You forget that Congress can cut funding to NASA and your Elected Representatives are itching to cut.
It's very understandable that NASA is nervous, high IQ hasn't been a very common factor amongst politicians and they may well constitute 'the ignorant masses' others have referred to in posts.
I have also seen a comment saying the answer is to send Robotica to explore for us. I say nay, we need to go there ourselves for it to count as human exploration.
So there!
This is viable as a means of implementing SCS and still being able to experiment with other character classes. Encryption is server-side and believe you me, DESIII is tougher encryption than our measly machines can decrypt in our lifetimes. I recall a story on/. not long ago that revolved around the design of an efficient DESIII cracker for the NSA (or other spook agency) for 1.3 billion US$.
Not quite what week-end crackers have access to.
I took a course in cryptology where one of the assignements was to crack a classical cryptosystem. All of them were hobbled in some respect.
The Enigma project had a known signature, making it weaker.
The Diffie-Hellman/RSA project was only 250 bit numbers, but we could only use math we could explain ourselves (CS, not math class).
The RSA key was 240 bits.
The DES project was to decode 4 packets of single DES with some part of the keyspace given.
The easiest to implement was the des, because it is simply a brute-force attack on the keyspace, testing the output for english-legality. There were 2 DES teams and one of the teams managed to log some 2000 hours of computer time to decoding the packets. They were unsuccessful.
I don't know if this is open practice or not, just remember reading about how Microsoft was basing their OEM price on which OS's that manufacturer shipped. If a manufacturer shipped Linux, OS/2, Whatever-OS, the prices would rise for that manufacturer, making it more profitable to stay with one os, Windows.
I'm sure I'll get a flurry of responses detailing my error if indeed I am in error, so fire away:)
... but this must spell the final doom of M$. Even if the average consumer is a lemming, corporate entities must have the sense of seeing that this is akin to giving Bill control of their computers.
I'd like to see Corporate America swallow that wad...
Somewhere I read the top 10 things the Linux community needed to achieve to increase market penetration. I found most of the items applied to me.
What drove me away last time I tried to convert:
1. Changing the screen resolution was a bitch. I'm a CS student and very interrested in Unix and a staunch supporter of Software Libre, but such an easy setting requiring such pretzels just irritated me to no end.
2. Installing programs. This can be very hard. Usually I can manage, but c'mon, package conflicts are not problems my gramma or my mother could handle. I have yet to check out Autopackage (I think that's the name of it).
3. There are some programs that I would miss, but usually there's an alternative.
I look foreward to the day when I make my Win98SE redundant and remove the bugger from my system.
... is a little lacking.
Having dl'ded and installed the program, I can't seem to connect to anything.
Helpfiles are not helpful.
Being a computer geek and not getting it running in 2 minutes flat annoys me to no end.
Cool Idea thou.
Niiice. This means we don't have to learn new calculus to program assembly and STILL experience the computing power of single atoms.
Good. My head hurts when thinking about sets AND super-sets at the same time (read, quantum computing)
Why oh why didn't acknowledge Fritz's offer of draw before he conceded? I thought chess tourney rules were that if you spoke at all your opponent could interpret it as an offer of draw ???
to a fun trip through bushland performing those wild stunts Steve Irwin invented. One can hope for him encountering a peeved rattler down under, can't one?
Pornogrifiers for Evil Deeds and Violent Acts? This is the same zt, pc crap that's been peddled around school boards in the last decade. In the words of the Great George Carlin: "Life didn't come with a warranty, you are all guilty."
So, having items rated isn't good enough?
Explicit Violence, Some Sex Slang, Full Frontal Nudity.
sheez, I wouldn't have guessed anything in there would offend then moral MINORITY.
Funny part is, the people who would like services like this are the people that say we are born guilty into this world.
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It isn't like the guy was doing any reverse-engineering. I say let him rot in jail for abusing his position.
You forget that Congress can cut funding to NASA and your Elected Representatives are itching to cut.
It's very understandable that NASA is nervous, high IQ hasn't been a very common factor amongst politicians and they may well constitute 'the ignorant masses' others have referred to in posts.
I have also seen a comment saying the answer is to send Robotica to explore for us. I say nay, we need to go there ourselves for it to count as human exploration. So there!All you folks who are dissing the parent post:
/. not long ago that revolved around the design of an efficient DESIII cracker for the NSA (or other spook agency) for 1.3 billion US$.
This is viable as a means of implementing SCS and still being able to experiment with other character classes. Encryption is server-side and believe you me, DESIII is tougher encryption than our measly machines can decrypt in our lifetimes. I recall a story on
Not quite what week-end crackers have access to.
I took a course in cryptology where one of the assignements was to crack a classical cryptosystem. All of them were hobbled in some respect.
The Enigma project had a known signature, making it weaker.
The Diffie-Hellman/RSA project was only 250 bit numbers, but we could only use math we could explain ourselves (CS, not math class).
The RSA key was 240 bits.
The DES project was to decode 4 packets of single DES with some part of the keyspace given.
The easiest to implement was the des, because it is simply a brute-force attack on the keyspace, testing the output for english-legality. There were 2 DES teams and one of the teams managed to log some 2000 hours of computer time to decoding the packets. They were unsuccessful.
Needless to say, DESIII is in my opinion safe.
I don't know if this is open practice or not, just remember reading about how Microsoft was basing their OEM price on which OS's that manufacturer shipped. If a manufacturer shipped Linux, OS/2, Whatever-OS, the prices would rise for that manufacturer, making it more profitable to stay with one os, Windows.
:)
I'm sure I'll get a flurry of responses detailing my error if indeed I am in error, so fire away
you can have 7 of those without breaking the limit :)
... but this must spell the final doom of M$. Even if the average consumer is a lemming, corporate entities must have the sense of seeing that this is akin to giving Bill control of their computers.
...
I'd like to see Corporate America swallow that wad
Well, it depends ....
1. Was the parting on good terms?
2. Current employment status?
But bill them as a consultant, no question.
Somewhere I read the top 10 things the Linux community needed to achieve to increase market penetration. I found most of the items applied to me.
What drove me away last time I tried to convert:
1. Changing the screen resolution was a bitch. I'm a CS student and very interrested in Unix and a staunch supporter of Software Libre, but such an easy setting requiring such pretzels just irritated me to no end.
2. Installing programs. This can be very hard. Usually I can manage, but c'mon, package conflicts are not problems my gramma or my mother could handle. I have yet to check out Autopackage (I think that's the name of it).
3. There are some programs that I would miss, but usually there's an alternative.
I look foreward to the day when I make my Win98SE redundant and remove the bugger from my system.
There's no reason in the article for Taiwan to dislike Linux, but RedHat however is an entirely different story.
... but I WANT to be spoiled :)
So, they start this initiative now, hardware filters slowly through the system and in some 10 years or so, the **AA corps finally have a market?
I'm not losing any sleep over this. Who is going to buy DRM encoded media anyhoo?
At one point of my life I woulda loved to get my hands on whatever that exec was smoking while writing this stuff.
... Chimera. They decided not to compete against the mozilla-project dedicated as the light-weight-Apple-browser they allready had.
The browser did not return: 403 or 401 and then they CRACKED their way in, they simply found an URL. That's where this law would come in.
What these guys did amounted to publishing an article in a magazine with the first page of the article being: Do not open until (date/time).
Now really, how are people going to take that seriously?
... and got it working in 2 minutes flat (discount the transfer time from CD to HD) ;-]
... is a little lacking. Having dl'ded and installed the program, I can't seem to connect to anything. Helpfiles are not helpful. Being a computer geek and not getting it running in 2 minutes flat annoys me to no end. Cool Idea thou.
Niiice. This means we don't have to learn new calculus to program assembly and STILL experience the computing power of single atoms. Good. My head hurts when thinking about sets AND super-sets at the same time (read, quantum computing)
Why oh why didn't acknowledge Fritz's offer of draw before he conceded? I thought chess tourney rules were that if you spoke at all your opponent could interpret it as an offer of draw ???
to a fun trip through bushland performing those wild stunts Steve Irwin invented. One can hope for him encountering a peeved rattler down under, can't one?
Pornogrifiers for Evil Deeds and Violent Acts? This is the same zt, pc crap that's been peddled around school boards in the last decade. In the words of the Great George Carlin: "Life didn't come with a warranty, you are all guilty."
I don't remember directors releasing movies under GPL, so why should anyone be able to tamper with their work?
So, having items rated isn't good enough? Explicit Violence, Some Sex Slang, Full Frontal Nudity. sheez, I wouldn't have guessed anything in there would offend then moral MINORITY. Funny part is, the people who would like services like this are the people that say we are born guilty into this world.