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  1. Re:We tried ethanol, but... on Fuel-Cell Power With Methanol · · Score: 1

    But think about how plentiful ethanol is on an aircraft these days.

    "Yes, I'd like a shot of whisky. $3.50? No problem. No, hold the glass and ice. It's for my laptop!"

    That'd be a bonus for those First-class flyers but how'd you expense two drinks on that trans-continental flight for your laptop?

    Oh, well.

  2. Re:Storage to the rescue on disCERNing Data Analysis · · Score: 1

    His comment doesn't imply that all the analysis needs to happen in the next 10ms, just that the useful data needs to be pulled. It's quite common for a scientific test to generate a lot of data, only a small fraction of which is useful.

    Consider it 10ms to distill the Gigabyte into the useful 100MB that (you hope) may mean something in a few years.

    -Paul

  3. It's not quite dead yet... on Salon Writes on The Troubles with "Trek" · · Score: 3

    The whole thing just needs to rest for a while (as was pointed out by one of the preceeding posts).

    I more or less grew up during the middle of The Original Series. I think I've still missed a few episodes but they were really tackling current events issues (not that I knew it then). Roddenberry really put himself out on a very long, and very thin branch to produce this series, and it paid off too. Although it's a little dated it's still good stuff.

    Next Generation was basically a knock-off, but after 15+ years it was a welcome one. There was a good infusion of neat(tm) ideas that worked pretty well.

    The differing perspective of DS9 was good, but no one wants to watch 3+ years (or so it seemed) of War. Terry Farrell must have thought so.

    Voyager was initially a neat idea, but except for being way-far-away, there's little really, really new.

    Earth Final Conflict (on a slightly different, but paternally related subject) is a decent series, although I haven't watched it as much as I would like. It's a (reasonably) new and neat idea.

    Paramount - Take a rest for a while and dream up something really different and unique, then be deliberate in choosing where it goes.

    Just a few $0.0275 (inflation)

  4. Re: Attacks on (2n){Crypto-system} on Interrogate Crypto Luminary Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    From what I've read, and further extrapolated, even-numbered layers of crypto (2DES, 6DES, 8-Blowfish, etc...) are (or may be) vulnerable to meet-in-the-middle attacks that take only a little more time than (N-1)Algorithm and maybe 2{Algorithm}. I don't know if this makes the risk terribly significant for [468..]DES/Blowfish since I'm not a crypto expert.

    http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.95.10.25-9 5.10.31/msg00136.html has a little bit about MITM and 2DES.

    The FreeS/WAN project has a more explicit explanation: http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/freeswan_trees/free swan-1.00/doc/glossary.html#meet on MITM attacks and what it entails.

    -Paul

  5. Re:NAT is EVIL - IPv6 is the only long term soluti on Transparent IPv6 with Linux? · · Score: 1

    I won't dispute most of what you've said, only this:

    IPSEC can be NAT'd -- The black tunnel endpoints are not encrypted, and most of the time not included in the encrypted data.

    I've got an IPSEC client I use for work and a Linux "firewall" that masquerades IPSEC rather nicely.

  6. What is the danger of layering crypto systems? on Interrogate Crypto Luminary Bruce Schneier · · Score: 2

    I have recently started to question the wisdom of using multiple encryption algorithms over a communications channel.

    SSH and HTTPS (for example) have become staples for secure administration and E-commerce. With expanding use of IPSEC for company access from home, what are the dangers behind using SSH over a VPN?

    I understand there is a potential for compromise when layering two 3DES channels, one each for SSH and IPSEC; has any analysis been done of the security of a Blowfish (TwoFish/CAST/etc...) and 3DES combination?