If your goal is to hide the original data that was hashed then SHA on small amounts of data is not a good idea. If your goal is to verify that the data you have matches the hash you have then have faster SHA is good.
By making it easy for them to understand the implications of their actions. Allowing hidden things to happen that cause security issues and then blaming the user is stupid. Too many systems expect too much of their users.
Skeptics are necessary for all scientific theories. The 'how' of evolution still has missing pieces. There are people that are skeptical of gravity, and that's a really good thing.
Life is a self correcting web, fuck it up and a few species die, the rest quickly adapt. You put pressure on a species and it adapts..or it dies out and another species gets a chance to adapt.
With all the plastics we're dumping in the sea, it probably won't take long for species to adapt to either digest it, filter it out, or have some way of ridding themselves of it.
Your understanding of infinite is flawed. "the end of all those infinite 9s"? what end? it's infinite. infinite doesn't just mean really, really, really big. it's infinite, it has no end.
Yep, this idea has been had many times. FOAF is the most popular.
But freedom is a hard sell.The reason myspace and facebook etc. get such large users bases is specifically related to the walled garden way they operate. If I get a myspace account then if it to be useful I have to make all my friends get myspace accounts too. If they could follow what I was doing without getting such an account then they probably wouldn't bother.
I don't think deleting your Myspace account will do anything. They already have your data and you already agreed to allow them to redistribute it, just because you delete your account doesn't mean they have to delete your data. Facebook has the same agreement and will get to selling your data to the highest bidder sooner or later.
It's amazing that people will trade the labours of their mind for mere web hosting.
well you just look for it in your distribution's package reposito...oh you're running windows..Microsoft really should have something like that. I guess they'll get around to it when they're done with all those important 3D desktop effects.
I always thought this was about the fact that the bad guy always draws first(because he's evil and wants to kill people) and the good guy always wins. The good guy can't draw first because he's supposed to be avoiding the conflict and trying not to kill anyone.
My guess is that it's a bot net becoming active. The countries with higher traffic during that period are countries that are widely known to have high bot net activity they are also more likely to have server bot net activity, which is why they don't stripe like the over countries.
The stripes are likely day/night where infected PCs are turned off when not in use.
Getting a 200% increase in processing speed is reasonable. Most home computers are full of malicious software running in the background, removing that is definitely a speed increase.
If you're running a distributed system where each node is exactly the same and you just push out a standard image then you could have a 1:1000 ratio. But if you have a a bunch of computers doing very specific things each one being different the ratio has to be less.
An average doesn't really make sense unless you can specify the usecase for these systems.
does this amount take in to account the massive amounts of money made by ignoring bugs and pushing forward anyway? sure a program might have a bunch of bugs that costs $$ to patch and deal with on a daily basis, but the fact that you now need 90% less staff or that you can do 1000 times more business is likely to far outweigh the cost. Which of course is why businesses still love IT.
Sure better and less complex solutions could be created, but they take thinking and planning time and usually then have to deal with the massive mess anyway.
huh? ok, safe browsing 101: 1. install virtual box 2. install your operating system in virtual box 3. install a web browser in virtual box 4. get checksum of everything in virtual box image 5. open and use browser to access a page 6. close browser, check all checksums are fine, reboot vitural box image 7. goto 5
Don't open anything from inside the virtualbox on your main system and everything will be fine.
This isn't common sense, this is madness! There is not way to be safe with just common sense. Every major browser constantly has vulnerabilities, every major plugin has vulnerabilities.
The hype works like this, 1. Replace IRC with IM(msn,yahoo etc.) in the user population which is more about one-to-one conversations and terrible at group conversations. These users are now completely unaware of IRC and are stuck with email for one-to-many communication. 2. Next you sell them various ways they can get back the one-to-many communication method(facebook,myspace,google wave) 3.??? 4. PROFIT!
It's really that simple, everything old is new again...oh and now it's in your web browser so you can use those CPU cycles you're missing out on when your CPU would otherwise be sleeping.
If you sell people a 'computer' they'll expect it to run windows or at least run all their 'PC' software, but if you sell it as a PDA or a smartphone, or a netgadget thingy then they won't expect it to run 'PC' software and so won't mind that it doesn't. eg. the iPhone is widely populate.
By pushing for the right to turn GPL-licensed software into the heart of a proprietary business model, he is squandering an opportunity for advocacy of open source within the European Union.
umm...RMS doesn't advocate Open Source. RMS advocates Free Software
"'People still don't understand SSL. This isn't much of a surprise... no one expects that grandma and grandpa know how to what SSL is and what it does"
Actually, everyone expects that grandpa nad grandma will understand SSL..if they want to do any secure transactions online. Not matter how the browsers display certificates, unless people know what they are and why they are there then they won't be secure. What percentage of people would call their bank to complain if they internet banking website didn't give an SSL certificate? Browsers make a big deal about fake certificates, or self-signed certificates, but don't say anything when you go do an unencrypted site. It's a terrible state of affairs, and until either secure transactions get eaiser or certificates are used widely enough that browsers can warn when a site isn't using one transactions of the average joe won't be secure at all.
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If your goal is to hide the original data that was hashed then SHA on small amounts of data is not a good idea.
If your goal is to verify that the data you have matches the hash you have then have faster SHA is good.
By making it easy for them to understand the implications of their actions.
Allowing hidden things to happen that cause security issues and then blaming the user is stupid.
Too many systems expect too much of their users.
Skeptics are necessary for all scientific theories. The 'how' of evolution still has missing pieces.
There are people that are skeptical of gravity, and that's a really good thing.
Life is a self correcting web, fuck it up and a few species die, the rest quickly adapt.
You put pressure on a species and it adapts..or it dies out and another species gets a chance to adapt.
With all the plastics we're dumping in the sea, it probably won't take long for species to adapt to either digest it, filter it out, or have some way of ridding themselves of it.
Your understanding of infinite is flawed.
"the end of all those infinite 9s"? what end? it's infinite.
infinite doesn't just mean really, really, really big. it's infinite, it has no end.
...then it wouldn't be a long walk.
unless the reference to 'long' is a reference to the time taken for the walk.
Yep, this idea has been had many times. FOAF is the most popular.
But freedom is a hard sell.The reason myspace and facebook etc. get such large users bases is specifically related to the walled garden way they operate. If I get a myspace account then if it to be useful I have to make all my friends get myspace accounts too. If they could follow what I was doing without getting such an account then they probably wouldn't bother.
I don't think deleting your Myspace account will do anything. They already have your data and you already agreed to allow them to redistribute it, just because you delete your account doesn't mean they have to delete your data. Facebook has the same agreement and will get to selling your data to the highest bidder sooner or later.
It's amazing that people will trade the labours of their mind for mere web hosting.
well you just look for it in your distribution's package reposito...oh you're running windows..Microsoft really should have something like that.
I guess they'll get around to it when they're done with all those important 3D desktop effects.
That other language was called "Go!" not "Go" and yeah everyone ignored him because nobody had heard of his language anyway.
Just maths ey? :P
Yeah, because maths is so easy. Being a great mathematician is no where near as awesome as being a great composer.
Human beings are great at pattern matching, it's what we do, it's all that we do. We aren't special.
The sooner we get used to that the less time and effort we'll waste fighting over stupid things.
- jessta
I always thought this was about the fact that the bad guy always draws first(because he's evil and wants to kill people) and the good guy always wins.
The good guy can't draw first because he's supposed to be avoiding the conflict and trying not to kill anyone.
and then the researchers discovered the Halting problem and pretended it didn't exist.
My guess is that it's a bot net becoming active.
The countries with higher traffic during that period are countries that are widely known to have high bot net activity they are also more likely to have server bot net activity, which is why they don't stripe like the over countries.
The stripes are likely day/night where infected PCs are turned off when not in use.
Putting your hand up to pay for the licensing of H.264?
At least with flash adobe was nice enough to make a linux version at no cost.
What makes this "little known"?
This is the whole reason we have SSL(TLS) and happens all the time, except usually nobody notices.
Getting a 200% increase in processing speed is reasonable. Most home computers are full of malicious software running in the background, removing that is definitely a speed increase.
If you're running a distributed system where each node is exactly the same and you just push out a standard image then you could have a 1:1000 ratio.
But if you have a a bunch of computers doing very specific things each one being different the ratio has to be less.
An average doesn't really make sense unless you can specify the usecase for these systems.
does this amount take in to account the massive amounts of money made by ignoring bugs and pushing forward anyway?
sure a program might have a bunch of bugs that costs $$ to patch and deal with on a daily basis, but the fact that you now need 90% less staff or that you can do 1000 times more business is likely to far outweigh the cost. Which of course is why businesses still love IT.
Sure better and less complex solutions could be created, but they take thinking and planning time and usually then have to deal with the massive mess anyway.
who cares about the computer, it's all about the keyboard.
huh?
ok, safe browsing 101:
1. install virtual box
2. install your operating system in virtual box
3. install a web browser in virtual box
4. get checksum of everything in virtual box image
5. open and use browser to access a page
6. close browser, check all checksums are fine, reboot vitural box image
7. goto 5
Don't open anything from inside the virtualbox on your main system and everything will be fine.
This isn't common sense, this is madness!
There is not way to be safe with just common sense. Every major browser constantly has vulnerabilities, every major plugin has vulnerabilities.
The hype works like this,
1. Replace IRC with IM(msn,yahoo etc.) in the user population which is more about one-to-one conversations and terrible at group conversations. These users are now completely unaware of IRC and are stuck with email for one-to-many communication.
2. Next you sell them various ways they can get back the one-to-many communication method(facebook,myspace,google wave)
3.???
4. PROFIT!
It's really that simple, everything old is new again...oh and now it's in your web browser so you can use those CPU cycles you're missing out on when your CPU would otherwise be sleeping.
If you sell people a 'computer' they'll expect it to run windows or at least run all their 'PC' software, but if you sell it as a PDA or a smartphone, or a netgadget thingy then they won't expect it to run 'PC' software and so won't mind that it doesn't.
eg. the iPhone is widely populate.
By pushing for the right to turn GPL-licensed software into the heart of a proprietary business model, he is squandering an opportunity for advocacy of open source within the European Union.
umm...RMS doesn't advocate Open Source. RMS advocates Free Software
"'People still don't understand SSL. This isn't much of a surprise... no one expects that grandma and grandpa know how to what SSL is and what it does"
Actually, everyone expects that grandpa nad grandma will understand SSL..if they want to do any secure transactions online.
Not matter how the browsers display certificates, unless people know what they are and why they are there then they won't be secure.
What percentage of people would call their bank to complain if they internet banking website didn't give an SSL certificate?
Browsers make a big deal about fake certificates, or self-signed certificates, but don't say anything when you go do an unencrypted site.
It's a terrible state of affairs, and until either secure transactions get eaiser or certificates are used widely enough that browsers can warn when a site isn't using one transactions of the average joe won't be secure at all.
- Jesse McNelis