I've already seen a trojan hiding in a program. I was looking at this whizbang spreadsheet and it had an entire FLIGHT SIMULATOR built into it. Can you imagine that some hacker who had access to the source code can slip something like that into the code? Good thing it was harmless and didn't format my hard drive.
Yup, that open source is DANGEROUS.....er, wait a sec....me very sorry....the spreadsheet was Microsoft Excel....nevermind.
Hey! A real uu net person. It's nice to be able to ask you why uunet does not charge its customers for cleanup fees? I know you guys get hit with spammers a lot, and probably half the spam that I get comes from uunet. I think that charging $5000 for cleanup fees would make your life much easier. What do you think?
>(I rarely use a spell checker and rarely need >one), but as for writing... I can't handwrite >somethings at 70 words per minutes, but I can >type that fast, and usually do, at least when >I'm dashing of a quick note to someone
Take a look around, at the mountains and rivers, deserts, icecaps, trees, cows, horses, dogs, sunsets, jet contrails, everything.
In a few thousand years every last piece of the planet will be dissassembled by human beings for use as raw materials to support our outward expansion into the universe.
Earth has supported us well so far, and the species that evolved on the earth will outlive the planet.
Not to disrespect CA..... I am positive that this product is a wonderful tool and will ease the jobs of millions of administrators, but
WTF does it doo? I wish their technical people wrote that white paper. From the *Why is a framework needed* section: "Pervasively implemented frameworks promised to enable a consistent, dependable, integrated environment, with minimum overhead and maximum flexibility."
English is my first language, but I have trouble parsing that one.
A lot of the myths about Russian vacuum tubes came from the reports about the MIG-25 that was flown by defector Victor B****** in 1976 to Japan.
The main radar of the MIG-25 used vacum tubes because it was extremely powerful. Tubes excel when power is required. First, it's cheap to build a powerful tube and expensive to build a powerful transistor. Second, when tubes fail, they go *plink* and when transistors fail, they explode and could bring down the aircraft. Try connecting a cheap diode in forward bias to a 12 volt power supply. It'll explode like a firecracker. My uncle used to work at a TV transmitter run by CBS. He showed me the driver for the final RF stage to the broadcast antenna. It was a gigantic vacuum tube.
MIG-25's are interceptors and they need to locate their targets over the vast distances of the Russian north. They don't usually have AWACS support, and their targets don't usually have transponders (!). So, the MIG-25 radar is far larger than what you'll find in an F-15. A vacuum tube is the perfect choice for such an application.
A person with a flat affect is someone who shows little emotion on their face, or maybe they maintain all of their facial muscles with as little tension as possible, all the time.
The secret to using the words affect and effect is to use your dictionary and learn what the words mean. If you forget, look it up again.
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What fun is an electric car?
Can you say constant torque no matter what the speed?
That means that unlike your current car which might be 100 HP but spends most of it's time running at inconvenient RPM's so you're actually only getting 50 HP or less out of your engine, an electric car would deliver that 100 HP instantly, all the time, no matter if you were at at dead stop or doing 80 MPH.
Electric cars will rock, and it will be much easier to build a tire smoking beast that does 4 seconds 0-60.
Not necessarily more secure. The reason it is done is speed and nothing else. Use RSA to do the key exchange, but encrypt your data with DES, or Blowfish, or IDEA, or whatever. The symmetric ciphers run far faster than the public key ciphers.
If you were to send your entire message using 2048-bit RSA you would be more secure than a hybrid of 2048-bit RSA with a triple-DES for the actual message. But it would run a lot slower.
If you remember, this is what the big deal was about the Irish girl's (unproven) cipher last year. Supposedly it was really really fast compared to other public key ciphers.
Remember, if your encryption engine runs 16 times faster, like this one probably would, then to make a brute force search equally difficult to crack you would have to add a grand total of 4 bits to your encryption key.
Whoop-de-dooo.
ALWAYS REMEMBER that the faster that encryption engines run, the more secure things get. If it's no sweat to encrypt things with a 2048-bit key, then do it. The gap between processor speed required to encrypt and that required to brute force decrypt becomes ever wider and speeds increase, meaning more security overall.
The algorithm won't matter as long as it is based on a Feistel network. DES is a 16 round Feistel network, and from the article it appears that they have pipelined that network to gain a 16x speedup over a non-pipelined solution.
Blowfish is also 16 round Feistel network, and it is a faster algorithm than DES, so this hardware would be very very easy to convert to Blowfish, and it would probably run faster with that algorithm.
Sure, you couldn't switch on the fly, but a blowfish chip set is a no brainer.
This will be loved my marketers and advertizers, but will be ultimately little use to most people.
I'm in a relatively narrow intellectual niche for most of my day. I think about Linux, Godel, C++, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and little else for 80% of my time.
Most marketers hate me because I either see through the tricks, or I'm just plain uninterested.
I doubt that my fact finder will find facts that I am interested in, so I doubt that this will be useful to me.
I'm not sure why they specify a size of 52" screen size at 2 meters.
Why not just say 26 inches at 1 meter? I look at my screen from a distance of about 1/2 meter, so that makes the apparent size of the screen 13 inches. Right now I work on a 17 inch monitor, so the apparent screen size will be somewhat smaller than what I've already got. An 800x600 resolution is probably just about right for this device.
If I was the marketing guy, I would put it like this: This display produces an image that is exactly like looking at a huge billboard 13.2 light years across, orbiting the bright star Sirius!!!! I'd buy that for a dollar.
I'm a bigger Star Trek fan than you, and I was the one who thought up the line. The guy died. Was that a big surprise? Death is a part of life and therefore it is FAIR GAME for my sense of humor.
If you don't like my sense of humor, then don't laugh. If you try to stifle my sense of humor, then I'm liable to make a joke or something.
I hope that when I die people are making jokes and not crying and shit. Everyone should leave my funeral absolutely shit-faced-drunk. If I was alive at my own funeral and heard people making jokes about me, I would definitely laugh.
I've used the term "gearhead" to describe myself and my affinity for computers.
But, I like the term bithead a lot. Bithead, bytehead, diskhead, CPU-head, nethead, webhead, codehead, OOPhead, Javahead all could be possibilities. Maybe codehead would be good.
It would be nice to make a term that obviously applied to free software fans, but not to MS-Access drudgers.
I usually say that I'm a programmer, but I don't know COBOL. It's not perfect, but if I say that to COBOL-only programmers they understand what I am perfectly.:-)
I once had an extremely nasty exchange with a Demon administrator. I notified them that some of their customers had kiddie porn on their FTP server and they shouldn't have that sort of thing on their site.
It turns out that the people who had the kiddie porn were secretly mounting a volume on one of their FTP servers by exploiting a security bug on their server. The adminstrator got very angry with ME (starting a flame war between us) and said that he admired the ingenuity of the porn hackers. He didn't take action against them, and probably still allows kiddie porn suppliers to use Demon servers.
He claims that we in the United States are a little bit uptight about sex, and that I'm just a whiner with bad manners. Oh well, I guess that photos of children under 10 years old having all varieties of sex are perfectly normal in Britain.
Does anyone else find it odd that the extremely remote possiblity of finding life out there impacts a lot more people than encryption does? Granted, if we find life, it will definitely be true. But for day to day stuff, the encryption is both more relevant and more likely to impact people's lives.
Point one: Nazi Germany is just one country that bans firearms. I can point to dozens of other countries where they also have no firearms, and yet are free people.
Point two: Your general argument makes as much sense as a claim that speed limits are just the first step towards banning cars.
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I've already seen a trojan hiding in a program. I was looking at this whizbang spreadsheet and it had an entire FLIGHT SIMULATOR built into it. Can you imagine that some hacker who had access to the source code can slip something like that into the code? Good thing it was harmless and didn't format my hard drive.
Yup, that open source is DANGEROUS.....er, wait a sec....me very sorry....the spreadsheet was Microsoft Excel....nevermind.
Hey! A real uu net person. It's nice to be able to ask you why uunet does not charge its customers for cleanup fees? I know you guys get hit with spammers a lot, and probably half the spam that I get comes from uunet. I think that charging $5000 for cleanup fees would make your life much easier. What do you think?
>(I rarely use a spell checker and rarely need
>one), but as for writing... I can't handwrite
>somethings at 70 words per minutes, but I can
>type that fast, and usually do, at least when
>I'm dashing of a quick note to someone
Should be dash OFF a quick note...
Hee hee heee..
Take a look around, at the mountains and rivers, deserts, icecaps, trees, cows, horses, dogs, sunsets, jet contrails, everything.
In a few thousand years every last piece of the planet will be dissassembled by human beings for use as raw materials to support our outward expansion into the universe.
Earth has supported us well so far, and the species that evolved on the earth will outlive the planet.
Nothing you can do about it either.
Not to disrespect CA..... I am positive that this product is a wonderful tool and will ease the jobs of millions of administrators, but
WTF does it doo? I wish their technical people wrote that white paper. From the *Why is a framework needed* section: "Pervasively implemented frameworks promised to enable a consistent, dependable, integrated environment, with minimum overhead and maximum flexibility."
English is my first language, but I have trouble parsing that one.
A lot of the myths about Russian vacuum tubes came from the reports about the MIG-25 that was flown by defector Victor B****** in 1976 to Japan.
The main radar of the MIG-25 used vacum tubes because it was extremely powerful. Tubes excel when power is required. First, it's cheap to build a powerful tube and expensive to build a powerful transistor. Second, when tubes fail, they go *plink* and when transistors fail, they explode and could bring down the aircraft. Try connecting a cheap diode in forward bias to a 12 volt power supply. It'll explode like a firecracker. My uncle used to work at a TV transmitter run by CBS. He showed me the driver for the final RF stage to the broadcast antenna. It was a gigantic vacuum tube.
MIG-25's are interceptors and they need to locate their targets over the vast distances of the Russian north. They don't usually have AWACS support, and their targets don't usually have transponders (!). So, the MIG-25 radar is far larger than what you'll find in an F-15. A vacuum tube is the perfect choice for such an application.
Affect can be a noun.
A person with a flat affect is someone who shows little emotion on their face, or maybe they maintain all of their facial muscles with as little tension as possible, all the time.
The secret to using the words affect and effect is to use your dictionary and learn what the words mean. If you forget, look it up again.
What fun is an electric car?
Can you say constant torque no matter what the speed?
That means that unlike your current car which might be 100 HP but spends most of it's time running at inconvenient RPM's so you're actually only getting 50 HP or less out of your engine, an electric car would deliver that 100 HP instantly, all the time, no matter if you were at at dead stop or doing 80 MPH.
Electric cars will rock, and it will be much easier to build a tire smoking beast that does 4 seconds 0-60.
No shifting either.
I never said that it was possible. I'm just pointing out the absurdity of the claim that a fast encryptor will endanger security.
Fast encryption makes things more secure. Much much more secure.
Not necessarily more secure. The reason it is done is speed and nothing else. Use RSA to do the key exchange, but encrypt your data with DES, or Blowfish, or IDEA, or whatever. The symmetric ciphers run far faster than the public key ciphers.
If you were to send your entire message using 2048-bit RSA you would be more secure than a hybrid of 2048-bit RSA with a triple-DES for the actual message. But it would run a lot slower.
If you remember, this is what the big deal was about the Irish girl's (unproven) cipher last year. Supposedly it was really really fast compared to other public key ciphers.
Triple-DES would definitely be a contender.
Remember, if your encryption engine runs 16 times faster, like this one probably would, then to make a brute force search equally difficult to crack you would have to add a grand total of 4 bits to your encryption key.
Whoop-de-dooo.
ALWAYS REMEMBER that the faster that encryption engines run, the more secure things get. If it's no sweat to encrypt things with a 2048-bit key, then do it. The gap between processor speed required to encrypt and that required to brute force decrypt becomes ever wider and speeds increase, meaning more security overall.
The algorithm won't matter as long as it is based on a Feistel network. DES is a 16 round Feistel network, and from the article it appears that they have pipelined that network to gain a 16x speedup over a non-pipelined solution.
Blowfish is also 16 round Feistel network, and it is a faster algorithm than DES, so this hardware would be very very easy to convert to Blowfish, and it would probably run faster with that algorithm.
Sure, you couldn't switch on the fly, but a blowfish chip set is a no brainer.
Dude, the nipples go *soft* when orgasm arrives. They are hard before, and immediately after.
Check it out. You will see that I am right!
This will be loved my marketers and advertizers, but will be ultimately little use to most people.
I'm in a relatively narrow intellectual niche for most of my day. I think about Linux, Godel, C++, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and little else for 80% of my time.
Most marketers hate me because I either see through the tricks, or I'm just plain uninterested.
I doubt that my fact finder will find facts that I am interested in, so I doubt that this will be useful to me.
Maybe this will be just what that Free BIOS project needs as a kick start. Does anyone know about that project? Did it die?
I'm not sure why they specify a size of 52" screen size at 2 meters.
Why not just say 26 inches at 1 meter? I look at my screen from a distance of about 1/2 meter, so that makes the apparent size of the screen 13 inches. Right now I work on a 17 inch monitor, so the apparent screen size will be somewhat smaller than what I've already got. An 800x600 resolution is probably just about right for this device.
If I was the marketing guy, I would put it like this: This display produces an image that is exactly like looking at a huge billboard 13.2 light years across, orbiting the bright star Sirius!!!! I'd buy that for a dollar.
No, it wasn't humor. It was me telling you to lighten up a bit. Flamebait? Not really. Divisiveness? I didn't object first.
So sue me.
I'm a bigger Star Trek fan than you, and I was the one who thought up the line. The guy died. Was that a big surprise? Death is a part of life and therefore it is FAIR GAME for my sense of humor.
If you don't like my sense of humor, then don't laugh. If you try to stifle my sense of humor, then I'm liable to make a joke or something.
I hope that when I die people are making jokes and not crying and shit. Everyone should leave my funeral absolutely shit-faced-drunk. If I was alive at my own funeral and heard people making jokes about me, I would definitely laugh.
> At this rate, it would take Distributed Net over 10e20 years to break a 128 bit RC5 key.
>Recent calculations by astronomers say that the universe is about 10e12 years old.
Don't you mean that the universe is 12x10^9 years old?
I've used the term "gearhead" to describe myself and my affinity for computers.
But, I like the term bithead a lot. Bithead, bytehead, diskhead, CPU-head, nethead, webhead, codehead, OOPhead, Javahead all could be possibilities. Maybe codehead would be good.
It would be nice to make a term that obviously applied to free software fans, but not to MS-Access drudgers.
Linuxhead? GNU-head? Penguin head? Devil head? Daemon head? Tuxamaniac?
Just a little brainstorming here...
I usually say that I'm a programmer, but I don't know COBOL. It's not perfect, but if I say that to COBOL-only programmers they understand what I am perfectly. :-)
I once had an extremely nasty exchange with a Demon administrator. I notified them that some of their customers had kiddie porn on their FTP server and they shouldn't have that sort of thing on their site.
It turns out that the people who had the kiddie porn were secretly mounting a volume on one of their FTP servers by exploiting a security bug on their server. The adminstrator got very angry with ME (starting a flame war between us) and said that he admired the ingenuity of the porn hackers. He didn't take action against them, and probably still allows kiddie porn suppliers to use Demon servers.
He claims that we in the United States are a little bit uptight about sex, and that I'm just a whiner with bad manners. Oh well, I guess that photos of children under 10 years old having all varieties of sex are perfectly normal in Britain.
So, Demon is very irresponsible in my view.
>(Am I going to get moderator status taken away for this post? Are all the smarty-pantses going to revoke my privledges?)
You're not supposed to tell! According the moderator rules, if you're a moderator that should be a secret.
Does anyone else find it odd that the extremely remote possiblity of finding life out there impacts a lot more people than encryption does? Granted, if we find life, it will definitely be true. But for day to day stuff, the encryption is both more relevant and more likely to impact people's lives.
Point one: Nazi Germany is just one country that bans firearms. I can point to dozens of other countries where they also have no firearms, and yet are free people.
Point two: Your general argument makes as much sense as a claim that speed limits are just the first step towards banning cars.