Considering Wikileaks rehosted to Amazon to escape their original sites getting DDOSed exactly BECAUSE Amazon is damn hard to DDOS, I wonder whether Payback can actually do that.
Maybe they just consider it a challenge they can't resist.
He's got 14 hashes and cracked 10 of them with passwords of length 1 through 6, some of which contain proper symbols like "P4s$" and "G0o|)".
Length 1 through 4 take less than a second.
Length 5 takes 31 seconds.
Length 6 takes 2950 seconds.
I can see why he probably didn't want to cough up for Length 7 or above.
Amongst the passwords he didn't find was, according to Google Search: "password". Amusingly, I think one of the passwords he didn't manage to crack was the empty string.
I figure you'd have to polish that package a bit for a real attack, but undoubtedly people already have done that somewhere and hence it's a good idea to follow his advice anyway.
3D may need a new visual vocabulary. Fortunately, this vocabulary is currently being developed.
Coughing up the 3D ticket tax for Avatar means Cameron has made a step in the right direction, but he's just at the lead, not yet at the finish line.
There are already people who can do more with 3D than fancy show effects, but most of them are still doing CGI. For instance, did you see the feathers on the pigeons in "Bolt", or Soren's flight through the forest fire in "Ga'Hoole"?
I love watching this development. I also watched how the South African Soccer WM in 3D mostly failed, and how the "Fantastic Four" Live 3D concert transmission succeeded. I bet MTV has something to say about "Krieger".
I just wish there was more proper CONTENT right now that didn't make me want to pirate it because it's exclusive to some silly hardware.
Well he can't argue he didn't get a lot of publicity for his money, but I've got a feeling like he's not gonna be a happy customer just anyway.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Southeast_Taiwan_earthquake:
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on April 26, 2010 in the sea Southeast of Taiwan.
Like the same two bladers getting pictured 5 times:
And then there's hackers like this one:
http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html
Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.
I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.
Nice effort, honest.
Still, that hurt a bit
Here's one that was awesome instead of painful: Mistabishi: Printer Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ
You've got to love how the very first comment on that page helpfully suggests using an air can, and how the rest of the comments mostkeep going for helpful ideas...
"Why couldn't you... ?"
With the answer right in the article above.
Quoted from the "incredibly detailed account" linked in the OP:
Reactors always need inputs, right, guys? Right. Let's save cycles here and just not evaluate this reactor! I mean, it'll never get evaluated and thus never come online, right?
Oops.
So, presume you've run a few cycles of your POS. Your reactor is humming along nicely. It has produced stuff this cycle. It has produced stuff last cycle. The Control Tower is running all of your stuff in the right order. Everything is fine. Until something unexpected happens.
The user cuts off all the links to the reactor.
The Control Tower, crazed by its optimization logic, careens through the production code. Wide-eyed, it reaches your reactor first. In its addled eyes, it sees only that the poor reactor has no links.
The Control Tower speaks.
"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
Onward the Control Tower drives, speeding towards the silo at the far end of the reactor's link.
The reactor has not been evaluated. It does not know that another cycle has passed. It still remembers, fondly, grazing on inputs during its previous, un-bugged production cycle. Without this information, the silo goes ahead and adds another cycle's worth of goods to its stack.
Free stuff has entered the system.
... only space bound, or at least so Ridley Scott himself suggests in the DVD commentary.
Too bad Hollywood so loves respinning the old yarn instead of doing another bold movie altogether.
I read that and it's rubbish. Wouldn't touch it again. You'll beg for it to end.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
