Let's see. This one is easy to debunk. I've made an expert system, I've made a distributed system, hell, I've even made a music composition program. All worked cross platform, without JDirect stuff. I disagree that Java sucks ass without Microsoft. Java's pretty cool. Even if I feel it's a bit slow, You can write faster Java if you pay attention to what you are doing. I'm not some grandious visionary, I just write the code to fit the specs of the people paying the checks. Now, please mark this as Off Topic, and let's get back to DDNS. --Rae
And how many languages do you know? The world doesn't revolve around the US and Britain. Hell, if you're going to start getting technical on spelling and grammar, you're just being pedantic. How many people do actually speak proper English anymore anyway? Learning the language is a good thing, and more than likely the person is. Just don't dock him for not being a master yet, and learn some compassion. Being a tight wad doesn't make you friends.
The thing is, in order for that code to be a valid communication tool, someone has to know what it means. In general, things that require a codebook or codetable aren't breakable, except if you get a copy of the codebook/table. That's why the germans thought they were secure in WWII. They were using code books, that we somehow managed to get our hands on. (sneaky americans) Randomly changing your definition of a code based on time will only work if the other side knows about it and how to handle it. There are some computer encryption schemes that require a codetable, but then, if someone gets ahold of your codetable, your encrypted messages are easily breakable. The current standard is to make it so that you have to run an ungodly amount of checks to break the encryption. On Unix, the code for the passwords was chosen because a) it was a one way deal, meaning that the output could not be processed back into the data, you have to process the data through the same engine and check it, and b) it took a little over a second to calculate the encrypted value of one password. It has a random seed, between 1 and 4096, and that's before going into each character. To hack one password, it would have taken a little over 10M years or something disgusting like that. Look at the rc5 distributed net. It takes quite a host of computers and its still taken a long* time for them to grind down on the numbers. Basically, you have to have some pattern so that the person you're talking to can reproduce the message, otherwise, you're just being solipsistic. Of course, my take is that this whole world is my solipsistic nightmare, but you're probably not going to subscribe to that.
--Raelin *long is a very relative term. Given that I just mentioned 10M years, a few years isn't very long comparative, but still, if you're trying to get information that might give you an advantage, chances are, you'll find better ways to get what you want.
PS On another note, isn't it possible (Note, I'm not a trained mathematician, just a college student) to develop a code that produces multiple human readable results, one as the real result, and others that would be there to throw off the trail?
Rather like Robin Hood huh? Rob from the rich and give to the poor? Rather than take, how about buy. then the question really becomes something of where will you get the money to buy the infrastructure from them? Who would you have run them? The government? New Tax! *snicker* Ok, that's a bit biased. I'm just trying to insite a revolt or something. --Rae
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Anyway, the point is, it's not just geocities. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
Last I checked, Micron just put the machines together, they didn't write the drivers. Still you bring up a good point. Who wrote the drivers? If it is something that's standard for video cards, then it is probably included in the Windows CD (Which you would expect to not be buggy, even if they didn't write it.) Else, it was written by the company that made it, and it's probably just a port of a driver from 9x.
--rae It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
They don't make money if you don't buy anything. You seem to think that they make money simply by forcing you to watch their mindless drivel of a marketing scheme. If you don't buy anything they don't make money. Anyway, it's only one manufacturer, so buy a different one. The power of the people. If no one buys it, it dies. Like someone said earlier. --R.I.P. DivX. Rae It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
It's not blackmail, it's bribery. Blackmail is threatening to do something bad(tm) unless you pay someone or play their way. The federal government is giving money to the states, it's just putting new stipulations on getting it. It would be the same as if I handed you a 20 dollar bill every day so you could eat, and then, when I noticed you were eating only ice cream, stipulated you had to eat something healthy, or I wouldn't give you the money. Now, I don't particularly agree with Washington's ideas of healthy, but the concept is noble, if misguided. However, when this turns into a bludgeon for the government to force you to stay in check (Like the roadway funds are), then there's a problem. The best way to avoid accepting these regulations is to avoid accepting the money. Unfortunnately again, the Federal government taxes us Americans so much, the states don't have the ability to earn as much with income taxes. Kinda funny for what originally started out as a confederation, non? It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
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Let's see. This one is easy to debunk. I've made an expert system, I've made a distributed system, hell, I've even made a music composition program. All worked cross platform, without JDirect stuff. I disagree that Java sucks ass without Microsoft. Java's pretty cool. Even if I feel it's a bit slow, You can write faster Java if you pay attention to what you are doing. I'm not some grandious visionary, I just write the code to fit the specs of the people paying the checks.
Now, please mark this as Off Topic, and let's get back to DDNS.
--Rae
And how many languages do you know? The world doesn't revolve around the US and Britain. Hell, if you're going to start getting technical on spelling and grammar, you're just being pedantic. How many people do actually speak proper English anymore anyway? Learning the language is a good thing, and more than likely the person is. Just don't dock him for not being a master yet, and learn some compassion. Being a tight wad doesn't make you friends.
It's:
imports java.io.*;
There was a typo in the original release, and it wasn't caught. It's hung around since then.
--Raelin
The thing is, in order for that code to be a valid communication tool, someone has to know what it means. In general, things that require a codebook or codetable aren't breakable, except if you get a copy of the codebook/table. That's why the germans thought they were secure in WWII. They were using code books, that we somehow managed to get our hands on. (sneaky americans) Randomly changing your definition of a code based on time will only work if the other side knows about it and how to handle it.
There are some computer encryption schemes that require a codetable, but then, if someone gets ahold of your codetable, your encrypted messages are easily breakable. The current standard is to make it so that you have to run an ungodly amount of checks to break the encryption. On Unix, the code for the passwords was chosen because a) it was a one way deal, meaning that the output could not be processed back into the data, you have to process the data through the same engine and check it, and b) it took a little over a second to calculate the encrypted value of one password. It has a random seed, between 1 and 4096, and that's before going into each character. To hack one password, it would have taken a little over 10M years or something disgusting like that. Look at the rc5 distributed net. It takes quite a host of computers and its still taken a long* time for them to grind down on the numbers.
Basically, you have to have some pattern so that the person you're talking to can reproduce the message, otherwise, you're just being solipsistic. Of course, my take is that this whole world is my solipsistic nightmare, but you're probably not going to subscribe to that.
--Raelin
*long is a very relative term. Given that I just mentioned 10M years, a few years isn't very long comparative, but still, if you're trying to get information that might give you an advantage, chances are, you'll find better ways to get what you want.
PS On another note, isn't it possible (Note, I'm not a trained mathematician, just a college student) to develop a code that produces multiple human readable results, one as the real result, and others that would be there to throw off the trail?
Rather like Robin Hood huh? Rob from the rich and give to the poor? Rather than take, how about buy. then the question really becomes something of where will you get the money to buy the infrastructure from them? Who would you have run them? The government? New Tax! *snicker* Ok, that's a bit biased. I'm just trying to insite a revolt or something.
--Rae
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Anyway, the point is, it's not just geocities.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
Last I checked, Micron just put the machines together, they didn't write the drivers. Still you bring up a good point. Who wrote the drivers? If it is something that's standard for video cards, then it is probably included in the Windows CD (Which you would expect to not be buggy, even if they didn't write it.) Else, it was written by the company that made it, and it's probably just a port of a driver from 9x.
--rae
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
They don't make money if you don't buy anything. You seem to think that they make money simply by forcing you to watch their mindless drivel of a marketing scheme. If you don't buy anything they don't make money. Anyway, it's only one manufacturer, so buy a different one. The power of the people. If no one buys it, it dies. Like someone said earlier. --R.I.P. DivX.
Rae
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
It's not blackmail, it's bribery. Blackmail is threatening to do something bad(tm) unless you pay someone or play their way. The federal government is giving money to the states, it's just putting new stipulations on getting it. It would be the same as if I handed you a 20 dollar bill every day so you could eat, and then, when I noticed you were eating only ice cream, stipulated you had to eat something healthy, or I wouldn't give you the money.
Now, I don't particularly agree with Washington's ideas of healthy, but the concept is noble, if misguided. However, when this turns into a bludgeon for the government to force you to stay in check (Like the roadway funds are), then there's a problem.
The best way to avoid accepting these regulations is to avoid accepting the money. Unfortunnately again, the Federal government taxes us Americans so much, the states don't have the ability to earn as much with income taxes. Kinda funny for what originally started out as a confederation, non?
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
Kennedy? As in Jack Kennedy? Not sure weighing it would do any good... it was kinda spread all over the car.
--Rae
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed.