FBI Uses PS3s to Catch Pedophiles
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Hey, this reminded me, does anyone know what the hell ever became of the US Air Force buying those 300 PS3s back in the spring of 2008?
"The Air Force Research Laboratory is conducting a technology assessment of certain cell processors. The processors in the Sony PlayStation 3 are the only brand on the market that utilizes the specific cell processor characteristics needed for this program at an acceptable cost." Source: Kotaku (Mar 4, 2008).
I mean is Skynet playing MW2 for real right now or what?
"The Air Force Research Laboratory is conducting a technology assessment of certain cell processors. The processors in the Sony PlayStation 3 are the only brand on the market that utilizes the specific cell processor characteristics needed for this program at an acceptable cost." Source: Kotaku (Mar 4, 2008).
I mean is Skynet playing MW2 for real right now or what?
Haha, I've noticed the The Escapist communtiy is kinda anti-PS3 lately. Ah well, the 360 owners have to find some reason to justify their purchase. The more they desperately try to convince me it's actually good, the more I think it completely sucks ass hairs.
Codes usually use ASCII characters, that's 7 bits per digit which is only 128 different permutations per characters.
However, that's pretty academic as it is easy for a criminal to just add another character to their code like
6 character password = 128^6 = 4.39 trillion permutations = 127 days / 8 PS3's = 2 weeks work
but 7 character = 128^7 = 562 trillion = same 8 PS3es would take 5 and a half years
And I think the longest code or random characters to easily remember would be about 12 digits
128^12 = 1.93 x10^25
That's 12.8 Trillion Trillion permutations! So a trillion... times by a trillion.
Even at 4 million password per second that would take 153 billion years to complete, that's over ten times longer than the age of the universe.
Even if you had 1000 Playstation 3's in some kind of Super Array it would take 153 million years to decipher, the dinosaurs walked the earth only 65 million years ago.
You know the worst part of this? You won't know until you have cracked the code how many characters there are to the password, you could run a PS3 for years at 6 characters and find nothing if it was a 7 character password, then you will have to run it again.
Brute force number crunching is great for idiots but it can never last, because with even the 7 bit ASCII characters a terrorist or paedophile would only have to remember one extra digit and the entire process would take 128 times longer or they would need something 128 times as powerful.
42 day detention in the UK is entirely pointless... you'd need 42 millennia for a typical code to be broken by brute force.
However, that's pretty academic as it is easy for a criminal to just add another character to their code like
6 character password = 128^6 = 4.39 trillion permutations = 127 days / 8 PS3's = 2 weeks work
but 7 character = 128^7 = 562 trillion = same 8 PS3es would take 5 and a half years
And I think the longest code or random characters to easily remember would be about 12 digits
128^12 = 1.93 x10^25
That's 12.8 Trillion Trillion permutations! So a trillion... times by a trillion.
Even at 4 million password per second that would take 153 billion years to complete, that's over ten times longer than the age of the universe.
Even if you had 1000 Playstation 3's in some kind of Super Array it would take 153 million years to decipher, the dinosaurs walked the earth only 65 million years ago.
You know the worst part of this? You won't know until you have cracked the code how many characters there are to the password, you could run a PS3 for years at 6 characters and find nothing if it was a 7 character password, then you will have to run it again.
Brute force number crunching is great for idiots but it can never last, because with even the 7 bit ASCII characters a terrorist or paedophile would only have to remember one extra digit and the entire process would take 128 times longer or they would need something 128 times as powerful.
42 day detention in the UK is entirely pointless... you'd need 42 millennia for a typical code to be broken by brute force.
Hahaha, you have a gaming PC, and a 360, and you actually use your 360? That's pretty stupid. You can get 90% of the 360s "exclusives," running better and cheaper on the PC, plus you get a free online service that's better than Live and isn't full of ads and children. In fact, I think you're making up shit to cover the fact you have a hard on for a plastic box that plays games and occasionally melts and dies if you play it too much. Sad, maybe you will be able to afford a PS3/PC that doesn't suck somedayAnoctris said:
I'll confess, I didn't read the article but, as you pointed out, my post was largely for comedic effect, just from the basic idea (a PS3 curring cancer) it does sound a little bit ridiculous and like a proverbial one up ('oh yeah? well my console can cure AIDS! Top that!') even if the way it's actually used it perfectly reasonable.Gildan Bladeborn said:
I hope they weren't backwards compatible models. That would just be mean, since I doubt they'll be selling them back when they're done.
Also, the pedant in me hates it when people confuse the terms "pedophile" and "child molester". It's like "affect" and "effect" except the words don't even sound similar.
Also, the pedant in me hates it when people confuse the terms "pedophile" and "child molester". It's like "affect" and "effect" except the words don't even sound similar.
I can justify my purchase.. it's a console... it plays computer games and it was £200 cheaper then a PS3. Honestly if I had the money to be able to afford a PS3 I would but until then I go with the cheaper option. Probably the only reason I would by a PS3 really would be for the exclusives, the graphics on the PS3 for most games tend to be worse then the Xbox graphics... This isn't me talking out my arse here, Gamespot did a console graphics comparison and the 360 tends to often come out on top. However graphics don't make every thing, the PS3 has some good exclusives, free internet and the backward compatibility apparently actually works. The PS3 can also do some nifty stuff as we've seen. The 360 as some good exclusives, for the most part (according to what I've seen) better graphics and XBL which although you need to pay to play online is of a higher quality then the PSN, also the DLC tends to come out more for the 360 then other consoles.BaldursBananaSoap said:
The 360 does have the red ring of death but your console can be replaced as long as you kept the packaging and what not, you have a time limit on your warranty which I think lasts a year but if you pay a little extra it lasts 3 years. The red ring of death seems to be less common though these days, my last 360 lasted the full 3 years and was on it's way to it's 4th before breaking down.
I hear the PS3 as some thing similar but is not close to frequency of the 360's which is the yellow ring of death which apparently Sony won't replace your console if this happens.
See they all have there ups and downs and neither one is better then the other. It's mostly about preference and with the PS3 it can be a factor on how big your wallet is.
SPLAAAAAAAAAASH. There. Now:
Hahaha. This really made my day. Amazing. A console that literally fights crime. Who woulda thought? 2 and a half years for over 200 trillion passwords is a very good deal. I always hated these perverts. They rate lower than crap. The fact that they are gonna get owned by something that its main purpose is to play games is even more satisfying. I am feeling kinda proud right now and I fuckin love it. Sony better use this as a selling strategy. Imagine what these guys would with even more consoles. Holy shit, I mean who needs tracking devices? This also shows that the good guys are adapting to modern times not only through science, chemistry and technical know-how that involves around crime scene investigations cause that's what I thought until now. To quote Wayne "Excellent"
I'll say that it does everything when it can make me a creamy cheesy bagel, with the cream and the cheese and the creamycheese
