Re:640 bits should be enough for anybody
on
Intro to Encryption
·
· Score: 1
the weakest link will be the user using short keys or the user using the same password on a weaker system
That's why all of my passwords are a complete work of Shakespeare. Root is King Lear, my insecurest password (for aim, etc) is MacBeth, and my porn passwords are Romeo and Juliet! It does take some time to enter them though:-(
To quote the famous computer scientist Meat Loaf - "I ain't in it for the power, I ain't in it for my health, I ain't in it for the glory of anything it all, and I sure ain't in it for the wealth."
I can't understand how people wouldn't want advertising added to their P2P, their IM, and their cell phone! I personally get many interesting offers every day and I'm sure to buy things that way, because that's how you get the best deals!!! Just the other day I got a movie popup on AIM and it was all about the Polar Express movie and so I immediately went out and watched it and let me tell you it was quite a good movie for me to watch and touching too! Then I was browsing msnbc.com and I got ads for a new Jeep Liberty which now I want to buy because it is trail rated and that is important to me! I didn't realize there was such a thing as trail rating for cars but apparently there is and my current honda civic that I added a sweet spoiler to is simply not going to cut it on the trails. I can't wait until I get lots of offers on my phone and on my P2P because that's basically all I do is txt people on the phone and then download the coolest songs by aviril lavigne, who is awesome. Her and jessica simpson are my playlist right now ever seence I saw jessica's cd in 7-11 where I hang out when I'm txting and downloading things. I'm gunna go now bcause I want to find any P2P clients with advertising, people please respond with links to them! THanks!
They aren't trying to not become what they hate - they hate Microsoft because they envy them. Sun wants to be Microsoft. The problem is that they aren't, and there is only room for one Microsoft in MS's markets.
It is called wavelets and people are beginning to apply them to video and audio compression. Its tricky stuff though. The neat thing is that unlike FFT, these things operate on equations that tend to zero at plus/minus infinity. That may not seem like a big deal, but it tells you a lot about how good your approximation is and how many more calculations you should do before it is good. It is a very interesting concept - I wish I had learned more about them in my DSP class.
You have completely missed my point. The candidates had no real platform differences. There were no real issues in the election, other than a sideshow. There is no difference between having every possibility, no matter how remote, given equal weight, and being told nothing. It all just devolves to noise and now all we do is shout is back at each other. If I were a republican, I'd be pissed as hell about the current state of things. Because I'd want a candidate - for any office - that actually addressed issues and didn't just follow polls and spin. Bush lost all credibility when he tried to put the no gay mariage law through congress. He just did that to grand stand - which means that the whole issue of gay mariage was a sideshow. The real choices are long gone.
"Archaeology is the search for 'fact.' Not 'truth.' If it's 'truth' you're interested in, Doctor Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall." - Professor Henry Jones, Jr.
Personally I like short round's corollary: "no time for love, Dr. Jones!" I feel it truly captures the experience of archeology - not looking for truth, not getting any lovin.
Unless you do your own research it's hard to tell which is which the way it's reported in the papers and magazines.
That is the whole point of the article! Journalists are forced to produce a balanced view of an issue where only one view has any real credibility! And then after awhile, the view that shouldn't have any credibility has achieved some simply because it gets mentioned by reporters. No wonder why our election was so close, why we can't decide anything anymore. It takes something like the WTC attack for people to agree - and I for one don't want it to cost that much every single time we have to get together on something.
The reason california is switching to wind is because the californians won't let them build any more power plants. California has to buy power from nearby states, and the lines that carry that power are limited. So what do you do when you can't build any more power plants and you need more energy right where you are? You build some wind plants. They're stopgap, that's all. The people in california don't want cleaner power - they want to get their power cheap, but without power plants which upset them. The only important thing is economic and political forces.
And I hate it when people talk about co2 absorbsion in forests. The only important co2 absorber is the ocean, which is incredibly effecient, as opposed to trees which aren't. (in comparison anyway)
Diablo 2, while not an MMORPG, had hardcore which allowed players to play characters with permadeath. That was some of the most fun I ever had. I didn't bother playing the regular game to build up for building up's sake. Instead I focused entirely on getting ready for player vs. player combat. Since the rules for pvp are such a pain in the ass (declare war in town, then you have to go find them ouside of town, plus they can just log) it was very hard to catch people, but OH WHAT FUN IT WAS. Since people usually played in groups, I'd try to take on groups 4 levels or so below me, which really isn't all that much when there are 3-5 people against just me. Most of the time they run, and sometimes someone is a little too slow - they get the axe. There's nothing like that rush. Oh yes. And no I don't kill people regularly in real life.
With no optimizations, the compilation should be a relatively quick process. That's what takes so much time when you compile a binary. GCC knows all kinds of weird tricks to speed things up in coding - it almost rewrites the entire program! You can't do that without a lot of passes and a lot of checks.
For scientists and engineers, human rights and morals (at least in the broadest sense) are more important than just plain old knowledge. Even Einstein said that the brain is just a muscle which has no inherent personality of its own, and should not be worshipped. (I'm horribly mangling what he said, probably, but that's the important part) It is much more important for someone to know they shouldn't make a biological weapon than for someone to know how to make a biological weapon. An extreme example, sure. But it is a damn good thing that the technical elite are staying educated about rights and political happenings. Humanity does all kinds of stupid stuff, and the more checks there are in there, the better.
I heard from the head of our Electrical Engineering department that Ohm, who discovered Ohm's law (V = IR), was fired from his university position because they felt that his equation was too obvious and that he wasn't doing useful work. Then again the department head could have been wrong... he was getting on in his years.
By definition a prodigy is someone who is exceptionally young to do what he or she is capable of doing. For example, Mozart was a child prodigy, not because he could write amazing music, but because he was an exceptional pianist. (Which later helped him write music). So I'd say that a prodigy programmer would have to be younger than 13. At least.
The bottom line is that if you want someone to do something for you, make sure they UNDERSTAND what they are doing and why. If someone installs a fitting backwards for you, it's your fault because the installer clearly didn't understand what was required.
This is bullshit. Sometimes people can't be made to understand something, and they are in a position above you so you can't do anything about it. For example, I once found a big problem with some inhouse software I was helping develop. I couldn't fix that part because the code wasn't even accessable to me, and I didn't know how to program in that language. So I told the manager - "hey, this is a big thing and when X happens, we're gunna get screwed". But he ignored me. So I sent out a memo detailing the problems. I got ignored. I told the guy who wrote the thing to fix it, got ignored. Finally they told me to shut up or be fired. After awhile, everything got fucked up because of the problem. Who gets the blame? Me - and they said it was because I didn't make them understand. There is no cure for willful ignorance.
Valve did the unthinkable, and for almost five years managed to develop Half-Life 2 without revealing anything until E3 right before last September's ill-fated launch (forget arguments about how ready they actually were).
This is ridiculous. Valve is a perfect example of overhype - the damn game wasn't even remotely finished. The videos they showed were all scripts. For example, in the one the guy pushes the table into the way of the door to prevent people from following him. What you don't see is that once you go through the door, the door becomes impassable. Their video had a lot of things like that. And yes, I checked out the beta at a friend's house. They weren't even remotely close to finishing, as the current release date of A YEAR LATER has shown.
If only there was a way to mod "too obvious to be funny":-(
Re:I wouldn't make any mention of bittorrent, etc.
on
Replacing TCP?
·
· Score: 1
That's right brother! Down with the man! Let him make his own TCP replacement!
While we're at it let's not talk about computers because they make pirating easier. At least then slashdot can revert to its natural state: being overrun by trolls.
Slashdot Mirror
the weakest link will be the user using short keys or the user using the same password on a weaker system
:-(
That's why all of my passwords are a complete work of Shakespeare. Root is King Lear, my insecurest password (for aim, etc) is MacBeth, and my porn passwords are Romeo and Juliet! It does take some time to enter them though
To quote the famous computer scientist Meat Loaf - "I ain't in it for the power, I ain't in it for my health, I ain't in it for the glory of anything it all, and I sure ain't in it for the wealth."
I can't understand how people wouldn't want advertising added to their P2P, their IM, and their cell phone! I personally get many interesting offers every day and I'm sure to buy things that way, because that's how you get the best deals!!! Just the other day I got a movie popup on AIM and it was all about the Polar Express movie and so I immediately went out and watched it and let me tell you it was quite a good movie for me to watch and touching too! Then I was browsing msnbc.com and I got ads for a new Jeep Liberty which now I want to buy because it is trail rated and that is important to me! I didn't realize there was such a thing as trail rating for cars but apparently there is and my current honda civic that I added a sweet spoiler to is simply not going to cut it on the trails. I can't wait until I get lots of offers on my phone and on my P2P because that's basically all I do is txt people on the phone and then download the coolest songs by aviril lavigne, who is awesome. Her and jessica simpson are my playlist right now ever seence I saw jessica's cd in 7-11 where I hang out when I'm txting and downloading things. I'm gunna go now bcause I want to find any P2P clients with advertising, people please respond with links to them! THanks!
Don't pay any attention to Stephenson. From the length of his recent books, you can guess why his favorite tool is word count.
Stephenson - 2 cents per word, that's another $200,000 in the bank!
Note: I love stephenson's books.
Subnote: I am not karma whoring with my above note.
Sub-subnote: yes I am.
They aren't trying to not become what they hate - they hate Microsoft because they envy them. Sun wants to be Microsoft. The problem is that they aren't, and there is only room for one Microsoft in MS's markets.
I'm going to hang myself now.
Oh fuck it, I'm retarded. This. Better. Be. Right. Dammit. This is another site.
Bleh sorry, bad link. This is the right one. Waiting two minutes to post the correction........
It is called wavelets and people are beginning to apply them to video and audio compression. Its tricky stuff though. The neat thing is that unlike FFT, these things operate on equations that tend to zero at plus/minus infinity. That may not seem like a big deal, but it tells you a lot about how good your approximation is and how many more calculations you should do before it is good. It is a very interesting concept - I wish I had learned more about them in my DSP class.
You must be learning poetry from Vorgons...
You have completely missed my point. The candidates had no real platform differences. There were no real issues in the election, other than a sideshow. There is no difference between having every possibility, no matter how remote, given equal weight, and being told nothing. It all just devolves to noise and now all we do is shout is back at each other. If I were a republican, I'd be pissed as hell about the current state of things. Because I'd want a candidate - for any office - that actually addressed issues and didn't just follow polls and spin. Bush lost all credibility when he tried to put the no gay mariage law through congress. He just did that to grand stand - which means that the whole issue of gay mariage was a sideshow. The real choices are long gone.
"Archaeology is the search for 'fact.' Not 'truth.' If it's 'truth' you're interested in, Doctor Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall." - Professor Henry Jones, Jr.
Personally I like short round's corollary: "no time for love, Dr. Jones!" I feel it truly captures the experience of archeology - not looking for truth, not getting any lovin.
Unless you do your own research it's hard to tell which is which the way it's reported in the papers and magazines.
That is the whole point of the article! Journalists are forced to produce a balanced view of an issue where only one view has any real credibility! And then after awhile, the view that shouldn't have any credibility has achieved some simply because it gets mentioned by reporters. No wonder why our election was so close, why we can't decide anything anymore. It takes something like the WTC attack for people to agree - and I for one don't want it to cost that much every single time we have to get together on something.
The reason california is switching to wind is because the californians won't let them build any more power plants. California has to buy power from nearby states, and the lines that carry that power are limited. So what do you do when you can't build any more power plants and you need more energy right where you are? You build some wind plants. They're stopgap, that's all. The people in california don't want cleaner power - they want to get their power cheap, but without power plants which upset them. The only important thing is economic and political forces.
And I hate it when people talk about co2 absorbsion in forests. The only important co2 absorber is the ocean, which is incredibly effecient, as opposed to trees which aren't. (in comparison anyway)
Diablo 2, while not an MMORPG, had hardcore which allowed players to play characters with permadeath. That was some of the most fun I ever had. I didn't bother playing the regular game to build up for building up's sake. Instead I focused entirely on getting ready for player vs. player combat. Since the rules for pvp are such a pain in the ass (declare war in town, then you have to go find them ouside of town, plus they can just log) it was very hard to catch people, but OH WHAT FUN IT WAS. Since people usually played in groups, I'd try to take on groups 4 levels or so below me, which really isn't all that much when there are 3-5 people against just me. Most of the time they run, and sometimes someone is a little too slow - they get the axe. There's nothing like that rush. Oh yes. And no I don't kill people regularly in real life.
Let's not forget about the Mormon's taking over the Boy Scouts of America! Ugh.
I think that's between michael and roland isn't it? Although it horrifies me to think about michael and roland 'plugging away'
Please don't mention something like that again.
With no optimizations, the compilation should be a relatively quick process. That's what takes so much time when you compile a binary. GCC knows all kinds of weird tricks to speed things up in coding - it almost rewrites the entire program! You can't do that without a lot of passes and a lot of checks.
For scientists and engineers, human rights and morals (at least in the broadest sense) are more important than just plain old knowledge. Even Einstein said that the brain is just a muscle which has no inherent personality of its own, and should not be worshipped. (I'm horribly mangling what he said, probably, but that's the important part) It is much more important for someone to know they shouldn't make a biological weapon than for someone to know how to make a biological weapon. An extreme example, sure. But it is a damn good thing that the technical elite are staying educated about rights and political happenings. Humanity does all kinds of stupid stuff, and the more checks there are in there, the better.
I heard from the head of our Electrical Engineering department that Ohm, who discovered Ohm's law (V = IR), was fired from his university position because they felt that his equation was too obvious and that he wasn't doing useful work. Then again the department head could have been wrong... he was getting on in his years.
By definition a prodigy is someone who is exceptionally young to do what he or she is capable of doing. For example, Mozart was a child prodigy, not because he could write amazing music, but because he was an exceptional pianist. (Which later helped him write music). So I'd say that a prodigy programmer would have to be younger than 13. At least.
The bottom line is that if you want someone to do something for you, make sure they UNDERSTAND what they are doing and why. If someone installs a fitting backwards for you, it's your fault because the installer clearly didn't understand what was required.
This is bullshit. Sometimes people can't be made to understand something, and they are in a position above you so you can't do anything about it. For example, I once found a big problem with some inhouse software I was helping develop. I couldn't fix that part because the code wasn't even accessable to me, and I didn't know how to program in that language. So I told the manager - "hey, this is a big thing and when X happens, we're gunna get screwed". But he ignored me. So I sent out a memo detailing the problems. I got ignored. I told the guy who wrote the thing to fix it, got ignored. Finally they told me to shut up or be fired. After awhile, everything got fucked up because of the problem. Who gets the blame? Me - and they said it was because I didn't make them understand. There is no cure for willful ignorance.
Valve did the unthinkable, and for almost five years managed to develop Half-Life 2 without revealing anything until E3 right before last September's ill-fated launch (forget arguments about how ready they actually were).
This is ridiculous. Valve is a perfect example of overhype - the damn game wasn't even remotely finished. The videos they showed were all scripts. For example, in the one the guy pushes the table into the way of the door to prevent people from following him. What you don't see is that once you go through the door, the door becomes impassable. Their video had a lot of things like that. And yes, I checked out the beta at a friend's house. They weren't even remotely close to finishing, as the current release date of A YEAR LATER has shown.
If only there was a way to mod "too obvious to be funny" :-(
That's right brother! Down with the man! Let him make his own TCP replacement!
While we're at it let's not talk about computers because they make pirating easier. At least then slashdot can revert to its natural state: being overrun by trolls.