Oh, I am absolutely biased against Microsoft. Admitted freely, right here. In the aggregate, they suck.

And I'm biased against bland cheese, too, because there are so many hard-working cows, goats, and sheep out there making really delicious cheese that I don't want to see their efforts swept aside in a sea of mediocrity.

While Microsoft is chided for creating more insecurity than security, it is worth noting that no organization in the world has spent more on training its staff and developers on security than Microsoft.

Is it worth noting that? To me, that just reads as "Microsoft is a very big company".

It could well be the case that no organization in the world has spent more on cheese than the U.S. government. That wouldn't make me want to eat it.

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=131604
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=270957

Long story short: disk pools in ZFS can only grow, so don't make any mistakes unless you can afford to do a full dump and restore. Sun had been "working on" this for years. Anyone heard any news lately?

Hey pal, don't mess with me. I took an epistemology class in college.
You may think there's a difference between thinking and knowing, but I know there isn't.

From TFA:

"Unfortunately we do not have a security proof, and we leave it as an open problem to find an attack or prove its security," they say.

So how did the summary conclude "proved secure" from that?

Wow, attack the guy's name. Nice. Maybe he should go by "Anonymous Coward" like all the cool kids.

In fact, Alex has been developing open source drivers for ATI cards for years on his own dime, and AMD only relatively recently hired him to do the same thing for money. Would a little gratitude to either of them kill you?

Alex, the only reason I could see anything from my Radeon card for the last six years was because of your work. Thank you!

No, DES is not a group.

Let's say there was a 2-bit version of DES as in your example. For a 2-bit data block, there are 2^2 = 4 possible values. That means there are 4! = 24 possible permutations, but there are only 2^2 = 4 keys. So not all the possible permutations are generatable by a single key, and what Campbell and Weiner proved in 1993 was that successive applications of DES with different keys produce (in general) one of those "lost" permutations that can't be done with a single key.

I live for high upload:download ratios

when posed in evolutionary terms, the whole question comes down to a problem of the human desire for classification versus nature's complete lack of giving a shit about that desire.

You're my hero today. Wish I had mod points. :)

You haven't been to San Francisco, have you? :)

Easy to buy a car, not so easy to park it. Friends of mine who realized their dream of moving to the big city ended up moving back to the suburbs after less than a year because the daily job of finding parking took about an hour and a half. That's 10% of your waking life gone with nothing to show for it.

Seriously, ask any San Francisco resident, a story about a great parking spot is enough to bring a tear to their eye.

Let's get closer to the mark and make it a felony for a candidate to accept money from anyone who isn't eligible to vote for them. Fewer felons to keep track of that way. :)

The US system of justice gives the jury the authority to set the amount. The rule telling them what amounts are permissible is written into the DMCA. The DMCA was passed unanimously by the US Congress (except one abstention, I think). So that's who.

And since the statutory limits are between $750 and $150,000 per work infringed, the jury essentially answered the question "on a scale from 0 to 10, how willfully did she infringe the copyrights?" with a 5.3

So overall, I don't think it was the jury who was a bunch of dumb-asses.

Whereas today's hottest technologies are texting and Twitter. Stop. Which are very different from the telegraph in... some way. Stop.

So long, Anonymous Coward. We'd miss you if we knew who you were.