There is one slight advantage to FF8's PC version: It is probably the only platform that still can play the chocobo minigame. That minigame was originally designed to run on a PocketStation, a combination tamagotchi & memory card gaming device never released in the US; the PC port includes a small windows app that emulates that game.
If you want your secrets to remain secret past the end of your life expectancy, then, in order to choose a key length, you have to be a futurist. You have to anticipate how much faster computers will get during this time. You must also be a student of politics. Because if the entire world were to become a police state obsessed with recovering old secrets, then vast resources might be thrown at the problem of factoring large prime numbers.
So the length of the key that you use is, in and of itself, a code of sorts. A knowledgeable government eavesdropper, noting Randy's and Avi's use of a 4096-bit key, will conclude one of the following:
-Avi doesn't know what he's talking about. This can be ruled out with a bit of research into his past accomplishments. Or,
-Avi is clinically paranoid. This can also be ruled out with some research. Or,
-Avi is extremely optimistic about the future development of computer technology, or pessimistic about the political climate, or both. Or,
-Avi has a planning horizon that extends over a period of at least a century.
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There is one slight advantage to FF8's PC version: It is probably the only platform that still can play the chocobo minigame. That minigame was originally designed to run on a PocketStation, a combination tamagotchi & memory card gaming device never released in the US; the PC port includes a small windows app that emulates that game.
The PC controls are still crap though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s
Hmm. Your "shout" at the end is the exact analogue of audio compression...in ASCII. Well played, sir.
If you want your secrets to remain secret past the end of your life expectancy, then, in order to choose a key length, you have to be a futurist. You have to anticipate how much faster computers will get during this time. You must also be a student of politics. Because if the entire world were to become a police state obsessed with recovering old secrets, then vast resources might be thrown at the problem of factoring large prime numbers.
So the length of the key that you use is, in and of itself, a code of sorts. A knowledgeable government eavesdropper, noting Randy's and Avi's use of a 4096-bit key, will conclude one of the following:
-Avi doesn't know what he's talking about. This can be ruled out with a bit of research into his past accomplishments. Or,
-Avi is clinically paranoid. This can also be ruled out with some research. Or,
-Avi is extremely optimistic about the future development of computer technology, or pessimistic about the political climate, or both. Or,
-Avi has a planning horizon that extends over a period of at least a century.
-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Well, that procedure may have been one of their "official" auditing methods
Posting to de-mod...
Are articles that seem like a joke but aren't, OK?
U.S. drops corruption case against ex-Sen. Stevens
yup
My favorite feature: two-finger scroll. This is excellent. This is the one and only thing I miss when I go back to my Linux laptop.
You might want to look at the "VertTwoFingerScroll" option for the Synaptics device in xorg.conf.
You forgot: 8) Broadcom Zen: Perfection in minimalism.
One solution is to add speakers.
EBay does.
Well, technically the thing that's lost is the attribution and the kudos that comes with it.
That's it. No more CSI for you.
Terrorists
Drug dealers
Kidnappers
Child pornographers
Nice catch there. Fiona is the daughter of the Primer's developer though, not the main character.
Anna? This reminds me of a short story... http://www.365tomorrows.com/10/08/annabet/