Unfortunatly, you are generally incorrect. You have suggested that one might enhance security by 'playing games' with the order and value of significant bytes of the message. Unfortunatly, this does little to enhance the security of the message. If one were to crack the key for such a message, (not knowing about the added measures) he would recieve a garbled answer, granted. Unfortunatly, de-garbling the message would only take man-hours (pencil and paper). It is no more complex than reverse-engineering the ICQ protocol. Simple attacks like dictionary files and statictical analysis of the generated char set would inevitably yield answers. Additionally, both sides of the encrypted transaction would have to know the mangling rules, and the other side of the transaction MAY NOT BE SECURE. Hence such measures are not terribly better than a public, well-known standard. Don't worry about looking like a super-model in an AI lab. (Inferior to the machine). I once wrote an in-house encryption routine that 'skipped' the DES routine around based on the text of my source. I figured since no one could reproduce my source (comments, etc) exactly, and there would be only ONE copy in existance, it would be relativly secure. It took two of my coworkers only a week to crack it (No binary, just a stream of encrypted messages in a known language), based on a distant known predessor and a shell script running on a DX4-75.
'The three men I admire most: the father, son, and the holy ghost' (A snippet of Don McLean)
Yields: 'The three men I admire the majority: the father, son and the holy backup computer.'
CONSPIRACY!! Since when does the Holy Trinity have Intel Inside!?!? Did Billy Gatus option the Bible?? Has Sun tried to put the 'dot-in-dot-SCRIPTURE'?!? Does anyone have Jimmy Carter's home number??? HE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!!! 'Athlons bigger than Jesus'? Or is Knuth behind this? His blasphemic Old/New Testament crap has brainwashed us! Are we all just packets floating on a sea of Ether?
Wait. Nevermind. MY BAD. Paranoid delusions again. Sorry..
The article made specific mention of the net worth of the men targeted. Besides that, where else on Earth is better suited for 'gold-digging'. Legions of sex-starved, socially inhibited men with padded wallets.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't honestly think every geek with a significant other is the victim of a gold-dig attack! Brains are 'sexy', and there are definitly a large number physically attractive geeks (both M + F).
However, this stunt stinks like a dorm room after an all male four day Quake-fest.
Since when are we hard to find? Troll/. for three seconds and you have a truckload. I think they've picked on the 'Valley' geek simply because of $. The great american motivator, right? Any woman can live with a geek if he's loaded. And the valley is loaded with stock-option havin', IPO cash laden geeks these days. It's a paradise of $ first, and geekiness second.
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One of the requirements for 'life' is the capability to replicate. Viruses can only replicate if they've taken over a cell. Cells (and anything more complex) require water to function. Without water, virii cannot replicate.
Therefore, viruses REQUIRE water to live, even if it is indirect. (There is also a considerable argument that virii are NOT alive, but I shan't go into it)
Proving that the water is extraterrestrial sounds easier that it is. Sure, they've found water (in solution) inside irradiated salt. This rock became superheated during its trip through the atmosphere. Superheating a salt is exactly the way you would 'dry' it in a lab. Any amount left on the meteorite would be absolutely diminutive. The cooling metorite could have well picked up the moisture as a result of cooling in a water-rich environment (earth). Salts will suck moisture out of anything! You can observe this yourself. Take some coarse salt, rinse it (to remove the anticaking agent), bake it dry, and pour it in a dish. Wait a few days. The salt will change appearance and clump as a result of absorbed moisture.
Flame shields up? You've got it at least on a few angles! If I wanted to throw a nice front end on some of my kludgy, half script/C++ console creations, it would be the BEST choice! However, TCL/TK also has some appeal. (I'm sure it would have a bit more appeal if I had bothered using it, even once) Again, good call in the OO, portability and extensibility departments.
This is a heavy one,and by my reckoning is probably three steps out of my league. I can but try.. Even though you seem to take an early lean away from swing (and AWT) it really has most of the qualities that one wishes; it is clean, logical, is easily and infinitly extensible, and in most cases anything produced will be nearly portable in unchanged form. Downside to swing is the damn interpretive layer inherent to Java. I've done a little poking into GTK+ recently, and it is one hell bent little fifty-bladed Swiss Army knife. Perl and GTK? Okay! Let's meld a little Pascal into c and slap a front end on it? Sure! Smidge around the widgets based on user preferences? Why not! (And the way it just falls into a good OO design. Stop me before I wet myself.) Unfortunatly, some of the 'features' are still being developed, and the docs would be lucky to be called 'scarce' (I've contemplated donating time to them, but I'm lucky to get time to shower anymore.) Since the suggestion was passed to contemplate other OS GUI framework, (what is the proper plural?) I'll hand out the short bit of wisdom a PM once gave me: 'If you want it quickly, VB. If you need it to be functional, Visual C or Delphi. If you need it to be stable, why the hell are you writing it for NT!!'
Replicated IP's with logically 'AND'ed subnet masks.. My head hurts, if not from the bad grammer and english, then from the contemplation of an actual address space that big. While his conclusions on expansion of ipv4 appear correct, I am terribly afraid to check his extrapolation of the current scheme. skull.technos.com had a score of trouble during the first period of numeric contemplation, and I fear another will force my brain-kernel to panic. (Or bluescreen. on some days I seem to be running NT in there.)
(Laughs) Those were the only vegetables on the plate I could identify!! Since you asked, there were also some queer looking orange pepper-like things, a purplish vegetable that looked like cauliflower but with the consistancy of twine, and the sprouts weren't any type I'd seen. (Brown striations on the stems.) Looked like a 'star-trek' backdrop with all the odd colours.. I've heard that stir-fried crickets are tasty too.. (I will not actually try them, however)
A few years back, while at a seminar in LA, (Los Angeles, California), a local friend of mine dragged me out to dinner. She was hot to show off the ill-gotten gains of corporate America (Read: She wanted to rub her six-figure income in my face) We went downtown to some trendy, tres chic resteraunt. After watching her order a $20 entree and a $45 slab-o-meat, I felt a little revenge was in order. Choosing the third most expensive item on the menu (and I'm sure a value at its $90 price tag!) and a mug of Guinness, I figured I had gotten her back. She looked at me with this huge-eyed, 'you just mke2fs'd an active mount!' stare. Slowly she explained to me that I had ordered pan-fried African earthworms on a bed of exotic vegetables. I contemplated something dirty and underhanded to get out of it, but as I was kind of hoping for some 'female companionship' later in the night this was out of the question When the meal finally came (Thoughts of live worms were killing me) it actually looked pleasant. They were presented on a bed of leeks, sprouts and pine nuts. The looked like fried clams, chewed like Goodyear, and tasted something like chicken. All in all, I'd rather eat fried worms than curried [insert meat here]. Just one word of advice: Don't count on going home with anyone after they've watched you eat worms. (The next night was fortunatly a different story, or my California trip would have been quite dull indeed!)
There is nothing quite like a good satirical smack on the hindquarters! All things considered, the salient point that we have taken ourselves (the individual elements of the design model) way too seriously should be a wake up call.. I can't help thinking that if we were to sit down with (nay, chain down) the most rabid members of the Gospel of Linus and force them to understand, even in the weakest way, how the Initio SCSI driver works, they would not be so predisposed to 'flame on' at the smallest slight. We would endow them with enlightenment of the fact It is just code! Nothing added to, nothing taken away!
This may sound, well, 'limp-wristed', but I think this eMachines would be a really cute Linux box. Enlightenment with the old DR.13 Neon theme would be just perfect.. All those trendy yuppies would step over each other to get one! I understand from earlier posts that Linux has a problem with the DEC 21145 (Tulip). Hack tulip.c and remove the tag 'HAS_MII' from the card description being detected by the kernel. I've had the same problem with a number of 'integrated' boards, and that usually works...
Tsk, Tsk. Microsoft tries to make fools out of the public (as per usual) and ends up with a red arse. I wish this happened more often! (the reddening, that is!) As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft's assertion of a buffer overflow in AIM may be true. It isn't like Microsoft to admit to their own dirty tactics, let alone to assure the public that the claims are true. They could have written the forged message off in any one of a thousand ways so as to protect their image and prevent escalation in the IM war. I would be really interested in a comparative checksum of pre- and post- war AIM binaries. If AOL has been using the fault to run live code and alter the end-user copy of AIM, it should show..
They didn't.. While drawing a line between SemiFamous_Linux_Guy and Hot_New_Distro() based on the name Mandrake isn't in itself a bad deduction, it becomes a rather irritating one after thirty posters have read in earlier posts that Mandrake != Mandrake-Linux and yet spew the same foul odor as their earlier brethern.
Geoff Harrison (Mandrake) has little or nothing to do with the Mandrake-Linux distribution. Please limit your questions to the scope of his work! (Enlightenment, a WM/desktop shell, XF86, xripple, etc) Now my question(s)?.. Why has the weak gradient between a Window Manager/Desktop/Shell been made into such a clear cut, line-in-the-sand issue? In the past, a WM was expected to provide all the features X didn't. Now the field has fragmented. Why? How does the rapid escalation of hardware performance (and availability of accelerated servers) affect Enlightenment? Are there times at which you say 'I could put in this new three-phase atomic pixel effect for window close, but can't because it would take a week on a 486'?
Too many keys?!?! Bah. I use a 122 key IBM keyboard on a regular basis, and having key combinations bound to f13-f20 and to the ten formatting keys saves me thousands of keystrokes! No more 'Was undo CTRL-X or ALT-Z?' when using the Gimp.. Just press 'undo'. Cut and Paste? They have their own keys.. No stretching to CTRL-Y to ALT-D with one hand. Its great!
Fact 1: Yellowdog is working on supporting the current generation of RS/6000 machines. Fact 2: IBM has an ingrained perpensity to slap a slab of monolithic microcode over the hardware. (So they don't lose any of the legacy software market with their new products) Conclusion: We may be able to run Linux on this new Power4 beast. A sixteen way Linux box that could recompile its own kernel a thousand times a second.. My knees are weak...
Nope... Considering IBM's bad habit of monolithic microcode, it will probably be word-for-word, byte-for-byte compatible with their existing AS/400 and RS/6000 product lines.. (And all 400 and 6000 machines before them) So your choices will be limited to AIX, OS/400 or the yet-to-be-released Yellowdog Linux... Imagine for a second; a 16 way RS/6K, with each twinned processor running at 1Ghz. Recompile the entire OS three times a second..
Great.. The RIAA and Diamond have settled.. But what does this mean to us, the end users? Cumbersome security features? 'Please insert a quarter into your Rio to continue.'?
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Unfortunatly, you are generally incorrect. You have suggested that one might enhance security by 'playing games' with the order and value of significant bytes of the message. Unfortunatly, this does little to enhance the security of the message. If one were to crack the key for such a message, (not knowing about the added measures) he would recieve a garbled answer, granted. Unfortunatly, de-garbling the message would only take man-hours (pencil and paper). It is no more complex than reverse-engineering the ICQ protocol. Simple attacks like dictionary files and statictical analysis of the generated char set would inevitably yield answers. Additionally, both sides of the encrypted transaction would have to know the mangling rules, and the other side of the transaction MAY NOT BE SECURE. Hence such measures are not terribly better than a public, well-known standard. Don't worry about looking like a super-model in an AI lab. (Inferior to the machine). I once wrote an in-house encryption routine that 'skipped' the DES routine around based on the text of my source. I figured since no one could reproduce my source (comments, etc) exactly, and there would be only ONE copy in existance, it would be relativly secure. It took two of my coworkers only a week to crack it (No binary, just a stream of encrypted messages in a known language), based on a distant known predessor and a shell script running on a DX4-75.
The phrase:
'The three men I admire most: the father, son, and
the holy ghost' (A snippet of Don McLean)
Yields:
'The three men I admire the majority: the father,
son and the holy backup computer.'
CONSPIRACY!!
Since when does the Holy Trinity have Intel Inside!?!?
Did Billy Gatus option the Bible??
Has Sun tried to put the 'dot-in-dot-SCRIPTURE'?!?
Does anyone have Jimmy Carter's home number??? HE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!
'Athlons bigger than Jesus'?
Or is Knuth behind this? His blasphemic Old/New Testament crap has brainwashed us!
Are we all just packets floating on a sea of Ether?
Wait. Nevermind. MY BAD. Paranoid delusions again.
Sorry..
The article made specific mention of the
net worth of the men targeted. Besides that,
where else on Earth is better suited for
'gold-digging'. Legions of sex-starved,
socially inhibited men with padded wallets.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't honestly
think every geek with a significant other is
the victim of a gold-dig attack! Brains are
'sexy', and there are definitly a large number
physically attractive geeks (both M + F).
However, this stunt stinks like a dorm room
after an all male four day Quake-fest.
Since when are we hard to find? Troll /. for three seconds and you have a truckload. I think they've picked on the 'Valley' geek simply because of $. The great american motivator, right? Any woman can live with a geek if he's loaded. And the valley is loaded with stock-option havin', IPO cash laden geeks these days. It's a paradise of $ first, and geekiness second.
One of the requirements for 'life' is the capability to replicate.
Viruses can only replicate if they've taken over a cell.
Cells (and anything more complex) require water to function.
Without water, virii cannot replicate.
Therefore, viruses REQUIRE water to live, even if it is indirect. (There is also a considerable argument that virii are NOT alive, but I shan't go into it)
Proving that the water is extraterrestrial sounds easier that it is. Sure, they've found water (in solution) inside irradiated salt. This rock became superheated during its trip through the atmosphere. Superheating a salt is exactly the way you would 'dry' it in a lab. Any amount left on the meteorite would be absolutely diminutive. The cooling metorite could have well picked up the moisture as a result of cooling in a water-rich environment (earth). Salts will suck moisture out of anything! You can observe this yourself. Take some coarse salt, rinse it (to remove the anticaking agent), bake it dry, and pour it in a dish. Wait a few days. The salt will change appearance and clump as a result of absorbed moisture.
Flame shields up? You've got it at least on a few angles! If I wanted to throw a nice front end on some of my kludgy, half script/C++ console creations, it would be the BEST choice! However, TCL/TK also has some appeal. (I'm sure it would have a bit more appeal if I had bothered using it, even once) Again, good call in the OO, portability and extensibility departments.
This is a heavy one,and by my reckoning is probably three steps out of my league. I can but try.. Even though you seem to take an early lean away from swing (and AWT) it really has most of the qualities that one wishes; it is clean, logical, is easily and infinitly extensible, and in most cases anything produced will be nearly portable in unchanged form. Downside to swing is the damn interpretive layer inherent to Java. I've done a little poking into GTK+ recently, and it is one hell bent little fifty-bladed Swiss Army knife. Perl and GTK? Okay! Let's meld a little Pascal into c and slap a front end on it? Sure! Smidge around the widgets based on user preferences? Why not! (And the way it just falls into a good OO design. Stop me before I wet myself.) Unfortunatly, some of the 'features' are still being developed, and the docs would be lucky to be called 'scarce' (I've contemplated donating time to them, but I'm lucky to get time to shower anymore.) Since the suggestion was passed to contemplate other OS GUI framework, (what is the proper plural?) I'll hand out the short bit of wisdom a PM once gave me: 'If you want it quickly, VB. If you need it to be functional, Visual C or Delphi. If you need it to be stable, why the hell are you writing it for NT!!'
Replicated IP's with logically 'AND'ed subnet masks.. My head hurts, if not from the bad grammer and english, then from the contemplation of an actual address space that big. While his conclusions on expansion of ipv4 appear correct, I am terribly afraid to check his extrapolation of the current scheme. skull.technos.com had a score of trouble during the first period of numeric contemplation, and I fear another will force my brain-kernel to panic. (Or bluescreen. on some days I seem to be running NT in there.)
(Laughs) Those were the only vegetables on the plate I could identify!! Since you asked, there were also some queer looking orange pepper-like things, a purplish vegetable that looked like cauliflower but with the consistancy of twine, and the sprouts weren't any type I'd seen. (Brown striations on the stems.) Looked like a 'star-trek' backdrop with all the odd colours.. I've heard that stir-fried crickets are tasty too.. (I will not actually try them, however)
A few years back, while at a seminar in LA, (Los Angeles, California), a local friend of mine dragged me out to dinner. She was hot to show off the ill-gotten gains of corporate America (Read: She wanted to rub her six-figure income in my face) We went downtown to some trendy, tres chic resteraunt. After watching her order a $20 entree and a $45 slab-o-meat, I felt a little revenge was in order. Choosing the third most expensive item on the menu (and I'm sure a value at its $90 price tag!) and a mug of Guinness, I figured I had gotten her back. She looked at me with this huge-eyed, 'you just mke2fs'd an active mount!' stare. Slowly she explained to me that I had ordered pan-fried African earthworms on a bed of exotic vegetables. I contemplated something dirty and underhanded to get out of it, but as I was kind of hoping for some 'female companionship' later in the night this was out of the question When the meal finally came (Thoughts of live worms were killing me) it actually looked pleasant. They were presented on a bed of leeks, sprouts and pine nuts. The looked like fried clams, chewed like Goodyear, and tasted something like chicken. All in all, I'd rather eat fried worms than curried [insert meat here]. Just one word of advice: Don't count on going home with anyone after they've watched you eat worms. (The next night was fortunatly a different story, or my California trip would have been quite dull indeed!)
There is nothing quite like a good satirical smack on the hindquarters! All things considered, the salient point that we have taken ourselves (the individual elements of the design model) way too seriously should be a wake up call.. I can't help thinking that if we were to sit down with (nay, chain down) the most rabid members of the Gospel of Linus and force them to understand, even in the weakest way, how the Initio SCSI driver works, they would not be so predisposed to 'flame on' at the smallest slight. We would endow them with enlightenment of the fact It is just code! Nothing added to, nothing taken away!
This may sound, well, 'limp-wristed', but I think this eMachines would be a really cute Linux box. Enlightenment with the old DR.13 Neon theme would be just perfect.. All those trendy yuppies would step over each other to get one! I understand from earlier posts that Linux has a problem with the DEC 21145 (Tulip). Hack tulip.c and remove the tag 'HAS_MII' from the card description being detected by the kernel. I've had the same problem with a number of 'integrated' boards, and that usually works...
Tsk, Tsk. Microsoft tries to make fools out of the public (as per usual) and ends up with a red arse. I wish this happened more often! (the reddening, that is!) As much as I hate to say it, Microsoft's assertion of a buffer overflow in AIM may be true. It isn't like Microsoft to admit to their own dirty tactics, let alone to assure the public that the claims are true. They could have written the forged message off in any one of a thousand ways so as to protect their image and prevent escalation in the IM war. I would be really interested in a comparative checksum of pre- and post- war AIM binaries. If AOL has been using the fault to run live code and alter the end-user copy of AIM, it should show..
They didn't.. While drawing a line between SemiFamous_Linux_Guy and Hot_New_Distro() based on the name Mandrake isn't in itself a bad deduction, it becomes a rather irritating one after thirty posters have read in earlier posts that Mandrake != Mandrake-Linux and yet spew the same foul odor as their earlier brethern.
Geoff Harrison (Mandrake) has little or nothing to do with the Mandrake-Linux distribution. Please limit your questions to the scope of his work! (Enlightenment, a WM/desktop shell, XF86, xripple, etc) Now my question(s)?.. Why has the weak gradient between a Window Manager/Desktop/Shell been made into such a clear cut, line-in-the-sand issue? In the past, a WM was expected to provide all the features X didn't. Now the field has fragmented. Why? How does the rapid escalation of hardware performance (and availability of accelerated servers) affect Enlightenment? Are there times at which you say 'I could put in this new three-phase atomic pixel effect for window close, but can't because it would take a week on a 486'?
Too many keys?!?! Bah. I use a 122 key IBM keyboard on a regular basis, and having key combinations bound to f13-f20 and to the ten formatting keys saves me thousands of keystrokes! No more 'Was undo CTRL-X or ALT-Z?' when using the Gimp.. Just press 'undo'. Cut and Paste? They have their own keys.. No stretching to CTRL-Y to ALT-D with one hand. Its great!
Fact 1: Yellowdog is working on supporting the current generation of RS/6000 machines. Fact 2: IBM has an ingrained perpensity to slap a slab of monolithic microcode over the hardware. (So they don't lose any of the legacy software market with their new products) Conclusion: We may be able to run Linux on this new Power4 beast. A sixteen way Linux box that could recompile its own kernel a thousand times a second.. My knees are weak...
Nope... Considering IBM's bad habit of monolithic microcode, it will probably be word-for-word, byte-for-byte compatible with their existing AS/400 and RS/6000 product lines.. (And all 400 and 6000 machines before them) So your choices will be limited to AIX, OS/400 or the yet-to-be-released Yellowdog Linux... Imagine for a second; a 16 way RS/6K, with each twinned processor running at 1Ghz. Recompile the entire OS three times a second..
Great .. The RIAA and Diamond have settled.. But what does this mean to us, the end users? Cumbersome security features? 'Please insert a quarter into your Rio to continue.'?
We will all find out if/when Microsoft tries a lawsuit over copyright infringement..
Hmmm.. Slap a Linux box out on the net, secure it, and then ask crackers to mash on it.. I've got the hardware, anyone got the bandwidth?