Oh, wait, it's the arcfour key scheduling thing again.
This is an old arcfour weakness, not news. Everybody knows about it (and how to avoid it). The SSL people just never bothered to do it.
According to the slides, this attack works by exploiting a bias in the output of RC4, not the key schedule at all...
How I wish I could recollect of circle round the exact relation Archimede(s) unwound.
Just count the letters in each word.
The one I learned is
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
The amusing thing here is that the Naginata is probably more immediately recognized by this audience as an ashandarei.
Yep, I came here to see this. I didn't know about the Naginata however
I'm surprised they don't have a Donate Now button. I know they plan to raise a lot of their money from "philanthropic" (i.e. large) donations, but I think a lot of slashdotters would love to donate a few bucks.
My favorite terrible progress bar was Internet Explorer, back in its early days of essentially being a renamed version of NCSA Mosaic. When attempting to load a site that wasn't available, the progress bar would slowly creep towards complete, despite the server being completely unresponsive. Then after a long while the browser would give up and stop the progress bar. Why on earth would the progress bar move if the server is completely unresponsive? Who programmed this? I would hope that they, like the inventor of Clippy, suffered a terrible death by fire.
Early versions of Netscape had an issue where if a download was getting slow, the speed would creep down and down, until it hit a divide by zero error and crashed the browser.
Generally, the only caffeine I get on a daily basis is my Shower Shock soap. I sometimes drink Mountain Dew, and very occasionally coffee.
It was less than $200 for a color laser printer with duplexing. I paid an extra $40 or so for a network card for it. I've had it for about 3 years and never even changed the toner cartridges yet. The only drawbacks, it's really heavy and loud, and takes a while to warm up, but for as little as I print, it's great.
Water transportation is about 10-30% of the cost of rail or truck, so there's just no impetus to build high speed rail.
So at the end of the day, when planes are faster for passenger movement, water transportation is already available and vastly cheaper for goods movement, why on earth would anyone in the US build high speed rail? What's the advantage?
However, water transportation is vulnerable to droughts, as witnessed by the current problems with barge traffic on the Mississippi River.
I can't juggle, but I taught my brother how to. I learned from a book (Juggling for the Complete Klutz, which I highly recommend, btw), but didn't have the patience to actually develop the muscle memory. Meanwhile, my brother was wanting to learn, so I taught him!
Wasted Talent is about an girl getting through engineering school and then in the real world. It's great art and really funny! My personal favorite is hugo-nominated Schlock Mercenary, which I consider the best overall. It's been around a while, and is always funny, and always updates (no missed comics in over 12 years, even when his datacenter exploded). For best artwork, and a great story, I agree with many other posters in saying that multiple-Hugo-winning Girl Genius wins hands down. I do love xkcd, and most of the other ones mentioned. I should also mention Foxtrot, which is not strictly a webcomic (it's also in newspaper syndication). I also read Sluggy Freelance, another really long-running webcomic. Lastly, I like Free Fall, a little less well-known comic about a genetically modified wolf who gets a job as an engineer for a petty crook, and tries to stop the robot apocalypse.
Where do you think all those period cars come from in old films?
If they are truly old films, the cars were contemporary. If they are modern films set in old times, the cars can be CG pretty easily. Even if using practical effects, it's not hard to find an old junker that won't run and put paint on the cleanest side so that side can face the camera as background scenery.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Not a lot of offerings in Linux game engines so far, so this would be a nice addition. Afaik, the only real options are various derivative of older open-sourced Id Software engines, and Ogre3d. Plus Unity recently added the ability to export builds to Linux, but not to develop on Linux.
I suppose Cube counts.
"You know, we've won awards for this crap." -- David Letterman
