Actually, it's probably pretty easy to generate a file that compresses to a given string (just uncompress the target). So I'd say the tarball layer is almost irrelevant. In any case, the fact that you cannot easily create an md5 preimage is the important fact (md5 was mostly designed for this thing to be hard to do).
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays Thankfully, no! What's easy is to create 2 files with the same MD5. What's still hard is to create a file with the same MD5 as an existing file.
that could well have been a revolution in naval technology (exploration, trade, warfare, etc.) if it was around in the 16th century. Especially if they had had the computers that this design requires;)
You're right. I thought they were talking about the tank, but they're talking about a plane. Besides, areal didn't really make sense, even for a tank, but on the other hand the military is known to bend the language on occasion.
Actually, I didn't dislike the puck nearly as much as the keyboards that came with iMacs (some computer clusters in college had those). Touch-typing was impossible given the amount of force needed to press a damn key.
No, not at all, for a Turing machine to be universal means that it can simulate any other Turing machine. Gödel's incompleteness theorem (although I don't remember it so well) is more akin to the impossibility of the halting problem.
They have retail distributions agreements in Russia and Thailand to sell boxed products at competitive local prices, rather than trying to get people who might earn $300 USD a month to shell out $50 USD for a game. This is called price discrimination; it typically profits the companies at the expense of consumers, and is in some cases illegal.
I doubt the heatsink is contributing anything to the patients ability to regulate cranial temperature. More likely, its providing an electrical ground that helps alleviate the conditions that lead to a seizure. I'm sure your years of research conclusively prove that those Japanese researchers are wrong.
All fuel sources have the exact some problem, from capacitors, to uranium, to gasoline. They can release all that energy dangerously under the wrong conditions. Well, it all depends how wrong the conditions have to be. It's hard to get a gasoline tank to blow up (or even burst into flame), for uranium it's much harder still (like requiring years of research to figure out a design that will allow it. Despite the fact that the energy density is billions of times higher than your typical chemical energy)
Isn't the floppy already dead? I mean, what can you do with one that you can't do with a USB thumb drive? Install Windows XP on a recent computer (with a SATA drive). I had to open my computer, and plug a floppy drive in. For the next reinstall (which of course had to happen) I just got an IDE drive.
Also, DVD is still not quite ubiquitous: most games still come in many CDs, when I would really prefer a single DVD.
Additionally, most the heat in the Earth's core is not stored (some of it is, coming e.g. from asteroid impacts), but mostly stems from radioactive activity, so it actually regenerates itself.
Is that right or is this a lack of creativity on your part? It's right. No matter how creative you want to be, there's nothing that can be done. Worst case, modify Firefox itself (the source is available) so that it spits out plaintext passwords. In practice you can just as easily (and more conveniently) rip out the de-obfuscation code.
acknowledge the fact and fix the problem Fix what problem? If Firefox can get to your passwords (without your input), then so can any other program (that has the same priviledges). There's nothing that can be done about it.
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GPLv2 worked fine for Linux in the past.
Some would not agree
Thanks for the link.
If opening mail is legal, then looking at your hard drive is practically nothing in comparison.
That sounds suspicious (for instance I doubt they can do it for mail). Care to back up that statement?
Actually, it's probably pretty easy to generate a file that compresses to a given string (just uncompress the target). So I'd say the tarball layer is almost irrelevant.
In any case, the fact that you cannot easily create an md5 preimage is the important fact (md5 was mostly designed for this thing to be hard to do).
Or more to the point hard to create a file with the same MD5 and still manages to contain functional code
Actually that's not that hard.
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays
Thankfully, no!
What's easy is to create 2 files with the same MD5. What's still hard is to create a file with the same MD5 as an existing file.
that could well have been a revolution in naval technology (exploration, trade, warfare, etc.) if it was around in the 16th century. ;)
Especially if they had had the computers that this design requires
Do you have any idea how much 2^2048 is?
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Reattaching after disconnecting from a remote computer is extremely useful.
It can also copy-paste.
You're right. I thought they were talking about the tank, but they're talking about a plane.
Besides, areal didn't really make sense, even for a tank, but on the other hand the military is known to bend the language on occasion.
I don't think we're talking about a flying tank here. Areal sounds weird but it's a real word.
Actually, I didn't dislike the puck nearly as much as the keyboards that came with iMacs (some computer clusters in college had those).
Touch-typing was impossible given the amount of force needed to press a damn key.
I'm sure Tesla wrote it down somewhere.
Actually I think it just couldn't fit in the margin
No, not at all, for a Turing machine to be universal means that it can simulate any other Turing machine.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem (although I don't remember it so well) is more akin to the impossibility of the halting problem.
They have retail distributions agreements in Russia and Thailand to sell boxed products at competitive local prices, rather than trying to get people who might earn $300 USD a month to shell out $50 USD for a game.
This is called price discrimination; it typically profits the companies at the expense of consumers, and is in some cases illegal.
tens of millions of years
You mean tens of billions I assume? And by dissipate you mean sublimate?
I doubt the heatsink is contributing anything to the patients ability to regulate cranial temperature. More likely, its providing an electrical ground that helps alleviate the conditions that lead to a seizure.
I'm sure your years of research conclusively prove that those Japanese researchers are wrong.
What the hell do you do with an 'ether lord fucking net'?
You glue the sex rubber mat.
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All fuel sources have the exact some problem, from capacitors, to uranium, to gasoline. They can release all that energy dangerously under the wrong conditions.
Well, it all depends how wrong the conditions have to be.
It's hard to get a gasoline tank to blow up (or even burst into flame), for uranium it's much harder still (like requiring years of research to figure out a design that will allow it. Despite the fact that the energy density is billions of times higher than your typical chemical energy)
Isn't the floppy already dead? I mean, what can you do with one that you can't do with a USB thumb drive?
Install Windows XP on a recent computer (with a SATA drive).
I had to open my computer, and plug a floppy drive in.
For the next reinstall (which of course had to happen) I just got an IDE drive.
Also, DVD is still not quite ubiquitous: most games still come in many CDs, when I would really prefer a single DVD.
Additionally, most the heat in the Earth's core is not stored (some of it is, coming e.g. from asteroid impacts), but mostly stems from radioactive activity, so it actually regenerates itself.
What about trains? I haven't heard of many people being afraid of riding trains, but you don't have any more control.
Is that right or is this a lack of creativity on your part?
It's right. No matter how creative you want to be, there's nothing that can be done.
Worst case, modify Firefox itself (the source is available) so that it spits out plaintext passwords. In practice you can just as easily (and more conveniently) rip out the de-obfuscation code.
acknowledge the fact and fix the problem
Fix what problem?
If Firefox can get to your passwords (without your input), then so can any other program (that has the same priviledges). There's nothing that can be done about it.