Now that you've got your own penis enlarged and received millions of nigerian dollars and a university diploma, you don't want others to take advantage, too. That's why you impersonate as spam hater and outlaw spam. You're so mean! May your online viagra supply cease forever!
> They did the math, discovered it was cheaper to buy a new printer from > [major membership-type warehouse outlet] each time a cartridge ran out.
That's why the manufacturers start to ship printers with 2/3-empty cartridges.. You have to go out and buy a new one sooner, and the printer is not a full replacement for a cartridge.
Amazing, he did the right thing. He modified his computer until it fell under the fax machine law. He uses a modem to connect over telephone lines (not cable, not dsl). He prints his email to paper, and he has fax software installed to send scanned paper documents to other fax machines. So his equipment can be considered a fax machine.
We saw a similar thing recently, with Lexmark. Everybody can produce a plastic box that fits into Lexmark printers, and nothing can stop them from doing so. Except Lexmark & the DMCA - Lexmark found that they have to mix the plastic box (which is not protected by law) with an intellectual property item (which is protected by copyright) and an access restriction (which is protected by DMCA). Glue all 3 things together, and voila. You've got a plastic box which can not be legally copied.
So, when the law works AGAINST us consumers so often, why shouldn't it work FOR us once or twice?
Btw. I implemented a DOS/Win9x harddrive crypter once, which used RC5 as algorithm. RC5 is very fast on modern CPUs. With a lot of hand-crafting the assembler implementation, I got approx 150 MByte/s of data throughput. That's RC5 with 12 rounds (64bit blocksize) and the CPU was an Athlon 1.2GHz with 133 FSB. The measurement did not include harddrive access. When you're still not impressed: it runs in 16 bit real-mode.
To my knowledge, the upper limit of AES is about 30 MByte/s on modern ~1GHz machines. I don't know which particular implementation LoopAES uses, so it may be slower.
I use LoopAES with a P3-450, underclocked at 300 MHz (66MHz FSB). I get about 4.5 MB/s on the Ethernet to/from a crypto partition. I think the bottleneck is my QoS traffic shaper on that interface, and not the crypto itself. Just by reordering the QoS rules I got speeds varying from 300 kb/s to 4.5 MB/s. Probably you loose performance on similar items, and blame it on the crypto.
So the easiest way for terrorists to get into the US is to order meal with pork and then dispose it unnoticed on the flight. All the computer systems will flag them "non-terrorist" and they can pass all security checks without problems. Might help to schedule another, more suspect, person on another flight with similar gate/time so that security staff is distracted..
Oh well, I hope this doesn't count as "circumvention" instructions according to DMCA:(
> "NT 3.51 was a very unrewarding release," Thompson said, contrasting it with > Daytona. "After Daytona was completed, we basically sat around for 9 months > fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware. But > because of this, NT 3.51 was a solid release, and our customers loved it."
I wonder why I think so bad about Microsoft products?!
Well, go to menu "Tools" -> "Disk editor". Select "Physical Disk" -> "80 Hard Disk 1" (for IDE #1 Master). Now WinHex displays the MBR of your first IDE drive.
WinHex, a popular hex editor, is able to read/write raw sectors under WinXP. It doesn't reboot after installation nor do other fancy stuff. I don't know how exactly they do it, but appearently it is not very difficult to do.
On MY bootsector resides a harddrive encryption program with the key material. If any silly program chooses to overwrite this, I am seriously fucked. There will be absolutely nothing left. Without the key material not a single sector is readable anymore. So thank god I do not use Turbo Tax.
Opera (www.opera.com) features mouse-gestures which allow you to go back and forth (and some other stuff as well) very quickly. Basically you press the right mouse button and move the mouse left (to go back) or right (to go forward). That's it. It works anywhere on the page.
a) did he very (by examination of the "referrer" tag in his logs) that people really went there from a search for "sex" (and not "sex" combined with other words)?
b) people might be tired of "google optimized" webpages and manually insert a "&start=250" parameter in the address line, to skip the commercial sites and browse to the less commercial ones.
Btw, I use the b) technique in Google-Groups to find old postings. The sort-by-date option only sorts from newest to oldest, and by modifying the page number you can directly go to the last page - effectively reversing the sort order.
I receive a lot of spam (50-100 msgs/day) on my "real" account (not the Hotmail one). This account is up since ~1991 and was frequent participator in usenet and mailing lists. Spam was not an issue back then, everybody had realnames and even home phone numbers in their postings/signatures. I still keep this account alife, because I hate it when people give out email addresses just to disconnect them a year later.
If you want to know how much power your sound system REALLY does, have a look at the power supply.
My "Cambridge Soundworks" for example figures 13.5V 2.5A on it. 1 Watt is 1V * 1A, so 13.5V*2.5A = 32.4 Watt. When the speakers continously output 32.4 Watt, the powersupply is right at the point of catching fire. Standard engineering practice mandates to leave a safety margin, so my system probably draws about 25 Watts from the powersupply. From these 25 Watts, a considerable part is converted into (audible) sound pressure, while the rest is converted into heat.
I'd be suprised if that "1000W" Logitech system did more REAL Watts than my "Cambridge Soundworks" system.
You can use webwasher (http://www.webwasher.com/) to replace the browser identification string. Opera 7.01 displays www.msn.com fine when webwasher inserts the string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)". Another benefit of webwasher is that it removes annoying banners unless you disable this.
I dislike floppy drives because floppy disks are so unreliable. In my opinion this is result of cheaper and cheaper manufacturing. In fact, old used disks from mid-90s seem to work better than brandnew ones.
However, some software requires a floppy disk drive installed. An example is "DriveCrypt Plus Pack" which creates an emergency recovery disk ONLY to drive A:\ and ONLY when A:\ is a physical 1.44mb drive (ie: subst A: somwhere\ is not acceptable).
For CD-Rom, a variety of software emulators exist to satisfy such "broken" software (ie: CloneCD, DaemonTools, etc).
My question to Slashdot is: Does such software exist for floppy disks? Is there any virtual floppy drive for Win2k/XP?
Most papers lack a very important thing: test vectors.
This is very annoying for everybody who has to make an implementation from a paper, especially when the paper is new and there's no previous work on sci.crypt and the usual sources.
Slashdot Mirror
I knew there was a conspiracy going on:
> Results of search for "1984":
>
> No results.
The Illuminati must be very dumb when their brainwaves are so low frequency that they need SUCH a large y/4 antenna to transmit them...
I wonder if arab people are allowed to purchase fuel for this laptop. Wouldn't it be considered "explosives", and the laptop owners "terrorists"?
Now that you've got your own penis enlarged and received millions of nigerian dollars and a university diploma, you don't want others to take advantage, too. That's why you impersonate as spam hater and outlaw spam. You're so mean! May your online viagra supply cease forever!
I hope it's really 16 bit and not 57k colors or 12bit plus dithering..
Better make it 100K, so the spammer experiences a significant bandwidth problem when he's supplying the Bcc: list to the server..
> They did the math, discovered it was cheaper to buy a new printer from
> [major membership-type warehouse outlet] each time a cartridge ran out.
That's why the manufacturers start to ship printers with 2/3-empty cartridges.. You have to go out and buy a new one sooner, and the printer is not a full replacement for a cartridge.
> or does it use 1394?
I think it uses 1984.
Amazing, he did the right thing. He modified his computer until it fell under the fax machine law. He uses a modem to connect over telephone lines (not cable, not dsl). He prints his email to paper, and he has fax software installed to send scanned paper documents to other fax machines. So his equipment can be considered a fax machine.
We saw a similar thing recently, with Lexmark. Everybody can produce a plastic box that fits into Lexmark printers, and nothing can stop them from doing so. Except Lexmark & the DMCA - Lexmark found that they have to mix the plastic box (which is not protected by law) with an intellectual property item (which is protected by copyright) and an access restriction (which is protected by DMCA). Glue all 3 things together, and voila. You've got a plastic box which can not be legally copied.
So, when the law works AGAINST us consumers so often, why shouldn't it work FOR us once or twice?
Btw. I implemented a DOS/Win9x harddrive crypter once, which used RC5 as algorithm. RC5 is very fast on modern CPUs. With a lot of hand-crafting the assembler implementation, I got approx 150 MByte/s of data throughput. That's RC5 with 12 rounds (64bit blocksize) and the CPU was an Athlon 1.2GHz with 133 FSB. The measurement did not include harddrive access. When you're still not impressed: it runs in 16 bit real-mode.
To my knowledge, the upper limit of AES is about 30 MByte/s on modern ~1GHz machines. I don't know which particular implementation LoopAES uses, so it may be slower.
> it dropped transfer rate to 1.2MB/s
Boy there is something wrong in your setup.
I use LoopAES with a P3-450, underclocked at 300 MHz (66MHz FSB). I get about 4.5 MB/s on the Ethernet to/from a crypto partition. I think the bottleneck is my QoS traffic shaper on that interface, and not the crypto itself. Just by reordering the QoS rules I got speeds varying from 300 kb/s to 4.5 MB/s. Probably you loose performance on similar items, and blame it on the crypto.
Marc
So the easiest way for terrorists to get into the US is to order meal with pork and then dispose it unnoticed on the flight. All the computer systems will flag them "non-terrorist" and they can pass all security checks without problems. Might help to schedule another, more suspect, person on another flight with similar gate/time so that security staff is distracted..
:(
Oh well, I hope this doesn't count as "circumvention" instructions according to DMCA
> "NT 3.51 was a very unrewarding release," Thompson said, contrasting it with
> Daytona. "After Daytona was completed, we basically sat around for 9 months
> fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware. But
> because of this, NT 3.51 was a solid release, and our customers loved it."
I wonder why I think so bad about Microsoft products?!
Well, go to menu "Tools" -> "Disk editor". Select "Physical Disk" -> "80 Hard Disk 1" (for IDE #1 Master). Now WinHex displays the MBR of your first IDE drive.
WinHex, a popular hex editor, is able to read/write raw sectors under WinXP. It doesn't reboot after installation nor do other fancy stuff. I don't know how exactly they do it, but appearently it is not very difficult to do.
On MY bootsector resides a harddrive encryption program with the key material. If any silly program chooses to overwrite this, I am seriously fucked. There will be absolutely nothing left. Without the key material not a single sector is readable anymore. So thank god I do not use Turbo Tax.
Here's the official 21st century Microsoft keyboard:
. jp g
http://users.pandora.be/jan.taelman/ms-keyboard
or
http://www.isfugl.com/sjov/MS-keyboard.jpg
Opera (www.opera.com) features mouse-gestures which allow you to go back and forth (and some other stuff as well) very quickly. Basically you press the right mouse button and move the mouse left (to go back) or right (to go forward). That's it. It works anywhere on the page.
a) did he very (by examination of the "referrer" tag in his logs) that people really went there from a search for "sex" (and not "sex" combined with other words)?
b) people might be tired of "google optimized" webpages and manually insert a "&start=250" parameter in the address line, to skip the commercial sites and browse to the less commercial ones.
Btw, I use the b) technique in Google-Groups to find old postings. The sort-by-date option only sorts from newest to oldest, and by modifying the page number you can directly go to the last page - effectively reversing the sort order.
> I never use these addresses "in public"
I receive a lot of spam (50-100 msgs/day) on my "real" account (not the Hotmail one). This account is up since ~1991 and was frequent participator in usenet and mailing lists. Spam was not an issue back then, everybody had realnames and even home phone numbers in their postings/signatures. I still keep this account alife, because I hate it when people give out email addresses just to disconnect them a year later.
If you want to know how much power your sound system REALLY does, have a look at the power supply.
My "Cambridge Soundworks" for example figures 13.5V 2.5A on it. 1 Watt is 1V * 1A, so 13.5V*2.5A = 32.4 Watt. When the speakers continously output 32.4 Watt, the powersupply is right at the point of catching fire. Standard engineering practice mandates to leave a safety margin, so my system probably draws about 25 Watts from the powersupply. From these 25 Watts, a considerable part is converted into (audible) sound pressure, while the rest is converted into heat.
I'd be suprised if that "1000W" Logitech system did more REAL Watts than my "Cambridge Soundworks" system.
So, can you recommend a better program that serves the same purpose? May be win32 or linux based.
You can use webwasher (http://www.webwasher.com/) to replace the browser identification string. Opera 7.01 displays www.msn.com fine when webwasher inserts the string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)". Another benefit of webwasher is that it removes annoying banners unless you disable this.
I dislike floppy drives because floppy disks are so unreliable. In my opinion this is result of cheaper and cheaper manufacturing. In fact, old used disks from mid-90s seem to work better than brandnew ones.
However, some software requires a floppy disk drive installed. An example is "DriveCrypt Plus Pack" which creates an emergency recovery disk ONLY to drive A:\ and ONLY when A:\ is a physical 1.44mb drive (ie: subst A: somwhere\ is not acceptable).
For CD-Rom, a variety of software emulators exist to satisfy such "broken" software (ie: CloneCD, DaemonTools, etc).
My question to Slashdot is: Does such software exist for floppy disks? Is there any virtual floppy drive for Win2k/XP?
Marc
Most papers lack a very important thing: test vectors.
This is very annoying for everybody who has to make an implementation from a paper, especially when the paper is new and there's no previous work on sci.crypt and the usual sources.