The government ran out of coupons earlier this month...
They have plenty of coupons. They just don't have any money to back them up. I'm surprised they didn't keep issuing them anyway and send retailers an IOU.
If this thing is a malicious software delivery system, wouldn't it be possible to hijack it and have it download something that removes it?
Unfortunately the virus writers already thought of that. The article didn't give details but I would guess that the downloaded payload is digitally signed and the virus code verifies the signature.
Telemarketer gains the information of the numbers they can't call, but doesn't gain the whole no-call list unless they had it already.
Telemarketer sends in a list of all possible telephone numbers. The numbers removed from the list are the DNC list. Telemarketer recovers his cost by selling the DNC list to others at a price somewhat less than it would cost them to do the same thing that he did.
Starting from scratch on a new layout made touch typing possible where it would be nearly impossible to avoid the temptation to hunt and peck when trying to get better at qwerty.
There's an answer to that particular problem. Das Keyboard! You can hunt all you want, but it won't help. You have to learn where the keys are.
... does is perform brute-force dictionary attacks of WPA and WPA2 passwords.
I tried using a non brute force dictionary attack on an encryption key once. I just tried every third word in the dictionary. It didn't seem to work as well as trying them all. In other words, there are brute force attacks and there are dictionary attacks, but there are no brute force dictionary attacks.
One of Wired's Tools 2K3 list entries was for a DNA Explorer Kit that was sold by the Discovery Channel. It included the equipment and materials for several DNA sequencing experiments. Equipment included a centrifuge and a gel electrophoresis chamber. You can still find these kits for sale on ebay.
The RIAA has taken to suing a lot of people who turned out to be innocent, on very flimsy evidence.
Citation needed please. Specifically I would be interested to know how many people the RIAA has sued, and of those people, how many have been found innocent in court. Anyone who has settled must be excluded from this count since their guilt or innocence has not been proven. Thanks.
Interesting iinterpretation, but it is contradicted by William Gibson's own blog post about Agrippa. In that post Gibson says:
Ashbaugh's design eventually included a supposedly self-devouring floppy-disk intended to display the text only once, then eat itself. Today, there seems to be some doubt as to whether any of these curious objects were ever actually constructed. I certainly don't have one myself.
From this I would have to conclude that Gibson wasn't involved in the whole "one chance" aspect of the work.
Can you imagine signing up for a "3 DVD's at a time" plan from Netflix and then when you actually check out 3 at a time they start bitching up a storm because "You're hoarding the DVD's!!! None of the other customers will be able to rent any of them!!!". Of course not.
Funny you should mention that as an analogy. In fact, there has been a lot of discussion in the past about DVD shipping delays and how they seem to happen to people who turn their rentals around overnight. Turn your rentals around too quickly, and suddenly they won't be "received" for four or five days. In effect, your DVD bandwidth gets throttled. To the best of my knowledge, no one has been able to prove that this is happening deliberately though. Maybe it's just coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Many game companies use DRM like SecureROM to halt the resale and rental of games,
The only problem is this violates the
doctrine of first sale. Once you have purchased a product, you are free to what you want with it, including reselling it. Unfortunately the current case law and decisions applying this doctrine to software are a real dog's breakfast. Some circuits have held that you never really bought the software, but licensed it based on the EULA. Others have said the opposite and concluded that you own the software, regardless of what the EULA says to the contrary.
This would be like Ford selling a car that wirelessly checks in every time you start it. If you ever sell the car to someone else, they update the database and will not allow it to start any more.
Unfortunately this answers the wrong question. It doesn't tell me about network performance, it tells me about bittorrent application network performance. Big difference.
If you have an iPod mini and don't mind seeing its guts, there is a nice DIY on the web for converting it to use flash memory rather than a hard drive. While you have it open pop in a new battery and you are good to go for quite a while. Battery life will be improved as well.
In a similar breakthrough, scientists discovered the perfect Slashdot post consists of twenty-five words and contains a slight jab at the validity of the article.
The perfect post also has to contain two speling errers and a grammatical error. And an unrelated car analogy, which the parent post does not.
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No one will be able to see it anyway, so what's the problem?
They say this like it's a positive recommendation or something. It's not.
If they were to do this, then I forsee one of two things happening:
They have plenty of coupons. They just don't have any money to back them up. I'm surprised they didn't keep issuing them anyway and send retailers an IOU.
Unfortunately the virus writers already thought of that. The article didn't give details but I would guess that the downloaded payload is digitally signed and the virus code verifies the signature.
Telemarketer sends in a list of all possible telephone numbers. The numbers removed from the list are the DNC list. Telemarketer recovers his cost by selling the DNC list to others at a price somewhat less than it would cost them to do the same thing that he did.
There's an answer to that particular problem. Das Keyboard! You can hunt all you want, but it won't help. You have to learn where the keys are.
I tried using a non brute force dictionary attack on an encryption key once. I just tried every third word in the dictionary. It didn't seem to work as well as trying them all. In other words, there are brute force attacks and there are dictionary attacks, but there are no brute force dictionary attacks.
Actually it isn't. At least not originally anyway, but it does work well in this case. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on its origins, etc.
I gotta tell you, I laughed for 15 minutes straight after reading this. Thank you.
As opposed to rugby, where the rules are blindingly obvious.
Here is an article in New Scientist about the new process. It explains it fairly well and even defines what a ZMW is.
One of Wired's Tools 2K3 list entries was for a DNA Explorer Kit that was sold by the Discovery Channel. It included the equipment and materials for several DNA sequencing experiments. Equipment included a centrifuge and a gel electrophoresis chamber. You can still find these kits for sale on ebay.
Citation needed please. Specifically I would be interested to know how many people the RIAA has sued, and of those people, how many have been found innocent in court. Anyone who has settled must be excluded from this count since their guilt or innocence has not been proven. Thanks.
Here he demonstrates those math skills he was talking about.
From this I would have to conclude that Gibson wasn't involved in the whole "one chance" aspect of the work.
I could have gone my whole life without you pointing that out. Excuse me while I go burn my eyes out.
The second being a subset of the first.
Funny you should mention that as an analogy. In fact, there has been a lot of discussion in the past about DVD shipping delays and how they seem to happen to people who turn their rentals around overnight. Turn your rentals around too quickly, and suddenly they won't be "received" for four or five days. In effect, your DVD bandwidth gets throttled. To the best of my knowledge, no one has been able to prove that this is happening deliberately though. Maybe it's just coincidence, if you believe in that sort of thing.
The only problem is this violates the doctrine of first sale. Once you have purchased a product, you are free to what you want with it, including reselling it. Unfortunately the current case law and decisions applying this doctrine to software are a real dog's breakfast. Some circuits have held that you never really bought the software, but licensed it based on the EULA. Others have said the opposite and concluded that you own the software, regardless of what the EULA says to the contrary.
This would be like Ford selling a car that wirelessly checks in every time you start it. If you ever sell the car to someone else, they update the database and will not allow it to start any more.
Unfortunately this answers the wrong question. It doesn't tell me about network performance, it tells me about bittorrent application network performance. Big difference.
That's because assault rifles are a lot more plentiful than food in Somalia.
Since the boxed sets are selling for $0.96 USD, they aren't going to recoup a whole lot of cash.
If you have an iPod mini and don't mind seeing its guts, there is a nice DIY on the web for converting it to use flash memory rather than a hard drive. While you have it open pop in a new battery and you are good to go for quite a while. Battery life will be improved as well.
The perfect post also has to contain two speling errers and a grammatical error. And an unrelated car analogy, which the parent post does not.