Re: I'm more interested in the source
He has a cousin in Notre Dame called Hatchback.
Posts by STOP_FORTH
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What does London's number 65 bus have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!'
Tuesday 23rd June 2020 05:23 GMT
Re: 65 bus route
It's all we have left! We're interested in railways, underground railways, traction engines, steam ships, clippers and omnibuses because we were instrumental in developing most of them when the rest of the world were using horses.
Aeroplanes (US), hot air balloons (France), Zeppelins (Germany), motor cars (Germany), rockets (Russia/Germany), monocars (Russia), autogyros (Spain), helicopters (Russia) are passing fads which will never catch on. Consequently, they are of no interest to us.
Facebook to save US users from ads bought by foreign state-controlled media
Astroboffins peering back in time with Hubble find stars may have been flickering into life even earlier than thought
Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'
Friday 29th May 2020 11:59 GMT
Re: Two hashes are better than one
That doesn't really address the point. Even if two different hashes are compromised, using them both as separate hashes still gives some measure of assurance that the file has not been tampered with. If only one is compromised file integrity is guaranteed by the other. If both are compromised it may still be extremely difficult to find a hash collision for both.
I was merely using MD5 as an example.
My question really is - are two hashes more secure than one?
Friday 29th May 2020 10:15 GMT 
Two hashes are better than one
Some time ago I noticed that some Linux ISOs were being signed with two different types of hash - usually an MD5 and some type of SHA. Whilst I realise that this is not really applicable to OpenSSH, surely this is still a reasonable defence against hash collisions?
You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle
Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later
Donald Trump extends ban on Huawei, ZTE telecoms kit in US companies to May 2021
The ultimate 4-wheel-drive: How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond
International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech
Fright at the museum: Bored curators play spooky Top Trumps on Twitter over who has the creepiest object
How's your night sky looking? The Reg chats to astroboffin Mark McCaughrean about Starlink and leaving a mark
Thursday 23rd April 2020 14:16 GMT
When they give you lemons
I'm not trying to minimise the inconvenience these things cause to astro-photographers but.....
Since there are going to be lots of them and we know their shape, size, altitude, velocity and position at any given time (OK, last one is less certain, they're LEOs)....
Could they be used for transit/occultation studies?
Unlike asteroids, they are not all whizzing around the ecliptic.
Vivaldi browser to perform a symphony of ad and tracker blocking with version 3.0
Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots
Dot-com price rises on their way over the next four years: ICANN approves Verisign contract, walks off with $20m
Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm
Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?
Freedom of Information coverup clerk stung for £2k after deleting council audio recording
Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer
Wednesday 18th March 2020 07:21 GMT
Re: FRAND
387 and 663 cover error correction. There may be some merit in these, but a few companies tried patenting Turbo codes for broadcasting some years ago and got their fingers burnt. (That clever bloke from Cambridge who wrote the alternative energy report showed that all Turbo codes were a subset of an existing error correcting scheme.)
283 seems to be a way of efficiently transmitting video encoding data. This may actually be novel.
The rest look rather over-broad, basically how do you get high bandwidth, time-critical stuff over a network. (DVD bitstreams? What?)
Look like typical US patents to me. Not sure this would fly in Europe. DVB standards are all FRAND based. Compression standards are a bit more confusing, because of the sheer number of researchers, overlapping ideas and not everybody agrees to licence stuff as FRAND.
Edit David MacKay was the prof. He showed that LDPC codes (invented/discovered by Gallager in 1960) were a superset of all Turbo codes. This wiped out a promising business model/technical blackmail scam overnight.
Microsoft's Bill Gates defrag is finally virtually complete: Billionaire quits board to double down on philanthropy
Monday 16th March 2020 12:19 GMT
Re: Would you like to be fried with that?
I don't have to answer your "one question". I don't live in a theocracy, you don't get to frame compulsory questions, or burn to death anyone who refuses to answer or who gives the wrong answer.
Your time is over. Take your absurd death cult with you. You are not forgiven.
Sunday 15th March 2020 21:01 GMT
Re: Would you like to be fried with that?
I'm glad He understands predator/prey cycles. If His solution is the same as that produced by millions of years of evolution it just comes down to deciding which is the most likely explanation. Then we just have to decide which of the thousands of gods is the correct one.
They all seem pretty unconvincing to me, what is special about yours?
Sunday 15th March 2020 18:29 GMT
Re: Would you like to be fried with that?
Here's the thing, putting the word "logical" into a sentence doesn't necessarily make it true.
God created everything, logically He is therefore nothing. See? Sounds profound, but means nothing.
You still haven't explained why he stuck nipples on most male mammals.
The Guy is obsessed with the things.
Also, why did He make so many types of beetle?
Saturday 14th March 2020 09:48 GMT
He's not The Messiah......
Yeah but, some folks say that without all that Wintel upgrade obsolescence nonsense there wouldn't have been so many discarded PCs for us to put Linux on!
In 1995 he wrote a book called "The Road Ahead". I read it. IIRC he didn't mention The Web at all, although there was some mention of the "information superhighway". It was hastily re-issued with extra sections on the information superhighway.
I saw Tim's first webpage in about 1992. I'm not saying I realised how big The Web was going to get (I had been working mostly in comms and was aware of LAN and WAN technologies and point-to-point protocols - it just looked like another damn' thing to learn about.)
By 1995, however, it was pretty clear that NetBEUI wasn't going to last.
Visionary, no!
Broken lab equipment led boffins to solve a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake
Sunday 15th March 2020 12:33 GMT
Nomenclature
Annoying, isn't it? Took me a few seconds to realise what they were, the skin colour helped.
I think this may be a UK thing. In Southern Europe they seem to be less squeamish. In Portugal and Italy their name for these things seems to be comprised of the local words for blood and orange.
Incidentally, why hasn't some boffin/plant-breeder developed a blood orange that is as easy to peel as a tangerine?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
