Even if the password is recorded once, this will reduce the keyspace by 80%. Which is not bad if you want to do a brute force attack.
Also, if the software provide with the estimated value for the accuracy of each keystroke (and which other key stroke may be likely for the produced sound) then you can direct your keyspace search to the most likely key first.
One of the problem I have with this technique is that the guy had to record the sound of each key 30 times before starting to try to recognize keystroke. This is time consuming and requires physical access to the keyboard.
A camera or two well placed in the work environment will probably give you a better recognition rate and would take a lot less time to setup.
I just hope that the launch site will be really far away from any civilised area.
If the rocket climb that high at the wrong angle, they will suffer a major blow if they blow up someone when the cargo touch down a lot farter than predicted.
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Yes, it caches immediately, the first time someone request are URL thru freecache, the content of that URL will be cached in real-time while it's being streamed to you. In fact, you do not even need to tell anyone about the caching has it will be done for any resources prepended with the freecache URL.
However, it will not cache resources that are under 5M. The cache is designed to cache for large piece of content.
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The thing is supposed to be used to cache large files. It has not been build to cache web pages.
Maybe, when the site is no longer slashdotted, people will be able to get a look at their FAQ and see that (the submitter should have done that instead of submitting stuff that he just discovered, even if it has been availlable for a long time, without even checking for it's real purpose).
My father-in-law thinks it's funny that I never remember how many cups are in a pint, or some other weird conversion. To him, it proves that people don't learn as much in college as they think they do.
That's because you forgot to tell him that a tablespoon is 15ml;-)
I have the Minolta DImage X. It's one, if no the, smallest camera with a 3X optical zoom. It's very light. While I don't have a belt clip for it, I carry it all the time using a belt carrying case which is made for this model.
I carry an extra battery, cause battery life with this camera suck, which is lightweight too and fit in the carrying case.
When this camera came out, it was the camera with the fastest boot time (less than 2 sec.).
The other advantage of this camera is that the zoom is inside the camera body and the lens is automatically covered with a little door whenever the camera is turned off. So the lens is kept cleaner for a longer time.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this camera. The photo quality if good enough (expect in low light condition - which is to be expected with the size of the lens). I bought it because I wanted something that I can carry all the time. It fullfill that purpose very nicely.
Trully innovative software patent (innovative algorithm) are not necessarly bad. The problem with the situation in the US is that obvious stuff is being patented (and not just software). The worst thing about software patent right now is that they are granted for way to long. With growth and rate of evolution in software techniques, 3-5 years until patent expiration would be a lot better that 17 years. If a company is not able to cash in in that time frame, then that means that it's innovation is not really innovative.
This is the kind of post that would benefit for an extra moderation point. We don't see that kind of post often here. Bui it surely worth a +6 Insightful, Informative.
The article lack some technical specifications... Like what is the usable range of the laser, can it fire through clouds. How long can the plan stay in flight.
I suspect that the range must be short (few hundred milles at most).So it may be used only for targeting stuff in small countries (as flying a 747 over an hostile country is a recipe for disaster).
You also need to have a 747 fly for 24hrs a day (this can be managed with several plane but it will surely cost a bundle) Now how many planes will you need to cover all the potential enemy launch sites?
Then anyway, if a country plan to launch some balistic missiles, it can just send a couple jetfighter to down the 747. That is probably a fairly easy task.
The increase in solar activity is part of a cycle. And it has no real effect on rising earth temperature. The problem of rising temperature is not one of how much energy the earth is getting, but more a problem of how much energy the earth is keeping instead of releasing it into space. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more we insulate the earth is, so even if we get the same amount of energy in, temperature will rise.
I beleive it's arrogant for the humanity to think that it has no effect on the environment. The CO2 level in the atmosphere raised more in the past century, than in the past 400-500 years. All this because of the industrialisation of our society. The number of cows on the planet are directly linked to how many we need to support our needs. So I would call that a human effect on the environment.
Now as for the doomsday scenario... Scientist present them to show where we can get if we don't do anything. We everbody works together, we can make thing a bit better for the environment (and we arleady did that many times). I don't beleive in doomsday scenario, because I believe that humanity will be able to manage itself so it don't go far enough to make them real (I may be a bit optimistic). However, I do beleive that we must do something to manage the effect we have on our environment.
We, as a society, must decide what is good for us in the long term. In the past decades, we made the choice of only looking at the short-term and in doing so, we have badly managed our environment. We must now look forward and take our environment into account when we do something. We will continue to affect our environment in the future... The thing is that we must affect it in a way that will allow humanity stay on earth for as long as it's possible.
I also use a 3-4 easy password for system I do not care about.
For the ones I care about, I use different password that is generated randomly (using a mix of lowercase, uppercase and numbers) by Strip (Simple Tool for Recalling Important Passwords), a Palm OS application that is protected by a password (that I also generated randomly). This application also encrypt it's database using AES. Most of the time, when I generate a password for a system I use often (like my laptop), I remember it after 5-10 times I login with it.
Now if I forget my main password... I loose all my other passwords. But it has not happened yet!
What it boils down to is that we need some basic validation method, which vets code that should/shouldn't be loaded, and people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't be allowed to override it.
It's kind of funny that you say that one should not program an OS in an interpretted language like Java. On the other hand, while the Linux kernel may be written in C, the initialization sequence of Linux (booting the OS to a usable state) is more or less a big script that is being interpretted (and there is even no JIT compilation involved).
The argument of the grand-parent is not really a good one either. The fact that you cannot hack a Java application with buffer overflow (unless it's the JVM that does it) does not means that you cannot hack into a Java system. Badly coded Java code can be the target of malware (and there has been security issues with WebSpehere and Weblogic). If a security sensitive class is not final, anyone can inherit it and bypass some of it's code. Java offer many features that can help one build a secure application that is very resistant to malware, but you have to use those feature and be aware that beside buffer overflow, malware can use other technique to launch a succefull attack.
There is no concept of numbers of human being armed is the first law (the only concept ressembling that would be the law 0 that Daniel "invented"). There is some chance that the first part of the law will be evaluated first.
So like most human being (there have been many studies on the subject), the robot will probably choose to stay passive if this kind of situation arise.
Either way, like most human being, the robot will probably be messed up in some way and need the help of a robot psychologist to help him cope with the effects of his decision.
And they talk about cutting the disk to destroy it... Not buring it (which would be far more effective)... Maybe because the other 49% of material would release toxic stuff when buring.
The fact that I do not spell english correctly does not makes me illiterate. I'm just not a native english speaker... You are probably illiterate for assuming that everybody in the world should write good english.
Second, a dictionnary is not the place to see if something is a crime or not. Speeding is not a crime in Quebec, Canada. As far as my knowledge goes it's not a crime in most country including the USA. If it were a crime to brake any kind of regulation then almost everybody would be criminal. Speeding a little over the speed limit is the same thing as not paying for parking when you should. It becomes a crime when death is involved or when the speeding is considered careless driving (like when you go 3 times the speed limit).
But as you seem so literate, you should already know about all this.
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Even if the password is recorded once, this will reduce the keyspace by 80%. Which is not bad if you want to do a brute force attack.
Also, if the software provide with the estimated value for the accuracy of each keystroke (and which other key stroke may be likely for the produced sound) then you can direct your keyspace search to the most likely key first.
One of the problem I have with this technique is that the guy had to record the sound of each key 30 times before starting to try to recognize keystroke. This is time consuming and requires physical access to the keyboard.
A camera or two well placed in the work environment will probably give you a better recognition rate and would take a lot less time to setup.
You're right... On Windows, the trojan would have been much more efficient... It would have wiped the entire hard drive!
It's a good thing they're sending a ham radio up
don't tell me that they put a RFID tag on a pig and sending him in space!
I just hope that the launch site will be really far away from any civilised area.
If the rocket climb that high at the wrong angle, they will suffer a major blow if they blow up someone when the cargo touch down a lot farter than predicted.
Yes, it caches immediately, the first time someone request are URL thru freecache, the content of that URL will be cached in real-time while it's being streamed to you. In fact, you do not even need to tell anyone about the caching has it will be done for any resources prepended with the freecache URL.
However, it will not cache resources that are under 5M. The cache is designed to cache for large piece of content.
Maybe, when the site is no longer slashdotted, people will be able to get a look at their FAQ and see that (the submitter should have done that instead of submitting stuff that he just discovered, even if it has been availlable for a long time, without even checking for it's real purpose).
My father-in-law thinks it's funny that I never remember how many cups are in a pint, or some other weird conversion. To him, it proves that people don't learn as much in college as they think they do.
;-)
That's because you forgot to tell him that a tablespoon is 15ml
I have the Minolta DImage X. It's one, if no the, smallest camera with a 3X optical zoom. It's very light. While I don't have a belt clip for it, I carry it all the time using a belt carrying case which is made for this model.
I carry an extra battery, cause battery life with this camera suck, which is lightweight too and fit in the carrying case.
When this camera came out, it was the camera with the fastest boot time (less than 2 sec.).
The other advantage of this camera is that the zoom is inside the camera body and the lens is automatically covered with a little door whenever the camera is turned off. So the lens is kept cleaner for a longer time.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this camera. The photo quality if good enough (expect in low light condition - which is to be expected with the size of the lens). I bought it because I wanted something that I can carry all the time. It fullfill that purpose very nicely.
Trully innovative software patent (innovative algorithm) are not necessarly bad. The problem with the situation in the US is that obvious stuff is being patented (and not just software).
The worst thing about software patent right now is that they are granted for way to long. With growth and rate of evolution in software techniques, 3-5 years until patent expiration would be a lot better that 17 years. If a company is not able to cash in in that time frame, then that means that it's innovation is not really innovative.
The delivery man will respond : No problems we'll patch it with the pepperoni!
I beleive he did the wong thing by granting this patent to MS.
This is the kind of post that would benefit for an extra moderation point. We don't see that kind of post often here. Bui it surely worth a +6 Insightful, Informative.
Wait - isn't there a serious lag and quality issue?
Since when lag is an important thing for a one way transmission?
As for quality, a 96Kbps MP3 stream sound a lot better than FM radio.
The article lack some technical specifications... Like what is the usable range of the laser, can it fire through clouds. How long can the plan stay in flight.
I suspect that the range must be short (few hundred milles at most).So it may be used only for targeting stuff in small countries (as flying a 747 over an hostile country is a recipe for disaster).
You also need to have a 747 fly for 24hrs a day (this can be managed with several plane but it will surely cost a bundle) Now how many planes will you need to cover all the potential enemy launch sites?
Then anyway, if a country plan to launch some balistic missiles, it can just send a couple jetfighter to down the 747. That is probably a fairly easy task.
The increase in solar activity is part of a cycle. And it has no real effect on rising earth temperature. The problem of rising temperature is not one of how much energy the earth is getting, but more a problem of how much energy the earth is keeping instead of releasing it into space. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more we insulate the earth is, so even if we get the same amount of energy in, temperature will rise.
I beleive it's arrogant for the humanity to think that it has no effect on the environment. The CO2 level in the atmosphere raised more in the past century, than in the past 400-500 years. All this because of the industrialisation of our society. The number of cows on the planet are directly linked to how many we need to support our needs. So I would call that a human effect on the environment.
Now as for the doomsday scenario... Scientist present them to show where we can get if we don't do anything. We everbody works together, we can make thing a bit better for the environment (and we arleady did that many times). I don't beleive in doomsday scenario, because I believe that humanity will be able to manage itself so it don't go far enough to make them real (I may be a bit optimistic). However, I do beleive that we must do something to manage the effect we have on our environment.
We, as a society, must decide what is good for us in the long term. In the past decades, we made the choice of only looking at the short-term and in doing so, we have badly managed our environment. We must now look forward and take our environment into account when we do something. We will continue to affect our environment in the future... The thing is that we must affect it in a way that will allow humanity stay on earth for as long as it's possible.
What happen when you listen to the music and some transfer take place? Does the music stop/jerk?
When using it with Ethernet is the only mean to access the file with the Java applet or can you access it with SMB or another protocol?
Sorry, if I ask a lot of questions but I find the device to be very interesting.
Can you listen to music while it's connected to a USB or ethernet port?
Yup and iTune looks like crap compared to Winamp.
I also use a 3-4 easy password for system I do not care about.
For the ones I care about, I use different password that is generated randomly (using a mix of lowercase, uppercase and numbers) by Strip (Simple Tool for Recalling Important Passwords), a Palm OS application that is protected by a password (that I also generated randomly). This application also encrypt it's database using AES. Most of the time, when I generate a password for a system I use often (like my laptop), I remember it after 5-10 times I login with it.
Now if I forget my main password... I loose all my other passwords. But it has not happened yet!
What it boils down to is that we need some basic validation method, which vets code that should/shouldn't be loaded, and people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't be allowed to override it.
;-)
Microsoft calls that Trusted Computing
It's kind of funny that you say that one should not program an OS in an interpretted language like Java. On the other hand, while the Linux kernel may be written in C, the initialization sequence of Linux (booting the OS to a usable state) is more or less a big script that is being interpretted (and there is even no JIT compilation involved).
The argument of the grand-parent is not really a good one either. The fact that you cannot hack a Java application with buffer overflow (unless it's the JVM that does it) does not means that you cannot hack into a Java system. Badly coded Java code can be the target of malware (and there has been security issues with WebSpehere and Weblogic). If a security sensitive class is not final, anyone can inherit it and bypass some of it's code. Java offer many features that can help one build a secure application that is very resistant to malware, but you have to use those feature and be aware that beside buffer overflow, malware can use other technique to launch a succefull attack.
Maybe "Malware: Educating Ignorant Users" would be better.
There is no concept of numbers of human being armed is the first law (the only concept ressembling that would be the law 0 that Daniel "invented"). There is some chance that the first part of the law will be evaluated first.
So like most human being (there have been many studies on the subject), the robot will probably choose to stay passive if this kind of situation arise.
Either way, like most human being, the robot will probably be messed up in some way and need the help of a robot psychologist to help him cope with the effects of his decision.
And they talk about cutting the disk to destroy it... Not buring it (which would be far more effective)... Maybe because the other 49% of material would release toxic stuff when buring.
The fact that I do not spell english correctly does not makes me illiterate. I'm just not a native english speaker... You are probably illiterate for assuming that everybody in the world should write good english.
Second, a dictionnary is not the place to see if something is a crime or not. Speeding is not a crime in Quebec, Canada. As far as my knowledge goes it's not a crime in most country including the USA. If it were a crime to brake any kind of regulation then almost everybody would be criminal. Speeding a little over the speed limit is the same thing as not paying for parking when you should. It becomes a crime when death is involved or when the speeding is considered careless driving (like when you go 3 times the speed limit).
But as you seem so literate, you should already know about all this.