What about Jango Fett? He's like the Han Solo of the evil side - a normal guy with lots of useful equipment. He's not necessarily evil either just doing his job. Sure, he didn't have that big a part but still.
Speaking of encryption, could someone explain to me why encrypting the same file two times (with different keys) doesn't make it unbreakable by brute force?
As I understand it brute force attacks try key after key until they find a non-random pattern in the unlocked data and that way determine the key to be the right one. Now, if the first key only generates another seemingly randomized file from which the second key in turn generates the hidden data, wouldn't the brute force algoritms have an impossible task in determining when they have found the first key?
Ok, so obviously I don't know that much about encryption but this has been bothering me for some time. Someone that knows, please enlighten me!
I don't think it has anything to do with a record low temperature (as someone already pointed out) but rather with the massive scale of the thing. Cooling something down to 1,7 K is done regularly all over the world, but when that something is in the size range of 27 km that makes it somewhat special.
One role that the "new middlemen" fill very well is promotion, the traditional role of the label. NIN is in a good position right now since the whole media does that for free for them: they are an established act and do something new and to spite the established power structure. So it's news and gets reported generating publicity. New bands won't have that luxury unfortunately. Well, as I see it these already known artists will eventually come to the conclusion that it does not make sense for them all to have their own websites for the downloads and sales, and will merge to form bigger coordinated sites for that purpose. This will give smaller bands the the opportunity to sell their music on the same sites in exchange for a fee - but still nothing like the fee that record companies take which is, I think, in the range of 99% of sales. This system will be naturally fitted with systems for discovering similar music to that which you like, and voilá! The promotional part is arranged. Top it all with a 20 dollar/month subscription and these small bands will have all the downloads they ever dreamed of. And if they really are good then the fans will also order their albums from the same site, come see their conserts and so on.
I'm thinking, why not cover the top and sides of the blimp with solar panels and propell it using electrical engines? That way, the cost of fuel would be kept at practically zero making it even more economic. And if you fly above the clouds - which I would expect - you never risk running out of sun as long as you make daytime trips. Of course you would need batteries which add some weight, but so do fuel tanks. If you make use of trans-oceanic winds to do most of your propelling for you hardly any power would be needed except for keeping the course, and those batteries would not even have to be that big to allow night-time flight as well.
What none of the posters here seem to realize - especially those that ask why evolution developed an ability like this one - is that it is really not something being turned on by the helmet, but rather off! The helmet interrupts the area of your brain that controls self awareness (and keeps track of where your body ends) so that you feel at one with the universe, one with whatever god you have been thought is the real deal.
Studies of buddhist monks and catholic nuns deep in meditation or prayer have showed a concentrated effort can effectively shut down the brain activity in these areas resulting in the same type of experience.
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Or maybe satellites take images at noon when the lighting is best because the sun happens to be at its highest (and in the south)?
What about Jango Fett? He's like the Han Solo of the evil side - a normal guy with lots of useful equipment. He's not necessarily evil either just doing his job. Sure, he didn't have that big a part but still.
Speaking of encryption, could someone explain to me why encrypting the same file two times (with different keys) doesn't make it unbreakable by brute force?
As I understand it brute force attacks try key after key until they find a non-random pattern in the unlocked data and that way determine the key to be the right one. Now, if the first key only generates another seemingly randomized file from which the second key in turn generates the hidden data, wouldn't the brute force algoritms have an impossible task in determining when they have found the first key?
Ok, so obviously I don't know that much about encryption but this has been bothering me for some time. Someone that knows, please enlighten me!
I don't think it has anything to do with a record low temperature (as someone already pointed out) but rather with the massive scale of the thing. Cooling something down to 1,7 K is done regularly all over the world, but when that something is in the size range of 27 km that makes it somewhat special.
That would be "58008".
I'm thinking, why not cover the top and sides of the blimp with solar panels and propell it using electrical engines? That way, the cost of fuel would be kept at practically zero making it even more economic. And if you fly above the clouds - which I would expect - you never risk running out of sun as long as you make daytime trips. Of course you would need batteries which add some weight, but so do fuel tanks. If you make use of trans-oceanic winds to do most of your propelling for you hardly any power would be needed except for keeping the course, and those batteries would not even have to be that big to allow night-time flight as well.
I for one welcome our six-year-old, illiterate overlords.
What none of the posters here seem to realize - especially those that ask why evolution developed an ability like this one - is that it is really not something being turned on by the helmet, but rather off! The helmet interrupts the area of your brain that controls self awareness (and keeps track of where your body ends) so that you feel at one with the universe, one with whatever god you have been thought is the real deal. Studies of buddhist monks and catholic nuns deep in meditation or prayer have showed a concentrated effort can effectively shut down the brain activity in these areas resulting in the same type of experience.