I checked some passwords hashes in that site.. My algorithm for passwords worked every time: instead of using a word, use a word plus the site name, ie, password + "google" or "slashdot" for this test. It recognized the normal hashes, but didn't recognize these:
It recognizes the hashes for money, god, mypassword, and password. But adding the site name made them much stronger. The bonus is: it's very easy to remember the password created this way.
You can salt your own password.. To some degree at least.. Nobody can remember different crazy passwords for every site they sign, but you can create a personal algorithm for your passwords. I use this: my general password + site name. Suppose my standard password is money, my password for slashdot would be: moneyslashdot
I'm Brazilian, too. You are right. The problem is that this is usual practice. But now it's getting more risky every day.
You know all your competitors are doing it, you know the police will find some, but not all of the corrupts, not even enough to let you sell your goods legally without any problem. So you have a thought choice:
- be corrupt like everybody else, sell your goods and risk jail.
- be honest and bankrupt because your competitors have a much better price.
Of course they won't be jailed.. They have to be released in 5 days max (the Court Order expires in 5 days). And I don't think the charge will hold in court. Probably the police was trying to make an example or was fishing for media attention.
I was pointing they weren't arrested for the tax evasion, but for fraud.
Actually, the crimes were:
- Forging documents and using false documentation, - Smuggling, - Creating an organization for criminal purpose, - Hiding actives (they lied about the value of their products), - Corrupting public servers, - Tax evasion.
Things are changing around here. I would agree with you 10 years ago. I've met some people who were trying to enter the police, the judiciary system, etc. Their thought changed from the old:
"I'm joining because I won't have to work much and I'll receive nice "gifts" just to do my job."..to:
"I'm joining because someone needs to do something."
Maybe I'm wrong, but I expect corruption to become much rarer in 10 more years.
I live in Brazil and here electronics usually cost twice as much as what you pay in US or Europe. With these taxes is almost impossible to run a business (specially if you export you final product). What Cisco was doing is a common practice here: import declaring half (or less) of the product's value. With the insane taxes, the product (legal) cost will be close to the original (real) cost.
I really think we should change our tax policy, specially for products that are targeted to industries and other companies. What we are doing is protecting an obsolete hardware industry in expense of other very competitive business. We should take the inverse approach: eliminate taxes from hardware and "steal" your software jobs.:)
Since it was "common" to do things like what Cisco di, I think the police arrested them as an example to others. Probably the charges won't hold in court, but they scared a lot of people arresting the "big guys".
Before complaining, please know what you are talking about... A quick search on wikipedia would tell you: Einstein received his Nobel Prize for works on Quantum Theory!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein: Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect:The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays or visible light. (...) The photoelectric effect helped further wave-particle duality, whereby physical systems (such as photons, in this case) display both wave-like and particle-like properties, a concept that was used in quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein mathematically explained the photoelectric effect and extended the work on quanta that Max Planck developed.
Locke copied that phrase. "Mens sana in corpore sano" is from Juvenal (Roman poet) who probably stole the idea from Thales of Miletus ("Who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.")... O good days when there was no copyright.
I thought in the Linux world it was the Distribution job handle software installation. You have apt-get, emerge and many others that work better than the Windows way. Why are people trying to copy the most bloated functionality of Windows: the ability to install software by 3rd parties? This is a recipe to disaster.
A (standard) database with information about the system is a great idea: what to call when opening an email, or an image, or whatever. But giving each software the responsability to integrate with others is too much.
Why is that offtopic? Self, Squeak, Bistro are all derived from Smalltalk -- all of them reflective programing languages like Ruby. And the greatest problem of Self is that no one uses it. I find it a very good concept and a very interesting language. If only it got more attention.
Why is Ruby getting all that attention? I think there are many others reflective languages that could become much more than Ruby will ever be. Personaly, I dislike the idea of multi-paradigm languages: you end up with something thats is almost good in almost everything. Why not focus in a pure reflective language that won't solve all the problems in the world but will be perfect when a reflective language is needed? Do that with calls/links to other languages and you have the perfect programing environment: each language doing what it does best.
Children aren't growing faster. They are only absorving more information. Why? Because there is more information avaliable. The world is much more complex now than it used to be, and children are adapting to that complexity. Of course they think about sex earlier, because they discover it earlier. What's the problem?
Do you think the next generation will suffer from lack of physical activity? Look at the growth of academies! Never the youngs were so concerned about their health.
Isolation? Only because some people can't see the internet as a medium of comunication. Children are conected to the world, exchanging ideas with others, faster than ever. Now it's always possible to find a group of like-minded individuals (no matter where you are or what you think, you can always find a group to share your ideas).
Lack of imagination? Are you kidding? Computers are the most efficient device (till now) in developing the imagination. Children imagination have gone beyond pictures, now they are creating concepts. In a superficial analises it looks like they are less imaginative because they don't waste time drawing pictures, they expend their time composing pictures.
All in all, the next generation is about efficiency. A more efficient childhood. A lost? Not at all. That's called evolution.
When using tmpfs create a huge swap. For normal use you won't need it, but when you decide to compile some packages it will use it all. Around 5GB swap + 2 GB RAM is enough (for me).
Note that this is a fail-safe measure. It will work with 2 GB RAM + 1 GB swap, but sometimes it breaks... And you don't want to get a disk full error after a few hours compiling something. Another option is to de-activate tmpfs before compiling huge things (but I never remember to do that).
I think government all around the world should adopt similar policies.
1. Governamental software is usualy specialized, so they had to pay for the whole development. Now they can build uppon OSS saving money.
2. The development will probably be made by locals. Creating more programmers there, and more business based on OSS (support, custom development, etc).
3. They will have full control of what there softwares do. No more hidden calls home by proprietary software.
4. Security will probably be better: security by secret is the worst kind.
My only question is... Why only there? Why don't other nations use similar policies? Why they keep buying from foreign companies instead of using OSS?
Atary is acualy creating an anti-brand in the game industry... One of the first thing I look before buying a game is if it has something to do with atary...
When I saw a Bioware + Lucas Arts game (starwars) I knew it was good. I don't even have to play to recomend it to my friends.
But when I see anything + Atary... Well.. I won't recomend for anyone.
Aren't they afraid of loosing clients? This is one of the few areas that we have great influence... I mean we, the tech guys who use Linux (and read/. ). People usualy ask us for a list of recomendations before choosing. And, unless they keep a Linux service (cheaper that MS servers), they won't be in my lists when a client asks me for web hosting.
You may say this is a political reason for a technical question. Yes, part of it. But I want to have Linux around when all those Windows servers stop working at the same time (I've seen it happen and I won't make the same mistake twice).
Damn... When will someone make a working Tokamak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak)? Nuclear fusion is the future! Cheap, clean energy, from hidrogen plasma.
But these guys where studying with Rembrandt, painting as he teaches them how to. Ok... They were excelent students that could imitate the teacher so well that no one can tell who made the painting. That's not the same of being the original artist. Artists build on other artists works, but they add something.
Slashdot Mirror
There's only one word to describe your post: Elegant!
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I checked some passwords hashes in that site.. My algorithm for passwords worked every time: instead of using a word, use a word plus the site name, ie, password + "google" or "slashdot" for this test. It recognized the normal hashes, but didn't recognize these:
5e44e93c36f6dd3382a2a424bbe08e4f (godgoogle)
t71f7474bba0fd9038e22b2b7b28068bd (godslashdot)
a9ed4bf50a15669c1a59897b3115a6b7 (mypasswordgoogle)
1d2f9e31e31e1b574b0657d5a7e0bf18 (mypasswordslashdot)
feb11cfdc86158e036f435b2f8a1f9a2 (passwordgoogle)
29e4032e69bde22c5bc645a1e3bc7e5a (moneyslashdot)
It recognizes the hashes for money, god, mypassword, and password. But adding the site name made them much stronger. The bonus is: it's very easy to remember the password created this way.
You can salt your own password.. To some degree at least.. Nobody can remember different crazy passwords for every site they sign, but you can create a personal algorithm for your passwords. I use this: my general password + site name. Suppose my standard password is money, my password for slashdot would be:
moneyslashdot
Wait... Are you saying I can get a free Ferrari? Yeah!
I'm Brazilian, too. You are right. The problem is that this is usual practice. But now it's getting more risky every day.
You know all your competitors are doing it, you know the police will find some, but not all of the corrupts, not even enough to let you sell your goods legally without any problem. So you have a thought choice:
- be corrupt like everybody else, sell your goods and risk jail.
- be honest and bankrupt because your competitors have a much better price.
Of course they won't be jailed.. They have to be released in 5 days max (the Court Order expires in 5 days). And I don't think the charge will hold in court. Probably the police was trying to make an example or was fishing for media attention.
I was pointing they weren't arrested for the tax evasion, but for fraud.
Actually, the crimes were:
- Forging documents and using false documentation,
- Smuggling,
- Creating an organization for criminal purpose,
- Hiding actives (they lied about the value of their products),
- Corrupting public servers,
- Tax evasion.
Things are changing around here. I would agree with you 10 years ago. I've met some people who were trying to enter the police, the judiciary system, etc. Their thought changed from the old:
..to:
"I'm joining because I won't have to work much and I'll receive nice "gifts" just to do my job."
"I'm joining because someone needs to do something."
Maybe I'm wrong, but I expect corruption to become much rarer in 10 more years.
I live in Brazil and here electronics usually cost twice as much as what you pay in US or Europe. With these taxes is almost impossible to run a business (specially if you export you final product). What Cisco was doing is a common practice here: import declaring half (or less) of the product's value. With the insane taxes, the product (legal) cost will be close to the original (real) cost.
:)
I really think we should change our tax policy, specially for products that are targeted to industries and other companies. What we are doing is protecting an obsolete hardware industry in expense of other very competitive business. We should take the inverse approach: eliminate taxes from hardware and "steal" your software jobs.
Since it was "common" to do things like what Cisco di, I think the police arrested them as an example to others. Probably the charges won't hold in court, but they scared a lot of people arresting the "big guys".
The difference is that they shipped their products with false prices. That's fraud (=jail), not tax evasion (=fine).
Before complaining, please know what you are talking about... A quick search on wikipedia would tell you: Einstein received his Nobel Prize for works on Quantum Theory!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein: Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect: The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays or visible light. (...) The photoelectric effect helped further wave-particle duality, whereby physical systems (such as photons, in this case) display both wave-like and particle-like properties, a concept that was used in quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein mathematically explained the photoelectric effect and extended the work on quanta that Max Planck developed.
Corretion: ...it may trigger Google to go into the OS business...
They are already moving to the office-suite business, Google style:
http://docs.google.com/
Locke copied that phrase. "Mens sana in corpore sano" is from Juvenal (Roman poet) who probably stole the idea from Thales of Miletus ("Who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.")... O good days when there was no copyright.
It should read 24.75.0345.200 -- Owned by Comcast Cable. :-D
I thought in the Linux world it was the Distribution job handle software installation. You have apt-get, emerge and many others that work better than the Windows way. Why are people trying to copy the most bloated functionality of Windows: the ability to install software by 3rd parties? This is a recipe to disaster.
A (standard) database with information about the system is a great idea: what to call when opening an email, or an image, or whatever. But giving each software the responsability to integrate with others is too much.
Why is that offtopic? Self, Squeak, Bistro are all derived from Smalltalk -- all of them reflective programing languages like Ruby. And the greatest problem of Self is that no one uses it. I find it a very good concept and a very interesting language. If only it got more attention.
Why is Ruby getting all that attention? I think there are many others reflective languages that could become much more than Ruby will ever be. Personaly, I dislike the idea of multi-paradigm languages: you end up with something thats is almost good in almost everything. Why not focus in a pure reflective language that won't solve all the problems in the world but will be perfect when a reflective language is needed? Do that with calls/links to other languages and you have the perfect programing environment: each language doing what it does best.
Children aren't growing faster. They are only absorving more information. Why? Because there is more information avaliable. The world is much more complex now than it used to be, and children are adapting to that complexity. Of course they think about sex earlier, because they discover it earlier. What's the problem?
Do you think the next generation will suffer from lack of physical activity? Look at the growth of academies! Never the youngs were so concerned about their health.
Isolation? Only because some people can't see the internet as a medium of comunication. Children are conected to the world, exchanging ideas with others, faster than ever. Now it's always possible to find a group of like-minded individuals (no matter where you are or what you think, you can always find a group to share your ideas).
Lack of imagination? Are you kidding? Computers are the most efficient device (till now) in developing the imagination. Children imagination have gone beyond pictures, now they are creating concepts. In a superficial analises it looks like they are less imaginative because they don't waste time drawing pictures, they expend their time composing pictures.
All in all, the next generation is about efficiency. A more efficient childhood. A lost? Not at all. That's called evolution.
When using tmpfs create a huge swap. For normal use you won't need it, but when you decide to compile some packages it will use it all. Around 5GB swap + 2 GB RAM is enough (for me).
Note that this is a fail-safe measure. It will work with 2 GB RAM + 1 GB swap, but sometimes it breaks... And you don't want to get a disk full error after a few hours compiling something. Another option is to de-activate tmpfs before compiling huge things (but I never remember to do that).
I think government all around the world should adopt similar policies.
1. Governamental software is usualy specialized, so they had to pay for the whole development. Now they can build uppon OSS saving money.
2. The development will probably be made by locals. Creating more programmers there, and more business based on OSS (support, custom development, etc).
3. They will have full control of what there softwares do. No more hidden calls home by proprietary software.
4. Security will probably be better: security by secret is the worst kind.
My only question is... Why only there? Why don't other nations use similar policies? Why they keep buying from foreign companies instead of using OSS?
So... What will become of Google Talk after this?
-No, I didn't pull the triger, I was just trying to scare him... Someone hacked my bullets and they fired by themselves.
Atary is acualy creating an anti-brand in the game industry... One of the first thing I look before buying a game is if it has something to do with atary...
When I saw a Bioware + Lucas Arts game (starwars) I knew it was good. I don't even have to play to recomend it to my friends.
But when I see anything + Atary... Well.. I won't recomend for anyone.
Aren't they afraid of loosing clients? This is one of the few areas that we have great influence... I mean we, the tech guys who use Linux (and read /. ). People usualy ask us for a list of recomendations before choosing. And, unless they keep a Linux service (cheaper that MS servers), they won't be in my lists when a client asks me for web hosting.
You may say this is a political reason for a technical question. Yes, part of it. But I want to have Linux around when all those Windows servers stop working at the same time (I've seen it happen and I won't make the same mistake twice).
Linux option or no recomendation for them.
Damn... When will someone make a working Tokamak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak)? Nuclear fusion is the future! Cheap, clean energy, from hidrogen plasma.
But these guys where studying with Rembrandt, painting as he teaches them how to. Ok... They were excelent students that could imitate the teacher so well that no one can tell who made the painting. That's not the same of being the original artist. Artists build on other artists works, but they add something.