Maybe I'm totally enamored with FrontPage (ha!) but find the activation portion of XP / Office to be completely reprehensible. It isn't totally hippocritical...
Re:Bin Laden doesn't even need encryption
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Blaming Encryption
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· Score: 1
The contents of an image of oneself would not be random -- there would certainly be nonrandom elements in the file, which render it unsuiteable as OTP key material. You could still do it, but there then exists a chance someone will break it.
In OTP encryption, the key is exactly the same size as the message. The book that the key came from, on the other hand, might be huge.
If you reuse the key in OTP, it is breakable (and not very One-Time).
When utilizing OTP encryption, every possible permutation *is* possible. You can't weed out 'reasonable' results because every possible permutation *could* be the actual cleartext of the message.
So what happens when the next version of Word comes out with this clause (or equivalent) attached? If they can do it for on component, I see no reason they couldn't attach it to another. Imagine the level of control a corporation that controls a very significant portion of the desktop publishing market could exert. OR, what happens if the 'this license subject to change without notice' clause is added too -- they could retroacticely make it a breach of contract for anything written with their software.
I wonder if one could get a frame to display a week/month view of the family schedule, possibly having it pull (or be pushed, as it may) from a family appointments database. That way everyone can see what the next 30 days worth of 'stuff' is.
That would be 10 SQLServer, SMB, or any other licensed product-connections. It is a license restriction on incoming server connections (ie the Client Access License), not an inherent limitation in the OS.
How much disk space does a half-hour full-screen episode of Reboot (computer-rendered cartoon) take after rendering? Couldn't one cook the presentation by placing the primitives on the local system, then stream the scene definitions over the link? Then all you have to do is stream the audio (at atrociously low bitrates) as well and render it with a fast graphics card on the fly. Then the codec *would* understand the images. Or for that matter cartoons, as seen in the recent Zelda game.
A system that had the SouthPark primitives pre-loaded on the client could probably descibe the action (and low-bitrate encoded audio) over a 28.8 link...
That is, until all incoming connections to your DSL/Cable account are disabled, meaning you have to pay for a T1/colo/'Business' class account, which raises the bar considerably. At least the rate-limiting allows one to have their site, albeit a slow one.
Not to mention that since the base parts were bigger, you could build much larger installations. My most recent task was to build the cat a large multi-room manor (roof provided by a blanket) to explore.
Unfortunately Construx seem to have totally left the marketplace. Well, as I check Ebay there are still some places to get them...
There are a few products out there close to Construx, but I don't think they'll take the same punishment.
One of the main points of ipv6 is that routing will be simplified greatly. The header has been fixed in size (less work for the router to parse) and the addresses can be distributed in a hierarchical fashion. See the IPv6 Routing FAQ for more details.
What sort of routing system would such a system use -- How does one WAP (say linux based) know that a route to the wired internet is two hops over *there* on an all-wireless basis?
Can we survive (societally) without the software that runs the IRS, banks, everyday commerce? I don't think a modern-day safeway would run if all purchases had to be rung up manually. Something to think about...
This reminds me of a SciFi book I once read. The government was trying to pressure a huge company for something or other, but then realized that if the pressure was applied, the company would just raise the price of bread (the company had hold of the entire food market and just about everything else) a few percent and bring about a recession. Should subscription services become centralized and indespensible, what sort of power will the controlling company have over the economy at large? (OK so this is a bit overly dramatic and paranoid, but you are only paranoid of they *aren't* out to get you:> )
Re:Code Red 'counter'
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Code Red III
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· Score: 2, Informative
DShield.org, a distributed IDS, would like you to do the following:
grep 'default.ida' access_log | mail -s 'APACHE' redalert@dshield.org
They use this information to notify the owners of the machines of the infection and to track the progression of the worm.
Picking 'who gets screwed' has many advantages. People will eventually use all bandwidth available to them, but someone's email doesn't need to be transferred as fast as the Customer Service rep's application data.
Around my town there are a number of mattress stores. In front of almost all of them are sandwhichboard-people with signs of 'half-price mattress sale' all pointing to the same place. Sort of similiar, but they have to stand on the sidewalk.
I bought mandrake because I had assigned a weekend to upgrade my linux router, and found out at the last moment that win2k was incompatible with my roomates CD-R so I couldn't burn the ISO I had downloaded. Since I have a Real Job these days I figured I'd support the movement and shell out for retail (and I was impatient as well).
The average joe doesn't have access to talk to people at NOC's anywhere -- and since the average joe isn't a direct bill-payer to UUnet or etc, anybody you talk to over there is just going to laugh at you. It would seem prudent to call your ISP and let them do the appropriate notifications.
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Maybe I'm totally enamored with FrontPage (ha!) but find the activation portion of XP / Office to be completely reprehensible. It isn't totally hippocritical...
The contents of an image of oneself would not be random -- there would certainly be nonrandom elements in the file, which render it unsuiteable as OTP key material. You could still do it, but there then exists a chance someone will break it.
In OTP encryption, the key is exactly the same size as the message. The book that the key came from, on the other hand, might be huge.
If you reuse the key in OTP, it is breakable (and not very One-Time).
When utilizing OTP encryption, every possible permutation *is* possible. You can't weed out 'reasonable' results because every possible permutation *could* be the actual cleartext of the message.
So what happens when the next version of Word comes out with this clause (or equivalent) attached? If they can do it for on component, I see no reason they couldn't attach it to another. Imagine the level of control a corporation that controls a very significant portion of the desktop publishing market could exert. OR, what happens if the 'this license subject to change without notice' clause is added too -- they could retroacticely make it a breach of contract for anything written with their software.
I wonder if one could get a frame to display a week/month view of the family schedule, possibly having it pull (or be pushed, as it may) from a family appointments database. That way everyone can see what the next 30 days worth of 'stuff' is.
How many high-rises are there on the west bank? I'd think if a country is constantly beset by bombings, nobody'd go near them.
Aha! Someone finally said the E-word. Will we nowmove to ban all civilian encryption?
I'll bet they blame PGP / crypto.
That would be 10 SQLServer, SMB, or any other licensed product-connections. It is a license restriction on incoming server connections (ie the Client Access License), not an inherent limitation in the OS.
How much disk space does a half-hour full-screen episode of Reboot (computer-rendered cartoon) take after rendering? Couldn't one cook the presentation by placing the primitives on the local system, then stream the scene definitions over the link? Then all you have to do is stream the audio (at atrociously low bitrates) as well and render it with a fast graphics card on the fly. Then the codec *would* understand the images. Or for that matter cartoons, as seen in the recent Zelda game.
A system that had the SouthPark primitives pre-loaded on the client could probably descibe the action (and low-bitrate encoded audio) over a 28.8 link...
That is, until all incoming connections to your DSL/Cable account are disabled, meaning you have to pay for a T1/colo/'Business' class account, which raises the bar considerably. At least the rate-limiting allows one to have their site, albeit a slow one.
Not to mention that since the base parts were bigger, you could build much larger installations. My most recent task was to build the cat a large multi-room manor (roof provided by a blanket) to explore.
Unfortunately Construx seem to have totally left the marketplace. Well, as I check Ebay there are still some places to get them...
There are a few products out there close to Construx, but I don't think they'll take the same punishment.
One of the main points of ipv6 is that routing will be simplified greatly. The header has been fixed in size (less work for the router to parse) and the addresses can be distributed in a hierarchical fashion. See the IPv6 Routing FAQ for more details.
What sort of routing system would such a system use -- How does one WAP (say linux based) know that a route to the wired internet is two hops over *there* on an all-wireless basis?
I thought the number could be reused, but that it expired so soon as to make hacking the cc database useless.
Can we survive (societally) without the software that runs the IRS, banks, everyday commerce? I don't think a modern-day safeway would run if all purchases had to be rung up manually. Something to think about...
This reminds me of a SciFi book I once read. The government was trying to pressure a huge company for something or other, but then realized that if the pressure was applied, the company would just raise the price of bread (the company had hold of the entire food market and just about everything else) a few percent and bring about a recession. Should subscription services become centralized and indespensible, what sort of power will the controlling company have over the economy at large? (OK so this is a bit overly dramatic and paranoid, but you are only paranoid of they *aren't* out to get you :> )
grep 'default.ida' access_log | mail -s 'APACHE' redalert@dshield.org
They use this information to notify the owners of the machines of the infection and to track the progression of the worm.
This appears to do a MITM attack w/ARP poisoning and such.
Picking 'who gets screwed' has many advantages. People will eventually use all bandwidth available to them, but someone's email doesn't need to be transferred as fast as the Customer Service rep's application data.
Around my town there are a number of mattress stores. In front of almost all of them are sandwhichboard-people with signs of 'half-price mattress sale' all pointing to the same place. Sort of similiar, but they have to stand on the sidewalk.
I bought mandrake because I had assigned a weekend to upgrade my linux router, and found out at the last moment that win2k was incompatible with my roomates CD-R so I couldn't burn the ISO I had downloaded. Since I have a Real Job these days I figured I'd support the movement and shell out for retail (and I was impatient as well).
I was sore in the legs and back for two days after a tube-full of quarters with this game. Very cool game + you get exercise!
OffTopic, but what with red-runner cameras and HOV cheater-detectors, it _is_ possible the stoplight knows what / who is in the car.
The average joe doesn't have access to talk to people at NOC's anywhere -- and since the average joe isn't a direct bill-payer to UUnet or etc, anybody you talk to over there is just going to laugh at you. It would seem prudent to call your ISP and let them do the appropriate notifications.