You are oversimplifying things. First, Enigma had nothing to do with OTP. Second, what the Germans were doing wrong was to include known data in their encrypted messages - e.g. protocol headers and weather reports. This provided the cribs that the Bletchley Park people leveraged to break Enigma, based on a heck of a lot of donkey work done by the Poles immediately before the war. Another thing that the Brits are indebted to the Poles for.
Since this seems to be the season for stupid suggestions: Why don't you MS people commit collective suicide, thus making the world a better place? Come to think of it, this suggestion might not be all that stupid.
12/31/2020 is less than two years away. Methinks that the man-child in the White House has watched too many movies and has essentially no understanding whatsoever of the issues involved.
The poor guy, six years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is probably losing it. In the last couple of years he's been creating enemies for himself needlessly, and this is certainly not going to endear him to Uncle Sam.
Flying cars, as generally understood, should meet the following requirements:
1. No wings, or externally-visible propellers.
2. Able to hover, effortlessly, almost quietly, indefinitely.
3. Complete maneuverability at very low speeds.
4. Affordable - the LAPD should be able to have a fleet, and even down-on-his-luck detective like Rick Deckard, or a greasy Korben Dallas could afford one.
5. Relatively inexpensive to run.
6. Generally quiet.
With current technologies, we probably can't meet any of those requirements. With any reasonably foreseeable technologies, we can't meet most of those requirements. Flying cars will remain a pipe dream for decades to come, maybe even centuries. In fact, it may turn out to be the case that they will never make sense. In the meantime, we'll have announcements about ridiculous contraptions every so often, which will get very little to no traction at all.
Lunar eclipses are nice, but they don't really pack of much of a Wow!, especially when compared with their solar counterparts. Additionally, since they are global phenomena, everybody is far more likely to witness several during their lifetime. Most people will witness a solar one only if they are lucky, or if they make a point (and have the necessary wherewithal) to witness one.
In my experience, most people claim that security is a big problem. But, when the rubber meets the road, they are reluctant to invest. Why? Because the aftermath of situations caused by security breaches tends to be a lot of noise - and very little else. We keep hearing about huge security breaches in Equifax, Target, Visa, etc. I am sure that, after such breaches, heads roll in the companies affected. But such companies just keep going. A breach like the one at Equifax a few years ago should have brought the company to its knees. But, Equifax is still there, doing what it has always done. I am sure they took a beating, but it would seem that it makes financial sense for them to take that beating than having to invest in security to try and minimize the possibilities of such breaches: the most stringent security does not guarantee that such breaches will not happen. Hence the current situation: everybody pays lip service to security, claiming that it is very important. But, when the time comes to investing in security, most do not - because it is really not worth the while.
MS is not alone in this nonsense - those Gnome clowns have been trying to do the same thing for years now. And failing in a big way - nobody uses Gnome in phones or tablets (is it even available?) and the consistently negligible share of Linux in the desktop is public knowledge, the fact that not even here is Gnome top choice among those who need to get work done only adding insult to injury.
This can reasonably be justified if evidence can be presented that new physics will be found by such an accelerator. LHC found the Higgs, and that alone already justifies its existence. However, it has found no evidence whatsoever of supersymmetric particles, or anything, at that. It might be the case that one needs to go to even higher energies - but the truth is that supersymmetry theories lose much of their appeal with every new TeV that is explored, without finding anything. If this accelerator is built, and it finds nothing, that would be the death knell for experimental high-energy particle physics.
Right. The Snowden leaks show that the NSA achieves its results by just about any mechanism other than breaking standard cryptosystems - it would seem that, if properly implemented, the NSA is helpless against them.
They have to add their bloat and junk, most of the time doing it poorly to boot. Samsung is the prime example - it would seem that the Samsung software people do their best to ruin the Samsung hardware. Which is one of the reasons why I am not likely to ever buy a Samsung phone, and also why I have advised those in my circle not to buy a Samsung phone.
Brilliant idea. This will result in a significant increase in the sales of opaque sticky tape. Not unexpected from Cadillac, a brand that is synonymous with OLD.
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You are oversimplifying things. First, Enigma had nothing to do with OTP. Second, what the Germans were doing wrong was to include known data in their encrypted messages - e.g. protocol headers and weather reports. This provided the cribs that the Bletchley Park people leveraged to break Enigma, based on a heck of a lot of donkey work done by the Poles immediately before the war. Another thing that the Brits are indebted to the Poles for.
Take your medicine - otherwise, your high blood pressure will make you explode.
Since this seems to be the season for stupid suggestions: Why don't you MS people commit collective suicide, thus making the world a better place? Come to think of it, this suggestion might not be all that stupid.
Being a Google-controlled company, the news would have been if they had decided NOT to sell that data.
Otherwise, they would not be Samsung devices.
Let's face it: American beer is the worst in the world. Like its chocolate - amazing that Americans are happy to eat Hershey's, which smells of puke.
Mices.
The deal could help Microsoft make its argument that it supports open-source technologies.
Yeah, right.
They have not changed, others have just become even worster.
I have to confess that I like that neologism a lot.
12/31/2020 is less than two years away. Methinks that the man-child in the White House has watched too many movies and has essentially no understanding whatsoever of the issues involved.
The poor guy, six years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is probably losing it. In the last couple of years he's been creating enemies for himself needlessly, and this is certainly not going to endear him to Uncle Sam.
Flying cars, as generally understood, should meet the following requirements:
1. No wings, or externally-visible propellers.
2. Able to hover, effortlessly, almost quietly, indefinitely.
3. Complete maneuverability at very low speeds.
4. Affordable - the LAPD should be able to have a fleet, and even down-on-his-luck detective like Rick Deckard, or a greasy Korben Dallas could afford one.
5. Relatively inexpensive to run.
6. Generally quiet.
With current technologies, we probably can't meet any of those requirements. With any reasonably foreseeable technologies, we can't meet most of those requirements. Flying cars will remain a pipe dream for decades to come, maybe even centuries. In fact, it may turn out to be the case that they will never make sense. In the meantime, we'll have announcements about ridiculous contraptions every so often, which will get very little to no traction at all.
Big middle finger to you, Microsoft.
The day the even consider that possibility is the day I ditch them.
Lunar eclipses are nice, but they don't really pack of much of a Wow!, especially when compared with their solar counterparts. Additionally, since they are global phenomena, everybody is far more likely to witness several during their lifetime. Most people will witness a solar one only if they are lucky, or if they make a point (and have the necessary wherewithal) to witness one.
It's sad to see how Firefox, that used to be a champion of privacy and freedom, has all but completed its transition to the dark side.
In my experience, most people claim that security is a big problem. But, when the rubber meets the road, they are reluctant to invest. Why? Because the aftermath of situations caused by security breaches tends to be a lot of noise - and very little else. We keep hearing about huge security breaches in Equifax, Target, Visa, etc. I am sure that, after such breaches, heads roll in the companies affected. But such companies just keep going. A breach like the one at Equifax a few years ago should have brought the company to its knees. But, Equifax is still there, doing what it has always done. I am sure they took a beating, but it would seem that it makes financial sense for them to take that beating than having to invest in security to try and minimize the possibilities of such breaches: the most stringent security does not guarantee that such breaches will not happen. Hence the current situation: everybody pays lip service to security, claiming that it is very important. But, when the time comes to investing in security, most do not - because it is really not worth the while.
The headline is not suggesting otherwise, is it?
MS is not alone in this nonsense - those Gnome clowns have been trying to do the same thing for years now. And failing in a big way - nobody uses Gnome in phones or tablets (is it even available?) and the consistently negligible share of Linux in the desktop is public knowledge, the fact that not even here is Gnome top choice among those who need to get work done only adding insult to injury.
This can reasonably be justified if evidence can be presented that new physics will be found by such an accelerator. LHC found the Higgs, and that alone already justifies its existence. However, it has found no evidence whatsoever of supersymmetric particles, or anything, at that. It might be the case that one needs to go to even higher energies - but the truth is that supersymmetry theories lose much of their appeal with every new TeV that is explored, without finding anything. If this accelerator is built, and it finds nothing, that would be the death knell for experimental high-energy particle physics.
Right. The Snowden leaks show that the NSA achieves its results by just about any mechanism other than breaking standard cryptosystems - it would seem that, if properly implemented, the NSA is helpless against them.
Not surprised Nokia being the leader. It is owned by Microsoft now, and Microsoft will always game every benchmark.
Microsoft sold Nokia a few years ago.
They have to add their bloat and junk, most of the time doing it poorly to boot. Samsung is the prime example - it would seem that the Samsung software people do their best to ruin the Samsung hardware. Which is one of the reasons why I am not likely to ever buy a Samsung phone, and also why I have advised those in my circle not to buy a Samsung phone.
Brilliant idea. This will result in a significant increase in the sales of opaque sticky tape. Not unexpected from Cadillac, a brand that is synonymous with OLD.
The developers weren't thinking about hostile input when they were writing code, and didn't test corner cases. It worked for them!
The developers were not thinking, period.