Sony is succeeding with UMD protected movies, so sandisk may well get away with it.
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If you try and force users to use stronger passwords than they can remember or change them too frequently you'll just get post-its and helpdesk. If their passwords aren't secure enough, get them to use etokens or something similar.
Java's API is horrible for GUIs. Learn a good general-purpose, crossplatform toolkit with bindings to multiple languages, such as Qt or to a lesser extent Wx.
Both the Qt ones are horrible, while I haven't tried the gnome one I wouldn't hold out much hope. Azureus is nice if you have a cluster to run it on, but it's so horrendously slow on a normal system as to be unusable. I think the best bet for the protocol is clients built into browsers like Opera has. That would make the protocol popular, but also invisible, just like ftp is most of the time these days, so it might not be what the VC guys want.
Like several other people have stated, I don't really get the definition of a blog other than "an easy to use, idiot proof homepage".
It's usually time-dependent. A normal website, though updated, has pages which could basically have been written at any time, and it's not obvious in which order the site was done. A blog normally has entries tied to specific dates, and a clear order for the pages.
Oh, because saying "website-running-a-CMS" is/so/ much easier than saying "blog".
I don't like blogs, but they're a distinct type of site, and it's easier to give them their own term. It's not like the word was being used for anything else.
I think you're missing the point of all the other posters here: That the attacks would almost certainly be IMCOMPATIBLE. For example: Suppose an attack is found for SHA1 that is just like this one in nature. You seem to think that these two attacks can be used in conjunction with each other, but that just isn't the case. The modifications to extend the file while preserving SHA1 almost certainly WON'T preserve the MD5 stamp match previously created by the other attack. The same would be true in the reverse order.
If you look at the attack in more detail you'll find that's simply not true. Although they use only two vector values in the example, it's almost trivial to extend the method used to produce arbitrarily many vector values. Furthermore, you can find two vector values among a given set, provided it is large enough, just as easily as finding two "random" vector values. Therefore, if the SHA1 attack worked the same way you could combine both attacks in two ways - you could generate a whole load of vectors for MD5, then from them find two with matching SHA1, or you could do it the other way around. Even if the SHA1 attack takes a different form, you can still combine the two provided either one of two conditions hold: the SHA1 attack can be used to generate a large number of binaries with matching SHA1 which differ only in a single n-bit section, or the SHA1 attack can be used to find two binaries with the same SHA1 among a large number of binaries which differ only in a single n-bit section. All the attacks I know of satisfy both of these.
If you still don't understand this, please, please don't try to make a living in cryptography.
Any serious cryptographer will tell you combining MD5 and SHA1 is a stupid idea. Bruce Schneier (I've prolly misspelled his name) covered it very well in a fairly recent Crypto-gram.
A lot of articles quote 'cost-saving' as a factor in HD-DVD over Blu-ray. Where exactly are those cost savings? In media or player production? Factory retooling? R&D?
Player production and factory retooling. The player production is no different in itself, but Blu-ray players will cost more if they're going to be compatible with ordinary DVDs too.
Computer people know what they're doing. For people using the things in non-computer player, it's quite simple, DVD for video and CD for audio. People are used to this, and formats which go the other way around (DVDA and [S]VCD) haven't had much success in the US. UMD isn't even on the map for the average customer.
Sony didn't go off on their own, Blu-ray is sony and several other manufacturers. In fact, before this announcement, I didn't know of anyone getting behind HD-DVD over Blu-ray.
One other company is enough to make a good standard with sony - the CD was a Sony/Phillips thing.
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Umm my psp can emulate consoles and there a port of bochs out and it can load win95
True, but such things, generally and so far at least, require hacking the console, usually with the effort required being beyond the average user. A PC runs emulators and general purpose software as easily as it does games, consoles generally don't.
What about the gamepark gp32 or what ever the new one is called they have an open system.
I haven't been following it. If it has user-upgradeable parts and executes arbitrary software easily, it's basically just another PC architecture, albeit one specifically designed for gaming. If either of these things are missing it's not customisable enough for me.
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Interesting idea. Maybe it could be done with something like an IRC bot, that informs the players where they are, reveals the right clues privately to players who need them, but other than that simply lets them talk.
Giving preferential treatment to software just because it follows some creed is not the way to choose the best tools for the job and save the tax payers money.
However, insisting on source code access saves money in the long run by ensuring the taxpayer is not locked in. It's not like insisting on a single vendor, if MS wants to they're welcome to open their source and sell to the Peruvian government.
No, they can't get pregnant, but they might be ostracised by the community, unable to find a "proper" partner (of their own species) in later life, and so on. Sex has consequences, even for horses, that they may well be incapable of taking into consideration.
If the controller fails in a serious hardware RAID setup, you can replace the controller and reimport the configuration
True, assuming of course you can find one. But it would be the same with this removable platter drive - just take both platters out and put them in a new drive
Even if you can't reimport the config, sometimes you can recreate the array around the data.
I wouldn't want to be relying on this.
Just because some hardware RAID configurations have the controller as a weak point doesn't mean that "RAID on a hard drive itself" makes any sense.
It shows that having a solid state component as a single point of failure is an acceptable situation in some setups where the failure of the mechanical drives is still unacceptably high. A "raid on the drive" disk wouldn't be good enough for many setups, but I think there is a niche for it.
Nor RAID 0, for that matter. But that's another argument for another day.:)
The purpose of raid0 is to increase performance. Now that drive bandwidth has pretty much caught up with that of the bus it's pretty much obsolete, but it wasn't always so.
Microsoft wants one thing and one thing alone: money. It is not in Microsoft's best interests to restrict development for Windows.
It is in their interests if they decide they can make more from their software - office for example - by restricting development than they lose in OS sales.
It is not in their best interests to break compatibility with older software.
Not with recent software, but once they have everyone moved to the new platform they can do it. XP broke compatibility with a lot of dos and win3.x programs, and even a few win9x ones.
I don't play myself, but I wonder if you should take a look at aetolia, which has an emphasis on city-state diplomacy.
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How about a true detective game? The investigative element is there in the myst series or broken sword, but such games still tend to have a definite path through them - there's freedom in the sense you can go anywhere, try and use anything, but at any point there's only one way to advance towards the end of the game. And there seem to be less and less of them coming out. I want multiple objectives, none of them obviously the main one, and choices that alter the story. Multiple ways to achieve the various endings. Not an overwhelming number of frivolous quests like in many RPGs, but maybe 3-5 main plot threads, and endings that leave one or more of them unsolved.
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I'd say the open architecture is important. The fact that you can upgrade your PC as you like, build it yourself from components, and so on, will always make it more attractive than a console to the devoted player.
Also, the games are simply cheaper, quite often. Consoles are subsidised through the games, meaning for a casual gamer a console is cheaper but for the hardcore player a PC will eventually cost less. Game prices drop a lot faster too, and a new PC can always play old games. Finally, you can emulate consoles on a PC, meaning you can effectively play games for any platform on the PC. The reverse is not true.
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I'd imagine they'll be running it with the TCP stack removed, like it was for security classification.
Looks nice but it's windows-only so no good to me. Thanks though.
Sony is succeeding with UMD protected movies, so sandisk may well get away with it.
If you try and force users to use stronger passwords than they can remember or change them too frequently you'll just get post-its and helpdesk. If their passwords aren't secure enough, get them to use etokens or something similar.
I did. I want those six hours back. Except the recent one, that actually ruled.
Java's API is horrible for GUIs. Learn a good general-purpose, crossplatform toolkit with bindings to multiple languages, such as Qt or to a lesser extent Wx.
Both the Qt ones are horrible, while I haven't tried the gnome one I wouldn't hold out much hope. Azureus is nice if you have a cluster to run it on, but it's so horrendously slow on a normal system as to be unusable. I think the best bet for the protocol is clients built into browsers like Opera has. That would make the protocol popular, but also invisible, just like ftp is most of the time these days, so it might not be what the VC guys want.
It's usually time-dependent. A normal website, though updated, has pages which could basically have been written at any time, and it's not obvious in which order the site was done. A blog normally has entries tied to specific dates, and a clear order for the pages.
Oh, because saying "website-running-a-CMS" is /so/ much easier than saying "blog".
I don't like blogs, but they're a distinct type of site, and it's easier to give them their own term. It's not like the word was being used for anything else.
If you look at the attack in more detail you'll find that's simply not true. Although they use only two vector values in the example, it's almost trivial to extend the method used to produce arbitrarily many vector values. Furthermore, you can find two vector values among a given set, provided it is large enough, just as easily as finding two "random" vector values. Therefore, if the SHA1 attack worked the same way you could combine both attacks in two ways - you could generate a whole load of vectors for MD5, then from them find two with matching SHA1, or you could do it the other way around. Even if the SHA1 attack takes a different form, you can still combine the two provided either one of two conditions hold: the SHA1 attack can be used to generate a large number of binaries with matching SHA1 which differ only in a single n-bit section, or the SHA1 attack can be used to find two binaries with the same SHA1 among a large number of binaries which differ only in a single n-bit section. All the attacks I know of satisfy both of these.
If you still don't understand this, please, please don't try to make a living in cryptography.
Any serious cryptographer will tell you combining MD5 and SHA1 is a stupid idea. Bruce Schneier (I've prolly misspelled his name) covered it very well in a fairly recent Crypto-gram.
We knew that already, Apple's supporting Bluray
Player production and factory retooling. The player production is no different in itself, but Blu-ray players will cost more if they're going to be compatible with ordinary DVDs too.
Computer people know what they're doing. For people using the things in non-computer player, it's quite simple, DVD for video and CD for audio. People are used to this, and formats which go the other way around (DVDA and [S]VCD) haven't had much success in the US. UMD isn't even on the map for the average customer.
One other company is enough to make a good standard with sony - the CD was a Sony/Phillips thing.
True, but such things, generally and so far at least, require hacking the console, usually with the effort required being beyond the average user. A PC runs emulators and general purpose software as easily as it does games, consoles generally don't.
What about the gamepark gp32 or what ever the new one is called they have an open system.
I haven't been following it. If it has user-upgradeable parts and executes arbitrary software easily, it's basically just another PC architecture, albeit one specifically designed for gaming. If either of these things are missing it's not customisable enough for me.
Interesting idea. Maybe it could be done with something like an IRC bot, that informs the players where they are, reveals the right clues privately to players who need them, but other than that simply lets them talk.
However, insisting on source code access saves money in the long run by ensuring the taxpayer is not locked in. It's not like insisting on a single vendor, if MS wants to they're welcome to open their source and sell to the Peruvian government.
Sounds exactly like stallman's free software definition to me. 2 and 3 go together, as do 4 and 6.
No, they can't get pregnant, but they might be ostracised by the community, unable to find a "proper" partner (of their own species) in later life, and so on. Sex has consequences, even for horses, that they may well be incapable of taking into consideration.
True, assuming of course you can find one. But it would be the same with this removable platter drive - just take both platters out and put them in a new drive
Even if you can't reimport the config, sometimes you can recreate the array around the data.
I wouldn't want to be relying on this.
Just because some hardware RAID configurations have the controller as a weak point doesn't mean that "RAID on a hard drive itself" makes any sense.
It shows that having a solid state component as a single point of failure is an acceptable situation in some setups where the failure of the mechanical drives is still unacceptably high. A "raid on the drive" disk wouldn't be good enough for many setups, but I think there is a niche for it.
Nor RAID 0, for that matter. But that's another argument for another day. :)
The purpose of raid0 is to increase performance. Now that drive bandwidth has pretty much caught up with that of the bus it's pretty much obsolete, but it wasn't always so.
It is in their interests if they decide they can make more from their software - office for example - by restricting development than they lose in OS sales.
It is not in their best interests to break compatibility with older software.
Not with recent software, but once they have everyone moved to the new platform they can do it. XP broke compatibility with a lot of dos and win3.x programs, and even a few win9x ones.
I don't play myself, but I wonder if you should take a look at aetolia, which has an emphasis on city-state diplomacy.
How about a true detective game? The investigative element is there in the myst series or broken sword, but such games still tend to have a definite path through them - there's freedom in the sense you can go anywhere, try and use anything, but at any point there's only one way to advance towards the end of the game. And there seem to be less and less of them coming out. I want multiple objectives, none of them obviously the main one, and choices that alter the story. Multiple ways to achieve the various endings. Not an overwhelming number of frivolous quests like in many RPGs, but maybe 3-5 main plot threads, and endings that leave one or more of them unsolved.
Also, the games are simply cheaper, quite often. Consoles are subsidised through the games, meaning for a casual gamer a console is cheaper but for the hardcore player a PC will eventually cost less. Game prices drop a lot faster too, and a new PC can always play old games. Finally, you can emulate consoles on a PC, meaning you can effectively play games for any platform on the PC. The reverse is not true.