The hackers didn’t break into the Amazon servers, the person said. Rather, they signed up for the service just as a legitimate company would, using fake information.
And to think that by providing accurate information, I've been doing things wrong all this time.
One issue I see with this is that the average person is going to tune into a section of a criminal trial, hear the prosecution's side of things and tune out, having made up their mind that So-and-so is a criminal. Then they'll start talking about it among their friends, some of whom might blog or tweet about it, and before you know it the person is presumed guilty in the public eye. All that before the defense can cross-examine the first witness. When you're limited to being there in person, there's a barrier to entry that tends to weed out the casual gossiper whose only interest is the soap opera nature of a trial.
Much like how the internet used to be a place where civilized academics and corporate citizens would be able to communicate together, share ideas, and so on. Anyone who wanted to get on the internet had a natural barrier they had to go through -- attend a university, get a job at a connected company, etc. Then the floodgates opened and any yahoo could get online. Now the "lol, fag" level of communication is expected rather than something that trolls did 20 years ago only for the shock value.
Besides which, this isn't really an open court in that it's a one-way communication tool. A true open court should be two-way. Let's have a jury of a few million people who can Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down to decide the innocence or guilt of an accused.
Call every data recovery company you can find and ask them the following: "I have a hard drive which was zeroed out, with one pass, accidentally. Can you recover the data for me?"
You will not find a single "yes" answer. It's impossible. It's a myth, or a theoretical attack.
If the hard drive had any bad sectors which were automatically reallocated from the pool of spare sectors, your "accidental" zeroing of the sectors would not have cleared those. Therefore, there is the potential for some data recovery even if it's only a few kilobytes at a time. Additionally, it's impossible to visually tell the difference between a drive with all data intact and a drive that had been zeroed out. Shredding the drive removes all doubt as to its status.
Is this study funded by pharmaceutical companies ?
It must be. When NASA astronauts have a headache, they are prescribed paracetamol which cost millions of dollars to develop. Russian cosmonauts, when faced with the same problem, use a pencil.
It's like starting up a site called HunterHunt. Not the site owner's fault that 99% of hunters on that site hunt humans you don't like in exchange for a few thousand in cash.
And I am missing the comments that came up on the Apple Store, that 30% of the retail price is robbing developers.
Apple barely makes anything for those 99 cent apps though. They only get 30 cents and they're probably paying credit card fees of 3% plus 25 cents per transaction. That's 28 cents getting eaten up by credit card fees, leaving them a 2 cent profit. No doubt Apple has a better discount rate and lower transaction fees, but that's still not a lot of money. They only start making money when the price climbs above the $1 mark.
Even if your app is $50, the 30% is completely worth it for the exposure you get from their marketplace. Imagine if Apple didn't have a centralized marketplace and you had to market and promote your app independently? Would you pay 30% of sales if someone handled all that marketing and distribution for you in exchange for orders of magnitude greater exposure? It's a no-brainer.
Using standard crypto naming, Alice and Bob are having the conversation and Eve the eavesdropper is trying to intercept the message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
And GeoHot was never granted the right to copy the root key.
The private key was mathematically derived based on the public key and the information contained in signed executables. No private key was copied because it was never published anywhere by Sony. Do you need to be granted rights to solve mathematical equations?
Fair comment. I live in the Bible-Belt of the U.S. so my view is probably somewhat skewed. Here, any supposed "Christian" only gets to be a card-carrying member if they hate gays, blacks and anyone even slightly left.
So in the bible belt guys have to dress to the right?
You did not have to install the firmware that removed the OtherOS feature if Linux support was that important to you. Granted, if you did not you would no longer be able to access the PS Network, but that is a service you do not own anyway.
It also means that games released after the firmware update which require at least that version of firmware will not work at all. So it's either have a limited selection of PS3 games to play or cripple your PS3. A Hobson's choice... neither option is desirable.
And how are those cloud-relevant, please? I can only read 'network' and 'multi-player' in there.
In this case, "cloud" is being used as a marketing term as it doesn't really hold up to NIST's definition of what cloud computing is... though with the five essentially characteristics, you could shoehorn "cloud gaming" into loosely meeting those characteristics.
The personal appeal didn't bug me But that "I'm too cool to shave" look did. If you want money, maybe get a better picture that doesn't scare people away. Maybe getting a good photographer is hard when you don't have any donations?
The best laugh I've had this week is in the linked article: seeing Jimbo's smug face right above the article for Coprophagia. It wasn't until I clicked that I learned coprophagia means to eat shit. Now I really don't want to know about this "urgent personal appeal" from Jimbo.
Because it's a phone forwarding app, not a VOIP app. It would do nothing without an active phone connection.
I don't think that's the reason. It's not as if people who have an iPod touch lack some other kind of phone access. If I wrote an app which allowed people to make updates to their web site, would it get rejected because iOS devices aren't web servers?
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And a check is something one uses to pay the check at a restaurant?
Here's how the #1 most livable city in the world does it:
http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/parking/paybyphone.htm
The hackers didn’t break into the Amazon servers, the person said. Rather, they signed up for the service just as a legitimate company would, using fake information.
And to think that by providing accurate information, I've been doing things wrong all this time.
One issue I see with this is that the average person is going to tune into a section of a criminal trial, hear the prosecution's side of things and tune out, having made up their mind that So-and-so is a criminal. Then they'll start talking about it among their friends, some of whom might blog or tweet about it, and before you know it the person is presumed guilty in the public eye. All that before the defense can cross-examine the first witness. When you're limited to being there in person, there's a barrier to entry that tends to weed out the casual gossiper whose only interest is the soap opera nature of a trial.
Much like how the internet used to be a place where civilized academics and corporate citizens would be able to communicate together, share ideas, and so on. Anyone who wanted to get on the internet had a natural barrier they had to go through -- attend a university, get a job at a connected company, etc. Then the floodgates opened and any yahoo could get online. Now the "lol, fag" level of communication is expected rather than something that trolls did 20 years ago only for the shock value.
Besides which, this isn't really an open court in that it's a one-way communication tool. A true open court should be two-way. Let's have a jury of a few million people who can Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down to decide the innocence or guilt of an accused.
But if this were PHP, "6" == 6.
Call every data recovery company you can find and ask them the following: "I have a hard drive which was zeroed out, with one pass, accidentally. Can you recover the data for me?"
You will not find a single "yes" answer. It's impossible. It's a myth, or a theoretical attack.
If the hard drive had any bad sectors which were automatically reallocated from the pool of spare sectors, your "accidental" zeroing of the sectors would not have cleared those. Therefore, there is the potential for some data recovery even if it's only a few kilobytes at a time. Additionally, it's impossible to visually tell the difference between a drive with all data intact and a drive that had been zeroed out. Shredding the drive removes all doubt as to its status.
Is this study funded by pharmaceutical companies ?
It must be. When NASA astronauts have a headache, they are prescribed paracetamol which cost millions of dollars to develop. Russian cosmonauts, when faced with the same problem, use a pencil.
Wouldn't it be amazing if the military developed the means to communicate information to its members?
It's like starting up a site called HunterHunt. Not the site owner's fault that 99% of hunters on that site hunt humans you don't like in exchange for a few thousand in cash.
You can easily do this in an S corp....in fact that's why most people set them up.
To inhale helium?
Don't mind him... he just sounds funny from inhaling a bunch of helum.
And I am missing the comments that came up on the Apple Store, that 30% of the retail price is robbing developers.
Apple barely makes anything for those 99 cent apps though. They only get 30 cents and they're probably paying credit card fees of 3% plus 25 cents per transaction. That's 28 cents getting eaten up by credit card fees, leaving them a 2 cent profit. No doubt Apple has a better discount rate and lower transaction fees, but that's still not a lot of money. They only start making money when the price climbs above the $1 mark.
Even if your app is $50, the 30% is completely worth it for the exposure you get from their marketplace. Imagine if Apple didn't have a centralized marketplace and you had to market and promote your app independently? Would you pay 30% of sales if someone handled all that marketing and distribution for you in exchange for orders of magnitude greater exposure? It's a no-brainer.
Yeah, and if they actually did that you would simply buy as many copies for yourself as you possibly could and pocket the free money.
Using standard crypto naming, Alice and Bob are having the conversation and Eve the eavesdropper is trying to intercept the message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
And GeoHot was never granted the right to copy the root key.
The private key was mathematically derived based on the public key and the information contained in signed executables. No private key was copied because it was never published anywhere by Sony. Do you need to be granted rights to solve mathematical equations?
Fair comment. I live in the Bible-Belt of the U.S. so my view is probably somewhat skewed. Here, any supposed "Christian" only gets to be a card-carrying member if they hate gays, blacks and anyone even slightly left.
So in the bible belt guys have to dress to the right?
Riiiight! I'm so not following that link! Are the trolls not even trying to hide their goatse links anymore?
You've been Rick Holed!
I see you got modded +5 Insightful. How does it feel to have your worth validated with a numerical score?
You did not have to install the firmware that removed the OtherOS feature if Linux support was that important to you. Granted, if you did not you would no longer be able to access the PS Network, but that is a service you do not own anyway.
It also means that games released after the firmware update which require at least that version of firmware will not work at all. So it's either have a limited selection of PS3 games to play or cripple your PS3. A Hobson's choice... neither option is desirable.
And how are those cloud-relevant, please? I can only read 'network' and 'multi-player' in there.
In this case, "cloud" is being used as a marketing term as it doesn't really hold up to NIST's definition of what cloud computing is... though with the five essentially characteristics, you could shoehorn "cloud gaming" into loosely meeting those characteristics.
The personal appeal didn't bug me But that "I'm too cool to shave" look did. If you want money, maybe get a better picture that doesn't scare people away. Maybe getting a good photographer is hard when you don't have any donations?
The best laugh I've had this week is in the linked article: seeing Jimbo's smug face right above the article for Coprophagia. It wasn't until I clicked that I learned coprophagia means to eat shit. Now I really don't want to know about this "urgent personal appeal" from Jimbo.
Hashed passwords provide a degree of protection, so long as you salt the hash, and store a different salt for each password (for maximum protection).
Any programmer that doesn't understand salts, hashing, and encrypting should not bother making software that handles logins, period.
Unless you were intending to be ironic, salted hashes (even with per-user salts) do not offer maximum protection. Use bcrypt instead: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
See this thread for additional discussion behind it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091104
didn't know sweden is a state of US of A. Thanks for correcting my misinformation.
You should call up the Department of State and inform them that they forgot to mention which US state they're referring to.
I've found it amusing how much French there is in the military shibboleth/jargon. No one bothered renaming defilade as "freedom cover".
So should we rename surrender to "freedom switching"?
Because it's a phone forwarding app, not a VOIP app. It would do nothing without an active phone connection.
I don't think that's the reason. It's not as if people who have an iPod touch lack some other kind of phone access. If I wrote an app which allowed people to make updates to their web site, would it get rejected because iOS devices aren't web servers?