I saw the instruction in the summary to read the FAQ before asking questions, so I had a look at it. (I know, I shouldn't RTFS, but occasionally I make an exception).
As a result of looking at the FAQ, the big questions I have are "Why oh why have you split the FAQ into one page per question? Is the ability to get an extra ad hit or two (at least, I presume there are ads on the page) worth more than having people actually read the thing?"
And the big difference with the US is that they have the demonstrated ability and desire to take down sites not just by a court order to ISPs to block access but by changing DNS entries, affecting the entire world rather than just their own jurisdiction.
That really is a beautiful picture. It's a shame that it doesn't have any context to explain what it shows. Or are we supposed to just take your word for it that it supports your position?
That's with a katana. Japan aside, swords in general weren't that sharp, and your aim was to knock down and injure the opponent. Better than blunt weapons, sure, but you didn't need to worry about them going partway into a bone and getting stuck.
Not really. If you look at the latest password cracking speeds (e.g. Speeding up GPU-based password cracking by Martijn Sprengers and Lejla Batina, proceedings of SHARCS 2012), 44-bit MD5-crypt can be brute-forced in 3 years with one graphics card. If you assume that the idiots who wrote the software are using MD5 rather than MD5-crypt, that drops to 1 day. With one graphics card.
I'm still trying to figure out what Turing and Bletchly Park were doing beyond merely extending this stuff.
Automating it and applying it to a practical purpose. Breaking the ciphers wasn't the end in itself: getting access to the plaintext as fast as possible in order to inform military operations while the intelligence was still relevant was the end.
Mixed case with special characters gives an alphabet of (conservatively) 80 characters. 80^12 combinations * 12 characters to store (neglecting the actual hashes) is 824ZB. That's the amount of data the LHC would produce in about 55 million years. You need some extremely good compression to get anywhere near something you can store on any feasible device.
What is a "reserve" in this context? It's clearly being used as a technical term, but I'm not a librarian and I can't find a library-specific definition in the OED, Merriam-Webster, or a couple of other dictionaries.
The list is even more confused than you point out. The FSB and MI5 are domestic counter-intelligence organisations, so their US counterpart would be the FBI; however, Mossad is a foreign intelligence agency, and counterpart to the CIA.
Free speech is not something the government protects. Free speech is something that protects you from the government. If the government can decide which speech to protect, you don't really have free speech at all.
In that case, name a country which has both a government and free speech. Under the American theory of government, at least, fundamental rights are protected by the branch of government known as the judiciary.
Assuming a progressive voting system (and yes, I know that's a big ask), the country gets the president it wants.
No it doesn't. It gets the one it considers the least bad of the people willing to run. It's the old saw about anyone who wants the job being unfit to have it.
Your statement about tourism has been answered, but also remember the *huge* income from the "Crown Estate" -- land that "belongs" to the royal family, and from which they are allowed to keep all the income.
That's not true. The profit from the Crown Estate goes to the Treasury and part of it (about 4%, going by the figures on Wikipedia) is returned as the Civil List. Of course, that's all about to change because of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011.
I hadn't heard of it before I read your post, but I just listened to as much of it as I could bear on YouTube and you can add me to the list of uncool people you're drawing up.
Did Simon ever write a song that was worth listening to?
If you are running a public web site you want people to see it, and, across the global audience, too many people cannot use it, which is why public sites don't use it either.
Doesn't the same argument explain why many sites still use old versions of SSL?
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Have you ever visited Valencia, Spain, in the third week of March? I think you'd enjoy it.
I saw the instruction in the summary to read the FAQ before asking questions, so I had a look at it. (I know, I shouldn't RTFS, but occasionally I make an exception).
As a result of looking at the FAQ, the big questions I have are "Why oh why have you split the FAQ into one page per question? Is the ability to get an extra ad hit or two (at least, I presume there are ads on the page) worth more than having people actually read the thing?"
And the big difference with the US is that they have the demonstrated ability and desire to take down sites not just by a court order to ISPs to block access but by changing DNS entries, affecting the entire world rather than just their own jurisdiction.
Actually the evidence all points in the opposite direction, but the researcher is a retired football player.
That really is a beautiful picture. It's a shame that it doesn't have any context to explain what it shows. Or are we supposed to just take your word for it that it supports your position?
That's with a katana. Japan aside, swords in general weren't that sharp, and your aim was to knock down and injure the opponent. Better than blunt weapons, sure, but you didn't need to worry about them going partway into a bone and getting stuck.
There's a black belt in reading now? Are you serious?
44 bits is a respectable amount of entropy
Not really. If you look at the latest password cracking speeds (e.g. Speeding up GPU-based password cracking by Martijn Sprengers and Lejla Batina, proceedings of SHARCS 2012), 44-bit MD5-crypt can be brute-forced in 3 years with one graphics card. If you assume that the idiots who wrote the software are using MD5 rather than MD5-crypt, that drops to 1 day. With one graphics card.
I'm still trying to figure out what Turing and Bletchly Park were doing beyond merely extending this stuff.
Automating it and applying it to a practical purpose. Breaking the ciphers wasn't the end in itself: getting access to the plaintext as fast as possible in order to inform military operations while the intelligence was still relevant was the end.
Mixed case with special characters gives an alphabet of (conservatively) 80 characters. 80^12 combinations * 12 characters to store (neglecting the actual hashes) is 824ZB. That's the amount of data the LHC would produce in about 55 million years. You need some extremely good compression to get anywhere near something you can store on any feasible device.
SilverJets clearly hadn't.
He still missed correcting "Internet elder" to "elder of the Internet".
Same thing applies.
What is a "reserve" in this context? It's clearly being used as a technical term, but I'm not a librarian and I can't find a library-specific definition in the OED, Merriam-Webster, or a couple of other dictionaries.
The list is even more confused than you point out. The FSB and MI5 are domestic counter-intelligence organisations, so their US counterpart would be the FBI; however, Mossad is a foreign intelligence agency, and counterpart to the CIA.
In that case, name a country which has both a government and free speech. Under the American theory of government, at least, fundamental rights are protected by the branch of government known as the judiciary.
No it doesn't. It gets the one it considers the least bad of the people willing to run. It's the old saw about anyone who wants the job being unfit to have it.
Your statement about tourism has been answered, but also remember the *huge* income from the "Crown Estate" -- land that "belongs" to the royal family, and from which they are allowed to keep all the income.
That's not true. The profit from the Crown Estate goes to the Treasury and part of it (about 4%, going by the figures on Wikipedia) is returned as the Civil List. Of course, that's all about to change because of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011.
She's forgotten more than I ever knew about repairing combustion engines.
What the hell? Somebody want to fill me in?
It's not just the summary that reads as an in joke. Even the title contains unexplained mysteries. Why "Free Bird"?
I hadn't heard of it before I read your post, but I just listened to as much of it as I could bear on YouTube and you can add me to the list of uncool people you're drawing up.
Did Simon ever write a song that was worth listening to?
Wait: Starbucks started selling coffee? When did this happen? The last time I went to one they only seemed to sell coffee-flavoured milk.
Native English speaker here. I didn't either until the first time I read a /. thread about the software.
If you are running a public web site you want people to see it, and, across the global audience, too many people cannot use it, which is why public sites don't use it either.
Doesn't the same argument explain why many sites still use old versions of SSL?
To get past the HTML parser.