Who says they are *more* awful -- either one is ethically dubious. (Of course, warfare itself is ethically dubious, but I am enough of a realist to see that it must happen sometimes).
Well of course that is possible, but that was not what the GP was asking... he was asking if a system which says passwords are 'too similar', must it necessarily be storing a reversible (plaintext, obfuscated, or encrypted) password in the DB, or is it possible to do 'similar' checks with cryptographic hashes. But yes, you are correct in your pedantry, if you enter the old password and the new one, the system can compare them for similarity without needing a reversible password stored in the DB.
A cryptographic hash will discard any information about similarity... if not, then it is not a strong hash. I can't think of any other way to determine that, so I think it is safe to assume that the passwords are stored in plain text (or at best a reversible obfuscation / encryption). Also remember that all services which provide an 'email me my password' option store the password in a retrievable form in the DB.
Then you have dudes with rusty rifles hiding in mountains and engaging in sporadic fire fights with an overpowering foreign occupation force -- complete with heavy armor and utter air superiority -- that overrun their country. They too apparently are "terrorists", albeit of the "cowardly unlawful combatant" type (whatever nonsense that is supposed to mean).
This is the thing which annoys me - if a foreign power had invaded my country, trying to impose its beliefs on my family and friends, you could bet that I would be in the mountains with my rusty rifles, taking cheap shots at whichever enemy armed forces came my way.
I guess whoever it was who said that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" had it right. A terrorist is not defined by his actions, but rather by who he is acting against.
Well, part of the reason is the time scales involved. The records which came to be known collectively as 'the Bible' were written sometime within the last 6000 (give or take) years, according to internal chronology. Even give this an overly generous 10x margin of error, and say that it was within 60,000 years. You are still orders of magnitude away from anything dinosaur related.
Not sure what the passage you mention would be referring to, but I doubt that it is a dinosaur...
I have to agree with you here; I liked the movie quite a bit. The visuals and environment were great, the 3D experience was amazing, and even the plot wasn't bad - I've seen much worse! To me it felt like there was a lot which was left out; I think there was much more to the backstory than was explained in the movie. I'd be interested to read more about what Cameron had in mind, if that is available anywhere.
I had problems a few years back with VLC repeatedly and randomly crashing. I didn't look into the issue much at all, since I found that MPlayer worked fine, and I have been using that ever since. Don't know if it was a system config issue or hardware or something else, but that has definitely turned me off of using VLC afterwards.
Take that as you will, definitely not anything but an anecdotal experience, but VLC (at least a few years back) was definitely not perfect.
Well, Jesus ('hey-sus') is a popular name among Latin American populations... don't know of any culture (other than./) which would name their kid 'hypercube'...;-)
Second this. Using HL-2040 for the past almost-5-years now, works in OSX and Linux, quite inexpensive, and fast. No networking (USB based) is the only thing I would change about it.
I recently got rid of a LaserJet 4L, bought with my family's first 486 16 years ago. The reason I gave it away was that none of my machines had a parallel port any more; toner was still available, and the printer just worked. (Incidentally, the person I gave it to is still using it now).
The old HP printers were definitely built to last; I cannot comment on the new ones just because I have had to need to buy one!
Exactly - I was having latency issues with some drum kit software I wrote, and found the problem to be pulse audio. It was adding a couple hundred milliseconds to the latency; this is completely unacceptable. After removing pulse audio from the system, everything was much better.
I like the features of pulse audio, especially per-application volume control, but it is not worth 200 ms latency to get it.
I have to disagree that DIY is dying; if anything, people have more ideas because of watching other projects on the Internet. For instance, over the past couple of years I have been working on a DIY electronic drum set. I really doubt that I could have done this even 5 years ago; things like the Arduino (easily programmable microcontroller platform) reduce the learning curve and give you a place to start, electronics tutorials help with theory, and other similar projects provide inspiration. While the informational aspects were around previously, it was much harder to find (you need to go to a library and look through a bunch of books), and short of finding a robotics club nearby, finding inspiration was almost impossible.
As for electronic components being hard to find - you just haven't been looking! While I agree that finding a selection of resistors, diodes, and ICs at your local Radio Shack is not as likely as 20 years ago, places like Digikey allow me to browse much more than Radio Shack ever did, and will ship it to my home overnight, for much less than even the gas to drive to various small shops trying to find a given component. (Not to mention that the prices online are much cheaper...)
While I'm sure that most people don't bother with DIY, there is still a thriving community of DIYers both online and off.
Broadcasting your own position can break (either willfully or accidentally) too easily; while it would be great to do that as the primary way to tell where other cars are, there would have to be backup systems which rely on optical / radar / whatever sensors. Preferably there would be multiple redundant systems.
I do agree that computer controlled is the way to go for flying cars, though, but there is a lot more work which needs to be done in object detecting / avoidance first.
For once I would like to see a computer with just the OS and a disk of things that "could" be installed by the user. Let the machine run as fast and as efficiently as possible to begin with.
And that is why I just replaced my laptop OS with a Debian Testing Netinstall; only the software which I want is installed. 8-)
This is a cool idea for small amounts of data; however, the article submitter (and myself, for personal archival projects) need to store many GBs of data. Even if you get a number of large EEPROM chips, you are probably looking at tens of MBs (Digikey's largest parallel EEPROM chip is 1MB, and costs $30, so you can't get a whole bunch). Great for text documents, but it wouldn't come close to storing even a few digital pictures or audio, let alone video. If you are just looking to store text and a few pictures, go analog and print them.
Personally, I would go the analog route myself anyway in this scenario, possibly with some digital hardware *just in case* you can get it working.
I was playing SC successfully on Wine about 5 years ago, there was nothing special about getting it to work that I remember. I haven't played it for some time on Linux, but if I get a chance tonight I will try installing it again on my new machine (Debian Squeeze) and see what happens.
As for Warcraft III, I know for sure that works, almost perfectly. The 'almost' caveat is that I was not able to get the movies to play (it seemed to hang the wine process, so I deleted the Movies folder in the War3 install), but other than that it works beautifully. Since I really don't care about the movies after I finished the campaign the first time, this doesn't affect me at all (especially, as mentioned above, since I really only play LAN multiplayer these days anyway). I launch it using the --opengl flag on the War3.exe binary, but no other special settings.
On a slightly offtopic note, I find that Ubuntu tries to rush things a bit too much; while the things that *do* work, work very well, they tend to break things in the process. This is why I am now running Debian on all my Linux machines, Stable on the servers and Testing on the desktop / laptops. Perhaps the problem you were experiencing was a result of Ubuntu funkiness, rather than Wine itself? (Not that Debian Testing is perfect either, but I prefer a slow evolution of things breaking, rather than a bunch of things breaking every 6 months;-)
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Who says they are *more* awful -- either one is ethically dubious. (Of course, warfare itself is ethically dubious, but I am enough of a realist to see that it must happen sometimes).
RIM (Research In Motion) is the name of the company which makes Blackberries. It's like calling the iPhone the 'Apple phone'.
A lot of people who were buying them returned them because they weren't general purpose *enough* (ie weren't MS Windows).
Citation needed.
Well of course that is possible, but that was not what the GP was asking... he was asking if a system which says passwords are 'too similar', must it necessarily be storing a reversible (plaintext, obfuscated, or encrypted) password in the DB, or is it possible to do 'similar' checks with cryptographic hashes. But yes, you are correct in your pedantry, if you enter the old password and the new one, the system can compare them for similarity without needing a reversible password stored in the DB.
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A cryptographic hash will discard any information about similarity... if not, then it is not a strong hash. I can't think of any other way to determine that, so I think it is safe to assume that the passwords are stored in plain text (or at best a reversible obfuscation / encryption). Also remember that all services which provide an 'email me my password' option store the password in a retrievable form in the DB.
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Then you have dudes with rusty rifles hiding in mountains and engaging in sporadic fire fights with an overpowering foreign occupation force -- complete with heavy armor and utter air superiority -- that overrun their country. They too apparently are "terrorists", albeit of the "cowardly unlawful combatant" type (whatever nonsense that is supposed to mean).
This is the thing which annoys me - if a foreign power had invaded my country, trying to impose its beliefs on my family and friends, you could bet that I would be in the mountains with my rusty rifles, taking cheap shots at whichever enemy armed forces came my way.
I guess whoever it was who said that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" had it right. A terrorist is not defined by his actions, but rather by who he is acting against.
Sigh.
Well, part of the reason is the time scales involved. The records which came to be known collectively as 'the Bible' were written sometime within the last 6000 (give or take) years, according to internal chronology. Even give this an overly generous 10x margin of error, and say that it was within 60,000 years. You are still orders of magnitude away from anything dinosaur related.
Not sure what the passage you mention would be referring to, but I doubt that it is a dinosaur...
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I have to agree with you here; I liked the movie quite a bit. The visuals and environment were great, the 3D experience was amazing, and even the plot wasn't bad - I've seen much worse! To me it felt like there was a lot which was left out; I think there was much more to the backstory than was explained in the movie. I'd be interested to read more about what Cameron had in mind, if that is available anywhere.
Oh well, YMMV.
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I had problems a few years back with VLC repeatedly and randomly crashing. I didn't look into the issue much at all, since I found that MPlayer worked fine, and I have been using that ever since. Don't know if it was a system config issue or hardware or something else, but that has definitely turned me off of using VLC afterwards.
Take that as you will, definitely not anything but an anecdotal experience, but VLC (at least a few years back) was definitely not perfect.
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Well, Jesus ('hey-sus') is a popular name among Latin American populations... don't know of any culture (other than ./) which would name their kid 'hypercube'... ;-)
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They should really see a doctor about that... doesn't sound healthy!
I know this was a joke, but to be pedantic, there are more neutrons than protons in lead... 125 vs 82 respectively. ;-)
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The second smartest animals on earth would be both species of chimp.
(Emphasis added)
Well duh, that's because the dolphins have already left!
Unless you are from Alabama... ;-)
Don't you mean 'Ramen'?
Doh! Wish I would have thought of that earlier 8-(
Oh well, my new printer (Brother HL 2040) is very nice as well, and quite a bit faster than the HP.
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Second this. Using HL-2040 for the past almost-5-years now, works in OSX and Linux, quite inexpensive, and fast. No networking (USB based) is the only thing I would change about it.
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I recently got rid of a LaserJet 4L, bought with my family's first 486 16 years ago. The reason I gave it away was that none of my machines had a parallel port any more; toner was still available, and the printer just worked. (Incidentally, the person I gave it to is still using it now).
The old HP printers were definitely built to last; I cannot comment on the new ones just because I have had to need to buy one!
Cheers
Exactly - I was having latency issues with some drum kit software I wrote, and found the problem to be pulse audio. It was adding a couple hundred milliseconds to the latency; this is completely unacceptable. After removing pulse audio from the system, everything was much better.
I like the features of pulse audio, especially per-application volume control, but it is not worth 200 ms latency to get it.
Cheers
I have to disagree that DIY is dying; if anything, people have more ideas because of watching other projects on the Internet. For instance, over the past couple of years I have been working on a DIY electronic drum set. I really doubt that I could have done this even 5 years ago; things like the Arduino (easily programmable microcontroller platform) reduce the learning curve and give you a place to start, electronics tutorials help with theory, and other similar projects provide inspiration. While the informational aspects were around previously, it was much harder to find (you need to go to a library and look through a bunch of books), and short of finding a robotics club nearby, finding inspiration was almost impossible.
As for electronic components being hard to find - you just haven't been looking! While I agree that finding a selection of resistors, diodes, and ICs at your local Radio Shack is not as likely as 20 years ago, places like Digikey allow me to browse much more than Radio Shack ever did, and will ship it to my home overnight, for much less than even the gas to drive to various small shops trying to find a given component. (Not to mention that the prices online are much cheaper...)
While I'm sure that most people don't bother with DIY, there is still a thriving community of DIYers both online and off.
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Broadcasting your own position can break (either willfully or accidentally) too easily; while it would be great to do that as the primary way to tell where other cars are, there would have to be backup systems which rely on optical / radar / whatever sensors. Preferably there would be multiple redundant systems.
I do agree that computer controlled is the way to go for flying cars, though, but there is a lot more work which needs to be done in object detecting / avoidance first.
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And that is why I just replaced my laptop OS with a Debian Testing Netinstall; only the software which I want is installed. 8-)
Well, I got SC installed, and it worked just fine, without any workarounds needed, including videos. Running wine version 1.0.1 FWIW.
Hope this helps!
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This is a cool idea for small amounts of data; however, the article submitter (and myself, for personal archival projects) need to store many GBs of data. Even if you get a number of large EEPROM chips, you are probably looking at tens of MBs (Digikey's largest parallel EEPROM chip is 1MB, and costs $30, so you can't get a whole bunch). Great for text documents, but it wouldn't come close to storing even a few digital pictures or audio, let alone video. If you are just looking to store text and a few pictures, go analog and print them.
Personally, I would go the analog route myself anyway in this scenario, possibly with some digital hardware *just in case* you can get it working.
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Are you mostly talking about SC, WCIII, or both?
;-)
I was playing SC successfully on Wine about 5 years ago, there was nothing special about getting it to work that I remember. I haven't played it for some time on Linux, but if I get a chance tonight I will try installing it again on my new machine (Debian Squeeze) and see what happens.
As for Warcraft III, I know for sure that works, almost perfectly. The 'almost' caveat is that I was not able to get the movies to play (it seemed to hang the wine process, so I deleted the Movies folder in the War3 install), but other than that it works beautifully. Since I really don't care about the movies after I finished the campaign the first time, this doesn't affect me at all (especially, as mentioned above, since I really only play LAN multiplayer these days anyway). I launch it using the --opengl flag on the War3.exe binary, but no other special settings.
On a slightly offtopic note, I find that Ubuntu tries to rush things a bit too much; while the things that *do* work, work very well, they tend to break things in the process. This is why I am now running Debian on all my Linux machines, Stable on the servers and Testing on the desktop / laptops. Perhaps the problem you were experiencing was a result of Ubuntu funkiness, rather than Wine itself? (Not that Debian Testing is perfect either, but I prefer a slow evolution of things breaking, rather than a bunch of things breaking every 6 months
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