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I suppose that means if someone managed to get their hands on a database with MD5 hashed password and we disregard the time it takes to query the harddrive for a match; it could (stupidly) brute-force it's way to any 5 character password consisting of a-Z, 0-9 and !"#€%&/()=?+ in about 0.06 seconds. Or a 6 character password just under a minute.

That's pretty impressive.

I just had a small vision when I read this article.

In two years time Voddler (or something like it) will be big for movies, Spotify will be big for music and people will stop purchasing things entirely.

The "Pirate movement" will see this as progress and smart people going around the old geezers in charge, because we don't have to pay outrageous amounts of money for a piece of plastic we don't even want.

The media industry will call it a success in their anti-piracy harshness and will cite cases like this as the reason for the new ways to crop up.

Both parties will think they're right, and in the end the only thing that has changed is the distribution-system.

The 2 year timescale is probably off, but i'm pretty sure everything will end with those idiots saying "It's a good thing we put kids in jail because otherwise we wouldn't live in the wonderful world we do today."

The party has a very clear highly racist agenda and yet they received upwards of 20% in some regions. It's quite depressing that people would give up their privacy in favor of "not having that foreigner in the neighborhood".

Interesting, my 3G had the exact same problems as you (just froze and didn't respond to anything for like minutes at a time) with OS 3. But the problems have gotten a lot less frequent with OS 4 for me.

He says there is no interest to post to his moms posterous, but is that really true?

I can imagine quite a lot of spammers who would love to have a blog-post on an otherwise reputable blog. If spammers manage to abuse this system they could get their blogposts, filled with links and instructions to buy medication, all over all posterous blogs.

This is what the Japanese input-method is like on the iPhone. For each consonant there is a press, up, down, left or right swipe to produce a kana. It's a pretty interesting method, and you learn how to type faster with it pretty fast. Worth checking out!

This is sort of off topic, but check out pg's thighs toward the end of the video, he looks ripped!

Do you like, do bike-marathons or something pg?

Edit: Downvote? Really? I'm not being rude or anything.. I'm just saying; the guys legs look great.

I've been doing a lot of things at the same time for many years, school, work, studies outside school and stuff like that; but have never ever felt stressed or really "busy" either.

When people talked to me about how stressed out they were and all the stuff they had to do i used to think "Seems like you should just do it and not be so stressed and freaked out and everything would be a lot simpler."

But some weeks ago I actually felt stressed, for no apparent reason either; it was a really creepy feeling bothering me much, much more than I would have expected. It made it harder to sleep, i would almost get an upset stomach.

I could not figure out for the life of me why I was feeling that way, or how I could make it stop. It was completely new. The feeling have since passed and I hope it won't ever come back. But I have a bit more respect now for people who get stressed, it's not really helpful or useful to just tell them "Don't be stressed and everything would be easier."

And it's not really that easy to just.. get rid of the feeling.

The post is absolutely correct, stop "being busy" and you wouldn't be so busy. But some real tips psychological or otherwise on how to avoid the feeling would be far more helpful than simply; in my opinion: stating the obvious.

"Stop being busy. Just decide to stop, today." Has that ever worked? Has it worked for the author or is he like I was and have simply never felt stress?

That's a rather extreme point of view. There might be contractual obligations for him to stay (being sued isn't nice even if it won't kill you) or personal reasons (as stated in the edits), family, friends and loved ones. "Breaking free" from a family is not what most people want to do.

One easy example that is hinted at on the Wikipedia page is solving Sudoku problems. You can read more here: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jchu/publicportal/sudoku/sudoku...

It seems like they do not own diaspora.com no, some guy in Las Vegas does and I'm sure he's gotten quite a lot of traffic to his ad-parked site.

I doubt this will help browser upgrades. The people who don't upgrade browsers are "parents", older people who use the internet to check the news, chicks who only use the internet for facebook and most of all; enterprise users.

None of these are really in the "must get the latest in porn" category.

I do think saying "no" has some negative implications as well, even if the person doesn't take it personally. Like the article says the person would probably just think you (and the rest of society) is a prick.

As I read the article, I didn't really interpret it as he was actually giving out $100 a week, but rather saying that if you gave a dollar to everyone that asked, you could spend a lot of money.

We're also talking a specific week here, not at any given moment. I've never been to WWDC or SF during a big conference but if I was a homeless person looking for a place with a lot of people who is sure to have money, I'd look at the WWDC crowd.

As someone who has created many puzzle-hunts and participated in some, I really hope that the article is abbreviated because if they went from FFT to Wikipedia article in that few steps they are a truly amazing team (and I would feel bad).

Then again, it is DEFCON CTF they're trying to get into, so it does require some amazing problem-solving skills.

You should take in a couple of lectures of the "Introduction to Robotics" class on iTunes U. http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/itunes.sta...

You can see the full 23 minute episode here http://www.vbs.tv/watch/motherboard/the-singularity-of-ray-k... (the show with the interview, seen at the very end of the YouTube video)

"Academia is a heartless cold bureaucracy"

This man might be intelligent, but he is very known for making his mind up about something and then not changing it for anything.

"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell has a whole chapter on this guy and people like him, according to Gladwell, Langan has barely had any contact with academia, so the above statement doesn't seem to have much backing. He got thrown out because he couldn't understand the "social norm" of speaking up for himself, something he hints at in the video.

Completely unrelated but just found this and you might want to know, if you go to a style like http://etudeapp.com/music/style/9/ballad and then click Home in the breadcrumbs, you go to /home which lands you on a 404 page.

Also, do you have any plans to expand the music library?

Perhaps I was a bit harsh, didn't really mean it as negatively as it sounded. It's just that the entire post gave me the impression that he is more after making money than creating something valuable.

But my comment was that if he really is after making something valuable, he can choose either platform to make it for first and then make it for the other. It really won't make any difference since he will most likely not just be able to make it for one platform then wait for the money to roll in.

Or in other words, making it for one doesn't have to exclude the other; and after having created it for one, he will be able to get a better feel for the market and work on the other while working on the marketing.

I don't see how choosing just one of the platforms will make you the most money unless you're counting on a lucky break and get the lottery sales figures. Hence my judgment that he's really asking what platform he's most likely to get lucky in.

Of course everything I say has limitations in what you want to produce. And sort of contradictory to my point if the project is very big.

I don't want to be "this guy", but if you have an idea capable of producing revenue and the execution and marketing skills to put it into peoples hands; there's no reason you shouldn't be able to release it to both platforms.

It sounds like your after "code a weekend and get paid millions". Which is a statistically non-existent market on either of the platforms.

All benchmarks I've ever seen between tornado/node.js/jetty and other "comet"-servers have been in the authors own words "not-terribly-scientific benchmarks".

Is there anyone who has actually made scientific benchmarks that one could draw conclusions from?

Congratulations to Heroku! I've been using their service for years and it is truly awesome. I hope this money pushes them even further.

One note on the article though, it says: "Heroku aims to make software development more accessible for a wider range of people. It does so by providing a browser-based programming environment that cuts out steps traditionally needed to produce RoR applications."

Didn't they cut that entirely? Even Heroku Garden is closed right?

I was really hoping to see more about the legal applications of BitTorrent, all that pirating information is old (probably inaccurate) and in my opinion not interesting.

A history of BitTorrent should involve how it was developed, how it has changed since it's release and what kind of application it sees, not only the pirating (and WoW) application.

I didn't know you could access the data that easily. It certainly opens up for some creative imagery, as the article clearly shows.

I wish he would have made the source available for what generated those image though! Would make it easier to get right into it and start playing.

Its been live for me on all no-ad videos for about a month+

I didn't know that! Thanks :)

Yes I've been on the waiting list for one of those for a while, even with Heroku supporting Node.js I would get one. It is a very good price and it's always nice to have a small VPS for random stuff.

This comes at a perfect time for me, I've been playing around a lot with Node.js lately and I've been looking around for a way to host it. I don't want to pay $20 a month for a VPS for an experimental fun-application, and http://elusivehippo.com/ just tells me that I'm not looking for some droids.

Not only is real-time application support a huge step, but the way Heroku has listened to its customers here to implement Node.js support is amazing.

Very nice resource for inspiration!

You can buy something like iTunes gift cards for premium access here in Sweden. If you know someone here you could get them to buy it for you and get a premium account maybe?

If you don't know anyone you could drop me an email (it's in my profile) and I could check the store next time I'm out.