According to the quoran (the islamic holy book), the earth is flat, please check this articles for more details:-
http://humanists.net/avijit/article/flat_earth_kasem.htm
According to CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations), there are 1.200 billion muslims on planet earth, so at least 1.2 billion people believe that the earth is flat!
BEGIN QUOTE The review tested all these products in FSG Groups facility, an employee of FSG Group is said to be "sexy" in the review, and a product from FSG Group won? Yeah, right... END QUOTE to be fair, the only product from FSG that won, was the "Low-end supplies", namely, the FSP300-60GNF. hexus.net were very critical of the other FSG offerings. PS: i'm in no way affiliated with hexsus.net, FSG, or any of the products reviewed, and derive no pecuniary benefit from the reviewer's, or the companies whose products are being reviewed. HTH
Intel still make motherboards, they are the most reliable, and these days, I must say reasonably priced, considering that ASUS & CO, do charge an arm and a leg for their MB's, just for the "added value??" of overclocking. If one has to take care of a lot of boxes, then one should stear away from any third party MB's and stick with the intel ones. Let me add that they are lot cheaper too. HTH
According to Mr Gibson (from http://www.grcsucks.com/grcdos.htm):-
"Operating system kernel-level "packet drivers" are freely available on the Internet. Microsoft even provides a (buggy) sample of such a driver in their own "Platform SDK" (A sample kit for Windows developers.)"
He certainly has no idea what the "Platform SDK", is for... I am sure it has no such things as "packet drivers" FWIW, the SDK has headers files, and libraries, and is used for developing application programs for windows.
Driver development in MS land requires the MS DDK, an environment for building windows drivers.
This Gibson, is sure is...
FYI, alternate hashes which were in RFC2440, such as TIGER, and HAVAL are no more, and the reason for their removal was done for the sake of "keeping things simple", while at the same time all sorts of bells and whistles have been added to the aforementioned RFC to make it's implementation harder for any newcomer. TIGER was removed because PGP Inc, never implemented it in their products, while HAVAL was removed because none of the implementers who mattered had it, and it goes without saying that if PGP Inc, has not implemented an algo, be it hash, symmetric..., then it will be axed or never make it to the RFC. The suite of hash, and symmetric algorithms in RFC2440 are deficient, they ought to be more diverse, so that if one is broken one may fall back on another which has yet to be broken. Sadly, that is not the case, i.e. there are problems with AES, and it is only a matter of time before... There is another symmetric encryption algo out there which is immune to this problem(it was one of the AES candidates), and it has yet to make it to the rfc, reason given, other than above, it's slow!(it's a hell of a lot faster than any of the pre AES algos) The title of this article is misleading, in that it proclaims "moving to a stronger SHA Algorithm (SHA-256 and SHA-512)", while this hash algorithm is newcomers in the zoo, and it has yet to stand the test of time... To conclude, I wouldn't worry about the above, however, I would very much worry about RFC2440, as regardless of the algo suite, it may be deemed broken in many ways. HTH Best Regards IRFe scrutinized
i just don't understand why one wants to run wine or similar softawre on an otherwise clean OS, please do your self a favour, and keep your dirty laundry were they belong...
this is great, since i rarely see any legit windows boxes, i guess this would be a further incentive for "the people" to move to a free platform such as linux...
Bull's Eye!
Make your IP easily piratable to penetrate
the market, and start bitching and tightening up
the nouse when dominance is achieved.
The thing is that this does not work, as piracy
which was promoted by those who are being pirated
becomes a way of life. M$ invented and promoted
piracy, so they might as well live with it.
The only way to erradicate piracy is to change
their defunct business model...
If Mr Balmer or M$ & Co for that matter feel
so strongly about piracy, why don't they offer
their software for free, or if they are not so disposed, refer they would be pirates to free
open source solutions...
I'm not sure whether the so called edu sat will serve India well. If one deploys a transmitter, there ought to be a receiver on the other end with an audience which can partake of whatever is been transmitted. India is a very poor country, however, because of it's large population base, it can afford such things as a nuclear arsenal, and a ballistics infrastructure to deliver them. The sat which has been deployed is nothing but a proof of concept for furthering their nuke infrastructure. It is ironic, that resources in poor countries are diverted to such MAD schemes. If I were in charge of India, I would worry about feeding, emancipating, and educating my people, and forming alliances with the civilized world, this would be my best weapon. All the exposure of India i.e. the outsourcing, etc.. are nothing but the l33t thereof, the rest of Indians are very poor, and illiterate. enough said.. and no hard feelings
MMMDI (815272), These are times of structural adjustments in the economy. So, don't bank on regaining your former $15/hr job, notwithstanding whether the economy will rebound or not, as that job will no longer exist. You should consider training in a lucrative field which meshes with your own interest. Delaware has a relatively large economy, which rivals many sovereign nations, and i'm sure that with the right skills and motivation your state's economy will give you your own slice of the american pie. seek and you shall find... hth and the best of luck
hey, if singing Daisy is going to help a woman/man kind save a buck for a rainy day, i'll sing it for free. you wouldn't want to hear me singing though.
of course you can, however, i'm sure
that the honest folks at paypal will
find a legal or otherwise, loophole
to withold the funds forever
hth
PS keep on sending the money
it doesn't matter where you live, because the current nuclear arsenal is an equal opportunity/
affirmative action kind of weapon. should you
not be reached by ICBM, MRBM, SRBM (i made the
last two up, M=medium, S=Short, because i don't
know sh*t about these things), we have
radioactive fallout, or nuclear winter in store
for you. I would rather be at Ground Zero, so
you are very lucky to live where you are right now.
maybe the mushroom cloud was caused by a small comet or
meteorite? how large such impacting objects will
have to be to create a 2 mile crater (seriously)?
or maybe it was a crash landing of a craft from Zeta Rticulla?
while I'm not into politics, i sure hope that this is not a nuke,
because that part of the world is sure a nuke zone,
we have Russia & China who are members of the nuke club,
Japan, South Korea & Taiwan, who have all the enabling
infrastructures to join the club, and starving
nations such as India and Pakistan who are members of the club,
so why not another rogue starving nation
which is intent on joining that club?
the sad thing is that sooner or later, most
nations will acquire nuclear arms capabilities.
so, how do we deal with that? will we self annihilate?
or will wisdom prevail? afterall our specie's DNA has
no political, racial, or geographical boundries, and
we all live on the one and only known habitable planet.
God help us,
peace
while i dislike gambling, adult, and non-prescription drug sites, who are paypal
to fine them? i sure hope that they are not the
custodians of the "values, morals, etc.." of
society, because paypal are nothing but a bunch
of crooks who will not hesitate to use any means
to defraud their customers.
if they indeed feel so strongly about "gambling, adult,
and non-prescription drug sites", why not deny them service instead?
but, of course they will not do so, they will offer
their services to them, and skim the $500 fine.
this may also be of interest, it appears that another one of the so called "millennium problems", may have just been solved, that is Riemann Hypothesis:- http://www.vnunet.com/news/ 1157891 we are all lucky to live in such exciting times.
standards need no proprietary extensions, this is why they are termed standards. however, no standard is perfect, should a standard need to be extended, then all one needs to do is submit the un-encumbered extentions, and i am sure that the relevent working group will embrace that extension in the RFC if it is indeed worthy of inclusion and free of all encumbrances. but to hide behind a standard to legitimize otherwise fraudulent and deceitful activities dressed as extensions to a standard should be nothing but heinous crime...
@Aardpig, how about crc32?? if you want a higher degree of confidence, and security, how about TIGER, or the SHA-2?? and i still, find your sig repugnant, and if you really care about what you are trying to convey, i think you ought to change it. my 0c
@Aardpig, i hope that your remarks are not racially motivated, as your signature seems to indicate, however, MD5 is a bad choice of hash algorithm for the purpose that you indicate. hth
hey Aardpig, don't you get it?? ok, i'll use your own words, YOUR SIGNATURE IS A GROSS, SLANDEROUS, RACIST MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE IN INHABITANTS OF planet earth, save for THE IDIAN SUBCONTINENT.
Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.
it's not the random collisions that we worry about, it's rather the engineered ones which take advantage of weaknesses in the hash algorithms to achieve their goals that we should worry about. there is no such thing as a collision free hash algorithm, for the simple reason that the domain of the input is infinitely larger than the domain of the output, that is, the output of the hash function. current advances indicate that all MD based hash algorithms are susceptible to attack. it is only a matter of time before all MDx based hash algorithms will be literally broken by refinements of the current attacks.
@Aardpig, your sig is racist & inflammatory...
Slashdot: where racism against Indians is OK...
are you purporting that slashdot and it's readers
are racists?
and no offense, whatever your race is, that is fine with
me, afterall we are all sprung from the same stock,
sharers in the same hopes, and partakers of the same nature,
but, i do find your signature rather racist, and inflammatory...
peace to you and everyone
maybe it's high time that the Olympics should be dumped.
it has lost all it's meaning, it's all about blood sucking these days.
the athletes and the public are the ones whose blood is been sucked.
over the years my interest in this event is dwindling,
to the point where i do not have the stomach to watch any of
the events in the current one.
is there an Olympic? well i couldn't care less.
sorry if any one was offended.
Slashdot Mirror
According to the quoran (the islamic holy book), the earth is flat, please check this articles for more details:- http://humanists.net/avijit/article/flat_earth_kasem.htm According to CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations), there are 1.200 billion muslims on planet earth, so at least 1.2 billion people believe that the earth is flat!
Hey Mr Z,
Is it GPL?? if it's not please do not waste our time...
You already have a history...
Need I say more??
BEGIN QUOTE
The review tested all these products in FSG Groups facility, an employee of FSG Group is said to be "sexy" in the review, and a product from FSG Group won? Yeah, right...
END QUOTE
to be fair, the only product from FSG that won, was the "Low-end supplies", namely, the FSP300-60GNF.
hexus.net were very critical of the other FSG offerings.
PS:
i'm in no way affiliated with hexsus.net, FSG, or any of the products reviewed, and derive no pecuniary benefit from the reviewer's, or the companies whose products are being reviewed.
HTH
Intel still make motherboards, they are the most reliable, and these days, I must say reasonably priced, considering that ASUS & CO, do charge an arm and a leg for their MB's, just for the "added value??" of overclocking.
If one has to take care of a lot of boxes, then one should stear away from any third party MB's and stick with the intel ones. Let me add that they are lot cheaper too.
HTH
According to Mr Gibson (from http://www.grcsucks.com/grcdos.htm):- "Operating system kernel-level "packet drivers" are freely available on the Internet. Microsoft even provides a (buggy) sample of such a driver in their own "Platform SDK" (A sample kit for Windows developers.)" He certainly has no idea what the "Platform SDK", is for... I am sure it has no such things as "packet drivers" FWIW, the SDK has headers files, and libraries, and is used for developing application programs for windows. Driver development in MS land requires the MS DDK, an environment for building windows drivers. This Gibson, is sure is ...
hth
FYI, alternate hashes which were in RFC2440, such as TIGER, and HAVAL are
no more, and the reason for their removal was done for the sake of "keeping things simple", while at the same time all sorts of bells and whistles have been added to the aforementioned RFC to make it's implementation harder for any newcomer.
TIGER was removed because PGP Inc, never implemented it in their products, while HAVAL was removed because none of the implementers who mattered had it, and it goes without saying that if PGP Inc, has not implemented an algo, be it hash, symmetric..., then it will be axed or never make it to the RFC.
The suite of hash, and symmetric algorithms in RFC2440 are deficient, they ought to be more diverse, so that if one is broken one may fall back on another which has yet to be broken. Sadly, that is not the case, i.e. there are problems with AES, and it is only a matter of time before... There is another symmetric encryption algo out there which is immune to this problem(it was one of the AES candidates), and it has yet to make it to the rfc, reason given, other than above, it's slow!(it's a hell of a lot faster than any of the pre AES algos)
The title of this article is misleading, in that it proclaims "moving to a stronger SHA Algorithm (SHA-256 and SHA-512)", while this hash algorithm is newcomers in the zoo, and it has yet to stand the test of time...
To conclude, I wouldn't worry about the above, however, I would very much worry about RFC2440, as regardless of the algo suite, it may be deemed broken in many ways.
HTH
Best Regards
IRFe scrutinized
i just don't understand why one wants to run wine or similar softawre on an otherwise clean OS, please do your self a favour, and keep your dirty laundry were they belong...
this is great, since i rarely see any legit windows boxes, i guess this would be a further incentive for "the people" to move to a free platform such as linux...
Bull's Eye! Make your IP easily piratable to penetrate the market, and start bitching and tightening up the nouse when dominance is achieved. The thing is that this does not work, as piracy which was promoted by those who are being pirated becomes a way of life. M$ invented and promoted piracy, so they might as well live with it. The only way to erradicate piracy is to change their defunct business model... If Mr Balmer or M$ & Co for that matter feel so strongly about piracy, why don't they offer their software for free, or if they are not so disposed, refer they would be pirates to free open source solutions...
I'm not sure whether the so called edu sat
will serve India well.
If one deploys a transmitter, there ought to
be a receiver on the other end with an audience
which can partake of whatever is been transmitted.
India is a very poor country, however, because
of it's large population base, it can afford
such things as a nuclear arsenal, and a ballistics
infrastructure to deliver them. The sat which has
been deployed is nothing but a proof of concept
for furthering their nuke infrastructure.
It is ironic, that resources in poor countries
are diverted to such MAD schemes.
If I were in charge of India, I would worry about
feeding, emancipating, and educating my people,
and forming alliances with the civilized world,
this would be my best weapon.
All the exposure of India i.e. the outsourcing, etc..
are nothing but the l33t thereof, the rest of
Indians are very poor, and illiterate.
enough said..
and no hard feelings
MMMDI (815272),
These are times of structural adjustments in the economy.
So, don't bank on regaining your former $15/hr job,
notwithstanding whether the economy will rebound or not,
as that job will no longer exist.
You should consider training in a lucrative field
which meshes with your own interest.
Delaware has a relatively large economy, which rivals
many sovereign nations, and i'm sure that with the right
skills and motivation your state's economy will give
you your own slice of the american pie.
seek and you shall find...
hth
and the best of luck
hey, if singing Daisy is going to
help a woman/man kind save a buck
for a rainy day, i'll sing it for free.
you wouldn't want to hear me singing though.
of course you can, however, i'm sure that the honest folks at paypal will find a legal or otherwise, loophole to withold the funds forever hth PS keep on sending the money
it doesn't matter where you live, because the current nuclear arsenal is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action kind of weapon. should you not be reached by ICBM, MRBM, SRBM (i made the last two up, M=medium, S=Short, because i don't know sh*t about these things), we have radioactive fallout, or nuclear winter in store for you. I would rather be at Ground Zero, so you are very lucky to live where you are right now.
hth
maybe the mushroom cloud was caused by a small comet or meteorite? how large such impacting objects will have to be to create a 2 mile crater (seriously)? or maybe it was a crash landing of a craft from Zeta Rticulla? while I'm not into politics, i sure hope that this is not a nuke, because that part of the world is sure a nuke zone, we have Russia & China who are members of the nuke club, Japan, South Korea & Taiwan, who have all the enabling infrastructures to join the club, and starving nations such as India and Pakistan who are members of the club, so why not another rogue starving nation which is intent on joining that club? the sad thing is that sooner or later, most nations will acquire nuclear arms capabilities. so, how do we deal with that? will we self annihilate? or will wisdom prevail? afterall our specie's DNA has no political, racial, or geographical boundries, and we all live on the one and only known habitable planet. God help us, peace
while i dislike gambling, adult, and non-prescription drug sites, who are paypal to fine them? i sure hope that they are not the custodians of the "values, morals, etc.." of society, because paypal are nothing but a bunch of crooks who will not hesitate to use any means to defraud their customers. if they indeed feel so strongly about "gambling, adult, and non-prescription drug sites", why not deny them service instead? but, of course they will not do so, they will offer their services to them, and skim the $500 fine.
this may also be of interest, it appears that/ 1157891
another one of the so called "millennium problems",
may have just been solved, that is Riemann
Hypothesis:-
http://www.vnunet.com/news
we are all lucky to live in such exciting times.
standards need no proprietary extensions, this is why they are termed standards.
however, no standard is perfect, should a standard need to be extended, then
all one needs to do is submit the un-encumbered extentions, and i am
sure that the relevent working group will embrace that extension in the RFC
if it is indeed worthy of inclusion and free of all encumbrances.
but to hide behind a standard to legitimize otherwise fraudulent and
deceitful activities dressed as extensions to a standard should
be nothing but heinous crime...
@Aardpig,
how about crc32??
if you want a higher degree of confidence, and security, how about TIGER, or the SHA-2??
and i still, find your sig repugnant, and if you really care about what you
are trying to convey, i think you ought to change it.
my 0c
@Aardpig,
i hope that your remarks are not racially motivated,
as your signature seems to indicate, however, MD5 is a bad choice of hash algorithm for the purpose that
you indicate.
hth
hey Aardpig, don't you get it??
ok, i'll use your own words, YOUR SIGNATURE IS A GROSS, SLANDEROUS,
RACIST MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE IN INHABITANTS OF planet earth,
save for THE IDIAN SUBCONTINENT.
Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.
it's not the random collisions that we worry about,
it's rather the engineered ones which take advantage
of weaknesses in the hash algorithms to achieve
their goals that we should worry about.
there is no such thing as a collision free hash
algorithm, for the simple reason that the domain of
the input is infinitely larger than the domain
of the output, that is, the output of the hash function.
current advances indicate that all MD based
hash algorithms are susceptible to attack.
it is only a matter of time before all MDx based
hash algorithms will be literally broken by refinements
of the current attacks.
@Aardpig, your sig is racist & inflammatory... Slashdot: where racism against Indians is OK... are you purporting that slashdot and it's readers are racists? and no offense, whatever your race is, that is fine with me, afterall we are all sprung from the same stock, sharers in the same hopes, and partakers of the same nature, but, i do find your signature rather racist, and inflammatory... peace to you and everyone
maybe it's high time that the Olympics should be dumped. it has lost all it's meaning, it's all about blood sucking these days. the athletes and the public are the ones whose blood is been sucked. over the years my interest in this event is dwindling, to the point where i do not have the stomach to watch any of the events in the current one. is there an Olympic? well i couldn't care less. sorry if any one was offended.