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Comment: Re:Zoom and enhance! (Score 1) 125

by mzs (#38811697) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion?

Not really as bad as you think. All it does is show frame n in one eye and frame n + 1 in the other, stretched (and cropped to preserve aspect ratio) a bit to exaggerate the depth. So things that do not move, they are assumed to be in the background, moving things seem to be closer. It's not as bad as you say, no resetting one key frames for example, but yes the effect is strange, often not right, as well as neat.

Comment: Re:The feds' approach to fuel efficiency is all wr (Score 1) 891

by mzs (#38624976) Attached to: Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage

There are many reasons that the CAFE regulations are suboptimal but yours is not one of them. CAFE calculates the harmonic mean, ie the inverse, so it effectively is calculating the mean if every car was driven the same distance, not used the same amount of fuel, so just like thinking in the European manner unlike our MPG. Real reasons that CAFE is suboptimal is that there is still a domestic and other average (for cars), the car vs truck limits, the fleet penalty is very low, the arbitrary E85 benefit, the new 'footprint' requirements that will be the new loophole to allowing manufactures continue selling large fuel efficient but very profitable vehicles, and so on (there is more).

Comment: Re:At this stage, why have a hash function at all? (Score 1) 156

by mzs (#38532386) Attached to: Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update

It would work, one script would then check to see if the keys were one of year, month, or day. Another script would verify that it only got zip, city, or state. Those keys that it cared about, it could put those values into a hash table if it wanted, or not if it just used them right then and there. The problem is that framework like plone or rack or tomcat or whatever it is that calls your script doesn't know what are the variables that you will need. It puts them all in a hash. Oh sure that use an array to pass them all is linear, but the current attack is quadratic. First you add the first, you get an empty bucket list. Now you add the second, have to look at the first one... Now you add n, first look through the previous n - 1. See?

Comment: Re:They didn't infect Kippo (Score 2) 227

by mzs (#38216038) Attached to: Duqu Attackers Managed to Wipe C&C Servers

Kippo will not work for anyone but the kiddies. Did you change the default root passwords even? Those two are a real tip-off to a honeypot. Also there are hardly any commands, ifconfig never changes, and in this case /etc/issue says Debian and these people were after CentOS. If you had been hacked, you would have had the vulnerable sshd and no Kippo logs would have been the least of your worries.

Comment: Re:Open Source an MMO? (Score 1) 121

by mzs (#38028056) Attached to: <em>LEGO Universe</em> To Shut Down

Sorry it was "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." After my sons got the set with ostriches they pleaded with me to watch the film. The movie and video game released at the same time were not age appropriate for them and that set made them want to watch the film very badly which I guess was the point for the deal.

Comment: you need to do some homework first (Score 1) 151

by mzs (#37952940) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations?

It is no way certain that there is any GPL violation here. Don't bother until you find one. I mean don't yo feel bad everything you hear about some site getting take down notices for reasons that prove unfounded? I wouldn't want to be like that. So really you need to find evidence in the binary that source code submitted by someone outside of MG and CS was used to build the closed version. If you find that, then you need to contact that person and learn whether or not they have the rights to that (could have been work for hire with a contract or they could have done a transfer of ownership as part of the patch submission process for example) and even if they care at all about it. Why might they not even care? Well MG could just say, "oops, thanks, here we have removed the offending source from our build, here is the new closed version that complies." And really unless you want to be a jerk, that should be good enough. You yourself wrote that you don't want to be that jerk because you do not wish to give ammo to decision makers to avoid going open source or GPL even in the future. So is all the work you and others will need to do worth that potential outcome? That's up to you. Just find an archive of the GPLed version and go from there for the future is what I personally recommend.

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