I started to do that and was dissapointed in the quality of the resulting rip. One specific instance is on "The Ittalian Job" near the beginning of the movie when all the birds fly off I got horrible artifacting from all the dischordant motion in the picture. Any thought on solving this (or what I did wrong)? I re-riped and transcoded the movie to no avail. -nB
now that'a a good idea! (I know we've all been doing that to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 and such). Immagine, all your malware does is phone home periodically for a hosts update and then appends it's host list to the hosts file. -nB
"You shouldn't be able to because it simply isn't true."
I have to disagree with you here. If I have algo A and algo B: I hash with algo A and get a value which I store. I hash with algo B and get a value which I store. While the security does not add up to A^B it does ammount to > A+B, which is still better than A or B only. (I really wish I had my Crypto reference books handy)
Other posters mentioned it was more work and equiv to one secure algo, both those statements are true; as I pointed out this was an alternative to writing a new SHA-1 algo. -nB
"The only hashing system without collisions is sending the original file itself."
That's not hashing:
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Another option is to hash against two very different algorithms, that even if both are partially insecure, the chances of being able to trick both are exponentially higher. -nB
I hate to tell you this but you're wrong. There is a rule three. Your arguments simply are illustrating that the managers are more important (which I already said) by HR giving them information.
I went through a hostile workplace incident where I was the recipient of the hostility and a manager was the giver. I lost, but not without a fight that cost them a bit. I am now in a higher paying position in a better department, with far less ulceration of my stomach.
I know there is a post-it note in my file with some "unofficial" notes on it, but knowledge is power and I know how to use it.
It's all about understanding your 'enemy' and realizing that you are more expendable than a manager, who in-turn is more expendable than the company or a higher level manager. If you want HR's help with an external influence, say you need to relocate because you were a witness to an attempted murder by a well known hate group, no problem they will relocate you (assuming the company has a suitable position elsewhere). If you want help from HR with an internal influence (like a manager), then you must present your case not in light of how you've been harmed, but rather in light of how this is harming the company. If you made your case, you win.
I know what I'm talking about, as I've been in both the above situations. Cheers, -nB
My first PC was a hand me down XT when my dad bought a 286. I was so happy to get that damn thing and my own 1200 baud modem. .. Now I have a personal homogenous cluster of 14 PCs (x86 200MHz MMX) with a dual 166MHz setup as the head node. I realize this isn't fast but it was cheap and I can learn cluster computing on it quite nicely. My "normal" pc is an IBM T40. -nB
It's not falmebait to me. I actually use a mix of processors in my systems. VIA, AMD, Intel, Transmetta. . . anything but Cyrix. It's all about the right tool for the job (and before anyone says G5, I don't know Gx Assembly). -nB
True, I have one strong passphrase I use that uses non ascii chars in addition to normal alphanumeric. This is the key to an encrypted volume that contains my passwork backup library (it is also the key to nothing else). If compelled to divulge all passwords as evidence, I will hand over the file. Good luck opening it though:-) -nB
That's what mnemonics are for. One word leads to another in a relatively easy to remember phrase (roughly 21 words long) and that's all your bits, or if you want to be more secure go with 2048 bytes, then you only need to remember 43 words. Granted these bytes are not all that random as they are likely to be alphanumerics but remembering 4096 bytes (86 words) is not all that hard to do (and is in fact what I use to generate the pass phrase for my encrypted volume on my HDD at work). Remembering the pass phrase is key. The theory is that the fifth does not protect you from being compelled to produce material evidence (a disk, usb drive, or slip of paper with the key on it) but if the key is only in your memory then you can not be compelled to divulge it because that would amount to testifying against yourself. Besides if all else fails you can "forget it".
-nB
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Lock the hard drive. The ATA and SCSI spec both have provisions for locking the drive's electronics to dis-allow writes or reads for the disk's data. your copy utility or machine will not work without these keys.
HOW HDD LOCKING WORKS The above is a quick little write-up I did to explain to all the Xbox people who want to use/access the drive that ships with the
Xbox (after they've ruined their MB or sold it on e-bay) why they are really quite screwed. This is not
definitive, but it is fairly accurate in what it says.
-nB
I just got done with TFA and while I think these are crazy, I also can't help but think paintball meets mechassault. I really would like to try a few of these out;);) -nB
[OT] Replying to sig: I think that would present a very interesting dynamic in the Karma system. Maybe a weighted blend of your posts' moderation combined with reply moderation? -nB
I've long said if you give me a holodeck and replicator I'm never (ever) coming out. If you cut the power I will kill myself rather than facing the real world again.
Sadly I think this would actually happen to more people than just myself, which would eventually erode teh human specis into non-existance. -nB
HR operates on a set of three principals not unlike those of Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.
1) HR must protect the company / corporate entity at all costs. 2) HR must protect the executives & managers of a company (in order of seniority) unless that conflicts with law 1. 3) HR must protect the companies employees unless that conflicts with law 1 or 2.
Hope this helps some of you out there, as I learned this from personal experience. -nB
" Does your boss just ask how you're work is going and take your word for it?"
Yes because I have a good track record. If there had been no major safety incidents before at the site, why would the CEO/Chairman expect anything was going on?. I'm not trying to excuse him but I don't think he's the one culpable, given the available information.
Another possibility is that India is using this as political leverage to get access to better documentation for an investigation. They don't have a lot of political clout but this would provide at least some measure of diplomatic leverage. -nB
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I started to do that and was dissapointed in the quality of the resulting rip. One specific instance is on "The Ittalian Job" near the beginning of the movie when all the birds fly off I got horrible artifacting from all the dischordant motion in the picture. Any thought on solving this (or what I did wrong)? I re-riped and transcoded the movie to no avail.
-nB
now that'a a good idea!
(I know we've all been doing that to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 and such).
Immagine, all your malware does is phone home periodically for a hosts update and then appends it's host list to the hosts file.
-nB
We all have been complaining about malware for years. . .
Now they are complaining about themselves.
When does it stop?
-nB
"MS has at least helped with design if not funding."
:-)
Uses the same cost reduces 10 gig seagate HDD as the Xbox.
-nB
Sometimes I felt that really was the case.
The part about the goones at least I know to be true!
-nB
[that damn 2 min timeout should not apply across threads!!!]
cantHelpIt. itsTheWayWeAreForcedTo_type_by_our_compilers :-)
I particularly liked: "instead of considering what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool out onto the screen"
That made me snort soda onto my keyboard (sad thing is that it's sooo true!)
-nB
If you find that paper I'd love to read it :-)
networkboy at sign gmail dot com
-nB
"You shouldn't be able to because it simply isn't true."
I have to disagree with you here.
If I have algo A and algo B:
I hash with algo A and get a value which I store.
I hash with algo B and get a value which I store.
While the security does not add up to A^B it does ammount to > A+B, which is still better than A or B only. (I really wish I had my Crypto reference books handy)
Other posters mentioned it was more work and equiv to one secure algo, both those statements are true; as I pointed out this was an alternative to writing a new SHA-1 algo.
-nB
"The only hashing system without collisions is sending the original file itself."
That's not hashing:
Producing hash values for accessing data or for security. A hash value (or simply hash), also called a message digest, is a number generated from a string of text. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by a formula in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other text will produce the same hash value.
Another option is to hash against two very different algorithms, that even if both are partially insecure, the chances of being able to trick both are exponentially higher.
-nB
I hate to tell you this but you're wrong. There is a rule three. Your arguments simply are illustrating that the managers are more important (which I already said) by HR giving them information.
I went through a hostile workplace incident where I was the recipient of the hostility and a manager was the giver. I lost, but not without a fight that cost them a bit. I am now in a higher paying position in a better department, with far less ulceration of my stomach.
I know there is a post-it note in my file with some "unofficial" notes on it, but knowledge is power and I know how to use it.
It's all about understanding your 'enemy' and realizing that you are more expendable than a manager, who in-turn is more expendable than the company or a higher level manager. If you want HR's help with an external influence, say you need to relocate because you were a witness to an attempted murder by a well known hate group, no problem they will relocate you (assuming the company has a suitable position elsewhere). If you want help from HR with an internal influence (like a manager), then you must present your case not in light of how you've been harmed, but rather in light of how this is harming the company. If you made your case, you win.
I know what I'm talking about, as I've been in both the above situations.
Cheers,
-nB
My first PC was a hand me down XT when my dad bought a 286. I was so happy to get that damn thing and my own 1200 baud modem. . .
Now I have a personal homogenous cluster of 14 PCs (x86 200MHz MMX) with a dual 166MHz setup as the head node. I realize this isn't fast but it was cheap and I can learn cluster computing on it quite nicely. My "normal" pc is an IBM T40.
-nB
It's not falmebait to me.
I actually use a mix of processors in my systems.
VIA, AMD, Intel, Transmetta. . . anything but Cyrix.
It's all about the right tool for the job (and before anyone says G5, I don't know Gx Assembly).
-nB
Ah, but that implies NGO's are involved. I'd likely tell all far before it came to that. In the case of a simple legal battle I'm safe. -nB
True, :-)
I have one strong passphrase I use that uses non ascii chars in addition to normal alphanumeric. This is the key to an encrypted volume that contains my passwork backup library (it is also the key to nothing else). If compelled to divulge all passwords as evidence, I will hand over the file. Good luck opening it though
-nB
"Just be sure to remember the 1024 bit number."
That's what mnemonics are for. One word leads to another in a relatively easy to remember phrase (roughly 21 words long) and that's all your bits, or if you want to be more secure go with 2048 bytes, then you only need to remember 43 words. Granted these bytes are not all that random as they are likely to be alphanumerics but remembering 4096 bytes (86 words) is not all that hard to do (and is in fact what I use to generate the pass phrase for my encrypted volume on my HDD at work). Remembering the pass phrase is key.
The theory is that the fifth does not protect you from being compelled to produce material evidence (a disk, usb drive, or slip of paper with the key on it) but if the key is only in your memory then you can not be compelled to divulge it because that would amount to testifying against yourself. Besides if all else fails you can "forget it".
-nB
Lock the hard drive. The ATA and SCSI spec both have provisions for locking the drive's electronics to dis-allow writes or reads for the disk's data. your copy utility or machine will not work without these keys.
HOW HDD LOCKING WORKS
The above is a quick little write-up I did to explain to all the Xbox people who want to use/access the drive that ships with the Xbox (after they've ruined their MB or sold it on e-bay) why they are really quite screwed. This is not definitive, but it is fairly accurate in what it says.
-nB
I wish I still had mod points!
-nB
Harsh. Funny, but harsh. -nB
I just got done with TFA and while I think these are crazy, I also can't help but think paintball meets mechassault. I really would like to try a few of these out ;) ;)
-nB
No....
10 years ago someone invented a (hand) writing style that computers could recognize ala grafitti on the Palm.
-nB
[OT] Replying to sig:
I think that would present a very interesting dynamic in the Karma system. Maybe a weighted blend of your posts' moderation combined with reply moderation?
-nB
I've long said if you give me a holodeck and replicator I'm never (ever) coming out. If you cut the power I will kill myself rather than facing the real world again.
Sadly I think this would actually happen to more people than just myself, which would eventually erode teh human specis into non-existance.
-nB
Understanding HR:
HR operates on a set of three principals not unlike those of Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.
1) HR must protect the company / corporate entity at all costs.
2) HR must protect the executives & managers of a company (in order of seniority) unless that conflicts with law 1.
3) HR must protect the companies employees unless that conflicts with law 1 or 2.
Hope this helps some of you out there, as I learned this from personal experience.
-nB
" Does your boss just ask how you're work is going and take your word for it?"
Yes because I have a good track record. If there had been no major safety incidents before at the site, why would the CEO/Chairman expect anything was going on?. I'm not trying to excuse him but I don't think he's the one culpable, given the available information.
Another possibility is that India is using this as political leverage to get access to better documentation for an investigation. They don't have a lot of political clout but this would provide at least some measure of diplomatic leverage.
-nB