Ah, I didn't realise it was meant to rhyme as I read it in my British accent. I was thinking they should just call him Lee Zebra if they wanted to keep some semblance of the stupid Libre bit. I know it's meant to symbolise freedom, but it just sounds like a stupid name for a perfume.
The iPhone came out in 2007, actual Android phones in 2008. Before the iPhone there were no smartphones available with interfaces that were actually nice to use. Are you trying to say that Android interface wasn't inspired by the iPhone interface at all? If not then Apple completely ripped off Android's UI. It's one or the other, but Apple had a product out a year earlier and methinks they were once again the ones leading the way.
They were certainly the ones that pioneered capacitive touchscreens on phones, which is a large part of what actually makes them pleasant to use these days.
Well, they already are in certain markets, ie MP3 players and tablets. I don't think it's a problem if they're popular, but it would of course be a problem if they had a monopoly.
I already gave in to buying an iPod because it's the only device that works nicely with my car stereo. USB drives work too but it takes ages to read the filing system every time you switch the car on. On the upside, I now can use the wide array of toys designed to dock with iPods.. but I wish they could just use standard USB connections and have a standard interface for sending control commands, music, video etc so that any MP3 player would work with any device. Grrr. I'm wondering if there are any apps out there for Android that can simulate an iPod so that I can just use my phone with my car's stereo instead..
How has Apple got anything to do with Myspace? And RIM's products have always been shit. The difference with Apple here is that their products have relatively intuitive interfaces and are therefore easy for people to pick up. I wouldn't buy an iPhone or an iPad, but I am happy that iOS inspired stuff like Android, so that I finally have a smartphone that has a decent UI.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball.
Is this trying to imply that they're going to arrive later as the belle of the ball? Pfft.
As for the main point - anyone who follows tech news at all would have noticed that Apple is getting the most press. I fail to see how this meta-news is news.
Sorry, but if you think adding a few GPUs into the mix is going to make a difference, you don't have much idea about cracking encryption.
Unless you figure out a weakness in the algorithm, you are not brute forcing a 128 bit key without either a lot of luck, centuries of time, or a quantum computer.
Ah, but what about the dreaded massively distributed cracking brute force method for attacking something like 128 bit RC5 encryption? There are massive zombie farms of infected computers throughout the world and some may have gotten as big as 1 million infected computers. What if that entire army was unleashed upon the commonly used 128 bit RC5 encryption? Surprisingly, the answer is not much. For the sake of argument, let’s say we unleash 4.3 billion computers for the purpose of distributed cracking. This means that it would be 4.3 billion or 2 to the 32 times faster than a single computer. This means we could simply take 2 to the 128 combinations for 128-bit encryption and divide it by 2 to the 32 which means that 2 to the 96 bits are left. With 96 bits left, it’s still 4.3 billion times stronger than 64 bit encryption. 64 bit encryption happens to be the world record for the biggest RC5 bit key cracked in 2002 which took nearly 5 years to achieve for a massive distributed attack.
Now that we know that the distributed attacks will only shave off a few bits, what about Moore’s law which historically meant that computers roughly doubled in speed every 18 months? That means in 48 years we can shave another 32 bits off the encryption armor which means 5 trillion future computers might get lucky in 5 years to find the key for RC5 128-bit encryption. But with 256-bit AES encryption, that moves the date out another 192 years before computers are predicted to be fast enough to even attempt a massively distributed attack. To give you an idea how big 256 bits is, it’s roughly equal to the number of atoms in the universe!
I am not a CUDA developer, but I'm pretty sure that yes it only works on nVidia GPUs, but no you don't need to install the CUDA SDK to be able to run CUDA apps, all you need is the hardware. So it would be a pretty big target really.
I know that malware authors would think of doing this eventually, but I still think that giving them ideas like this is Bad. Just look at what happened with Twitter this week - someone releases a harmless proof of concept type attack, and now already the script kiddies are coming out with more malicious versions. Not that I even care as I don't use Twitter, but it's a good example of how these guys are often too dumb to invent new types of attack without help.
That so? I thought owning a modern OS wouldn't give you the hardware access you had in the ol' days of DOS, not by a long shot. Just freely drawing around the screen doesn't work.
Yeah I hate these modern OSes where all the apps, games, screensavers, desktop buddies etc can't just freely output to the screen.. it makes Photoshop and CAD really difficult to use:s
Again I'll point out we don't have 'baggers' here, it's strange concept to me. If we had baggers then a normal checkout might be faster, but for the small shoppings runs that I do, the self checkout is easier to bag stuff at, and barcode scanning has never been an issue.
There are two scanners perpendicular to each other; even if I don't guess the correct side for the barcode, a 180 flip on the item will do it, then just drop it in the bag, no fiddling around holding the bag in one hand like in a conventional checkout area.
For larger shopping runs, conventional checkout is still more practical of course.
Yeah I know he was pretty lucky, and about the construction worker, etc, I studied a couple of years of Pyschology. Was just pointing out that it's not a certain death scenario, like heavy exposure to radioactivity for example.
If you read the link in the comment that you're replying to, you'd see that the guy took "500 times the presumed lethal dose" of particle spunk to the face/brain, and survived with nothing more than all the nerves in the left side of his face dying. Even completed his PhD.
Sure, I don't like being wrong, and I am pretty ignorant when it comes to supercomputers, so I probably have some wrong ideas about them.
You seemed to think that I don't think we should make bigger supercomputers or that they won't be useful, and that is something I have never said, which is why I didn't want to admit I was wrong. I was wrong about stuff like bigger supercomputers being used for faster computation rather than more fine grained models (though for certain things, more CPUs obviously would make for a faster computation).
My main point and disgust was at the phrase "China is going to eat our lunch". Competition is often a nice thing for driving innovation of course, even unfriendly competition - but I just really took umbrage at that phrase. When I do try to improve physical or mental skills, I do it for the sake of improving and pushing myself, rather than because I want to be someone else. Hopefully you at least understand my point there, even if you don't agree with it.
Well, for me the utility is not all about cost. Again it's similar to the CDs vs MP3 scenario. I'd pay more for an MP3 player because it can hold all my music in a very compact, yet accessible, way - likewise eventually I'll be doing the same with all my books, movies and games:)
I'd admit I was wrong if there was anything to be wrong abot, but my comments have only been questionig why the reative size of supercomputers is an issue, I didn't suggest anywhere that they were not useful. My only complaint has been about the attitude of "we must have this simply to be better than China" rather than purely in a spirit of progress. If you read all my comments without your assumptions, you will see that. Thanks for clarifying on the nukes thing.
Depends what you mean by won't last long. I'm waiting for an eBook reader that I think I'd want to keep for a long time, say 5-10 years before the next upgrade.
The important thing though is that the content be accessible on any device for the remainder of my lifespan. It is very unlikely that I will ever have a time in my life where I won't own a laptop, tablet, phone, eBook reader or some other as yet uninvented device that I can use to read eBooks. Having been in computing since the 70s I would have thought your situation similar.
To clarify: I already pointed out how Amazon are multi-platform and multi-device, and if it did arise that I had to get a whole new format to suit some other device, I would have no ethical qualms about re-downloading the book illegally, or using a converter program to change the format.
If you've been involved in computing since the 70s then you should have noticed that things can and do change, and in the realm of digital media things generally have slowly been getting better and more open over time - however much the publishers try to screw people over.
I left the rest out for the sake of brevity, but one of those in particular just strikes me as pretty silly. We already have stupidly powerful nukes that hopefully we'd never use anyway, so why concentrate on that? Are they concentrating on how to use them without fallout, or what?
The rest are all quite noble goals, but I'd rather that the government/whoever invent faster supercomputers to further those goals, rather than just trying to show they have a bigger virtual cock than China. It's pathetic.
Yeah I noticed Amazon was advertising Stephen Fry's latest autobiography for Kindle, I previewed it and in the introduction noticed it's a sequel.. and the first section wasn't available as an eBook, which is quite annoying considering I'd rather read them in order.
I've bought a couple of second hand books recently too, I have no problem with that, though presumably it will be very illegal to resell eBooks. I have no problems if you want to share your eBooks either, it's up to you;) I've never tried audio books but that might be an interesting way to share eBooks.. could be kind of like watching a movie together.
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Bravo on reading past the first 10 words of his post.
Ah, I didn't realise it was meant to rhyme as I read it in my British accent. I was thinking they should just call him Lee Zebra if they wanted to keep some semblance of the stupid Libre bit. I know it's meant to symbolise freedom, but it just sounds like a stupid name for a perfume.
I'm just saying OO already had a mountain to climb without its supporters attaching heavy weights to its backpack. Or, erm, something.
This is Slashdot! It's "OO already had a mountain to climb without attaching a trailer to their truck".
The iPhone came out in 2007, actual Android phones in 2008. Before the iPhone there were no smartphones available with interfaces that were actually nice to use. Are you trying to say that Android interface wasn't inspired by the iPhone interface at all? If not then Apple completely ripped off Android's UI. It's one or the other, but Apple had a product out a year earlier and methinks they were once again the ones leading the way.
They were certainly the ones that pioneered capacitive touchscreens on phones, which is a large part of what actually makes them pleasant to use these days.
Well, they already are in certain markets, ie MP3 players and tablets. I don't think it's a problem if they're popular, but it would of course be a problem if they had a monopoly.
I already gave in to buying an iPod because it's the only device that works nicely with my car stereo. USB drives work too but it takes ages to read the filing system every time you switch the car on. On the upside, I now can use the wide array of toys designed to dock with iPods.. but I wish they could just use standard USB connections and have a standard interface for sending control commands, music, video etc so that any MP3 player would work with any device. Grrr. I'm wondering if there are any apps out there for Android that can simulate an iPod so that I can just use my phone with my car's stereo instead..
How has Apple got anything to do with Myspace? And RIM's products have always been shit. The difference with Apple here is that their products have relatively intuitive interfaces and are therefore easy for people to pick up. I wouldn't buy an iPhone or an iPad, but I am happy that iOS inspired stuff like Android, so that I finally have a smartphone that has a decent UI.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball.
Is this trying to imply that they're going to arrive later as the belle of the ball? Pfft.
As for the main point - anyone who follows tech news at all would have noticed that Apple is getting the most press. I fail to see how this meta-news is news.
Sorry, but if you think adding a few GPUs into the mix is going to make a difference, you don't have much idea about cracking encryption.
Unless you figure out a weakness in the algorithm, you are not brute forcing a 128 bit key without either a lot of luck, centuries of time, or a quantum computer.
Here's a quote from an article about encryption.
Ah, but what about the dreaded massively distributed cracking brute force method for attacking something like 128 bit RC5 encryption? There are massive zombie farms of infected computers throughout the world and some may have gotten as big as 1 million infected computers. What if that entire army was unleashed upon the commonly used 128 bit RC5 encryption? Surprisingly, the answer is not much. For the sake of argument, let’s say we unleash 4.3 billion computers for the purpose of distributed cracking. This means that it would be 4.3 billion or 2 to the 32 times faster than a single computer. This means we could simply take 2 to the 128 combinations for 128-bit encryption and divide it by 2 to the 32 which means that 2 to the 96 bits are left. With 96 bits left, it’s still 4.3 billion times stronger than 64 bit encryption. 64 bit encryption happens to be the world record for the biggest RC5 bit key cracked in 2002 which took nearly 5 years to achieve for a massive distributed attack.
Now that we know that the distributed attacks will only shave off a few bits, what about Moore’s law which historically meant that computers roughly doubled in speed every 18 months? That means in 48 years we can shave another 32 bits off the encryption armor which means 5 trillion future computers might get lucky in 5 years to find the key for RC5 128-bit encryption. But with 256-bit AES encryption, that moves the date out another 192 years before computers are predicted to be fast enough to even attempt a massively distributed attack. To give you an idea how big 256 bits is, it’s roughly equal to the number of atoms in the universe!
I am not a CUDA developer, but I'm pretty sure that yes it only works on nVidia GPUs, but no you don't need to install the CUDA SDK to be able to run CUDA apps, all you need is the hardware. So it would be a pretty big target really.
I know that malware authors would think of doing this eventually, but I still think that giving them ideas like this is Bad. Just look at what happened with Twitter this week - someone releases a harmless proof of concept type attack, and now already the script kiddies are coming out with more malicious versions. Not that I even care as I don't use Twitter, but it's a good example of how these guys are often too dumb to invent new types of attack without help.
That so? I thought owning a modern OS wouldn't give you the hardware access you had in the ol' days of DOS, not by a long shot. Just freely drawing around the screen doesn't work.
Yeah I hate these modern OSes where all the apps, games, screensavers, desktop buddies etc can't just freely output to the screen.. it makes Photoshop and CAD really difficult to use :s
Again I'll point out we don't have 'baggers' here, it's strange concept to me. If we had baggers then a normal checkout might be faster, but for the small shoppings runs that I do, the self checkout is easier to bag stuff at, and barcode scanning has never been an issue.
There are two scanners perpendicular to each other; even if I don't guess the correct side for the barcode, a 180 flip on the item will do it, then just drop it in the bag, no fiddling around holding the bag in one hand like in a conventional checkout area.
For larger shopping runs, conventional checkout is still more practical of course.
Yeah I know he was pretty lucky, and about the construction worker, etc, I studied a couple of years of Pyschology. Was just pointing out that it's not a certain death scenario, like heavy exposure to radioactivity for example.
Huh? Says speed of light.. maybe someone corrected it after seeing your comment.
If you read the link in the comment that you're replying to, you'd see that the guy took "500 times the presumed lethal dose" of particle spunk to the face/brain, and survived with nothing more than all the nerves in the left side of his face dying. Even completed his PhD.
A third hand? Sweet!
Our machines don't do that, it sounds incredibly annoying. Ours only talk if you take ages to bag or scan an item.
Sure, I don't like being wrong, and I am pretty ignorant when it comes to supercomputers, so I probably have some wrong ideas about them.
You seemed to think that I don't think we should make bigger supercomputers or that they won't be useful, and that is something I have never said, which is why I didn't want to admit I was wrong. I was wrong about stuff like bigger supercomputers being used for faster computation rather than more fine grained models (though for certain things, more CPUs obviously would make for a faster computation).
My main point and disgust was at the phrase "China is going to eat our lunch". Competition is often a nice thing for driving innovation of course, even unfriendly competition - but I just really took umbrage at that phrase. When I do try to improve physical or mental skills, I do it for the sake of improving and pushing myself, rather than because I want to be someone else. Hopefully you at least understand my point there, even if you don't agree with it.
Well, for me the utility is not all about cost. Again it's similar to the CDs vs MP3 scenario. I'd pay more for an MP3 player because it can hold all my music in a very compact, yet accessible, way - likewise eventually I'll be doing the same with all my books, movies and games :)
I'd admit I was wrong if there was anything to be wrong abot, but my comments have only been questionig why the reative size of supercomputers is an issue, I didn't suggest anywhere that they were not useful. My only complaint has been about the attitude of "we must have this simply to be better than China" rather than purely in a spirit of progress. If you read all my comments without your assumptions, you will see that. Thanks for clarifying on the nukes thing.
Depends what you mean by won't last long. I'm waiting for an eBook reader that I think I'd want to keep for a long time, say 5-10 years before the next upgrade.
The important thing though is that the content be accessible on any device for the remainder of my lifespan. It is very unlikely that I will ever have a time in my life where I won't own a laptop, tablet, phone, eBook reader or some other as yet uninvented device that I can use to read eBooks. Having been in computing since the 70s I would have thought your situation similar.
To clarify: I already pointed out how Amazon are multi-platform and multi-device, and if it did arise that I had to get a whole new format to suit some other device, I would have no ethical qualms about re-downloading the book illegally, or using a converter program to change the format.
If you've been involved in computing since the 70s then you should have noticed that things can and do change, and in the realm of digital media things generally have slowly been getting better and more open over time - however much the publishers try to screw people over.
New to what? Pointing out when people are wrong about something?
I am happy, thankyou :p It is a rather interesting condition. Reminds me of one of my girlfriends to a certain extent. Hah.
I left the rest out for the sake of brevity, but one of those in particular just strikes me as pretty silly. We already have stupidly powerful nukes that hopefully we'd never use anyway, so why concentrate on that? Are they concentrating on how to use them without fallout, or what?
The rest are all quite noble goals, but I'd rather that the government/whoever invent faster supercomputers to further those goals, rather than just trying to show they have a bigger virtual cock than China. It's pathetic.
Yeah I noticed Amazon was advertising Stephen Fry's latest autobiography for Kindle, I previewed it and in the introduction noticed it's a sequel.. and the first section wasn't available as an eBook, which is quite annoying considering I'd rather read them in order.
I've bought a couple of second hand books recently too, I have no problem with that, though presumably it will be very illegal to resell eBooks. I have no problems if you want to share your eBooks either, it's up to you ;) I've never tried audio books but that might be an interesting way to share eBooks.. could be kind of like watching a movie together.