developper A produce software X(for example openssh), calculate hash of program X and sign the hash with his PGP key. He then put all these files on mirrors servers on Internet (but not his private PGP key !)
One mirror is hijacked by B. B wan't to replace X by X' with the same hash than X
This article doesn't provide anything as it says MD5(X+a)=MD5(Y+a), which imply you have to change A in the first place which can't be done easily (and if you can change the original program, then what's the point ?)
In France, add about 20% of tax to the price for this kind of entertainement thing.(so about 1/6 of the final price). Should be similar in other european countries.
There is absolutely no shortage of wii in Europe. There used to be one one year ago. It's much more lucrative for Nintendo to sell wii in Europe and maintain shortage in the us... Price = 249 $ in US Price = 249 Euro in Europe 1 Euro = 1,47$ That's explain why. It's the same thing for accessories, games... I'm fed up with the 1 euro = 1$ conversion thing and the fact that us store will mostly refuse to sell things if you don't pay with a us card and don't ship to a us address...
Reading the article makes me perplex. I wonder why the programmers don't use a real time os with a real time language.(this doesn't seem to be the case reading the article) I agree it may seems harder to program at firstt but a good conception can avoid these stupid case when the car just bump into something because the computer hasn't been able to calculate in time... Having seen a real car taking 10s to answer to the stop button because it was buggy in certain conditions and the manufacturer had just released the car too early to respond to market pressure makes me afraid of what we will see in the future when car becomes more and more automated...
Brendan is completely right. This is all about open web. Browser technology was somehow lagging behind what's used (ie flash...) and need to improve for the future web. HTML5 (video, canvas..), SVG, new Javascript version will make for a new generation of browser. IE will probably try it the proprietary way.(at least at first) Concerning Javascript, it will allow complex site to better work with modern browsers (Mozilla based, Opera, Safari/webkit) providing a better user experience and security, while still "just work" for IE via a compatibility layer...(until MS somehow catch up, which they have already done in the past) This will be interesting to see how the situation evolve in the mid term when some of this technology starts to be available in more browsers (ie in one/two years)
Sun has been contributing to lightning for a while with success, dedicating developers to it. That's very good because instead of restarting from scratch, they are using an existing product and open source community. At this time, lightning is not yet complete but it's getting better and better.
I think you misunderstand what has been done. sqlite is running with firefox (no external binary launched) Before there was mozilla function made to read a file in a mozilla only format each time ypou wanted to change something you add to change the whole functions or the file format. now these function were replaced with more generic function in another more optimized format (but which can be exported to plain text). These more generic function implement the sql language when you wan't to change something, it's much more flexible. as these function are heavely optimized, you're not losing anything. I think it will be faster, much more maintanable and much more scalable I mean the web has changed, so we need to have much more bookmarks and using a plain text file is slower than using a db for this.
Places still writes the bookmark.html file. It just doesn't read-it anymore (but you can tell it to import it back if you like) BTW, sqlite stores everything in one file so nothing is really changed if you wan't to save, you just have to copy one file if you wan't to move/copy you profile, it's just a file to copy it will be much more robust, powerfull and allow new things to be done. also the sqllite code is stable and field tested by hundred of projects so it's a very good idea to reuse it instead of using some mozilla only solution.
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Real life scenario :
developper A produce software X(for example openssh), calculate hash of program X and sign the hash with his PGP key.
He then put all these files on mirrors servers on Internet (but not his private PGP key !)
One mirror is hijacked by B.
B wan't to replace X by X' with the same hash than X
This article doesn't provide anything as it says MD5(X+a)=MD5(Y+a), which imply you have to change A in the first place which can't be done easily (and if you can change the original program, then what's the point ?)
In France, add about 20% of tax to the price for this kind of entertainement thing.(so about 1/6 of the final price).
Should be similar in other european countries.
There is absolutely no shortage of wii in Europe.
There used to be one one year ago.
It's much more lucrative for Nintendo to sell wii in Europe and maintain shortage in the us...
Price = 249 $ in US
Price = 249 Euro in Europe
1 Euro = 1,47$
That's explain why.
It's the same thing for accessories, games...
I'm fed up with the 1 euro = 1$ conversion thing and the fact that us store will mostly refuse to sell things if you don't pay with a us card and don't ship to a us address...
Reading the article makes me perplex.
I wonder why the programmers don't use a real time os with a real time language.(this doesn't seem to be the case reading the article)
I agree it may seems harder to program at firstt but a good conception can avoid these stupid case when the car just bump into something because the computer hasn't been able to calculate in time...
Having seen a real car taking 10s to answer to the stop button because it was buggy in certain conditions and the manufacturer had just released the car too early to respond to market pressure makes me afraid of what we will see in the future when car becomes more and more automated...
Brendan is completely right. ..), SVG, new Javascript version will make for a new generation of browser.
This is all about open web.
Browser technology was somehow lagging behind what's used (ie flash...) and need to improve for the future web.
HTML5 (video, canvas
IE will probably try it the proprietary way.(at least at first)
Concerning Javascript, it will allow complex site to better work with modern browsers (Mozilla based, Opera, Safari/webkit) providing a better user experience and security, while still "just work" for IE via a compatibility layer...(until MS somehow catch up, which they have already done in the past)
This will be interesting to see how the situation evolve in the mid term when some of this technology starts to be available in more browsers (ie in one/two years)
You're missing a point.
Having people working on thunderbird/ligthning doesn't slow down openoffice developpement at all.
Sun is talking about thunderbird + lightning, which is aimed to be a better outlook replacement.
Sun has been contributing to lightning for a while with success, dedicating developers to it.
That's very good because instead of restarting from scratch, they are using an existing product and open source community.
At this time, lightning is not yet complete but it's getting better and better.
people will still buy the book once it's out.
I don't care waiting a few more days...
I think you misunderstand what has been done.
sqlite is running with firefox (no external binary launched)
Before there was mozilla function made to read a file in a mozilla only format
each time ypou wanted to change something you add to change the whole functions or the file format.
now these function were replaced with more generic function in another more optimized format (but which can be exported to plain text). These more generic function implement the sql language
when you wan't to change something, it's much more flexible.
as these function are heavely optimized, you're not losing anything.
I think it will be faster, much more maintanable and much more scalable
I mean the web has changed, so we need to have much more bookmarks and using a plain text file is slower than using a db for this.
Places still writes the bookmark.html file.
It just doesn't read-it anymore (but you can tell it to import it back if you like)
BTW, sqlite stores everything in one file so nothing is really changed
if you wan't to save, you just have to copy one file
if you wan't to move/copy you profile, it's just a file to copy
it will be much more robust, powerfull and allow new things to be done.
also the sqllite code is stable and field tested by hundred of projects so it's a very good idea to reuse it instead of using some mozilla only solution.