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  1. Bruteforce with hints - Re:No surprise there on After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code · · Score: 1

    Actually, Having a real message (i.e. pass spellcheck) is quite easy to detect. It's getting there that's the hard part. It can take some time (time we have). Finding the one time pad key (where the key is as long as the message) is to use enough known messages to force a collision. Known plain text comparisons (like known plain text of similar pigeon messages). The governments might already have the exact message decoded by other means. Generate one time pads for the entire known text and see if you get a hit. Use statistical methods to create agents to process certain targets of known plaintext pairs. Having a message header or sign off pattern would be a great place to start!

  2. Smalltalk FTW on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    Smalltalk has a built in IDE. Check out http://www.pharo-project.org/home

  3. Re:What is it again? on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Ah, but this is one port to rule them all.

    Wireless thunderbolt, except for power xfer, why not use software defined radio to support *all* standards AND have a wideband "thunderbolt io" compatible mode as well. One wireless standard to rule them all...

  4. Re:I hope this doesn't catch on. on Google Open Sources Wave Protocol Implementation · · Score: 1

    Also, destroying the competitive advantage of Exchange and Lotus Notes will have certain long-term strategic benefits.

    True! But I can't wait to get waves + notes apps working together... I'm still curious about how waves resolve conflicting offline edits outside of the wave with just XML... hrm...

    Lotus Notes can probably interact with the wave much more easily than Exchange's collection of apps (sharepoint - yuk). Notes 8 is built on Eclipse, so all you really need is someone to wire up the right kind of plug-in or extension and you should be able to interact with all those great Notes apps directly with the wave. That's the great equalizer of waves, a 'robot' can interact automatically to 'do the right thing' to get two very disparate systems to seem to work together. Watch the video to see how a the view can interact directly with Blog post replies...

  5. Re:BAD summary on IBM Claims Breakthrough In Analysis of Encrypted Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, imagine being able to add two numbers together without knowing what those two numbers were and returning the total that you STILL don't know what the number is, but you have the cyphertext for it. You still need the key to decrypt the total.

    Example in plaintext:

    4 + 5 = 9

    Example encypted (oversimplified):

    D32JFS3 + 234DSF31 = 42SDF23

    So the third party would receive D32JFS3 and 234DSF31 (not knowing they meant 4 and 5) and he would return 42SDF23 (not knowing it was 9)

    The ablility to add two peices of cyphertext to get some (still unknonw) peice of cyphertext does not increase the "breakability" of the encryption because, just like the rosetta stone, you really need pairs of plaintext and cyphertext to do any real analysis. There may be some NEW attack methods on lattice based encryption techniques, but they are not yet widely known.

  6. Re:Am I safe? on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    Details of how to use dig to test this DNS vunerability are at DNS-OARC.NET (the source of the test)

  7. Re:Switch DNS Servers, NOT ISPs on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    To remove the bad behavior:
    First register with OpenDNS, create a network, go to advanced settings, and disable the proxy/shortcuts/typo correction settings.

    They verify your network based on the who-is lookup. (so that info has to be explained or the same)

  8. Accessability Guidelines for Developers on A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons? · · Score: 1

    IBM has a great checklist for Accessability of different UI implementations (web, app, lotus notes).

    http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/software/accesssoftware.html

    Understanding Accessibility

    If you are new to accessibility, review "Understanding accessibility" before completing the checklist or contacting the Human Ability and Accessibility Center for help.
    IBM software accessibility checklist

    Use this checklist for:

            * general software products and applications that have a user interface
            * software tools, this applies to both the user interface as well as the output of the tool
            * Java 1.1.x applications that use standard AWT components and are designed to run only on Windows platforms
            * software used by system administrators to control and monitor servers or other remote equipment
            * Eclipse applications written with Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) controls. Note: SWT controls do not use the Java Access Bridge.
            * software with a command line interface

    Last updated May 28, 2003. Techniques pages, accessed via the link in each checkpoint, may contain more recent updates. Be sure to review the techniques pages for the latest accessibility guidance.

  9. Re:lolwut on Ron Paul Campaign Answers Slashdot Reader Questions · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Net Savings: $0 on White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online · · Score: 1

    I've thought that a hyper linked visual budget that lets you follow links from budget items to the specific laws that authorized them would be a great tool for citizen oversight to see and cut pork out of bills. This tool could also be used in reverse to see the impact of specific statements in the law. Even better, I'd like to see what representative or group authored each line. Then you could hold them accountable for explaining it to their constituents.

    Maybe I should suggest it to OpenCongress.Org. A digital budget is a great first step though...

  11. Re:I too was (almost) a victim on Consumer Strikes Back at Crooked Online Retailer · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the beer reference.

    Guiness runs a series of television advertizements where the characters yell "Brilliant" in such a way that every time the word is used you think of Guiness (at least, that's how it works for me). Looks like your Tivo is working well...

  12. Re:~ 320K accounts on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    I concur 100%... Lotus Domino scales well (can easily run in a cluster to 1Mil users), runs on linux! Security has been #1 since the beginning (thank you IBM) and has Pop3, IMAPv4, Webmail support out-of-the box... There are great templates at OpenNTF.org... Plus there are hundreads of professional consultants to help you do it.

  13. Re:Nice ad placement. on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1
    All self respecting nerds are already using the ad-blocker firefox extension... Besides, targeted google text ads are what we've been wanting all along - right!

    (WE KNOW YOU WANT TO! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - DO IT NOW!)

  14. Re:Prediction for next generation file sharing on Former AOLers Bet on Private P2P App · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree who-heartedly that "in the future" we'll all be contributing and consuming little bits of "the net". Every site we visit, every message we read, every song we hear, every video clip, every program really, will be held in the "ether" as it is being trasmitted from someone who has it to someone who wants it. All you have to do is "tune" to that channel of bits and you'll be simultaniously helping others get access to it AND getting it for yourself. This assumes that "ALL" devices will have some memory and can participate in the grid of flowing bits we now call the Internet.

  15. Re:Why not pass it through project Gutenburg? on Bringing the Library of Congress Newspapers Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Technically, it's us folks at Distributed Proofreaders that do the dirty work of fixing OCR problems.
    I've done over a thousand pages since it's started... It's gotten really easy for me to pump out pages, and I've been turned on to alot of different information that I'd normally not expose myself too... It's quite enriching -- so you should try it if you got time! ;-)

  16. Re:Hmmm.... on Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to XSS Exploit · · Score: 1

    > Free flat Screen HERE!

    SPAM in slashdot posts are rude.

  17. Re:Cost? on WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless · · Score: 1

    Considering there isn't ANY commercial product available for this standard (YET), I'd say No.

  18. Re:Love it on Rio Karma User Review · · Score: 2, Informative

    > No random per band or per album.

    Did you try having the shuffle on and select a band (artist)? Or album? I'm pretty sure that does what you want.

  19. Re:I wonder... X-Cup on SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize · · Score: 1

    In 2 years, the X-Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico will let teams compete for a number of prizes. YES!

  20. Do Wavefront... I love it! on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend LASIK, be sure to get "wavefront"... I used to wear my soft lenses for months at a time - clearly, unhealthy. I hated wearing glasses, so I opted for LASIK when I got a chance. I have had wonderful results. My nite vision is better (no halos) and I can see clearly and don't have any problems focusing. It is really refreshing to just wake up and see, without needing to mess with my eyes. Oh, and I love opening my eyes underwater. And no problems in the rain (if your used to glasses).

    My best friend didn't have any problems when he was in Taekwan-do and was repeatedly kicked in the face. That says something about durability.

    On the other hand, I fully expect to loose my sight again in 20 or so years, but I'd likely opt to get it again - if possible.

  21. Re:DEV KITS! :) ARE OUT on Sony, IBM Announce Cell Workstation For PS3 Dev · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are some 'beta' XBOX2 dev kits already in developers hands... running on dual G5s...

    XBOX has development tools (DIRECT X) already... And isn't dot-net easily cross-compiled?

  22. Craigslist is doing this now! on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It sounds like frimp.net is trying to do what Craigslist is doing... Regional FREE classifieds for just about anything... They charge for job want ads, but it is a great alternative for online paid classifieds and auctions...

  23. Shuffling Coincidences (Number Theory) on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Something strange happens when shuffling music.

    It is easy to shuffle a massive amount of music and get shocking coincidences that will make you question the shuffling algorithm (Why does it play clusters of artists or albums? ). Statistically, it's the principle of equal a priori probabilities, so that there is an equal chance of a shuffle to create the exact same order that it started with.

    Also, we humans are just too good at creating patterns where they don't exist. Combine our pattern matching skills with the Law of Truly Large Numbers, and we get an explaination for our common experience of listening to a random shuffle of music, "It's not random".

    IMO, the best implementation of shuffling is done on my Empeg (Rio Car MP3 Player).

    The 'real' solution for listening to music is to have different suffle modes and fancy heriarchical playlists... well um, read the FAQ!!!


    Jeff Sylvester, in a discussion on the Unofficial Empeg BBS, wrote a program to graph this very phenomenon. With this program, you can clearly see how a truly random distribution will produce exactly these kinds of perceived "patterns".
  24. Re:My thought process on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    ROTFL! ditto. exactly!

  25. Re:Arcade Dead? NOT!!!! on Sega Merges With Pachinko Company Sammy · · Score: 1

    I agree. Last time I went to Japan I spent more than half of my spending (for food) in the Arcades. Of course, you can smoke in them and they have a hip-hop nightclub feeling (dancing to Dance Dance Revolution Version 47#$% - which is quite entertaining to watch by the way)... I need to go back...

    Anyway, those types of Arcades would NEVER make it in the current US (except Dave & Busters)...