If we're just talking about encryption (and not security) then as long as factoring large numbers remains computationally hard, RSA will always be secure enough for any practical purpose. Just keep on increasing the size of your initial key generating primes.
In depth? Hardly. It was looking like a reasonable interview until the second question: Do you think these victims are shooting the messenger -- ie eBay -- instead of heeding the numerous warnings about payment procedures and security? The question is good but the answer is just market spiel that doesn't actually answer what was asked.
Percentage this, eBay is striving hard to do that...
I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing.
My god, he's the "Trust and Safety Director" at eBay, not a homicide detective(!)
The first thing I thought of when I heard the Apple story is how trivial it is in comparison to the above link. These people were risking jailtime to protect their sources. There has to be a right to anonimity. Just look at what happened to Dr. David Kelly for another example.
The main problems come from when journalists hide behind this as an excuse to print whatever they want.
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Sorry, I think you'll find the phrase is, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... erm, you can't get fooled again."
and better quality food when I was in Russia than I usually do in the UK
You do know that we Brits are the culinary laughing stock of the world? That's why I'm glad to be Scottish. Who else would think of the deep fried mars bar / deep fried pizza?
AFAIK that's got nothing to do with the firmware (well, for Archos players anyway). The decoding of the mp3 format is done in hardware and I expect that the same is true for OGG on the iRiver.
I would personally like to see software that sped up the loading time on the player.
Anybody with an archos mp3 who uses playlists will vouch for that fact that rockbox's firmware pwns archos. It can take so many more songs and it loads them in a fraction of the time needed by the official firmware. Add to that the fact that rockbox add stability, functionality and loads of cool extras (you can play games and code your own plugins!).
If the iRiver firmware is anything like their previous efforts, you'd be mad not to try it out.
Unless you mean the old old media player (~win3.11 era), which is around there somewhere but cant think of the name.
It's called sndrec32 (still on WinXP) and I occasionally still use it. I always thought it was pretty cool. Who doesn't want to listen to their music backwards?
I used to think like this. What does it matter what the percentage divide is? We shouldn't be looking to get more women into computing. We should try to get the best people into computing, regardless of their sex.
However, after reading somet HOWTO about how to ease women into IT (I thought it would be funny) it actually changed my opinions.
Little subconcious things that us males do to women in IT segregate the two sexes e.g. hitting on them. Also, (I've been guilty of this in the past as a University Lab demonstrator) if we were helping a guy out with a problem we'd explain what to do / talk them through it. If it's a woman, we take their keyboard and do it for them - thus they learn nothing.
Oh, and really, we are one of the biggest cliques around. It's hard to get into. I just think we could do more to get women into IT, not by treating them differently but by trying to treat them the same.
I can't remember which version I used but it was new about 4 months ago. As I said in another reply, I'll give it another go.
I do feel kind of bad for bitchin' about Audacity since out of *all* the audio apps I've used it is by far the most intuitive and easy to use.
I'm using windoze for the music recording. I've tried using many different configurations but none were succesful.
You've got me thinking though. I've definately take up your suggestion and try some recording in Linux with JACK or ALSA.
Cheers
I know that it depends on what you want to use it for, but I don't think Audacity is actually useful for "live recording" i.e. listening to something and concurrently recording alongside it.
I do have to admit that it is a great piece of software with loads of features but when I do some multitrack recording with my full duplex, 24-bit, DMX 6Fire soundcard: I expect good results. I don't expect a latency of about half a second. That's the bottom line - until that problem is addressed I can't swap Audacity for CoolEdit Pro, or Cakewalk. As a user and supporter of GPL stuff, that's what I really want to do.
I guess sometimes there really is a reason why software *can* rightly cost hundreds of thousands of $$$s.
Okay, it's another thing that CSP stands for. You should check out the new and growing area of CSPs. It's a great way of solving NP-complete / combinatorial search problems e.g. planning, scheduling, timetabling, hardware verification etc.
Don't you just hate the fact that big companies seem to have alot more influence on politics than the average Joe has?
That's why you guys (I'm from Scotland) need an amendment to allow people who weren't born in the US to become president. Then you can get Arnie in the White House. I hear he's going to be The People's President
Once down the road of Academia, it gets harder to get back into industry from what I gather. Not impossible, but if you take a post-doctorate post for an extra few years or so, you may suffer.
Also, when I graduated with my first degree it was simple: I looked for CompSci graduate jobs. I had loads of offers. Now, I'm going to be looking for a job fairly soon and I'm so specialized, I'm not sure what's best to look for. I could get a graduate job and hope that my PhD will help me climb the corporate ladder quickly or I could try hard to get a job in my chosen field. This could be quite hard (anyone else heard of constraint programming?).
Actually, I'm off to read the comments posted now because this is gonna useful for me too.
Okay, it's nice to see that we're thinking ahead at some kind of framework but to me this seems like making the ISO OSI 7 layered model after Charles Babbage describes what a computer is.
The current Turing Test programs aren't that much superior to Eliza. I think it's going to be several decades before we see the Loebner prize being won.
This kind of thing is just far too early / pie-in-the-sky.
Slashdot Mirror
If we're just talking about encryption (and not security) then as long as factoring large numbers remains computationally hard, RSA will always be secure enough for any practical purpose. Just keep on increasing the size of your initial key generating primes.
No?
In depth? Hardly. It was looking like a reasonable interview until the second question: Do you think these victims are shooting the messenger -- ie eBay -- instead of heeding the numerous warnings about payment procedures and security? The question is good but the answer is just market spiel that doesn't actually answer what was asked.
Percentage this, eBay is striving hard to do that...
I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing.
My god, he's the "Trust and Safety Director" at eBay, not a homicide detective(!)
Bloody Sunday
The first thing I thought of when I heard the Apple story is how trivial it is in comparison to the above link. These people were risking jailtime to protect their sources. There has to be a right to anonimity. Just look at what happened to Dr. David Kelly for another example.
The main problems come from when journalists hide behind this as an excuse to print whatever they want.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Sorry, I think you'll find the phrase is, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... erm, you can't get fooled again."
At least, that's what it is here in Texas.
They're based in Sweden and as the "Legal Threats" tab on their site shows they seem to think they're safe from a legal standpoint.
Do any slashdotters know of any good Bittorrent websites.
Since suprnova went down I've mainly been using http://www.thepiratebay.org/ but any others would be greatly appreciated.
I know we're not that bad. It's just that I was listening to Bill Hicks a couple of days ago:
c ks_relentless.html
Bill: This food sucks!
[gunshot]
Bill: You don't boil pizza!
[gunshot]
Englishman: That's the way we eat here.
http://www.fountain.btinternet.co.uk/jokes/billhi
and better quality food when I was in Russia than I usually do in the UK
You do know that we Brits are the culinary laughing stock of the world? That's why I'm glad to be Scottish. Who else would think of the deep fried mars bar / deep fried pizza?
Dick Burns? Maybe Wil's spent too much time, uh, recovering health.
Remember GTA III? Those of you that get my Fernando Martinez sig will. And the name of Head Radio's DJ? Ah yes, Mike "Wheels of Steel" Hunt.
Mike Hunt. I'll give you minute.
Dammit! There's nothing like being shown to be completely wrong by several people in a slashdot thread. AAAARGH!
I'd like someone else to prove me wrong but I'm fairly certain that firmware cannot decode file formats. That is done by the hardware.
The iRiver, after all, already plays Vorbis.
AFAIK that's got nothing to do with the firmware (well, for Archos players anyway). The decoding of the mp3 format is done in hardware and I expect that the same is true for OGG on the iRiver.
I would personally like to see software that sped up the loading time on the player.
Anybody with an archos mp3 who uses playlists will vouch for that fact that rockbox's firmware pwns archos. It can take so many more songs and it loads them in a fraction of the time needed by the official firmware. Add to that the fact that rockbox add stability, functionality and loads of cool extras (you can play games and code your own plugins!).
If the iRiver firmware is anything like their previous efforts, you'd be mad not to try it out.
Unless you mean the old old media player (~win3.11 era), which is around there somewhere but cant think of the name.
It's called sndrec32 (still on WinXP) and I occasionally still use it. I always thought it was pretty cool. Who doesn't want to listen to their music backwards?
I used to think like this. What does it matter what the percentage divide is? We shouldn't be looking to get more women into computing. We should try to get the best people into computing, regardless of their sex.
However, after reading somet HOWTO about how to ease women into IT (I thought it would be funny) it actually changed my opinions.
Little subconcious things that us males do to women in IT segregate the two sexes e.g. hitting on them. Also, (I've been guilty of this in the past as a University Lab demonstrator) if we were helping a guy out with a problem we'd explain what to do / talk them through it. If it's a woman, we take their keyboard and do it for them - thus they learn nothing.
Oh, and really, we are one of the biggest cliques around. It's hard to get into. I just think we could do more to get women into IT, not by treating them differently but by trying to treat them the same.
I can't remember which version I used but it was new about 4 months ago. As I said in another reply, I'll give it another go.
I do feel kind of bad for bitchin' about Audacity since out of *all* the audio apps I've used it is by far the most intuitive and easy to use.
I'm using windoze for the music recording. I've tried using many different configurations but none were succesful.
You've got me thinking though. I've definately take up your suggestion and try some recording in Linux with JACK or ALSA.
Cheers
I know that it depends on what you want to use it for, but I don't think Audacity is actually useful for "live recording" i.e. listening to something and concurrently recording alongside it.
I do have to admit that it is a great piece of software with loads of features but when I do some multitrack recording with my full duplex, 24-bit, DMX 6Fire soundcard: I expect good results. I don't expect a latency of about half a second. That's the bottom line - until that problem is addressed I can't swap Audacity for CoolEdit Pro, or Cakewalk. As a user and supporter of GPL stuff, that's what I really want to do.
I guess sometimes there really is a reason why software *can* rightly cost hundreds of thousands of $$$s.
I thought most spammers were from Nigeria...?
Aah. And you try telling the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!
Four Yorkshiremen
Is that the one without the Gannet? I don't like them, they wet their nests.
p.s. - I'm not buying that, it's torn.
That's not what CSP stands for anymore.
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Okay, it's another thing that CSP stands for. You should check out the new and growing area of CSPs. It's a great way of solving NP-complete / combinatorial search problems e.g. planning, scheduling, timetabling, hardware verification etc.
Don't you just hate the fact that big companies seem to have alot more influence on politics than the average Joe has?
That's why you guys (I'm from Scotland) need an amendment to allow people who weren't born in the US to become president.
Then you can get Arnie in the White House. I hear he's going to be The People's President
I'm a final year AI PhD student.
Once down the road of Academia, it gets harder to get back into industry from what I gather. Not impossible, but if you take a post-doctorate post for an extra few years or so, you may suffer.
Also, when I graduated with my first degree it was simple: I looked for CompSci graduate jobs. I had loads of offers. Now, I'm going to be looking for a job fairly soon and I'm so specialized, I'm not sure what's best to look for. I could get a graduate job and hope that my PhD will help me climb the corporate ladder quickly or I could try hard to get a job in my chosen field. This could be quite hard (anyone else heard of constraint programming?).
Actually, I'm off to read the comments posted now because this is gonna useful for me too.
Erm, yes your honour, my PC was hacked and reversed proxy-thingy-ed and that's what all those pictures were.
Honest.
Okay, it's nice to see that we're thinking ahead at some kind of framework but to me this seems like making the ISO OSI 7 layered model after Charles Babbage describes what a computer is.
The current Turing Test programs aren't that much superior to Eliza. I think it's going to be several decades before we see the Loebner prize being won.
This kind of thing is just far too early / pie-in-the-sky.