"finding their [physics-affected limb] positions may help you understand how they died"
So if I find a guy with no arms, legs or head, then I am gonna have a damned hard time trying to figure out how he was killed.. what is that noise behind me?
Wealthy countries with a larger pool of potential athletes, who have been consistently successful in recent history, and have a government who sponsors athletics, will win more medals.
For my next trick, I shall predict what date Christmas will be on - using only the last 400 years of the Gregorian Calendar, minus the bits where they fsked up.
And no smart asses talking about Orthodox Christmas.
In other news, PWC open the worlds largest betting office...
The average center of orbit between the Earth and the Moon (bearing in mind that the Sun *does* orbit the earth, and all the other planets in our solar system, and probably, all planets, suns and objects anywhere in the universe, to a small degree) is very close to the center.
Therefore, we can say the moon is the satellite. Even though it is only because Earth is bigger. I would do some kind of demonstration but the rubber sheets are being cleaned right now... ^H^H^H^H^H^H damn Shift-6,Shift-H no longer works for me.
"To be cryptographically sound, a CHF should have two main properties. (1) Given a digest, it must be essentially impossible to figure out what data generated that digest. (2) It must be essentially impossible to find find a "collision", that is, to find two different data values that have the same digest."
Which is as I stated, however, 80,000 hours to find a collision? is that essentially impossible? Given his hardware, on SHA-0 ?
Now, the collision is spookily close, but it looks like they cannot explain that. 80,000 hours is a heart beat in cryptography though.
Some truth, all cryptography has a weakness in brute force lookups. However, this is so absurdly crazy with todays CPU's, that it isn't really a weakness.
Knowing that this is your only weakness, is a strength. I do not think that they found a magic way of reducing the complexity required to find a collision, or indeed, brute force the result.
I think the 'discovery' of this has no impact of the prior strength, existing strength, or applications of SHA-1 or MD5.
As far as I know, a hash will always have collisions.
As long as a hash is one way only (and the work to go the other way is significantly high) then it works.
I fail to find this 'reduced complexity' in predicting or locating the collision, which should be as hard as finding the original. So there are two +5 posts here, that sounds intelligent, that make no sense to me.
At all. Unless I am wrong, they have said, hashes, that by thier nature have collisions - have been found to have - collisions.
now they should be (trez) unlikely in a large enough numbr of bits.
I will re-read for this magic talk about 74 bit hamming, which just sounds like a fluke to me.
When reading the MySQL website, they seem to have taken liberties with definitions in the GPL agreement. In fact, they have interpretted the GPL as meaning 'trial version'
If you read their license faq you will see what I mean.
You need a commercial license if you:
Download this Copy it Give it to someone else Install it Install it on another machine Give it to someone to install it... etc etc
I noticed that there are some grey areas of GPL, and what does it cover? It is freely licensable?
I wish someone would write a case (using MySQL) giving examples of what you could do, and what you cannot do.
GPL is probably the most misunderstood (except for LGPL!!) license in the world!
They are not sure if it will be open source. If they open sources it right now, with the slash-dot interest, then they may have a linux client quite soon.
Closed development - for a free game? I am not sure why they are doing this... it seems the most of thier work has been spent loading TA models and information... again, something I find a little bemusing. Of course, if it means all the models and gfx created in mods for TA will work in this, then that sounds good.
I must say thier terrain deformation looks spiffing.
Good luck to them! Oh, I am not 'hardcore' RTS anywho...
Most people do not regard gamuts and colour spaces as important in their purchases. perhaps with the critical mass of photography and printing people may start to be more concerned.
I for one have given up trying to get Photoshop to display the colours correctly...
And who cares about increasing the colour space, when the networks are forcing everyone onto digital, highly compressed channels, and also making people buy higher resoution sets, which will lead to higher compression, and loss of colour information though that way.
High fidelity tv should be that... I am not a tv expert person. I just watch Seinfeld.
Sorry, I am so insensitive... I wonder if the GM companies will be sponsoring it? Hey kids, say hi to Cra-Z Carrot, he is your GM Friend.
GM is good. If you click 'I Agree' to the following statement, you can play level 2!
Hey kids, want to play level 3? You must promise to call us on this number, if you parents are members of an anti-GM group, and are planning a raid!
Thanks kids! I am not against GM, just the profiteering. OK you have to fund research. Does that make 99% of todays drug companies ethical in their funding exploits?
Slightly OT, but I saw this coming, alongside Microsofts patent scams, 'licensing' their API's (read, now they are established, pay for them biatch, whilst destroying other standards).
Microsoft are moving in subtle ways - they have the money to do this as well.
Now we can have bad movies that delete themselves, at least that saves us the trouble...
I wonder how long it will be before they dynamically or on the fly replace movie scenes and adverts within movies across the lifespan of the movie?
To be fair they should use XP in these tests. It knows how to break itself, and has a whole new exploitability. But - and this is quite shocking - sometimes it can fix itself!
After being very devious, and listening to music and idly browsing the web (about 2 days after XP was released) my friends XP stopped rebooting.
Luckily the recovery system worked, and my friend was able to get XP running again!
This sounds like one of those stories where 'friend' is like me, talking about myself in third person, but honestly, it is this friend I have, who used XP...
friend (frnd) n.
1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
Acronym Definition XP Experience (Microsoft Windows XP)
Nice changelogs! *runs and installs*. I tend to wait until a major release to a nice looking distro before I upgrade. That is me though, just a user...
I didn't realise that flash drives could in fact be as fast as a RAID array? Well you can even raid these rocket drives. Basically a disk controller interface to gigs of ram.
Of course, tend to hate being turned off, but you can always have a UPS to stream everything to a raid array afterwards...
"The light source is a collection of red, green and blue LEDs, capable of being used to generate any colour entered as an RGB value." "Illuminated portion"
So if you consider the monitor to be part of the case, or indeed, the computer (or an embedded display).... well taking it in a wider context. If the case can be set to change colour evenly, from a simple progam running in the OS, this is quite cool.
The computer could even auto configure a taseful colour to match your curtains (or whatever you point your webcam at...)
Apple are pushing things that others don't see as important, and this will give them an edge.
My girlfriend said out of the blue "When we buy a new PC, should we get an Apple?" (We had jsut passed an old (closed down) computer shop, that had a large Apple logo on the side...
girlfriend ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gûrlfrnd) n.
1. A favored female companion or sweetheart.
2. A female friend.
I think the reality of fusion power is not getting any closer, whereas the dream would seem to have already arrived, taken off it's shoes and asked whats for dinner.
I just hope fusion engineers/scientists are not like computer programmers (me included).
*Boom*
Aaah I see, yep, yep, yep, thought so, no no problem, can we schedule a test for next week? Yep, gimme a minute i'll check the calculations...
*Bigger Boom*
Ooooh, mmmm mmm, yep, no - that's good, we are doing something right, that was definately different, lets hope we don't get a BlackHoleException, yeah, I'd throw a try/catch around that whole nasty business there... *vague pointing*
*fading image of old tv screen switching off*
*smacks head* d'oh! Oh well at least the moon base survived...
I cannot get to the link (Do you think it is/.'d?) but I was even going to go to the lengths of *gulp* making my own keyboard that would rest in my relaxed palm, allowing me to type (via bluetooth eventually) to my pda without any stressful movements.
One handed though.. not sure, I planned to have two joystick shaped (ergonimoc) keyboards each with 5 pressure sensors / buttons, and use a simple keying algorithm that I found suitable , or perhaps adapt dvorak or look to newer input methods (ref. David Mckay at Cambridge) that have been investigated since mobiles and PDA's were new.
Dont forget, the Canarys are off the West of Africa and Europe, Although as the slippage seems to be comming off the west of the island, the wave may only travel westerly...?
I wonder how long before some models might be available... even a simple concentric circle diagram taking into account the islands dampening effect on the tsunami. (I think they already know where the slippage will occur...)
Slashdot Mirror
The US would think it was some open bean communist coffee house, and point to StarBucks as the true way forward.
Sorry, that makes little sense, but with a weeze like that I couldn't wait until I had thought of something more sane...
"finding their [physics-affected limb] positions may help you understand how they died"
So if I find a guy with no arms, legs or head, then I am gonna have a damned hard time trying to figure out how he was killed.. what is that noise behind me?
Wealthy countries with a larger pool of potential athletes, who have been consistently successful in recent history, and have a government who sponsors athletics, will win more medals.
For my next trick, I shall predict what date Christmas will be on - using only the last 400 years of the Gregorian Calendar, minus the bits where they fsked up.
And no smart asses talking about Orthodox Christmas.
In other news, PWC open the worlds largest betting office...
The average center of orbit between the Earth and the Moon (bearing in mind that the Sun *does* orbit the earth, and all the other planets in our solar system, and probably, all planets, suns and objects anywhere in the universe, to a small degree) is very close to the center.
Therefore, we can say the moon is the satellite. Even though it is only because Earth is bigger. I would do some kind of demonstration but the rubber sheets are being cleaned right now... ^H^H^H^H^H^H damn Shift-6,Shift-H no longer works for me.
"To be cryptographically sound, a CHF should have two main properties. (1) Given a digest, it must be essentially impossible to figure out what data generated that digest. (2) It must be essentially impossible to find find a "collision", that is, to find two different data values that have the same digest."
Which is as I stated, however, 80,000 hours to find a collision? is that essentially impossible? Given his hardware, on SHA-0 ?
Now, the collision is spookily close, but it looks like they cannot explain that. 80,000 hours is a heart beat in cryptography though.
Yes, it is interesting...
These are the two messages that collided
First message (2048 bits represented in hex):
a766a602 b65cffe7 73bcf258 26b322b3 d01b1a97 2684ef53 3e3b4b7f 53fe3762
24c08e47 e959b2bc 3b519880 b9286568 247d110f 70f5c5e2 b4590ca3 f55f52fe
effd4c8f e68de835 329e603c c51e7f02 545410d1 671d108d f5a4000d cf20a439
4949d72c d14fbb03 45cf3a29 5dcda89f 998f8755 2c9a58b1 bdc38483 5e477185
f96e68be bb0025d2 d2b69edf 21724198 f688b41d eb9b4913 fbe696b5 457ab399
21e1d759 1f89de84 57e8613c 6c9e3b24 2879d4d8 783b2d9c a9935ea5 26a729c0
6edfc501 37e69330 be976012 cc5dfe1c 14c4c68b d1db3ecb 24438a59 a09b5db4
35563e0d 8bdf572f 77b53065 cef31f32 dc9dbaa0 4146261e 9994bd5c d0758e3d
Second message:
a766a602 b65cffe7 73bcf258 26b322b1 d01b1ad7 2684ef51 be3b4b7f d3fe3762
a4c08e45 e959b2fc 3b519880 39286528 a47d110d 70f5c5e0 34590ce3 755f52fc
6ffd4c8d 668de875 329e603e 451e7f02 d45410d1 e71d108d f5a4000d cf20a439
4949d72c d14fbb01 45cf3a69 5dcda89d 198f8755 ac9a58b1 3dc38481 5e4771c5
796e68fe bb0025d0 52b69edd a17241d8 7688b41f 6b9b4911 7be696f5 c57ab399
a1e1d719 9f89de86 57e8613c ec9e3b26 a879d498 783b2d9e 29935ea7 a6a72980
6edfc503 37e69330 3e976010 4c5dfe5c 14c4c689 51db3ecb a4438a59 209b5db4
35563e0d 8bdf572f 77b53065 cef31f30 dc9dbae0 4146261c 1994bd5c 50758e3d
"it just isn't a secure hash anymore.'
o.O
Some truth, all cryptography has a weakness in brute force lookups. However, this is so absurdly crazy with todays CPU's, that it isn't really a weakness.
Knowing that this is your only weakness, is a strength. I do not think that they found a magic way of reducing the complexity required to find a collision, or indeed, brute force the result.
I think the 'discovery' of this has no impact of the prior strength, existing strength, or applications of SHA-1 or MD5.
As far as I know, a hash will always have collisions.
As long as a hash is one way only (and the work to go the other way is significantly high) then it works.
I fail to find this 'reduced complexity' in predicting or locating the collision, which should be as hard as finding the original. So there are two +5 posts here, that sounds intelligent, that make no sense to me.
At all. Unless I am wrong, they have said, hashes, that by thier nature have collisions - have been found to have - collisions.
now they should be (trez) unlikely in a large enough numbr of bits.
I will re-read for this magic talk about 74 bit hamming, which just sounds like a fluke to me.
When reading the MySQL website, they seem to have taken liberties with definitions in the GPL agreement. In fact, they have interpretted the GPL as meaning 'trial version'
If you read their license faq you will see what I mean.
You need a commercial license if you:
Download this
Copy it
Give it to someone else
Install it
Install it on another machine
Give it to someone to install it... etc etc
I noticed that there are some grey areas of GPL, and what does it cover? It is freely licensable?
I wish someone would write a case (using MySQL) giving examples of what you could do, and what you cannot do.
GPL is probably the most misunderstood (except for LGPL!!) license in the world!
They are not sure if it will be open source. If they open sources it right now, with the slash-dot interest, then they may have a linux client quite soon.
Closed development - for a free game? I am not sure why they are doing this... it seems the most of thier work has been spent loading TA models and information... again, something I find a little bemusing. Of course, if it means all the models and gfx created in mods for TA will work in this, then that sounds good.
I must say thier terrain deformation looks spiffing.
Good luck to them! Oh, I am not 'hardcore' RTS anywho...
Computing magazine (UK) has a back-bytes page which showcased some funny computer language based lyrics and poems.
Jabberwocky is a fantastic piece of work, it is the picasso of text, the lurid incandecent imagination of profound insanity.
I think it should be in Python, Perl and php (sic) now.
Lets not forget JavaWocky...
Most people do not regard gamuts and colour spaces as important in their purchases. perhaps with the critical mass of photography and printing people may start to be more concerned.
I for one have given up trying to get Photoshop to display the colours correctly...
And who cares about increasing the colour space, when the networks are forcing everyone onto digital, highly compressed channels, and also making people buy higher resoution sets, which will lead to higher compression, and loss of colour information though that way.
High fidelity tv should be that... I am not a tv expert person. I just watch Seinfeld.
know your foodchain - that is you, at the bottom.
Will Starvin Marvin make a guest appearance?
Sorry, I am so insensitive... I wonder if the GM companies will be sponsoring it? Hey kids, say hi to Cra-Z Carrot, he is your GM Friend.
GM is good. If you click 'I Agree' to the following statement, you can play level 2!
Hey kids, want to play level 3? You must promise to call us on this number, if you parents are members of an anti-GM group, and are planning a raid!
Thanks kids! I am not against GM, just the profiteering. OK you have to fund research. Does that make 99% of todays drug companies ethical in their funding exploits?
Blue Screen, coming to a cinema near you...
Slightly OT, but I saw this coming, alongside Microsofts patent scams, 'licensing' their API's (read, now they are established, pay for them biatch, whilst destroying other standards).
Microsoft are moving in subtle ways - they have the money to do this as well.
Now we can have bad movies that delete themselves, at least that saves us the trouble...
I wonder how long it will be before they dynamically or on the fly replace movie scenes and adverts within movies across the lifespan of the movie?
Perhaps I am old, but any online game where you can't bunny hop, strafe jump, head shot, team kill or spawn kill just doesn't feel right.
:-)
And I don't even want to know if camping in this game involves a skill roll and tent pegs, please...
To be fair they should use XP in these tests. It knows how to break itself, and has a whole new exploitability. But - and this is quite shocking - sometimes it can fix itself!
After being very devious, and listening to music and idly browsing the web (about 2 days after XP was released) my friends XP stopped rebooting.
Luckily the recovery system worked, and my friend was able to get XP running again!
This sounds like one of those stories where 'friend' is like me, talking about myself in third person, but honestly, it is this friend I have, who used XP...
friend (frnd)
n.
1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
Acronym Definition
XP Experience (Microsoft Windows XP)
frr:yyy
I think you are going to run into year 1000 issues with a format like 'yyy' *adjusts foil hat*
"Entirely untested, but Obviously Correct(TM)"
Nice changelogs! *runs and installs*. I tend to wait until a major release to a nice looking distro before I upgrade. That is me though, just a user...
Pats on backs all round though!
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
I didn't realise that flash drives could in fact be as fast as a RAID array? Well you can even raid these rocket drives. Basically a disk controller interface to gigs of ram.
Of course, tend to hate being turned off, but you can always have a UPS to stream everything to a raid array afterwards...
"you convert from UT to GMT by adding 0 hours."
... :-)
This doesn't mean that UT is the timezone formerly known as GMT.
"If there are technical niceties involved, they aren't relevant to the ordinary person."
"The light source is a collection of red, green and blue LEDs, capable of being used to generate any colour entered as an RGB value."
"Illuminated portion"
So if you consider the monitor to be part of the case, or indeed, the computer (or an embedded display).... well taking it in a wider context. If the case can be set to change colour evenly, from a simple progam running in the OS, this is quite cool.
The computer could even auto configure a taseful colour to match your curtains (or whatever you point your webcam at...)
Apple are pushing things that others don't see as important, and this will give them an edge.
My girlfriend said out of the blue "When we buy a new PC, should we get an Apple?" (We had jsut passed an old (closed down) computer shop, that had a large Apple logo on the side...
girlfriend ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gûrlfrnd)
n.
1. A favored female companion or sweetheart.
2. A female friend.
I think the reality of fusion power is not getting any closer, whereas the dream would seem to have already arrived, taken off it's shoes and asked whats for dinner.
I just hope fusion engineers/scientists are not like computer programmers (me included).
*Boom*
Aaah I see, yep, yep, yep, thought so, no no problem, can we schedule a test for next week? Yep, gimme a minute i'll check the calculations...
*Bigger Boom*
Ooooh, mmmm mmm, yep, no - that's good, we are doing something right, that was definately different, lets hope we don't get a BlackHoleException, yeah, I'd throw a try/catch around that whole nasty business there... *vague pointing*
*fading image of old tv screen switching off*
*smacks head* d'oh! Oh well at least the moon base survived...
I cannot get to the link (Do you think it is /.'d?) but I was even going to go to the lengths of *gulp* making my own keyboard that would rest in my relaxed palm, allowing me to type (via bluetooth eventually) to my pda without any stressful movements.
One handed though.. not sure, I planned to have two joystick shaped (ergonimoc) keyboards each with 5 pressure sensors / buttons, and use a simple keying algorithm that I found suitable , or perhaps adapt dvorak or look to newer input methods (ref. David Mckay at Cambridge) that have been investigated since mobiles and PDA's were new.
*waits to see link*
Dont forget, the Canarys are off the West of Africa and Europe, Although as the slippage seems to be comming off the west of the island, the wave may only travel westerly...?
I wonder how long before some models might be available... even a simple concentric circle diagram taking into account the islands dampening effect on the tsunami. (I think they already know where the slippage will occur...)
Google has been buying up land on the east coast as land prices plummet after news of a volcano...
intergenetic breeding? I might patent that... :-)