I can't imagine it would require more "time, effort and resources" to not block the twenty most pirated product IDs (apart from perhaps some extra bandwidth costs for the service pack downloads), not to mention the disservice to other computers users (as other posters have commented on a length).
This is not about Microsoft "doing what's best for business" (since it's not like the pirates are going to go out buy windows as soon as they find they cannot install SP2), it's about Microsoft arrogantly coming down on pirates (in a totally impotent fashion) to the detriment of anyone who uses the internet.
I'm curious. What advantage is there to knowing someone's PIN, if you don't have their card? People seem pretty worried about getting their PIN stolen, but it's not likely that the person who has managed to steal your PIN (via keylogger, or mini-camera, or whatever) would be able to get a hold of your card as well.
I mean, why does anyone care?
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Wait...I think I might have figured out your problem. Have your recent search strings been similar to "penis enlargement" or "free Nigerian money"?
Actually, most Brits I know understand that they are massively ripped off as a country, with respect to almost every commodity.
This feeling is unavoidably amplified if they've spent any time abroad.
As a result, Brits who are in somewhat uncomfortable financial cirumstances (e.g. students) spend little money on things like CDs and games, because they simply can't afford it.
Redhat failed to profit off the desktop market, decided to quit supporting their desktop version, and now, purely by coincidence, decide to announce that linux "isn't ready" for the home desktop market. We have a company that has been unsuccessful in a certain area, and who is now blaming its lack of success on the product. I just find it disappointing that they had to tear down linux (and all the other companies who market linux to the home desktop) with them.
Ummm...this is the DoD, after all. I mean, it's not like they've traditionally had a lot of respect for "sovereign territory." I doubt they'd have too much trouble securing permission from the appropriate authorities.
Perhaps "great truths" don't need reinforcement, but very often ethical or philosophical arguments do. Most people simply do not have the time or luxury of being able to think about and remember all the details of a sophisticated argument, particularly when is is not cut-and-dry. I certainly find myself continuing to read a number of political websites, despite the fact that I largely agree with the viewpoints expressed there, not to be told what to believe, but to remember why it is I feel the way I do.
People seem to often forget the why in many of their struggles. The world is not so simple as to yield all truths being "self-evident" as you claim.
Actually, a much more simple (and efficient) way of converting the energy of the sun into food is to not produce plants to feed the animals, but to eat the plants ourselves.
Given the same area of land, many more people can be fed by using it for growing crops rather than for raising animals. I'm all for harvesting energy from "this little ball of gas in the sky," but raising animals is certainly not a particularly efficient way of doing it.
Yes, they did. RTFA:
"We have used the data collected to draw Figure 1 in order to compute the upper and lower bound of our decision interval and complexity value C for a given success probability for both brute force and dictionnary attacks. These values can be seen in the tables below where p represents the probability of success of the attack and C is the complexity i.e. the number of sessions needed to perform the attack."
The dictionary attack is listed as c = 166 when p = 0.5, and a 256 character alphabet is listed as c = 4239 with the same p.
Therefore, a brute force attack took approximately 4239/166 = 25.54 as many attempts, and therefore that number of times as long.
I would note that the one hour figure is for a dictionary attack, implying that the password was, in short, a bad one (not many universities/corporations would even allow a normal word as a password for one of their accounts). If a brute force method is used on a 256 character set, the time required is about 26 times as long (26 times greater complexity). Still a major hole, but more than a day is quite different from an hour.
I wouldn't break your pom poms for government out quite yet. Essentially, when laws that hurt the masses get rejected, it's because they hurt the elites as well. The reason this one got killed is because the people who make laws would have been hit hard too. They have as much to lose as we do when it comes to privacy. When laws that benefit politicians start getting turned down (e.g. they kill the DMCA despite risking a loss of RIAA donation money), then perhaps we can celebrate.
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ThinkGeek has a nice one here, though it's a little on the pricey side.
I can't imagine it would require more "time, effort and resources" to not block the twenty most pirated product IDs (apart from perhaps some extra bandwidth costs for the service pack downloads), not to mention the disservice to other computers users (as other posters have commented on a length).
This is not about Microsoft "doing what's best for business" (since it's not like the pirates are going to go out buy windows as soon as they find they cannot install SP2), it's about Microsoft arrogantly coming down on pirates (in a totally impotent fashion) to the detriment of anyone who uses the internet.
Paypal does have a habit of scamming its customers. Attrition.org has a good article about one person's experience here.
I'm curious. What advantage is there to knowing someone's PIN, if you don't have their card? People seem pretty worried about getting their PIN stolen, but it's not likely that the person who has managed to steal your PIN (via keylogger, or mini-camera, or whatever) would be able to get a hold of your card as well.
I mean, why does anyone care?
Wait...I think I might have figured out your problem. Have your recent search strings been similar to "penis enlargement" or "free Nigerian money"?
I think that this study, coupled with some other recent research, pretty much conclusively proves that I will live forever.
Actually, most Brits I know understand that they are massively ripped off as a country, with respect to almost every commodity.
This feeling is unavoidably amplified if they've spent any time abroad.
As a result, Brits who are in somewhat uncomfortable financial cirumstances (e.g. students) spend little money on things like CDs and games, because they simply can't afford it.
--from an American studying in Britain
This is the first time google has heard about it as well, apparently.
Redhat failed to profit off the desktop market, decided to quit supporting their desktop version, and now, purely by coincidence, decide to announce that linux "isn't ready" for the home desktop market. We have a company that has been unsuccessful in a certain area, and who is now blaming its lack of success on the product. I just find it disappointing that they had to tear down linux (and all the other companies who market linux to the home desktop) with them.
Ummm...this is the DoD, after all. I mean, it's not like they've traditionally had a lot of respect for "sovereign territory." I doubt they'd have too much trouble securing permission from the appropriate authorities.
Perhaps "great truths" don't need reinforcement, but very often ethical or philosophical arguments do. Most people simply do not have the time or luxury of being able to think about and remember all the details of a sophisticated argument, particularly when is is not cut-and-dry. I certainly find myself continuing to read a number of political websites, despite the fact that I largely agree with the viewpoints expressed there, not to be told what to believe, but to remember why it is I feel the way I do.
People seem to often forget the why in many of their struggles. The world is not so simple as to yield all truths being "self-evident" as you claim.
Actually, a much more simple (and efficient) way of converting the energy of the sun into food is to not produce plants to feed the animals, but to eat the plants ourselves.
Given the same area of land, many more people can be fed by using it for growing crops rather than for raising animals. I'm all for harvesting energy from "this little ball of gas in the sky," but raising animals is certainly not a particularly efficient way of doing it.
Yes, they did. RTFA: "We have used the data collected to draw Figure 1 in order to compute the upper and lower bound of our decision interval and complexity value C for a given success probability for both brute force and dictionnary attacks. These values can be seen in the tables below where p represents the probability of success of the attack and C is the complexity i.e. the number of sessions needed to perform the attack." The dictionary attack is listed as c = 166 when p = 0.5, and a 256 character alphabet is listed as c = 4239 with the same p. Therefore, a brute force attack took approximately 4239/166 = 25.54 as many attempts, and therefore that number of times as long.
I would note that the one hour figure is for a dictionary attack, implying that the password was, in short, a bad one (not many universities/corporations would even allow a normal word as a password for one of their accounts). If a brute force method is used on a 256 character set, the time required is about 26 times as long (26 times greater complexity). Still a major hole, but more than a day is quite different from an hour.
I wouldn't break your pom poms for government out quite yet. Essentially, when laws that hurt the masses get rejected, it's because they hurt the elites as well. The reason this one got killed is because the people who make laws would have been hit hard too. They have as much to lose as we do when it comes to privacy. When laws that benefit politicians start getting turned down (e.g. they kill the DMCA despite risking a loss of RIAA donation money), then perhaps we can celebrate.