It's very possible that either or both of your random number generator or AES has some artifacts that make them stand out. Even if you can't find anyone with such knowledge, you shouldn't be too sure that they don't exist. So, just do this:
Run your random number generator numbers through your AES encryption to create your "random" blocks. The encrypted real data and the encrypted random data will be absolutely indistinguishable.
Since the early 20th Century physicists have known that light carries momentum, but the way this momentum changes as light passes through different media is much less clear. Two rival theories of the time predicted precisely the opposite effect for light incident on a dielectric: one suggesting it pushes the surface in the direction light is travelling; the other suggesting it drags the surface backwards towards the source of light. After 100 years of conflicting experimental results, a team of experimentalists from China believe they have finally found a resolution.
Weilong She and his colleagues from Sun Yat-Sen University have studied the effect of light at the interface of air and a silica filament and they find that light exerts a push force on the surface (Phys Rev Lett 101243601) âoeThis paper is a beautiful piece of work and may become one of the classic papers on the momentum of lightâ said Ulf Leonhardt a researcher in transformation optics at the University of St Andrews, UK.
The authors suggest this finding could now pave the way for new applications like highly efficient fusion using laser âcompressionâ(TM). 100 year riddle
Hermann Minkowski had proposed in 1908 that light momenta is proportional to a materialâ(TM)s refractive index then the following year, another German theorist, Max Abraham proposed the opposite â" momentum is inversely proportional to a materialâ(TM)s refractive index.
This paper is a beautiful piece of work and may become one of the classic papers on the momentum of light Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews
It was suggested that this debate should be resolved experimentally but it proved to be notoriously difficult to record the momentum of light in a dielectric. In the seventies it seemed like the mystery was finally solved using a simple experiment involving an air-water interface. Conservation of momentum inferred that if Minkowsi was right, the water surface would compress slightly as light rays pass through, but if Abraham was correct it would bulge. A bulge was witnessed and Abraham was declared the victor.
Unfortunately, later in the same year further analysis showed the bulge to be the result of an unrelated optical effect; the debate was once again thrown open. 21st Century makeover
She and colleagues have now finally overcome these difficulties by replacing the water surface with a nanometre silica filament. âoeWe report direct observation of a push force on the end face of the silica filament exerted by the outgoing lightâ said She. Given this result, Minkowski has been declared the new winner and light momenta is directly proportional to the material it is travelling through. âoeThe experiment represents a modern form of a beautifully simple ideaâ said Leonhardt.
One application that may spring from this knowledge is a more precise technique for laser-induced inertially-confined fusion: a method of producing fusion energy by compressing a fuel capsule made to high density. A series of incoherent laser beams incident on a transparent dielectric ball in a vacuum would cause it to shrink under pressure to achieve nuclear fusion.
Mansud Mansuripur from the University of Arizona recognizes the potential of radiation pressure for inertially-confined fusion but he warns that She and colleagues have only considered electromagnetic pressure without taking account of mechanical forces. âoeA correct accounting for the deformation of the silica filament in the reported experiments would have required a complete balancing of the momentaâ he said. About the author
There were a combination of reasons that the set rules of the past worked in the past, and a different combination of reasons will make some different set rules make sense in the future. But from here, reasons are all in flux. No set of rules could ever match this changing landscape. For the time being, we are bound to live amidst a fair amount of chaos.
Without a doubt, I would recommend "The Art of Computer Programming." Being ardently theoretical, one could read and grasp and even love the entire thing without ever using a computer.
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.
The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.
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this is surely push a few more people aways from linux. Often I've installed the mosty handy and available operating system. This will make my xp cd's a little less handy. I'm sure that other people will find themselves in the same situation.
and then I only look at recent files, and I let the cruft run free. Additionally, I capitalize any long-living directory.
Then I just tar up any files that are not capitalized direcories that are more then say 4 months old. I keep the lists of files keept in each backup (dvdr) in a Directory.
I also just periodically, run a:
du -sk * | sort -n
and just blow away any big files or directories that are not important to me.
Regular guy, Rex got a need Rex, Racer X Brother is Speed Brother is Speed Brother is sex Shut up, Pops Rex, Racer X OK Got a big white X On the top of his car Rex keeps his speed In a little glass jar Racer X on the road Rex on the track Little cartoon nips Racer X on attack OK Just a man in a car Racer X got a need Come on, Five I need a little more speed He's just a regular guy Racer X got a need Come on, Pops I need a little more speed Just a goddamn job Just a goddamn job Just a goddamn job Just a goddamn job Just a goddamn job When you're hauling strips Just a goddamn job Rex needs his fix OK OK Rex is a man He's the brother of sex Aw, shut up Pops Here's to Rex, Racer X OK
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It's very possible that either or both of your random number generator or AES has some artifacts that make them stand out. Even if you can't find anyone with such knowledge, you shouldn't be too sure that they don't exist. So, just do this:
Run your random number generator numbers through your AES encryption to create your "random" blocks. The encrypted real data and the encrypted random data will be absolutely indistinguishable.
It will accompany my copy of "Windows 7, the missing operating system" nicely.
Alright boys, calm down. No fighting here.
mod parent up.
The idea of pissing off a planet with much higher technology then ours really scares me.
Since the early 20th Century physicists have known that light carries momentum, but the way this momentum changes as light passes through different media is much less clear. Two rival theories of the time predicted precisely the opposite effect for light incident on a dielectric: one suggesting it pushes the surface in the direction light is travelling; the other suggesting it drags the surface backwards towards the source of light. After 100 years of conflicting experimental results, a team of experimentalists from China believe they have finally found a resolution.
Weilong She and his colleagues from Sun Yat-Sen University have studied the effect of light at the interface of air and a silica filament and they find that light exerts a push force on the surface (Phys Rev Lett 101243601) âoeThis paper is a beautiful piece of work and may become one of the classic papers on the momentum of lightâ said Ulf Leonhardt a researcher in transformation optics at the University of St Andrews, UK.
The authors suggest this finding could now pave the way for new applications like highly efficient fusion using laser âcompressionâ(TM).
100 year riddle
Hermann Minkowski had proposed in 1908 that light momenta is proportional to a materialâ(TM)s refractive index then the following year, another German theorist, Max Abraham proposed the opposite â" momentum is inversely proportional to a materialâ(TM)s refractive index.
This paper is a beautiful piece of work and may become one of the classic papers on the momentum of light Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews
It was suggested that this debate should be resolved experimentally but it proved to be notoriously difficult to record the momentum of light in a dielectric. In the seventies it seemed like the mystery was finally solved using a simple experiment involving an air-water interface. Conservation of momentum inferred that if Minkowsi was right, the water surface would compress slightly as light rays pass through, but if Abraham was correct it would bulge. A bulge was witnessed and Abraham was declared the victor.
Unfortunately, later in the same year further analysis showed the bulge to be the result of an unrelated optical effect; the debate was once again thrown open.
21st Century makeover
She and colleagues have now finally overcome these difficulties by replacing the water surface with a nanometre silica filament. âoeWe report direct observation of a push force on the end face of the silica filament exerted by the outgoing lightâ said She. Given this result, Minkowski has been declared the new winner and light momenta is directly proportional to the material it is travelling through. âoeThe experiment represents a modern form of a beautifully simple ideaâ said Leonhardt.
One application that may spring from this knowledge is a more precise technique for laser-induced inertially-confined fusion: a method of producing fusion energy by compressing a fuel capsule made to high density. A series of incoherent laser beams incident on a transparent dielectric ball in a vacuum would cause it to shrink under pressure to achieve nuclear fusion.
Mansud Mansuripur from the University of Arizona recognizes the potential of radiation pressure for inertially-confined fusion but he warns that She and colleagues have only considered electromagnetic pressure without taking account of mechanical forces. âoeA correct accounting for the deformation of the silica filament in the reported experiments would have required a complete balancing of the momentaâ he said.
About the author
James Dacey is a reporter for physicsworld.com
There were a combination of reasons that the set rules of the past worked in the past, and a different combination of reasons will make some different set rules make sense in the future. But from here, reasons are all in flux. No set of rules could ever match this changing landscape. For the time being, we are bound to live amidst a fair amount of chaos.
Without a doubt, I would recommend "The Art of Computer Programming." Being ardently theoretical, one could read and grasp and even love the entire thing without ever using a computer.
great minds think alike
we're not laughing with you; we're laughing at you.
What you say is both accurate and paranoid. You should seek professional help.
And let them go crazy.
This fork only needs two small changes to hook me.
Fix the input box.
Rename the project back to "gaim"
"Open source achieves the impossible"
- Bill Gates
Where the hell can I get some of that awesome crack you've been smoking!?
Response to Internet Hoax
December 17, 2007
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.
The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.
Sincerely yours,
John C. Scudder
High School Principal
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emphasis on "like"
Write something original.
Publish it via bittorrent.
Sue them over free speech restriction.
and you don't know how to read come asslember and check for yourself?
this is surely push a few more people aways from linux. Often I've installed the mosty handy and available operating system. This will make my xp cd's a little less handy. I'm sure that other people will find themselves in the same situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Sollog& action=history
I just use:
alias l='ls -lrt | tail -24'
and then I only look at recent files, and I let the cruft run free. Additionally, I capitalize any long-living directory.
Then I just tar up any files that are not capitalized direcories that are more then say 4 months old. I keep the lists of files keept in each backup (dvdr) in a Directory.
I also just periodically, run a:
du -sk * | sort -n
and just blow away any big files or directories that are not important to me.
Regular guy, Rex got a need
Rex, Racer X
Brother is Speed
Brother is Speed
Brother is sex
Shut up, Pops
Rex, Racer X
OK
Got a big white X
On the top of his car
Rex keeps his speed
In a little glass jar
Racer X on the road
Rex on the track
Little cartoon nips
Racer X on attack
OK
Just a man in a car
Racer X got a need
Come on, Five
I need a little more speed
He's just a regular guy
Racer X got a need
Come on, Pops
I need a little more speed
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
Just a goddamn job
When you're hauling strips
Just a goddamn job
Rex needs his fix
OK
OK
Rex is a man
He's the brother of sex
Aw, shut up Pops
Here's to Rex, Racer X
OK