Yeah, it only takes 23 people, because you're selecting from 1 in 365 possibilities.
There are 2^80 MD5 hashes. You're going to need around 2^40 files before you start to have even one collision, and you're still not getting close to matching a particular value, just any two random values.
So, unless the known hash list they are comparing against is larger than 1 million, there's almost no chance of a false collision.
I went to NYC in summer and took an iPod Touch. Everywhere I went, there were 2 or 3 networks, often some open, often over 8 networks.
I went to London and Paris last month and took an iPod Touch. I'd open it and usually get no networks at all. It was odd going to a coffee shop and seeing no networks. Sometimes, if you went into them, there'd be a T-Mobile network, but it required you pay.
I ended up getting no real use at all out of the iPod Touch other than the London Underground map I preloaded into it.
London and Paris need to learn of this idea of free WiFi.
London also needs to understand the idea of running their subway all night. It was insane that I had to take a taxi to St. Pancras because the train to Paris was boarding before the tube started running for the day.
'"Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects."
Yes, and of course only the UK is doing that. You wouldn't find that in, for instance, every major airport in the US, would you? Oh wait, that's where we got the idea from? Oh oops, sorry, disregard...'
Yeah, disgregard. We don't have that in the US, not even in airports. Soon maybe though.
BTW, I visited your country a few months ago and loved it. I have to say all the cameras did freak me out a bit. Why do you think they are so large? You think it's that way on purpose so people know they are being watched? Here in the US we try to use smaller cameras.
It was pretty bad that when David Cameron was giving a speech for the Conservative party conference (sorry, I forget the proper name), there was one of those huge cameras taking up a big part of the frame behind him. And it was just there because it's there in that conference center he was speaking at, not for the event.
It's a metaphor. Other programs can do the deleting for you (remember the itunes installer that deleted the contents of your HDD?). Or you can instead just do something super smart like "I'll write a script to rename all these.jpgs to.jpegs" and accidentally write a script that renames them all to the same thing, thus deleting most of them.
If you think your data is safe because you're using RAID, you're setting yourself up to fall.
You aren't telling me anything I don't already know, it's not like I started a big revert war.
But I could easily flip the question around. Knowing what I know, that their sources are wrong? Why sould the 'wikipedians' trust their sources? They are getting authoritative information that happens to also be wrong. So their trust is not helping them, it's hurting them.
I already ran into this a long time ago. I tried to correct some info on a consumer product I personally worked on. But my corrections were reverted because I couldn't point to sources. All the sources out there already had it wrong, so the wrong info was put back.
In the end I realized I can't fight it. The commonly accepted historical record/"facts" is influenced at least as much by errors and people who want to make it a particular way as much as it is set by the actual truth.
To save power over phase-change (i.e. freon-style) cooling (and yes, I do realize evaporation is a phase-change, I didn't pick the name).
So they save on electricity and instead use a lot more water. Is this a big advance? Is the energy cost of getting that water there counted in the efficiency rating?
If Google really wants to reduce the energy used (and not just their electrical bills), they need to look at these kinds of things.
From the article convincing everyone that Google's kill switch is okay:
'(As far as I can tell, Google's power to revoke apps off your phone only applies to stuff in the App Market. The much-vaunted "kill switch" comes from the Android Market terms of service, so if the developer is outside the Android Market, it probably doesn't apply.)'
'probably'
A kill switch is a kill switch. If it can remove the app from your device, it doesn't matter where it came from, it's killed. Why does the word 'probably' convince people this isn't true?
Depending on your definition of SCSI, it's either dead or everywhere.
The article goes somewhere in between, saying it's dead, but lives on in iSCSI which is used in some servers.
That's not the half of it.
Parallel interface SCSI (traditionally SCSI) is indeed pretty dead. Drives are rare, interface cards rarer, and if you find one, it's typically overpriced and undercapacity and performance compared to other more current solutions.
But SCSI as a protocol is everywhere. Sure, it's used in iSCSI. But it's also used in ATAPI. ATAPI is the protocol that CD/DVD/BluRay drives talk. Whether carried over parallel ATA or SATA, ATAPI is just SCSI command packets encapsulated in ATA transactions.
It's also used in SBP-2/RBC. SBP-2/RBC is the protocol used to talk to mass storage devices over USB or Firewire. If you are using an external hard drive, you're using SCSI protocol. If you're using an iPod that mounts as a hard drive, you're using SCSI protocol. If you use a USB memory stick, you're using SCSI protocol.
Nearly everyone has one or more devices that use SCSI protocol in their home or office.
In fact, he said several of the waiters at this (unnamed) establishment were on H1-Bs. I believed him, but maybe I was too gullible.
For those who say H1-Bs are an excuse to pay low wages, I've hired several foreigners on H1-Bs, and they make a ton of money. They make more than the Americans I've hired (because they're more qualified) and a lot more than the TN-1 employees we have.
Sony announced Home a long time ago. And yeah, it does look a bit like Second Life. But given that Second Life is meant to be like real life, it is odd that other things look like it too?
MS didn't announce any kind of virtual world at all. They have avatars now, but no world to roam in. It's not anything like Second Life or such.
Honestly, this whole article reads like more Second Life PR. I can't believe how much PR these guys get. A guy on the plane next to me two days ago was reading an article that said explained how Second Life is hot again, that companies are "moving in" again. Which of course is absurd, Second Life was never hot before and it isn't hot now, and companies "move in" at times, rarely having any positive effect on their sales or Second Life for that matter.
Linden Labs has some of the most amazing PR I've seen.
This is why every time I load a BluRay I ALWAYS select "NO" to the question do I want the disc to access the internet. I wish I could set it to permanently no (there is no such option on PS3).
Simply put, if the disc experience can be modified by what it loads from the internet, you never know what you are buying. You could end up with a disc that plays today and later, it won't load because they want to sell it to you again. It could even stop working by mistake (like this).
It's only going to get worse. Sony's new idea of cross-platform DRMed downloads includes internet access to verify you can play the content. Not me buddy. And I'm not just saying this because I've been in hotels for the last 10 days that want $9/hour or $25 a day to access the internet.
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Yeah, it only takes 23 people, because you're selecting from 1 in 365 possibilities.
There are 2^80 MD5 hashes. You're going to need around 2^40 files before you start to have even one collision, and you're still not getting close to matching a particular value, just any two random values.
So, unless the known hash list they are comparing against is larger than 1 million, there's almost no chance of a false collision.
I went to NYC in summer and took an iPod Touch. Everywhere I went, there were 2 or 3 networks, often some open, often over 8 networks.
I went to London and Paris last month and took an iPod Touch. I'd open it and usually get no networks at all. It was odd going to a coffee shop and seeing no networks. Sometimes, if you went into them, there'd be a T-Mobile network, but it required you pay.
I ended up getting no real use at all out of the iPod Touch other than the London Underground map I preloaded into it.
London and Paris need to learn of this idea of free WiFi.
London also needs to understand the idea of running their subway all night. It was insane that I had to take a taxi to St. Pancras because the train to Paris was boarding before the tube started running for the day.
That the coming explosion in graphics power (SuperVGA and 386s) was going to push VR into the mainstream.
'"Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects."
Yes, and of course only the UK is doing that. You wouldn't find that in, for instance, every major airport in the US, would you? Oh wait, that's where we got the idea from? Oh oops, sorry, disregard...'
Yeah, disgregard. We don't have that in the US, not even in airports. Soon maybe though.
BTW, I visited your country a few months ago and loved it. I have to say all the cameras did freak me out a bit. Why do you think they are so large? You think it's that way on purpose so people know they are being watched? Here in the US we try to use smaller cameras.
It was pretty bad that when David Cameron was giving a speech for the Conservative party conference (sorry, I forget the proper name), there was one of those huge cameras taking up a big part of the frame behind him. And it was just there because it's there in that conference center he was speaking at, not for the event.
It's a metaphor. Other programs can do the deleting for you (remember the itunes installer that deleted the contents of your HDD?). Or you can instead just do something super smart like "I'll write a script to rename all these .jpgs to .jpegs" and accidentally write a script that renames them all to the same thing, thus deleting most of them.
If you think your data is safe because you're using RAID, you're setting yourself up to fall.
Newsflash:
RAID is NOT backups.
It's not a perfect backup. It's not an imperfect backup. It's not a backup.
Apparently it isn't completely useless to point this out, because not everyone seems to know it.
Why does a guy who says there's no point in pointing out that nothing is perfect spend a paragraph explaining why nothing is perfect?
It's pretty shocking to me that your post is considered insightful.
rm -r *
Seriously, you're kidding yourself if you think RAID is protecting you.
"In the end I realized I can't fight it."
You aren't telling me anything I don't already know, it's not like I started a big revert war.
But I could easily flip the question around. Knowing what I know, that their sources are wrong? Why sould the 'wikipedians' trust their sources? They are getting authoritative information that happens to also be wrong. So their trust is not helping them, it's hurting them.
I already ran into this a long time ago. I tried to correct some info on a consumer product I personally worked on. But my corrections were reverted because I couldn't point to sources. All the sources out there already had it wrong, so the wrong info was put back.
In the end I realized I can't fight it. The commonly accepted historical record/"facts" is influenced at least as much by errors and people who want to make it a particular way as much as it is set by the actual truth.
To save power over phase-change (i.e. freon-style) cooling (and yes, I do realize evaporation is a phase-change, I didn't pick the name).
So they save on electricity and instead use a lot more water. Is this a big advance? Is the energy cost of getting that water there counted in the efficiency rating?
If Google really wants to reduce the energy used (and not just their electrical bills), they need to look at these kinds of things.
I bought a prepaid SIM on Sept 27th at Carphone Warehouse and I was asked for my passport.
From the article convincing everyone that Google's kill switch is okay:
'(As far as I can tell, Google's power to revoke apps off your phone only applies to stuff in the App Market. The much-vaunted "kill switch" comes from the Android Market terms of service, so if the developer is outside the Android Market, it probably doesn't apply.)'
'probably'
A kill switch is a kill switch. If it can remove the app from your device, it doesn't matter where it came from, it's killed. Why does the word 'probably' convince people this isn't true?
Apple has not killed any apps remotely, even the one that violated AT&T's terms of service. They just stopped more people from buying them.
Android explicitly reserves the right to delete apps you already bought.
So I can't see how Google's is more pro-consumer.
I do agree Apple's random barring of apps from the store is annoying and counterproductive.
The future is the 70s?
Depending on your definition of SCSI, it's either dead or everywhere.
The article goes somewhere in between, saying it's dead, but lives on in iSCSI which is used in some servers.
That's not the half of it.
Parallel interface SCSI (traditionally SCSI) is indeed pretty dead. Drives are rare, interface cards rarer, and if you find one, it's typically overpriced and undercapacity and performance compared to other more current solutions.
But SCSI as a protocol is everywhere. Sure, it's used in iSCSI. But it's also used in ATAPI. ATAPI is the protocol that CD/DVD/BluRay drives talk. Whether carried over parallel ATA or SATA, ATAPI is just SCSI command packets encapsulated in ATA transactions.
It's also used in SBP-2/RBC. SBP-2/RBC is the protocol used to talk to mass storage devices over USB or Firewire. If you are using an external hard drive, you're using SCSI protocol. If you're using an iPod that mounts as a hard drive, you're using SCSI protocol. If you use a USB memory stick, you're using SCSI protocol.
Nearly everyone has one or more devices that use SCSI protocol in their home or office.
Does Linden Labs pay you well?
Try summing up Second Life in one sentence while simultaneously covering 90% of the truth -- you'll fail.
Perverts.
That only took one word.
In fact, he said several of the waiters at this (unnamed) establishment were on H1-Bs. I believed him, but maybe I was too gullible.
For those who say H1-Bs are an excuse to pay low wages, I've hired several foreigners on H1-Bs, and they make a ton of money. They make more than the Americans I've hired (because they're more qualified) and a lot more than the TN-1 employees we have.
Yes, that's true. But it's economically impossible for them to modify all players out there to remove major functionality. It'd terminate the format.
Sony announced Home a long time ago. And yeah, it does look a bit like Second Life. But given that Second Life is meant to be like real life, it is odd that other things look like it too?
MS didn't announce any kind of virtual world at all. They have avatars now, but no world to roam in. It's not anything like Second Life or such.
Honestly, this whole article reads like more Second Life PR. I can't believe how much PR these guys get. A guy on the plane next to me two days ago was reading an article that said explained how Second Life is hot again, that companies are "moving in" again. Which of course is absurd, Second Life was never hot before and it isn't hot now, and companies "move in" at times, rarely having any positive effect on their sales or Second Life for that matter.
Linden Labs has some of the most amazing PR I've seen.
They used to be, but now scanners sold in the US have the analog cellular freqs blocked, even though there is no more analog cell coverage anyway.
It's really lame, actually.
This is why every time I load a BluRay I ALWAYS select "NO" to the question do I want the disc to access the internet. I wish I could set it to permanently no (there is no such option on PS3).
Simply put, if the disc experience can be modified by what it loads from the internet, you never know what you are buying. You could end up with a disc that plays today and later, it won't load because they want to sell it to you again. It could even stop working by mistake (like this).
It's only going to get worse. Sony's new idea of cross-platform DRMed downloads includes internet access to verify you can play the content. Not me buddy. And I'm not just saying this because I've been in hotels for the last 10 days that want $9/hour or $25 a day to access the internet.
Doubled since HD-DVD's demise.
Again, a ridiculous hit piece article. And slashdot promulgated it.
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/25/blu-rays-market-share-has-almost-doubled-since-hd-dvds-demise/
BluRay isn't a success yet, but this slashdot article is painting a misleading article of the situation.
Oh. Slashdot edited the story. The summary used to say "No2I" was the name of the group.
That's why I posted this correction.
As in "say no to ID". Makes a lot more sense doesn't it?