But the whole point of the design of MD5 is such that you can never create or discover any two such different files that hash to the same value.
Right...but that's not what your parent is saying. I agree the point of MD5 is that different files ==> different hashes; same files ==>same hashes.
However, suppose we all rip using the same encoder/settings and add the same id3 tags. We should all produce identical mp3 files (assuming the CDs aren't horribly mutilated, the encoder doesn't use any sort of pseudorandom stuff, etc), since it's deterministic.
Those files, being identical, should have identical hashes. There's no need for the mp3 fairy.
While you put it a bit more harshly than I would have, you're 100% on. My use/involvement with Linux chiefly about using something like I like to do what I like to do, but, if it happens to stick it to Billy G & co in the process, so much the better.
That said, if SuSE, RedHat, and friends want to sit down and develop a standardized desktop, more power to them. I'd personally rather see a faster/smaller/smarter kernel or some wiz-bang apps first, but to each his own; I'm fine with KDE.
Also, when cells die the DNA is nicked into little itty-bitty pieces, even when the rest of the organism is still alive. (This happens in apoptosis and necrosis). If you're extra bored look up TUNEL and ISEL+ staining with google to see how that can be used to find dead cells.
I've never tried to clone a mammoth, but I assume this would make it a lot harder.
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Right...but that's not what your parent is saying. I agree the point of MD5 is that different files ==> different hashes; same files ==>same hashes.
However, suppose we all rip using the same encoder/settings and add the same id3 tags. We should all produce identical mp3 files (assuming the CDs aren't horribly mutilated, the encoder doesn't use any sort of pseudorandom stuff, etc), since it's deterministic.
Those files, being identical, should have identical hashes. There's no need for the mp3 fairy.
While you put it a bit more harshly than I would have, you're 100% on. My use/involvement with Linux chiefly about using something like I like to do what I like to do, but, if it happens to stick it to Billy G & co in the process, so much the better.
That said, if SuSE, RedHat, and friends want to sit down and develop a standardized desktop, more power to them. I'd personally rather see a faster/smaller/smarter kernel or some wiz-bang apps first, but to each his own; I'm fine with KDE.
Also, when cells die the DNA is nicked into little itty-bitty pieces, even when the rest of the organism is still alive. (This happens in apoptosis and necrosis). If you're extra bored look up TUNEL and ISEL+ staining with google to see how that can be used to find dead cells. I've never tried to clone a mammoth, but I assume this would make it a lot harder.