"But with one time pads doesn't the key need to be the same size as the data you want encrypted, which would make it somewhat useless for use on large amounts of data?
Perhaps I'm wrong, I've never been much of an encryption nerd."
yes, but that's the price you pay for 100% deniable decryption.
"(and really, how the hell did my original post get modded troll?)"
I have no clue. Your post was informative and contained no inflammatory subjects.
"she may have a rare medical condition that gives her an unfair advantage.' "
What kind of bullshit is this? Your genetics are 80% of the winning. Personally, I was born with messed up feet so I have always known that I wouldn't be the sprinting world champion. The fact that this woman(because that's what she is) has the better genetic profile to win these kinds of races is to her advantage and the people who didn't win are to accept that or play another game.
"It is a Constitutional Federal Republic. This means that there are various check on the majority."
I personally can't stand this american misinformation. I'll explain exactly what a Constitutional Federal Republic is.
Constitutional: A country having a national constitution or basic law. Or as wp says it: "A constitution is set of rules for government -- often codified as a written document -- that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government."
Federal: A country is a federation when it has multiple autonomous regions but where the regions are not independent like a confederation.
Republic: Doesn't have a monarch. Simple as that. The US is a republic, so is Sudan and so is North Korea.
I actually looked up the first name of John as it would return something with near 100% success rate and a lot of Johns have surnames and looking at the nature of these names(names not directly refering to objects, professions or places), I'd say a good bunch are not invented on the spot.
"you can screw with paper ballots. but a lot less easily and a lot less slower and with a lot more effort and a lot easier to trace than the effort required to mess with electronic voting"
I have actually counted ballots and tampering with them is not at all hard. The fact is that I live in a country that wouldn't stand for this. If there was a government behind it though, fraud is quite easy.
"And another thing - why do people immediately suggest to "Put Belgium to Sleep" when it causes a problem in the international community? Instead of focusing on the issue at hand, they think dividing this country among its neighbors will fix everything?"
Because irregardless of this (non)issue, Belgium should be put to sleep and divided into pieces. Why? The explanation would probably be too long and tedious and I don't want to spend time on that. To be very brief, Belgium is an historic abberation and should have never existed. Nowadays, the problems that stem from the founding of this twisted bufferstate are still haunting it now. Needless to say, within 50 years Belgium will be seen as an unique case, a nation doomed to fail but resilient enough to last more than 180 years.
We would now try to colonize the moon with all the negative side-effects you can imagine. But guess what, it didn't happen so there is no point in speculating because it will never become anything more than speculating.
NASA doesn't have any lost tapes. If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore. I bet there are dozens of tapes that are lost because nobody knows their location but these tapes are not one of them. Correct headline would be "NASA has the found tapes". Sounds redundant? In the human mind that may be the case but if you think about it long enough, you can only come to this conclusion. Being lost is quite a fleeting and interesting feature and has no doubt been studied by filosophers around the ages.
Seriously, I have been looking at some messages on twitterfall and I realise how useless this is. All I see is a bunch of self-absorbed people letting the world know of their mundane daily activities.
For example, the anti Iranian goverment channel (called #iranelection) is a useless collection of messages. The post, who are limited to 140 characters are mostly useless. I'd say that 40% of the messages is people posting short angry rants, 30% is a retransmit of old messages, 20% is relevant data but in itself not nearly enough information and 10% spam and other deceptions.
Some good articles would be far more useful than people screaming short sentences and then letting other people rehash it. There is no real content, no background, no philosofy, no substance. Twitter does not add any value to the internet, even Second Life did more for innovation.
A couple of months ago, my brother has his XP installation is such a bad shape that I had to come over to fix it. While we were walking on the street we started discussing about XP vs. Vista and how much Vista sucks.
After a few minutes a random stranger on the street barges in on the discussion how much Vista really sucked. Yes people, a total stranger chipped in on a discussion to say his opinion on Vista. It simply sucks that much.
Windows 7 will probably be a lot better since it is pretty much impossible to do worse. Vista simply feels like a big step back. It's hard to really describe the flaws of Vista but using it simply feels so annoying.
Personally, I am wondering. What the hell is wrong with Vista? I know it sucks since I suffer using it but it simply feels so hard to describe. What made Vista suck?
My guess, most unmapped terrain is not secret. WHy? Because 1% of the surface of the earth is absolutely huge. THe surface area of earth is 510.072.000 km. 1% would be 5.100.720 km, which is 2258x2258 km. Such a large area can't be secret in its entirety.
Slashdot Mirror
"But with one time pads doesn't the key need to be the same size as the data you want encrypted, which would make it somewhat useless for use on large amounts of data?
Perhaps I'm wrong, I've never been much of an encryption nerd."
yes, but that's the price you pay for 100% deniable decryption.
"(and really, how the hell did my original post get modded troll?)"
I have no clue. Your post was informative and contained no inflammatory subjects.
"offers completely unbreakable encryption.
Is there such a thing?"
One-time pads. You can even falsify an alternate solution to the encrypted message.
"she may have a rare medical condition that gives her an unfair advantage.' "
What kind of bullshit is this? Your genetics are 80% of the winning. Personally, I was born with messed up feet so I have always known that I wouldn't be the sprinting world champion. The fact that this woman(because that's what she is) has the better genetic profile to win these kinds of races is to her advantage and the people who didn't win are to accept that or play another game.
The transformer was a Decepticon.
An unstoppable message stating: "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse" or "The Morning Sun Has Vanquished The Horrible Night".
"It is a Constitutional Federal Republic. This means that there are various check on the majority."
I personally can't stand this american misinformation. I'll explain exactly what a Constitutional Federal Republic is.
Constitutional: A country having a national constitution or basic law. Or as wp says it: "A constitution is set of rules for government -- often codified as a written document -- that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government."
Federal: A country is a federation when it has multiple autonomous regions but where the regions are not independent like a confederation.
Republic: Doesn't have a monarch. Simple as that. The US is a republic, so is Sudan and so is North Korea.
and more importantly, what happens if congress actually does something? Will other nations accept it or create their own "internet"?
I actually looked up the first name of John as it would return something with near 100% success rate and a lot of Johns have surnames and looking at the nature of these names(names not directly refering to objects, professions or places), I'd say a good bunch are not invented on the spot.
"you can screw with paper ballots. but a lot less easily and a lot less slower and with a lot more effort and a lot easier to trace than the effort required to mess with electronic voting"
I have actually counted ballots and tampering with them is not at all hard. The fact is that I live in a country that wouldn't stand for this. If there was a government behind it though, fraud is quite easy.
"And another thing - why do people immediately suggest to "Put Belgium to Sleep" when it causes a problem in the international community? Instead of focusing on the issue at hand, they think dividing this country among its neighbors will fix everything?"
Because irregardless of this (non)issue, Belgium should be put to sleep and divided into pieces. Why? The explanation would probably be too long and tedious and I don't want to spend time on that. To be very brief, Belgium is an historic abberation and should have never existed. Nowadays, the problems that stem from the founding of this twisted bufferstate are still haunting it now. Needless to say, within 50 years Belgium will be seen as an unique case, a nation doomed to fail but resilient enough to last more than 180 years.
We would now try to colonize the moon with all the negative side-effects you can imagine. But guess what, it didn't happen so there is no point in speculating because it will never become anything more than speculating.
"You do realize we do not have polar bears in our streets?"
Bummer, that's one country I won't be going to on my vacation.
NASA doesn't have any lost tapes. If they have found them, they are by definition not lost anymore. I bet there are dozens of tapes that are lost because nobody knows their location but these tapes are not one of them. Correct headline would be "NASA has the found tapes". Sounds redundant? In the human mind that may be the case but if you think about it long enough, you can only come to this conclusion. Being lost is quite a fleeting and interesting feature and has no doubt been studied by filosophers around the ages.
"Presenting an ideology that group X should be killed is not imminent, nor is encouraging violent illegal action,"
Wait, what?
Beer.
Since the day that the average joe shapes the language and not a scientist.
Personally, I couldn't care less.
"You sound like someone that need to be reminded that RAID IS NOT BACKUP! Google for that sentence."
I believed you until I actually did what you said.
Google hits:
Raid is NOT backup:
1.470 hits
Raid is backup:
41.700 hits
Apparently, according to Google RAID indeed a backup solution. I know what to do with my 4 harddrives now!
"reality's well-known liberal bias"
[citation needed]
Well, then I'll install a NoCSS add-on. Who needs layout anyway.
The new second life.
Seriously, I have been looking at some messages on twitterfall and I realise how useless this is. All I see is a bunch of self-absorbed people letting the world know of their mundane daily activities.
For example, the anti Iranian goverment channel (called #iranelection) is a useless collection of messages. The post, who are limited to 140 characters are mostly useless. I'd say that 40% of the messages is people posting short angry rants, 30% is a retransmit of old messages, 20% is relevant data but in itself not nearly enough information and 10% spam and other deceptions.
Some good articles would be far more useful than people screaming short sentences and then letting other people rehash it. There is no real content, no background, no philosofy, no substance. Twitter does not add any value to the internet, even Second Life did more for innovation.
"Size does not matter."
That's what SHE said!
A couple of months ago, my brother has his XP installation is such a bad shape that I had to come over to fix it. While we were walking on the street we started discussing about XP vs. Vista and how much Vista sucks.
After a few minutes a random stranger on the street barges in on the discussion how much Vista really sucked. Yes people, a total stranger chipped in on a discussion to say his opinion on Vista. It simply sucks that much.
Windows 7 will probably be a lot better since it is pretty much impossible to do worse. Vista simply feels like a big step back. It's hard to really describe the flaws of Vista but using it simply feels so annoying.
Personally, I am wondering. What the hell is wrong with Vista? I know it sucks since I suffer using it but it simply feels so hard to describe. What made Vista suck?
No, but there are sites on the internet that love to eat all your non-ascii code.
"or is it part of a top secret organization?"
My guess, most unmapped terrain is not secret. WHy? Because 1% of the surface of the earth is absolutely huge. THe surface area of earth is 510.072.000 km. 1% would be 5.100.720 km, which is 2258x2258 km. Such a large area can't be secret in its entirety.
C'mon, the Netflix prize isn't THAT well known. At least you could have given some basic info about it.