The monty hall problem is a great one... you can play it here.
Oh, and by the way, you should always switch.:)
Here's another one I like, but in a differetn (physics) vein - a man is in a boat holding a cement block. He throws it overboard. Does the lake level go up, go down, or stay the same?
Wow, now I know why all the slashdot hordes can't keep "loose" and "lose" straight - they get it straight from Linus "I'm sorry, but you loose" Torvalds! Of course, he has the benefit of not being a native english speaker...:)
But does anyone know what the deal is with the 802.11 PRISMII chipsets? The linux-wlan (http://www.linux-wlan.com/) project supports it, but no ad-hoc mode so far.
While browsing around source code, I see that the wvlan_cs module out of the latest pcmcia-cs package, originally designed to work with the Lucent cards, supports the PrismII chipsets as well, at least nominally. And in any case, it supports ad-hoc where the linux-wlan does not.
So what's the deal? 2 different drivers supporting the same card, I guess? Will prismII support continue in wvlan_cs? I'm so confused.:)
> In theory, yes, but if you'd read the article, that's not what they're doing.
I read the article and I understand that that's not what they're doing. You made an assumption about what I meant...
I meant, can you make a string of bits that will always yield the exact same md5sum as if you had operated on aim.exe in the same way that the challenge does i.e. work on any substring.
I know, probably not. But I guess I'm looking for mathematical proof.:)
It is conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to produce two messages having the same message digest [output], or to produce any message having a given prespecified target message digest.
Hm... computationally infeasable... perhaps it's time for a new distributed.net contest?:)
Maybe this is a dumb question, and I assume that the whole POINT of md5sum is to verify _exactly_ the bits you have... but on the off chance that binary:md5sum is not a one to one, unique mapping, could you come up with a meg or so of bits that will always yield the exact same md5sum as if you had operated on aim.exe?
At first glance, that's a pretty dumb question, I suppose... but I was thinking that doing an md5sum is used to detect random errors - so maybe it's possible to carefully craft a string of bits that md5sums just like another, different string of bits?
But I think it looks pretty cool. It has a touchscreen, serial, USB, built in sound... hm, I was thinking it had pcmcia for wireless... still, for $99 I could think of something to do with it. if somebody comes up w/ it for $99.:)
Ok, I have _no_ basis for saying this, but it really sounds like a hoax. That's just crazy-expensive... After a year or so of flying hundreds of jets around every day, wouldn't a satellite be a bit cheaper?
In a mournful farewell computer message to 42 "dear friends" and relatives, Mr Bush said: "My lawyers tell me all correspondence by email is subject to open record requests. Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you."
With that, Mr Bush announced "sadly I sign off", adding: "I will miss your ideas and encouragement. So perhaps we will talk by phone."
Now... obviously he didn't write that. If it had said
"My legalistic team tell me, email, and, all correspondence by email is subjectinated to open record askinations. Since I do not want my private talking-tos seen at by people, and, enemies, and such, out to embarrass, the only path of action is not to correlate in cyberspace. This unhappies me. I have enjoy conversating with each all of you."
With that, Mr Bush announced "sadly I type off", adding: "I will miss your ideas, entourages, and budget plans. So mebbe we will talk by that thing with the two speakers with the calculator buttons."
Bull. freesoftware.com and all the other mirrors will always have "free updates" for Red Hat. It's just that you might have to click 4 times instead of once. And if you've seen Helix^wXimian's "Red Carpet" software, it just might end up working better than up2date.
And isn't up2date source code available? Run your own up2date server if it's that important...
Granted, it only can travel as far as the cord, and the electric car might be easier on the road... but these electric vehicles are pretty cool, too.:)
Matra datavision open-sourced their cad components quite some time ago - take a look at www.opencascade.org. I can't quite figure out if you can DO anything with it yet, though...
First, for crying out loud - you can get 30 gig hard drives for $99.:-)
But have you tried cramfs? It works pretty well for systems that are relatively static - I don't think you can use it on/home, for example. It's funky in that you create the filesystem _with_ the data all at once. This is what I'm using on my iopener... to avoid having to resize partitions whenever I want to add new stuff to the cramfs filesystem, I'm just taking the cramfs filesystem image and mounting it on loopback...
...well, as soon as the loopback bug gets fixed.:)
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rtsp://a488.r.akareal.net/ondemand/7/488/400/v0
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Oh, and by the way, you should always switch.
Here's another one I like, but in a differetn (physics) vein - a man is in a boat holding a cement block. He throws it overboard. Does the lake level go up, go down, or stay the same?
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There's nothing fascist about that.
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While browsing around source code, I see that the wvlan_cs module out of the latest pcmcia-cs package, originally designed to work with the Lucent cards, supports the PrismII chipsets as well, at least nominally. And in any case, it supports ad-hoc where the linux-wlan does not.
So what's the deal? 2 different drivers supporting the same card, I guess? Will prismII support continue in wvlan_cs? I'm so confused.
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I read the article and I understand that that's not what they're doing. You made an assumption about what I meant...
I meant, can you make a string of bits that will always yield the exact same md5sum as if you had operated on aim.exe in the same way that the challenge does i.e. work on any substring.
I know, probably not. But I guess I'm looking for mathematical proof.
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At first glance, that's a pretty dumb question, I suppose... but I was thinking that doing an md5sum is used to detect random errors - so maybe it's possible to carefully craft a string of bits that md5sums just like another, different string of bits?
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Audrey is no great communicator
But I think it looks pretty cool. It has a touchscreen, serial, USB, built in sound... hm, I was thinking it had pcmcia for wireless... still, for $99 I could think of something to do with it. if somebody comes up w/ it for $99.
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Now... obviously he didn't write that. If it had said
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Bull. freesoftware.com and all the other mirrors will always have "free updates" for Red Hat. It's just that you might have to click 4 times instead of once. And if you've seen Helix^wXimian's "Red Carpet" software, it just might end up working better than up2date.
And isn't up2date source code available? Run your own up2date server if it's that important...
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The NSA sure stays busy, what with putting backdoors in Windows and securing Linux.
Next thing you know we'll have a Congressional panel on why the NSA is being so... um... un-American.
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They won't. 7.1 features are pretty much frozen at this point AFAIK.
But please do write to them and ask for it in their next release.
Also, there will be an unsupported XFS-root installer available from SGI that works with the RH 7.1 release, like there was for RH 7.0.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=cramfs
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Try O'Reilly.
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But have you tried cramfs? It works pretty well for systems that are relatively static - I don't think you can use it on
...well, as soon as the loopback bug gets fixed.
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