You might get away with it. And it may get passed along a few times. But sooner or later the counterfeit bill will be discovered, probably by a bank, and it will be taken away from the unsuspecting person who thought it was real. You aren't reimbursed for a counterfeit bill that is confiscated.
LOL... I love the way the parent takes a not-so-subtle dig at P2P and you feel the need to refute it as though it was a literal argument. Go get your sarcasm detectors fixed, dude!
I was able to deduce the babel fish puzzle back when the game first came out. Once one remembers the last item the Rube Goldberg-style sequence stops at, it's not hard to figure out what part of your limited inventory to use next. But "enjoy poetry" was one thing I never figured out until I found a guide to the game.
Congratulations to anyone who figured out "kick dog" on their own.
Finding a few collisions, or even an algorithm to generate collisions doesn't change a damn thing. We've always known that there are collisions. A hash function maps in infinite input set to a finite output set. Of course there are collisions. There are an infinite number of collisions for ANY hash function. We already knew that--it's a mathematical certainty. Yet somehow we're shocked and horrified when we actually find some.
You seem to misunderstand the difference between "a hash function" and "a cryptographic hash function". Perhaps you should look it up. Tell me something I didn't already know. Then I'll be impressed.
Ignorance is not an excuse for making a dumb post.
Managing means keeping two dozen balls in the air simultaneously. It's not a glamour job. It's a sucky job. If you think your manager is overpaid, just think about that list above, realize that's only the visible portion of what your manager has to do, and then be really really glad it's not you.
I'm a manager of a large department. I didn't ask to be promoted -- it was thrust upon me. Managing is 30% more work for 10% more pay. I stick with it mostly because it looks good on a resume. The most frustrating thing is being judged based on the performance of others.
Related to this. If your uni offers storage space on their servers, USE IT! You have a free, secure, off-site storage area that's reasonably secure against unauthorized online access and very secure against unauthorized physical access. The most secure areas I've ever seen were campus server rooms.
Google already handles searches. Searches are pretty high bandwidth and they are also scriptable. Scripts don't read ads. Google allows you to use script plugins, but only under limited terms. A 3rd party gmail notifier might start adding features that would bypass gmail's web interface entirely, again avoiding the ads.
Now imagine if people start writing scripts to treat gmail as a file server. I would certainly like to have an unlimited capacity NAS box for my personal use. That would hurt them even more than the scripted searches. I'm pretty sure they want to discourage use of scripted gmail access ASAP.
Same thing goes for plane crashes. Yes, plane crashes happen, but the odds of it happening to you are so exremely remote that you can practically ignore it. Same is true for car crashes.
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Plane crashes seem to happen fairly frequently, if you ask me. If you only fly once or twice a year then it's no big deal. But look at people who travel all the time like musicians or politicians. How many of them have died in plane crashes or bus accidents?
Care crashes, on the other hand, I see all the time. I drive past one at least once a week. I know a couple of people who have been killed in car crashes. I know plenty more who have been injured in car crashes. I don't know WTF you are talking about when you say that the odds of it happening to me are "extremely remote".
The trouble with almost anything is that people look at it as a black or white issue. And it's especially true on/. because the people here tend to be very idealistic.
As to the article, my assessment is that the guy is not sticking to his thesis. Every time some/bot tries to show how open source is not "communist" (or "socialist" to use a less pejorative term), they start out talking about capitalism and after a couple of paragraphs they drop that and just go on about how OSS is good for the world or good for the economy. At some point, they will probably quote Adam Smith (as did this author).
But Adam Smith said:
"he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."
This article goes out of its way to prove that OSS is capitalist (because it shares at least one aspect with capitalism) and not communist (because it has at least one difference from communism). In fact, the cited similarity to capitalism (lack of a planned economy), is more of a similarity to anarchy (which is really what a lot of the hardc0re OSS supporters are advocating here.
I most certainly do not think that laissez-faire capitalism is the right way to go. Nor do I think that pure socialism is a good idea. But most of all, I think that all extremists are extremely misled... and the pundits on/. really have no idea how to rule the world.
Suppose your faster CPU inspires you to move from 128-bit keys to 256-bit. What happens to the guy trying to decrypt your message? He now has to work 68,056,473,384,187,692,692,674,921,486,354,000,000 times as long, even if he buys the 5x faster CPU. Ouch!
Yeah, but unfortunately he can still crack your 8 byte, 5 bit of entropy, password 4-5 times as fast.:-)
I laughed my ass off at the scene where he plays "Daddy would you like some sausage" on the piano to mock his father for (allegedly) being a child molestor.
I didn't particularly enjoy the horse masturbation scene. In fact, I think my sister walked out during that one.
I mean that last year, the Practice gradually morphed into Boston Legal. The plot lines of James Spader as a destructive force within (and fighting against) the practice were far more compelling than the preview plotlines of Boston Legal.
The fun bit is that "The Practice" has morphed into "Boston Legal", which stars James Spader, William Shatner, Rhona Mitra, and Lake Bell. Essentially the last few months of "The Practice" was a preview of "Boston Legal", so Denny Crane will be a regular character on TV in the fall.
Sure in the fall, but what's he going to do in the spring?
(Actually Shatner and Spader are pretty funny on that show, but the plot lines haven't really measured up to last season's the Practice yet.)
A valid argument. I was looking at it purely from the sense that we view Newton as a scientist only. Surely people can have many talents and have knowledge of many fields.
I could forgive a 15th century scientist who also had occult beliefs. For a 19th century scientist, it does cheapen him a bit.
Well, I don't know about others, bit I'm still unemployed since September 2003... After nearly 23 years with one organization.... to whom I was loyal and faithful...
In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't too smart to stick with the same company for 23 years. Organizations don't have loyalty to you; why should you show excessive loyalty to them? Now you are at a disadvantage because your resume doesn't show enough breadth of experience.
But that really isn't the issue. The publishers own the content, and can put up whatever barriers around that content that they want. As you have pointed out, the barriers don't necessarily have to make sense. And even when it doesn't make sense, it remains the sole prerogative of the publisher to conclude that their barriers don't make sense, or are alienating customers, or whatever, and make changes.
You're talking to the same people who will argue for hours about their own favorite open source license and their right to license their software under whatever terms they choose. But ask them to accept the terms of service for a news website and all of a sudden it is too intrusive and inconvient.
As if the term "beta" really means something to an open source project. Netscape released beta-quality software and gave it a new version number. I guess what you're saying is that Firefox should take the opposite approach... just remain at beta forever and you can lower people's expectations.
Of course anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything. I just said look at my mom, compare it to your mom and tell me which is the typical case. I think you know the answer to that; otherwise the stereotype wouldn't exist.
It is very easy to nitpick every generalization to death. While most generalizations are not 100% true, many of them are 90% true. Your mother may be a computer genius, but then again hundreds of people read my post and didn't reply, perhaps because their mother isn't.
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You might get away with it. And it may get passed along a few times. But sooner or later the counterfeit bill will be discovered, probably by a bank, and it will be taken away from the unsuspecting person who thought it was real. You aren't reimbursed for a counterfeit bill that is confiscated.
LOL... I love the way the parent takes a not-so-subtle dig at P2P and you feel the need to refute it as though it was a literal argument. Go get your sarcasm detectors fixed, dude!
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Or I am full of shite... 8-)
Yes, you are full of shite.
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I was able to deduce the babel fish puzzle back when the game first came out. Once one remembers the last item the Rube Goldberg-style sequence stops at, it's not hard to figure out what part of your limited inventory to use next. But "enjoy poetry" was one thing I never figured out until I found a guide to the game.
Congratulations to anyone who figured out "kick dog" on their own.
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Finding a few collisions, or even an algorithm to generate collisions doesn't change a damn thing. We've always known that there are collisions. A hash function maps in infinite input set to a finite output set. Of course there are collisions. There are an infinite number of collisions for ANY hash function. We already knew that--it's a mathematical certainty. Yet somehow we're shocked and horrified when we actually find some.
You seem to misunderstand the difference between "a hash function" and "a cryptographic hash function". Perhaps you should look it up.
Tell me something I didn't already know. Then I'll be impressed.
Ignorance is not an excuse for making a dumb post.
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I'm also an ordained priest and the law never cut me any slack.
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Managing means keeping two dozen balls in the air simultaneously. It's not a glamour job. It's a sucky job. If you think your manager is overpaid, just think about that list above, realize that's only the visible portion of what your manager has to do, and then be really really glad it's not you.
I'm a manager of a large department. I didn't ask to be promoted -- it was thrust upon me. Managing is 30% more work for 10% more pay. I stick with it mostly because it looks good on a resume. The most frustrating thing is being judged based on the performance of others.
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Related to this. If your uni offers storage space on their servers, USE IT! You have a free, secure, off-site storage area that's reasonably secure against unauthorized online access and very secure against unauthorized physical access. The most secure areas I've ever seen were campus server rooms.
Three words: Gmail File System.
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Ironically I posted this and then 5 minutes later I read about the gmail filesystem on the front page.
FWIW, this is the first thing I thought of when Google announced 2GB storage.
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Google already handles searches. Searches are pretty high bandwidth and they are also scriptable. Scripts don't read ads. Google allows you to use script plugins, but only under limited terms. A 3rd party gmail notifier might start adding features that would bypass gmail's web interface entirely, again avoiding the ads.
Now imagine if people start writing scripts to treat gmail as a file server. I would certainly like to have an unlimited capacity NAS box for my personal use. That would hurt them even more than the scripted searches. I'm pretty sure they want to discourage use of scripted gmail access ASAP.
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Same thing goes for plane crashes. Yes, plane crashes happen, but the odds of it happening to you are so exremely remote that you can practically ignore it. Same is true for car crashes.
???
Plane crashes seem to happen fairly frequently, if you ask me. If you only fly once or twice a year then it's no big deal. But look at people who travel all the time like musicians or politicians. How many of them have died in plane crashes or bus accidents?
Care crashes, on the other hand, I see all the time. I drive past one at least once a week. I know a couple of people who have been killed in car crashes. I know plenty more who have been injured in car crashes. I don't know WTF you are talking about when you say that the odds of it happening to me are "extremely remote".
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I'm a neophyte too
I could tell.
but my answer is that this doesn't make a hill of beans' worth of difference.
But your answer is wrong because the impact of this discovery is that it probably is possible to generate a message to collide with a given hash.
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As to the article, my assessment is that the guy is not sticking to his thesis. Every time some
But Adam Smith said:
This article goes out of its way to prove that OSS is capitalist (because it shares at least one aspect with capitalism) and not communist (because it has at least one difference from communism). In fact, the cited similarity to capitalism (lack of a planned economy), is more of a similarity to anarchy (which is really what a lot of the hardc0re OSS supporters are advocating here.
I most certainly do not think that laissez-faire capitalism is the right way to go. Nor do I think that pure socialism is a good idea. But most of all, I think that all extremists are extremely misled... and the pundits on
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Suppose your faster CPU inspires you to move from 128-bit keys to 256-bit. What happens to the guy trying to decrypt your message? He now has to work 68,056,473,384,187,692,692,674,921,486,354,000,000 times as long, even if he buys the 5x faster CPU. Ouch!
:-)
Yeah, but unfortunately he can still crack your 8 byte, 5 bit of entropy, password 4-5 times as fast.
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I laughed my ass off at the scene where he plays "Daddy would you like some sausage" on the piano to mock his father for (allegedly) being a child molestor.
I didn't particularly enjoy the horse masturbation scene. In fact, I think my sister walked out during that one.
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The movie was pretty revolting and mostly bad. But I did quite like the ending.
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"Mars Needs Women" is also gut-wrenchingly bad.
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It has to be said... "There is no gene for the human spirit!"
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Where are you getting the plot lines?
I mean that last year, the Practice gradually morphed into Boston Legal. The plot lines of James Spader as a destructive force within (and fighting against) the practice were far more compelling than the preview plotlines of Boston Legal.
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The fun bit is that "The Practice" has morphed into "Boston Legal", which stars James Spader, William Shatner, Rhona Mitra, and Lake Bell. Essentially the last few months of "The Practice" was a preview of "Boston Legal", so Denny Crane will be a regular character on TV in the fall.
Sure in the fall, but what's he going to do in the spring?
(Actually Shatner and Spader are pretty funny on that show, but the plot lines haven't really measured up to last season's the Practice yet.)
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A valid argument. I was looking at it purely from the sense that we view Newton as a scientist only. Surely people can have many talents and have knowledge of many fields.
I could forgive a 15th century scientist who also had occult beliefs. For a 19th century scientist, it does cheapen him a bit.
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Well, I don't know about others, bit I'm still unemployed since September 2003 ... .... to whom I was loyal and faithful ...
After nearly 23 years with one organization
In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't too smart to stick with the same company for 23 years. Organizations don't have loyalty to you; why should you show excessive loyalty to them? Now you are at a disadvantage because your resume doesn't show enough breadth of experience.
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But that really isn't the issue. The publishers own the content, and can put up whatever barriers around that content that they want. As you have pointed out, the barriers don't necessarily have to make sense. And even when it doesn't make sense, it remains the sole prerogative of the publisher to conclude that their barriers don't make sense, or are alienating customers, or whatever, and make changes.
You're talking to the same people who will argue for hours about their own favorite open source license and their right to license their software under whatever terms they choose. But ask them to accept the terms of service for a news website and all of a sudden it is too intrusive and inconvient.
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Hi, welcome to Firefox beta .93
As if the term "beta" really means something to an open source project. Netscape released beta-quality software and gave it a new version number. I guess what you're saying is that Firefox should take the opposite approach... just remain at beta forever and you can lower people's expectations.
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Of course anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything. I just said look at my mom, compare it to your mom and tell me which is the typical case. I think you know the answer to that; otherwise the stereotype wouldn't exist.
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It is very easy to nitpick every generalization to death. While most generalizations are not 100% true, many of them are 90% true. Your mother may be a computer genius, but then again hundreds of people read my post and didn't reply, perhaps because their mother isn't.
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