executive staff had to take it on as a priority, middle management had to budget and schedule the work, software and hardware engineers had to actually implement it, and QA engineers had to create and run a series of tests to make sure it "worked" -- anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people who moved the thing along.
Back in 2003 (when I stopped watching television) a typical 60 minutes of television contained 21 minutes of advertisement and 39 minutes of program. I thought, "Why the hell am I actually paying for this mess."
I can only imagine that it has gotten worse. Anyone have some numbers?
Personally, I'm skeptical about the idea of malware that secretly downloads and hides kiddie porn--why would the malware developer do that?
Malware developer is not necessarily the malware user
Malware developer/user would rather store his incriminating files on someone else's computer (possibly many other computers for added redundancy/security) rather than storing the files on his own computer.
Malware user makes money from fake clickthroughs to porn sites from the victim's computer.
Malware user just wants to cause trouble for some random person for no real reason. Think "A Clockwork Orange".
There needs to be some way to send something to someone without sending it to the world. I don't care what that technique is, just tell me what it is. Some way for me to send my recording to you, without giving you the right to profit from it, or to publicize it.
If you had such a technical solution, you could become a multi-billionaire overnight (or killed, perhaps).
But such a technical solution doesn't exist. In any case there must be a strict trust relationship from both sides for it to work. Either that, or rabid lawyers threatening each other into submission.
Otherwise, without such a technique, the world becomes a very different place.
Different, how? It is the world we live in, now. In this world, DRM is inherently a failure, and you can't tell people how to use the CDs you mail them. That's the way it must be.
Getting a smaller file out of that is more improbable than being attacked by a shark while being struck by lightning while you're holding a winning lottery ticket.
Yeah, SeaMonkey is the epitome of "lean and mean".
I know you were going for Funny, but $ du -m --max-depth=0 firefox seamonkey
25 firefox
33 seamonkey
I don't call either one "lean and mean" in any case. But an additional 8M is a small price to pay to avoid the odd design problems in Firefox.
I feel Firefox has drifted too far from the philosophy that existed around its creation: a small and fast web browser with support for extensions, so the user can add the features they want.
That's the way it has been for a long time.
That's why I install SeaMonkey instead and tick the "Browser Only" box during installation.
Stick to software, bub. You think it's cheap to build machines to etch the latest CPUs that your convoluted software will bring to its knees?
...because they're doing this just so you can run your convoluted desktop software. </sarcasm>
There are entire classes of problems that are intractably hard, even with the best known algorithms implemented very efficiently, optimized over years of study. Unless you have a solution to solve NP problems in P time, you will have to put up with advancements in CPU technology for the foreseeable future.
But you don't have to check them all. You can start at the root of the number and go down, skipping even numbers and then some.
Square root of 2^1024: 2^512
Number of primes below 2^512: ~2^503.5 (x/ln(x))
There isn't an easy trick to this unless the person's selection of P and Q is weak. For example picking a P where P-1 has only small factors (then Pollard's factoring method would easily find it).
Now all we need to do is figure out how to turn stupidity into energy. No more coal, oil, or nuclear fission. The future will run on Stupid Energy(tm), the cleanest, cheapest, most reliable energy source known to man. It is completely renewable, too!
15 million CPU years per key? And the attacker can just make up new keys as often as he likes. He could even make a different key for each target if he wanted.
15 million CPU years is a lot to spend when you could just restore from backups.
A face-recognition login is orders of magnitude less secure than a good password. Considering the easy ways to defeat it (mentioned in other comments), why not simply use auto-login and forget about login alltogether?
Also, this isn't going to do anything to protect your files. You still need to use strong encryption, and you aren't likely to get that from face recognition.
But most people pay contractors to do it. And it costs a lot of money, and there's a lot of delays, troubles, etc. But eventually they feel happy and comfy.
Just as people use existing software because they are incapable or otherwise unwilling to write their own, people pay contractors to build their houses because contractors know how to build houses and can probably do so a lot cheaper and faster than you.
Of course, if a pipe breaks... when you built it yourself, you're the sole responsible for this.
I hope you aren't suggesting that anyone takes responsibility for the software you're using when it breaks. Read your EULA or GPL lately? Clearly this isn't why people use existing software.
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Turn it off because of the advertisements, too.
Back in 2003 (when I stopped watching television) a typical 60 minutes of television contained 21 minutes of advertisement and 39 minutes of program. I thought, "Why the hell am I actually paying for this mess."
I can only imagine that it has gotten worse. Anyone have some numbers?
Malware developer is not necessarily the malware user
Malware developer/user would rather store his incriminating files on someone else's computer (possibly many other computers for added redundancy/security) rather than storing the files on his own computer.
Malware user makes money from fake clickthroughs to porn sites from the victim's computer.
Malware user just wants to cause trouble for some random person for no real reason. Think "A Clockwork Orange".
etc.
But such a technical solution doesn't exist. In any case there must be a strict trust relationship from both sides for it to work. Either that, or rabid lawyers threatening each other into submission.
Different, how? It is the world we live in, now. In this world, DRM is inherently a failure, and you can't tell people how to use the CDs you mail them. That's the way it must be.
$ du -m --max-depth=0 firefox seamonkey
25 firefox
33 seamonkey
I don't call either one "lean and mean" in any case. But an additional 8M is a small price to pay to avoid the odd design problems in Firefox.
That's why I install SeaMonkey instead and tick the "Browser Only" box during installation.
There are entire classes of problems that are intractably hard, even with the best known algorithms implemented very efficiently, optimized over years of study. Unless you have a solution to solve NP problems in P time, you will have to put up with advancements in CPU technology for the foreseeable future.
let's call it the Freedom Protection Toggle.
*shudders thinking about stepping on anything with a "KILL SWITCH"*
I've really gotta stop reading slashdot, to save my health.
Square root of 2^1024: 2^512
Number of primes below 2^512: ~2^503.5 (x/ln(x))
There isn't an easy trick to this unless the person's selection of P and Q is weak. For example picking a P where P-1 has only small factors (then Pollard's factoring method would easily find it).
That works only with horribly broken/inadequate encryption schemes. Where did you attend Crypto 101?
Now all we need to do is figure out how to turn stupidity into energy. No more coal, oil, or nuclear fission. The future will run on Stupid Energy(tm), the cleanest, cheapest, most reliable energy source known to man. It is completely renewable, too!
15 million CPU years per key? And the attacker can just make up new keys as often as he likes. He could even make a different key for each target if he wanted.
15 million CPU years is a lot to spend when you could just restore from backups.
A face-recognition login is orders of magnitude less secure than a good password. Considering the easy ways to defeat it (mentioned in other comments), why not simply use auto-login and forget about login alltogether?
Also, this isn't going to do anything to protect your files. You still need to use strong encryption, and you aren't likely to get that from face recognition.
What would you rather have cut off, your fingers or your face?
My name is Inigo Montoya, you rooted my father's PC, prepare to die!
Only if the tumor is in the shape of a gun or knife.
"$31,000 per minute"
Even if accurate, that's assuming everyone who sees the error message will go somewhere else to buy their books.
I imagine some people would just wait to buy the book from amazon later when it is up again (probably very soon).
Fewer choices and greater prices.
Any quantum physicist could have told you that!
I hope you aren't suggesting that anyone takes responsibility for the software you're using when it breaks. Read your EULA or GPL lately? Clearly this isn't why people use existing software.