Remember in 2006 when Belgium courts found that SWIFT was violating EU privacy laws...and the subsequent move by SWIFT to relocate its US-based datacenter peer to Switzerland? At that point I thought this issue was solved. What am I missing?
In other words, when mom and dad and nanny first hear a child speaking a word, they unconsciously stress it by repeating it back to him all by itself or in very short sentences.
As a father of three I can tell you that this behavior isn't "unconscious.". When your kids start to say words you will spend hours and then days saying them back to your children, to confirm what they said, to model better enunciation and to just to keep them engaged in a conversation with you. The words "by itself" bit is obvious - "affel" means either "I see an apple" or "I want a piece of your apple"; coaxing more out of your child at first would be torture and lead to frustration. "In short sentences" is also obvious - you wouldn't start your 18-month-year-old with long sentences.
Is there a story here or is this just a way for a guy to spend five fun years with his kid while drawing a paycheck?
I'm troubled that you're mixing hashing/encryption together. I think you want to think of things in this way: - Hashing = ONE WAY, destructive but unique signature representing some data (hashes are fixed length, no matter the length of the source data). - Encryption = TWO WAY, transformation that hides data, but the data remains recoverable (encrypted data is usually as proportionally long as the source data)
The reason that rainbow tables (massive lists of known password/hash combinations) can be used to "extract" passwords from hashes is that the discovered passwords have a matching hash entry in the rainbow table. There's no reversing going on here, nor could there be because of the destructive (one way) nature of hashes.
One reason to still protect access to the routine, salt and password HASHES is that its pretty easy to build your own application-specific rainbow table if the routine and salt are known; and then that can be used to look up passwords from the application's store of credentials.
That's probably endgame for the application, but the ability to discover existing user passwords from a system is often more interesting to an attacker than compromising the application that coughed up the hashes. The reason for that is that people often use the same credentials on other systems. So, if you attack a "lower security" system and grab credentials off of that, you can often turn around and more quietly attack a higher security system that shares many of the same users ("more quietly" because you can look more like a fumbling group of end users than a script kiddie if you've got legitimate credentials).
Rupert Murdoch said that The Daily offers 'unthinkable innovations' to the world of publishing.
In other words, if there are innovations here, they haven't thought of them yet.
All kidding aside, it looks like a return to the "hypercard" fixed width and height presentation that's been on the backburner since the web first beat out print in popularity. (Web articles typically scroll up/down, of course.) In that case, the innovation is "we finally found a way to get you to page through an article with all the ads again - no more 'printable version' for you - muh ha ha ha ha ha!"
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Tron:Legacy was like watching glow-in-the-dark paint dry. This was like "Avatar: the Last Electronbender"
This actually makes sense. The "threat level orange" was getting pretty ridiculous, and political chances of the "threat level" ever returning to "green" or even "yellow" seemed awfully remote.
Cellphone-only voters tend to be younger, more urban, and less white — all Democratic demographics — and a study by Pew Research suggests that the failure to include them might bias the polls by about 4 points against Democrats, even after demographic weighting is applied.
Umm...isn't the point of demographic weighting to factor in "unweighted" demographics like this?
Foaming the tents saves the military $2 million a day in avoided energy costs.
If it's a semi-permanent base, couldn't they also have invested in earth-covered buildings? Covered with a yard or so of earth they might also provide a better defense against small arms fire and shrapnel.
Opera is available on a lot of platforms too, and is much better than Firefox as far as bloat and memory leaks are concerned.
Yes, but Opera isn't also owned by a major software platform vendor, so I don't suspect them. Without that kind of pull, mouthpieces for Opera have been few and far between at the corporate magazine level.
I just read this guy as somebody's corporate troll, but across Microsoft, Google or Apple, the one who seems to have the most to gain from Firefox's demise would be...Google, now that they're pushing the competing Chrome browser into the very same space.
Technically, there's still a role for Firefox as the cross-platform browser of choice - for techies. (Safari on Windows still sucks; IE on Mac doesn't exist anymore.) I also use Firefox religiously because of Flashblock, though I have switched to Chrome for my Amazon cloud account administration, and I still use IE when I need to look at Sharepoint or the Microsoft Partner Portal.
[evil]As a guy who puts together some of the software packages you buy I can tell you that bundling of commonly and rarely used functionality often happens by design. And it doesn't just happen in the software industry: car manufacturers do it when they bundle their options too. The advantages of bundling for the buyer are: fewer choices (shorter lead time if you know what you want) and better budgeting (fewer trips "back to the well" for more money); the advantages for the seller are: cost containment (fewer combinations to test and support), tighter brand control (the "SE edition" instead of "features 12 and 15") and higher prices (less ability to buy smaller increments of functionality). The risk we take as a vendor is always that someone will provide a better package of benefits for a better price, but it continually surprises me closely IT consumers in any particular market will track to the pack - even paying an order of magnitude more for similar features available from an innovative competitor - the "better mousetrap" is usually only a secondary risk.
Before someone hops on here and says "the cloud will break this model", please remember that another widely-used on-demand service called "cable TV" has already figured out the bundling concept and applied it viciously. (Ever wish you could just buy ESPN and SciFi?) Once various SaaS, PaaS and IaaS industries stabilize, I'd bet bundling of "features I never use" will be a common complaint here too - and you'll keep buying nonetheless. [/evil]
In a way, the Mayans were correct. After all, whether the date is 2012 or 2013, the Maya did correctly predict that by that time the Maya would have no further need for a Mayan calendar.
2002 called - it wants its "help me deal with spam" article back.
With only 16 comments in 90 minutes my thought is that your average Slashdot reader already has his/her spam problem solved. It's really a non-issue for most of us; let's get some real news for nerds here instead please.
The idea that corporate firewalls, IDS and content filters will stop Facebook or other social networking traffic is silly. There are hundreds of mobile devices that use consumer-grade cellular networks already in place; information WILL get out.
Anonymous reader (probably a PR flack for Science) said: "This type of mission has great potential for positive economic return based on the fact that no effort has to be spent on getting in and out of a distant planet's gravity well."
Let's see, from TFA: "Hopkins said that a basic six-month human mission to an asteroid could return about 100 kilograms of samples collected from different spots on the space rock." OK, so you fly directly to the solid gold asteroid and pick up 100 KG of that. That's 3527 ounces. At $1230/ounce, that's about $4.3M. And you need to make a profit.
If you can plan, support, launch and recover the mission to the solid gold asteroid for less than $4M, my hat's off to you.
I miss the pressure AMD used to put on Intel. When Intel had an agile competitor often leaping ahead of it chip speeds shot up like a rocket - seems like they've been resting on their laurels lately...
"Who should be warned first: users or software vendors?"
Tell both. But if you announce something, please doc how you did it and don't brush off the vendor. (Email from users and press can get pretty thick after you announce something - if you're ethical and really want to fix the problem all that noise should be lo pri...)
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Hell yes. In fact, I just quit my day job so I could restructure as a less-benefits consultant so I could do exactly this.
the easiest thing to do is to text a donation to our favorite relief organization
Why would any true geek text a donation? We're geeks. We want what's most EFFECTIVE, not what's easiest.
Remember in 2006 when Belgium courts found that SWIFT was violating EU privacy laws...and the subsequent move by SWIFT to relocate its US-based datacenter peer to Switzerland? At that point I thought this issue was solved. What am I missing?
In other words, when mom and dad and nanny first hear a child speaking a word, they unconsciously stress it by repeating it back to him all by itself or in very short sentences.
As a father of three I can tell you that this behavior isn't "unconscious.". When your kids start to say words you will spend hours and then days saying them back to your children, to confirm what they said, to model better enunciation and to just to keep them engaged in a conversation with you. The words "by itself" bit is obvious - "affel" means either "I see an apple" or "I want a piece of your apple"; coaxing more out of your child at first would be torture and lead to frustration. "In short sentences" is also obvious - you wouldn't start your 18-month-year-old with long sentences.
Is there a story here or is this just a way for a guy to spend five fun years with his kid while drawing a paycheck?
I'm troubled that you're mixing hashing/encryption together. I think you want to think of things in this way:
- Hashing = ONE WAY, destructive but unique signature representing some data (hashes are fixed length, no matter the length of the source data).
- Encryption = TWO WAY, transformation that hides data, but the data remains recoverable (encrypted data is usually as proportionally long as the source data)
The reason that rainbow tables (massive lists of known password/hash combinations) can be used to "extract" passwords from hashes is that the discovered passwords have a matching hash entry in the rainbow table. There's no reversing going on here, nor could there be because of the destructive (one way) nature of hashes.
One reason to still protect access to the routine, salt and password HASHES is that its pretty easy to build your own application-specific rainbow table if the routine and salt are known; and then that can be used to look up passwords from the application's store of credentials.
That's probably endgame for the application, but the ability to discover existing user passwords from a system is often more interesting to an attacker than compromising the application that coughed up the hashes. The reason for that is that people often use the same credentials on other systems. So, if you attack a "lower security" system and grab credentials off of that, you can often turn around and more quietly attack a higher security system that shares many of the same users ("more quietly" because you can look more like a fumbling group of end users than a script kiddie if you've got legitimate credentials).
Rupert Murdoch said that The Daily offers 'unthinkable innovations' to the world of publishing.
In other words, if there are innovations here, they haven't thought of them yet.
All kidding aside, it looks like a return to the "hypercard" fixed width and height presentation that's been on the backburner since the web first beat out print in popularity. (Web articles typically scroll up/down, of course.) In that case, the innovation is "we finally found a way to get you to page through an article with all the ads again - no more 'printable version' for you - muh ha ha ha ha ha!"
Tron:Legacy was like watching glow-in-the-dark paint dry. This was like "Avatar: the Last Electronbender"
Two words: Star Wars
Seriously - Star Wars "Episode I" sucked so hard I never bothered to see the other two prequels - just looked up the story online later.
This actually makes sense. The "threat level orange" was getting pretty ridiculous, and political chances of the "threat level" ever returning to "green" or even "yellow" seemed awfully remote.
Cellphone-only voters tend to be younger, more urban, and less white — all Democratic demographics — and a study by Pew Research suggests that the failure to include them might bias the polls by about 4 points against Democrats, even after demographic weighting is applied.
Umm...isn't the point of demographic weighting to factor in "unweighted" demographics like this?
Foaming the tents saves the military $2 million a day in avoided energy costs.
If it's a semi-permanent base, couldn't they also have invested in earth-covered buildings? Covered with a yard or so of earth they might also provide a better defense against small arms fire and shrapnel.
...there may be billions of potentially habitable worlds in the galaxy.
How many sagans is that?
...in well over 99% of the cases, the ISPs follow the recommendations, and they've never refused to suspend a user's account.
So...what happens in the other 1%?
256 tanks per turn? Impossible! That would take a regular supply of 1280 IPCs...
Opera is available on a lot of platforms too, and is much better than Firefox as far as bloat and memory leaks are concerned.
Yes, but Opera isn't also owned by a major software platform vendor, so I don't suspect them. Without that kind of pull, mouthpieces for Opera have been few and far between at the corporate magazine level.
I just read this guy as somebody's corporate troll, but across Microsoft, Google or Apple, the one who seems to have the most to gain from Firefox's demise would be...Google, now that they're pushing the competing Chrome browser into the very same space.
Technically, there's still a role for Firefox as the cross-platform browser of choice - for techies. (Safari on Windows still sucks; IE on Mac doesn't exist anymore.) I also use Firefox religiously because of Flashblock, though I have switched to Chrome for my Amazon cloud account administration, and I still use IE when I need to look at Sharepoint or the Microsoft Partner Portal.
[evil]As a guy who puts together some of the software packages you buy I can tell you that bundling of commonly and rarely used functionality often happens by design. And it doesn't just happen in the software industry: car manufacturers do it when they bundle their options too. The advantages of bundling for the buyer are: fewer choices (shorter lead time if you know what you want) and better budgeting (fewer trips "back to the well" for more money); the advantages for the seller are: cost containment (fewer combinations to test and support), tighter brand control (the "SE edition" instead of "features 12 and 15") and higher prices (less ability to buy smaller increments of functionality). The risk we take as a vendor is always that someone will provide a better package of benefits for a better price, but it continually surprises me closely IT consumers in any particular market will track to the pack - even paying an order of magnitude more for similar features available from an innovative competitor - the "better mousetrap" is usually only a secondary risk.
Before someone hops on here and says "the cloud will break this model", please remember that another widely-used on-demand service called "cable TV" has already figured out the bundling concept and applied it viciously. (Ever wish you could just buy ESPN and SciFi?) Once various SaaS, PaaS and IaaS industries stabilize, I'd bet bundling of "features I never use" will be a common complaint here too - and you'll keep buying nonetheless. [/evil]
In a way, the Mayans were correct. After all, whether the date is 2012 or 2013, the Maya did correctly predict that by that time the Maya would have no further need for a Mayan calendar.
2002 called - it wants its "help me deal with spam" article back.
With only 16 comments in 90 minutes my thought is that your average Slashdot reader already has his/her spam problem solved. It's really a non-issue for most of us; let's get some real news for nerds here instead please.
The idea that corporate firewalls, IDS and content filters will stop Facebook or other social networking traffic is silly. There are hundreds of mobile devices that use consumer-grade cellular networks already in place; information WILL get out.
Anonymous reader (probably a PR flack for Science) said: "This type of mission has great potential for positive economic return based on the fact that no effort has to be spent on getting in and out of a distant planet's gravity well."
Let's see, from TFA: "Hopkins said that a basic six-month human mission to an asteroid could return about 100 kilograms of samples collected from different spots on the space rock." OK, so you fly directly to the solid gold asteroid and pick up 100 KG of that. That's 3527 ounces. At $1230/ounce, that's about $4.3M. And you need to make a profit.
If you can plan, support, launch and recover the mission to the solid gold asteroid for less than $4M, my hat's off to you.
I miss the pressure AMD used to put on Intel. When Intel had an agile competitor often leaping ahead of it chip speeds shot up like a rocket - seems like they've been resting on their laurels lately...
"Who should be warned first: users or software vendors?"
Tell both. But if you announce something, please doc how you did it and don't brush off the vendor. (Email from users and press can get pretty thick after you announce something - if you're ethical and really want to fix the problem all that noise should be lo pri...)
If you're ever gripped = If you've ever griped?
Otherwise, I think "gripped" pretty much describes the state of most of the posters here, especially if they get to write about Apple!