That GTA:VC is a generally offensive game, yet they want Rockstar to remove one relatively innocent line? It's ridiculous, because it's a game. Rockstar isn't advocating killing Haitians. They aren't encouraging people to go on killing sprees to make their own criminal empire either. It's a freaking game, a work of fiction.
Go read Bruce Schneier ("Applied Cryptography"). He basically proves that it would require insane amounts of energy at near-perfect efficiency to even iterate through every possible 256-bit number. No, your 256-bit symmetric keys and maybe 4096-bit asymmetric keys are quite safe from brute force attacks, forever. That's just the laws of physics.
No, but you can be a black hat hacker without being an outright criminal who commits credit card fraud or writes viruses just to see how much damage they can cause.
It's not exactly "evolution" when the new format is of lower quality than the old format, now is it?
The evolution of CDs will come when a new physical format becomes widespread...perhaps DVD-A or SACD.
The difference is commercial speech, which is subject to all sorts of restrictions that things like political speech are not. Google for "commercial speech", check out some of the Supreme Court cases.
That's such bullshit, and you know it. The CD is the closest medium we have to being totally lossless. Given that most albums are still recorded at 16-bit, it is pretty damn close to lossless. And unless it was very poorly mastered, you don't get digital artifacts like you do with lossy compression.
But maybe you would consider a 32-bit, 192KHz format "lossy" too, because gee, that's not exactly what you really hear, and therefore a 128kbps MP3 would be just as good!
What if I run my XBox through a proxy of some sort and have it modify packets? Unless the server for Counterstrike on XBox is fixed to be totally secure, checking the client for modifications is pointless.
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However, the thief would have to get quite close to his target or have a very sensitive reader.
It looks like the card has to be held within about an inch or two of the reader. Kinda hard to steal other peoples' card info without their knowledge.
Judging from the trailer, it's going to be subtitled in English.
That GTA:VC is a generally offensive game, yet they want Rockstar to remove one relatively innocent line? It's ridiculous, because it's a game. Rockstar isn't advocating killing Haitians. They aren't encouraging people to go on killing sprees to make their own criminal empire either. It's a freaking game, a work of fiction.
That's not so vast, considering the costs to ship the gas to Antarctica.
Region restrictions? Kinda difficult to bypass legally.
"Was asked", not "were asked". One person.
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Go read Bruce Schneier ("Applied Cryptography"). He basically proves that it would require insane amounts of energy at near-perfect efficiency to even iterate through every possible 256-bit number. No, your 256-bit symmetric keys and maybe 4096-bit asymmetric keys are quite safe from brute force attacks, forever. That's just the laws of physics.
We can end all this SCO crap. Though I get the feeling that they've already gotten what they want...
Oh? My fully-functional 83GB FAT32 partition makes me seriously doubt that.
And that's not a bad translation. One can only wonder...
Maybe you could explain how neural nets (an AI programming construct) relate to a network of distributed content.
Nah, the King Crimson song is vastly different. Mr. Brett only stole a few lines of lyrics.
No, but you can be a black hat hacker without being an outright criminal who commits credit card fraud or writes viruses just to see how much damage they can cause.
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It's not exactly "evolution" when the new format is of lower quality than the old format, now is it? The evolution of CDs will come when a new physical format becomes widespread...perhaps DVD-A or SACD.
The difference is commercial speech, which is subject to all sorts of restrictions that things like political speech are not. Google for "commercial speech", check out some of the Supreme Court cases.
So you can buy the CD, rip it into whatever format you so desire and/or burn a copy of it, then keep the original CD at home.
But what if you want to purchase music in your underwear and have it in your possession instantly? Then you'll probably get arrested :)
But maybe you would consider a 32-bit, 192KHz format "lossy" too, because gee, that's not exactly what you really hear, and therefore a 128kbps MP3 would be just as good!
*sigh* I really shouldn't respond to trolls.
Sorry, 16-bit may be somewhat of a loss, but for $1-5 extra, I'll take my actual CD over the "just about the same" compressed file, thanks very much.
What if I run my XBox through a proxy of some sort and have it modify packets? Unless the server for Counterstrike on XBox is fixed to be totally secure, checking the client for modifications is pointless.
Of course, traffic would be very slow, and probably not moving at all in large cities.
Or just do a simple challenge/response with something like public key encryption.