For those who may not understand all LCD images are polarized. Try turning your head sideways with polarizing sunglasses on while looking at a conventional LCD display (from a gas pump to your radio to the TV).
Public key and regular symmetric block ciphers differ completely in usage and attack.
Public key crypto is typically used to hide a random session key for a symmetric block cipher which is then used for the rest of the "conversation".
That is to say, your bank transactions are being encrypted with some block cipher like 3DES or AES whose random session keys are exchanged privately between your computer and the bank using public key crypto.
If your bank's public key were broken (this story), anyone could get the session keys by evesdropping on your initial connection to the bank. If the block cipher were broken, anyone could grab your data no matter the security of the public key.
The whole point of this story is that the math behind public keys can be broken after this amount of computation, given a 768 bit key. DH is not special in this regard.
I'm against not paying for entertainment I truly enjoy that the creators of that content didn't provide me for free one way or another (where I live, we have a lot of free open air concerts paid by the City via taxes, so I feel no compunction to pay that artist additional money at the concert).
However, we should police illegalities on the Internet the same way we should be doing them in the physical world -- through real detective work as a result of actual crimes, not by spying on everyone so we can catch them tripping up.
People's Internet usage should be private and personal up until they're suspected of actual crimes that actually involve the Internet and a warrant is given to wiretap them. Until then, you should only have to fear the hackers online, not your own government.
I don't live in Communist China and don't want to.
You know what I saw when that walking suit of armour appears repeatedly in the movie? A Hollywood blockbuster that doesn't glorify violence.
That suit is the epitome of good action movies. The villain at the end of the movie is the hero of so many 80's movies all wrapped up into one hollow marine, and he's reviled rather than regaled.
I'm not sure which movie you saw, but I saw a fun touching love story with some really nice action sequences mixed in.
If you only watch movies for their literary value, please discover books.
While elements of the plot were retooled from various old standbys, it was a touching and memorable story with some strong characters. It will fit into my epic movie memory somewhere well below Ben Hur and well above the Rocky series.
While the story reeks of "ten things I hate about you", the part that annoyed me the most was the preachy tone of the environmentalism in it.
That said, both times I've seen it in the theatre, the audience gave it a literal standing ovation, which is somewhat rare in movie theatres with no actual actors to appreciate the applause.
Intel claimed the video acceleration market was doomed years ago with their first AGP cards that accessed system memory and were about as useful for gaming as a Gameboy that's been through the laundry.
Integrated video has been available for a long time, and it keeps getting better, but the gap between that and truly good gaming hardware is still very wide. The difference is that video card makers simply need to refocus and won't have the low-end market to supply anymore for those easy profits.
Probably dual-core, with hyper-threading turned on. Try one of the many CPU-ID programs to view your CPU's full features (or cat/proc/cpuinfo on Linux)
I won't bother pulling up the numbers but I'm pretty sure you'd find that a CPU spec'd to 15% of your current CPU's capacity uses a lot less power than the current CPU running at 15% capacity.
There's a reason they don't throw Core i3's in cell phones and just under-clock them. Low power CPUs exist for a reason.
Quiet SATA drives are nearly silent these days, but fans still aren't. A large small fan draws a lot of air and while you reduce the sound of the bearings in the fan, you still have the noise of air flow over the uneven surfaces.
I have a couple completely passive boards and the noise difference from nearly-silent Sonata case + very slow CPU fan to truly silent is still very notable.
The point I was trying to make was that coding can be inspired. There are people who treat programming way too much like paint-by-numbers and don't realize the sheer amount of personal talent and artistry required for good programming.
So am I super productive, or not very productive, or what? I don't know. Realistically, the answer is probably "if you give me the sorts of work I'm good at, I'm great, otherwise I'm sorta mediocre." But I'm not sure how you'd measure that.
As much as programmers often hate them, this is where good management comes in. A manager who knows when to apply you to the project and where to put you on a team is going to get the most out of your abilities and you will both benefit.
Unfortunately, good managers are about as hard to find as good programmers:-)
I lie about my birthday on almost all websites. I consider it part of my password -- there's no need for them to have a valid birth date unless they're a credit validation company or my bank, and giving it out just leaves way too much information open for cross-referencing.
No, its being said that setting up signed E-mails hosted by third parties can be a royal pain. I relay mail for my customers as one of those third parties and working out who has control of the domain vs. E-mail vs. apps sending E-mail is a nightmare sometimes.
There's no necessity that a customer does their own domain work, or even controls their own E-mail system, and then wants us to send E-mail on their behalf from their domain, when their domain uses SPF and signed records.
This does not compute. You could say that the government, as a result of these cases, shouldn't sponsor Microsoft until they're a proper law-abiding company, but if you did that for all companies that run into a lawsuit here and there, you wouldn't be able to use almost any products in government.
Notice that I said after the fact, not before. The government may very well use Ford vehicles for all their transit needs and then end up suing Ford because of some other corporate failure like tax evasion. The two issues are orthogonal.
Apple doesn't have a stranglehold on the desktop market. Microsoft did (or does) according to trials before this which have declared it a monopoly. Non-monopolies can act as unfairly as they want on the basis that consumers have a choice not to use them. Once declared a monopoly, you have to be more considerate of your consumers since they arguably have little or no choice to use your products.
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They were usable with 3D video games like "Descent" with proper video card support back then too.
For those who may not understand all LCD images are polarized. Try turning your head sideways with polarizing sunglasses on while looking at a conventional LCD display (from a gas pump to your radio to the TV).
LCDs are a polarized light technology.
Yahoo Canada's sign-in is 1024-bit RSA using SHA-1 signatures, and a 128 bit RC4 session key.
Public key and regular symmetric block ciphers differ completely in usage and attack.
Public key crypto is typically used to hide a random session key for a symmetric block cipher which is then used for the rest of the "conversation".
That is to say, your bank transactions are being encrypted with some block cipher like 3DES or AES whose random session keys are exchanged privately between your computer and the bank using public key crypto.
If your bank's public key were broken (this story), anyone could get the session keys by evesdropping on your initial connection to the bank. If the block cipher were broken, anyone could grab your data no matter the security of the public key.
The whole point of this story is that the math behind public keys can be broken after this amount of computation, given a 768 bit key. DH is not special in this regard.
I'm against not paying for entertainment I truly enjoy that the creators of that content didn't provide me for free one way or another (where I live, we have a lot of free open air concerts paid by the City via taxes, so I feel no compunction to pay that artist additional money at the concert).
However, we should police illegalities on the Internet the same way we should be doing them in the physical world -- through real detective work as a result of actual crimes, not by spying on everyone so we can catch them tripping up.
People's Internet usage should be private and personal up until they're suspected of actual crimes that actually involve the Internet and a warrant is given to wiretap them. Until then, you should only have to fear the hackers online, not your own government.
I don't live in Communist China and don't want to.
You know what I saw when that walking suit of armour appears repeatedly in the movie? A Hollywood blockbuster that doesn't glorify violence.
That suit is the epitome of good action movies. The villain at the end of the movie is the hero of so many 80's movies all wrapped up into one hollow marine, and he's reviled rather than regaled.
I'm not sure which movie you saw, but I saw a fun touching love story with some really nice action sequences mixed in.
If you only watch movies for their literary value, please discover books.
While elements of the plot were retooled from various old standbys, it was a touching and memorable story with some strong characters. It will fit into my epic movie memory somewhere well below Ben Hur and well above the Rocky series.
While the story reeks of "ten things I hate about you", the part that annoyed me the most was the preachy tone of the environmentalism in it.
That said, both times I've seen it in the theatre, the audience gave it a literal standing ovation, which is somewhat rare in movie theatres with no actual actors to appreciate the applause.
Intel claimed the video acceleration market was doomed years ago with their first AGP cards that accessed system memory and were about as useful for gaming as a Gameboy that's been through the laundry.
Integrated video has been available for a long time, and it keeps getting better, but the gap between that and truly good gaming hardware is still very wide. The difference is that video card makers simply need to refocus and won't have the low-end market to supply anymore for those easy profits.
Probably dual-core, with hyper-threading turned on. Try one of the many CPU-ID programs to view your CPU's full features (or cat /proc/cpuinfo on Linux)
I won't bother pulling up the numbers but I'm pretty sure you'd find that a CPU spec'd to 15% of your current CPU's capacity uses a lot less power than the current CPU running at 15% capacity.
There's a reason they don't throw Core i3's in cell phones and just under-clock them. Low power CPUs exist for a reason.
Quiet SATA drives are nearly silent these days, but fans still aren't. A large small fan draws a lot of air and while you reduce the sound of the bearings in the fan, you still have the noise of air flow over the uneven surfaces.
I have a couple completely passive boards and the noise difference from nearly-silent Sonata case + very slow CPU fan to truly silent is still very notable.
No flame intended to the Intel fans, but this is one thing I find much simpler with AMD's nomenclature.
The point I was trying to make was that coding can be inspired. There are people who treat programming way too much like paint-by-numbers and don't realize the sheer amount of personal talent and artistry required for good programming.
Programming is a lot like art, when its inspired its almost always obviously better to any observer than the uninspired variety.
Like art, its also intensely personal.
Too many people treat programmers like ditch diggers.
As much as programmers often hate them, this is where good management comes in.
A manager who knows when to apply you to the project and where to put you on a team is going to get the most out of your abilities and you will both benefit.
Unfortunately, good managers are about as hard to find as good programmers :-)
There was at one time a law in the United States limiting maximum owner salaries to a certain multiple of worker salaries.
You mean you make yours the old fashioned way?
Seems half price to me. Most people will downgrade slightly to buy two for the price of one.
Mr Lube up here will read the codes for free while you're in for an oil change.
You mean straights don't like lesbian content now? When did this happen?
I lie about my birthday on almost all websites. I consider it part of my password -- there's no need for them to have a valid birth date unless they're a credit validation company or my bank, and giving it out just leaves way too much information open for cross-referencing.
No, its being said that setting up signed E-mails hosted by third parties can be a royal pain. I relay mail for my customers as one of those third parties and working out who has control of the domain vs. E-mail vs. apps sending E-mail is a nightmare sometimes.
There's no necessity that a customer does their own domain work, or even controls their own E-mail system, and then wants us to send E-mail on their behalf from their domain, when their domain uses SPF and signed records.
This does not compute. You could say that the government, as a result of these cases, shouldn't sponsor Microsoft until they're a proper law-abiding company, but if you did that for all companies that run into a lawsuit here and there, you wouldn't be able to use almost any products in government.
Notice that I said after the fact, not before. The government may very well use Ford vehicles for all their transit needs and then end up suing Ford because of some other corporate failure like tax evasion. The two issues are orthogonal.
Apple doesn't have a stranglehold on the desktop market. Microsoft did (or does) according to trials before this which have declared it a monopoly. Non-monopolies can act as unfairly as they want on the basis that consumers have a choice not to use them. Once declared a monopoly, you have to be more considerate of your consumers since they arguably have little or no choice to use your products.