"For a lot of things it is more important that you can use the password to establish a secure channel than it is to store the password as a hash."
Do you have any idea of what you are sying? If you do, please explain, because it doesn't make any sense. From what I've got, passowrds are used for authentication, for channel security we have cryptography, and a hash can authenticate a password quite well, thank you.
The hackers are not right. But you must admit that if Sonny didn't do some evil things, those hackers would be trying to invade other companies, and Sonny would be spared (of at least most of them).
"If you can explain (from memory) how engine timing works"
There is a computer in there that sends the signals at the pre-programmed times. Or do you want to know how the times are calculated? Well, it is a cycle of fill the piston with air, fuel, making ignition, and empting it of escaping gases, but the exact timing is a complex consequence of the characteristics of the motor. They used to be empirical, but nowadays they are for some part empirical, and for some part optimized in a computer simulation, anyway, the mechanical engineer never knew on his head how the timing comes to be, so I guess your bar is a bit too hight.
"if you can explain (from memory) the correct way to hang an exterior window"
Depends on the model. Well, I guess you are from the US and use houses made of wood, no idea how to build a window on a house made of wood. On a brick house you keep the hole open by putting some wood at its top (a bit of concrete there may help or not, depending on the window), and then fix the window with concrete and a bit of steel. If you are feeling poor, you can put some bricks in it. While the concrete dries the window must be supported by wood.
"if you can explain (from memory) how hyperthreading works"
Hyperthreading is a marketing driven technology, where a scalar processor (or core) has two fetchers and use them to simulate a superscalar one, then the two fetchers resolve concurrency problems, so 90% of the time one of them is waiting for a clock cycle to pass so it can execute its instruction, the exception being the cycles you parse a slow instruction, like a memory or floating point operation. Marginaly usefull on badly designed instruction sets, like the x86, because slow intructions are way more common in them.
Now, may I complain? Somehow people can know if the instructions they give their cars will destroy them, but they don't know that the instructions they give their computers will infect them. Please explain why without being an elitist bellyaching.
"You probably don't know how to crack-start a car, do you?"
"The problem is, as geeks, we like to see the bones of the system exposed. We like the freedom to tinker and create and fix."
You treat those as if exposing the bones of something made that thing less convenient, when nearly on every case it is the other way around. Let me repeat a bit: "We like the freedom to tinker and create and fix." that is so because a system that actualy works is more convenient than one that doesn't. We seek convenience on all our choices, we expect to fix a system that isn't working, instead of having to reinstall everything or, the bigest inconvenience possible, losing data; we want our software to not authomaticaly destroy our work just because it guesses we'd want to, we want to be able to use the best tools for a job, and we want our browser to not hiding from us what it is doing, so we can know if it is safe.
As somebody already pointed, you are negleting the speed. Other thing that you are negleting is that the fuel need increases exponentialy with the energy needs, and the energy needs are comprised of speed diferential, height diferential (in a gravity field), and aerodynamic loses. Those 10 to 20 kilometers are where neraly all the aerodynamic loses are, and don't forget, it is an exponential increase.
As far as I know, Einstein added the cosmological constant because the equations he was solving hod true for any value of it. Then he choosed some value different from zero because he wanted to make the universe static.
No, one element can't be either a conductor, a semiconductor, or an insulator. What does have those properties are solids (ok, you can extrapolate them to molecules). Those properties come from the interactions between the atoms.
Graphene is a conductor, and a quite good one. I don't know how it compares to silver, but nothing else compares with it. Graphite is a semiconductor, a quite interesting one, much more complex than silicon for example, and diamond is an insulator.
Except that the GUIs were already named as windows (like X-windows, but this one came later, I don't remember the name of the Xerox prototype), by that time, because of those elements.
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They are made of electrons. Exactly one of them for each.
Those are some quite massive electrons you have around. Can you lend me a few for my cold fusion machine?
You know, there is a class of software were YOU have control of what feature goes in or out of.
(And that isn't a Soviet Russia joke, altought "In Soviet Russia your software controls YOU!" is quite interesting.)
Do you have any idea of what you are sying? If you do, please explain, because it doesn't make any sense. From what I've got, passowrds are used for authentication, for channel security we have cryptography, and a hash can authenticate a password quite well, thank you.
Not realy an easy target, but an interesting one. There are probably other targets that are easier.
Now, the part about they being a bunch of criminals, that is right. Both sides are, just the consumers are not, and those are the most hurt.
The hackers are not right. But you must admit that if Sonny didn't do some evil things, those hackers would be trying to invade other companies, and Sonny would be spared (of at least most of them).
There is a computer in there that sends the signals at the pre-programmed times. Or do you want to know how the times are calculated? Well, it is a cycle of fill the piston with air, fuel, making ignition, and empting it of escaping gases, but the exact timing is a complex consequence of the characteristics of the motor. They used to be empirical, but nowadays they are for some part empirical, and for some part optimized in a computer simulation, anyway, the mechanical engineer never knew on his head how the timing comes to be, so I guess your bar is a bit too hight.
Depends on the model. Well, I guess you are from the US and use houses made of wood, no idea how to build a window on a house made of wood. On a brick house you keep the hole open by putting some wood at its top (a bit of concrete there may help or not, depending on the window), and then fix the window with concrete and a bit of steel. If you are feeling poor, you can put some bricks in it. While the concrete dries the window must be supported by wood.
Hyperthreading is a marketing driven technology, where a scalar processor (or core) has two fetchers and use them to simulate a superscalar one, then the two fetchers resolve concurrency problems, so 90% of the time one of them is waiting for a clock cycle to pass so it can execute its instruction, the exception being the cycles you parse a slow instruction, like a memory or floating point operation. Marginaly usefull on badly designed instruction sets, like the x86, because slow intructions are way more common in them.
Now, may I complain? Somehow people can know if the instructions they give their cars will destroy them, but they don't know that the instructions they give their computers will infect them. Please explain why without being an elitist bellyaching.
Yep, one more year taking away everything FF has that Chrome doesn't and people may stop bothering with FF.
You treat those as if exposing the bones of something made that thing less convenient, when nearly on every case it is the other way around. Let me repeat a bit: "We like the freedom to tinker and create and fix." that is so because a system that actualy works is more convenient than one that doesn't. We seek convenience on all our choices, we expect to fix a system that isn't working, instead of having to reinstall everything or, the bigest inconvenience possible, losing data; we want our software to not authomaticaly destroy our work just because it guesses we'd want to, we want to be able to use the best tools for a job, and we want our browser to not hiding from us what it is doing, so we can know if it is safe.
Yeah, you just allow politicians to buy the votes they need, and you solve your security problems.
As somebody already pointed, you are negleting the speed. Other thing that you are negleting is that the fuel need increases exponentialy with the energy needs, and the energy needs are comprised of speed diferential, height diferential (in a gravity field), and aerodynamic loses. Those 10 to 20 kilometers are where neraly all the aerodynamic loses are, and don't forget, it is an exponential increase.
It is not dying, it just reached IPO time.
Well... Wear a dust mask.
1 - Dark energy is the name of whatever causes the universe to expand.
2 - A team of researches confirm that the universe is expanding.
1 & 2 -> A team of researches confirm that dark energy (whatever it is) exist.
As far as I know, Einstein added the cosmological constant because the equations he was solving hod true for any value of it. Then he choosed some value different from zero because he wanted to make the universe static.
That may be the reason it goes off the charts. Calibrating it for dark matter will make it quite wrong for detecting dark energy.
Oh, ok, the two counters (color and paragraph) carried me away :)
Shouldn't post at /. late at night. Or maybe I should, funny things could happen.
The nice thing about carbon based conductors is that you can create MOSFETs out of them just like you do with silicon.
Or 6. Some people are quite pessimist about mankind.
No, one element can't be either a conductor, a semiconductor, or an insulator. What does have those properties are solids (ok, you can extrapolate them to molecules). Those properties come from the interactions between the atoms.
Graphene is a conductor, and a quite good one. I don't know how it compares to silver, but nothing else compares with it. Graphite is a semiconductor, a quite interesting one, much more complex than silicon for example, and diamond is an insulator.
Except that the GUIs were already named as windows (like X-windows, but this one came later, I don't remember the name of the Xerox prototype), by that time, because of those elements.
How not so? What do you call those rectangular shaped floating things where the programs run?
Well, Microsoft paid quite a big sum for Lindows to settle.
Yep, I'd recommend you get one of the CO2 aerosols, that are quite cheaper, as effective and commonly sold today.
What?! How would you expect to get free chlorine at the (upper levels of) atmosphere from salt?