Why does Apple insist on calling iTunes/Pod the "World's Best Digital Music Experience"?
It's true--they're becoming too Microsoft-ish if they title the article that based on the idea that the iPod is the #1 music player in the world (1st par).
Even if that's the case, I should hope it's not the best digital music experience. Frankly, unless they've got a huge frickin' mixing board running separate tracks for all instruments rolled into a single player, then all it is is the best portable player. The Best digital music experience...? That costs thousands of dollars in the form of recording/playback equipment and big fucking speakers.
That's a total misnomer if you're running windows. The Lan Manager hash isn't case sensitive and has a length limit. It's still stored by default in XP, 2000, etc. Once that's cracked (which would take a month at the longest on my Athlon xp2100+), the number of possible case-sensitive solutions takes a matter of seconds to run through.
Still, the issue is gaining access to the password hashes.
You cannot stop technologies. What we do is we adapt to the changing technologies (and advertising environment) and continue to operate the business successfully.
That knife cuts both ways. You'll keep developing new ways to serve adds, and we'll keep blocking them.
I do think, however, that there are more people who dislike popups than who benefit from their continuing as a viable marketing option.
Dawning is the unique Chinese high-tech company which can manufacture not only low end PC server worth $1,200 but also high end MPP system worth millions USD.
They seem to serve a lot of different customers, but I have a feeling the government will be making use of this baby.
That's all nice and well, but the average user isn't going to upgrade at all. A good deal of them never even set the admin password in the first place.
Take the guy in my apartment, for instance. I'm using his wireless. His AP is totally open--default SSID and all. I know he doesn't care, but what if he were a business? There's no way he's going to upgrade firmware if he can't even set a simple password.
... but something about this type of cryptography seems a little bit fishy. what about a man in the middle attack? if you simply pass along exactly what you found, how can one computer tell that a change has been made from the original?
Once survivors gain access to the data, questions may also arise about who actually owns it. If a person saved a book manuscript on a hard drive and left the machine to a friend, for instance, the friend might try to claim ownership of the manuscript as well.
Think about it this way:
The computer is a container. It holds the information that is put into it; nothing more, nothing less. If I indicate that my bookshelves are going to my younger brother after my death, does that mean the books are too? If I bequeath him my dresser, does he get the clothes as well? I doubt it.
Information property is tricky business. It takes up little (no) physical space, so it's easy to forget. Instead of simply erasing disks or automatically passing along whatever they contain, computers need to be emptied just like the rooms of a house would be. Then everything needs to be sorted through--it doesn't all automatically go to whoever gets the house.
This also bleeds into the issue that people have with EULAs: No one ever reads them.
The GAIN Trickler and other similar programs are very often installed legally and volutarily by users themselves. Oftentimes installing the software is predicated upon accepting these "malicious" programs. If a user has in fact agreed to install software, it may be (and yes, I'm playing the devil's advocate here) a perfectly logical step to avoid uninstalling it.
Imagine if the toolbar uninstalled program updates, patches, and other things automatically installed. We'd hate it. Of course, we're only complaining because it's not doing what we want; however, I don't think we should freak out at Yahoo. The program still operates within the scope of its definition.
In 1995, Nicely discovered a flaw in the Intel Pentium microprocessor by computing the reciprocals of 824,633,702,441 and 824,633,702,443, which should have been accurate to 19 decimal places but were incorrect from the tenth decimal place on (Cipra 1995, 1996; Nicely 1996).
Isn't math great?
Hopefully this new paper will have some good cryptographic applications.
Think about it this way:
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IT in and of itself is quite useful. Our world is quite locked in to using technology.
Some modern improvemnts, however, are of little strategic value (to the vast majority of customers).
Take Microsoft's updates to Word in the past years. The significance of the updates in Word from Office 2000 through XP to 2003 is little to none. Thanks to backwards compatibility, I can run an old Linux box to serve websites, and it won't matter that the technology is from 1998 (assuming I secure the machine).
I wouldn't say innovation is worthless, but a lot of IT has become maintaining unecessary updates.
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posting on Wikis doesn't screw up your own blog.
posts on message boards will be deleted quickly, unless the board is expressly google bombing (as in the current Nigritude Ultramarine 1st placer) / people are stupid
i think the idea is that wikis make it easier in general for your post to stay up and not affect your blog.
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Why does Apple insist on calling iTunes/Pod the "World's Best Digital Music Experience"?
It's true--they're becoming too Microsoft-ish if they title the article that based on the idea that the iPod is the #1 music player in the world (1st par).
Even if that's the case, I should hope it's not the best digital music experience. Frankly, unless they've got a huge frickin' mixing board running separate tracks for all instruments rolled into a single player, then all it is is the best portable player. The Best digital music experience...? That costs thousands of dollars in the form of recording/playback equipment and big fucking speakers.
That's a total misnomer if you're running windows. The Lan Manager hash isn't case sensitive and has a length limit. It's still stored by default in XP, 2000, etc. Once that's cracked (which would take a month at the longest on my Athlon xp2100+), the number of possible case-sensitive solutions takes a matter of seconds to run through.
Still, the issue is gaining access to the password hashes.
That knife cuts both ways. You'll keep developing new ways to serve adds, and we'll keep blocking them.
I do think, however, that there are more people who dislike popups than who benefit from their continuing as a viable marketing option.
Advantage: Us.
A good password is:
I don't think so. On a single machine it takes l0phtcrack a day or two to crack passwords with only letters and numbers.
It took my comp 36 days to crack the M$ generated ASPNET user account; it's generated from the full keyboard charset.
Password policies like this won't enhance security. Maybe disabling LM hashes would, but the vulnerability is still there.
The computer's being created by Dawning Information Industry Co. (US Site).
According to their company profile,
They seem to serve a lot of different customers, but I have a feeling the government will be making use of this baby.
That's all nice and well, but the average user isn't going to upgrade at all. A good deal of them never even set the admin password in the first place.
Take the guy in my apartment, for instance. I'm using his wireless. His AP is totally open--default SSID and all. I know he doesn't care, but what if he were a business? There's no way he's going to upgrade firmware if he can't even set a simple password.
This number, surprisingly enough, is also the total amount of wooden furniture shipped from Malaysia to Bahrain in 1998. Conpsiracy! Conspiracy!
just make everyone see movies naked--no cameras to conceal!
TV on a watch is a waste of time. Shrink down a PDA and give me wireless access and then I'll give you a thought.
Good to know it's not just the lead paint in my apartment.
btw, that article doesn't mention the university of washington at all. Google doesn't seem to think they have anything, either
this just in:
C'mon guys, quit dickin' around and release some software./p.
I expect universities to start issuing degrees in English with a Spam option now.
I won't settle for anything less.
that explains the porn advertisement posts on my blog with IPs tracing back to infected machines all over the world...
damn those script kiddies.
theoretically, if the photon was sent by a computer, another computer could mimic that transmission.
you measure it. you destroy it. so what? you've got all there is to know about the data that's been sent; use that info to send out an exact replica.
i'm sure there's something i don't understand here. explain it.
... but something about this type of cryptography seems a little bit fishy. what about a man in the middle attack? if you simply pass along exactly what you found, how can one computer tell that a change has been made from the original?
sounds like this should be modified for some wardriving.. er... walking.
Think about it this way:
The computer is a container. It holds the information that is put into it; nothing more, nothing less. If I indicate that my bookshelves are going to my younger brother after my death, does that mean the books are too? If I bequeath him my dresser, does he get the clothes as well? I doubt it.
Information property is tricky business. It takes up little (no) physical space, so it's easy to forget. Instead of simply erasing disks or automatically passing along whatever they contain, computers need to be emptied just like the rooms of a house would be. Then everything needs to be sorted through--it doesn't all automatically go to whoever gets the house.
This also bleeds into the issue that people have with EULAs: No one ever reads them.
The GAIN Trickler and other similar programs are very often installed legally and volutarily by users themselves. Oftentimes installing the software is predicated upon accepting these "malicious" programs. If a user has in fact agreed to install software, it may be (and yes, I'm playing the devil's advocate here) a perfectly logical step to avoid uninstalling it.
Imagine if the toolbar uninstalled program updates, patches, and other things automatically installed. We'd hate it. Of course, we're only complaining because it's not doing what we want; however, I don't think we should freak out at Yahoo. The program still operates within the scope of its definition.
Additionally: In a desperate attempt to fuel Yahoo's status as a search engine, the new Yahoo! toolbar blocks google.com via the hosts file...
Or not.. :)
Sounds like I need one for when I clean my apartment out. Do you do overnight delivery?
This, as we all know, is the spaceship equivalent of a middle aged man gettin' some for the first time in a long while.
Now I can email spammers back with a fresh scented fart!
Sign me up.
Isn't math great?
Hopefully this new paper will have some good cryptographic applications.
IT in and of itself is quite useful. Our world is quite locked in to using technology.
Some modern improvemnts, however, are of little strategic value (to the vast majority of customers).
Take Microsoft's updates to Word in the past years. The significance of the updates in Word from Office 2000 through XP to 2003 is little to none. Thanks to backwards compatibility, I can run an old Linux box to serve websites, and it won't matter that the technology is from 1998 (assuming I secure the machine).
I wouldn't say innovation is worthless, but a lot of IT has become maintaining unecessary updates.