The big question I have is: how? Unless Bing is searching Google for randomly generated nonsense, they must have been prompted by something. Is IE reporting all search terms to Redmond?
The reason GPP said "back when they were real checks" is because so few people actually cashed them that when it became clear that there were security problems with telling everyone your bank account number, Knuth started issuing cheques from the Bank of San Serriffe. If you really prefer the money you can trade it back in, but mine is framed above my computer.
What do you mean by "scales up"? And is performance of Dalvik really comparable to the Snoracle VM? I've read that it can't compete with Hotspot - is this false or outdated?
Don't be ridiculous. There have been shortages in free markets for as long as there have been free markets in places suffering drought. When something is sufficiently necessary and scarce, prices are irrelevant because people will take it by force.
NP doesn't stand for non-polynomial: it stands for non-deterministic polynomial. Informally what that means is that you can do it in polynomial time if you're a supernaturally good guesser. Formally, it means that a solution certificate exists which can be checked in polynomial time.
I think you missed the key word "another" just before "500km". I hadn't heard of Bismarck, ND before I started looking for a city approximately the right distance from Juárez.
And with the guy being in Bulgaria? Well it ain't really that far from there to botnet central AKA Russia
Yes, there's only Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine in the way. And then another 500km or so to Moscow. If you want to look at it in terms of distance, it's more comparable to you being in Bismarck, North Dakota, and stirring up shit for one of the cartels in Ciudad Juárez.
This US keyboard only appears to have 94 characters, but I actually wasn't looking at keyboards before. If you have 96 characters then a 20-character password has about 131.7 bits of entropy.
There are some fairly notable error margins in your figures. Taking the claim that 20 characters have 128 bits of entropy, we get a character set of size 85, which is plausible (a-zA-Z0-9 plus 23 punctuation marks), but then each character less than 20 loses a factor of 85 rather than 100, and reducing by 10 characters has one fifth of the impact on the key space that you calculate.
I personally prefer to stick to alphanumerics, avoiding oO0iI1S5Z2. 23 characters gives me more than 128 bits of entropy.
They've been around for ages. Not always very good at detecting cyclists (I've once or twice had to jump red lights at night after waiting more than 5 minutes for them to change), and they still can't eliminate traffic entirely when there's contention. I mean, come on: you can get traffic on a straight road with no traffic lights if people want to turn into side roads or someone's a bit heavy on the brake.
He's been in and out. Although his current tenure is probably a post-WWII record-breaker for Italy, which has gone through a lot of unstable coalitions.
What I'm trying to explore here is the precise meaning of "derivative work". What is the dividing line between distributing a derivative work in infringement of the GPL and distributing a GPL'd work with a non-GPL'd one and having the user create the derivative work? I suspect that it's a bit fuzzy still in many jurisdictions.
I do also wonder how well the argument that linking creates a derivative work would hold up in court - you could make the case that you can create a partial index to a work without creating a derivative work (and e.g. Google would certainly want to support you in making that case), and you can link using a partial "index" to the kernel without using the kernel itself.
I understand you to be saying that yes, you can work around the GPL, but you have to include an extra step. You have something which links in directly to the kernel and ship source for that, but it ties together the kernel and the driver and allows you to ship a binary driver with the kernel. Is that it?
It gets complicated. You can ship a kernel and a driver side-by-side ("mere aggregation" - section 2 of GPLv2). A user can then use modprobe to load the driver. At this point, has infringement occurred?
You see have have got my point and missed it at the same time. The only way to make a fork would be a unilateral declaration of independence, and it's rather likely that before you'd made more than trivial patches you'd find that declaration being disputed by force.
(FWIW I'd consider it rather more realistic to describe English common law as dating back to the Dark Ages, if not before. It was the legal system in England before it was a colonial power).
Not until quantum computing advances a long way - unless they had a completely broken implementation. The whole point of asymmetric cryptography is that you can give someone one of the keys and they can't derive the other.
Slashdot Mirror
The term "state rights" is unfortunately now invokes the American Civil War.
Of course it does. The main take-home lesson from that war was that the states don't have any rights.
Just hope they don't get it mixed up with acronymous.
So was bread a few centuries ago. Amazing how words change with time.
The big question I have is: how? Unless Bing is searching Google for randomly generated nonsense, they must have been prompted by something. Is IE reporting all search terms to Redmond?
The reason GPP said "back when they were real checks" is because so few people actually cashed them that when it became clear that there were security problems with telling everyone your bank account number, Knuth started issuing cheques from the Bank of San Serriffe. If you really prefer the money you can trade it back in, but mine is framed above my computer.
What do you mean by "scales up"? And is performance of Dalvik really comparable to the Snoracle VM? I've read that it can't compete with Hotspot - is this false or outdated?
Don't be ridiculous. There have been shortages in free markets for as long as there have been free markets in places suffering drought. When something is sufficiently necessary and scarce, prices are irrelevant because people will take it by force.
NP doesn't stand for non-polynomial: it stands for non-deterministic polynomial. Informally what that means is that you can do it in polynomial time if you're a supernaturally good guesser. Formally, it means that a solution certificate exists which can be checked in polynomial time.
I think you missed the key word "another" just before "500km". I hadn't heard of Bismarck, ND before I started looking for a city approximately the right distance from Juárez.
And with the guy being in Bulgaria? Well it ain't really that far from there to botnet central AKA Russia
Yes, there's only Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine in the way. And then another 500km or so to Moscow. If you want to look at it in terms of distance, it's more comparable to you being in Bismarck, North Dakota, and stirring up shit for one of the cartels in Ciudad Juárez.
This US keyboard only appears to have 94 characters, but I actually wasn't looking at keyboards before. If you have 96 characters then a 20-character password has about 131.7 bits of entropy.
There are some fairly notable error margins in your figures. Taking the claim that 20 characters have 128 bits of entropy, we get a character set of size 85, which is plausible (a-zA-Z0-9 plus 23 punctuation marks), but then each character less than 20 loses a factor of 85 rather than 100, and reducing by 10 characters has one fifth of the impact on the key space that you calculate.
I personally prefer to stick to alphanumerics, avoiding oO0iI1S5Z2. 23 characters gives me more than 128 bits of entropy.
The subject on which Newton wrote the most wasn't natural philosophy but theology.
They've been around for ages. Not always very good at detecting cyclists (I've once or twice had to jump red lights at night after waiting more than 5 minutes for them to change), and they still can't eliminate traffic entirely when there's contention. I mean, come on: you can get traffic on a straight road with no traffic lights if people want to turn into side roads or someone's a bit heavy on the brake.
By US standards, they only have leftists in the UK.
He's been in and out. Although his current tenure is probably a post-WWII record-breaker for Italy, which has gone through a lot of unstable coalitions.
What I'm trying to explore here is the precise meaning of "derivative work". What is the dividing line between distributing a derivative work in infringement of the GPL and distributing a GPL'd work with a non-GPL'd one and having the user create the derivative work? I suspect that it's a bit fuzzy still in many jurisdictions.
I do also wonder how well the argument that linking creates a derivative work would hold up in court - you could make the case that you can create a partial index to a work without creating a derivative work (and e.g. Google would certainly want to support you in making that case), and you can link using a partial "index" to the kernel without using the kernel itself.
I understand you to be saying that yes, you can work around the GPL, but you have to include an extra step. You have something which links in directly to the kernel and ship source for that, but it ties together the kernel and the driver and allows you to ship a binary driver with the kernel. Is that it?
It gets complicated. You can ship a kernel and a driver side-by-side ("mere aggregation" - section 2 of GPLv2). A user can then use modprobe to load the driver. At this point, has infringement occurred?
You see have have got my point and missed it at the same time. The only way to make a fork would be a unilateral declaration of independence, and it's rather likely that before you'd made more than trivial patches you'd find that declaration being disputed by force.
(FWIW I'd consider it rather more realistic to describe English common law as dating back to the Dark Ages, if not before. It was the legal system in England before it was a colonial power).
Good luck making a fork.
Cracking the keys was inevitable
Not until quantum computing advances a long way - unless they had a completely broken implementation. The whole point of asymmetric cryptography is that you can give someone one of the keys and they can't derive the other.
I read the summary and found it a confusing mess. Going by TFS the sequence of events is this:
WTF? Where did "the injunction" enter the story? Yet another case of a /. editor failing to do his job.
Ever program with a VBA object model, using Intellisense prompting? Name a better, more complete, and useful IDE environment...
Is the search facility as useless as in VS2008? If so, Eclipse.