I've been going to the doctor with a family member often and they were constantly taking his blood pressure. So I've been curious about the things that affect blood pressure and according one nurse if you have a full bladder your blood pressure will go up significantly. (Couldn't quickly confirm via google, could a slashdot MD confirm or refute?)
I wonder if the increase in blood pressure do to holding it gives your brain more blood so it functions better. I wonder if there is a way to control the experiment for the blood pressure difference.
I know this is getting off topic but the summary was really offtopic for the article...
Anyway after reading the summary I had the same thought about hexagonal pixels possibly being superior for some applications. However I think the biggest drawback or issue to contend with would be for text display. At best fonts would need to be recreated with a hex display in mind and at worst dithered. Maybe with pixel size approaching the eyes visual limits it won't be as much of an issue.
How do we know this is the company and not just someone who pissed off "Lookin4Trouble"? That's the problem with vigilante Justice. Vigilante's don't always check the facts, neither do slashdot editors for that matter.
yeah and i was thinking from the POV of the business. They are going to support this guy who they bought the domain from. the guy doesn't work for us, we don't know him at all and he's going to be able to send out valid emails from my companies domain.
gmail does let you pull via pop3 BUT the scheduler is not configurable. Gmail checks pop randomly when it feels like it. For me it's about every 30 minutes to 1 hour. YMMV
Easy. As a parent you should lie to your kids early and often. Teach them not to trust authority, especially you.:) I'm only half kidding. Play practical jokes on them. Before you know it they will be questioning everything.
I'll give you an example. When I was a little kid my engineer dad thought it would fun to play a trick on me. It was a snow covered winter morning. He walked down the driveway and down the street. Then when I got bundled up and walked outside he got down on one knee and he held his arms open wide and told me to run to him. I take off at full steam and fall headfirst into a huge snowdrift in the ditch next to the street. It was funny and it taught me a good lesson in critical thinking.
I completely agree that they have access to super computers and as the article states what would take a standard pc 30 years to decrypt "660 bit key" would take the NSA significantly less time for sure. I'll give you they crack a 660 bit key over lunch. That's the old 660 bit key.
My point was that for a 1024 bit key (the one the new malware uses) they are screwed. Even if we say the nsa has the cpu power 1 Googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) times faster than the 2.2ghz pc quoted in TFA. According to my math again any help would be appreciated. 2 ^ (1024 -660) = 3e109 they would still need about 30^9 years to decrypt it. The math just doesn't work even for a govt agency with supercomputers that run trillions of times faster than the fastest "known" supercomputer.
Now as the GP Solafide points out it is possible they have found a weak link in the algorithm in which case all bets are off.
Sure the NSA can break a 1024 RSA key if they have to Do you have a citation for that?
I don't see why the laws governing the ability to break such a key would change for the NSA. A 1024 bit key is MUCH more than twice as hard to crack as a 660 bit key. Maybe someone can help me with the math? something like 2^(1024 - 660) times harder to crack?
Faxs come with a telephone number of the sender as well. and often the personal cover letter. To forge a fax that is perpetually unquestionable you have to forge the phone number, signature, and stationary. "Forging" a telephone number on a fax machine just requires changing a setting on the sending machine. It's in the fax manual.
Oh... and it helps to have a robots.txt file. Mine looks like this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:/
Maybe i missed something but why would a spammer's robot care what you put in your robots.txt file. If anything wouldn't that tell the spammers bot where the good stuff is. robots.txt only works for well behaved robots like googlebot.
I admit I didn't rtfa. however if you use bittorrent or a similar system everyone downloading at the same moment would work better and faster. Everyone would have the patches very close to the same time. At the very least that would decrease the amount of time a potential attacker has to attempt this.
I think you are missing the whole point. There is a price at which you would carpool to work. There is a price at which you would wait at the bus stop. There is a price at which you would rather ride your bike. There is a price each of us are willing to pay to have the convenience of hopping in a car and driving. It may be more for you than for me. It may be $20 a day it may be $100. The point is at some dollar amount it makes more sense to move closer to work or to work different hours or change jobs. If you keep increasing the fee you will find a point at which fewer vehicles are willing to pay. The thing i find interesting is IBM trying to patent a seemingly obvious extension of supply and demand.
While I agree with your sentiment, in reality you may not know your rights are about to be violated by a police officer or when your boss is going to ask you to break the law. If recordings can be made of conversations you have with people in authority then it follows IMHO that all recordings must be legal to make, not necessarily legal to use in court. Now the line must be drawn as to what is admissible. I don't know. If I was trying to catch the molester of my child and I recorded a conversation of his underage friend talking about drinking, would that be admissible in court? I don't believe it should be. But it brings up lots of interesting questions.
IANAL but I have watched every episode of Boston legal.:) I'm pretty sure you would only have possible recourse against the plumber. Your arrest and conviction for murder would stand. Once you were in prison for life you could possibly sue the plumber for something. Heck you may even win but it doesn't really matter if your ass is in prison for the rest of your life.
I have a grandfather with Alzheimer's disease, a disease which if treated early can be very effectively treated extending your life and more importantly to me improving the *quality* of life. This disease begins with no symptoms and progresses slowly going possibly untreated for years. I for one would like the head start.
Good point. But it is still up to the employer to agree that you were laid off and not fired for cause. True, you can contest it, but if they don't want to pay it they may generate or over exaggerate a reason you were fired for cause. If the layoff was small, one or two people at a time they will likely be able to get away with it. If it's half of AT&T's tele-force that would be a different case entirely.
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I've been going to the doctor with a family member often and they were constantly taking his blood pressure. So I've been curious about the things that affect blood pressure and according one nurse if you have a full bladder your blood pressure will go up significantly. (Couldn't quickly confirm via google, could a slashdot MD confirm or refute?)
I wonder if the increase in blood pressure do to holding it gives your brain more blood so it functions better. I wonder if there is a way to control the experiment for the blood pressure difference.
McDonalds Chicken Nuggets 44% chicken.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/195157/exposing_mcdonalds_chicken_nuggets.html?cat=5
I know this is getting off topic but the summary was really offtopic for the article...
Anyway after reading the summary I had the same thought about hexagonal pixels possibly being superior for some applications. However I think the biggest drawback or issue to contend with would be for text display. At best fonts would need to be recreated with a hex display in mind and at worst dithered. Maybe with pixel size approaching the eyes visual limits it won't be as much of an issue.
Gomer79's userid is "43434". Usually I wouldn't cite wiki or feed AC trolls, but it seems apt here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome
BTW It helps if you know what "userid" means before you use it.
Damn you. now that song will be stuck in my head all day... and my co-workers will think I'm crazy from the unnatural smile my face.
Link to the lyrics...
http://www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/Always_Look_Bright_Side_Life.shtml
How do we know this is the company and not just someone who pissed off "Lookin4Trouble"? That's the problem with vigilante Justice. Vigilante's don't always check the facts, neither do slashdot editors for that matter.
yeah and i was thinking from the POV of the business. They are going to support this guy who they bought the domain from. the guy doesn't work for us, we don't know him at all and he's going to be able to send out valid emails from my companies domain.
No thanks. Pass.
I'm admin for a few domains that use gmail apps. None of mine have that option yet. It may be a rolling update.?
gmail does let you pull via pop3 BUT the scheduler is not configurable. Gmail checks pop randomly when it feels like it. For me it's about every 30 minutes to 1 hour. YMMV
what's your cutoff?
"128 years ought to more years than anyone would ever need to live."
-Loether 2008
>Or do they try to index every single lame personal page, unless the owner opts out?
I can state to an absolute certainty that they do index very lame sites.
One of my first web pages ever. Very lame indeed!
http://web.archive.org/web/20010404062818/http://loether.com/
Easy. As a parent you should lie to your kids early and often. Teach them not to trust authority, especially you. :) I'm only half kidding. Play practical jokes on them. Before you know it they will be questioning everything.
I'll give you an example. When I was a little kid my engineer dad thought it would fun to play a trick on me. It was a snow covered winter morning. He walked down the driveway and down the street. Then when I got bundled up and walked outside he got down on one knee and he held his arms open wide and told me to run to him. I take off at full steam and fall headfirst into a huge snowdrift in the ditch next to the street. It was funny and it taught me a good lesson in critical thinking.
I completely agree that they have access to super computers and as the article states what would take a standard pc 30 years to decrypt "660 bit key" would take the NSA significantly less time for sure. I'll give you they crack a 660 bit key over lunch. That's the old 660 bit key.
My point was that for a 1024 bit key (the one the new malware uses) they are screwed. Even if we say the nsa has the cpu power 1 Googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) times faster than the 2.2ghz pc quoted in TFA. According to my math again any help would be appreciated. 2 ^ (1024 -660) = 3e109 they would still need about 30^9 years to decrypt it. The math just doesn't work even for a govt agency with supercomputers that run trillions of times faster than the fastest "known" supercomputer.
Now as the GP Solafide points out it is possible they have found a weak link in the algorithm in which case all bets are off.
I don't see why the laws governing the ability to break such a key would change for the NSA. A 1024 bit key is MUCH more than twice as hard to crack as a 660 bit key. Maybe someone can help me with the math? something like 2^(1024 - 660) times harder to crack?
I admit I didn't rtfa. however if you use bittorrent or a similar system everyone downloading at the same moment would work better and faster. Everyone would have the patches very close to the same time. At the very least that would decrease the amount of time a potential attacker has to attempt this.
In other news... Professional wrestling found to be Fake!
I think you are missing the whole point. There is a price at which you would carpool to work. There is a price at which you would wait at the bus stop. There is a price at which you would rather ride your bike. There is a price each of us are willing to pay to have the convenience of hopping in a car and driving. It may be more for you than for me. It may be $20 a day it may be $100. The point is at some dollar amount it makes more sense to move closer to work or to work different hours or change jobs. If you keep increasing the fee you will find a point at which fewer vehicles are willing to pay. The thing i find interesting is IBM trying to patent a seemingly obvious extension of supply and demand.
While I agree with your sentiment, in reality you may not know your rights are about to be violated by a police officer or when your boss is going to ask you to break the law. If recordings can be made of conversations you have with people in authority then it follows IMHO that all recordings must be legal to make, not necessarily legal to use in court. Now the line must be drawn as to what is admissible. I don't know. If I was trying to catch the molester of my child and I recorded a conversation of his underage friend talking about drinking, would that be admissible in court? I don't believe it should be. But it brings up lots of interesting questions.
IANAL but I have watched every episode of Boston legal. :) I'm pretty sure you would only have possible recourse against the plumber. Your arrest and conviction for murder would stand. Once you were in prison for life you could possibly sue the plumber for something. Heck you may even win but it doesn't really matter if your ass is in prison for the rest of your life.
If I'm wrong let me know.
I have a grandfather with Alzheimer's disease, a disease which if treated early can be very effectively treated extending your life and more importantly to me improving the *quality* of life. This disease begins with no symptoms and progresses slowly going possibly untreated for years. I for one would like the head start.
I agree, Then spin the space station up to 60 rpms so it gives an even coat to the IIS's insides.
Good point. But it is still up to the employer to agree that you were laid off and not fired for cause. True, you can contest it, but if they don't want to pay it they may generate or over exaggerate a reason you were fired for cause. If the layoff was small, one or two people at a time they will likely be able to get away with it. If it's half of AT&T's tele-force that would be a different case entirely.