By applying the OUSPG PROTOS ISAKMP Test Suite to a variety of products, several vulnerabilities can be revealed that can have varying effects.
Your TLAs are broken.
Gah, I like to think that I'm technically savy, but when there are 2 FLAs and a SLA in a row, and I don't know what any of them mean, I feel a little sad.
I have worked out the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 on my own without getting any help, and in my experience, getting the 3x3 was the hardest. Once I had that algorithm sorted out, it made doing the bigger ones easy, and I believe that if you can solve all the way up to 7x7, then you can solve any size as long as you can remember some parity stuff. I have no idea what this parity stuff is, which is why my algorithm for the 4x4 and the 5x5 have the last step being: "If two things are out of place, then scramble it all and try again"... it is still good enough though, I can get 2 min for 3x3 and 30 min for the 4x4 and 5x5.
On my computer doing some time trials these are the results I get for loading times:
Firefox:
68, 69, 69, 72, 65
IE
81, 81, 75, 71, 75
Opera
93, 103, 103, 107, 103
All of these were timed by hand using a stopwatch, so the results aren't perfect. The units are 1/100s, and each test was opening a new browser window from the exectable (not from within the running application). My system is a P4 2.4 Mobile, 512, XP Pro. Each application was loaded 5 times untimed before being timed to make sure they were cached.
My firefox install is also the one with the most crap in it (15 extensions), with IE having the google toolbar, and Opera having nothing extra.
From this, I'd say that the performance in firefox is pretty awesome when it comes to startup times. (Or my IE is really slow)
I've always assumed that angles are so fancy that they need to have transcendental numbers to actually use them - even if everything else is rational. I'm glad this guy has challenged that assumption and showed that you can do cool stuff while staying in a smaller, closed system.
It might be worth donating to mailinator (who I'm not affiliated with). They seem to be the good guys, and their service it pretty useful. I can't imagine a slashdotting would really make their day (let that be a lesson for you next time you mention google on your website)
I'm sure there is a witty comment to make about the fact that the very first word in the article summary is wrong, but I can't quite fit it all together.
I'm not really a grammar/spelling/correctness nazi either, so I can't really complain about slashdot going down hill. I just feel compelled to post.
1) The MS paper used the wrong model for the choking algorithm (it assumed tit for tat). This method isn't used because it sucks (as discovered early in the life of BitTorrent.
2) The paper also assumed that each client would only try to connect to 4 peers. Bram says that 30-50 is more realistic.
3) In spite of the poor comparison, the ideas might be useful.
I'm in Australia, and I'd love to have something like google maps which worked here. With a name like "Virtual Earth", I'm hoping Microsoft isn't being really arrogant and this will be a worldwide service.
With that said. I'm skeptical that "Virtual Earth" is going to be anything more than "Virtual USA" or similar.
As a bible believing Christian, this kind of makes me sad. I'm not very convinced at all that the bible is trying to push a 6/7-day creation, considering that a day doesn't even make sense until you have something like a sun (created on the 4th 'day').
Then conider that on the 3rd day, the land produced vegetation (NIV translation, 1:11). Which sounds like a fairly natural process, to expect the land to produce plants bearing seed in a day - would require some sort of miraculous intervention (not that I think this is impossible) which isn't at all mentioned in the bible.
For non-proof (*) number 3, look at Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31 (which are all "... And there was evening, and there was morning - the [1..6]th day.") and now compare it to 2:3: "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done." (NIV). What is missing? It doesn't say the 7th day is over, there is no evening and morning, it just says that this day is blessed. Considering how obvious the 1..6 pattern is, it is a pretty big oversight of the author to leave out this part... unless of course it was intentional and we are still in this 7th day.
So that is my bit on why 7 day creation sucks. However, I think in the big picture I'm not following a God who says "Believe in this thing unrelated to the whole focus of the bible or you will die". So yeah, hopefully I don't come across as an arrogant prick who puts themselves above other Christians, but I do wish that some would look at the truths their religion is trying to promote and push them - and not pushing a faith based on what was taught as the only option at school, but faith because it is a verify-able (**) truth.
Uh... sorry from the normal people
/rant
(*) un-proof: I realise that these things don't forma biblical proof for a > 24-hour day form of creation, but these give evidence which might suggest the other way. It is near impossible to prove anything outside of a nice well behaved formal system, so this is the best anyone can do I think.
(**) verify-able: I don't care if it isn't a word (or if it isn't spelt right), and I realise that some people are probably wanting to challenge me to "verify" my faith now as a proof to them. Similar to above - the world could have been created 2 seconds ago and no one can prove otherwise, however most people will agree that it wasn't due to the available evidence. However there is a line where I believe something based on some evidence and other people won't. This means that these things are verified to me, but not necessarily to you. It doesn't change the truth of them however, one of us is right and the other is wrong, it will just be too late when we find out who wins:).
Not after step 2: removable memory allows infinite memory - which means that such a device has an infinite ability to store pirated material. Clearly, artists need to be paid for your piracy, thus the tax should reflect the infinite memory capabilities of your player.
In fact, since your player has such a high capacity, you might even reach the price break - 1GB for $epsilon.
Secure Startup protects users against offline attacks, blocking access to the computer if the content of the hard drive is compromised. This prevents a laptop thief from booting up the system from a floppy disk to circumvent security features
or swapping out the hard drive.
Either I'm stupid or they are (for humility's sake, I'll assume the first), but doesn't file system level encryption already solve this problem?
Also, Apple is already one step ahead by removing floppy drives from the computers.
Eigth, can't you natively render PDF's. Why do I half to deal with all this over bloated adobe crap????... and the same with crapromedia now that I'm thinking of it.
Hey that is actually a pretty good idea. I wonder if Firefox has ever considered doing something like that. Personally, I always save pdf files to disk and then open them up without using the browser plugin, but native rendering might change that habit.
Slashdot Mirror
Your TLAs are broken.
Gah, I like to think that I'm technically savy, but when there are 2 FLAs and a SLA in a row, and I don't know what any of them mean, I feel a little sad.
$sys$gravity
I have worked out the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 on my own without getting any help, and in my experience, getting the 3x3 was the hardest. Once I had that algorithm sorted out, it made doing the bigger ones easy, and I believe that if you can solve all the way up to 7x7, then you can solve any size as long as you can remember some parity stuff. I have no idea what this parity stuff is, which is why my algorithm for the 4x4 and the 5x5 have the last step being: "If two things are out of place, then scramble it all and try again"... it is still good enough though, I can get 2 min for 3x3 and 30 min for the 4x4 and 5x5.
I'm sure people will milk it for all it's worth.
Firefox:
68, 69, 69, 72, 65
IE
81, 81, 75, 71, 75
Opera
93, 103, 103, 107, 103
All of these were timed by hand using a stopwatch, so the results aren't perfect. The units are 1/100s, and each test was opening a new browser window from the exectable (not from within the running application). My system is a P4 2.4 Mobile, 512, XP Pro. Each application was loaded 5 times untimed before being timed to make sure they were cached.
My firefox install is also the one with the most crap in it (15 extensions), with IE having the google toolbar, and Opera having nothing extra.
From this, I'd say that the performance in firefox is pretty awesome when it comes to startup times. (Or my IE is really slow)
1) No one here uses firefox
2) No one here reads the article
One of these seems more likely than the other
I've always assumed that angles are so fancy that they need to have transcendental numbers to actually use them - even if everything else is rational. I'm glad this guy has challenged that assumption and showed that you can do cool stuff while staying in a smaller, closed system.
It might be worth donating to mailinator (who I'm not affiliated with). They seem to be the good guys, and their service it pretty useful. I can't imagine a slashdotting would really make their day (let that be a lesson for you next time you mention google on your website)
I'm not really a grammar/spelling/correctness nazi either, so I can't really complain about slashdot going down hill. I just feel compelled to post.
Uh... I wish my name was Linux?
I think it would be a bit better without the background being so complicated, it is a bit distracting.
Great, so now your desk is in violation of copyright law.
Some would say that 3.1459 is more than enough.
(I tried to hold back - I really did)
2) The paper also assumed that each client would only try to connect to 4 peers. Bram says that 30-50 is more realistic.
3) In spite of the poor comparison, the ideas might be useful.
The actual blog entry
CNN
Many jokes submitted contained references to animals. Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny.
Keys are input, LEDs are output.
With that said. I'm skeptical that "Virtual Earth" is going to be anything more than "Virtual USA" or similar.
Jerks :)
Telefragged friends?
Linux really puts the zero in zeroconf.
Then conider that on the 3rd day, the land produced vegetation (NIV translation, 1:11). Which sounds like a fairly natural process, to expect the land to produce plants bearing seed in a day - would require some sort of miraculous intervention (not that I think this is impossible) which isn't at all mentioned in the bible.
For non-proof (*) number 3, look at Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31 (which are all "... And there was evening, and there was morning - the [1..6]th day.") and now compare it to 2:3: "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done." (NIV). What is missing? It doesn't say the 7th day is over, there is no evening and morning, it just says that this day is blessed. Considering how obvious the 1..6 pattern is, it is a pretty big oversight of the author to leave out this part... unless of course it was intentional and we are still in this 7th day.
So that is my bit on why 7 day creation sucks. However, I think in the big picture I'm not following a God who says "Believe in this thing unrelated to the whole focus of the bible or you will die". So yeah, hopefully I don't come across as an arrogant prick who puts themselves above other Christians, but I do wish that some would look at the truths their religion is trying to promote and push them - and not pushing a faith based on what was taught as the only option at school, but faith because it is a verify-able (**) truth.
Uh... sorry from the normal people
(*) un-proof: I realise that these things don't forma biblical proof for a > 24-hour day form of creation, but these give evidence which might suggest the other way. It is near impossible to prove anything outside of a nice well behaved formal system, so this is the best anyone can do I think.
(**) verify-able: I don't care if it isn't a word (or if it isn't spelt right), and I realise that some people are probably wanting to challenge me to "verify" my faith now as a proof to them. Similar to above - the world could have been created 2 seconds ago and no one can prove otherwise, however most people will agree that it wasn't due to the available evidence. However there is a line where I believe something based on some evidence and other people won't. This means that these things are verified to me, but not necessarily to you. It doesn't change the truth of them however, one of us is right and the other is wrong, it will just be too late when we find out who wins :).
Well, power over WiFi never really took off with people discovering that mother nature had blessed them with an internal receiver.
pass v.tr
...
10. To discharge (body waste, for example); void.
It makes a bit more sense if you read it ("Dutch discharge body waste in the form of iPod tax") that way.
Since this isn't an iPod specific law, why is this in the Apple section?
Not after step 2: removable memory allows infinite memory - which means that such a device has an infinite ability to store pirated material. Clearly, artists need to be paid for your piracy, thus the tax should reflect the infinite memory capabilities of your player.
In fact, since your player has such a high capacity, you might even reach the price break - 1GB for $epsilon.
Either I'm stupid or they are (for humility's sake, I'll assume the first), but doesn't file system level encryption already solve this problem?
Also, Apple is already one step ahead by removing floppy drives from the computers.
Hey that is actually a pretty good idea. I wonder if Firefox has ever considered doing something like that. Personally, I always save pdf files to disk and then open them up without using the browser plugin, but native rendering might change that habit.