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Comment Re:Note for world domination: encrypt serial no.'s (Score 2, Interesting) 330

by fregaham (#34028812) Attached to: How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks

I am implementing this at my factory. In fact, tanks c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b, c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c, eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3, a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c, and e4da3b7fbbce2345d7772b0674a318d5 just rolled off of the the assembly line.

You should at least use some salt if you just use md5 on those serial numbers... I could decode your serial numbers just by using publicly available reverse md5 lookup table...

Comment Google Tera Corpus (Score 1) 314

by fregaham (#32997140) Attached to: There is no...

grep "^there is no " 4gm-0120 | sort -nr -k5 | head -n20
there is no need 1047859
there is no way 949479
there is no reason 648338
there is no such 577050
there is no evidence 536500
there is no 456920
there is no doubt 370217
there is no other 366274
there is no one 295448
there is no guarantee 245466
there is no " 227625
there is no real 179372
there is no difference 175348
there is no more 174525
there is no question 169013
there is no longer 160167
there is no point 145273
there is no better 142573
there is no problem 131840
there is no clear 126678

according to Google Tera Corpus...

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html

Comment Re:Diaspora (Score 2, Interesting) 451

by fregaham (#31982352) Attached to: Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media?

I've been thinking of something along this very line, but I'm a little torn: distributed is the right way to go, but to implement something akin to the facebook newsfeed, it seems like the right answer is an atom feed that all your friends subscribe to (and you to theirs), but then either you have something downloading theirs all the time, and then your info is stored on someone else's computer where it's easy pickings for a bot (and the opportunities for exposure multiplied), or you wait to fetch all 100+ friends' feeds. I'm not sure if the risk of the former is *that* big, after all, it wouldn't be hard for a bot to get the facebook login and skim all the info, but it would be rather harder than just picking off the local cache.

Building an distributed network on top of HTTP protocols (atom) will lead to privacy problems... It seems necessary to have a server-side support that will also implement some privacy policies which would allow you to define who gets access to which post. Also, the only way to get real time updates is by some polling, which may be resource intensive...

Using XMPP (Jabber) as a base for some kind of distributed social network seems to me like a better idea to me... It is still distributed, you can run your own server that will host your posts and will push all the updates to those subscribed, implement some privacy rules...

There is already a project that tries to do something like that: http://onesocialweb.org/

Comment Re:Standardize? (Score 1) 451

by fregaham (#31982244) Attached to: Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media?

Will it eventually be possible to have a social-networking standard so that anyone can run their own server, just as with email? In that case it wouldn't matter if one friend uses facebook, another myspace, a third linkedin; they would all adhere to the same standard and so which particular social-networking service you use would become irrelevant.

It is possible and it is already happening... http://onesocialweb.org/ tries to build open social network protocol on top of XMPP...
Books

Google Offers Scanned Books To Rival Stores 150

Posted by Soulskill from the take-two-they're-small dept.
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday we covered Microsoft's jabs at the Google book deal, but today Reuters is reporting that the scanned books will be available to Google's rivals. Google said in a surprising statement, 'Google will host the digital (out-of-print) books online, and retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore will be able to sell access to users on any Internet-connected device they choose.' They made this statement today at the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that had been called to discuss criticism of a 2008 settlement between the Authors Guild and Google. Well, I would bet this has caught more than a few people by surprise. The Authors Guild offers a history and the fine print of the agreement."
Cellphones

Japanese "Hate" For the iPhone All a Big Mistake 327

Posted by Soulskill from the downloading-the-ifud-app dept.
MBCook writes "AppleInsider has posted a great article explaining that Wired's story about Japanese iPhone hate was completely false and has been edited at least twice. The comments in the article were recycled and taken out of context, with those interviewed blogging about the mistakes. The piece then goes on to analyze the iPhone's standing in Japan, as well as some of the major factors working for and against it. At last it points out that the Wall Street Journal tried the same myth of failure just after the phone's launch in Japan, recycled from a myth the year before, pushed by a research company with a possible anti-Apple agenda."
The Internet

Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" 548

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the unbridled-stupidity dept.
Brian Ribbon writes "In the latest sensationalist article about pedophiles on the internet, the director of a Spanish vigilante organization has claimed that the internet 'creates pedophiles'. While conflating pedophilia with child sexual abuse, the 'expert' quoted in the article incorrectly states that 'studies show that some pedophiles feel attracted to children from an early age, but the majority of them develop the tendency later on'; he then claims that 'the internet can become a catalyst for people belonging to the latter group.'"
Math

A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question 566

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the evil-twins-always-have-a-goatee dept.
diewlasing writes to mention that Oxford scientists have proffered a mathematical answer to the parallel universe question that is gaining some support in the scientific community. "According to quantum mechanics, unobserved particles are described by 'wave functions' representing a set of multiple 'probable' states. When an observer makes a measurement, the particle then settles down into one of these multiple options. The Oxford team, led by Dr. David Deutsch, showed mathematically that the bush-like branching structure created by the universe splitting into parallel versions of itself can explain the probabilistic nature of quantum outcomes."

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