128bit RSA isn't secure at all, since the attacks against it perform much better than brute force. 512 bit is more typical. Some use 1024 or 2048, but many see the latter as a bit excessive.
128bit is secure for most symmetric ciphers, but not public key ciphers.
Damn, I've gotta change my bank account password again. And some of my other passwords are still blank. It's a matter of work vs risk I guess.
I suppose I should feel bad for offering to my boss the ability to spy on anyone's desktop at random, then implementing it. But oh well. It hasn't been used for spying so much anyway, but rather it makes tech support easier (less running around) and my boss can now access the entire office from out of state. Combined with our cheap video conferencing they'll be able to practically retire wherever they wish without really abandoning their work.
Someone at my work was trying to call the SCO Group last week but couldn't get through any of the numbers. She must have tried 4 or 5 of them. All disconnected. I didn't bother to ask why she needed to call them, but I'm certain it had nothing to do with licenses, and she said she never heard of them before.
I've never been a fan of enforced grammar, essay formats, and other writing guidelines & standards. They try to push opinion as fact. Language evolves, more now than ever before. The high school I graduated from required four years of English and only one year of math. English classes honestly taught me nothing of importance beyond elementary school.
An automated system to ensure that all good essays look alike doesn't sound like an improvement. It's bad enough having to write an essay that will only be read by one person. I wouldn't be surprised if many students refused to write essays that they knew wouldn't be read by anyone.
It's cases like this that demonstrate to lawmakers the glaring holes in the laws they pass. Undoubtably every single senator and representative in congress has recieved thousands of letters and emails protesting unjust laws like the DMCA and USAPATRIOT acts. Millions in all. It's clear that they make little if any difference.
The only real way to work to get the law changed, as you recommend, is to either get elected (not likely for most of us) or actively protest in full public view as Lamo does. He's doing a very brave thing for the good of everyone. Something that's clearly not wrong shouldn't be illegal.
Martin Luther King Jr had a lot to say about unjust laws in his letter from Birmingham Jail. To greatly summarize, it's better to willfully disobey an unjust law and face the consequences than to obey and thus support it. Laws should reflect good morals, not the other way around. Do what you know is right.
You're not alone. Some of my customers are AOL users. When they send me emails asking for tech support, I usually have to reply through AOL Instant Messenger.
A lot more than just spammers hate spam blacklists. Most of them block entire subnets, which allows them to fit the entire blacklist uncompressed into a 2mb bit array for very fast lookup. But they don't consider or don't care that they block as many if not more non-offending mail servers as they do offenders with that optimization.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the people who knocked them out hated spammers just as much. I know some innocent victims who would like to see most blacklist maintainers go out of business or worse.
Gave me full, free, legal copies of WinXP Professional and Visual Studio.NET.
On the bright side though, the university had Redhat Linux on more computers last year than the year before, and they were new computers this time. And many of the upper division programming classes expect you to use Linux.
It costs at least a thousand times as much to make a good movie as it does to make a good CD. But audio CD's cost nearly twice that of movie DVD's. And what you see on music store shelves represents a fraction of a percent of serious musicians. Cheap internet distribution would enable them to sell a hundred times the selection at one tenth the price. Someone will do it. Maybe in this decade.
The MS site says that was fixed in SP2. Though there is another issue where overtime it will step down until it reaches PIO mode. I've seen it happen a few times but it can supposedly happen in the server edition as well. Uninstalling the HD controller from the device manager and rebooting twice resets it.
The main server at my work is running Win2k Server, which was installed before I arrived. I investigated it a bit and it says it'll only allow 15 users without the purchase of an additional license. We recently hit the 16 mark, and occasionally a popup appears saying the license limit has been reached, so I suspect it's time to start researching our options.
I heard somewhere that hard disk performance in Win2k Pro is crippled a bit to make the server editions seem faster. Though I haven't verified if it is true or not, or to what extent.
I'm not sure really. Housing is expensive and jobs are scarce as well because all these Californians keep moving up looking for housing and jobs.
Programmer wages usually go up after a couple years though, because losing a programmer can be very costly. And the starting wage may be $20 if you already have a degree.
One local company (perhaps one of the largest) that develops websites and custom database solutions used to offer $6.50/hr to programming interns coming out of high school. But they can no longer afford it, and had to lay off 3/4ths of their employees in the past two years. One guy who they laid off continued to work for about a year without pay because he had nothing better to do, and wanted to improve his resume.
The only real money here is in contract work for the government. I recently heard of someone getting $85 an hour to write a single access database. It came out to about $100k, but nobody is using it because it doesn't match up with how they like to work, and there were some bugs that the author refused to fix, saying he didn't believe them. I eventually fixed them for free because one of my family members works there.
There's Bochs, which is free and will emulate an x86 on almost anything, including the Mac, but it's not very fast.
And since about 1994, there have been Macs that can run Windows using a built-in x86 compatible processor, like having two computers in one. You could switch between them by pressing a simple key combination, and it came with software to help you do things like copy and paste between them. The high school I attended had one.
My bosses generally don't believe in "can't", but most of the time they're right.
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They've managed to inflate it to $18 a share with this.
I wonder if the day will ever come when investors read Slashdot like it was the Wallstreet Journal.
128bit RSA isn't secure at all, since the attacks against it perform much better than brute force. 512 bit is more typical. Some use 1024 or 2048, but many see the latter as a bit excessive.
128bit is secure for most symmetric ciphers, but not public key ciphers.
Damn, I've gotta change my bank account password again. And some of my other passwords are still blank. It's a matter of work vs risk I guess.
I suppose I should feel bad for offering to my boss the ability to spy on anyone's desktop at random, then implementing it. But oh well. It hasn't been used for spying so much anyway, but rather it makes tech support easier (less running around) and my boss can now access the entire office from out of state. Combined with our cheap video conferencing they'll be able to practically retire wherever they wish without really abandoning their work.
Someone at my work was trying to call the SCO Group last week but couldn't get through any of the numbers. She must have tried 4 or 5 of them. All disconnected. I didn't bother to ask why she needed to call them, but I'm certain it had nothing to do with licenses, and she said she never heard of them before.
> The day is coming when the human is there to make sure the computer is being alert.
Just like in Soviet Russia.
I have one of his books, Applied Cryptography. It's a very interesting read.
He also produces a monthly newsletter called the CRYPTO-GRAM.
I've never been a fan of enforced grammar, essay formats, and other writing guidelines & standards. They try to push opinion as fact. Language evolves, more now than ever before. The high school I graduated from required four years of English and only one year of math. English classes honestly taught me nothing of importance beyond elementary school.
An automated system to ensure that all good essays look alike doesn't sound like an improvement. It's bad enough having to write an essay that will only be read by one person. I wouldn't be surprised if many students refused to write essays that they knew wouldn't be read by anyone.
It's cases like this that demonstrate to lawmakers the glaring holes in the laws they pass. Undoubtably every single senator and representative in congress has recieved thousands of letters and emails protesting unjust laws like the DMCA and USAPATRIOT acts. Millions in all. It's clear that they make little if any difference.
The only real way to work to get the law changed, as you recommend, is to either get elected (not likely for most of us) or actively protest in full public view as Lamo does. He's doing a very brave thing for the good of everyone. Something that's clearly not wrong shouldn't be illegal.
Martin Luther King Jr had a lot to say about unjust laws in his letter from Birmingham Jail. To greatly summarize, it's better to willfully disobey an unjust law and face the consequences than to obey and thus support it. Laws should reflect good morals, not the other way around. Do what you know is right.
You can't very well bury them alive once they've been chopped up into itty bitty pieces now can you?
If you're looking for a good windows ssh client, try Putty.
Multi-level affiliate marketting.
Free zipped copies of www.thebulkclub.com.
The membership list only has names, but no doubt a bunch of them can be traced to single spammers.
There is the downside of not knowing which are real spammers and which are just working to become spammers, but both are pretty bad.
One of the members appears twice. I wonder if they double-paid.
Much of the BSD code has been copied legally into Linux, Unix, and even Windows. In that sense it will live on for a very long time.
You're not alone. Some of my customers are AOL users. When they send me emails asking for tech support, I usually have to reply through AOL Instant Messenger.
Use a "free" redirection service:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.aol.com
So basically your warranty is only good if you either don't open the packaging or create a paradox which destroys the universe?
I signed up last night.
A lot more than just spammers hate spam blacklists. Most of them block entire subnets, which allows them to fit the entire blacklist uncompressed into a 2mb bit array for very fast lookup. But they don't consider or don't care that they block as many if not more non-offending mail servers as they do offenders with that optimization.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the people who knocked them out hated spammers just as much. I know some innocent victims who would like to see most blacklist maintainers go out of business or worse.
Gave me full, free, legal copies of WinXP Professional and Visual Studio.NET.
On the bright side though, the university had Redhat Linux on more computers last year than the year before, and they were new computers this time. And many of the upper division programming classes expect you to use Linux.
It costs at least a thousand times as much to make a good movie as it does to make a good CD. But audio CD's cost nearly twice that of movie DVD's. And what you see on music store shelves represents a fraction of a percent of serious musicians. Cheap internet distribution would enable them to sell a hundred times the selection at one tenth the price. Someone will do it. Maybe in this decade.
The MS site says that was fixed in SP2. Though there is another issue where overtime it will step down until it reaches PIO mode. I've seen it happen a few times but it can supposedly happen in the server edition as well. Uninstalling the HD controller from the device manager and rebooting twice resets it.
The main server at my work is running Win2k Server, which was installed before I arrived. I investigated it a bit and it says it'll only allow 15 users without the purchase of an additional license. We recently hit the 16 mark, and occasionally a popup appears saying the license limit has been reached, so I suspect it's time to start researching our options.
I heard somewhere that hard disk performance in Win2k Pro is crippled a bit to make the server editions seem faster. Though I haven't verified if it is true or not, or to what extent.
I'm not sure really. Housing is expensive and jobs are scarce as well because all these Californians keep moving up looking for housing and jobs.
Programmer wages usually go up after a couple years though, because losing a programmer can be very costly. And the starting wage may be $20 if you already have a degree.
One local company (perhaps one of the largest) that develops websites and custom database solutions used to offer $6.50/hr to programming interns coming out of high school. But they can no longer afford it, and had to lay off 3/4ths of their employees in the past two years. One guy who they laid off continued to work for about a year without pay because he had nothing better to do, and wanted to improve his resume.
The only real money here is in contract work for the government. I recently heard of someone getting $85 an hour to write a single access database. It came out to about $100k, but nobody is using it because it doesn't match up with how they like to work, and there were some bugs that the author refused to fix, saying he didn't believe them. I eventually fixed them for free because one of my family members works there.
How long ago was that?
There's Bochs, which is free and will emulate an x86 on almost anything, including the Mac, but it's not very fast.
And since about 1994, there have been Macs that can run Windows using a built-in x86 compatible processor, like having two computers in one. You could switch between them by pressing a simple key combination, and it came with software to help you do things like copy and paste between them. The high school I attended had one.
My bosses generally don't believe in "can't", but most of the time they're right.
Don't forget that in winter you can burn the menus for heat.