I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but still. I'm not a Russian dissident and I don't really know any. However, I stumbled upon the story of this monument (and of Putin's attempts to tear it down) and I thought it was more worthy of a Wikipedia article than Mudkips, although I heard quite a few people like them. It's a known fact that people feel much easier with editing an article than with creating a new one (Wikipedia's editing policy only make a natural phenomenon worse), and I hoped that a few of the many people online who can tell us more about the subject will take advantage of the venue and improve on the article.
If this isn't something that should work on Wikipedia, perhaps we should change Wikipedia.
I wanted to write an article about the Solovetskiy Stone, which is a monument to victims of political persecution in the former USSR erected by former Gulag residents right across the KGB headquarters.
I didn't want to create a user - sorry Jimbo, I just don't want to join your fan club. As a form of punishment, I was tormented with like a 17-step wizard with questions such as whether I am writing about a "MUSICAL GROUP, DJ, ALBUM, or SONG". After I finally got to the part where I write my part, it was unceremoniously deleted by the EarWig robot (eh?), because some of the text - basically the address of the place in Moscow - was copy-pasted from memorial.ru. And this is the site with a 10-page article listing the secondary characters in the Final Fantasy world. Sorry, somebody else would have to create this article instead of me and yes, I was shocked at how bad Wikipedia had got.
I tried searching for this phrase (don't ask why): "six seven eight triple nine eight two one-by two"
Google gave me the correct results, Bing gave me something totally bizarre about the Oshkosh Titans.
I can add bells and whistles to the results myself using Greasemonkey, thank you. The server's responsible for good, relevant results, and this is not happening right now.
Um, actually AES does hurt steganography since steganalysis tools have an easier time finding uniformly distributed payloads (such as AES ciphertexts) than somewhat biased payloads (such as standard text).
So, it would be easier to know that you have some data in there, but harder to know what the data is. Your call.
Take a look at this tutorial: www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdf
The App Engine cluster is not just a big dump truck of cycles you dip into on demand. The processing power is quantized into discrete machines. There's actually a nice scheduler there that checks how busy your app is and assigns new processors to handle it. This isn't a real-time process so there are transient periods with overload. On the long run, GAE will scale fine.
There are some nice vids about the architecture on the Google developer youtube channels.
"Excellent Hardness is Easy" sounds like an ideal title for a TCC submission if I've ever seen one. They're at home with stuff like: "Semi-honest to Malicious Oblivious Transfer - The Black-Box Way" "On the Complexity of Parallel Hardness Amplification for One-Way Functions" "The Ultimate Male Package", well that one's actually from my spam folder. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~tcc08/
I ascended as a samurai once, and it was this close to landing on my CV. That one's offset by the squillion times I was killed by a combination of my stupidity and the cruelty of the almighty RNG (random number generator).
Then there are those crazy iron-man ascents made by guys who never eat, never attack other monsters, never wear armor and so on.
Did you RTFA (or more specifically LATFC)? This coin has algorithmic outputs both on the front (the Queen made out of architect names) and on the back (an outline of Holland made out of books). I can't see how anybody could create it using Photoshop or Illustrator. The coin designer probably spent more time coding than sketching (like the book Snow Crash).
Also, it's beautiful. I want one, no, a few million of them.
I tried to download the encrypted files from the Kaspersky forum.
It required a log-in.
I used a bugmenot.com login(obviously).
Result: my IP got banninated until 19.11.2009
I'm vain enough to consider myself a "crypto expert", and that sort of treatment is a turnoff. Kaspersky, either learn to respect my privacy or learn to live without me.
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but still. I'm not a Russian dissident and I don't really know any. However, I stumbled upon the story of this monument (and of Putin's attempts to tear it down) and I thought it was more worthy of a Wikipedia article than Mudkips, although I heard quite a few people like them. It's a known fact that people feel much easier with editing an article than with creating a new one (Wikipedia's editing policy only make a natural phenomenon worse), and I hoped that a few of the many people online who can tell us more about the subject will take advantage of the venue and improve on the article.
If this isn't something that should work on Wikipedia, perhaps we should change Wikipedia.
I wanted to write an article about the Solovetskiy Stone, which is a monument to victims of political persecution in the former USSR erected by former Gulag residents right across the KGB headquarters.
I didn't want to create a user - sorry Jimbo, I just don't want to join your fan club. As a form of punishment, I was tormented with like a 17-step wizard with questions such as whether I am writing about a "MUSICAL GROUP, DJ, ALBUM, or SONG". After I finally got to the part where I write my part, it was unceremoniously deleted by the EarWig robot (eh?), because some of the text - basically the address of the place in Moscow - was copy-pasted from memorial.ru. And this is the site with a 10-page article listing the secondary characters in the Final Fantasy world. Sorry, somebody else would have to create this article instead of me and yes, I was shocked at how bad Wikipedia had got.
I tried searching for this phrase (don't ask why):
"six seven eight triple nine eight two one-by two"
Google gave me the correct results, Bing gave me something totally bizarre about the Oshkosh Titans.
I can add bells and whistles to the results myself using Greasemonkey, thank you. The server's responsible for good, relevant results, and this is not happening right now.
Um, actually AES does hurt steganography since steganalysis tools have an easier time finding uniformly distributed payloads (such as AES ciphertexts) than somewhat biased payloads (such as standard text).
So, it would be easier to know that you have some data in there, but harder to know what the data is. Your call.
Take a look at this tutorial:
www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdf
The App Engine cluster is not just a big dump truck of cycles you dip into on demand. The processing power is quantized into discrete machines. There's actually a nice scheduler there that checks how busy your app is and assigns new processors to handle it. This isn't a real-time process so there are transient periods with overload. On the long run, GAE will scale fine.
There are some nice vids about the architecture on the Google developer youtube channels.
"Excellent Hardness is Easy" sounds like an ideal title for a TCC submission if I've ever seen one. They're at home with stuff like:
"Semi-honest to Malicious Oblivious Transfer - The Black-Box Way"
"On the Complexity of Parallel Hardness Amplification for One-Way Functions"
"The Ultimate Male Package", well that one's actually from my spam folder.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~tcc08/
I ascended as a samurai once, and it was this close to landing on my CV. That one's offset by the squillion times I was killed by a combination of my stupidity and the cruelty of the almighty RNG (random number generator).
Then there are those crazy iron-man ascents made by guys who never eat, never attack other monsters, never wear armor and so on.
It's a great game, and after playing it a few times you can take a look at some archived YASDs to appreciate their fine humour:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/search?q=yasd
Did you RTFA (or more specifically LATFC)? This coin has algorithmic outputs both on the front (the Queen made out of architect names) and on the back (an outline of Holland made out of books). I can't see how anybody could create it using Photoshop or Illustrator. The coin designer probably spent more time coding than sketching (like the book Snow Crash).
Also, it's beautiful. I want one, no, a few million of them.
I tried to download the encrypted files from the Kaspersky forum.
It required a log-in.
I used a bugmenot.com login(obviously).
Result: my IP got banninated until 19.11.2009
I'm vain enough to consider myself a "crypto expert", and that sort of treatment is a turnoff. Kaspersky, either learn to respect my privacy or learn to live without me.