Calling it "Vernam Cipher" instead of "one time pad" isn't going to get you any points in anyone's book, especially when "one time pad" is the more appropriate use here.
Except it's not provably a one time pad, unless you can provide references that prove that quasars don't repeat. Since we don't understand how quasars work, you'll find no such proof.
Further, one time pads are secure only because you keep the pad itself secret. With this, there are 60,000 pads, and every single person on this planet (and on any planet for light years in every direction) knows exactly where they are. The only thing being kept secret is the point in time where you started listening to the noise. Since that can be narrowed down immensely for any communication between two known entities capable of using this method, it's effectively a key with a finite range of values, and thus provably less secure.
Until now, users of one time pads (including the US gov) have been using the exact same methods, except the quasars have been number stations.
They might even have been using quasars as part of their noise source. But it doesn't matter, because the key to a one time pad is, you don't KNOW what they used, or from when. Even if we were to speculate that they've used nothing but quasars, they've had possibly as much as 56 years to be gathering entropy, and the output hasn't been recorded all that time for all of them, so it's much more secure.
Quasars solve these problems.
Yes, they do. But in a very expensive manner that sticks out like a sore thumb, and the problems were already solved. Like I said, this is spiffy, but it's solving a well-solved problem in an expensive manner with little to offer over current solutions.
If we needed to communicate securely with Alpha Centauri it'd be excellent. If we need to communicate securely with Agent Phoenix in Budapest, it's easier and cheaper to slap a DVD-ROM full of random bits into the diplomatic pouch, at just as secure.
Calling it "Vernam Cipher" instead of "one time pad" isn't going to get you any points in anyone's book,
Says the anonymous poster, afraid to sign his name to his position. Gives you that special air of mystery, does it?
Embedded industrial software is an entire genre of software that has no end user at all.
Unless that industrial software is going into machines to be used by other machines on a machine planet, and machines placed the order, you're wrong. Even then you'd be wrong, because those machines would be sentient and you'd have to use the same kind of skills to deal with them. And you've sidestepped the fact that damn near everybody working in this field is working with and for other human beings. Those few that aren't, are also salespeople for their own products.
I've never met any person like that- ever.
Based on what you've said so far, I'm going to hazard a guess that you meet them all the time, and just never find out about their reactions to you and what goes on behind the scenes afterwards. But, it's a guess; it's possible that you're right, and have just lead an extraordinarily sheltered existence.
Why is it a key skill for a programmer to need to be able to work with human beings?
Because you're working with other human beings to create a product to be used by human beings. Knowing how to work with those human beings is at least as important as knowing the business processes you're translating into code. Probably more so, since the latter can be written down, discussed, and researched.
As for the time communication takes, you'll find that it's more efficient if the people involved are inclined to work with you, instead of resisting and avoiding you.
This is a Vernam Cipher with a novel but impractical noise source. It was news when Vernam invented it in 1917, and maybe again in 1919 when he patented it, but this version solves an already-solved problem in a manner that would sound really good if Lt. Colonel Carter suggested it on SG-1, but otherwise is inferior to existing solutions to the same problem.
The big theater chains should first blame Hollywood for making a ton of garbage, then they should go after Best Buy and Circuit City who give credit to people so they can buy large TVs and home theater systems.
No, what they should do is get out of the business of selling buggy whips.
The beautiful part being that Oklahoma has had majority Democrat political registration since statehood. So those "Republitards" he's lamenting are probably all Democrats.
He is from Oklahoma. Have you ever been there? If have been there then you would know why he is acting the way he is. To him everybody who is not from OK or TX is "one of them sumbitches". The word "sumbitch" by the way is the most used word in Oklahoma as in "I'll have some eyygs (eggs) and one of those submtiches over there".
Go visit OK some time, it's an interesting sociological learning experience.
Yes, please do. You could go to one of the conferences NASA holds there, or to visit Altus Air Force Base, where a bunch of "dumb Okies" teach Air Force pilots how to fly their jets to protect your freedom to make stupid bigoted statements on Slashdot. Or maybe you could meet some of thost stupid backwoods morons like astronauts Dr. Shannon Lucid, William Pogue, Owen Garriott, or any of the many other astronauts from Oklahoma. Or former Ambassador to the UN Jean Kirkpatrick. Or visit the birthplace of Wiley Post, who among other things discovered the jet stream and invented the space suit. Or visit the spaceport.
Or, you could just spout off like a bigot because God knows there are no stupid people in YOUR state.
The Wal-Mart employees who don't get health care all have one thing in common:
They're working in positions that are designed to be filled by high school and college kids working their resume up for real jobs.
If you're an adult and you're working a job that's supposed to be part-time student-work, and expecting that to be a career that pays you a living wage, you have a skewed view of reality and definitely need health care to pay for a therapist to cure your schizophrenia.
From where did we as a society get this idea that every job is supposed to be a career? I worked at K-Mart for a while and had crappy benefits too. Know what I did about it? I didn't sue. I didn't unionize. I didn't start a website proclaiming how K-Mart pays crap wages. (Although to be fair, there wasn't any such thing back then.)
Giving distros a window in which to prepare and patch is responsible.
Yes, it is. And refusing to give a very popular OS that same window is, conversely, irresponsible. Even assuming that's what Theo meant.
Companies like Fedex and UPS rely on Sun software for projects that, among other things, make sure terrorists aren't sending bombs to schools. That's what Theo is impacting when he refuses to disclose information.
He's not saying that things will not be fully disclosed. He's just saying that Sun will not recieve any special or prior notification. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and the Linux distros, yes, will get some warning and time to make patches. Sun can read about it when everyone else does.
Here's the quote that shows you're wrong:
"Or maybe that has happened already."
There's no such thing as "secret" notification to the Linux distros. They deal with things via an open process. Further, Sun is a huge client of RedHat and SuSE, would would inform them IMMEDIATELY if they did get "secret" notification. In order to actually make this happen, he'd have to leave all the Linux distros in the cold, too.
And since he's suggesting this has already happened, and the Linux distros haven't been notified, there you have it.
Currently we use OpenSSH because it's the best free one. If it didn't exist the people working on it wouldn't all suddenly stop needing it, and if it had a different license some people who work on it would no longer be interested and others who aren't suddenly would be. It's currently a well-scratched itch, but the moment it isn't, it'll be scratched another way.
Fortune 500 companies rely on OpenSSH a lot more than they do OpenBSD; if nothing else, all the major Linux distros would collaborate on a fork of OpenSSH before they'd let it die. Or, more likely, jump-start lsh.
He accuses Linux developers of having "much more flexibility to their belief systems than I have", but then goes on to make an exception to their core belief regarding Full Disclosure for Sun, because they pissed him off.
They don't call him Theo The Rat just because it's an obvious pun.
Please refrain from saying "copyrighted" when you mean "unlicensed", as this helps spread the dangerous myth that content under free licenses is somehow different from other copyrighted content.
Linux distributions also contain public domain media. Isn't that "unlicensed"?
This anonymous coward has been beating off to Ann Coulter for too long. I have news for you sucker: She's a man, baby! Just look at that bobbing Adam's apple!
Congratulations. You just advertised to the entire Internet that you don't know the difference between the thyroid cartilage and the laryngeal prominence. One presumes because you don't have the latter.
Federal funding for K-12 education has actually increased dramatically since the passage of No Child Left Behind, with the funds targeted to communities with the largest concentrations of low-achieving and low-income students. For more information on K-12 education funding and the budget, including summaries of budgets, budget proposals and projected state tables, please see:
We're in agreement: an "unfunded mandate" is a mandatory change which will cost money to meet; and, no additional money is being given to the party who must effect this change.
See, the addition of that word "additional" is what makes you look correct, to anyone not familiar with the subject.
Federal funds are provided for education; No Child Left Behind merely places some restrictions on how those funds are spent, because they've been sadly misspent. It is not an unfunded mandate; it's just a mandate.
The definition of unfunded mandate doesn't include that word "additional". That word changes the meaning immensely, making an objective political science term into a pejorative with the stroke of a semi-metaphorical pen.
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FWIW, I submitted it as "State of the Pen and Paper RPG Industry". I have no clue why Zonk decided on that particular edit.
Wait, you're advocating NIS as a way to avoid accidentally creating security vulnerabilities?
Yeah, I guess introducing them on purpose is one way to avoid accidents...
pressing hard on your eyeballs is just as good as going out to a movie
For 99% of what's coming out of Hollywood these days, that's accurate.
Calling it "Vernam Cipher" instead of "one time pad" isn't going to get you any points in anyone's book, especially when "one time pad" is the more appropriate use here.
Except it's not provably a one time pad, unless you can provide references that prove that quasars don't repeat. Since we don't understand how quasars work, you'll find no such proof.
Further, one time pads are secure only because you keep the pad itself secret. With this, there are 60,000 pads, and every single person on this planet (and on any planet for light years in every direction) knows exactly where they are. The only thing being kept secret is the point in time where you started listening to the noise. Since that can be narrowed down immensely for any communication between two known entities capable of using this method, it's effectively a key with a finite range of values, and thus provably less secure.
Until now, users of one time pads (including the US gov) have been using the exact same methods, except the quasars have been number stations.
They might even have been using quasars as part of their noise source. But it doesn't matter, because the key to a one time pad is, you don't KNOW what they used, or from when. Even if we were to speculate that they've used nothing but quasars, they've had possibly as much as 56 years to be gathering entropy, and the output hasn't been recorded all that time for all of them, so it's much more secure.
Quasars solve these problems.
Yes, they do. But in a very expensive manner that sticks out like a sore thumb, and the problems were already solved. Like I said, this is spiffy, but it's solving a well-solved problem in an expensive manner with little to offer over current solutions.
If we needed to communicate securely with Alpha Centauri it'd be excellent. If we need to communicate securely with Agent Phoenix in Budapest, it's easier and cheaper to slap a DVD-ROM full of random bits into the diplomatic pouch, at just as secure.
Calling it "Vernam Cipher" instead of "one time pad" isn't going to get you any points in anyone's book,
Says the anonymous poster, afraid to sign his name to his position. Gives you that special air of mystery, does it?
Embedded industrial software is an entire genre of software that has no end user at all.
Unless that industrial software is going into machines to be used by other machines on a machine planet, and machines placed the order, you're wrong. Even then you'd be wrong, because those machines would be sentient and you'd have to use the same kind of skills to deal with them. And you've sidestepped the fact that damn near everybody working in this field is working with and for other human beings. Those few that aren't, are also salespeople for their own products.
I've never met any person like that- ever.
Based on what you've said so far, I'm going to hazard a guess that you meet them all the time, and just never find out about their reactions to you and what goes on behind the scenes afterwards. But, it's a guess; it's possible that you're right, and have just lead an extraordinarily sheltered existence.
Why is it a key skill for a programmer to need to be able to work with human beings?
Because you're working with other human beings to create a product to be used by human beings. Knowing how to work with those human beings is at least as important as knowing the business processes you're translating into code. Probably more so, since the latter can be written down, discussed, and researched.
As for the time communication takes, you'll find that it's more efficient if the people involved are inclined to work with you, instead of resisting and avoiding you.
This is a Vernam Cipher with a novel but impractical noise source. It was news when Vernam invented it in 1917, and maybe again in 1919 when he patented it, but this version solves an already-solved problem in a manner that would sound really good if Lt. Colonel Carter suggested it on SG-1, but otherwise is inferior to existing solutions to the same problem.
Nothing to see here, folks; move along.
The big theater chains should first blame Hollywood for making a ton of garbage, then they should go after Best Buy and Circuit City who give credit to people so they can buy large TVs and home theater systems.
No, what they should do is get out of the business of selling buggy whips.
Now that you mention it, I would really like to know if it is at all possible to purchase a fully "Made in the USA" computer
Well, there's this one, but the parts are all made in Denmark.
The beautiful part being that Oklahoma has had majority Democrat political registration since statehood. So those "Republitards" he's lamenting are probably all Democrats.
He is from Oklahoma. Have you ever been there? If have been there then you would know why he is acting the way he is. To him everybody who is not from OK or TX is "one of them sumbitches". The word "sumbitch" by the way is the most used word in Oklahoma as in "I'll have some eyygs (eggs) and one of those submtiches over there".
Go visit OK some time, it's an interesting sociological learning experience.
Yes, please do. You could go to one of the conferences NASA holds there, or to visit Altus Air Force Base, where a bunch of "dumb Okies" teach Air Force pilots how to fly their jets to protect your freedom to make stupid bigoted statements on Slashdot. Or maybe you could meet some of thost stupid backwoods morons like astronauts Dr. Shannon Lucid, William Pogue, Owen Garriott, or any of the many other astronauts from Oklahoma. Or former Ambassador to the UN Jean Kirkpatrick. Or visit the birthplace of Wiley Post, who among other things discovered the jet stream and invented the space suit. Or visit the spaceport.
Or, you could just spout off like a bigot because God knows there are no stupid people in YOUR state.
The Wal-Mart employees who don't get health care all have one thing in common:
They're working in positions that are designed to be filled by high school and college kids working their resume up for real jobs.
If you're an adult and you're working a job that's supposed to be part-time student-work, and expecting that to be a career that pays you a living wage, you have a skewed view of reality and definitely need health care to pay for a therapist to cure your schizophrenia.
From where did we as a society get this idea that every job is supposed to be a career? I worked at K-Mart for a while and had crappy benefits too. Know what I did about it? I didn't sue. I didn't unionize. I didn't start a website proclaiming how K-Mart pays crap wages. (Although to be fair, there wasn't any such thing back then.)
I applied for real jobs and moved on to a career.
And someone, somewhere, will get an ActiveChair flung at them.
Now that I've stopped laughing at this line, I can reply with who that will be:
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
You're sliding the case again from "late disclosure" to "non-disclosure".
Yes, based on evidence that I cited and explained. He either meant non-disclosure or the whole thing was BS posturing.
Third: bomb-detection machines? WTF?
No.
Nah, Jeff Waugh got it right:
Ubuntu actually is "an ancient African word for I am sick of compiling Gentoo".
Giving distros a window in which to prepare and patch is responsible.
Yes, it is. And refusing to give a very popular OS that same window is, conversely, irresponsible. Even assuming that's what Theo meant.
Companies like Fedex and UPS rely on Sun software for projects that, among other things, make sure terrorists aren't sending bombs to schools. That's what Theo is impacting when he refuses to disclose information.
He's not saying that things will not be fully disclosed. He's just saying that Sun will not recieve any special or prior notification. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and the Linux distros, yes, will get some warning and time to make patches. Sun can read about it when everyone else does.
Here's the quote that shows you're wrong:
"Or maybe that has happened already."
There's no such thing as "secret" notification to the Linux distros. They deal with things via an open process. Further, Sun is a huge client of RedHat and SuSE, would would inform them IMMEDIATELY if they did get "secret" notification. In order to actually make this happen, he'd have to leave all the Linux distros in the cold, too.
And since he's suggesting this has already happened, and the Linux distros haven't been notified, there you have it.
If OpenSSH didn't exist, people would implement some other free ssh client or switch to a different standard.
Evidence that you're right.
Currently we use OpenSSH because it's the best free one. If it didn't exist the people working on it wouldn't all suddenly stop needing it, and if it had a different license some people who work on it would no longer be interested and others who aren't suddenly would be. It's currently a well-scratched itch, but the moment it isn't, it'll be scratched another way.
Fortune 500 companies rely on OpenSSH a lot more than they do OpenBSD; if nothing else, all the major Linux distros would collaborate on a fork of OpenSSH before they'd let it die. Or, more likely, jump-start lsh.
He probably treats his wife like his OS; just lets every virus or malware that comes along reproduce with her.
(to make sure that only the "Right" candidates win).
I thought this was "news for nerds", not "Coast to Coast AM with Rob Malda". Leave the conspiracy theories in the comments, where they belong.
He accuses Linux developers of having "much more flexibility to their belief systems than I have", but then goes on to make an exception to their core belief regarding Full Disclosure for Sun, because they pissed him off.
They don't call him Theo The Rat just because it's an obvious pun.
Please refrain from saying "copyrighted" when you mean "unlicensed", as this helps spread the dangerous myth that content under free licenses is somehow different from other copyrighted content.
Linux distributions also contain public domain media. Isn't that "unlicensed"?
This anonymous coward has been beating off to Ann Coulter for too long. I have news for you sucker: She's a man, baby! Just look at that bobbing Adam's apple!
Congratulations. You just advertised to the entire Internet that you don't know the difference between the thyroid cartilage and the laryngeal prominence. One presumes because you don't have the latter.
http://answers.ed.gov/cgi-bin/education.cfg/php/e
We're in agreement: an "unfunded mandate" is a mandatory change which will cost money to meet; and, no additional money is being given to the party who must effect this change.
See, the addition of that word "additional" is what makes you look correct, to anyone not familiar with the subject.
Federal funds are provided for education; No Child Left Behind merely places some restrictions on how those funds are spent, because they've been sadly misspent. It is not an unfunded mandate; it's just a mandate.
The definition of unfunded mandate doesn't include that word "additional". That word changes the meaning immensely, making an objective political science term into a pejorative with the stroke of a semi-metaphorical pen.