It is technically possible to break the encryption of one-time pads. A process for it is described in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (which is a damn good book). All one has to do is realize that the pads numbers can not be purely random. There must be some sort of algorithm or person generating the pseudorandom numbers. Figure out the key to this and you can crack parts of some of the pads generated using this algorithm. ______________________________________ _________________
Just some thoughts I typed up a while ago. Their might be a better way to implement this than the one I discuss, its just what came to me at the time and I haven't had much time to work on it since then.
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Imagine being able to go out for a night on the town, party for hours, have a great time, and never leave your house. Imagine being able to physically interact with people without being in the same room as them. Imagine being able to sit down on your couch and visit the Louvre. Imagine being able to completely submerse yourself in another world whenever you got tired of reality. Imagine the future.
If you want something bad enough, anything, it can be yours in reality. In the Internet of the future, you can have anything just by thinking about it. The Internet of the future will be a fully realized replication of reality, only better. It will be what reality would be like if magic was real. The future Internet will be what I like to call an "X-Windows to the Soul".
The future is being built as we speak. As 3D engines get closer and closer to reality they become the software that it will be built upon. As research in electronic implants in the human body progresses it becomes the hardware that will create the interface. Researchers today are already making implants that can communicate with, and even control, the nervous system. Implants that can input information directly to the five senses are not far off, and once they are a reality the hardware will be ready.
The system will be built upon a worldwide, wireless, network of these implants communicating with strategically located, and incredibly powerful, servers. The implants themselves will act as video cards and sound cards do in computers today, giving the monitor and speakers, which will be the brain, the information it needs to create the user environment. The servers will manage central processing of information. Servers will also store data, but the users will be able to use memory cards placed into dataports in their skin for local storage.
If you think e-commerce has reached its peak with showing pictures of products on two-dimensional pages with text to communicate with consumers get ready for a surprise. In the future the client will be able to see the product, touch the product, hear the product, taste the product, and smell the product in real time. Bots will interact with the client, answering questions and helping them in any way possible during the sale. It will be easier for clients to get exactly what they need and easier for companies to help them do so.
All information sent from the implants to the servers that will manage the buildings and streets of this world (which are separate from the user information processing servers), and back will be encrypted with the strongest possible encryption. This will allow users to feel more comfortable about making secure online transactions, as well as providing for secure corporate extranets.
The sensory input system will be fully user configurable. If the user doesn't want input from any of the five sense systems he can simply turn it off or turn it 'down' to a lower level. For sound this means volume; for taste, touch, and smell, this means intensity; for vision it means different visual modes. Sometimes it might be more practical to work with a simple two-dimensional interface, like the computers of today. Sometimes a user may want to be able to see what is happening in both the real world and the virtual world. There are two methods by which this may be accomplished. The user could set the input to only part of his field of vision. The user could also make the input transparent, allowing him to see reality through the virtual view. These visual options could be used in any combination. I could, for example, see a transparent three-dimensional input in only half of my field of vision.
The implants will be far more cost efficient than computers of the past. In the past you needed a computer at home, a computer at work, a computer at school, and sometimes more at each location. With the implant not only does one computer complete the task in all of these places, but it does it everywhere. And that is only if you want to leave home to go to work. Ever wanted to spend the rest of the day in bed but had to go to work? Just turn on full sensory input and take a trip to your offices counterpart in the virtual world. Now you can spend the rest of the day in bed and go to work. ________________________________________________ _______
i would also like to know who the moron who invented shared memory is. im borrowing a MediaGX board from a friend until i can afford an athlon set of hardware of my own and all i gotta say is this thing is such a piece of sh*t. if you see a mediagx board for like $5 its not worth it. the only real application of a mediagx board is to use it for an mp3 player in your car (it would work great because of the onboard sound/video thing), but have fun finding drivers for the sound/video.
I use anonymizer at school to access sites that have been firewalled. At my school they firewall some sites that just don't make sense to firewall. Slashdot was firewalled for a month or two even. It might be slow, but over the horribly built network at my school you can't even tell the difference...
With the whole Microsoft thing upsetting the stock market, especially tech stocks, I really don't think that now is the best time for an IPO anyway. If the rumor is true, and they are shelving the IPO, I don't think that it is necessarily a very bad thing.
"I'd much rather get a T-Shirt for participating in a program in which I learned how to reach out to a a depressed or disaffected person, rather than rat-finking on somebody I didn't even really understand. Who would want to wear a t-shirt that says "W.A.V.E. America" on it anyway? It might as well say "German State Police" (Gestapo) on it.
"How does Pinkerton propose to implement WAVE without violating these constitutional rights?" Very easily: kids don't have any constitutional rights (or at least none that are 1. upheld very often in courts, or 2. of any use against this sort of system, at least none that I know of, feel free to correct me).
thanks for the tip.. i agree with you that it makes much more sense for there to be one site doing this instead of two. if the community can pool its talents into larger projects it will accomplish more.
I am in the preliminary stages of setting up a site to distribute the Propaganda volumes. But I want to do more than that. It has been pointed out that there is a serious lack of quality, readily available, background images. A site like themes.org but for background images has been proposed, and I even thought about that myself before seeing the post. So I will be building it. I just don't know what to call it yet. (How about 'Slashback - Backgrounds for Nerds. Colors that matter'?) If you have any suggestions, e-mail me.
If you are interested in helping me out, either by helping me design the site, maintain the site (I want to use Slashcode to run a news front end, and I'm not sure how I want to distribute the files yet), or by making some cool background images to be distributed e-mail me.
Hopefully we can work together to solve this problem.
Well if this isn't a joke, then the site is obviously shut down. He says they will be 'publically available elsewhere' but I think he's leaving where that is exactly up to us. Does anybody have all/any of the volumes that they could put up somewhere? Or does anyone know of anywhere else (other than the original site) where they are available? If no one else is interested in setting this up, but you have some of the volumes, email them to me at newlin@aesention.com . If I get them all I will set it up. _____________________________________________ __________
the buzz word that was near that that caught my attention was "Handspring". The IPO press release said they were doing some "innovative" things with "handheld computers". This is a lot more innovative than I expected. _______________________________________ ________________
Slashdot Mirror
It is technically possible to break the encryption of one-time pads. A process for it is described in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (which is a damn good book). All one has to do is realize that the pads numbers can not be purely random. There must be some sort of algorithm or person generating the pseudorandom numbers. Figure out the key to this and you can crack parts of some of the pads generated using this algorithm._ _________________
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Imagine being able to go out for a night on the town, party for hours, have a great time, and never leave your house. Imagine being able to physically interact with people without being in the same room as them. Imagine being able to sit down on your couch and visit the Louvre. Imagine being able to completely submerse yourself in another world whenever you got tired of reality. Imagine the future.
If you want something bad enough, anything, it can be yours in reality. In the Internet of the future, you can have anything just by thinking about it. The Internet of the future will be a fully realized replication of reality, only better. It will be what reality would be like if magic was real. The future Internet will be what I like to call an "X-Windows to the Soul".
The future is being built as we speak. As 3D engines get closer and closer to reality they become the software that it will be built upon. As research in electronic implants in the human body progresses it becomes the hardware that will create the interface. Researchers today are already making implants that can communicate with, and even control, the nervous system. Implants that can input information directly to the five senses are not far off, and once they are a reality the hardware will be ready.
The system will be built upon a worldwide, wireless, network of these implants communicating with strategically located, and incredibly powerful, servers. The implants themselves will act as video cards and sound cards do in computers today, giving the monitor and speakers, which will be the brain, the information it needs to create the user environment. The servers will manage central processing of information. Servers will also store data, but the users will be able to use memory cards placed into dataports in their skin for local storage.
If you think e-commerce has reached its peak with showing pictures of products on two-dimensional pages with text to communicate with consumers get ready for a surprise. In the future the client will be able to see the product, touch the product, hear the product, taste the product, and smell the product in real time. Bots will interact with the client, answering questions and helping them in any way possible during the sale. It will be easier for clients to get exactly what they need and easier for companies to help them do so.
All information sent from the implants to the servers that will manage the buildings and streets of this world (which are separate from the user information processing servers), and back will be encrypted with the strongest possible encryption. This will allow users to feel more comfortable about making secure online transactions, as well as providing for secure corporate extranets.
The sensory input system will be fully user configurable. If the user doesn't want input from any of the five sense systems he can simply turn it off or turn it 'down' to a lower level. For sound this means volume; for taste, touch, and smell, this means intensity; for vision it means different visual modes. Sometimes it might be more practical to work with a simple two-dimensional interface, like the computers of today. Sometimes a user may want to be able to see what is happening in both the real world and the virtual world. There are two methods by which this may be accomplished. The user could set the input to only part of his field of vision. The user could also make the input transparent, allowing him to see reality through the virtual view. These visual options could be used in any combination. I could, for example, see a transparent three-dimensional input in only half of my field of vision.
The implants will be far more cost efficient than computers of the past. In the past you needed a computer at home, a computer at work, a computer at school, and sometimes more at each location. With the implant not only does one computer complete the task in all of these places, but it does it everywhere. And that is only if you want to leave home to go to work. Ever wanted to spend the rest of the day in bed but had to go to work? Just turn on full sensory input and take a trip to your offices counterpart in the virtual world. Now you can spend the rest of the day in bed and go to work._ _______
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i would also like to know who the moron who invented shared memory is. im borrowing a MediaGX board from a friend until i can afford an athlon set of hardware of my own and all i gotta say is this thing is such a piece of sh*t. if you see a mediagx board for like $5 its not worth it. the only real application of a mediagx board is to use it for an mp3 player in your car (it would work great because of the onboard sound/video thing), but have fun finding drivers for the sound/video.
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I use anonymizer at school to access sites that have been firewalled. At my school they firewall some sites that just don't make sense to firewall. Slashdot was firewalled for a month or two even. It might be slow, but over the horribly built network at my school you can't even tell the difference...
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With the whole Microsoft thing upsetting the stock market, especially tech stocks, I really don't think that now is the best time for an IPO anyway. If the rumor is true, and they are shelving the IPO, I don't think that it is necessarily a very bad thing.
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"I'd much rather get a T-Shirt for participating in a program in which I learned how to reach out to a a depressed or disaffected person, rather than rat-finking on somebody I didn't even really understand.
Who would want to wear a t-shirt that says "W.A.V.E. America" on it anyway? It might as well say "German State Police" (Gestapo) on it.
"How does Pinkerton propose to implement WAVE without violating these constitutional rights?"
Very easily: kids don't have any constitutional rights (or at least none that are 1. upheld very often in courts, or 2. of any use against this sort of system, at least none that I know of, feel free to correct me).
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thanks for the tip.. i agree with you that it makes much more sense for there to be one site doing this instead of two. if the community can pool its talents into larger projects it will accomplish more.
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I think it's incredibly funny myself.
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I present my humble solution.
I am in the preliminary stages of setting up a site to distribute the Propaganda volumes. But I want to do more than that. It has been pointed out that there is a serious lack of quality, readily available, background images. A site like themes.org but for background images has been proposed, and I even thought about that myself before seeing the post. So I will be building it. I just don't know what to call it yet. (How about 'Slashback - Backgrounds for Nerds. Colors that matter'?) If you have any suggestions, e-mail me.
If you are interested in helping me out, either by helping me design the site, maintain the site (I want to use Slashcode to run a news front end, and I'm not sure how I want to distribute the files yet), or by making some cool background images to be distributed e-mail me.
Hopefully we can work together to solve this problem.
Kirn Malinus
a.k.a. Nicholas Newlin
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Well if this isn't a joke, then the site is obviously shut down. He says they will be 'publically available elsewhere' but I think he's leaving where that is exactly up to us. Does anybody have all/any of the volumes that they could put up somewhere? Or does anyone know of anywhere else (other than the original site) where they are available? If no one else is interested in setting this up, but you have some of the volumes, email them to me at newlin@aesention.com . If I get them all I will set it up._ __________
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the buzz word that was near that that caught my attention was "Handspring". The IPO press release said they were doing some "innovative" things with "handheld computers". This is a lot more innovative than I expected._ ________________
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