At 128-bits, assuming the algorithm does not have a weakness, a brute force attack takes longer than the age of the universe.
That's of course assuming that you don't stumble on the key very early on. What if by chance your brute force attack chose the correct key on the third try?
There are two kinds of rights with regards to music. There is the songwriter's rights, and the mechanical rights. The mechanical rights are for a given recording of the song. They are usually owned by the record label. This means that you cannot play the CD in a public performance without first negotiating royalties for the record label (or copyright holder). The songwriter's rights are different. If Radiohead wrote that song, then they are supposed to get paid a fee every time it is played publicly (either by themselves or by somebody else). So Prince's performance should net Radiohead a small fee. This is done through organisations such as ASCAP and BMI (or APRA if you are in Australia). The venue at which Prince performed the song pays a licence fee to ASCAP/BMI. After the performance, Prince should submit a setlist to ASCAP/BMI. Then ASCAP/BMI will distribute the fee to the relevant artists.
why is Prince richer than his recording engineer (who would technically then be copyright holder)?
Because Prince hired his recording engineer under a contract giving Prince copyright over the work. In most cases it is the record label who hires everybody (including the artist) under contract, so the record label actually gets copyright over the recording.
My parents tried their best to teach me to put things away after I finished with them. And they failed: not because they were bad parents, but because that simply is not in my nature. When I am doing something, I focus on that thing exclusively until I am distracted. Then I focus on the next thing, usually completely forgetting the first. Thus whatever I was using at the time gets left where it is, and I can never find my tools! And my poor girlfriend hast to spend a lot of her time picking up after me. If I walk into a messy room, I will usually not even notice that it is messy. Or if I do, I will not be able to mentally grasp all of the individual elements that make up the mess. Thus when I try and clean up, I usually don't do a particularly good job. However, if you point out specific items of "mess", I am able to easily see them and rectify them. My girlfriend is easily able to grasp the bigger picture, so when we do tidy up (and it is always my stuff that we are tidying up) I usually have to rely on her to direct me. Based on this anecdotal evidence, I do not think you can simply assign all the blame to people for misplacing things - it comes down to the sort of person you are. I would love to have a cheap RFID system to help me find all my stuff (especially pens, paper and guitar picks: I am always misplacing them).
Amen to that! Try dealing with hexadecimal numbers in excel....1DEC becomes 1st of December. 1Enn - becomes 1.00E+nn. I ended up having to create a complicated formula that would look for these exceptions, and in the case of 1Enn convert it to a string and then excise the relevant text using mid() to construct the correct value.
Not to be an ass but haven't these overlord jokes gone too far?
There is actually an overlord counter built into the collective slashdot mind. Every time an overlord joke is made, it increments the counter by one. Eventually the counter will reach it's upper limit, known as the Overlord Visible Execution Realisation Limit On Repetitive Drollery (OVERLORD) and all overlord jokes will cease. Unfortunately every time someone complains about the meme, it automatically resets the counter back to zero. So, in summary: thanks a lot you insensitive clod!
Depending on the species, ducks can live anywhere from 10-30 years. If we say that humans live to be about 75, then that is approximately 1/7 - 2/5 of a human's life span. So 6 fights per 20 ducks per half an hour. That's 30 fights per hundred ducks per half an hour. 100 humans passed by in half an hour, but their life span is different. 100 humans, in order to match the ducks, need to have 30 fights every 3.5 - 5 hours. So it could be that you just saw 100 humans taking a peaceful lunch break in the park in between fights...
This is just asking for another ecological disaster. If we remove water from the deep parts of the ocean, and put it in the shallow parts, the deep parts will wind up shallow, and the water near the shorelines will become really deep. We are just not equipped yet to predict what the outcome of swapping the deep ocean habitats with the shallow habitats will be.
In Fiji they introduced mongooses to eat the sugar-cane rats. Unfortunately they also ate the snakes that were the natural predators of rats. Then they started chowing down on the local native bird, frog, and lizard populations.
The diagonal measurement of TV tubes actually makes a lot of sense. For a start, tvs tubes were originally almost round anyway. But how do you measure the width and height of a screen in which the edges are curved? The manufacturer would naturally be measuring at the widest point, which is useless because the wider the curve, the bigger you could say the tv screen was. This would just encourage manufacturers to maintain large curves so that they could market tvs as having larger screens than they actually do. If you measure by the diagonal, then the best way to make the screen size bigger according to measurement whilst minimising the increase in area is to straighten the edges. Of course, you could cheat and give the edges a little concavivity*, but that would look silly and few people would buy it.
Only on slashdot could one find a comment starting with the phrase "Okay, bear with me here. This is a bit complicated, as it involves bungie cords and dirigibles"!
but what PETA ignores is that if this was the only way we ever farmed meat, then billions of creatures would never even have the privilege of existing in the first place.
That is an interesting argument. Is it better for an animal to have lived a brief existance of awful misery, or to not have lived at all? You know, I am considering starting up a human child farm. I will raise hundreds of human children, underfed and in cramped miserable conditions, to the age of 8 or so; then I will sell them to child molesters to rape and murder them. The profit I make from this will allow me to afford to raise more children in similar conditions. After all, it will surely be better for all those hundreds of children to have lived a brief miserable existence than to have never lived at all, right?
In Melbourne (Australia, not Florida!) the "all red" period is always about 2 seconds. This is handy to know if I want to quickly zoom in front of the car next to me, because I can anticipate the earliest moment that I can legally take off (presuming of course that the intersection is clear).
So if the TPMS is using RFID to transmit the unique id + tyre info, what is to stop somebody with a really high powered radio transmitter from transmitting unique id + false tyre info at the car, so that it drowns out the real signal and tricks the car into thinking the tyre pressure is too low or too high? I can just imagine some poor sap cruising down the highway when all of a sudden the car tells him that all four of his tyres have simultaneously blown out!
Larry Niven coined the term "organlegger" to describe individuals who obtained and resold body parts through less than scrupulous means.
What a coincidence! I coined the term "legorganner" to describe someone missing both arms due to congenital defect or horrific accident who has subsequently taken up playing the organ using their legs.
1) static IP's. Then we can easily track down infected machines and take them offline.
2) Laws that require people to assume some form of responsibility when they connect a computer to the net.
3) Perhaps some form of compulsory insurance policy.
4) Laws that require ISP's to disconnect spam bots and take some responsibility
Another issue with this approach is that every country in the entire world would have to agree to pass the required laws! And I can't really see that happening any time soon...
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At 128-bits, assuming the algorithm does not have a weakness, a brute force attack takes longer than the age of the universe.
That's of course assuming that you don't stumble on the key very early on. What if by chance your brute force attack chose the correct key on the third try?
No one mentions the amount of work you have to do with a razor to make it look right.
You could say the same thing about womens' legs.
So you're into cutting too? Emos unite!
You only say that because you believe in it!
P.S. This is a joke.
There are two kinds of rights with regards to music. There is the songwriter's rights, and the mechanical rights. The mechanical rights are for a given recording of the song. They are usually owned by the record label. This means that you cannot play the CD in a public performance without first negotiating royalties for the record label (or copyright holder). The songwriter's rights are different. If Radiohead wrote that song, then they are supposed to get paid a fee every time it is played publicly (either by themselves or by somebody else). So Prince's performance should net Radiohead a small fee. This is done through organisations such as ASCAP and BMI (or APRA if you are in Australia). The venue at which Prince performed the song pays a licence fee to ASCAP/BMI. After the performance, Prince should submit a setlist to ASCAP/BMI. Then ASCAP/BMI will distribute the fee to the relevant artists.
In Australia, they give you the photo if you ask for it. No hacking required!
Rowdy, is that you?
My parents tried their best to teach me to put things away after I finished with them. And they failed: not because they were bad parents, but because that simply is not in my nature. When I am doing something, I focus on that thing exclusively until I am distracted. Then I focus on the next thing, usually completely forgetting the first. Thus whatever I was using at the time gets left where it is, and I can never find my tools! And my poor girlfriend hast to spend a lot of her time picking up after me. If I walk into a messy room, I will usually not even notice that it is messy. Or if I do, I will not be able to mentally grasp all of the individual elements that make up the mess. Thus when I try and clean up, I usually don't do a particularly good job. However, if you point out specific items of "mess", I am able to easily see them and rectify them. My girlfriend is easily able to grasp the bigger picture, so when we do tidy up (and it is always my stuff that we are tidying up) I usually have to rely on her to direct me. Based on this anecdotal evidence, I do not think you can simply assign all the blame to people for misplacing things - it comes down to the sort of person you are. I would love to have a cheap RFID system to help me find all my stuff (especially pens, paper and guitar picks: I am always misplacing them).
Amen to that! Try dealing with hexadecimal numbers in excel....1DEC becomes 1st of December. 1Enn - becomes 1.00E+nn. I ended up having to create a complicated formula that would look for these exceptions, and in the case of 1Enn convert it to a string and then excise the relevant text using mid() to construct the correct value.
Solitaire is not just a PC-era phenomenon. JRR Tolkien in his later years was known to have idled away many a wasted hour on this game.
Depending on the species, ducks can live anywhere from 10-30 years. If we say that humans live to be about 75, then that is approximately 1/7 - 2/5 of a human's life span. So 6 fights per 20 ducks per half an hour. That's 30 fights per hundred ducks per half an hour. 100 humans passed by in half an hour, but their life span is different. 100 humans, in order to match the ducks, need to have 30 fights every 3.5 - 5 hours. So it could be that you just saw 100 humans taking a peaceful lunch break in the park in between fights...
In Soviet Russia, jet-powered flies wing you!
This is just asking for another ecological disaster. If we remove water from the deep parts of the ocean, and put it in the shallow parts, the deep parts will wind up shallow, and the water near the shorelines will become really deep. We are just not equipped yet to predict what the outcome of swapping the deep ocean habitats with the shallow habitats will be.
Microwaving people has already been tried.
In Fiji they introduced mongooses to eat the sugar-cane rats. Unfortunately they also ate the snakes that were the natural predators of rats. Then they started chowing down on the local native bird, frog, and lizard populations.
How do you spell Homer Simpson?
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The diagonal measurement of TV tubes actually makes a lot of sense. For a start, tvs tubes were originally almost round anyway. But how do you measure the width and height of a screen in which the edges are curved? The manufacturer would naturally be measuring at the widest point, which is useless because the wider the curve, the bigger you could say the tv screen was. This would just encourage manufacturers to maintain large curves so that they could market tvs as having larger screens than they actually do. If you measure by the diagonal, then the best way to make the screen size bigger according to measurement whilst minimising the increase in area is to straighten the edges. Of course, you could cheat and give the edges a little concavivity*, but that would look silly and few people would buy it.
*I thought that I invented this word, but it turns out that at least three other people have used it before me!
Only on slashdot could one find a comment starting with the phrase "Okay, bear with me here. This is a bit complicated, as it involves bungie cords and dirigibles"!
How dare you joke about such a grave topic!
I heard that this is a really popular burial method...people are just dying to try it!
In Melbourne (Australia, not Florida!) the "all red" period is always about 2 seconds. This is handy to know if I want to quickly zoom in front of the car next to me, because I can anticipate the earliest moment that I can legally take off (presuming of course that the intersection is clear).
So if the TPMS is using RFID to transmit the unique id + tyre info, what is to stop somebody with a really high powered radio transmitter from transmitting unique id + false tyre info at the car, so that it drowns out the real signal and tricks the car into thinking the tyre pressure is too low or too high? I can just imagine some poor sap cruising down the highway when all of a sudden the car tells him that all four of his tyres have simultaneously blown out!