"The US is not the only country to suffer from terrorism, the UK has had it for decades
"I don't want to end up in that boat. Stamp it out now. Don't give them opportunities to do more harm."
Hell no, I *refuse* to let the American public have any say at all in the Northern Ireland issue.
Marching in guns blazing will not be a solution with NI. Terrorism in the UK was dealt with slowly, carefully and for the most part effectively. It is now primarily only within Ireland and N. Ireland that bombings still occur, and they are on a decrease.
When you download and install the Linux kernel, you get an OS. When you download and install a distro, you get the rest of the goodies with it. Enough to make your system usable 'out of the box'
People buy windows *because* it comes with the goodies already there, it just works. They don't have to waste time trying to install a seperate browser and media player. Many will, but they don't have to.
What I would like is for things like Media Player and Internet Explorer (and that damn Windows Messenger) to become definately seperated from the OS, even if it comes installed with them by default. If I want to completely uninstall Internet Explorer I should be able to, likewise with Media Player.
But Media Player is staying on my system even if I have the option to uninstall it. Real is flaming awful.
It's not a logarithmic graph, it's a logarithmic scale!
By stating you need one of the axis to be a logarithmic scale in order to get a straight line, you've just proved this post's grandparent and great-great-grandparent.
I entirely agree with the principle, but having been on the receiving end of schools' attempts at technology it really isn't going to work.
I can still run applications as administrator on our school network, if you wish to buy, configure and maintain 1500 cheap PDAs for us by all means feel free.
No. Just leaving the bucket in there doesn't actually move the heat out of the room, nor does it circulate the air, so all you get is a slightly chilled patch of air around the bucket.
What the design in the article does is cools moving air, circulates it around the room, and removes the warmed water.
Umm... textbooks have little resale value, and where have you got that $200 figure from? A lot of textbooks are reused year to year.
Plus even sub-$150 electronics aren't going to hang around for long. They will be damaged or sold just because they're expensive and belong to the school.
I'm not constructing a 288 bit hash, I'm using two different (hopefully non-colliding) hashing methods on the same text. *I am not concatenating the hashes*
If it makes you feel better, replace MD5 and SHA-1 with two other hash methods, the principle is still the same.
Assume you want to verify a download - you publish both the MD5 and the SHA-1 of the file.
If somebody wants to create a malicious copy of the file, they can try collide with the MD5. Despite the fact that the MD5 of their new file will collide with the MD5 of the original, the SHA-1 of their new file is unlikely to collide with the SHA-1 of the original.
Given students in Cambridge, it's more likely to find them with modified voice circuits and a kitchen plunger stuck to the top wandering around going "EXTERMINATE!" and "DESTROYYYY!"
Nah, they're toys. Teachers spent about 2 weeks mucking around with new features when my school got one for every classroom (seriously) then just used them as whiteboards.
They only have use for younger years teaching (Interactive is good for younger years), it classes, and running videos on. It's nice to centralise everything to one point, but they're touted as the greatest thing to happen to the classroom.
I would have preferred the textbooks it took half a year to get my maths class to a smartboard.
I have no references, only common sense. Since they both use different hashing algorithms entirely, the hash for one piece of text will be entirely different in both algorithms. In order to collide your differing text with one algorithm you need to pad your file, the chances of finding padding which causes a collision in both algorithms is very, very slim. I'll do the maths when I wake up properly.
You may be able to create something so that MD5(newtext) = hash1, but the chances are that SHA1(newtext) will not equal hash2. I wasn't talking about combining (eg hashing the hash, that won't help), but instead of creating and storing two seperate hashes for comparison.
This is the first sensible thing I've seen yet. Perhaps a more complex networked system could be used to prevent fraud yet still maintain the two part system.
1. You step up to the machine. 2. Enter your Voter ID/Authenticate Somehow. 3. Machine checks network to ensure you haven't yet voted. 4. The machine then presents the candidates. 5. Select one. 6. Machine notifies network that you have voted, but not who for. 7. Machine prints a slip pre-marked with your vote and a unique Vote ID. The ID is assigned sequentially by the network, there is no association with your voter ID. 8. Machine records vote along with ID in its own memory, no association with your voter ID. 9. You hand your vote slip into a sealed ballot box or to a vote official on your way out.
You then have a system which knows who has voted and stops them from voting more than once.
As well as this, each vote has an ID. The machines know which 'vote ID' was for which candidate, and there's also a bit of paper to verify this. Machine votes are good for initial results, even final results. Any quesions, count up the paper ballots and see if the numbers match. If they don't, you can see where the vote IDs on the machine aren't matching the vote IDs on the paper.
If you're really worried, hash twice with differing algorithms. Colliding MD5 with sensible data may be possible, colliding SHA-1 with sensible data may be possible, finding sensible data which collides with both is nay impossible.
The Founding Fathers also wanted independence for the USA. What the current administration lack is the realisation that the USA does not consist of any land you can claim a 'moral right' to invade.
Anyway, back on topic, I'm sure the Founding Fathers didn't imply anything either way about copyright. 200 years of precedent don't just get there by accident, something in the system evidently allowed copyright, and allowed it to stay.
Perhaps repairing the system would be wise, before trying to repair the damage?
We learn quickly. If we can tell something is wrong with a PC just because it's humming at the wrong pitch, we learn we're doing something right to a women by listening to the murmurs, moans, whimpers and, if you're good, screams.
Sadly nobody has a clue what the charges mean. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a "Plotting to incite racial patriotism terror victim traumatising anti-american behaviour" charge somewhere.
Why not be blunt about it, and designate a universal charge of "Has a teatowel on head" or "Owns a Koran". That seems to be the level that the US law enforcement works at.
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"The US is not the only country to suffer from terrorism, the UK has had it for decades
"I don't want to end up in that boat. Stamp it out now. Don't give them opportunities to do more harm."
Hell no, I *refuse* to let the American public have any say at all in the Northern Ireland issue.
Marching in guns blazing will not be a solution with NI. Terrorism in the UK was dealt with slowly, carefully and for the most part effectively. It is now primarily only within Ireland and N. Ireland that bombings still occur, and they are on a decrease.
Tip for the US - Recognise the cause.
I use iTunes and Quicktime personally, just leave WMP on there for the browser plugins.
Microsoft hasn't had a capital S for years.
Just so you know.
*applauds application of logic*
When you download and install the Linux kernel, you get an OS. When you download and install a distro, you get the rest of the goodies with it. Enough to make your system usable 'out of the box'
People buy windows *because* it comes with the goodies already there, it just works. They don't have to waste time trying to install a seperate browser and media player. Many will, but they don't have to.
What I would like is for things like Media Player and Internet Explorer (and that damn Windows Messenger) to become definately seperated from the OS, even if it comes installed with them by default. If I want to completely uninstall Internet Explorer I should be able to, likewise with Media Player.
But Media Player is staying on my system even if I have the option to uninstall it. Real is flaming awful.
It's not a logarithmic graph, it's a logarithmic scale!
By stating you need one of the axis to be a logarithmic scale in order to get a straight line, you've just proved this post's grandparent and great-great-grandparent.
A gaming system... built on a revolutionarily powerful processor... with internet capabilities built in... which would be bought by millions...
Wait a second, those gameboys weren't all they seemed!
I entirely agree with the principle, but having been on the receiving end of schools' attempts at technology it really isn't going to work.
I can still run applications as administrator on our school network, if you wish to buy, configure and maintain 1500 cheap PDAs for us by all means feel free.
No. Just leaving the bucket in there doesn't actually move the heat out of the room, nor does it circulate the air, so all you get is a slightly chilled patch of air around the bucket.
What the design in the article does is cools moving air, circulates it around the room, and removes the warmed water.
Umm... textbooks have little resale value, and where have you got that $200 figure from? A lot of textbooks are reused year to year.
Plus even sub-$150 electronics aren't going to hang around for long. They will be damaged or sold just because they're expensive and belong to the school.
I'm not constructing a 288 bit hash, I'm using two different (hopefully non-colliding) hashing methods on the same text. *I am not concatenating the hashes*
If it makes you feel better, replace MD5 and SHA-1 with two other hash methods, the principle is still the same.
Assume you want to verify a download - you publish both the MD5 and the SHA-1 of the file.
If somebody wants to create a malicious copy of the file, they can try collide with the MD5. Despite the fact that the MD5 of their new file will collide with the MD5 of the original, the SHA-1 of their new file is unlikely to collide with the SHA-1 of the original.
I wouldn't count on it. If you can learn, and muck around with numbers, Google want you.
And don't forget the moonbase!
I'm all in favour of giving all the kids laptops, but they'd get stolen.
How do you propose distributing texts to 1,500 children from the ages of 12 to 16, given that not all of them have internet access?
Given students in Cambridge, it's more likely to find them with modified voice circuits and a kitchen plunger stuck to the top wandering around going "EXTERMINATE!" and "DESTROYYYY!"
You're carrying around a bin which is probably giggling, people are going to want to stroke it and see what happens.
Nah, they're toys. Teachers spent about 2 weeks mucking around with new features when my school got one for every classroom (seriously) then just used them as whiteboards.
They only have use for younger years teaching (Interactive is good for younger years), it classes, and running videos on. It's nice to centralise everything to one point, but they're touted as the greatest thing to happen to the classroom.
I would have preferred the textbooks it took half a year to get my maths class to a smartboard.
I have no references, only common sense. Since they both use different hashing algorithms entirely, the hash for one piece of text will be entirely different in both algorithms. In order to collide your differing text with one algorithm you need to pad your file, the chances of finding padding which causes a collision in both algorithms is very, very slim. I'll do the maths when I wake up properly.
MD5(originaltext) = hash1
SHA1(originaltext) = hash2
You may be able to create something so that MD5(newtext) = hash1, but the chances are that SHA1(newtext) will not equal hash2. I wasn't talking about combining (eg hashing the hash, that won't help), but instead of creating and storing two seperate hashes for comparison.
This is the first sensible thing I've seen yet. Perhaps a more complex networked system could be used to prevent fraud yet still maintain the two part system.
1. You step up to the machine.
2. Enter your Voter ID/Authenticate Somehow.
3. Machine checks network to ensure you haven't yet voted.
4. The machine then presents the candidates.
5. Select one.
6. Machine notifies network that you have voted, but not who for.
7. Machine prints a slip pre-marked with your vote and a unique Vote ID. The ID is assigned sequentially by the network, there is no association with your voter ID.
8. Machine records vote along with ID in its own memory, no association with your voter ID.
9. You hand your vote slip into a sealed ballot box or to a vote official on your way out.
You then have a system which knows who has voted and stops them from voting more than once.
As well as this, each vote has an ID. The machines know which 'vote ID' was for which candidate, and there's also a bit of paper to verify this. Machine votes are good for initial results, even final results. Any quesions, count up the paper ballots and see if the numbers match. If they don't, you can see where the vote IDs on the machine aren't matching the vote IDs on the paper.
Simple.
If you're really worried, hash twice with differing algorithms. Colliding MD5 with sensible data may be possible, colliding SHA-1 with sensible data may be possible, finding sensible data which collides with both is nay impossible.
Stable, Custom, Cheap. Pick two.
The Founding Fathers also wanted independence for the USA. What the current administration lack is the realisation that the USA does not consist of any land you can claim a 'moral right' to invade.
Anyway, back on topic, I'm sure the Founding Fathers didn't imply anything either way about copyright. 200 years of precedent don't just get there by accident, something in the system evidently allowed copyright, and allowed it to stay.
Perhaps repairing the system would be wise, before trying to repair the damage?
You haven't tried playing the... *ahem*... instrument yet.
What age band are you in? Teenage? Middle-Age?
I used to play one before I found more important things, like passing exams. Tonguing is fun, the girls love it too.
Interesting question, do web users count as human and therefore qualify to be hanged? Or are they hung along with other inanimate objects/meats?
We learn quickly. If we can tell something is wrong with a PC just because it's humming at the wrong pitch, we learn we're doing something right to a women by listening to the murmurs, moans, whimpers and, if you're good, screams.
Sadly nobody has a clue what the charges mean. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a "Plotting to incite racial patriotism terror victim traumatising anti-american behaviour" charge somewhere.
Why not be blunt about it, and designate a universal charge of "Has a teatowel on head" or "Owns a Koran". That seems to be the level that the US law enforcement works at.