"No pressurization" means very low pressure and not enough vaporized water in the air to condense and cause problems...(of course I'm just speculating)
Judging from the description of how they decrypted the url list, it seems like there wasn't much attention at all put into the encryption scheme. It was very poorly implemented and inconsistant. So, it's no surprise that the encryption was 'broken'.
The way you're implying encryption works is just changing the way it's represented. In that way, I could be encrypting a message just by writing it down (changing the coding from brainwaves to written characters). Because of the fact that plaintext has lots of repitition, there are always going to be non-random sequences (in ascii there's only around 2.7 (if I remember correctly) bits of entropy per byte for english). What encrypting it does is distribute that entropy over as much space as possible, and turn your large secret (the plaintext) into a small secret (the secret key). I think you're using 'encrypting' when you should be using 'encoding'.
The cattle were being fed the processed brains of slaughtered cattle, which is what causes 'mad cow' disease. The cannibalistic humans who had the same type of disease also ate the remains of dead (they weren't killed by the tribe) humans. This has nothing to do with 'genes jumping'.
If you could manage to get to a reasonable fraction of c, you'd get annihilated by atomic particles and photons (now THAT would be a unique experience).
If you've ever read Applied Cryptography 2nd edition (Bruce Schneier), then you'll realize how inadaquate this protocol is compared to some of the good annonymous voting protocols proposed in that book.
Was this "shining beacon of morality" you're talking about around when there were suspected-witch killings by the Puritans, or maybe it was the hundreds of years of racism which continues, although is much better, today. Or could it be the McCarthistic communist witch-hunts of the 50's?
It's not about "an individual or organization's right to proprietary ownership of their own work", it's about what happens when you buy the media, and it becomes your property (The MPAA sees buying a DVD as a liscence, not a purchase).
I thought I read somewhere that #10 has been solved by using chemical reactions to combine DNA strands representing all the different routes, or it could have just been a bad dream...:)
I think, given enough practice, a nice, strong hammer blow to the ears would give the desired effect.:) Of course, when they're blabbing, and you have a hammer in your hand...
So, if I'm not a 'serious' reader (meaning I don't feel like buying every book that I read), then I can't go to my local public library and expect to be able to get a copy of what some people could deem 'smut'?
But, on the other hand, if I -am- a 'serious' reader, then I should be able to get all the 'smut' I want?
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"No pressurization" means very low pressure and not enough vaporized water in the air to condense and cause problems...(of course I'm just speculating)
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Uhh...LCD screens stil 'shoot' rays at your face.
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Judging from the description of how they decrypted the url list, it seems like there wasn't much attention at all put into the encryption scheme. It was very poorly implemented and inconsistant. So, it's no surprise that the encryption was 'broken'.
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The way you're implying encryption works is just changing the way it's represented. In that way, I could be encrypting a message just by writing it down (changing the coding from brainwaves to written characters).
Because of the fact that plaintext has lots of repitition, there are always going to be non-random sequences (in ascii there's only around 2.7 (if I remember correctly) bits of entropy per byte for english). What encrypting it does is distribute that entropy over as much space as possible, and turn your large secret (the plaintext) into a small secret (the secret key).
I think you're using 'encrypting' when you should be using 'encoding'.
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"impart[ing] discipline" doesn't lead to respect, it leads to resentment.
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What are you talking about?!
The Matrix COMPLETELY ripped off Tron's theme!
>:P
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Please build me the rotating space station from 2001.
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I'd really like to see that happen...
but it seems like nobody cares to fight this tiger. Conformity is the rule of the day.
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"... government ... poorly funded ..."
now there's an oxymoron
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And there's the halting problem (even a god can't solve that[!]) :)
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The cattle were being fed the processed brains of slaughtered cattle, which is what causes 'mad cow' disease. The cannibalistic humans who had the same type of disease also ate the remains of dead (they weren't killed by the tribe) humans. This has nothing to do with 'genes jumping'.
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Annonymity is paying with cash.
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If you could manage to get to a reasonable fraction of c, you'd get annihilated by atomic particles and photons (now THAT would be a unique experience).
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I'd love to see a giant space-elevator, or an asteroid mining mission, or pretty much anything else in the series :)
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If you've ever read Applied Cryptography 2nd edition (Bruce Schneier), then you'll realize how inadaquate this protocol is compared to some of the good annonymous voting protocols proposed in that book.
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Was this "shining beacon of morality" you're talking about around when there were suspected-witch killings by the Puritans, or maybe it was the hundreds of years of racism which continues, although is much better, today. Or could it be the McCarthistic communist witch-hunts of the 50's?
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"Daikatana ... released" BAHAHAHAHAHA
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We need a few thousand...
Or someone could just build a common-sense imparting machine.
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It's not about "an individual or organization's right to proprietary ownership of their own work", it's about what happens when you buy the media, and it becomes your property (The MPAA sees buying a DVD as a liscence, not a purchase).
Which is why I put a smiley behind it :)
Didn't Hitler have a "manifest destiny" "to rule this world" too?
I thought I read somewhere that #10 has been solved by using chemical reactions to combine DNA strands representing all the different routes, or it could have just been a bad dream... :)
The money could've been given to No Such Agency, to build even more privacy-infringing machines.
I think, given enough practice, a nice, strong hammer blow to the ears would give the desired effect. :)
Of course, when they're blabbing, and you have a hammer in your hand...
So, if I'm not a 'serious' reader (meaning I don't feel like buying every book that I read), then I can't go to my local public library and expect to be able to get a copy of what some people could deem 'smut'?
But, on the other hand, if I -am- a 'serious' reader, then I should be able to get all the 'smut' I want?