I was going to post that relating one type of explosion to another type is a good analogy, but was beaten to the punch. What I will ask is why are you complaining about it when you yourself admit that the analogy is a good one? Can you think of a better one?
Does this mean that 5 hour download to upgrade stuff on my Linux box because I didn't upgrade for like 2 weeks and some bigger stuff came out (openoffice upgrade, kde 4.2, etc.), is going to take even longer? That, I hate. I already didn't have enough time to sit here and wait for the damn 5 hour downloading.
I don't know how you're doing it, but I have my machines download updates every night. It only applies them when I say to. The point is that watching downloads is pointless; there's nothing there that you're needed for. Let the downloads happen automatically and be present during the install if you want to be.
Six months after launch day: The Nano 2nd generation is announced. All apps have either been ported, or portable equivalents have been written.
You forgot to mention that at that time, they'll come out with the iPhone Nano v2, thus simultaneously alienating a lot of people who gushed to get the v1 and sucking cash from all those who need the latest geegaw from Apple.
Has it not percolated into your tiny brain that we don't recognize the legitimacy of the bodies that make the laws?
That is a slippery slope, friend. You have chosen to live in a society and by extension have chosen to live by society's rules. If everyone gets to pick and choose which ones they want to abide by and not, then that becomes anarchy. Under your argument, if I don't agree with the rule that people have a right to private property, I can break down your door, take your stuff, and it's cool because I don't agree with the rule.
Because, in the security realm, even a partial break is taken seriously. It implies that there could be unknown weaknesses in the algorithm/protocol that are waiting to be discovered and exploited.
Laws are ostensibly society's guidelines for acceptable behavior. Are you saying that MS should somehow strive to be more acceptable than what society deems sufficient?
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
Perhaps you were being funny, but I think a lot of people go to school for CS because they want to be programmers. I don't know much about it, but from my understanding, CS is more a branch of applied mathematics than about Java and such.
I know that when I signed the contract with my current employer, it was clear that I was a salaried worker. Unless they somehow snuck that one in on them, I'd say that if they signed the contract, they knew what they were getting into. And, unless I miss my guess, companies offer a salary (as opposed to an hourly wage) to someone with the expectation that it will be cheaper for them to do that than to pay the wage when the eventual overtime comes. Said more succinctly, the expectation is that salaried workers will work overtime and not be paid for it.
When you have a list of things to which a common adjective is applied, you can move the adjective to the front of the list and there's an implied application to all the members in the list. For example:
AJAX word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, presentation-building software, e-mail client, note-taking software
is equivalent to
AJAX word processor, AJAX spreadsheet, AJAX calendar, AJAX presentation-building software, AJAX e-mail client, AJAX note-taking software.
This is especially true when the context suggests that you might be speaking about things that qualify as being identified by that adjective.
In the table for "Cwazymail", I was trying to figure out what the pictures were. One's an elephant, one's an owl, and one is a man pulling apart his anus. Great!
So...when I type 'aptitude upgrade' on my knoppix-to-hd machine, it's not upgrading anything? As far as I can tell, Knoppix is just debian with a lot of the crap already installed and configured. Granted, there's a lot of extraneous junk (I don't need anything relating to ISDN for instance, but it's installed), but it's easy enough to take out. At the same time, you have to appreciate that they're trying to produce something that will work for damn near anyone.
So basically, you're telling me that if I like the way that a particular LiveCD is set up, you'd rather install the distro upon which it was based and sit and redo all of the configuration work that the LiveCD author has already done? An interesting choice, that eliteists and the unemployed would make. Nice flamebait, though.
Isn't open source about choice? Who the crap are you to tell me that I can't boot a live cd, say "I love the way this looks, I want to use it as my daily desktop"? I did, in fact, install knoppix to my hard drive. I'm posting from it right now.
What did you expect? It's a system for installing Linux software. You ran it on a non-Linux operating system...which is therefore unsupported. Jebus...
So what someone has done here is pre-hashed an entire dictionary
Kind of. If I understand it correctly, for every LM hash someone has computed an input such that the hash of that input is the hash in question. This is different from what you're proposing in that with a dictionay attack, not every hash is guaranteed to be covered. In this case, someone has "computed" the reverse hash. That is to say that given an arbitrary hash value as input, you can get a value that hashes to that back as output.
They'll pump out more code than you're(sic) slowbie QA people can handle.
Good idea...build a cantilevered code base so that when QA finds the bug you made two weeks ago (and they will; you're not perfect), you've already built a bunch of code on top of the bug. Guess you'll have to put the Half Life down for a while as you look for a way to untangle it.
Grrr....creatine != steroids. Creatine is stored in the muscles as creatine phosphate. Creatine phosphate helps re-promote ADP to ATP in the muscles. That's it. So, it helps you perform strength movements longer. It's not magic.
Well, the great thing about open source is that MS has the power to contribute; just like anybody else. It's one thing when Joe User says "it would be nice if X had feature Y". He may not know how to program. Microsoft sure as hell has the resources to make this a reality. Hell, they could just write an extension so that the core product isn't polluted, and users have the option to turn it on and off at their discretion.
Just a thought
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I was going to post that relating one type of explosion to another type is a good analogy, but was beaten to the punch. What I will ask is why are you complaining about it when you yourself admit that the analogy is a good one? Can you think of a better one?
I don't know how you're doing it, but I have my machines download updates every night. It only applies them when I say to. The point is that watching downloads is pointless; there's nothing there that you're needed for. Let the downloads happen automatically and be present during the install if you want to be.
You forgot to mention that at that time, they'll come out with the iPhone Nano v2, thus simultaneously alienating a lot of people who gushed to get the v1 and sucking cash from all those who need the latest geegaw from Apple.
That is a slippery slope, friend. You have chosen to live in a society and by extension have chosen to live by society's rules. If everyone gets to pick and choose which ones they want to abide by and not, then that becomes anarchy. Under your argument, if I don't agree with the rule that people have a right to private property, I can break down your door, take your stuff, and it's cool because I don't agree with the rule.
Because, in the security realm, even a partial break is taken seriously. It implies that there could be unknown weaknesses in the algorithm/protocol that are waiting to be discovered and exploited.
Laws are ostensibly society's guidelines for acceptable behavior. Are you saying that MS should somehow strive to be more acceptable than what society deems sufficient?
The shows and their original networks:
Star Trek: NBC
MacGyver: ABC
BH 90210: Fox
Y & R: CBS
I guess I don't understand how these things work...
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
Perhaps you were being funny, but I think a lot of people go to school for CS because they want to be programmers. I don't know much about it, but from my understanding, CS is more a branch of applied mathematics than about Java and such.
I know that when I signed the contract with my current employer, it was clear that I was a salaried worker. Unless they somehow snuck that one in on them, I'd say that if they signed the contract, they knew what they were getting into. And, unless I miss my guess, companies offer a salary (as opposed to an hourly wage) to someone with the expectation that it will be cheaper for them to do that than to pay the wage when the eventual overtime comes. Said more succinctly, the expectation is that salaried workers will work overtime and not be paid for it.
When you have a list of things to which a common adjective is applied, you can move the adjective to the front of the list and there's an implied application to all the members in the list. For example:
is equivalent toThis is especially true when the context suggests that you might be speaking about things that qualify as being identified by that adjective.
Since when do we call denizens of China "Chinee"?
In the table for "Cwazymail", I was trying to figure out what the pictures were. One's an elephant, one's an owl, and one is a man pulling apart his anus. Great!
So...when I type 'aptitude upgrade' on my knoppix-to-hd machine, it's not upgrading anything? As far as I can tell, Knoppix is just debian with a lot of the crap already installed and configured. Granted, there's a lot of extraneous junk (I don't need anything relating to ISDN for instance, but it's installed), but it's easy enough to take out. At the same time, you have to appreciate that they're trying to produce something that will work for damn near anyone.
So basically, you're telling me that if I like the way that a particular LiveCD is set up, you'd rather install the distro upon which it was based and sit and redo all of the configuration work that the LiveCD author has already done? An interesting choice, that eliteists and the unemployed would make. Nice flamebait, though.
What did you expect? It's a system for installing Linux software. You ran it on a non-Linux operating system...which is therefore unsupported. Jebus...
Pretentious is an adjective, pretentiously is an adverb.
Kind of. If I understand it correctly, for every LM hash someone has computed an input such that the hash of that input is the hash in question. This is different from what you're proposing in that with a dictionay attack, not every hash is guaranteed to be covered. In this case, someone has "computed" the reverse hash. That is to say that given an arbitrary hash value as input, you can get a value that hashes to that back as output.
Mourn you 'til I join you. Easiiiide!
Grrr....creatine != steroids. Creatine is stored in the muscles as creatine phosphate. Creatine phosphate helps re-promote ADP to ATP in the muscles. That's it. So, it helps you perform strength movements longer. It's not magic.
Unless I miss my guess, you're describing the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
Well, the great thing about open source is that MS has the power to contribute; just like anybody else. It's one thing when Joe User says "it would be nice if X had feature Y". He may not know how to program. Microsoft sure as hell has the resources to make this a reality. Hell, they could just write an extension so that the core product isn't polluted, and users have the option to turn it on and off at their discretion. Just a thought