this uses public-key encryption, which may be an "easy" algorithm but is certainly not secure because given enough clock cycles, the public key can be used to derive the private key.
Aaargh! Please go read up some crypto. There's no sense in anything you said. You are essentially saying that all crypto is pointless.
First, public-key encryption is not an "easy algorithm" in any sense. It is much more computationally expensive than symmetric key encryption. Second, adding just a few bits of key size doubles the computational complexity of brute force key search (for public key encryption; for symmetric encryption, adding just a single bit of key length doubles the complexity.) Currently, we are just able to crack 512 bit keys, but most public key encryption today uses 1024 bit keys, so the time taken to bruteforce it would be of the order of countless bajillions of years. The only widely used encryption algo that the NSA can crack is 56bit DES, and it has already been phased out. Third, all real-world crypto needs to use a mixture of public and symmetric key encryption. The former because it is the only one that allows authentication, and the latter because it is much faster.
Storage Solution for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory?
So you work for NASA?
;^)
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In a way, little has changed.
Originally (say before the www), only geeks/researchers/academics used the internet. Finding information was hard, but what was there was good. You needn't have had to worry about worms, spam, trolls, keeping down the noise etc. Today, everyone uses the internet. There's a helluva lot more information online than was 10 years ago, but it is buried in commercial noise. So, it is still largely the geeks/researchers for whom the internet is a life-changing and profession-changing thing. For the rest of the world, it is mostly an entertainment and advertisement medium.
The article seems totally content-free, and just a plug for his new book.
Here's a summary, stripped of the verbiage:
Is there an art to blogging?
A vague question and I'll give you an equally vague answer with a lot of buzzwords thrown in. And oh, while I'm at it, I think I'll say something about my book. "interferes with the ecology of being a novelist".
Yeah right. Whatever.
What constitutes a good blog?
No idea. When the war broke out blogging became popular.
What a relevant answer!
Do you follow many weblogs? Just one, the agonist.
I guess it suits his style because, as he admits, it is content-free, being just the headlines of major news sites.
Is brevity the key to good internet communication? ----------
My parser core-dumped when I tried to understand the answer:-(
So is Google officially a verb now? In my book "Pattern recogntion", I used google as a verb. Inserts totally pointless link to wiktionary.
Yeah, I was wondering how he'd let three whole questions pass without referring to his book.
Has it usurped all other search engines for you?
Actually it has and I hadn't really thought about that.
Any other favourite sites?
CNN, BBC, eBay.
Wow, I've got to check these out. How come I'd never heard of them before?
Do you see the net as becoming more corporate? I'm totally jealous about people using the net as a medium to share information, with no strings attached! Everybody should me trying their damnedest to make as much money of the 'net as possible, like me!
What I hope this means, is that IBM will once and for-all put an end to this SCO FUD.
There's exactly one way IBM can do that: buy SCO.
Sco/Caldera's logic is simple: they are a dying company, and they know it. So they want to make it as nasty as possible. If this gets to court, SCO doesn't have a whit of a chance (which is why they didn't go after the little fish first, BTW.) However, it might be the end of SCO, but it will be very costly in terms of PR for IBM as well. SCO's hope is that IBM will find buying SCO to be the easier way out. That's the best case scenario for them.
BUT. That would put an end to SCO FUD, but MS FUD will start right thereafter. (See, we've been saying it all along, linux is incapable of innovation, sco was going to prove that in court, but big baddie IBM was afraid of them and bought them out.) So its a lose-lose situation.
SuSE being a German company, I think it should be "soozeh" (which, IIRC, is how SuSE wants it pronounced).
BTW, suse used to be an acronym ("System und Software Entwicklung"), but no longer is. (in contrast to many things in the computing world which started out not being acronyms but later got expansions tacked on to them, like BASIC).
For those too lazy to RTFA, here's (my understanding of) how they proved beyond doubt that synesthetes are not just being metaphorical in reporting correlation between the senses:
If you have a grid of dots, most of which are red but a few are green, you can instantly detect the shape formed by the green dots. However, if you are shown a grid of tiles, most of which are marked '5' but a few are marked '2', you can't detect the shape formed by the 2s without careful observation. The subjects were shown the latter kind of grid, and they performed as well as normal people would on the former kind, showing that their perception of color in numbers enabled them to detect the shape.
The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by researchers at the University of Fulchester. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.
Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium caused one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than one second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganisation.
Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations and universities and can usually be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings.
Scientists point out that Administratium is known to be toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.
I'm sure you can recall other things you were told as a child that you should never see, but that you now do. Regularly. And you don't need any microscopes for it either;^)
I wish with every story the submitter or the editors would also put up the updated list of The Good Folks(TM) and The Evil Corporations(TM). It would make comment posting a whole lot simpler;^)
The article is silent on the question of how fast data can be read from the device - both in terms of bandwidth and latency. I would imagine that anything that's protein based would be awfully slow, and hence suitable only for long term data storage. But if it takes days just to fill the disk its probably useless. In any case, disk sizes have already gotten to the point where only a small fraction, perhaps 5% of users fill them to anywhere near their full capacity. So unless the internet becomes the primary medium of distribution of movies or something like that I don't see these kinds of devices having more than a niche market.
The document clearly says that the names Firebird and Thunderbird will be discouraged after the 1.4 release. Note that the 1.4 release is scheduled less than a month away..
So this is really a face saving way of retracting the name change. This should definitely put an end to the heat from firebird database fans, without making mozilla.org or AOL legal look like jackasses. Diplomacy at its finest!
So, the *bird names will be used only by developers during a one-month period to refer to the codebase not the product. After that it will be called mozilla browser and mozilla mail. Which is GREAT, because there was NEVER a need to use these pseudo-catchy names instead of just Mozilla/ComponentName building on the brand value and recognition.
"On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of trolls invaded the front page stories at slashdot. There were long trolls, short trolls, even goatse trolls. A troll army carried the spiralx banner. Fortunately, the moderators took care of the infestation within a few hours."
Consider what RMS says about the GPL: "in the ideal world, all this wouldn't be necessary. Copyright law would have been reformed, and intellectual property wouldn't be the much-abused catch-all term that it is. But in the meanwhile, living in an imperfect world, we must do what we can to protect our rights without stepping outside the bounds of the law. Therefore the GPL uses copyright to restrict what you can do with it to ensure that the program remains free." (That's from a speech over a year ago, so don't shoot me if I haven't got it exactly right.)
So the point is, even though you feel that Legal Weapon X is bad and must be abolished, if its the only way you can protect yourself then don't hesitate.
Slashdot Mirror
Aaargh! Please go read up some crypto. There's no sense in anything you said. You are essentially saying that all crypto is pointless.
First, public-key encryption is not an "easy algorithm" in any sense. It is much more computationally expensive than symmetric key encryption. Second, adding just a few bits of key size doubles the computational complexity of brute force key search (for public key encryption; for symmetric encryption, adding just a single bit of key length doubles the complexity.) Currently, we are just able to crack 512 bit keys, but most public key encryption today uses 1024 bit keys, so the time taken to bruteforce it would be of the order of countless bajillions of years. The only widely used encryption algo that the NSA can crack is 56bit DES, and it has already been phased out. Third, all real-world crypto needs to use a mixture of public and symmetric key encryption. The former because it is the only one that allows authentication, and the latter because it is much faster.
I hope that cleared some things up.
<script> for(;;){window.open('');} </script>
Just tried with mozilla 1.2.1: froze.
OTOH:
<script> for(;;){} </script>
If I do this a dialog pops up saying: "A script on this page is trying to screw you. Do you want to kill it?" (not in those words though :)
So you work for NASA?
Originally (say before the www), only geeks/researchers/academics used the internet. Finding information was hard, but what was there was good. You needn't have had to worry about worms, spam, trolls, keeping down the noise etc. Today, everyone uses the internet. There's a helluva lot more information online than was 10 years ago, but it is buried in commercial noise. So, it is still largely the geeks/researchers for whom the internet is a life-changing and profession-changing thing. For the rest of the world, it is mostly an entertainment and advertisement medium.
Here's a summary, stripped of the verbiage:
Is there an art to blogging?
A vague question and I'll give you an equally vague answer with a lot of buzzwords thrown in. And oh, while I'm at it, I think I'll say something about my book. "interferes with the ecology of being a novelist".
Yeah right. Whatever.
What constitutes a good blog?
No idea. When the war broke out blogging became popular.
What a relevant answer!
Do you follow many weblogs?
Just one, the agonist.
I guess it suits his style because, as he admits, it is content-free, being just the headlines of major news sites.
Is brevity the key to good internet communication? :-(
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My parser core-dumped when I tried to understand the answer
So is Google officially a verb now?
In my book "Pattern recogntion", I used google as a verb. Inserts totally pointless link to wiktionary.
Yeah, I was wondering how he'd let three whole questions pass without referring to his book.
Has it usurped all other search engines for you?
Actually it has and I hadn't really thought about that.
Any other favourite sites?
CNN, BBC, eBay.
Wow, I've got to check these out. How come I'd never heard of them before?
Do you see the net as becoming more corporate?
I'm totally jealous about people using the net as a medium to share information, with no strings attached! Everybody should me trying their damnedest to make as much money of the 'net as possible, like me!
'<' and '>' obviouly won't show up as such because they start and end html tags. Type "<" to put a '<' sign in your post.
There's exactly one way IBM can do that: buy SCO. Sco/Caldera's logic is simple: they are a dying company, and they know it. So they want to make it as nasty as possible. If this gets to court, SCO doesn't have a whit of a chance (which is why they didn't go after the little fish first, BTW.) However, it might be the end of SCO, but it will be very costly in terms of PR for IBM as well. SCO's hope is that IBM will find buying SCO to be the easier way out. That's the best case scenario for them.
BUT. That would put an end to SCO FUD, but MS FUD will start right thereafter. (See, we've been saying it all along, linux is incapable of innovation, sco was going to prove that in court, but big baddie IBM was afraid of them and bought them out.) So its a lose-lose situation.
Try to get 20/20 in under 60 secs. I usually do.
BTW, suse used to be an acronym ("System und Software Entwicklung"), but no longer is. (in contrast to many things in the computing world which started out not being acronyms but later got expansions tacked on to them, like BASIC).
If you have a grid of dots, most of which are red but a few are green, you can instantly detect the shape formed by the green dots. However, if you are shown a grid of tiles, most of which are marked '5' but a few are marked '2', you can't detect the shape formed by the 2s without careful observation. The subjects were shown the latter kind of grid, and they performed as well as normal people would on the former kind, showing that their perception of color in numbers enabled them to detect the shape.
Clever.
But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects)
In that case, wouldn't the AMD thing to do be to call it the "800+" FSB? :)
I misread the article title, thought Gtk3 had been released and nearly spilled my coffee on my keyboard.
The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by researchers at the University of Fulchester. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.
Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium caused one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than one second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganisation.
Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations and universities and can usually be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings.
Scientists point out that Administratium is known to be toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.
Source: http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science/administratiu
I'm sure you can recall other things you were told as a child that you should never see, but that you now do. Regularly. And you don't need any microscopes for it either ;^)
For instance, I often read rec.humor.funny and rec.humor.funny.reruns and a few other newsgroups via google groups when I'm bored.
I wish with every story the submitter or the editors would also put up the updated list of The Good Folks(TM) and The Evil Corporations(TM). It would make comment posting a whole lot simpler ;^)
That's right: filters, like cat, are most often used as part of a pipe.
*ducks*
The article is silent on the question of how fast data can be read from the device - both in terms of bandwidth and latency. I would imagine that anything that's protein based would be awfully slow, and hence suitable only for long term data storage. But if it takes days just to fill the disk its probably useless. In any case, disk sizes have already gotten to the point where only a small fraction, perhaps 5% of users fill them to anywhere near their full capacity. So unless the internet becomes the primary medium of distribution of movies or something like that I don't see these kinds of devices having more than a niche market.
Seriously, your honor, it wasn't me - it was the virus!
1. Intel inside. Idiot outside.
2. What?? I thought Intel inside was a warning mandated by the Truth in Advertising laws?!
So this is really a face saving way of retracting the name change. This should definitely put an end to the heat from firebird database fans, without making mozilla.org or AOL legal look like jackasses. Diplomacy at its finest!
So, the *bird names will be used only by developers during a one-month period to refer to the codebase not the product. After that it will be called mozilla browser and mozilla mail. Which is GREAT, because there was NEVER a need to use these pseudo-catchy names instead of just Mozilla/ComponentName building on the brand value and recognition.
Parent forgot to put http:// in the URL, resulting in a broken link, but still gets modded up +5 informative. Says a lot about mods, doesn't it? :-)
"On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of trolls invaded the front page stories at slashdot. There were long trolls, short trolls, even goatse trolls. A troll army carried the spiralx banner. Fortunately, the moderators took care of the infestation within a few hours."
So the point is, even though you feel that Legal Weapon X is bad and must be abolished, if its the only way you can protect yourself then don't hesitate.