Well, I don't know about the USA, but here in Germany, Professor is a title you get only on universities, which very much implies a branch of science. On the other hand, in Austria every teacher gets this title. So what "professor" means obviously depends very much on where you are.
Where is the problem? The ceiling height May (obviously not every May is a ceiling height May; I wonder what's special about those, and if May 2007 is one) affects problem-solving skills (i.e. whenever we have a ceiling height May, the problem-solving skills are either increased or reduced significantly).
Given the amount of spelling errors on Slashdot lately, I guess May 2007 is a ceiling height may, and it actually reduces at least the skill of solving the problem "is this spelled correctly?"
The only basic number is the 1. You get all positive integers by applying the plus operator. You in addition get the non-positive integers by applying the minus operator. From the integers you get to the rationals by applying the division operator. You can go on to the reals by taking limits. You see, everything but 1 is just derived.
No problem: Encrypt something in a way that any key with a given number of one-bits will work in decrypting it (for example, the first step of the algorithm is counting the one-bits in the key, and the rest only depends of that number). Now you only need 129 encrypted texts to cover the whole range of 128-bit keys. Note that you can simply take one text and encrypt it 129 times. I'd suggest as encryption method to add the number of ones in the key to every byte of the text to encrypt. As additional security matter, the bytes are xored with 0xff before the adding occurs (this also ensures that even the key 0 will alter the text).
Classical advertising also has no way to check how many people actually see the ad. Do you add a camera to each poster wall, counting people who actually look at that direction? Do you add microchips into magazines to see how many people open that specific page? What about those advertisements on cars?
And this obviously hasn't killed the traditional advertising business. So why should it be different with web advertising? You don't need exact, trusted numbers elsewhere, so you should not need them here either. Just stop those "pay per view" and "pay per click" payment methods. You don't get payed for the number of times someone opens magazine page 20 either.
It's ironic that we don't trust the government to do the job itself, but we do trust it enough to do the job of finding the contractor.
You're right, we should not have the government find the contractor. We should privatize that task: The government contacts a contractor search company who then searches for a contractor to do the work. Thinking about it, there'd still be the job of finding a contractor search company. Probably that one should be privatized, too...
However, employees could also copy any code they wanted and distribute it to whomever they like without the fear of any jail time or expensive lawsuits.
Wrong. They would not break copyright doing so (since it wouldn't exist), but they would still be breaking a trade secret.
How else could the sentence "Why was it published in a German journal?" interpreted? He didn't ask "Why was it published in a low-impact journal?" or "Why wasn't it published in a journal with better reputation?".
Of course, otherwise the question is valid. If you had proof of cold fusion, the first place you'd submit it to would normally be Physical Review Letters. Not because it's American, but because it's simply the most reputed magazine in physics.
Personally I hate conspiracy theories as they assume the government is a)Competent and b)Able to keep a secret. Neither of those has ever even been implied of the government:P.
Maybe they just were able to keep the secret of being competent!:-)
Maybe because nobody really depends on ReiserFS? I'm using ReiserFS, but if I would re-install my computer now, I wouldn't use it again, for reasons completely unrelated to the fate of Hans Reiser.
What exactly is it that you used to have before someone decrypted a movie from a disc they bought and paid for with their own money, earned through their own efforts by hand or by brain, and you don't have after someone decrypted the movie?
Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org): WikiPedia uses Mono for its search facilities. The indexing and the actual searching is done by Mono-based applications.
That explains a lot!:-)
The Wikipedia search is often disabled due to high server load. The rest of Wikipedia generally seems to work quite fine under that same load. Which fits my experience with beagle: That's also a ressource hog. Once it even managed to eat more memory than I have installed (I've got a big swap partition, so the computer still somewhat worked). I also learned that whenever my computer gets extremely slow, I first try beagle-shutdown, and in almost all cases this solves the problem.
AFAIK for CDs the trick is that CD players and CD-ROM drives read the CD differently. CD-ROM drives look not only for music tracks, but also for data tracks. Now there are two things one can do:
The first trick is to put invalid control data into the data block, which confuses the CD-ROM drive (but not the CD player, because it never reads it), so the CD simply won't work in the drive (I'm pretty sure this has been used in the past, but I don't know if this is still done today). I think there are also some other places where invalid data only affects drives, not players. Of course that makes the CD not standard conforming.
The second trick is relying on the Windows auto-run function to start some software which prevents you from freely accessing the drive (that's what the infamous Sony rootkit did). Such a disk might be standard conforming. Of course that's easily bypassed by switching off auto-run (or simply not using Windows).
IIUC, the point is that the volume ID is in the media in encrypted form and the "bypassing" of the device key actually consists of getting the volume ID after the device has decrypted it with its device key Now if a new title, with a different volume ID, comes out, and there's no volume ID encrypted with the cracked device's device ID, the cracked device cannot decode the volume ID, and thus the cracker cannot read it from the cracked device. Knowing where the volume ID is stored doesn't help since the volume ID is stored in encrypted form.
However I guess finding the place where the volume key is stored might be valuable anyway: Since the volume ID is encrypted for each player, and for the existing titles you can get the decrypted volume ID, this means that for every other device you then would know both the encrypted and the decrypted volume ID. I'm no cryptography expert, but I can imagine that determining the key after you have both the encrypted and the plaintext message might be doable (because that's not the typical attack on an encryption scheme). If so, finding the encrypted IDs would enable to determine the keys to all existing players, thus really allowing to bypass the encryption scheme unless the movie industry is willing to render all existing players useless.
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You mean, because it's raping the language?
Well, I don't know about the USA, but here in Germany, Professor is a title you get only on universities, which very much implies a branch of science. On the other hand, in Austria every teacher gets this title. So what "professor" means obviously depends very much on where you are.
Where is the problem? The ceiling height May (obviously not every May is a ceiling height May; I wonder what's special about those, and if May 2007 is one) affects problem-solving skills (i.e. whenever we have a ceiling height May, the problem-solving skills are either increased or reduced significantly).
Given the amount of spelling errors on Slashdot lately, I guess May 2007 is a ceiling height may, and it actually reduces at least the skill of solving the problem "is this spelled correctly?"
The only basic number is the 1. You get all positive integers by applying the plus operator. You in addition get the non-positive integers by applying the minus operator. From the integers you get to the rationals by applying the division operator. You can go on to the reals by taking limits. You see, everything but 1 is just derived.
So everyone who operates an DNS server is now involved in distributing that key! That's a lot of people to sue! :-)
Nobody writes jokes in base 13.
No problem: Encrypt something in a way that any key with a given number of one-bits will work in decrypting it (for example, the first step of the algorithm is counting the one-bits in the key, and the rest only depends of that number). Now you only need 129 encrypted texts to cover the whole range of 128-bit keys. Note that you can simply take one text and encrypt it 129 times. I'd suggest as encryption method to add the number of ones in the key to every byte of the text to encrypt. As additional security matter, the bytes are xored with 0xff before the adding occurs (this also ensures that even the key 0 will alter the text).
Classical advertising also has no way to check how many people actually see the ad. Do you add a camera to each poster wall, counting people who actually look at that direction? Do you add microchips into magazines to see how many people open that specific page? What about those advertisements on cars?
And this obviously hasn't killed the traditional advertising business. So why should it be different with web advertising? You don't need exact, trusted numbers elsewhere, so you should not need them here either. Just stop those "pay per view" and "pay per click" payment methods. You don't get payed for the number of times someone opens magazine page 20 either.
You're right, we should not have the government find the contractor. We should privatize that task: The government contacts a contractor search company who then searches for a contractor to do the work. Thinking about it, there'd still be the job of finding a contractor search company. Probably that one should be privatized, too
Is there any way to read and post to Slashdot without using the world wide web? Because that one originated in the EU as well.
It's in a superposition of "the AC heared the tree" and "the AC was killed by the tree".
Yes, there is a cat. It's in the bin.
Wrong. They would not break copyright doing so (since it wouldn't exist), but they would still be breaking a trade secret.
You mean you are not yet born? And your mother set up an internet connection into her uterus? (Wireless, I guess
How else could the sentence "Why was it published in a German journal?" interpreted? He didn't ask "Why was it published in a low-impact journal?" or "Why wasn't it published in a journal with better reputation?".
Of course, otherwise the question is valid. If you had proof of cold fusion, the first place you'd submit it to would normally be Physical Review Letters. Not because it's American, but because it's simply the most reputed magazine in physics.
I guess that organization would be Novell. It should be obvious that it's an advantage for a company to know how people like their product.
Maybe they just were able to keep the secret of being competent!
No, Einstein was a civil-rights fighter: He ended the Newtonian dictatorship of time, and gave each observer the freedom to have his own time.
Maybe because nobody really depends on ReiserFS? I'm using ReiserFS, but if I would re-install my computer now, I wouldn't use it again, for reasons completely unrelated to the fate of Hans Reiser.
Control.
That explains a lot!
The Wikipedia search is often disabled due to high server load. The rest of Wikipedia generally seems to work quite fine under that same load. Which fits my experience with beagle: That's also a ressource hog. Once it even managed to eat more memory than I have installed (I've got a big swap partition, so the computer still somewhat worked). I also learned that whenever my computer gets extremely slow, I first try beagle-shutdown, and in almost all cases this solves the problem.
Would it really be a bad thing if nobody can find it?
AFAIK for CDs the trick is that CD players and CD-ROM drives read the CD differently. CD-ROM drives look not only for music tracks, but also for data tracks. Now there are two things one can do:
The first trick is to put invalid control data into the data block, which confuses the CD-ROM drive (but not the CD player, because it never reads it), so the CD simply won't work in the drive (I'm pretty sure this has been used in the past, but I don't know if this is still done today). I think there are also some other places where invalid data only affects drives, not players. Of course that makes the CD not standard conforming.
The second trick is relying on the Windows auto-run function to start some software which prevents you from freely accessing the drive (that's what the infamous Sony rootkit did). Such a disk might be standard conforming. Of course that's easily bypassed by switching off auto-run (or simply not using Windows).
It's just applying the free market principles to legislation: You get the laws you pay for.
IIUC, the point is that the volume ID is in the media in encrypted form and the "bypassing" of the device key actually consists of getting the volume ID after the device has decrypted it with its device key
Now if a new title, with a different volume ID, comes out, and there's no volume ID encrypted with the cracked device's device ID, the cracked device cannot decode the volume ID, and thus the cracker cannot read it from the cracked device. Knowing where the volume ID is stored doesn't help since the volume ID is stored in encrypted form.
However I guess finding the place where the volume key is stored might be valuable anyway: Since the volume ID is encrypted for each player, and for the existing titles you can get the decrypted volume ID, this means that for every other device you then would know both the encrypted and the decrypted volume ID. I'm no cryptography expert, but I can imagine that determining the key after you have both the encrypted and the plaintext message might be doable (because that's not the typical attack on an encryption scheme). If so, finding the encrypted IDs would enable to determine the keys to all existing players, thus really allowing to bypass the encryption scheme unless the movie industry is willing to render all existing players useless.