"Just make sure you inplement fly() AFTER you have removed all references to eat_human()."
That wouldn't help. "human" is derived from "ape" and both the "eat_mammal()" and it's parent ("eat_meat()") functions would remain intact. The only thing you get by removing the "eat_human()" would be to save yourself code changes in the "publish_gory_details()" every time a new medium (e.g., TV, internet) was invented.
I love the "Both sides" thing when I hear it. It makes me wonder why don't we teach the Greek or Shinto or World or Warcraft creation myths in science too...
"LASERS.. sorry.. based on theories (and remember.. they're only *theories*, right) which don't seem to involve God"
If you don't believe God uses lasers, you haven't seen "Xanadu". Oops, nevermind. Those were different gods.
"You keep the chickens.. we'll go with the Alligators.. apparently they turn into chickens anyway if you leave them long enough."
I hate to be technical, but shit, this is SlashDot. Current thought is that birds grew out of dinosaurs and the one thing they all had in common was that they walked with their legs straight under their body. Alligators and other reptiles crawl, so they are probably part of a different fork in the evolutionary road.
With creationism snaking its way into science curriculums and environmental issues (e.g., global warming, ocean dead zones, etc.) being pretty much ignored in the good old USA, it's as good a time as any for scientists to say "aw, fuck it!"
Too spiffy for me, I'm afraid. The Ur-Quan Masters download is like 120 megs these days; I found, downloaded and configured the original Star Control 2 game in about half the time it was taking to download Ur-Quan Masters (so I killed the Ur-Quan Masters download).
Unless you're an introverted cubicle-minion who gets away dealing only with a narrow set of *nix or mainframe applications (which never talk to Windows boxes), I would think Win2K3sp1 is news.
Another way to look at is that Slashdot will happily post the latest release of "NotReallyNecessaryUtility 0.3 Beta" as news...
"I understand that OSes are probably the most complex bit of software written but the idea of a release occuring while the dev team then immediately starts patching is a bit off putting."
The open-source world must scare you shitless then. A lot of those projects have a release-of-the-day or release-of-the-week...
The usual security complaints about Microsoft OS's are that:
1) They are easy to crack remotely with default installs.
2) Weekly if not daily patches are required.
So, Microsoft comes out with SP1 and people are already whining.
1) What is the "no inbound connections by default" stuff going to help?
2) The length of time between Windows 2003's release and its first service pack.
C'mon people, put it together.
Hack to fix email search result sort-by-date?
on
Firefox Hacks
·
· Score: 1
Is there a "hack" to fix the email search result sort-by-date problem? This is one of the biggest issues keeping me from migrating...I search through my email a lot.
KDE's getting to be as cool as Amiga OS...
on
KDE 3.4 Released
·
· Score: 1
KDE's getting to be as cool as Amiga OS...built-in speech...yeah.
Give me $3,000,000 and I'll let you watch me play Wing Commander over my shoulder. I'll even put on red pajamas with a golden pledge pin if it makes you happy.
Seriously, if you have $3M to blow on crap like this, you have about $3M too many dollars.
A Chinese research group now says that collisions can be found in the full SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much less than the brute-force attack of 2**80 operations based on the hash length.
If I am eyeballing this correctly, this makes the "cracked" SHA-1 just a little tougher (32x) than MD-5 was thought to be (2**64 operations) before MD5 was last cracked. (I believe MD5 is now considered to be 2**42 operations strong; one of the papers referenced below suggests the "1 hour IBM" crack was performed at a 2**25 operation level of difficulty which would only be possible with some additional knowledge.)
Again, if I am eyeballing this correctly, SHA-1 is still currently 134,217,728x more secure than MD5. Before the SHA-1 announcement, SHA1 was thought to be 274,877,906,944x more secure than MD5, and originally, SHA-1 was thought to be just 65,536x more secure than MD5. (MD5 has been "more cracked" than SHA-1 in recent months.)
I just took another look at this neglected package a couple of months ago. The default schemas still had areas for teletype addresses but no email. There was barely any support for groups.
I went running back to commercial LDAP servers soon after...
"...when a project I was (am) working on required a scripting engine that could handle running scripts from anonymous sources, id est untrusted... This started us looking into Mono, which doesn't implement all the security features -yet-, but by our planned release date, they should be done, or very close."
My friend, you have some big balls. You're going to release something which needs a lot of security when the underlying security bits are unfinished and thus cannot be tested. Good luck with that.
"We went through a large range of languages: python, perl, angelscript, php, lua..."
I just have to ask: what about Java or JavaScript?
Slashdot Mirror
Why is CA involved in this in the first place?
Their #1 revenue model is to buy a software product from someone else, cut development and rake in maintenance checks. Are they branching out?
Got any examples?
That wouldn't help. "human" is derived from "ape" and both the "eat_mammal()" and it's parent ("eat_meat()") functions would remain intact. The only thing you get by removing the "eat_human()" would be to save yourself code changes in the "publish_gory_details()" every time a new medium (e.g., TV, internet) was invented.
"Students should be presented with both sides."
I love the "Both sides" thing when I hear it. It makes me wonder why don't we teach the Greek or Shinto or World or Warcraft creation myths in science too...
If you don't believe God uses lasers, you haven't seen "Xanadu". Oops, nevermind. Those were different gods.
"You keep the chickens.. we'll go with the Alligators.. apparently they turn into chickens anyway if you leave them long enough."
I hate to be technical, but shit, this is SlashDot. Current thought is that birds grew out of dinosaurs and the one thing they all had in common was that they walked with their legs straight under their body. Alligators and other reptiles crawl, so they are probably part of a different fork in the evolutionary road.
You sure this one is a fake?
With creationism snaking its way into science curriculums and environmental issues (e.g., global warming, ocean dead zones, etc.) being pretty much ignored in the good old USA, it's as good a time as any for scientists to say "aw, fuck it!"
Go, go, go...
http://www.abandonia.com/games/284/Inca/Inca.htm
If you have clock dependency problems, get DosBox. 'Nuff said.
Too spiffy for me, I'm afraid. The Ur-Quan Masters download is like 120 megs these days; I found, downloaded and configured the original Star Control 2 game in about half the time it was taking to download Ur-Quan Masters (so I killed the Ur-Quan Masters download).
http://www.abandonia.com/games/144/Star_Control_2/ StarControl2.htm
(You also need DosBox to run it on most PCs these days.)
Hmmmm...I wonder what "Info-Tech Research Group" sells.../ Consulting%20Methodologies.aspx
http://www.infotech.com/Products%20and%20Services
Of course, the new on-by-default firewall might help, but once a couple of holes get poked in it...
Here's what the poster was chatting about... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/07/141 4234&tid=201&tid=172&tid=128&tid=109&tid=218
Unless you're an introverted cubicle-minion who gets away dealing only with a narrow set of *nix or mainframe applications (which never talk to Windows boxes), I would think Win2K3sp1 is news.
Another way to look at is that Slashdot will happily post the latest release of "NotReallyNecessaryUtility 0.3 Beta" as news...
The open-source world must scare you shitless then. A lot of those projects have a release-of-the-day or release-of-the-week...
1) They are easy to crack remotely with default installs.
2) Weekly if not daily patches are required.
So, Microsoft comes out with SP1 and people are already whining.
1) What is the "no inbound connections by default" stuff going to help?
2) The length of time between Windows 2003's release and its first service pack.
C'mon people, put it together.
Is there a "hack" to fix the email search result sort-by-date problem? This is one of the biggest issues keeping me from migrating...I search through my email a lot.
KDE's getting to be as cool as Amiga OS...built-in speech...yeah.
Give me $3,000,000 and I'll let you watch me play Wing Commander over my shoulder. I'll even put on red pajamas with a golden pledge pin if it makes you happy.
Seriously, if you have $3M to blow on crap like this, you have about $3M too many dollars.
I wonder what the OpenPGP response will be. The spec (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt; see section 9.4) doesn't describe these algorithms.
A Chinese research group now says that collisions can be found in the full SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much less than the brute-force attack of 2**80 operations based on the hash length.
If I am eyeballing this correctly, this makes the "cracked" SHA-1 just a little tougher (32x) than MD-5 was thought to be (2**64 operations) before MD5 was last cracked. (I believe MD5 is now considered to be 2**42 operations strong; one of the papers referenced below suggests the "1 hour IBM" crack was performed at a 2**25 operation level of difficulty which would only be possible with some additional knowledge.)
Again, if I am eyeballing this correctly, SHA-1 is still currently 134,217,728x more secure than MD5. Before the SHA-1 announcement, SHA1 was thought to be 274,877,906,944x more secure than MD5, and originally, SHA-1 was thought to be just 65,536x more secure than MD5. (MD5 has been "more cracked" than SHA-1 in recent months.)
http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/docs/3.2/index. html
"Globus Toolkit 3.2 Key Concepts (not yet available)"
OpenLDAP = Some Assembly Required
I just took another look at this neglected package a couple of months ago. The default schemas still had areas for teletype addresses but no email. There was barely any support for groups.
I went running back to commercial LDAP servers soon after...
My friend, you have some big balls. You're going to release something which needs a lot of security when the underlying security bits are unfinished and thus cannot be tested. Good luck with that.
"We went through a large range of languages: python, perl, angelscript, php, lua..."
I just have to ask: what about Java or JavaScript?
For that price you still don't get support. We pay for licenses because we ship MySQL as part of a commercial software package.
Read this: http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/