It's the same as spam: virtually zero-cost advertising. For every millon that ignores the ad you might have one or two willing to check it out; they can afford to bother people since it costs nothing to place the ad.
Personally, i think the responsables should be shot.
Yes, but again: in time. Unless someone comes up with a way to hash SHA-1 one millon times faster than now, it's still a damn good hash algorithm (hard to crack, fast, and easy to implement). Never mind it's uses beyond criptography.
I can see the importance of this announcement -it IS a major one, but if someone thinks he has to dump SHA-1 inmediatly because script kiddies might mess with his computer, he's far away from the truth. 2000 times faster than "takes a long fucking time" still takes a long fucking time:).
The findings are that SHA-1 is not collision free and can be broken in 2^69 attempts instead of 2^80.
Well, doh - it's a hash you silly, there will always be collisions.
Anyway, it's nothing to panic about really. The ammount of computer power needed to crack it is still massive. Unless you're investigated by the NSA, SHA-1 will be fine for quite a while.
The USA (which I suppose you meant when you said 'America') has been 'analizing' the rest of the world for a long time now...and we're not going to bend over and take it any longer.
I did, bad habit - sorry.
Anyway, you're "not going to bend over"? Take it any longer? You had one terrorist attack (given, a really awful one), and all of the sudden you're a crusader for the cause? The rest of the world have been suffering terrorism for much longer and resorted to fight it without colonizing countries. Hint: check Europes' recent history.
What we _all_ need to do is to learn to value each others as equals. That goes from the Mullahs in Saudia Arabia tellling women to cover themselves completely, to the Baptist Preachers in Alabama telling women that their place is behind their man.
Please, PLEASE, mod this comment up. This is some of the most insightful stuff i've read in Slashdot in quite a while.
People need to learn (again?) how to think. If you stay skeptic (not paranoid, skeptic) of what you see in TV you'll find out a in time what is beleiavble and what not. Also, always try to find a different point of view on an issue. Fox News is not the guardian of all that's true and right.
Never mind if the rest of the world doesn't want to be "westernized" right? I mean, it's all justified as long as we get rid of those pesky comunists! Er, i meant terrorists. Also, the afirmation that western culture is the finest in the world is INFINITELY debatable. It is a huge world out there, you know.
Come on, the problem is not as simple to solve as "let's westernize them" - look how well that went in Iraq.
IM (very) HO, America needs to deal with terrorism by analizing what makes it appear in the first place instead of assuming it spawns in the vaccum, with people that hate the Western "for their freedom".
Reiability. The moment you part off heatsinks, coolers and such, you ensure that your lovely new media center won't die overnight because you left it running 24/7 for a year and a cooler broke. Also it becomes smaller and quieter, which is a bless.
Ohhh, the venerable 6502. The Z80, 6502 and other 8-bit microprocessors are still arround, live and kicking - they're cheap, low power and quite flexible for all sort of designs.
Of course, you know this. But now imagine what would happen if AMD just priced this processor right - not giving it away, but cheap enough so it becomes a serious consideration for embeeded design. You'd have performance, consumption AND price; what keeps you from using it instead of a 6502 other than nostalgia value?
Maybe. One big question in the embedded market is how long a part is expected to be available
Great point, i haven't tought of it. I imagine if the part becomes popular enough it's existance will be more or less assured. If there's a market, there will be a seller. Hence, marketing is key - there's a lot of great processor designs that never made it (Crusoe, for example).
I was thinking the same - they quote power consumption between 400mW and 1W. *ONE* watt. At 400MHz. It consumes the same as older processors like the Z80 (while smoking it in processing power)! Even Transmeta couldn't get below 5W with their crusoe line - yet, the Crusoe is x86.
If AMD markets this thing right and performs as promised, they will make a killing out of it. There's a lot of money in the embeeded systems market.
Seriously. Otherwise all the effort being put into X.Org's newest extensions is basically tied to the good will of card manufacturers when it comes to modern videocards.
Anyway, there's a lot of terrific work being done on X.Org - Cairo, XComposite and Damage specially. When these extensions become supported by the GUI toolkits, we'll be in for a treat. It's a shame it took guys like Keith Packard so long detach themselves from XFree86.
Wolverine: "You actually go outside in these things?"
Cyclops: "Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?"
Cracked me up:). Anyway, i agree with you. I love the way Marvin looks in the movie aswell, though i wanted to hear him - he's voiced by Warwick Davis, the tiny guy from "Willow". I have high hopes for the movie.
Indeed. Jabber is great (an excellent design IMHO), but i keep my jabber.cz account just for the geek factor right now. No one i know uses it and prefer either ICQ or MSN. A crying shame.
Sorry, but that sounds like a terrible idea. What if a reporter learns that the president of the non-profit "Society for objectively studying the environment" used to be an executive for Evil Polluting Corp?
Well, he's entitled not to tell anyone. People can change, you know. This can happen, but now the involved executive has the right to initiate legal actions.
What if a reporter learns that a politician has secret bank accounts where huge sums of money are regularly received?
In that case, he would most certainly be trialed, but the money in question wouldn't really be his - or atleast earned legally. A right comes with responsabilities; it's not an umbrella to break the law. A court would most probably decide the right doesn't legally apply. I'm not a lawyer in any sense, but that's pretty much how i recall it from school, were we discussed this.
See, the idea behind the right is to protect sensitive personal data. For example, a company can't investigate my medical background unless i let them to if they want to hire me. You can't go harvesting peoples' personal data like if you were collecting stamps because nowadays information is a valued thing, not tangible, but valued. Your personal information is as much yours as it is your car or house.
I don't know about the rest of the world; but Argentina grants it's citizens a consitutional right called "Habeas Data", which, in a nutshell, specifies that every individual owns his personal information and it can't be disclosed or abused without his consent. This includes medical records, bank accounts, work historials and so. Knowing that most modern constitutions are based on the US one, i thought something similar would be available to Americans.
It's usually paired with another consitutional right called "Habeas corpus", which ensures freedom of movement in the country and grants rights against detention without due process.
I kindly disagree. Nuclear power has it's peeves, but nowadays it's a well understood technology; we're well past the days of Chernobyl. Very safe nuclear reactors can be made, and what's more important, are being made. The newer, so called "fast" reactors can actually generate more fuel than they consume! (to an usability limit - it's not a perpetual motion machine).
I don't have a link handy, but i recall reading the vast majority of the worlds' power was generated by burning coal. I'd much rather have nuclear plants. Then again, i'd much rather have eolic, tidal and solar powerplants, but if we have nuclear now, why can't we use it?
They really love bashing the Grammys. Deservedly, if you ask me:)
Another great ones from the Simpsons...
Homer: "Hey, you're Elton John! I love your music!"
Elton John: "Oh, how nice. Here, have a Grammy"
Homer: "Owww" (tosses it into a garbage can)
Homer: "Oh, why wont anyone give me an award?"
Lisa: "You won a grammy!"
Homer: "I mean an award that's worth winning..."
And a classic, the disclaimer after anoter potshot at the Grammys. Scrolling down the screen: "The show producers wishes to make clear they don't share the writters' thoughts about the Grammys - we don't even consider real awards". Or something to that matter:)
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It's the same as spam: virtually zero-cost advertising. For every millon that ignores the ad you might have one or two willing to check it out; they can afford to bother people since it costs nothing to place the ad.
Personally, i think the responsables should be shot.
You can. Just put the heatsink in the oven for 15 minutes at 400C before use.
Yes, but again: in time. Unless someone comes up with a way to hash SHA-1 one millon times faster than now, it's still a damn good hash algorithm (hard to crack, fast, and easy to implement). Never mind it's uses beyond criptography.
:).
I can see the importance of this announcement -it IS a major one, but if someone thinks he has to dump SHA-1 inmediatly because script kiddies might mess with his computer, he's far away from the truth. 2000 times faster than "takes a long fucking time" still takes a long fucking time
I bet $50 that a hard drive manufacturer came up with that!
The findings are that SHA-1 is not collision free and can be broken in 2^69 attempts instead of 2^80.
Well, doh - it's a hash you silly, there will always be collisions.
Anyway, it's nothing to panic about really. The ammount of computer power needed to crack it is still massive. Unless you're investigated by the NSA, SHA-1 will be fine for quite a while.
I always found funny the one movie in the series that everyone seems to agree it's the best is the only one not directed by Lucas...
Don't give monkey knives or guns. Just give them robotic arms a-la-Robocop!
The USA (which I suppose you meant when you said 'America') has been 'analizing' the rest of the world for a long time now...and we're not going to bend over and take it any longer.
I did, bad habit - sorry.
Anyway, you're "not going to bend over"? Take it any longer? You had one terrorist attack (given, a really awful one), and all of the sudden you're a crusader for the cause? The rest of the world have been suffering terrorism for much longer and resorted to fight it without colonizing countries. Hint: check Europes' recent history.
What we _all_ need to do is to learn to value each others as equals. That goes from the Mullahs in Saudia Arabia tellling women to cover themselves completely, to the Baptist Preachers in Alabama telling women that their place is behind their man.
Please, PLEASE, mod this comment up. This is some of the most insightful stuff i've read in Slashdot in quite a while.
People need to learn (again?) how to think. If you stay skeptic (not paranoid, skeptic) of what you see in TV you'll find out a in time what is beleiavble and what not. Also, always try to find a different point of view on an issue. Fox News is not the guardian of all that's true and right.
Never mind if the rest of the world doesn't want to be "westernized" right? I mean, it's all justified as long as we get rid of those pesky comunists! Er, i meant terrorists. Also, the afirmation that western culture is the finest in the world is INFINITELY debatable. It is a huge world out there, you know.
Come on, the problem is not as simple to solve as "let's westernize them" - look how well that went in Iraq.
IM (very) HO, America needs to deal with terrorism by analizing what makes it appear in the first place instead of assuming it spawns in the vaccum, with people that hate the Western "for their freedom".
For instance, why can't corporations wed? Why can't they adopt children?
Wasn't this the driving idea behind The Truman show. Scary... let's not give them any ideas ok?
Reiability. The moment you part off heatsinks, coolers and such, you ensure that your lovely new media center won't die overnight because you left it running 24/7 for a year and a cooler broke. Also it becomes smaller and quieter, which is a bless.
Ohhh, the venerable 6502. The Z80, 6502 and other 8-bit microprocessors are still arround, live and kicking - they're cheap, low power and quite flexible for all sort of designs.
Of course, you know this. But now imagine what would happen if AMD just priced this processor right - not giving it away, but cheap enough so it becomes a serious consideration for embeeded design. You'd have performance, consumption AND price; what keeps you from using it instead of a 6502 other than nostalgia value?
Maybe. One big question in the embedded market is how long a part is expected to be available
Great point, i haven't tought of it. I imagine if the part becomes popular enough it's existance will be more or less assured. If there's a market, there will be a seller. Hence, marketing is key - there's a lot of great processor designs that never made it (Crusoe, for example).
I was thinking the same - they quote power consumption between 400mW and 1W. *ONE* watt. At 400MHz. It consumes the same as older processors like the Z80 (while smoking it in processing power)! Even Transmeta couldn't get below 5W with their crusoe line - yet, the Crusoe is x86.
If AMD markets this thing right and performs as promised, they will make a killing out of it. There's a lot of money in the embeeded systems market.
Seriously. Otherwise all the effort being put into X.Org's newest extensions is basically tied to the good will of card manufacturers when it comes to modern videocards.
Anyway, there's a lot of terrific work being done on X.Org - Cairo, XComposite and Damage specially. When these extensions become supported by the GUI toolkits, we'll be in for a treat. It's a shame it took guys like Keith Packard so long detach themselves from XFree86.
Ooooh that's great! I can so picture Marvin with Rickmans' voice - sorta like he played Metatron in "Dogma", if you have seen it.
Thanks for the correction!
I loved when they mocked about that in X-Men.
:). Anyway, i agree with you. I love the way Marvin looks in the movie aswell, though i wanted to hear him - he's voiced by Warwick Davis, the tiny guy from "Willow". I have high hopes for the movie.
Wolverine: "You actually go outside in these things?"
Cyclops: "Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?"
Cracked me up
Touche!
Indeed. Jabber is great (an excellent design IMHO), but i keep my jabber.cz account just for the geek factor right now. No one i know uses it and prefer either ICQ or MSN. A crying shame.
Seriously, it says it RIGHT THERE. I quote:
"This is obviously an unsatisfactory solution in the long term and it is hoped that a better fix can be developed in time for Firefox 1.1,"
I found hard to beleive a serious project like Firefox would drop IDNs so easily. It's a huge world, you know.
Sorry, but that sounds like a terrible idea. What if a reporter learns that the president of the non-profit "Society for objectively studying the environment" used to be an executive for Evil Polluting Corp?
Well, he's entitled not to tell anyone. People can change, you know. This can happen, but now the involved executive has the right to initiate legal actions.
What if a reporter learns that a politician has secret bank accounts where huge sums of money are regularly received?
In that case, he would most certainly be trialed, but the money in question wouldn't really be his - or atleast earned legally. A right comes with responsabilities; it's not an umbrella to break the law. A court would most probably decide the right doesn't legally apply. I'm not a lawyer in any sense, but that's pretty much how i recall it from school, were we discussed this.
See, the idea behind the right is to protect sensitive personal data. For example, a company can't investigate my medical background unless i let them to if they want to hire me. You can't go harvesting peoples' personal data like if you were collecting stamps because nowadays information is a valued thing, not tangible, but valued. Your personal information is as much yours as it is your car or house.
I don't know about the rest of the world; but Argentina grants it's citizens a consitutional right called "Habeas Data", which, in a nutshell, specifies that every individual owns his personal information and it can't be disclosed or abused without his consent. This includes medical records, bank accounts, work historials and so. Knowing that most modern constitutions are based on the US one, i thought something similar would be available to Americans.
It's usually paired with another consitutional right called "Habeas corpus", which ensures freedom of movement in the country and grants rights against detention without due process.
I kindly disagree. Nuclear power has it's peeves, but nowadays it's a well understood technology; we're well past the days of Chernobyl. Very safe nuclear reactors can be made, and what's more important, are being made. The newer, so called "fast" reactors can actually generate more fuel than they consume! (to an usability limit - it's not a perpetual motion machine).
I don't have a link handy, but i recall reading the vast majority of the worlds' power was generated by burning coal. I'd much rather have nuclear plants. Then again, i'd much rather have eolic, tidal and solar powerplants, but if we have nuclear now, why can't we use it?
They really love bashing the Grammys. Deservedly, if you ask me :)
:)
Another great ones from the Simpsons...
Homer: "Hey, you're Elton John! I love your music!"
Elton John: "Oh, how nice. Here, have a Grammy"
Homer: "Owww" (tosses it into a garbage can)
Homer: "Oh, why wont anyone give me an award?"
Lisa: "You won a grammy!"
Homer: "I mean an award that's worth winning..."
And a classic, the disclaimer after anoter potshot at the Grammys. Scrolling down the screen: "The show producers wishes to make clear they don't share the writters' thoughts about the Grammys - we don't even consider real awards". Or something to that matter