As a parent of a 6 yr old girl myself that is a great "phonetic" speller and budding reader, I think a lot of you are COMPLETELY overreacting over this. My daughter is very close to reading... she can read age appropriate books. Actually "read", not memorize. But honestly, when you're 6, reading is a bit of a chore and it's not hard to understand it might be "fun" to actually have some ENTERTAINMENT in addition to the total-stranger-advocated-reading-tutorials some of you seem to be pushing. Remember, this guy is already asking about things that might be appropriate for his daughter... To me (another parent), it seems he's someone that already "gives a damn" about his child and her upbringing... I think it's a bit much to assume he's asking for a videogame babysitter to occupy his illiterate child.
I came to this thread because _I_ just picked up a DS for _my_ 6 yr old daughter and was hoping for more constructive discussion instead of people focusing on his daughter learning to read... my guess is most of you don't have kids, think your friends' kids make you qualified to speak, or have long-since blurred the ability/age connection associated with your kids at that age... 6 yrs old and not being a fluent reader is TOTALLY normal... visit your kid's school for an afternoon if you need a wake-up call. Not to mention that a majority of the games geared at that age group are total garbage.
Thank you for those of you that suggested games... to those that made "teach your daughter to read" comments, parent your OWN children.
Can you give me a relatively solid timeframe and outline of what Sony will be doing to counter the offerings of Xbox Live (unified login/buddy list across all games, online support across all games, gamerscore/achievements across all games, etc) while developers get up to speed getting their games up to and hopefully, eventually going beyond the quality of Xbox 360 games? As it stands, today, the PS3 is not overly attractive as a gaming platform due to games that generally don't surpass the quality 360 games, an online offering that doesn't surpass the 360, and a price that certainly DOES surpass the 360; especially to people only interested in gaming. I do own a launch day PS3 and would like this question answered.
TripleDES is 112-bit for standard (standard TripleDES does single DES encryption three times but with two DES keys, encrypt Key-A, decrypt Key-B, encrypt again with Key-A) or 168-bit for TripleDES 3-Key (replaces the 2nd encrypt with Key-A with Key-C in the earlier example). I'm betting you're confusing 256-bit AES and TripleDES up (generally considered to be in the same ballpark as far as cryptographic strength at resisting a brute force attack). I'm also betting I'm being nitpicky.;) Not a first on Slashdot, I'm sure of that.
Your point is a good one though. Either A) the government and all the cryptography community is lying about being able to hack/crack TripleDES/AES-256 in a feasible amount of time or B) they're likely to never crack it except in the most dire of cases (they snatch Osama's personal laptop) where they can devote extreme resources to it. My guess is there's not many organizations that can brute force these algorithms in a feasible amount of time. Even trying a trillion keys per second (not possible currently) it would take 1.64x10^14 years to brute force a 112-bit TripleDES key (that's assuming on average you find it after checking half the key space, if you're unlucky it could take double that!)
The chances are astronomically in favor of discovering the encryption key via non-brute force means.
nicely said. responsiveness is so different between Opera and Firefox I can't see how so many people ignore it. I don't dislike Firefox, but I prefer Opera.
Go through this sites pages. 30 Days to becoming an Opera8 Lover. Don't be put off. You can get a good idea what's in the "30 days" worth of stuff in under 10 minutes, and go back for specifics that interest you.
http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/
Opera is a faster, smoother experience for me when surfing than FireFox (don't even get me started on IE). There are a couple of FireFox extensions I wish had Opera counterparts for (AdBlock being the biggest one), but the trade-off of a quick, responsive UI is far and away more important than 95% of the Firefox extensions I've seen.
I'd used the ad-supported version for quite a while (with a large monitor I really don't notice the missing space -- other browsers eat up close to that amount with inflexible UIs). Now it's "in effect" free, what better time to take advantage of it?
I won't bash Firefox, it's my close 2nd favorite browser. It's the one I turn to if something doesn't like Opera (getting rarer and rarer) but sometimes even Firefox chokes on those pages as well.
Agreed. Opera is my primary browser, with Firefox being in 2nd place, finally stepping down to IE for those few rare sites that seem to be compatible with nothing else. I started tinkering with Opera at around version 5.x, and with Opera 6.x is became somewhat usable on a daily basis (ie. most sites rendered okay, but not all), with Opera 7.x that ramped up a lot and I got hooked on a lot of the extras (RSS, M2 mail client, notes, etc). I can only think of a single web page that doesn't render 100% as intended and oddly enough, it doesn't work in Firefox either, only IE. It's javascript related.
I _really_ like AdBlock in Firefox. I think it's a great idea and look forward to a similar solution in Opera. Here is why _I_ use Opera. For me, on the machines I use, Opera and its interface is faster. Scrolling is smoother (I can read text easily while scrolling it at various speeds), the mouse gestures seem easier to hit (admittedly I only use about 5 of them but sometimes in Firefox, even though I can SEE the gesture I'm making, it doesn't register), easy page zooming (I have a monitor capable of 2048x1536 @ 85hz and I routinely run at 1600x1200, sometimes higher depending on what I'm working on... those resolutions are great for image editing but wreak havoc on your eyes for reading web pages... not so, just bump the page up to 150-200% and you're instantly back in business and everything looks sharp, I love the notes feature and how you can double click on a note to go back to the source web page, it's sometimes handier than bookmarks, reskinning on the fly without restarting the program, turning sections of the interface on/off at will, author mode, fit to width browsing. I realize there's a Firefox extension for gestures, for note taking, and you can zoom the text in Firefox, but while functional, it just doesn't operate as smoothly as it does in Opera. With my large monitor I don't miss the 1/2" at the top for the text advertising strip. I can't help but get the feeling that since all of Opera's features were developed by the same group that they work together a little more streamlined than the open source collection of extensions available for Firefox. I'm not saying everyone should use Opera, but I do think it's a bit close minded for the Firefox-only crowd to put down Opera because Firefox has surpassed it in popularity/downloads. As fickle as this crowd is, if Firefox had 95% market share, you'd probably all scramble to use whatever the current underdog would be... possibly Opera?
--rothbart
My Blog: http://home.comcast.net/~sean.workman/blogger.html
I worked at Kinko's for years. At least their color photocopiers had traceable features for as long as I worked there. Of course we all know if you try to copy cash on a color copier, it'll spit out entire sheets of green that cannot be turned off by the user. A tech has to come reset it and by policy, law enforcement is notified. But if you look super super closely, there is a pattern (not random, but specific to a particular copier) of yellow that can be used to track a copy back to a machine (and in the case of Kinko's, a closed-circuit camera of the person running the copies.) All the Kinko's I worked at/visited had cameras pointed at the color copiers.
Of course Beavis and Butthead have shown us that for $1/copy you can make a decent copy of coins...;)
KnoppMyth (or some installation of MythTV) must be installed as a Linux backend server to record anything (or play anything for that matter). If you only have one computer and want to run KnoppMyth without installing Linux, it will not work. You could do dual-boot but then your PVR would only be available when you were booted into Linux. Not an ideal situation. You can make a moderate backend server and administer it remotely (ie. you don't watch TV on it, only record and serve -- once setup, you can even forgo the monitor, mouse, and keyboard!), and boot KnoppMyth as a liveCD on your Windows box only when you want to WATCH something. That'd leave the backend running all the time (ideal). You can administer your program scheduling/deleting from any web browser on your network through MythWeb. It's very slick. I used that more than the native scheduler interface just because my 20" monitor could show so much more guide information in a web browser than my 27" tv could.
Bottom line: MythTV should either be run on one full-time-Linux machine, or at least have a full-time-Linux backend with optional up-and-down Linux (even if booted from a liveCD) frontends. You have some flexibility in that a modified Xbox works well for a front end (and is reasonably quiet/cheap) or you can opt for the project developing Windows access to the Myth backend. I think it was aptly called WinMyth. I looked at it months ago and it was not an acceptable replacement for a proper front end machine but in its defence it was VERY new and you COULD watch video on a Windows machine with it).
I'm sure someone else has already addressed this but MythTV can do all three. Many people are using RF remotes to control Myth. Do a Google search for MythTV Remote Wonder.
There is a (admittedly less than desirable last time I looked at it) package to interface with the MythTV Backend and view images on a Windows machine. KnoppMyth is also a liveCD that with about 30 seconds of configuration can pull up a functional Myth Frontend on common hardware. I say 30 seconds because it's a liveCD, it doesn't have the IP addresses, password, etc built in. It's pretty darned easy to do though.
MythTV is impressive. It's not a plug in and forget about it forever solution though... Tivo and ReplayTV are there if that's your need. If you'd like a lot of options and the ability to play with things that'd never make it to the Tivo/ReplayTV market, go with one of the free PVR setups (and I recommend MythTV highly).
I XOR mine with itself twice just to be safe... come to think of it, maybe that's the default, not sure... maybe I'll do it four times now just to be safe....think about it a second...;)
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As a parent of a 6 yr old girl myself that is a great "phonetic" speller and budding reader, I think a lot of you are COMPLETELY overreacting over this. My daughter is very close to reading... she can read age appropriate books. Actually "read", not memorize. But honestly, when you're 6, reading is a bit of a chore and it's not hard to understand it might be "fun" to actually have some ENTERTAINMENT in addition to the total-stranger-advocated-reading-tutorials some of you seem to be pushing. Remember, this guy is already asking about things that might be appropriate for his daughter... To me (another parent), it seems he's someone that already "gives a damn" about his child and her upbringing... I think it's a bit much to assume he's asking for a videogame babysitter to occupy his illiterate child.
I came to this thread because _I_ just picked up a DS for _my_ 6 yr old daughter and was hoping for more constructive discussion instead of people focusing on his daughter learning to read... my guess is most of you don't have kids, think your friends' kids make you qualified to speak, or have long-since blurred the ability/age connection associated with your kids at that age... 6 yrs old and not being a fluent reader is TOTALLY normal... visit your kid's school for an afternoon if you need a wake-up call. Not to mention that a majority of the games geared at that age group are total garbage.
Thank you for those of you that suggested games... to those that made "teach your daughter to read" comments, parent your OWN children.
Can you give me a relatively solid timeframe and outline of what Sony will be doing to counter the offerings of Xbox Live (unified login/buddy list across all games, online support across all games, gamerscore/achievements across all games, etc) while developers get up to speed getting their games up to and hopefully, eventually going beyond the quality of Xbox 360 games? As it stands, today, the PS3 is not overly attractive as a gaming platform due to games that generally don't surpass the quality 360 games, an online offering that doesn't surpass the 360, and a price that certainly DOES surpass the 360; especially to people only interested in gaming. I do own a launch day PS3 and would like this question answered.
TripleDES is 112-bit for standard (standard TripleDES does single DES encryption three times but with two DES keys, encrypt Key-A, decrypt Key-B, encrypt again with Key-A) or 168-bit for TripleDES 3-Key (replaces the 2nd encrypt with Key-A with Key-C in the earlier example). I'm betting you're confusing 256-bit AES and TripleDES up (generally considered to be in the same ballpark as far as cryptographic strength at resisting a brute force attack). I'm also betting I'm being nitpicky. ;) Not a first on Slashdot, I'm sure of that.
Your point is a good one though. Either A) the government and all the cryptography community is lying about being able to hack/crack TripleDES/AES-256 in a feasible amount of time or B) they're likely to never crack it except in the most dire of cases (they snatch Osama's personal laptop) where they can devote extreme resources to it. My guess is there's not many organizations that can brute force these algorithms in a feasible amount of time. Even trying a trillion keys per second (not possible currently) it would take 1.64x10^14 years to brute force a 112-bit TripleDES key (that's assuming on average you find it after checking half the key space, if you're unlucky it could take double that!)
The chances are astronomically in favor of discovering the encryption key via non-brute force means.
nicely said. responsiveness is so different between Opera and Firefox I can't see how so many people ignore it. I don't dislike Firefox, but I prefer Opera.
Go through this sites pages. 30 Days to becoming an Opera8 Lover. Don't be put off. You can get a good idea what's in the "30 days" worth of stuff in under 10 minutes, and go back for specifics that interest you. http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/ Opera is a faster, smoother experience for me when surfing than FireFox (don't even get me started on IE). There are a couple of FireFox extensions I wish had Opera counterparts for (AdBlock being the biggest one), but the trade-off of a quick, responsive UI is far and away more important than 95% of the Firefox extensions I've seen. I'd used the ad-supported version for quite a while (with a large monitor I really don't notice the missing space -- other browsers eat up close to that amount with inflexible UIs). Now it's "in effect" free, what better time to take advantage of it? I won't bash Firefox, it's my close 2nd favorite browser. It's the one I turn to if something doesn't like Opera (getting rarer and rarer) but sometimes even Firefox chokes on those pages as well.
Agreed. Opera is my primary browser, with Firefox being in 2nd place, finally stepping down to IE for those few rare sites that seem to be compatible with nothing else. I started tinkering with Opera at around version 5.x, and with Opera 6.x is became somewhat usable on a daily basis (ie. most sites rendered okay, but not all), with Opera 7.x that ramped up a lot and I got hooked on a lot of the extras (RSS, M2 mail client, notes, etc). I can only think of a single web page that doesn't render 100% as intended and oddly enough, it doesn't work in Firefox either, only IE. It's javascript related. I _really_ like AdBlock in Firefox. I think it's a great idea and look forward to a similar solution in Opera. Here is why _I_ use Opera. For me, on the machines I use, Opera and its interface is faster. Scrolling is smoother (I can read text easily while scrolling it at various speeds), the mouse gestures seem easier to hit (admittedly I only use about 5 of them but sometimes in Firefox, even though I can SEE the gesture I'm making, it doesn't register), easy page zooming (I have a monitor capable of 2048x1536 @ 85hz and I routinely run at 1600x1200, sometimes higher depending on what I'm working on... those resolutions are great for image editing but wreak havoc on your eyes for reading web pages... not so, just bump the page up to 150-200% and you're instantly back in business and everything looks sharp, I love the notes feature and how you can double click on a note to go back to the source web page, it's sometimes handier than bookmarks, reskinning on the fly without restarting the program, turning sections of the interface on/off at will, author mode, fit to width browsing. I realize there's a Firefox extension for gestures, for note taking, and you can zoom the text in Firefox, but while functional, it just doesn't operate as smoothly as it does in Opera. With my large monitor I don't miss the 1/2" at the top for the text advertising strip. I can't help but get the feeling that since all of Opera's features were developed by the same group that they work together a little more streamlined than the open source collection of extensions available for Firefox. I'm not saying everyone should use Opera, but I do think it's a bit close minded for the Firefox-only crowd to put down Opera because Firefox has surpassed it in popularity/downloads. As fickle as this crowd is, if Firefox had 95% market share, you'd probably all scramble to use whatever the current underdog would be... possibly Opera? --rothbart My Blog: http://home.comcast.net/~sean.workman/blogger.html
That seven seconds between shots is killer for some folks... Check out this screenshot (take it easy slashdot, it ain't that interesting) http://home.comcast.net/~sean.workman/2004/11/worl ds-largest-digital-photo.html#comments/
I worked at Kinko's for years. At least their color photocopiers had traceable features for as long as I worked there. Of course we all know if you try to copy cash on a color copier, it'll spit out entire sheets of green that cannot be turned off by the user. A tech has to come reset it and by policy, law enforcement is notified. But if you look super super closely, there is a pattern (not random, but specific to a particular copier) of yellow that can be used to track a copy back to a machine (and in the case of Kinko's, a closed-circuit camera of the person running the copies.) All the Kinko's I worked at/visited had cameras pointed at the color copiers.
;)
Of course Beavis and Butthead have shown us that for $1/copy you can make a decent copy of coins...
KnoppMyth (or some installation of MythTV) must be installed as a Linux backend server to record anything (or play anything for that matter). If you only have one computer and want to run KnoppMyth without installing Linux, it will not work. You could do dual-boot but then your PVR would only be available when you were booted into Linux. Not an ideal situation. You can make a moderate backend server and administer it remotely (ie. you don't watch TV on it, only record and serve -- once setup, you can even forgo the monitor, mouse, and keyboard!), and boot KnoppMyth as a liveCD on your Windows box only when you want to WATCH something. That'd leave the backend running all the time (ideal). You can administer your program scheduling/deleting from any web browser on your network through MythWeb. It's very slick. I used that more than the native scheduler interface just because my 20" monitor could show so much more guide information in a web browser than my 27" tv could. Bottom line: MythTV should either be run on one full-time-Linux machine, or at least have a full-time-Linux backend with optional up-and-down Linux (even if booted from a liveCD) frontends. You have some flexibility in that a modified Xbox works well for a front end (and is reasonably quiet/cheap) or you can opt for the project developing Windows access to the Myth backend. I think it was aptly called WinMyth. I looked at it months ago and it was not an acceptable replacement for a proper front end machine but in its defence it was VERY new and you COULD watch video on a Windows machine with it).
I'm sure someone else has already addressed this but MythTV can do all three. Many people are using RF remotes to control Myth. Do a Google search for MythTV Remote Wonder. There is a (admittedly less than desirable last time I looked at it) package to interface with the MythTV Backend and view images on a Windows machine. KnoppMyth is also a liveCD that with about 30 seconds of configuration can pull up a functional Myth Frontend on common hardware. I say 30 seconds because it's a liveCD, it doesn't have the IP addresses, password, etc built in. It's pretty darned easy to do though. MythTV is impressive. It's not a plug in and forget about it forever solution though... Tivo and ReplayTV are there if that's your need. If you'd like a lot of options and the ability to play with things that'd never make it to the Tivo/ReplayTV market, go with one of the free PVR setups (and I recommend MythTV highly).
I XOR mine with itself twice just to be safe... come to think of it, maybe that's the default, not sure... maybe I'll do it four times now just to be safe. ...think about it a second... ;)