What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? It's 1,3,7-trimethyxanthine--where it comes from doesn't make a bit of difference. You can complain about the other stuff in those drinks, but the caffeine is exactly the same.
As natural as possible = grown in dirt, eaten by a civet, shat out, the remains roasted, ground, steeped in hot water, and filtered, retaining the filtrate and discarding the filtrate.
According to the article, phase 1 is complaining, phase 2 is providing a "kit" for those sued by patent trolls (who really just need a lawyer)
The problem with just getting a lawyer in phase 2 is a lawyer will say "if you can afford it, I'll help you settle. If you can't, roll over and die; even if the patent is no good it won't be worth the court fight, and they might win anyway"
While compelling, there are risks to this strong approach. Every piece of software released to the world without legal protections may leave open a door for someone else to attempt to patent the same technology (and may leave its creators more open to legal threats without a patent to wield defensively). Such a scenario may result in years wasted in litigation and the existence of a patent used as a sword to scare away further innovators
The implication is that if FOSS doesn't stop patents, something else will. I'm not sure what they think it will be. I've seen the claim that open-source publication of the actual implementation of a technique in source code doesn't constitute prior art for a patent; if that's the case, what is? Certainly not prior patents; the patent office issues patents for stuff that has already been patented all the time. Not publications in journals; they issue patents for that too.
Just plan on using larger RSA keys (instead of 1024 bit), use the 3072 or 3200 or 4096 options when generating your RSA keys.
From a cursory glance, the 0.2% number is only for RSA 1024. They indicate that RSA 2048 also suffers the same issue, but since the numeric space is much larger the odds go way down. Look for the "12720" number and you'll see the mentions of this being a 1024bit key issue.
No.
If your random number generator is bad, going from 1024 to 2048 doesn't get you better keys. It just gets you longer bad keys. Chances are if your RNG is messed up in such a way that it produces 512 bits of decidedly non-random data some of the time, it'll also produce 1024 bits of similarly non-random data. That's the nature of a PRNG, after all.
The 2048-bit moduli do seem safer, but since we don't know where these bad keys are coming from, there's no way to tell why. It has nothing to do with the inherent strength of 2048-bit keys, though.
So are these keys a sign of weaknesses in specific implementations of RSA key generation or could they have arisen by pure chance due to 2 random number generators picking the exact same number (or is it a combination of both)?
The primes for RSA-1024 should be 512 bits long. There are about 2^502 primes 512 bits long. By birthday paradox statistics, we should expect a collision in approximately every 2^251 choices, which is considerably less than 2 in 1000.
If its pigment then White is the absence of pigment, and Black is all pigments combined.
The absence of pigment is usually clear or translucent. White comes from white pigment such as titanium dioxide. Black comes from black pigment; mixing a bunch of non-white, non-black pigments together generally gets you a muddy brown.
I actually found it rather useful to test a IP/user-agent switching plugin. (I use it to test environment sensitive sections of websites I write). All works fine, which IP address would they like me to come from?
Didn't work for me. My operating system came out as "unknown", despite being bog-standard Safari on a Mac running Snow Leopard.
For any given person's name, there are probably ten thousand people with the same name -- and a lot of those people are also on social networking sites.
That's great if you're name's Mohammed Chang. There are lots of names which aren't so common.
Once you compromise on fundamentals, you're compromised. As the "shouting fire" case you allude to demonstrated; it upheld the conviction of a person whose offense was distributing pamphlets alleging that the US military draft was a violation of the 13th amendment (forbidding slavery and involuntary servitude).
So no, compromise is not always the answer. Compromise brought us from free movement to metal detectors to the TSA virtual strip search. Compromise brought us from free assembly to "free speech zones". Compromise brought us from "you have the right to remain silent" to "turn over that password". Compromise has gotten an undeserved good reputation.
while the derogatory terms etc may seem obvious, there are plenty of less obvious mistakes that people fall into.
And sometimes not-mistakes. As some of the executives of a company I once worked for had to explain away (to a female user working for a major customer, naturally) an error box written by an ex-employee by claiming it was simply an unfortunate typo for "count error".
"Hoist with his own petard" is a quote from Hamlet: "For 'tis sport to have the engineer/ Hoist with his own petard"
"Hoist" in this context means 'lifted into the air'
"Petard" is a small explosive device.
"Hoist with his own petard" = blown up by his own bomb.
But "petard" had another meaning that Shakespeare was quite aware of: fart. So it's a scatalogical double-entendre (as he points out himself: "'tis most sweet/When in one line two crafts directly meet"). And you thought Shakespeare was highbrow.
Don't get me wrong, spills are bad and should be avoided. They going to happen at some point for some reason. Steps should always be taken to minimize them.
No, no, no. The environment must be kept 100% pristine with no chance of error, so all this drilling must be shut down. If that means a few obese McDonalds-eating SUV-driving suburban-living Americans have to pay more for gas, that's just fine. And if that means the whole US economy must collapse and we must all be reduced to the standard of living of Bangladeshis, well, that's fine too. And if that means that most of us must die so the rest can survive by farming using 19th century methods, why, that's OK as well. Anything for the environment.
My thoughts exactly. It sucks having to bold-faced lie about my marijuana use for fear of being branded or otherwise discriminated against.
Yeah, I know, I work for a company with a reputation of being a bit on the California granola side, and it's always awkward when I have to admit I never smoked pot.
OK, they got a bunch of Foxconn passwords? What was the point? I could see if Foxconn was a computer security company; then you'd be making ballmers out of them. I could see if you found some sort of dirt on them by hacking in, but pretty much all the dirty stuff they do is well known. So you're just proving their security isn't great?
Ummm.... doesn't Microcenter count? Guess not according to Forbes, because in 2006 they had 19 stores, 20 in 2007, 21 in 2008, and in 2012 Microcenter has 23 stores. Sure that's slow growth, but still growth none-the-less, and they're much better than CompUSA, Circuit City (is Circuit City "tech"?) and Best Buy because Microcenter actually has competitive prices.
They also tend to have stuff in stock, and for many items (printers, monitors) working items you can examine. Why would you go to a store when you could order online for much less? Three good reasons 1) You want it now 2) Shipping cost overwhelms the price difference 3) You'd like to take a look at it before buying it
But most brick and mortar retailers mess up _all three_. They won't carry much and what they carry they won't keep in stock, so you have a good chance of not finding what you want. For things where shipping cost is significant (e.g. cables), they'll carry only ridiculously-priced brands so they're STILL more expensive than ordering online + shipping (even for one lousy cable). And if they have any samples out, they're often obviously broken, and usually not actually working.
Brain is not working today, that's the second time I made a similar typo. Should be "Utopia might be a nice place to live, but no one wants to read about it."
And he spends much of the rest of his time in the culture universe dwelling on the dirty tricks and dark side of the culture, the things it does in the name of multi-species advancement that, on the surface may look less than enlightened...
Of course. That's the interesting part. Utopia might be a nice place to live, but no one wants to live there.
For the same reason, most of Asimov's stories including the Three Laws of Robotics are about how they didn't work as expected.
If you define theft and stealing as "Acquiring things that don't belong to you", as the vast majority of people do, then yes, it is theft.
Since no things are acquired in the course of copyright infringement, it isn't theft by the common meaning. It's just a matter of arranging my bits in the same way someone else arranged theirs.
Slashdot Mirror
Utter (udder?) nonsense. "Nice tits" was just a lucky guess.
As natural as possible = grown in dirt, eaten by a civet, shat out, the remains roasted, ground, steeped in hot water, and filtered, retaining the filtrate and discarding the filtrate.
The problem with just getting a lawyer in phase 2 is a lawyer will say "if you can afford it, I'll help you settle. If you can't, roll over and die; even if the patent is no good it won't be worth the court fight, and they might win anyway"
They say, about FOSS:
The implication is that if FOSS doesn't stop patents, something else will. I'm not sure what they think it will be. I've seen the claim that open-source publication of the actual implementation of a technique in source code doesn't constitute prior art for a patent; if that's the case, what is? Certainly not prior patents; the patent office issues patents for stuff that has already been patented all the time. Not publications in journals; they issue patents for that too.
No.
If your random number generator is bad, going from 1024 to 2048 doesn't get you better keys. It just gets you longer bad keys. Chances are if your RNG is messed up in such a way that it produces 512 bits of decidedly non-random data some of the time, it'll also produce 1024 bits of similarly non-random data. That's the nature of a PRNG, after all.
The 2048-bit moduli do seem safer, but since we don't know where these bad keys are coming from, there's no way to tell why. It has nothing to do with the inherent strength of 2048-bit keys, though.
The primes for RSA-1024 should be 512 bits long. There are about 2^502 primes 512 bits long. By birthday paradox statistics, we should expect a collision in approximately every 2^251 choices, which is considerably less than 2 in 1000.
So no, it's not chance.
(all numbers extremely approximate)
The absence of pigment is usually clear or translucent. White comes from white pigment such as titanium dioxide. Black comes from black pigment; mixing a bunch of non-white, non-black pigments together generally gets you a muddy brown.
Didn't work for me. My operating system came out as "unknown", despite being bog-standard Safari on a Mac running Snow Leopard.
Didn't Larry Niven explain the reason for hard radiation from the center of the galaxy in his 1966 travelogue "At the Core"?
There are a few phones using a frequency-hopping variant of DECT on 2.4GHz.
That's great if you're name's Mohammed Chang. There are lots of names which aren't so common.
No. Imagine a boot stomping on a human face... forever.
Once you compromise on fundamentals, you're compromised. As the "shouting fire" case you allude to demonstrated; it upheld the conviction of a person whose offense was distributing pamphlets alleging that the US military draft was a violation of the 13th amendment (forbidding slavery and involuntary servitude).
So no, compromise is not always the answer. Compromise brought us from free movement to metal detectors to the TSA virtual strip search. Compromise brought us from free assembly to "free speech zones". Compromise brought us from "you have the right to remain silent" to "turn over that password". Compromise has gotten an undeserved good reputation.
And sometimes not-mistakes. As some of the executives of a company I once worked for had to explain away (to a female user working for a major customer, naturally) an error box written by an ex-employee by claiming it was simply an unfortunate typo for "count error".
And probably better, because who actually tells the truth on a dating site?
But "petard" had another meaning that Shakespeare was quite aware of: fart. So it's a scatalogical double-entendre (as he points out himself: "'tis most sweet/When in one line two crafts directly meet"). And you thought Shakespeare was highbrow.
No, no, no. The environment must be kept 100% pristine with no chance of error, so all this drilling must be shut down. If that means a few obese McDonalds-eating SUV-driving suburban-living Americans have to pay more for gas, that's just fine. And if that means the whole US economy must collapse and we must all be reduced to the standard of living of Bangladeshis, well, that's fine too. And if that means that most of us must die so the rest can survive by farming using 19th century methods, why, that's OK as well. Anything for the environment.
Why not? It's an established path for advancement in many organizations, though the prerequisites rule most Slashdotters out.
Yeah, I know, I work for a company with a reputation of being a bit on the California granola side, and it's always awkward when I have to admit I never smoked pot.
Knowledge and experience aren't "things".
OK, they got a bunch of Foxconn passwords? What was the point? I could see if Foxconn was a computer security company; then you'd be making ballmers out of them. I could see if you found some sort of dirt on them by hacking in, but pretty much all the dirty stuff they do is well known. So you're just proving their security isn't great?
They also tend to have stuff in stock, and for many items (printers, monitors) working items you can examine. Why would you go to a store when you could order online for much less? Three good reasons
1) You want it now
2) Shipping cost overwhelms the price difference
3) You'd like to take a look at it before buying it
But most brick and mortar retailers mess up _all three_. They won't carry much and what they carry they won't keep in stock, so you have a good chance of not finding what you want. For things where shipping cost is significant (e.g. cables), they'll carry only ridiculously-priced brands so they're STILL more expensive than ordering online + shipping (even for one lousy cable). And if they have any samples out, they're often obviously broken, and usually not actually working.
Brain is not working today, that's the second time I made a similar typo. Should be "Utopia might be a nice place to live, but no one wants to read about it."
Of course. That's the interesting part. Utopia might be a nice place to live, but no one wants to live there.
For the same reason, most of Asimov's stories including the Three Laws of Robotics are about how they didn't work as expected.
Since no things are acquired in the course of copyright infringement, it isn't theft by the common meaning. It's just a matter of arranging my bits in the same way someone else arranged theirs.