these should be illegal. There's really no legitimate purpose for them -- no more than for those X10 spycams. (No, "maintenance and troubleshooting" isn't a real purpose -- most users don't enter a "command sequence" anyway, so that's a moot point.)
I've actually found that reading on a PDA with a good screen can be almost as good as having a book. With a good, readable font and a backlit screen, my Pilot (excuse me, Palm computing device) is almost as good as a book for quick reads I have text for. Just as portable, too -- almost even better, because it's smaller than one.
But 99% of the time, my computer is working just fine but I need to look up information in the manual. Paper documentation for, say, gcc isn't any better for this reason vecause I don't need gcc when my computer's broken. I need repairs.
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Correct. The Undead were a creation of the Burning Legion, as were the Orcs. (However, the Orcs rebelled or something, making them an independent race.)
Still, 2^^128 possible hashes is a lot of files -- many more than there are unique hashes on a P2P network. I'd guess that a large network might have, at most, ten billion unique files -- and that's being really generous. 2^^128 hashes is 10^^29 times larger than that -- the RIAA'd have chances of something like 1 in a kabillion of getting a collision
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(Orson Scott Card's joke, not mine.)
See this documentation on phoneme mode. There's a way to make TTS (text-to-speech) take input as phonemes instead of words: for example, try "[[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl".
RTFM is actually a real format under Mac OS X. It consists of an RTF bundled with images, used for readmes and such.
Slashdotting? Not quite. But something similar, perhaps.
Dasher is apparently a mouse-based input method that does a sort of wierd zooming thing -- described as "Attack of the Killer Alphabets". Could be useful for hands-free use, like for a quadraplegic, but not especially good for general use. Keyboard is still faster if you've still got full use of your hands.
Timing attacks are completely unrelated -- they are a result of code running predictably enough that the timing of a response leaks information. They are not a general security breach -- this is an isolated case where a large number of requests to a modSSL server could leak the server's private key -- but nothing else.
Hmmmm.
Especially if you ate a lot of apples. ;)
Heck, the iBook is Apple's last remaining G3 machine. Of course it's slower... it's the slowest machine in their lineup. If you plan to do video editing, you'd be insane to use an iBook... get a PB G4.
You don't really need to restart your machine to set up the root account under OS X... there's a menu option in one of the NetInfo configuration apps to "Enable root account". Much easier than rebooting the machine, heh.
Most people without some degree of hearing loss can `hear' CRTs like you describe. It's well within the normal adult human hearing range -- most people just don't listen for it.
That thing killed me no less than twice today. I swear that the Blizzard developers must have had nightmares about upper management mandating new features or something. Blah.
How about the Bastard Operator From Hell? It's not quite a joke, but funny nonetheless. Especially for sysadmins.
And the claim of "two million people" having tried to crack the code is bogus. Most of these people probably haven't had any cryptographic training.
Good idea for Linux users, though.
I haven't had any experience with this myself, but I've heard about some programs that supposedly allow one to use a CD-RW as a dynamically rewritable drive. (Like a floppy, in other words.) I would expect similar problems with such a configuration. Anybody tried this?
(Disclaimer: I've been using X11.app for a almost a month now. X11 for OS X (OS X11?) isn't new, and neither is this source. But that's what you get here... :)
Besides, PS/2 to PS/2 adaptors tend to be rather rare.
According to a few sources and AFAIK, telephone wiretapping devices are illegal (to use?) in the USA. Is there any reason keylogging hardware -- or software! -- should be any different?
Seriously, devices like these should be illegal. There's really no legitimate purpose for them -- no more than for those X10 spycams. (No, "maintenance and troubleshooting" isn't a real purpose -- most users don't enter a "command sequence" anyway, so that's a moot point.)
I've actually found that reading on a PDA with a good screen can be almost as good as having a book. With a good, readable font and a backlit screen, my Pilot (excuse me, Palm computing device) is almost as good as a book for quick reads I have text for. Just as portable, too -- almost even better, because it's smaller than one.
But 99% of the time, my computer is working just fine but I need to look up information in the manual. Paper documentation for, say, gcc isn't any better for this reason vecause I don't need gcc when my computer's broken. I need repairs.
Correct. The Undead were a creation of the Burning Legion, as were the Orcs. (However, the Orcs rebelled or something, making them an independent race.)
Still, 2^^128 possible hashes is a lot of files -- many more than there are unique hashes on a P2P network. I'd guess that a large network might have, at most, ten billion unique files -- and that's being really generous. 2^^128 hashes is 10^^29 times larger than that -- the RIAA'd have chances of something like 1 in a kabillion of getting a collision