You shouldn't count on the encryption method being a secret.. either the communication is secure or it's not; adding an insignificant hurdle to weed out less sophisticated attackers is pointless.
Defense in depth means multiple layers of in-theory-solid defenses, not multiple layers of broken defenses meant to annoy attackers
It sounds like a momentary pause. I use it very often to link ideas together that (informally) don't really merit separate sentences. Periods are better for those nice german-like strong sentence endings
Fleshing out full sentences requires much more thought and attention, but a bunch of short sentences reads patronizing or awkward
People don't change. The whole point of science fiction as a genre distinct from normal fiction is the changed setting. It doesn't have to be tech - it can be a cool environment - but if it's just about people then it's just fiction.
With Dune I think students would get stuck in all the mysticism and allegory. It settles comfortably into Uncanny Valley, being just real enough that the impossible elements serve to annoy instead of intrigue.
Maybe A Clockwork Orange had a relevant message about free will when it was written 50 years ago, but reading it in 2009 it's not very compelling. It's a great narrative and a great experiment in language, but it doesn't really have much to say about free will. All I'm saying is that there are better choices.
Salting wouldn't help at all in this situation.. First of all it's only useful when the attacker already has the hash he needs to crack. Salting ensures that the attacker has to crack every password instead of getting free duplicates. It doesn't "add security" beyond that, since the salt must be stored in plain text.
Apparently that was too complicated for you. Unlike a car, it doesn't run on gasoline, meaning that it can be powered with clean energy. Also, it's not dependent on fossil fuels so it can work even when oil becomes scarce - and it can delay that situation.
Because Windows 7's main competitors - Windows XP and Vista - run on 32 bit. And not even offering your product to half your customers is a great way to ensure half your customers don't buy it.
Linux doesn't "support" customers at all. Debian and Ubuntu have community support lifecycles, and you can buy support from Red Hat or Novell if you want.. but GNU/Linux is just some code, not a service.
Plus Microsoft isn't abandoning their customers. Windows 2000 extended support lasts through 2010 and XP extended support lasts through 2014. They just want to try to force OEMs to get with it and stop offering 32-bit processors.
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Or she accidentally clicked "poke". Obviously far-fetched, but going to jail for a single accidental mouse click is scary stuff.
Dumb questions all answered by real life restraining order laws.
He's being sarcastic.
I don't know what browser slashdot is trying to target but it's certainly not any that I use.
Yes, it is. It's called a single extra bit in the key.
You shouldn't count on the encryption method being a secret.. either the communication is secure or it's not; adding an insignificant hurdle to weed out less sophisticated attackers is pointless.
Defense in depth means multiple layers of in-theory-solid defenses, not multiple layers of broken defenses meant to annoy attackers
Don't forget about elinks (http://elinks.or.cz/)
It sounds like a momentary pause. I use it very often to link ideas together that (informally) don't really merit separate sentences. Periods are better for those nice german-like strong sentence endings
Fleshing out full sentences requires much more thought and attention, but a bunch of short sentences reads patronizing or awkward
Political correctness... Yeah, I can see that. I wouldn't expect high school students to pick up on it though.
Forgive us for writing conversationally instead of composing brilliantly-punctuated prose for your reading pleasure
People don't change. The whole point of science fiction as a genre distinct from normal fiction is the changed setting. It doesn't have to be tech - it can be a cool environment - but if it's just about people then it's just fiction.
With Dune I think students would get stuck in all the mysticism and allegory. It settles comfortably into Uncanny Valley, being just real enough that the impossible elements serve to annoy instead of intrigue.
Maybe A Clockwork Orange had a relevant message about free will when it was written 50 years ago, but reading it in 2009 it's not very compelling. It's a great narrative and a great experiment in language, but it doesn't really have much to say about free will. All I'm saying is that there are better choices.
And decidedly a good example of entertainment literature that doesn't belong in a lit class.
Am I the only one here who doesn't think a bunch of knights riding around saying Ni is funny?
Salting wouldn't help at all in this situation.. First of all it's only useful when the attacker already has the hash he needs to crack. Salting ensures that the attacker has to crack every password instead of getting free duplicates. It doesn't "add security" beyond that, since the salt must be stored in plain text.
What is the Slashdot crowd using these days for log monitoring?
My /var/log/auth.log might be filled with WARNING BRIAN YOUR DOG HAS BEEN COMPROMISED BY ENEMY AGENTS for all I know.
You can tell it's a slashvertisement when the URL is casually dropped four times in the title and summary
Right now, maybe. But why not offer better designs if they're available? And no they don't use more power.
Ugh, searching for current slashdot will give you slashdot pages about current
Whoever keeps naming things with these slightly-plausible analogies, please stop.
Except that's not true anywhere except the US
Apparently that was too complicated for you. Unlike a car, it doesn't run on gasoline, meaning that it can be powered with clean energy. Also, it's not dependent on fossil fuels so it can work even when oil becomes scarce - and it can delay that situation.
I don't think anyone's concerned with losing 4 bytes to pointers.
My laptop has a 2.16 GHz Core Duo (Yonah). It would run Windows 7 perfectly fine, but it's 32-bit. Why would Microsoft turn down that money?
Because Windows 7's main competitors - Windows XP and Vista - run on 32 bit. And not even offering your product to half your customers is a great way to ensure half your customers don't buy it.
Linux doesn't "support" customers at all. Debian and Ubuntu have community support lifecycles, and you can buy support from Red Hat or Novell if you want.. but GNU/Linux is just some code, not a service.
Plus Microsoft isn't abandoning their customers. Windows 2000 extended support lasts through 2010 and XP extended support lasts through 2014. They just want to try to force OEMs to get with it and stop offering 32-bit processors.