I was wondering, maybe not more than an hour ago, why not get a TV card and gather randomness from there? There are lots of channels on TV, and they have both a video and an audio component. You could set the thing up to change channels at random intervals,
Yea, and then we can encode that stolen Pharmakom Data inside our cybernetic implants. (like in Johnny Nmenonic)
It is too much work to get psudo-random numbers from TV. We could test it using the program included along with the article. However I would guess that it wouldn't be any different than any of the other algorithhms.
Most of the algorithms I've seen use a timestamp to seed another funtion to generate the final random number. I'm sure that if you just used PI as a seed you'd be "more random" than you're TV tuner idea.
Even so i'd also speculate that if a random number is ever used in a security protocol it would never be re-used and the number would probably be replaced in less time than it takes to exploit the knowledge of that number. (at least that's how I'd write it)
By the way If you read slashdot and love linux, then you are probably not our target customer. (we mostly remove spyware) What makes GS different is that we do not resort to a system restore at the first sign of trouble (GeekSquad is better Circuit City's "I.Q. Crew" imho)
Yes, geeksquad.
Untill I finish my BS in CS I get to drive a company car, use a company provided cellphone and sport a frickin badge (we are also BestBuy employees and get a discount).
Reflash an old i-paq. I did it with nothing more than a CF card. (cant figure out how to get CE back though), but had no problem with CF wifi card or the ipk auto update utility (running over wireless). i've never had to set up the all to complicated ip over serial connection using a linux comp.
D-Link has some cameras with integrated webservers with a self loading java interface viewable from most browsers. You can even tell it to send you an email or upload shots to an ftp server. cost ~$130.
I mean really what kind of story is this. The Guy is basically asking which RAID level he should use. If He knows how to implement all the types he has answered his own question.
I think the real question is do you want Faster access or just redundancy.
Doesn't it sound strange to modify hardware to correct a software deficiency? Well to me it does. Lemme tell a story ( a little off topic):
I bought a truck. Said truck did not have original bumper. OK, first week i get a flat. No big deal just change it right?. But, without the original bumper i couldn't get to the "mr. Pickup" spare tire let down access port in the bumper, because it is apparently misaligned. Right, so Take the truck back get it fixed. Ok, next week pick up the truck, Bumper has not been re-aligned nothing on truck is modified. I pull out the tire tool to see how it is working to find out that whomever had been working on the vehicle decided it was better to modify that tool instead of really fixing the problem. They had taken the tire tool to a grinding wheel. In roughly the middle of the device they modified it from about half an inch in diameter to about a quarter. Well it does work but I must say what the hell where they thinking about (i bought it from a dealer of course)
When a Walmart opens in an area, the local average wage goes down. Way down. This negatively impacts where you live: lower wages = lower tax base = lower services or higher taxes.
Where is your source info for thoes facts you threw out? (just asking don't freak out)
I envision the "Final Solution" for combating piracy on peer to peer networks to be some sort of covert government agency that actively fights a war against such networks. Some handpicked group that creates worms and viruses that target materials that violate copyright law on such networks. Obviously this is illegal but many things the government does quite frequently are.
This overt attack on piracy would be the next step in the arms race of filesharing. Previous attempts to impact piracy by making fake content available have had little impact on the overall problems.
I have a tatoo in binary I find it is an excellent way to judge how any girl will react to any other aspect of myself as a geek. Mostly it repels the incredibly shallow. BTW this is not the primary reason for the tattoo I just thought it looked cool. (it says "ork" what my friends call me instead of "york" ->my last name.)
If this pans out, we will all have to refer to windows as MS-Windows, like MS-dos in the good old days. The changing of this one word could loosen Microsofts grip on the Desktop.
Ever read 1984? Well, in the book, the government tried to control popular thoughts and belief by limiting and manipulating the English language.
It seems to me that by transforming the word windows back into a generic term could eventually (albeit far far in the future) lead to a popular movement away from Microsoft
One of my professors at Midwestern State University (texas) has done this before. Although it seems you may have improved on his solution. (but I couldnt find a copy of his paper)
"Faster Shellsort Sequences: A Genetic Algorithm Application", Proceedings of the International Society for Computers and Their Applications(ISCA), April 7-9, 1999. (With Shashidhar Yachavaram) Presented at the conference, Cancun Mexico.
I used "-" for ones and "o" for zeroes, it is my last name "york" minus the "y", (my friends call me "ork" for some reason) so anyay it looks like this o--o----o---oo-oo--o-o--
and is situated vertically on my left arm. Here is a Picture (i didnt want to show the picture hosted on my dsl modem, just in case)
Sadly since I started this particular thread I cannot mod you up, but that is very interesting, does anyone know if the ms-dos code is very usefull in creating such stuff like WINE, and how illegal would that be?
Since Microsoft is going to stop supporting these products altogether, would it be too much to expect that they make windows 3.x open source (for posterity). If it is open sourced it may live on, at the heart of kind of windows/*nix abomination.
SO...
An idiot savant who can reproduce a scene almost exactly in drawing is like the graphics processor and on that can divide 100 digit numbers in his head is like the alu... and the one that can spit out prime numbers (i think that was only on x-files) is like a...
Ever read dune? the mentats drink that purple juice... is that anything like coffee?
moderators be kind I ran out ouf coffee.
Ok why in the world isn't halo one of the games included in the service, or is it? If you ask me the xbox website is rather cryptic: "look for these new games" ---feel free to correct me, im just talking here.
What are you talking about, what did the army use quake to do? Either you are way off base or you didn't link to the story where the army uses Quake. Basically I am saying, WTF?
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Wasn't this a scam, At least it was hailed as such when it was last posted on slashdot.
It is too much work to get psudo-random numbers from TV. We could test it using the program included along with the article. However I would guess that it wouldn't be any different than any of the other algorithhms.
Most of the algorithms I've seen use a timestamp to seed another funtion to generate the final random number. I'm sure that if you just used PI as a seed you'd be "more random" than you're TV tuner idea.
Even so i'd also speculate that if a random number is ever used in a security protocol it would never be re-used and the number would probably be replaced in less time than it takes to exploit the knowledge of that number. (at least that's how I'd write it)
By the way
If you read slashdot and love linux, then you are probably not our target customer. (we mostly remove spyware) What makes GS different is that we do not resort to a system restore at the first sign of trouble (GeekSquad is better Circuit City's "I.Q. Crew" imho)
Yes, geeksquad.
:)
Untill I finish my BS in CS I get to drive a company car, use a company provided cellphone and sport a frickin badge (we are also BestBuy employees and get a discount).
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"patterns apply to primes" Does this mean to generate a/any prime number you can use a formula? If so does that mean it's easier to factor numbers?
Reflash an old i-paq. I did it with nothing more than a CF card. (cant figure out how to get CE back though), but had no problem with CF wifi card or the ipk auto update utility (running over wireless). i've never had to set up the all to complicated ip over serial connection using a linux comp.
D-Link has some cameras with integrated webservers with a self loading java interface viewable from most browsers. You can even tell it to send you an email or upload shots to an ftp server. cost ~$130.
Hate to draw the fire, but
I mean really what kind of story is this. The Guy is basically asking which RAID level he should use. If He knows how to implement all the types he has answered his own question.
I think the real question is do you want Faster access or just redundancy.
Doesn't it sound strange to modify hardware to correct a software deficiency? Well to me it does. Lemme tell a story ( a little off topic):
I bought a truck. Said truck did not have original bumper. OK, first week i get a flat. No big deal just change it right?. But, without the original bumper i couldn't get to the "mr. Pickup" spare tire let down access port in the bumper, because it is apparently misaligned. Right, so Take the truck back get it fixed. Ok, next week pick up the truck, Bumper has not been re-aligned nothing on truck is modified. I pull out the tire tool to see how it is working to find out that whomever had been working on the vehicle decided it was better to modify that tool instead of really fixing the problem. They had taken the tire tool to a grinding wheel. In roughly the middle of the device they modified it from about half an inch in diameter to about a quarter. Well it does work but I must say what the hell where they thinking about (i bought it from a dealer of course)
but the windows, buttons, and other contols of the Java apps I've seen have an old fashion look and feel to me and I don't care for it
"I think the buttons look old", well I guess you could use the same argument for your computer when the keyboard gets worn.
I don't get it?
When a Walmart opens in an area, the local average wage goes down. Way down. This negatively impacts where you live: lower wages = lower tax base = lower services or higher taxes.
Where is your source info for thoes facts you threw out? (just asking don't freak out)
I envision the "Final Solution" for combating piracy on peer to peer networks to be some sort of covert government agency that actively fights a war against such networks. Some handpicked group that creates worms and viruses that target materials that violate copyright law on such networks. Obviously this is illegal but many things the government does quite frequently are.
This overt attack on piracy would be the next step in the arms race of filesharing. Previous attempts to impact piracy by making fake content available have had little impact on the overall problems.
I have a tatoo in binary I find it is an excellent way to judge how any girl will react to any other aspect of myself as a geek. Mostly it repels the incredibly shallow. BTW this is not the primary reason for the tattoo I just thought it looked cool. (it says "ork" what my friends call me instead of "york" ->my last name.)
If this pans out, we will all have to refer to windows as MS-Windows, like MS-dos in the good old days.
The changing of this one word could loosen Microsofts grip on the Desktop.
Ever read 1984? Well, in the book, the government tried to control popular thoughts and belief by limiting and manipulating the English language.
It seems to me that by transforming the word windows back into a generic term could eventually (albeit far far in the future) lead to a popular movement away from Microsoft
I belive that was a reference to "They Live" (the movie)
One of my professors at Midwestern State University (texas) has done this before. Although it seems you may have improved on his solution. (but I couldnt find a copy of his paper)
"Faster Shellsort Sequences: A Genetic Algorithm Application", Proceedings of the International Society for Computers and Their Applications(ISCA), April 7-9, 1999. (With Shashidhar Yachavaram) Presented at the conference, Cancun Mexico.
I used "-" for ones and "o" for zeroes, it is my last name "york" minus the "y", (my friends call me "ork" for some reason) so anyay it looks like this o--o----o---oo-oo--o-o-- and is situated vertically on my left arm. Here is a Picture (i didnt want to show the picture hosted on my dsl modem, just in case)
Sadly since I started this particular thread I cannot mod you up, but that is very interesting, does anyone know if the ms-dos code is very usefull in creating such stuff like WINE, and how illegal would that be?
Since Microsoft is going to stop supporting these products altogether, would it be too much to expect that they make windows 3.x open source (for posterity). If it is open sourced it may live on, at the heart of kind of windows/*nix abomination.
Is the poster just dissatisified with existing software: or pissed because he wants to be computing star Trek style and never will?
SO... An idiot savant who can reproduce a scene almost exactly in drawing is like the graphics processor and on that can divide 100 digit numbers in his head is like the alu... and the one that can spit out prime numbers (i think that was only on x-files) is like a ...
Ever read dune? the mentats drink that purple juice... is that anything like coffee?
moderators be kind I ran out ouf coffee.
Ok why in the world isn't halo one of the games included in the service, or is it? If you ask me the xbox website is rather cryptic: "look for these new games" ---feel free to correct me, im just talking here.
Hmm, the only way they could implament storage would be.... ice cubes!
What are you talking about, what did the army use quake to do? Either you are way off base or you didn't link to the story where the army uses Quake. Basically I am saying, WTF?