This is what you call a One Time Pad, and so long as a) the data on the pad is truely random, and b) the pad isn't compromised or reused, it is utterly unbreakable.
If you hope on a plane in California, and fly west to Japan, you're not entering into a different state. But what if you fly north to Canada? Sure, you're passing over a few states, but are you travelling through them?
If after Sept. 11th, the airlines weren't asking for peoples IDs, what do you think people would say? They'd be going nuts. They'd be up in arms about how dangerous the airlines are and how they're not taking the threat of terrorism seriously enough.
Well, that depends. Would they be given all of the appropriate context for that statement, like, 'The 9/11 terrorists all had proper identification, asking for their identification wouldn't have done one damn thing to stop the attacks from happening. The problems exist at a higher level, and need to be stopped at a higher level.'? If so, people would, on the whole, probably nod sagely and leave it at that.
If, on the other hand, the context given were, say, extreme shock journalism, as most of it is today, people would be in an outrage.
Hey, want to hear something neat? Air terrorism isn't new. There was tons of it in the seventies and eighties. Did you know that before then, there were no metal detectors in airports?
Other countries have dealt with terrorist threats of a far bigger nature quite successfully without going facist, why can't the US? "Hey, President Bush, if any country which gives aid or comfort to terrorists should be considered terrorists, and the US gave all that money to Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA, what does that make the US?"
Prosecutor: You are aware, of course, that as per the PATRIOTUSA-3 act of 2006, in the Sixth Year Of The Enlightened Reign of Glorious Leader Bush, that such encryption carries the death penalty? Report for termination, Friend Citizen!
Reformat and reinstall is a stock answer that means "I don't know how to fix this." or "It's too big a job for me to be bothered with."
Well, ignoring the 'three hours to reformat/restore data vs ten hours of screwing around' argument, there's also the 'when a system has been compromised, you restore it from TRUSTED MEDIA because, lets face it, you don't know what's lurking around on there' argument.
Who cares? If it can hold a hundred terabytes, lets assume absolutely no error correction or anything, then just have it hold 20 terrabytes with four redundant copies, and a shitload of parity data.
Now, I have to ask the people in charge of Homeland Security: do you really, truly, honestly think that you have *any* hope of keeping anyone from writing such a two-line program?
Prosecutor: "Your Honor, the prosecution enters into evidence this encrypted VoIP stream, which originated from the defendant's computer, at the date and time of foo."
Judge: "So entered."
Prosecutor: "Mr. Defendant, what is your encryption key?"
You: "Um....."
Judge: "I'll remind you that not disclosing it instantly lands you in jail. And don't give me that 'I forgot' crap; being Bubba's bitch does wonders for the memory, you know."
Assuming people who download are technically literate enough to check the signature, or verify an MD5 sum, or aren't going to trust content from MICROS0FT INC. or whatever.
See the two icons listed beside the story; a lock and a stapler? Hover your mouse over each picture, and you'll see what the story is listed as; in this case 'security' and 'IT.'
The problem there, of course, being 'what kind of daddy reads a story to his kid about hot Vulcan chicks with ginormous racks getting oiled up in the 'decontamination' chamber?'
Well, if a) your access point can be set to intercept all HTTP requests and send back a specific web page/image, and b) that image happens to be the goatsex guy, or tubgirl....
The story goes that when they got an Xbox dev kit, they ported over the PS2 version of DOA2 (which didn't even look as good as the Dreamcast version) to the point where it ran, then sat back in amazement as it ran at over 130 frames per second.
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And the typical Australian is still amused that somebody would actually name their daughter 'Sheila.'
Go type 'southern hemisphere monitors' into Google.
This is what you call a One Time Pad, and so long as a) the data on the pad is truely random, and b) the pad isn't compromised or reused, it is utterly unbreakable.
But what about a flight to a different country?
If you hope on a plane in California, and fly west to Japan, you're not entering into a different state. But what if you fly north to Canada? Sure, you're passing over a few states, but are you travelling through them?
Well, that depends. Would they be given all of the appropriate context for that statement, like, 'The 9/11 terrorists all had proper identification, asking for their identification wouldn't have done one damn thing to stop the attacks from happening. The problems exist at a higher level, and need to be stopped at a higher level.'? If so, people would, on the whole, probably nod sagely and leave it at that.
If, on the other hand, the context given were, say, extreme shock journalism, as most of it is today, people would be in an outrage.
Hey, want to hear something neat? Air terrorism isn't new. There was tons of it in the seventies and eighties. Did you know that before then, there were no metal detectors in airports?
Other countries have dealt with terrorist threats of a far bigger nature quite successfully without going facist, why can't the US? "Hey, President Bush, if any country which gives aid or comfort to terrorists should be considered terrorists, and the US gave all that money to Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA, what does that make the US?"
Prosecutor: You are aware, of course, that as per the PATRIOTUSA-3 act of 2006, in the Sixth Year Of The Enlightened Reign of Glorious Leader Bush, that such encryption carries the death penalty? Report for termination, Friend Citizen!
You: Dammit! I should have moved to Canada!
Well, ignoring the 'three hours to reformat/restore data vs ten hours of screwing around' argument, there's also the 'when a system has been compromised, you restore it from TRUSTED MEDIA because, lets face it, you don't know what's lurking around on there' argument.
Who cares? If it can hold a hundred terabytes, lets assume absolutely no error correction or anything, then just have it hold 20 terrabytes with four redundant copies, and a shitload of parity data.
You left out one little thing: Context..
This was the 1920s, when most of these ideas were pretty common.
Give this a read.
As you say; yet.
Especially if Bush 'wins' another term.
Prosecutor: "Your Honor, the prosecution enters into evidence this encrypted VoIP stream, which originated from the defendant's computer, at the date and time of foo."
Judge: "So entered."
Prosecutor: "Mr. Defendant, what is your encryption key?"
You: "Um....."
Judge: "I'll remind you that not disclosing it instantly lands you in jail. And don't give me that 'I forgot' crap; being Bubba's bitch does wonders for the memory, you know."
You: "Err...."
Assuming people who download are technically literate enough to check the signature, or verify an MD5 sum, or aren't going to trust content from MICROS0FT INC. or whatever.
Can you blame them? Untrusted sources and all that?
See the two icons listed beside the story; a lock and a stapler? Hover your mouse over each picture, and you'll see what the story is listed as; in this case 'security' and 'IT.'
Hrm. I didn't realize the trend was moving in that direction. Ouch.
They are.
The ultrasound machine that they use on you isn't running windows.
The computer hooked up to it, which handles the image analysis, display, and archiving, however, probably is.
The problem there, of course, being 'what kind of daddy reads a story to his kid about hot Vulcan chicks with ginormous racks getting oiled up in the 'decontamination' chamber?'
Generally, if the phone line isn't business rate, they can't put business rate DSL on it.
Similarly, if the phone line isn't residential rate, one can't but residential DSL on it.
Can I buy a portable player that isn't an iPod that can play the DRM'd iTunes AAC files?
No?
Well, then, sounds like they're using their strength in one market to sell product in another.
Well, if a) your access point can be set to intercept all HTTP requests and send back a specific web page/image, and b) that image happens to be the goatsex guy, or tubgirl....
The story goes that when they got an Xbox dev kit, they ported over the PS2 version of DOA2 (which didn't even look as good as the Dreamcast version) to the point where it ran, then sat back in amazement as it ran at over 130 frames per second.
But it's only recently that they're pretty much a) ubiquitous, and b) powerful enough in the lowest common denominator.
Hell, it's only Windows XP that dares to assume that your monitor can do 800 by 600; 2k and below still default to 640x480.
Things you don't see every day on Slashdot: Somebody complaining that Microsoft is trying to innovate too much.
Actually, I'd say it means 'go back to NT 3 and put the graphics in user mode.'