Thats too bad for the Canadians I guess, half my friends work at an inbound call center to pay for thier tuition. Whats more it is called YAC, they always use the acronym cause Young America Canada doesn't make much sense
In any case, when someone asks where they are they have to reply that they are in Minnisota.
Previously they weren't requireing an ohip card so a bunch got it for free (according to my personal recollection and According to this Globe and Mail article. I guess the motive being that if they made the procedure as painless as possible more people would get it. From the article
"Ontario Health Ministry officials held a conference call with the province's 37 public health officers and instructed them to start demanding proof of Ontario residency before giving anyone the shot.
In previous years, some clinics didn't ask for identification before giving the free vaccine, said ministry spokesman Dan Strasbourg. "The purpose here is to protect the health of Ontarians.""
It kind of pisses me off that americans would try to get free flu shots like that, they don't pay taxes in Ontario, I do. Just like I don't go to the states and try to get welfare they shouldn't come here and try to get free flu shots.
Instead what happened is americans started coming across the border to get free flu shots in Canada. Previously (at least in Ontario) you weren't required to show that you were a valid resident of Ontario before rolling up your sleeve and gettin vacinated for free.
With this latest flu vacine scare many Americans have been crossing the border and getting free vaccinations. It is now required that you show proof of Ontario residency before getting your shot.
I already paid for the game. I don't want to pay for a special app to run the game.
But you will pay for windows? If the only reason you need windows is to run games, then you are better off paying 30 dollars to transgaming and using linux
Agreed, when I was buying a music player back in August I took a look at the competition and then went to an ipod. The reason? the others were either too small (I like a nice big screen), too large (I want it to fit in my pocket without pulling my pants down), or the gui blew. I can operate my ipod one handed, the click wheel is great as I can navigate without taking my thumb off of it (most of the others had tiny buttons, or stupidly designed touch sensitive things).
These ipod killers are among the worst assassins ever
As if ford explorers weren't bad enough on gas. Now instead of having to contend with rolling friction and air resistance, we have gravity and air resistance
Interesting, Jim Turley (whoever that is) said he watched Gimp run on windows and that they had Quake 3 runing on a Mac. These two applications are both ported to thier respective platforms, meaning this demonstration is open to hoax. Run iPhoto on windows or Nero on a mac and I would take it more seriously
To many people nitpick over tiny details like this while blatently ignoring the bigger issues. Oh no! he doens't have a toll-free number. That doesn't change the fact that it is a horrible act, which is the point Moore was trying to make. Although I agree that Fahrenheit 9/11 only examined one side of the issue, I think that Moore is at least on the right side.
I do, when I buy a CD the first thing I do is burn a copy of it. I use the copy instead of the original. I can really do whatever I want with the copy, all of my copies are thrown (without cases) on the backseat of my car. If they only last 6 months before getting scratched beyond repair, who cares? CD-Rs are cheap. Its the original that never gets used/scratched
Barring the advent of far more massive media, who, besides universities and governments would really need a 10 gigabit internet connection anyways?
You can't parallel my post with the fake Bill Gates quote because they aren't dealing with the same thing
First of all I said Barring the advent of far more massive media, so unless we suddenly have holographic movies which need to streamed over the internet. At the moment the worst real time application a home user could do to a connection would be streaming video. If we scale the quality till we hit DVD (9mbit/sec) then what? I seriously doubt that the _average_ home user requires 10 gigabit if some revolutionary bandwidth hungry technology hasn't emerged by 2010
I am not saying that more bandwidth is a bad thing. I am saying that giving copious amounts of bandwidth to the computer illiterate majority with the current design of the internet isn't the best idea.
Getting bigger pipes to combat bigger DDOSses is not a valid solution. If a regular, run of the mill website needs a 100Tbit pipe, 1% of which is for legitimate requests, and 99% of it is to make sure the legitimate requests get through, there is a problem
Thats the problem, alot of the websites which are the targets of ddos attacks are run by one or two unpaid staff, ones which rely on donations to stay afloat. These websites cannot afford to pay Akamai or another distributed hosting company to fight the ddosses. The only ones who can are large companies.
Alot of the time, rather than face personal bankrupcy (through bandwidth) at the hands of a 14 year old with to much time on his hands, the webmasters pull the plug.
This robs the internet of a valuable voice, which even now is being replaced by the politically correct, bland, corperate websites
This has the potential to make the internet a worse place than it is today. Currently, a 56k or cable modem when it is a zombie in a 14 year olds bot army cannot do much damage alone. The "1337" 14 year old must accumulate a huge number before he can make any real difference.
With 10 gigabit, the kiddie just has to get a few bots to cause a server to die, or if they are persitant enough to accumulate a huge amount of bots, they can do huge amounts of damage to the internet
Barring the advent of far more massive media, who, besides universities and governments would really need a 10 gigabit internet connection anyways?
Your right, it is the future, as soon as prices are low enough on high capacity flash players that they can compete with the ipod
A the moment they are far to expensive to be feasable, I bought my 20 gigabyte 4g ipod for $490 (CND), a 20 gigabyte flash chip would be unacceptably expensive
Although I agree with Asimov being ranked first in the authors polls. I would have put Clarke second. Certainly before Wells, Hoyle and Wyndham.
Every time I read a book by Clarke it routinely blows my mind. Take Childhoods End for example, that is probably the best sci fi book I have read. I originally read it when I was 15 and even after many rereads I am still blown away (I find it somewhat depressing)
Same here, except I am about to be laid off... of sorts.
Since my dad got a job in some hick town in Southern Ontario without a university, I am staying in Thunder Bay and continuing to attend university. This means that when my family has computer problems down south, they must *gasp* apply some problem solving skills!.... or phone me. Whatever.
Your right, execution time cannot be defined, but if we have a strong (brain-proof) variable strength CHF whos execution time scales exponentially (or polynomially as another poster suggested) with the strength, then it will last us alot longer than MD5 has because we can just up the execution time (CPU Cycles, not hours an minutes) without going to a fundamentally different algorithm
Some truth, all cryptography has a weakness in brute force lookups. However, this is so absurdly crazy with todays CPU's, that it isn't really a weakness.
Yes, but the relative strength of a hash isn't only based upon how strong it is mathematically. For example, as far as I know RC5-64 doesn't have any mathematical weaknesses, but would you use it for your credit card details? I know that with todays CPUs it would take a very long time to crack, but that doesn't change the fact that Moores law made it an unsecure algorithm.
I know the ability to brute force an algorithm isn't a very good way of cracking it, but it shows that with the current technology it is possible to brute force it. No matter how strong your algorithm, the key size has to stay ahead of the technology
Efforts are already underway to find a collision in MD5, the fact that it is even being attempted shows that Moores law has caught up to MD5.
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Thats too bad for the Canadians I guess, half my friends work at an inbound call center to pay for thier tuition. Whats more it is called YAC, they always use the acronym cause Young America Canada doesn't make much sense
In any case, when someone asks where they are they have to reply that they are in Minnisota.
Previously they weren't requireing an ohip card so a bunch got it for free (according to my personal recollection and According to this Globe and Mail article. I guess the motive being that if they made the procedure as painless as possible more people would get it. From the article
"Ontario Health Ministry officials held a conference call with the province's 37 public health officers and instructed them to start demanding proof of Ontario residency before giving anyone the shot.
In previous years, some clinics didn't ask for identification before giving the free vaccine, said ministry spokesman Dan Strasbourg. "The purpose here is to protect the health of Ontarians.""
It kind of pisses me off that americans would try to get free flu shots like that, they don't pay taxes in Ontario, I do. Just like I don't go to the states and try to get welfare they shouldn't come here and try to get free flu shots.
Instead what happened is americans started coming across the border to get free flu shots in Canada. Previously (at least in Ontario) you weren't required to show that you were a valid resident of Ontario before rolling up your sleeve and gettin vacinated for free.
With this latest flu vacine scare many Americans have been crossing the border and getting free vaccinations. It is now required that you show proof of Ontario residency before getting your shot.
I already paid for the game. I don't want to pay for a special app to run the game.
But you will pay for windows? If the only reason you need windows is to run games, then you are better off paying 30 dollars to transgaming and using linux
Agreed, when I was buying a music player back in August I took a look at the competition and then went to an ipod. The reason? the others were either too small (I like a nice big screen), too large (I want it to fit in my pocket without pulling my pants down), or the gui blew. I can operate my ipod one handed, the click wheel is great as I can navigate without taking my thumb off of it (most of the others had tiny buttons, or stupidly designed touch sensitive things).
These ipod killers are among the worst assassins ever
As if ford explorers weren't bad enough on gas. Now instead of having to contend with rolling friction and air resistance, we have gravity and air resistance
But there's plenty of oil
Pretty unlikely since all of the PS2 games are on DVDs
Interesting, Jim Turley (whoever that is) said he watched Gimp run on windows and that they had Quake 3 runing on a Mac. These two applications are both ported to thier respective platforms, meaning this demonstration is open to hoax. Run iPhoto on windows or Nero on a mac and I would take it more seriously
Agreed, he wrote the original 8139too driver which I run on 2 out of my 3 machines
To many people nitpick over tiny details like this while blatently ignoring the bigger issues. Oh no! he doens't have a toll-free number. That doesn't change the fact that it is a horrible act, which is the point Moore was trying to make. Although I agree that Fahrenheit 9/11 only examined one side of the issue, I think that Moore is at least on the right side.
I do, when I buy a CD the first thing I do is burn a copy of it. I use the copy instead of the original. I can really do whatever I want with the copy, all of my copies are thrown (without cases) on the backseat of my car. If they only last 6 months before getting scratched beyond repair, who cares? CD-Rs are cheap. Its the original that never gets used/scratched
In my original post I said
Barring the advent of far more massive media, who, besides universities and governments would really need a 10 gigabit internet connection anyways?
You can't parallel my post with the fake Bill Gates quote because they aren't dealing with the same thing
First of all I said Barring the advent of far more massive media, so unless we suddenly have holographic movies which need to streamed over the internet. At the moment the worst real time application a home user could do to a connection would be streaming video. If we scale the quality till we hit DVD (9mbit/sec) then what? I seriously doubt that the _average_ home user requires 10 gigabit if some revolutionary bandwidth hungry technology hasn't emerged by 2010
I am not saying that more bandwidth is a bad thing. I am saying that giving copious amounts of bandwidth to the computer illiterate majority with the current design of the internet isn't the best idea.
Will someone mod the parent down, he certainly shouldn't be insightful since he has no idea what he is talking about
Maybe you should find out a bit more about WinFS before you form an opinion of it. Or maybe this is just a very good troll. Who really knows?
Getting bigger pipes to combat bigger DDOSses is not a valid solution. If a regular, run of the mill website needs a 100Tbit pipe, 1% of which is for legitimate requests, and 99% of it is to make sure the legitimate requests get through, there is a problem
Thats the problem, alot of the websites which are the targets of ddos attacks are run by one or two unpaid staff, ones which rely on donations to stay afloat. These websites cannot afford to pay Akamai or another distributed hosting company to fight the ddosses. The only ones who can are large companies.
Alot of the time, rather than face personal bankrupcy (through bandwidth) at the hands of a 14 year old with to much time on his hands, the webmasters pull the plug.
This robs the internet of a valuable voice, which even now is being replaced by the politically correct, bland, corperate websites
This has the potential to make the internet a worse place than it is today. Currently, a 56k or cable modem when it is a zombie in a 14 year olds bot army cannot do much damage alone. The "1337" 14 year old must accumulate a huge number before he can make any real difference.
With 10 gigabit, the kiddie just has to get a few bots to cause a server to die, or if they are persitant enough to accumulate a huge amount of bots, they can do huge amounts of damage to the internet
Barring the advent of far more massive media, who, besides universities and governments would really need a 10 gigabit internet connection anyways?
Your right, it is the future, as soon as prices are low enough on high capacity flash players that they can compete with the ipod
A the moment they are far to expensive to be feasable, I bought my 20 gigabyte 4g ipod for $490 (CND), a 20 gigabyte flash chip would be unacceptably expensive
Although I agree with Asimov being ranked first in the authors polls. I would have put Clarke second. Certainly before Wells, Hoyle and Wyndham.
Every time I read a book by Clarke it routinely blows my mind. Take Childhoods End for example, that is probably the best sci fi book I have read. I originally read it when I was 15 and even after many rereads I am still blown away (I find it somewhat depressing)
Same here, except I am about to be laid off ... of sorts.
.... or phone me. Whatever.
Since my dad got a job in some hick town in Southern Ontario without a university, I am staying in Thunder Bay and continuing to attend university. This means that when my family has computer problems down south, they must *gasp* apply some problem solving skills!
Nope, I read that also :)
http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf
It looks like there are collisions for MD5, MD4, HAVAL-128 and RIPEMD
I am in the process of verifying them now, but may not be able to until my lunch break (1pm EST)
Your right, execution time cannot be defined, but if we have a strong (brain-proof) variable strength CHF whos execution time scales exponentially (or polynomially as another poster suggested) with the strength, then it will last us alot longer than MD5 has because we can just up the execution time (CPU Cycles, not hours an minutes) without going to a fundamentally different algorithm
Some truth, all cryptography has a weakness in brute force lookups. However, this is so absurdly crazy with todays CPU's, that it isn't really a weakness.
Yes, but the relative strength of a hash isn't only based upon how strong it is mathematically. For example, as far as I know RC5-64 doesn't have any mathematical weaknesses, but would you use it for your credit card details? I know that with todays CPUs it would take a very long time to crack, but that doesn't change the fact that Moores law made it an unsecure algorithm.
I know the ability to brute force an algorithm isn't a very good way of cracking it, but it shows that with the current technology it is possible to brute force it. No matter how strong your algorithm, the key size has to stay ahead of the technology
Efforts are already underway to find a collision in MD5, the fact that it is even being attempted shows that Moores law has caught up to MD5.