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Member 15078716 wrote: When I went to college, long ago, some engineers and other fields were required to learn all 4 semesters of calculus. If an engineer saw the logic path of the algorithm, they might have cracked it in less than 5 minutes without a computer. Man made and man devisied Algorithms can be broken.
If you listen to the CP hive mind, for a programmer a degree is useless, college is useless, math is useless. There is only Javascript.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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it math is used to encrypt, and math used to decrypt, then math would say math can be used to hack/decrypt/crack said encryption.
and somepeople write complex math, newtonion physics, then someone comes along and says, you can simply that to e=mc2
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I think that of all the math formulas that I have been given in this life, that one (e=mc^2) took me the longest to understand. I found quantum physics to be very interesting, but difficult to fully understand. I think that I might have read 3 or 4 books on Einstein and his own explainations of that before I became comfortable with quantum logic (the "real" quantum logic). Those "quantum" computers which are being tested by the National Bureau of Standards are not quantum mechanic based. They are fake quantum. They are a scam. The NBS has proven the current concept of quantum machines as advertised to be applied to currently built computers to be a scam.
Back to the encrypting: If a code generated by machine could not be cracked, other than a true One Time Pad (which is by definition NON-REUSABLE), then the NBS would have found it already.
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Thousands of GitHub repositories were forked (copied) with their clones altered to include malware, a software engineer discovered today. Fork!
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I doubt that. It looks like click bait to get more pass through clicks at GitHub.
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I guess if you are doing open source, github is okay, but letting MS manage anything from a security point of view in the cloud is a recipe for disaster.
My source code is behind a firewall on an internal network. Period.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't like either of both, but I think it is time Musk gets accountable for some of his actions...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yes, this is one of those cases where it's a shame that both sides can't lose...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: it's a shame that both sides can't lose...
FTFY ==>> Legal fees!!
but, you're still probably right since they are both a bottomless pit of money.
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Well... I mean... both in one target...
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i hope he buys twitter and shuts it down asap
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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IBM board of directors investigates sales fraud claims • The Register
IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to take any action, it may face a lawsuit to claw back millions of dollars from top staff.................
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I thought it might be booking sales in the year the contract was signed instead of when payment was received. But no, it's shifting revenue from the mainframe business to the CAMSS (Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Security, and Systems) businesses, which IBM touts as "strategic". That'll be harder to prove, because how to apportion revenue when several business units are involved is debatable. But when bonuses are based on such things, games will be played.
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With new technological advancements coming onto the market everyday, managers of development teams need to be adaptable in their management style as well as persistent in overcoming roadblocks. Same as always - managing developers
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As a manager of developers I'd say it's managing the CEO.
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Protecting developers by managing up and out instead of down is the hallmark of the best managers. It sounds like yours are fortunate.
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A behavioral economics study of anti-piracy ads reveals that they’re largely ineffective and often encourage piracy. "It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy."
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Or you can do both.
Obligatory Muppet video: In the Navy
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That article doesn't say it, but it implies, correctly in my opinion, that the entertainment industry is completely out of step with the rest of the world.
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What I always miss in these discussions on piracy, is that a pirated movie or music album isn't necessarily a missed sale.
I've pirated lots of music back in the day, tens of thousands of songs...
First, I wouldn't even be able to legally pay for all of that, so if I went legit I'd just have bought a few.
Second, it's very easy to download something, listen to it, and discard it if you don't like it.
When you buy a CD you've spent money on it and you're stuck with it.
Finally, I know many people download stuff, but still go out and buy the best of what they've downloaded to support artists.
The simple fact is that there's a whole lot we want to see or listen to, but we don't have the money to buy all of it.
Last, some stuff just isn't available to some people.
Like that time I found a Japanese band on YouTube and I checked Dutch stores, online retailers and even eBay, but just couldn't find their album.
A friend of mine had the same issue with some series that was cancelled and only available on Hulu or some such, which isn't available in the Netherlands.
I do have a pretty large collection of CDs and LPs though (over a thousand at least) as well as DVDs and Blu-rays (in the hundreds).
With Spotify, I stopped downloading music (mostly, sometimes some stuff that isn't on Spotify, like a game soundtrack or something).
Never downloaded movies, tried it a few times and ended up with Spanish versions or some such.
I buy my games too, as it's pretty difficult to pirate PlayStation games.
Anyway, the anti-piracy lobby should just STFU, revenues are still breaking records.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Finally, I know many people download stuff, but still go out and buy the best of what they've downloaded to support artists. AFAIK the best to support them is if possible go to concerts, the % that the artist keeps from live actuations is way bigger than the % of the sales. I know, not always is possible (specially lately) to see them live and CDs can still be huge numbers...
Sander Rossel wrote: Anyway, the anti-piracy lobby should just STFU, revenues are still breaking records. The business could adapt better, but some stablished giants just don't want / can / reacted too late and therefore they try to keep themselves alive through lobbyism and forcing "suggesting" laws to protect their revenues the intellectual property of the artists (even when some / many artists put their art online voluntarily)
EDIT: spelling
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 3-Aug-22 11:40am.
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Nelek wrote: AFAIK the best to support them is if possible go to concerts, the % that the artist keeps from live actuations is way bigger than the % of the sales. Yeah, and while you're at a concert, buy a t-shirt!
Nelek wrote: The business could adapt better, but some stablished giants just don't want / can / reacted too late and therefore they try to keep themselves alive through lobbyism and forcing "suggesting" laws to protect their revenues the intellectual property of the artists (even when some / many artists put their art online voluntarily) Exactly this.
I remember a (very) old South Park episode which mocked this.
Artists like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Metallica went on strike because they couldn't buy their third private jet because people downloaded illegally
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So putting an unskippable ad which tells you off for "stealing" the movie at the start of every legitimately-purchased DVD/Blu-ray, when that ad is mysteriously absent from any pirated copy of the movie, doesn't encourage people to purchase legitimate copies of the movie?
Whodathunkit?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Winamp has released its first release candidate after four years in development, officially bringing the popular media player out of beta. Lock up your llamas and run for your life
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