No. His name was Tom Cantine. he came up with the joke around 1985. It was a very 'Cantine' joke, so it's also quite possible that they came up with it at the same time.
The other favorite quote of Tom's that I still remember was:
The computation was performed on TERA NOVA (a 256 Intel-Itanium2 system..... It required approximatively 80 000 CPU hours.
That would be about 312 hours (13 days) on the Terra Nova's 256 CPUs -- not 80000 hours on the Tera Nova (9 years using CPUs that have only existed for less than a year).
Now how many script kiddies do you think could sell you 'ownership' of 512 CPUs for 2 weeks??? I don't even know if they sell batches that small!
Decrypt candidates with "bad" and "moo" in them would definitely merit further analysis.....
This only works if you have some sort of 'book' of possible pads or some way of generating pads from limited data (( read: 'key' in which case it's not a real pad )). If the pad is really based on truly random data, then the fact that you managed to extract some text from the cypher text means nothing.
It's like saying that 37+63=100 says something about 37 (or 45, being the number following 37 in the cyphertext)
I agree that you'd have to trust whomever you hand the recording device to. I also recognize that, if you're crazy enough to be planning a firebombing campaign (or something equally nasty) that you'd have to be even crazier to wear one of these devices.
I think that what is 'considered harmful' is using the full recordings. I think that the purpose of the program is that a participant would plug in their recorder, and the program would snip out (and only store) random snippits from the 18 hour download.
It's a sort of 'if there's nobody in the forest, the sound was never heard' type of solution.
Ads are not inherently evil creations of hellish spawn....
Yes they are, but sometimes they can provide enough good that they overcome their inherently evil nature (kinda like Angel) -- as long as you don't climb bed with them, then all bets are off.
so while this verison is suppose to stop piracy, it's only encouraging it even more.
This isn't a problem for MS. Their real intent is to prevent users from getting PCs with Linux installed by default. Users that get Linux installed by default might just realize that it's better than (or at least as good as) Windows and keep it.
On the other hand, users who've never seen anything else will be more likely to just replace the hobbled version with a pirated version of Wintendos and, thus, keep the MS monopoly healthy.
If a reasonably large minority of Taiwanese people/organizations were to start using Linux on a regular basis, this might start "The Domino Effect" (as per cold war thinking).
1989(in russian accent) -- Due to recent budged constraints, this call is not being surreptitiously recorded.... Please leave name and phone number for future reference.
1999 -- Hi. You've reached the phone number of Stephen and Regan. Our answering machine is broken -- but that's OK. Because our line is being tapped.
Please speak clearly and we'll get the transcript from our lawyers.
The shocking thing about the second message is the number of people who took it seriously. Regan's mother, left a very motherly message ("Just who do you have for roommates, and are you sure you can trust them???) that had me rolling on the floor laughing.
So can the Engineering Students at NYU figure out how to turn off (just) the tourch using nothing more than their watch, belt buckle and shoe laces?
It's pretty annoying (I think that ironic actually applies here) that the Statue of Liberty is now being used as the vanguard of infringment of our liberties.
And guess what, THEY WORK and have been live tested.
They have worked under well-known conditions with projectiles that have well-defined features and expected trajectories. This is quite a bit different than a real live (I guess I should have said 'field') test.
Some time ago, a friend of mine was working on the Alberta Tar Sands. It was mid winter, and some critical piece of equipment froze up at -35C. The equipment was rated to -40 (in the USA, they call this "Mil-Spec". Canadians call it "outdoor equipment"). When he called the manufacturer to complain about this, some guy with a deep Texas drawl exclaimed "You mean it actually gets that cold??!!"
As for the name -- It may not be officially star wars (and it never was), but it's still essentially the same idea.
Bush is allocating 1 billion a year for the moon and Mars.
And way more than that on the "star wars" defence system, while (according to one retired US general on the CBC today) underfunding ((not only NASA, but)) systems which would be far more capable of stopping the most likely methods of delivering WMDs to North America
Think: Cesna-mounted bombs and termonuclear sailboats
IMHO the only 'good' thing about the new star wars program is that it gives lots of money to friends of the Republicans for strange toys that will probably never be live-tested.
It works like this.
Back in the early days when Macs were a serious competitor to Dos, anybody who knew anything about computers knew that Macs were better than PCs. That essentially accounted for about 5% of the population.
Another 15-20% of the population knew somebody who was willing to tell them that macs were far better than PCs.
The other 75%-80% of the population would just go look up computer consultants in the phone book. That's where the Mac fell down.
You see (and just about everyone here knows), the mac was so well designed and easy to use, that the average Mac consultant could handle about 5 times as many customers as the average PC consultant. This means, that -- even if Macs had half the market, there'd still be 5 times as many PC consultants... That meant that the vast majority of sad sacks who wanted to get a computer would end up randomly calling a DOS consultant.
Now what software do you think that a DOS consultant is gonna suggest to a know-nothing would-be customer???
Thus began Apple's death spiral.
para-Quote from a friend of mine (circa 1995).:
Given that most people who own computers own PCs why does everybody I ask who
knows about computers tell me "Get a Mac" without even thinking??
We've gone and slashdotted mozilla. You think they'd have this figured out by now...
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ha! It looks like Tom cam up with the idea first!
ooohhHH!!!!! Two fer one!
The other favorite quote of Tom's that I still remember was:
Oh, and 3 should have been " Scream (at GrokLaw)".
P.S. It must be quite the bitch running around the Linux community named D. McBride.
That would be about 312 hours (13 days) on the Terra Nova's 256 CPUs -- not 80000 hours on the Tera Nova (9 years using CPUs that have only existed for less than a year).
Now how many script kiddies do you think could sell you 'ownership' of 512 CPUs for 2 weeks??? I don't even know if they sell batches that small!
This only works if you have some sort of 'book' of possible pads or some way of generating pads from limited data (( read: 'key' in which case it's not a real pad )). If the pad is really based on truly random data, then the fact that you managed to extract some text from the cypher text means nothing.
It's like saying that 37+63=100 says something about 37 (or 45, being the number following 37 in the cyphertext)
Now you know why.
I agree that you'd have to trust whomever you hand the recording device to. I also recognize that, if you're crazy enough to be planning a firebombing campaign (or something equally nasty) that you'd have to be even crazier to wear one of these devices.
It's a sort of 'if there's nobody in the forest, the sound was never heard' type of solution.
Yes they are, but sometimes they can provide enough good that they overcome their inherently evil nature (kinda like Angel) -- as long as you don't climb bed with them, then all bets are off.
This isn't a problem for MS. Their real intent is to prevent users from getting PCs with Linux installed by default. Users that get Linux installed by default might just realize that it's better than (or at least as good as) Windows and keep it.
On the other hand, users who've never seen anything else will be more likely to just replace the hobbled version with a pirated version of Wintendos and, thus, keep the MS monopoly healthy.
If a reasonably large minority of Taiwanese people/organizations were to start using Linux on a regular basis, this might start "The Domino Effect" (as per cold war thinking).
- 1989(in russian accent) -- Due to recent budged constraints, this call is not being surreptitiously recorded....
- 1999 -- Hi. You've reached the phone number of Stephen and Regan. Our answering machine is broken -- but that's OK. Because our line is being tapped.
The shocking thing about the second message is the number of people who took it seriously. Regan's mother, left a very motherly message ("Just who do you have for roommates, and are you sure you can trust them???) that had me rolling on the floor laughing.Please leave name and phone number for future reference.
Please speak clearly and we'll get the transcript from our lawyers.
Obviously, you've never spent any time in Nevada.
Oh my god! The russians are attacking!!!!!
Learn to live with it.
It's pretty annoying (I think that ironic actually applies here) that the Statue of Liberty is now being used as the vanguard of infringment of our liberties.
They have worked under well-known conditions with projectiles that have well-defined features and expected trajectories. This is quite a bit different than a real live (I guess I should have said 'field') test.
Some time ago, a friend of mine was working on the Alberta Tar Sands. It was mid winter, and some critical piece of equipment froze up at -35C. The equipment was rated to -40 (in the USA, they call this "Mil-Spec". Canadians call it "outdoor equipment"). When he called the manufacturer to complain about this, some guy with a deep Texas drawl exclaimed "You mean it actually gets that cold??!!"
As for the name -- It may not be officially star wars (and it never was), but it's still essentially the same idea.
And way more than that on the "star wars" defence system, while (according to one retired US general on the CBC today) underfunding ((not only NASA, but)) systems which would be far more capable of stopping the most likely methods of delivering WMDs to North America
Think: Cesna-mounted bombs and termonuclear sailboats
IMHO the only 'good' thing about the new star wars program is that it gives lots of money to friends of the Republicans for strange toys that will probably never be live-tested.
I say that there's about a 50-50 chance that they'll have 5000 pre-orders by the time slashdot is finished with then.
It works like this.
Back in the early days when Macs were a serious competitor to Dos, anybody who knew anything about computers knew that Macs were better than PCs. That essentially accounted for about 5% of the population.
Another 15-20% of the population knew somebody who was willing to tell them that macs were far better than PCs.
The other 75%-80% of the population would just go look up computer consultants in the phone book. That's where the Mac fell down.
You see (and just about everyone here knows), the mac was so well designed and easy to use, that the average Mac consultant could handle about 5 times as many customers as the average PC consultant. This means, that -- even if Macs had half the market, there'd still be 5 times as many PC consultants... That meant that the vast majority of sad sacks who wanted to get a computer would end up randomly calling a DOS consultant.
Now what software do you think that a DOS consultant is gonna suggest to a know-nothing would-be customer???
Thus began Apple's death spiral.
para-Quote from a friend of mine (circa 1995).:
(sigh....)That and otherwise stop linking to them altogether.
I'm kinda off-base here, aren't?