Ahh, but when key size starts surpassing the size of data it will soon become feasible to, instead of guessing the key, to guess the actual data. Obviously this would only be possible with asynchronous encryption though.
You seem to have misunderstood my post. In any function where f(a) can never equal f(b) where a and b are two unequal real numbers there is an inverse to function f. The reason that MD5 works for what it's intended to is because it has collisions. Since it has collisions, and because it's a fairly complex function, it's impossible to come up with any kind of inverse.
With anything that isn't loss-less compression you can't be absolutely sure that you have the same data that was originally hashed. There is always going to be some input that will generate the same hash. Hashes are used to reduce the probability that your data has been tempered with. Hashes reduce the probability so much that everyone considers them proof that no tampering has been done, including me.
Until someone can use a hash to create a file that can be hashed and get THE SAME hash MD5 will not be broken.
Every time a company (usually Apple) does something even remotely questionable regarding YRO people say that if Microsoft did it there would be a huge uproar.
If it's something anticompetitive someone usually clamors about how Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. I wish people could come up with a new ways to attack Microsoft and a new ways to be Microsoft apologists. I suppose we should stop rewarding those who rehash old arguments (I swear I've read your comment before, word for word) with Karma.
Very excellent points, but I do have a nit to pick.
We can assume something about a non-voting individual. We can assume that either their opinion cannot be expressed by the ballot or that they don't care enough about it to do anything with it.
Since almost any opinion can be partially expressed on the ballot, we are left with a single conclusion.
Feel free to poke holes in this. I don't argue to win. I argue to learn.
Hey, FUCK YOU. You're not helping anything with that attitude. As honorable as your little rant may sound, it's not sending a message. When you don't vote you're written off as apathetic or ignorant.
Go vote for a third party. Write something in (get about 100,000 people to vote for a corporation and you might send a message). Hell, write in "anyone not bought and sold" if you want. Tell all your other apathetic/ignorant friends to do the same.
But you won't do that. I think you just don't feel like it when November rolls around. You're using this flawed logic as an excuse for yourself. Maybe you're not.
Ask RSS reader writers to program into their programs a suggestion that the refresh not be on the hour. It would distribute the load more evenly.
Getting people to actually do this is another problem. Sounds to me like a little bit of lazy coding (not checking modified times in header), and a little bit of ignorance (RSS isn't big enough to cause a problem.... so doing this on the hour is OK right?) have just snowballed.
Looks like some rock to me. I don't know what you see. There's a lot of a rock out there, and sometimes it looks a little bit ordered, but that's just random chance.
The problem with NASA is that it wants to be sexy rather than actually try and discover stuff. Looking for life on Mars is sexy. Looking into some obscure spectrum of something or other with a huge array of sensors located in Antarctica is not.
Despite the fact that every time we try and use a new way to look at stuff (some obscure spectrum of something or other, for example) we find a lot out there, NASA stopped building an array of sensors in Antarctica (which son of George H Bush that put the pressure on them to do this is left as an exercise to the reader). The reason is that the populace seems to like sending stuff somewhere. Seeing more just isn't cool anymore. The Hubble telescope will fall into disrepair because people don't like looking at stuff. They insist on touching it. Even if that means the stuff is more than a few orders of magnitude closer.
I guess I'll sum it up. Going to Mars with a robat that touches stuff and messes around: SEXY Looking at shit with a few big mirrors: NOT sexy
Doesn't the idea of a central registry defeat the purpose of the internet anyway?
The internet was designed so any number of nodes could go offline and all the other nodes could still talk to each other. This has largely been kept true, even in the application layer, where your stuff would be taking place. I think that requiring a central database for people to use to register for websites would be unwise.
Also, you have any number of privacy concerns here. Do you really want a database of everything that everyone registers for? Do you want it to be possible for your boss to find out that you subscribe to an atheist news letter of he's a hardcore christian?
The problem with Where's George is that not every Bill in existence is in there. Also, adding Bills to it is far from difficult.
Even if you were able to get every bill on where's george, the only indicator of counterfeits would be if a bill was being passed around two cities at once or something like that. Even then it would be hard to be sure.
SARCASM We should put a unique code on every piece of paper money. We could call it a serial number. The americans could even put it on either side of the president's head./SARCASM
The problem is that people don't check to see if the serial number is valid every time they receive a bill. Not only is that ridiculous, but there isn't even a way to check it.
Also, by code they meant source code.
FLAME Next time try basic reading comprehension./FLAME
If you think games can't have a lot of background and character development then you are sorely mistaken. For a game with a great story and background, look no further than the Baldur's Gate series (I mean Baldur's Gate 1/2, Icewind Dale, and the expansions, not the atrocity that was NWN). There is an order of magnitude more content in either of those stories than there is in even the most developed movies. For good character development, Max Payne (the first one, complete with ambiguous ending) is a triumph for any medium.
The problem is that people don't make movies out of those kinds of games, they make them out of games like Tomb Raider. Also, the kind of people who are uncreative enough to write a script out of a game franchise aren't creative enough to make a good script at all.
Another thing is that the really good games can't be told in two hours. It takes two hundred hours to fully complete the Baldur's Gate series if you're fast and do a reasonable number of quests. No one is going to invest that much time in a movie. It's just not worth it.
All of that said, there are some games that would make really good movies, if they were done correctly. Max Payne and Metal Gear Solid (PS1) come to mind as action movies. Some things would have to be done creatively though. The dream sequences in Max Payne would need to be worked out and the radio chatter in Metal Gear Solid would also need to be dealt with.
It crashes and takes down Windows with it (this is really odd, but it does, I can't explain it, no decent OS should be taken down by a rogue application).
Are you trying to say something about Windows here? The only application I've ever had take down my OS X box is a full screen game (that was over two years ago).
Maybe now we can stop paying for braille buttons at drive-through ATM's.
Yes, I know it was a joke.
There's actually a really good explanation for this. It actually keeps costs down to have braille on the drive-though ATMs. If braille is on every ATM the only difference between a drive-through ATM and an ATM that you can walk to is where it's located. Since only one model is needed to do everything, costs go down. It really is that simple.
See, hydrogen isn't a fuel. It's a great way to store energy, though. The thing with gasoline heat engines is that they are only about 40% efficient, but a gas power plant can be like 80% efficient. That's why H2 cars would be sweet.
Ideally we would get out electricity from somewhere else (it's such a shame that plutonium is so toxic).
I would pay good money to be able to play the marathon series with say, the quake 3 engine. I know there are some community things trying to capture the single player of marathon as mods for various games, but I think bungie could do a very nice job and make a pretty penny. If they did a complete remake with the same story it would absolutely fly off the shelves. Unfortunately, it will probably never happen. Even though most pc games don't know the story and they could almost release it as a new game. They could even use HALO's engine and port it to the x-box.
Please note, I did specify most people. My father does all of his own electrical and carpentry. yes, he saves a bundle and it is high quality work. He does it because he is competent and can handle it. Most people who work on electronics have no idea what they're doing. Most people who do their own electrical do know what they're doing.
Clearly you are an intelligent person and that really does give you a serious edge over other people. Also, your engineering background gives you the ability read technical specifications and actually follow them. You did take the time to learn what to do, too. Most people just sit and tinker with their electronics and get frustrated when they don't get anywhere.
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Ahh, but when key size starts surpassing the size of data it will soon become feasible to, instead of guessing the key, to guess the actual data. Obviously this would only be possible with asynchronous encryption though.
You seem to have misunderstood my post. In any function where f(a) can never equal f(b) where a and b are two unequal real numbers there is an inverse to function f. The reason that MD5 works for what it's intended to is because it has collisions. Since it has collisions, and because it's a fairly complex function, it's impossible to come up with any kind of inverse. With anything that isn't loss-less compression you can't be absolutely sure that you have the same data that was originally hashed. There is always going to be some input that will generate the same hash. Hashes are used to reduce the probability that your data has been tempered with. Hashes reduce the probability so much that everyone considers them proof that no tampering has been done, including me. Until someone can use a hash to create a file that can be hashed and get THE SAME hash MD5 will not be broken.
Of course, but as far as I can tell all that was found was a brute force collision.
I don't think George Bush is going to start spewing Swahili anytime soon. He has enough troubles with English.
ROT26 sucks! Doing ROT13 twice makes so much more sense. I've even heard of people who do ROT2 thirteen times. I think they're a little wacky though.
There always going to be collisions in check-sums. If that weren't the case than we wouldn't need to distribute actual files, just check-sums.
Every time a company (usually Apple) does something even remotely questionable regarding YRO people say that if Microsoft did it there would be a huge uproar.
If it's something anticompetitive someone usually clamors about how Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. I wish people could come up with a new ways to attack Microsoft and a new ways to be Microsoft apologists. I suppose we should stop rewarding those who rehash old arguments (I swear I've read your comment before, word for word) with Karma.
I submitted the Blizzard story on July 27th. It was rejected, but probably because I didn't do a very interesting blurb.
Since the two quick reference guides aren't loading, I think it's time for Slashdotting jokes to commence. I'll start.
Too bad their webserver was running on one of those linux phones!
Very excellent points, but I do have a nit to pick.
We can assume something about a non-voting individual. We can assume that either their opinion cannot be expressed by the ballot or that they don't care enough about it to do anything with it.
Since almost any opinion can be partially expressed on the ballot, we are left with a single conclusion.
Feel free to poke holes in this. I don't argue to win. I argue to learn.
Hey, FUCK YOU. You're not helping anything with that attitude. As honorable as your little rant may sound, it's not sending a message. When you don't vote you're written off as apathetic or ignorant.
Go vote for a third party. Write something in (get about 100,000 people to vote for a corporation and you might send a message). Hell, write in "anyone not bought and sold" if you want. Tell all your other apathetic/ignorant friends to do the same.
But you won't do that. I think you just don't feel like it when November rolls around. You're using this flawed logic as an excuse for yourself. Maybe you're not.
Ask RSS reader writers to program into their programs a suggestion that the refresh not be on the hour. It would distribute the load more evenly. Getting people to actually do this is another problem. Sounds to me like a little bit of lazy coding (not checking modified times in header), and a little bit of ignorance (RSS isn't big enough to cause a problem.... so doing this on the hour is OK right?) have just snowballed.
Or maybe if Mars had a magnetic field to deflect solar winds.
Looks like some rock to me. I don't know what you see. There's a lot of a rock out there, and sometimes it looks a little bit ordered, but that's just random chance.
The problem with NASA is that it wants to be sexy rather than actually try and discover stuff. Looking for life on Mars is sexy. Looking into some obscure spectrum of something or other with a huge array of sensors located in Antarctica is not.
Despite the fact that every time we try and use a new way to look at stuff (some obscure spectrum of something or other, for example) we find a lot out there, NASA stopped building an array of sensors in Antarctica (which son of George H Bush that put the pressure on them to do this is left as an exercise to the reader). The reason is that the populace seems to like sending stuff somewhere. Seeing more just isn't cool anymore. The Hubble telescope will fall into disrepair because people don't like looking at stuff. They insist on touching it. Even if that means the stuff is more than a few orders of magnitude closer.
I guess I'll sum it up.
Going to Mars with a robat that touches stuff and messes around: SEXY
Looking at shit with a few big mirrors: NOT sexy
Doesn't the idea of a central registry defeat the purpose of the internet anyway?
The internet was designed so any number of nodes could go offline and all the other nodes could still talk to each other. This has largely been kept true, even in the application layer, where your stuff would be taking place. I think that requiring a central database for people to use to register for websites would be unwise.
Also, you have any number of privacy concerns here. Do you really want a database of everything that everyone registers for? Do you want it to be possible for your boss to find out that you subscribe to an atheist news letter of he's a hardcore christian?
I'll start... I wonder if Microsoft has a Knowledge Base article regarding your server catching fire when you get linked from Slashdot?
The problem with Where's George is that not every Bill in existence is in there. Also, adding Bills to it is far from difficult. Even if you were able to get every bill on where's george, the only indicator of counterfeits would be if a bill was being passed around two cities at once or something like that. Even then it would be hard to be sure.
SARCASM We should put a unique code on every piece of paper money. We could call it a serial number. The americans could even put it on either side of the president's head. /SARCASM
/FLAME
The problem is that people don't check to see if the serial number is valid every time they receive a bill. Not only is that ridiculous, but there isn't even a way to check it.
Also, by code they meant source code.
FLAME Next time try basic reading comprehension.
If you think games can't have a lot of background and character development then you are sorely mistaken. For a game with a great story and background, look no further than the Baldur's Gate series (I mean Baldur's Gate 1/2, Icewind Dale, and the expansions, not the atrocity that was NWN). There is an order of magnitude more content in either of those stories than there is in even the most developed movies. For good character development, Max Payne (the first one, complete with ambiguous ending) is a triumph for any medium.
The problem is that people don't make movies out of those kinds of games, they make them out of games like Tomb Raider. Also, the kind of people who are uncreative enough to write a script out of a game franchise aren't creative enough to make a good script at all.
Another thing is that the really good games can't be told in two hours. It takes two hundred hours to fully complete the Baldur's Gate series if you're fast and do a reasonable number of quests. No one is going to invest that much time in a movie. It's just not worth it.
All of that said, there are some games that would make really good movies, if they were done correctly. Max Payne and Metal Gear Solid (PS1) come to mind as action movies. Some things would have to be done creatively though. The dream sequences in Max Payne would need to be worked out and the radio chatter in Metal Gear Solid would also need to be dealt with.
It crashes and takes down Windows with it (this is really odd, but it does, I can't explain it, no decent OS should be taken down by a rogue application).
Are you trying to say something about Windows here? The only application I've ever had take down my OS X box is a full screen game (that was over two years ago).
Maybe now we can stop paying for braille buttons at drive-through ATM's.
Yes, I know it was a joke.
There's actually a really good explanation for this. It actually keeps costs down to have braille on the drive-though ATMs. If braille is on every ATM the only difference between a drive-through ATM and an ATM that you can walk to is where it's located. Since only one model is needed to do everything, costs go down. It really is that simple.
See, hydrogen isn't a fuel. It's a great way to store energy, though. The thing with gasoline heat engines is that they are only about 40% efficient, but a gas power plant can be like 80% efficient. That's why H2 cars would be sweet. Ideally we would get out electricity from somewhere else (it's such a shame that plutonium is so toxic).
I would pay good money to be able to play the marathon series with say, the quake 3 engine. I know there are some community things trying to capture the single player of marathon as mods for various games, but I think bungie could do a very nice job and make a pretty penny. If they did a complete remake with the same story it would absolutely fly off the shelves. Unfortunately, it will probably never happen. Even though most pc games don't know the story and they could almost release it as a new game. They could even use HALO's engine and port it to the x-box.
Please note, I did specify most people. My father does all of his own electrical and carpentry. yes, he saves a bundle and it is high quality work. He does it because he is competent and can handle it. Most people who work on electronics have no idea what they're doing. Most people who do their own electrical do know what they're doing.
Clearly you are an intelligent person and that really does give you a serious edge over other people. Also, your engineering background gives you the ability read technical specifications and actually follow them. You did take the time to learn what to do, too. Most people just sit and tinker with their electronics and get frustrated when they don't get anywhere.