No! "Synch'" is a term for not having to piss around with cli tools but instead I can just plug in my pda and it just synchs. That's how it should work.
The presence of hacking tools is just a bonus: not a substitute for synch'-ing.
IBM's move is to ask the court to declare that SCO does not infringe any IBM copyrights.
Actually I think you'll find IBM are asking to declare that *IBM* do't infringe any of *SCO*'s copyrights and that indeed SCO doesn't even hold the copyrights in the first place.
Uhm no. This is not a "summary" judgement. And SCO isn't suing IBM for copyright infringement so I am kind of puzzled to see what this has to do with SCO suing IBM for *breach* *of* *contract*. I guess IBM must think it strengthens their hands for the coming contract fight.
Here's a hashing algorithm for you: Take a given string. Take the ascii value of each character and add them all up. Take the last 7 digits of the resulting number, padding with zeros if necessary to make it 7 digits.
Here's a hash: 6111238 now tell me what the string was - fuckwit.
Silly troll, you can't patent something that's prior art, or that's been made public. So there's two reasons why this couldn't be patented- even by the inventors.
It's nice eye candy, I agree. But far too intrusive. I'm sure I'm not atypical in my web use habits. I have a dozen web sites I visit regularly- and they're book marked. Everything else I Google for. After all if I managed to find it before it must have been using Google...
The other problem is that it's very intrusive - and requires a lot of scrolling. Neither of those are good UI design characteristics for an auxillary browser tool to have.
Hehe I have another flamebait "bigoted yankees" tale to tell you. But hey I have plenty of spare Karma to burn so I'll post it:-P
Was staying in a nice hotel near Marble Arch (posh-ish area of London at the top-end of Mayfair). Walking up the stairs I notice a practically round guy standing smack bang in the middle of the top of the stairs. So I stepped past him and through his beachball family. He comes out with this inciteful comment: "If it hadn't been for us you'd all be speaking German." Well ignoring the fact that a) he was far to fat ever to fought anything and b) too young I turned around and said:
"Ich kann Deutsch sprechen. Fuckwit".
You should have heard the rant:-)
Bit of shock at the time, my first encounter with a redneck, especially as most of the Yanks I'd dealt with before were the complete opposite (they would be shocked if I used "Damn" in a meeting).
No but we'd probably be willing to consider letting the North American Colonies back into the British Empire- as long as they ask nicely and promise not to throw any more tea into the harbour. Oh and spell words (eg colour, armour, specialise and centre) correctly.
Think about the advantages: You get a Royal Family of your very own and no more George Dubblyah Bush. You do however get Tony "I am the Law" Bliar as your Prime Minister. Hmm.
On second thoughts maybe you guys wouldn't be any better off after all.
Oh come on! The "leading" virus writers (see post on/. about 2 months ago) think VB is real 1337! These are not clever, highly competent developers- they're a bunch of novice coders with pretensions. Sure they can overcome some of the incremental improvements in defence- but given a non-incremental change (eg removing the VB.dlls from Windows- shock horror, or a complete switch to a more secure platform: ie anything other than MS) and they would just curl up and die.
These are not master hackers with a deep understanding of the machine they're targetting! They're just a bunch of children with too much time on their hands (and, if the photos were anything to go by- a bit of a homoerotic S&M bias).
Unfortunately it's precisely what OS/Free developers have proved themselves crap at producing time and time again: It's User Interface *and* of no use to the developers. It has no chance.
Copyright is a purely artificial invention. So Europe simply suspends Microsoft's rights and either: a) allows Windows to be freely copied and distributed within the EU or, more likely b) it sets a fixed price at which people can obtain Windows from the EU. The EU takes a cut to cover costs, fines etc and passes the rest on to Microsoft.
The bottom line is MS needs Europe much, much more than Europe needs Microsoft.
Hashing is one way because it involves information loss. It is not encryption: there is nothing secret. For example simple hashing algorithm might be "take the ascii value for each character in string and add them all up, rolling over each time you reach 10,000". The result will be a hash. Which is dependent on the data you put in- is impossible to *directly* extract the original data (you could use a lookup table to do it). As I said though, this is NOT encryption.
A real danger as all hashes (unless they are at least as large as the data they are hashing- which makes them a bit pointless) inherently will have collisions (ie two sets of different content will produce the same hash).
In fact secure hashes emphasise the fact that given a hash and the content it would be difficult to modify the content to give the same hash. This is different to "there won't be any collisions".
Brute forced? Nope. Assuming they picked a decent secure hashing algorithm (ie something like a 3-pass SHA-256 and definately not MD-5) then brute forcing isn't feasible.
The weakness is not in the hash algorithm, it's in the use the hash is being put to. See my other post for an explanation.
And then I remembered a previous slashdot story pointing to an article about various 1337 virus writers and I remembered that they were all so proud that they used VB.
Have to agree with you, except on Night's Dawn: excellent first book, extremely disappointing concluding books and final conclusion. I mean is that the best he could come up with?
I agree that Slashdot does rather over-do the iPod-related stories. It is only an MP3 player after all: by far the most superior MP3 player but it's hardly cold-fusion.
That said, the iPod is far superior to other offerings. Why? It's smaller than any other HD player. It holds orders of magnitude more songs than flash-based players: Hundreds? Mine holds around 4 THOUSAND. That's over two and a half weeks of continuous playing. And its battery lasts around 10 hours.
So compared to all the flash based devices (some of which I actually found to be too small), my iPod can actually hold almost all the music, audio-books and other shit that I own.
Compared to other HD based players? Christ have you seen those ugly fuckers? I would be *ashamed* to be seen with one of those. The only ones that look even vaugely ok are the ones that are blatant rip-offs of the iPod (Hi Dell!). And even then they managed to fuck it up.
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No! "Synch'" is a term for not having to piss around with cli tools but instead I can just plug in my pda and it just synchs. That's how it should work.
The presence of hacking tools is just a bonus: not a substitute for synch'-ing.
Actually I think you'll find IBM are asking to declare that *IBM* do't infringe any of *SCO*'s copyrights and that indeed SCO doesn't even hold the copyrights in the first place.
Uhm no. This is not a "summary" judgement. And SCO isn't suing IBM for copyright infringement so I am kind of puzzled to see what this has to do with SCO suing IBM for *breach* *of* *contract*. I guess IBM must think it strengthens their hands for the coming contract fight.
So off to Groklaw to see what they have say...
What utter, utter bollocks.
Here's a hashing algorithm for you: Take a given string. Take the ascii value of each character and add them all up. Take the last 7 digits of the resulting number, padding with zeros if necessary to make it 7 digits.
Here's a hash: 6111238 now tell me what the string was - fuckwit.
Silly troll, you can't patent something that's prior art, or that's been made public. So there's two reasons why this couldn't be patented- even by the inventors.
It's nice eye candy, I agree. But far too intrusive. I'm sure I'm not atypical in my web use habits. I have a dozen web sites I visit regularly- and they're book marked. Everything else I Google for. After all if I managed to find it before it must have been using Google...
The other problem is that it's very intrusive - and requires a lot of scrolling. Neither of those are good UI design characteristics for an auxillary browser tool to have.
Silly slashdotter - you didn't bother to actually check the facts did you?
It does include a free text search - it refines the web site thumbnails in the history map to just those that match.
And these the same bunch of no-hopers that gave SCO a clean bill of health? Why are we even taking any notice of what they have to say?
Hehe I have another flamebait "bigoted yankees" tale to tell you. But hey I have plenty of spare Karma to burn so I'll post it :-P
Was staying in a nice hotel near Marble Arch (posh-ish area of London at the top-end of Mayfair). Walking up the stairs I notice a practically round guy standing smack bang in the middle of the top of the stairs. So I stepped past him and through his beachball family. He comes out with this inciteful comment: "If it hadn't been for us you'd all be speaking German." Well ignoring the fact that a) he was far to fat ever to fought anything and b) too young I turned around and said:
"Ich kann Deutsch sprechen. Fuckwit".
You should have heard the rant :-)
Bit of shock at the time, my first encounter with a redneck, especially as most of the Yanks I'd dealt with before were the complete opposite (they would be shocked if I used "Damn" in a meeting).
No but we'd probably be willing to consider letting the North American Colonies back into the British Empire- as long as they ask nicely and promise not to throw any more tea into the harbour. Oh and spell words (eg colour, armour, specialise and centre) correctly.
Think about the advantages: You get a Royal Family of your very own and no more George Dubblyah Bush. You do however get Tony "I am the Law" Bliar as your Prime Minister. Hmm.
On second thoughts maybe you guys wouldn't be any better off after all.
There is no question.
You get fined for speeding you don't get to choose to pay it using luncheon vouchers.
You pay cash and it goes to the EU's exchequer.
It's called Expose and it comes as standard with OSX.
Oh come on! The "leading" virus writers (see post on /. about 2 months ago) think VB is real 1337! These are not clever, highly competent developers- they're a bunch of novice coders with pretensions. Sure they can overcome some of the incremental improvements in defence- but given a non-incremental change (eg removing the VB .dlls from Windows- shock horror, or a complete switch to a more secure platform: ie anything other than MS) and they would just curl up and die.
These are not master hackers with a deep understanding of the machine they're targetting! They're just a bunch of children with too much time on their hands (and, if the photos were anything to go by- a bit of a homoerotic S&M bias).
Unfortunately it's precisely what OS/Free developers have proved themselves crap at producing time and time again: It's User Interface *and* of no use to the developers. It has no chance.
Copyright is a purely artificial invention. So Europe simply suspends Microsoft's rights and either: a) allows Windows to be freely copied and distributed within the EU or, more likely b) it sets a fixed price at which people can obtain Windows from the EU. The EU takes a cut to cover costs, fines etc and passes the rest on to Microsoft.
The bottom line is MS needs Europe much, much more than Europe needs Microsoft.
Hashing != encryption.
Encryption is intended to be unencrypted.
Hashing is one way because it involves information loss. It is not encryption: there is nothing secret. For example simple hashing algorithm might be "take the ascii value for each character in string and add them all up, rolling over each time you reach 10,000". The result will be a hash. Which is dependent on the data you put in- is impossible to *directly* extract the original data (you could use a lookup table to do it). As I said though, this is NOT encryption.
A real danger as all hashes (unless they are at least as large as the data they are hashing- which makes them a bit pointless) inherently will have collisions (ie two sets of different content will produce the same hash).
In fact secure hashes emphasise the fact that given a hash and the content it would be difficult to modify the content to give the same hash. This is different to "there won't be any collisions".
Brute forced? Nope. Assuming they picked a decent secure hashing algorithm (ie something like a 3-pass SHA-256 and definately not MD-5) then brute forcing isn't feasible.
The weakness is not in the hash algorithm, it's in the use the hash is being put to. See my other post for an explanation.
So they claim using a hash "anonymises" huh?
Bullshit.
A half-baked solution that doesn't hold up to the simplest attack.
No problem if all the code is GPL'd...
That was my reaction to.
And then I remembered a previous slashdot story pointing to an article about various 1337 virus writers and I remembered that they were all so proud that they used VB.
Have to agree with you, except on Night's Dawn: excellent first book, extremely disappointing concluding books and final conclusion. I mean is that the best he could come up with?
LOL this is just funny. Wired is generally extremely anti-Apple and extremely pro-Microsoft.
One story does not reverse that. I guess the usual editor must have been on holiday.
I agree that Slashdot does rather over-do the iPod-related stories. It is only an MP3 player after all: by far the most superior MP3 player but it's hardly cold-fusion.
That said, the iPod is far superior to other offerings. Why? It's smaller than any other HD player. It holds orders of magnitude more songs than flash-based players: Hundreds? Mine holds around 4 THOUSAND. That's over two and a half weeks of continuous playing. And its battery lasts around 10 hours.
So compared to all the flash based devices (some of which I actually found to be too small), my iPod can actually hold almost all the music, audio-books and other shit that I own.
Compared to other HD based players? Christ have you seen those ugly fuckers? I would be *ashamed* to be seen with one of those. The only ones that look even vaugely ok are the ones that are blatant rip-offs of the iPod (Hi Dell!). And even then they managed to fuck it up.
Edward
Actually work by Tom DiMarco and Timothy Lister [Peopleware] demonstrated that listening to music, destroys your creativity.
They tested this by setting developers a programming problem. Half in quiet, half with background music. All solved the programming problem.
However only those in the silent group noticed that there was a short-cut solution to the problem. None of those listening to music did.
The reason is, the bit of your brain that is creative is the same bit that listens to music, and it can't do both.
Edward