Posts by asdf

Re: hmm

No I meant she would never have gotten the top level training from her mentor who is one of the best in the world. She could get the same probably pretty much in any developed country in the world but probably not in any on the majority muslim countries (Malaysia maybe). And yes I am aware that region of the world led in math and science at one time but 1300AD was a long time ago. Also notice where she is teaching now (so the next genius Iranian mathematician will also have to leave to achieve her full potential). Making it is hard enough without having to deal with cultural fail.

Re: flame on

>You don't have to use a distro that has adopted systemd you know.

>You have the choice.

For now. But that will change. Slackware and Gentoo will probably be one of the last to convert but it will happen due to the tangled dependency web that is being built. I agree this doesn't belong here though as you mention it doesn't even apply to RHEL 6. Just throwing monkey poo at RH because I don't like the direction they are heading. Wolf wearing a wool sweater and all.

Re: Lastpass

>Try a .txt file stored in a truecrypt volume.

The problem is then you know the actual password (no deniable culpability for draconian UK password laws) and type it every time so any potential keyloggers get it also. With PasswordMaker you type a master password (which you can not store at all (enter each time), store in memory (until app close) or even store to disk (terrible idea IMHO)) and then it creates a unique password for each different site. The only real drawback is you have to keep good track of your PasswordMaker Firefox plugin install directory as its unique for each install and if blown away you lose access to your passwords until you reset them.

Re: Lastpass

>"There are other password manglers out there and they all seem to me to lock your eggs up in thier basket. I suppose that is the nature of the beast."

The PasswordMaker Firefox plugin doesn't require remote services as far as I can tell. Its cross platform (edge to firefox plugins) and open source as well.

Re: Why compare it to a Xeon?

Honestly I will admit what Intel has done with Atom is very impressive. Only somebody with Intel's money and expertise could get a x86 compatible (nearly native) chip anywhere near ARM's ballpark. It would actually be hard to design an instruction set more ill suited for super low power consumption and yet decent performance than x86. That instruction set has been traditionally profitable but still a curse around Intel's neck. Its why they have tried several times to move away from it unsuccessfully.

Re: Why compare it to a Xeon?

Intel can compete on stats but are they willing to compete on super low margins against companies that have been doing so for decades?. My guess is Intel is going to have to streamline the shit out of itself very soon to keep Wall St. happy.

Re: Finally a standard for booting

UEFI is such garbage. It so makes folks like me want to upgrade and worry about that garbage. The PC industry willful suicide the last few years as been impressive.

Re: Still

>to be a lot cheaper than Xeon in quantity

Yep Intel has much to fear here as it basically them against everyone else in the IC maker industry. Intel has never done well with low margin high volume products and unfortunately now being a generation ahead in fab technology which has always been Intel's saving grace is no longer as valuable as it once was. Moore's law is no longer opening up whole new apps and ecosystems. Its just making your phone battery last a little longer.

Re: "slander and rumours"

Two decades ago now (still a travesty). Go back two more decades you can read how the CIA helped Pinochet kill and torture more than died in Tienanmen Square. Of course us Merkins live in the only "free" country in the world. As long as something is done "over there" then its ok.

Yep and the only solution is not only never use those services but blacklist sending any email to other people using those services as well. Can be done but not convenient for everyone.

Re: if they're going to be going through emails anyway

>cut down already on the amount of evidence of any kind of criminal activities YOU send via gmail.

Did you not read the posts above yours? The Chinese Communist Party are a bunch of asshats whose great founder Mao killed 50+ million fellow Chinese due to a combination of gross negligence and pure malevolence. Guess what? I put that in a Gmail letter and I just committed a criminal act in some jurisdictions.

P.S. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - posting that in an email at one time (maybe still) also was breaking US law.

MD5 is broken

MD5 is for convenience not for forensics. Yes the info is from crapapedia but easy enough to cross reference the info.

The security of the MD5 hash function is severely compromised. A collision attack exists that can find collisions within seconds on a computer with a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 processor (complexity of 224.1).[25] Further, there is also a chosen-prefix collision attack that can produce a collision for two inputs with specified prefixes within hours, using off-the-shelf computing hardware (complexity 239).[26] The ability to find collisions has been greatly aided by the use of off-the-shelf GPUs. On an NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS graphics processor, 16–18 million hashes per second can be computed. An NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra can calculate more than 200 million hashes per second.[27]

These hash and collision attacks have been demonstrated in the public in various situations, including colliding document files[28][29] and digital certificates.[9]

Re: Realism

>The Czechs are intelligent, forward thinking people

Yeah beautiful Bohemia but based on my frequent visits a decade or so ago avoid going to that country late in a month. The police tend to turn the screws for bribes sorry fines on the spot so they can make rent then. Some of the speed traps they set up there are only matched in dodginess in my experience by some on Indian reservations in the US.

Re: I hope they do leave and learn hard reality.

Insert typical American rant about the UK being able to speak English at all and not speaking German due to Merika. Seriously though without those former colonies English would probably not be the lingua franca of the world these days, butchered or not.