Yeah, imagine if ATT had not been broken up, cable companies had been kept out of CLEC competition and the big global carriers like Level3 had not been allowed to grow...
<sarcasm>Yep, life at 56kB would have really rocked! Man I LOVE ATT they really know what's best for us. </sarcasm>
I worked in a college computer lab with a Russian expat
He was extremely familiar with DCL (Digital Command Language) and VAX architecture. Apparently, he had spent years working on DEC VAX clones in the old Soviet Union.
I also remember reading that DEC would etch stuff like "check six" in Russian onto integrated circuits to let the Russians know that they knew it was being reverse engineered
Especially when your ability to use them results in a decent paycheck?
I would much rather have the people who hate computers just stay the hell away from them, while "me and mine" take advantage of their prejudice and earn a living.
In the case of 2/3rds....66 is not the proper equivalent, because the truncated value (.006666...) is greater than.005 and you have to round UP
So, the proper value for 2/3rds in this case would be.67, which yields 138.02, which is easily rounded to 138 people
I swear, we need some sort of remedial math training for politicians, that can be the only explanation for the fact that they continually pass unfunded mandates while cutting taxes. That might be a great way to get re-elected, but it is a damn poor way to balance the books
"An underlying assumption of this analysis is that the complete keyspace is used to generate keys, something that relies on an effective random number generator. For example, a number of systems that were originally thought to be impossible to crack by brute force have nevertheless been cracked in this way because the key space to search through was found to be much smaller than originally thought, due to a lack of entropy in their pseudorandom number generators. These include Netscape's implementation of SSL (famously cracked by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner in 1995[2]) and a Debian edition of OpenSSL discovered in 2008 to be flawed.[3]"
That is to say, in the case of SSL 56 bit encryption, they used the date as a seed value and did not employ the entire 56 bits (more like 40 if I remember correctly). Deep Crack was built from custom chips built for crypto and fabbed at TSMC. The 'Unbreakable' keys ( they estimated something like the life of the Universe to crack them) were being knocked off in 56 hours.
So, I reserve the right to ignore your 'estimate' of 13 trillion years and maintain the expectation of AES128 being regularly cracked in less than a week before December of 2016
A brute force attack will always succeed, it will just take a long time. Never is a very long time and computers just keep getting faster.
Maybe you meant to say that there will never be a shortcut (cipher collisions, back door, etc...) to brute forcing AES128, but that is just a widely held opinion at this point, just waiting to get disproven.
Here's a quote for anybody that wants to live (and die) by their own powers of estimation: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis-" final words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words
Honestly, I do not know what passes for 'knowledge about Oracle', but your comments seem pretty naive.
In the Oracle applications stack, about 90% of code (stored procedures, triggers, table structures etc...) are plainly visible on an installed application stack. The rest (Java runtimes) can be decompiled with readily available tools. Plus, if you have a current support contract, almost everything (technical reference manual, support notes, bug reports, white papers, check lists, etc...)is available on Metalink.
My point is that Oracle has been behaving _mostly_ as an open source company (Ok database executables are a different story) for quite a long time.
The hard part is putting it all together. I have been up to my elbows in this (as a developer) for 15 years, and I only really grok about 15% (prolly less) of the apps.
This is where the Oracle Service and Support revenue model comes in.
Trust me, they get OSS, they are just trying to figure out how to wring more out of the business model.
Just in case you think that Oracle does not understand that... then look what they are doing to database customers that run on sun gear... They are going to get their database support dropped, unless they have their Sun support active.
Seems like they know what they want and how to get it.
Look at any publicly available information about Ares and you will see something like this: "The first stage is a more powerful and reusable solid fuel rocket derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_I#First_stage
So, there you go, in easily digestible pre-chewed wiki-ese, the Ares is based on the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket...
Which just happens to have been created by Morton-Thiokol in the 1970's... A company that Armstrong used to sit on the board of... And we are just supposed to takes his comments as whole truth and not ask any questions???
Sorry, smash, but I don't roll that way.
What I gotta ask is... Where the fuck are the mag-lev rail launchers and ballistic cannons to get LOTS of material into space? Where can I go to the local god damned space port and catch a rocket-plane to LEO? Why he hell does everybody going up into the clouds still need to be rated as an astronaut... And just why the FUCK am I NOT working as a Space Cowboy keeping neer-do-wells from messing with the Asteroid miners?
However great a pilot Armstrong has been (literally superhuman when you consider various 'accidents' during early tests of docking in Earth orbit), he sat on the board of Morton-Thiokol (supplier of solid rocket boosters for shuttle missions) for over a decade, until retirement.
Morton-Thiokol is HEAVILY invested in current technology supporting both the shuttle and Ares/Constellation.
I see Armstrong's support for the Ares/Constellation plan as more support for his employer, than for the space program.
It is time to quit lining the pockets of contractors to keep building 1970's technology for the space program and develop some game-changing technology for getting material into orbit. As it is, we are sooooo engrossed with 1970's tech (like returning to the moon???) that we will never send men to the Asteroid Belt in my lifetime.
I had one candidate who sold their self as an experienced Business Analyst. By googling them, I found a posting by somebody with the same name, location and contact number who listed their experience as Admin Assistant with relevant skills in typing, scheduling and filing. Hardly what they claimed on their resume.
In another case I flew a candidate out for an interview, only to find that they posted to their myspace how they 'jacked' a free trip out of some sucker and were heading to Mexico for a vacation after the interview since we flew them out here.
Neither one got my recommendation, hardly grounds for any lawsuit
Documentum has been the leader in document management systems for years, the down side is that it can be expensive, difficult to program (docbasic???) and only runs (really) well on Oracle database (do NOT run it on SQLServer).
Filenet is not a bad system, but it has gotten hella expensive since IBM started calling it Enterprise Content Manager.
Sharepoint is a Documentum killer, in about two more releases. My team makes pretty good use of it, but I honestly am not impressed by the overall performance, configurability (expect to code webapps to meet difficult requirements) and the data model behind 'lists'
If you really do not want your management to consider Sharepoint, then arrange a performance benchmark between Sharepoint and Documentum involving several hundred simultaneous users and scale it up to a few thousand. Documentum will chug through it like a trooper and Sharepoint will be dead in the water
Seems like wise Judge Chin is looking for one of the plaintiffs to give up ownership in order to save the books from being cut in half... How biblical, and entirely unlikely:)
that the bullshit noise that fox news and deniers spread around got quashed by some actual investigation.
I think that the crap that the right wing manages to pass off as 'facts' has done a lot to hurt any attempt to debate issues openly with any chance of keeping the discussion rational and factual
Sure... sure... However, IBM has about 400,000 employees, probably bringin on a few thousand out of each graduating class.
There is usually only one or two 'Lebrons' that show up in a graduating class.
IF we taught mathmatics and statistics to our children, then the choice to go with the (relatively) certain tech job over the (totally) unlikely NBA career would be obvious.
Unfortunately we don't, and our youth suffer as a result
...is state subsidized computer "crime" education.
Israel has had state sponsored training for decades and looky looky they have plenty of forensic experts...
In the US we threaten anybody that touches these tools with prison and let the mpaa sue Professors that attempt to study anything remotely like security.
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Yeah, imagine if ATT had not been broken up, cable companies had been kept out of CLEC competition and the big global carriers like Level3 had not been allowed to grow...
<sarcasm>Yep, life at 56kB would have really rocked! Man I LOVE ATT they really know what's best for us. </sarcasm>
I worked in a college computer lab with a Russian expat
He was extremely familiar with DCL (Digital Command Language) and VAX architecture. Apparently, he had spent years working on DEC VAX clones in the old Soviet Union.
I also remember reading that DEC would etch stuff like "check six" in Russian onto integrated circuits to let the Russians know that they knew it was being reverse engineered
Especially when your ability to use them results in a decent paycheck?
I would much rather have the people who hate computers just stay the hell away from them, while "me and mine" take advantage of their prejudice and earn a living.
In the case of 2/3rds... .66 is not the proper equivalent, because the truncated value (.006666...) is greater than .005 and you have to round UP
So, the proper value for 2/3rds in this case would be .67, which yields 138.02, which is easily rounded to 138 people
I swear, we need some sort of remedial math training for politicians, that can be the only explanation for the fact that they continually pass unfunded mandates while cutting taxes. That might be a great way to get re-elected, but it is a damn poor way to balance the books
"An underlying assumption of this analysis is that the complete keyspace is used to generate keys, something that relies on an effective random number generator. For example, a number of systems that were originally thought to be impossible to crack by brute force have nevertheless been cracked in this way because the key space to search through was found to be much smaller than originally thought, due to a lack of entropy in their pseudorandom number generators. These include Netscape's implementation of SSL (famously cracked by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner in 1995[2]) and a Debian edition of OpenSSL discovered in 2008 to be flawed.[3]"
That is to say, in the case of SSL 56 bit encryption, they used the date as a seed value and did not employ the entire 56 bits (more like 40 if I remember correctly). Deep Crack was built from custom chips built for crypto and fabbed at TSMC. The 'Unbreakable' keys ( they estimated something like the life of the Universe to crack them) were being knocked off in 56 hours.
So, I reserve the right to ignore your 'estimate' of 13 trillion years and maintain the expectation of AES128 being regularly cracked in less than a week before December of 2016
A brute force attack will always succeed, it will just take a long time. Never is a very long time and computers just keep getting faster.
Maybe you meant to say that there will never be a shortcut (cipher collisions, back door, etc...) to brute forcing AES128, but that is just a widely held opinion at this point, just waiting to get disproven.
Here's a quote for anybody that wants to live (and die) by their own powers of estimation:
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis-"
final words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words
is not a GUI?
Honestly, I do not know what passes for 'knowledge about Oracle', but your comments seem pretty naive.
In the Oracle applications stack, about 90% of code (stored procedures, triggers, table structures etc...) are plainly visible on an installed application stack. The rest (Java runtimes) can be decompiled with readily available tools. Plus, if you have a current support contract, almost everything (technical reference manual, support notes, bug reports, white papers, check lists, etc...)is available on Metalink.
My point is that Oracle has been behaving _mostly_ as an open source company (Ok database executables are a different story) for quite a long time.
The hard part is putting it all together. I have been up to my elbows in this (as a developer) for 15 years, and I only really grok about 15% (prolly less) of the apps.
This is where the Oracle Service and Support revenue model comes in.
Trust me, they get OSS, they are just trying to figure out how to wring more out of the business model.
Just in case you think that Oracle does not understand that... then look what they are doing to database customers that run on sun gear... They are going to get their database support dropped, unless they have their Sun support active.
Seems like they know what they want and how to get it.
You mean that business needs take priority over IT efficiency? Drat, foiled again!
What? You don't use any goods or services delivered over the road/highway system?
Maybe, no kids in school or aging parents on social security or medicare?
Perhaps you are isolated from any form of terrorism? Maybe you've never been affected by crime?
Well, then you should be happy for your good fortune (although you seem a bit isolated) and just shut up and pay your taxes
Wouldn't it make more sense to spread out the submission of tax forms throughout the year?
At least from an IT standpoint, you would probably need one tenth the infrastructure
Sounds like some PLUR-filled rave action to me :)
Are you delusional or just uninformed?
Look at any publicly available information about Ares and you will see something like this:
"The first stage is a more powerful and reusable solid fuel rocket derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_I#First_stage
So, there you go, in easily digestible pre-chewed wiki-ese, the Ares is based on the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket...
Which just happens to have been created by Morton-Thiokol in the 1970's... A company that Armstrong used to sit on the board of... And we are just supposed to takes his comments as whole truth and not ask any questions???
Sorry, smash, but I don't roll that way.
What I gotta ask is... Where the fuck are the mag-lev rail launchers and ballistic cannons to get LOTS of material into space? Where can I go to the local god damned space port and catch a rocket-plane to LEO? Why he hell does everybody going up into the clouds still need to be rated as an astronaut... And just why the FUCK am I NOT working as a Space Cowboy keeping neer-do-wells from messing with the Asteroid miners?
then you end up wiith better lock pickers.
We might see some 'revolutionary' developments in collaboration come from this, hopefully we can all learn from it.
However great a pilot Armstrong has been (literally superhuman when you consider various 'accidents' during early tests of docking in Earth orbit), he sat on the board of Morton-Thiokol (supplier of solid rocket boosters for shuttle missions) for over a decade, until retirement.
Morton-Thiokol is HEAVILY invested in current technology supporting both the shuttle and Ares/Constellation.
I see Armstrong's support for the Ares/Constellation plan as more support for his employer, than for the space program.
It is time to quit lining the pockets of contractors to keep building 1970's technology for the space program and develop some game-changing technology for getting material into orbit. As it is, we are sooooo engrossed with 1970's tech (like returning to the moon???) that we will never send men to the Asteroid Belt in my lifetime.
After all, that IS NASA's game, isn't it?
And apparently dated in my views, thanks for the info
Good question...
I had one candidate who sold their self as an experienced Business Analyst. By googling them, I found a posting by somebody with the same name, location and contact number who listed their experience as Admin Assistant with relevant skills in typing, scheduling and filing. Hardly what they claimed on their resume.
In another case I flew a candidate out for an interview, only to find that they posted to their myspace how they 'jacked' a free trip out of some sucker and were heading to Mexico for a vacation after the interview since we flew them out here.
Neither one got my recommendation, hardly grounds for any lawsuit
Documentum has been the leader in document management systems for years, the down side is that it can be expensive, difficult to program (docbasic???) and only runs (really) well on Oracle database (do NOT run it on SQLServer).
Filenet is not a bad system, but it has gotten hella expensive since IBM started calling it Enterprise Content Manager.
Sharepoint is a Documentum killer, in about two more releases. My team makes pretty good use of it, but I honestly am not impressed by the overall performance, configurability (expect to code webapps to meet difficult requirements) and the data model behind 'lists'
If you really do not want your management to consider Sharepoint, then arrange a performance benchmark between Sharepoint and Documentum involving several hundred simultaneous users and scale it up to a few thousand. Documentum will chug through it like a trooper and Sharepoint will be dead in the water
I can spend weeks posting, reviewing, interviewing, checking up on google, and my boss can still manage to pick the lamest of the group.
It all comes down to being cheap and expecting somebody to brown-nose for a job.
Makes me wonder why I work here
you grew up!
Unfortunately, I enjoy the animated series' because I am entering my second childhood.
How about screech as the irritating neighbor of young jango fett? Surely that will give them plenty of reasons to light up the laff track
Seems like wise Judge Chin is looking for one of the plaintiffs to give up ownership in order to save the books from being cut in half... How biblical, and entirely unlikely :)
that the bullshit noise that fox news and deniers spread around got quashed by some actual investigation.
I think that the crap that the right wing manages to pass off as 'facts' has done a lot to hurt any attempt to debate issues openly with any chance of keeping the discussion rational and factual
Sure... sure... However, IBM has about 400,000 employees, probably bringin on a few thousand out of each graduating class.
There is usually only one or two 'Lebrons' that show up in a graduating class.
IF we taught mathmatics and statistics to our children, then the choice to go with the (relatively) certain tech job over the (totally) unlikely NBA career would be obvious.
Unfortunately we don't, and our youth suffer as a result
btw, anybody seen 'Hoop Dreams'?
...is state subsidized computer "crime" education.
Israel has had state sponsored training for decades and looky looky they have plenty of forensic experts...
In the US we threaten anybody that touches these tools with prison and let the mpaa sue Professors that attempt to study anything remotely like security.