... will the performance be better than the already existing ways of searching a local fs? Percision is not much of an issue when I search for something, either I know the filename or the extension, Google won't really help with that. Maybe they'll use some kind of index to search faster... but I think Windows 2000+ already does that(at least XP).
Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and criminals from taking advantage of the completely secure communication network, he said.
And exactly how are they going to tell terrorists from normal workers at a company where they installed this crypto thingy? Of course, the admins could monitor the users, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the encryption in the first place.
Also, how are they going to implement this? Will they have to replace/addparalell all the current infranetstructure with new photon-cables or something?!
The article mentioner neither how modable the game is nor if there's multiplayer.
None of the games have had multiplayer yet, even though Thief 2 was quite close. There might be some hacks that allow for it, I've lost the install CD anyway so I do not care.
Thief 2 was actually quite moddable, or maybe not. I didn't look too much into the editor, the map editor used the scary CSG approach where you carve stuff out of the void.
Does anyone have any information on these subjects? Not that it'll stop me from buying the game, I'm just interested:)
You're making this sound much more interesting than it is >:)
I want killer robots running around killing anyone that approaches their precious water, not some weak water sample collecting robots a 3 year old baby can beat!!
I don't know what you are trying to say, but my keyboard is really bad, some characters aren't entered unless I press them hard enough, 'S' is one of them. (I'm not writing at that keyboard now though).
Using a bad keyboard and faking keypresses might be an interesting method to stop this kind of cracking, I'll make sure to replace all the keyboards in my office.
The site was really slow, so I copied the article:
OAKLAND -- Listen to this: Eavesdroppers can decipher what is typed by simply listening to the sound of a keystroke, according to a scientist at this week's IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.
Each key on computer keyboards, telephones and even ATM machines makes a unique sound as each key is depressed and released, according to a paper entitled "Keyboard Acoustic Emanations" presented Monday by IBM research scientist Dmitri Asonov.
All that is needed is about $200 worth of microphones and sound processing and PC neural networking software.
Today's keyboard, telephone keypads, ATM machines and even door locks have a rubber membrane underneath the keys.
"This membrane acts like a drum, and each key hits the drum in a different location and produces a unique frequency or sound that the neural networking software can decipher," said Asonov.
Asonov found that by recording the same sound of a keystroke about 30 times and feeding it into a PC runninG standard neural netwOrking softwAre, he could decipher the keys with an 80% accuracy raTe. He was also able to train the SoftwarE on one keyboard to decipher the keystrokes on any other keyboard of the same make and model.
Good sound quality is not required to recognize the acoustic signature or frequency of the key. In fact, Asonov was able to extract the audio captured by a cellular phone and still decipher the signal.
"But don't panic," Asonov cautioned. "There are some easy ways to fix the problem." First, close the door in the room where you're working. Second, buy a rubber keyboard coffee guard that will dampen the sound enough to make eavesdropping difficult.
However, Asonov said that he believed it was possible to use acoustical analysis algorithms to decipher key sounds based simply on gathering the data from just a couple of keys and extrapolating what other keys should sound like.
Asonov warned that his work was almost entirely based on the evidence from his experiments and that he has little or no theoretical information to back up his theories. For example, he discovered that it was the membrane that was providing the unique signature simply by cutting a keyboard in two and finding that the neural networking software no longer worked.
This restriction is not to limit free speech and free information. No, they restricted the internet to keep all the immature kids off the internet to make China look much better. How many times haven't you wanted to punch someone through the screen? I haven't ever, but I've heard stories.
And of course this won't stop everything, just being 18 won't stop anyone from trollwarring on the internet or in whatever games the chinese play.
"BitKeeper has made me more than twice as productive, and its fundamentally distributed nature allows me to work the way I prefer to work - with many different groups working independently, yet allowing for easy merging between them."-- Linus Torvalds, February 2004
Interesting... and BTW, is BK just another SCM(is that the right acronym;)?) or what?
Slashdot Mirror
Could this be the first spammer that has been caught and sentenced?
The author expresses concern about games' influence on the young
What the hell are the parents doing?!
... will the performance be better than the already existing ways of searching a local fs? Percision is not much of an issue when I search for something, either I know the filename or the extension, Google won't really help with that. Maybe they'll use some kind of index to search faster... but I think Windows 2000+ already does that(at least XP).
Just send an e-mail to the address you want, if it's not avaible you'll get an error message right away.
:)
That's what happened to me at least
The war of acronyms. FS is another one.
Isn't that already used everywhere, or am I just very ... disinformed, yeah, dis might not sound very well >_
Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and criminals from taking advantage of the completely secure communication network, he said.
And exactly how are they going to tell terrorists from normal workers at a company where they installed this crypto thingy? Of course, the admins could monitor the users, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of the encryption in the first place.
Also, how are they going to implement this? Will they have to replace/addparalell all the current infranetstructure with new photon-cables or something?!
I got the impression that just including the link would be enough :/
I did probaby not read well enough though.
Could you consider SourceForge a 'plog'?
The article mentioner neither how modable the game is nor if there's multiplayer.
:)
None of the games have had multiplayer yet, even though Thief 2 was quite close. There might be some hacks that allow for it, I've lost the install CD anyway so I do not care.
Thief 2 was actually quite moddable, or maybe not. I didn't look too much into the editor, the map editor used the scary CSG approach where you carve stuff out of the void.
Does anyone have any information on these subjects? Not that it'll stop me from buying the game, I'm just interested
Interesting, first a cure for HIV, and now one for Cancer, what's next, the cure for 1337 5p34k?
The code is of course copyrighted, meaning that he broke international copyright laws. That is kind of illegal.
Do people from outside the US have any information on grad school in their country?
:) No, sorry.
Perhaps they do... oh, wait, that's me
Aimbottin' in Counter-Strike doesn't increase my self-esteem at all :'( Only if I play against pros, and they kill me sometimes...
Couldn't you consider this an attack on America and use it as an excuse to invade India :)?
You're making this sound much more interesting than it is >:)
I want killer robots running around killing anyone that approaches their precious water, not some weak water sample collecting robots a 3 year old baby can beat!!
Not at all, I thought everyone knew this... I don't live in America though...
Well, it would theoretically be better than something like computer science, right?
There were enough games to make me happy, IMO (IANAL)!
:)
Including some new Thief game and Half-Life 2, anything else pales in comparision
I don't know what you are trying to say, but my keyboard is really bad, some characters aren't entered unless I press them hard enough, 'S' is one of them. (I'm not writing at that keyboard now though).
Using a bad keyboard and faking keypresses might be an interesting method to stop this kind of cracking, I'll make sure to replace all the keyboards in my office.
Yeah, I put a surprise in there too
This restriction is not to limit free speech and free information. No, they restricted the internet to keep all the immature kids off the internet to make China look much better. How many times haven't you wanted to punch someone through the screen? I haven't ever, but I've heard stories.
And of course this won't stop everything, just being 18 won't stop anyone from trollwarring on the internet or in whatever games the chinese play.
Thanks, this diagram explains everything!
"BitKeeper has made me more than twice as productive, and its fundamentally distributed nature allows me to work the way I prefer to work - with many different groups working independently, yet allowing for easy merging between them." -- Linus Torvalds, February 2004
;)?) or what?
Interesting... and BTW, is BK just another SCM(is that the right acronym
If it is, I'm using Subversion, and it's nice ^^