You could always leave the country... I'm actually amazed that Americans have gone so soft as to give up their freedoms so easily. If you didn't drop out of school you might recall that people died for those freedoms. Oh well. Glad it ain't my country.
Re:Not a problem (yet)
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SHA-1 Broken
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What you are describing is a pre-image attack. In a pre-image attack, if you know a given hash, you can create data that has the same hash. On the other hand, with a collision attack, you can create two messages that have the same hash value. Big difference.
It doesn't matter who wins, or even if the top player switches a lot. As long as the top dog has to worry about losing it's market share to someone else, we've got healthy competition.
Re:Low-gravity? do it upside down!
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Metal Velcro
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There is, of course, a cheap way of testing what effect, if any, gravity has on the process. Just repeat the whole process upside down. My guess, however, is that the G-force will have no noticeable effect.
1 - Create an OS with more holes than swiss cheese 2 - Deny vulnerabilities as long as possible 3 - Release Patches 4 - Blame Security Vulnerabilities on Patches 5 - ?? 6 - Profit!
The idea that free software be provided by or developed by national governments is one that makes me wary of what amount of control the government can excercise. He who pays the piper calls the tune -- and free software is much more than just adhering to a software license. Things like publicly available bug databases seem to be the first thing to disappear when large dollar figures become involved.
Much like the church is best off separated from the state, so the free software "movement", as a philosophy, cannot survive if institutionalized as a part of government. Free software organizations already get government and corporate grants, support and development through educational institutions, and widespread acceptance from the technical community, all without having a "Department of Public Software"
Why 42 volts? The first thing that comes up is how to convert it to 110V AC! Methinks the battery manufacturers are pushing for this mediocre solution in order to ensure that plenty of new batteries get on the market before replacing those yet again with a better standard. I tell ya, somewhere, there's warehouses full of soon to be obsolete batteries, and they're all going to waste.
Of course, in the unlikely event that exactly the opposite happens, and we experience a shortage of 12 V batteries, Just get in touch with me because I happen to have saved a few hundred of them from going to the junkyard and will be selling them at a modest profit.
What transparent commercialism you say... Indeed! Fight the establishment!
First of all, the appeal for candidates looks to be directed at developers who have experience in multiple operating systems, not at all a direct call to unix developers.
This is also not the first time that Microsoft has pursued technologies that are similar to unix.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
XENIX
<operating system> A commercial version of {Unix} for
{microprocessor}-based computers, released by {Microsoft} in
1980. In 1992, {SCO} became Microsoft's co-development partner
and the alternate source for the product.
(1999-12-07)
Generally, looks to be the right idea; watch out!
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Ok. I agree with educating the underpriviledged simply because through better education, the resources of this planet can be harnessed for the greater good, eliminating poverty and ridiculous infant mortality rates.
I even agree with skipping the industrial revolution, or at least speeding through it for the sake of protecting our environment.
If all of these underpriviledged starving people start living out full lives and competing in our job market, a lot of people are going to get _really_ freaked out. It'll be the perfect breeding grounds for terrorist acitivities. Budding intellectuals can coordinate covert ops on the lazy fat established classes in a high tech wargame which really just replaces the chaos that is neatly tucked away in starving countries.
So instead of seeing a shrivelled up, dying child, expect an empowered generation emerge from the third world. They just might show us a thing or two, and they'll definitely give us a run for our money.
OSS isn't necessarily a success yet. A lot of what I see is companies testing the waters, trying to understand this idea of giving away source code and selling a value added product or service. Many have fallen flat on their faces and lost a lot of investor dollars.
OSS may sell itself, but it won't sell businesses on the idea as long as there's a path of doom and destruction following hopeful upstarts who gleefully opensource all their work.
With OSS we know what we need to do. It's the how that gets you in the end.
Artists don't control the money, producers and the networks hold more sway. If you can't put a commercial break into a movie, you've got to make a shorter movie!
Slashdot Mirror
Longer than it will take for a dupe to show up
Why not just cook up a script that processes the rss feed and pumps the contents back to slashdot as new story submissions with a variable time delay?
So.. if you want to get your story submitted to slashdot, just pick one that's on the front page already?
You could always leave the country... I'm actually amazed that Americans have gone so soft as to give up their freedoms so easily. If you didn't drop out of school you might recall that people died for those freedoms. Oh well. Glad it ain't my country.
What you are describing is a pre-image attack. In a pre-image attack, if you know a given hash, you can create data that has the same hash. On the other hand, with a collision attack, you can create two messages that have the same hash value. Big difference.
Whenever the Americans stir up the terrorists, we wind up with fallout. In the case of North Korea, that'd be nuclear fallout.
Seriously, why would such a smart guy say such stupid things?
I dunno.. I might have missed it, but last I checked you had to run through whine.
Weird. This guy apparently metaphorically solved section 4. But he got an email from Jim saying "Dear John, this is not the way" Did he cheat? :)
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http://members.aol.com/scirealm/KryptosPart4.ht
So THAT's why new episodes are so hard to come by
It doesn't matter who wins, or even if the top player switches a lot. As long as the top dog has to worry about losing it's market share to someone else, we've got healthy competition.
There is, of course, a cheap way of testing what effect, if any, gravity has on the process. Just repeat the whole process upside down. My guess, however, is that the G-force will have no noticeable effect.
1 - Create an OS with more holes than swiss cheese
2 - Deny vulnerabilities as long as possible
3 - Release Patches
4 - Blame Security Vulnerabilities on Patches
5 - ??
6 - Profit!
peer to peer power sharing?
The idea that free software be provided by or developed by national governments is one that makes me wary of what amount of control the government can excercise. He who pays the piper calls the tune -- and free software is much more than just adhering to a software license. Things like publicly available bug databases seem to be the first thing to disappear when large dollar figures become involved.
Much like the church is best off separated from the state, so the free software "movement", as a philosophy, cannot survive if institutionalized as a part of government. Free software organizations already get government and corporate grants, support and development through educational institutions, and widespread acceptance from the technical community, all without having a "Department of Public Software"
It only makes sense if you read the article.
I bet I'd just shit my pants -- twice! And I'm not even built like that.
Why 42 volts? The first thing that comes up is how to convert it to 110V AC! Methinks the battery manufacturers are pushing for this mediocre solution in order to ensure that plenty of new batteries get on the market before replacing those yet again with a better standard. I tell ya, somewhere, there's warehouses full of soon to be obsolete batteries, and they're all going to waste.
Of course, in the unlikely event that exactly the opposite happens, and we experience a shortage of 12 V batteries, Just get in touch with me because I happen to have saved a few hundred of them from going to the junkyard and will be selling them at a modest profit.
What transparent commercialism you say... Indeed! Fight the establishment!
How long until this is available on gnutella?
Next we'll be cloning snowflakes! What's the world coming to?
First of all, the appeal for candidates looks to be directed at developers who have experience in multiple operating systems, not at all a direct call to unix developers.
This is also not the first time that Microsoft has pursued technologies that are similar to unix.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
XENIX
<operating system> A commercial version of {Unix} for
{microprocessor}-based computers, released by {Microsoft} in
1980. In 1992, {SCO} became Microsoft's co-development partner
and the alternate source for the product.
(1999-12-07)
Ok. I agree with educating the underpriviledged simply because through better education, the resources of this planet can be harnessed for the greater good, eliminating poverty and ridiculous infant mortality rates.
I even agree with skipping the industrial revolution, or at least speeding through it for the sake of protecting our environment.
If all of these underpriviledged starving people start living out full lives and competing in our job market, a lot of people are going to get _really_ freaked out. It'll be the perfect breeding grounds for terrorist acitivities. Budding intellectuals can coordinate covert ops on the lazy fat established classes in a high tech wargame which really just replaces the chaos that is neatly tucked away in starving countries.
So instead of seeing a shrivelled up, dying child, expect an empowered generation emerge from the third world. They just might show us a thing or two, and they'll definitely give us a run for our money.
Amazing. All that from a donated TRS-80.
OSS isn't necessarily a success yet. A lot of what I see is companies testing the waters, trying to understand this idea of giving away source code and selling a value added product or service. Many have fallen flat on their faces and lost a lot of investor dollars.
OSS may sell itself, but it won't sell businesses on the idea as long as there's a path of doom and destruction following hopeful upstarts who gleefully opensource all their work.
With OSS we know what we need to do. It's the how that gets you in the end.
Artists don't control the money, producers and the networks hold more sway. If you can't put a commercial break into a movie, you've got to make a shorter movie!
Kinda says it all, don't it?
Forget the personals, now stalkers and sex-deprived rejects alike can flip through pretty damned detailed records to find that special someone.