No. Low entropy means highly compressible; high entropy means not very compressible (due to the data being disordered). He was right and you were wrong ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Also, the most important dimension of a credit card is its thinness. When people claim that devices are credit-card sized, they usually mean in only two dimensions. This technology is another example of that - the thing is 10mm thick. That's not sleek enough to carry around in your wallet!
Your theory would really only apply to to DSL or dialup and then only if the machine you were contacting was also connected directly to the internet with no sort of network attached to it.
No! That is utterly meaningless. There is no such thing as "connected directly to the internet with no sort of network attached to it". The internet is a public network. Whenever you send data across a public network you should assume it is being sniffed. Apart from the fact that the original post was a joke.
There are several reasons why this idea is flawed. Firstly, a fair exam requires that nobody in the exam can communicate with anyone else in the world during the exam. Anyone with a basic knowledge of cgi programming could easily cheat by punching the questions into a web form, having arranged previously for someone not taking the exam to collect this input and send some valid answers
Secondly, equal opportunity. Laptops aint cheap.
Thirdly, security. There's always going to be one kid in the class who leaves a script somewhere on the net to take out half his classmates. Even one successful DoS attack per exam would make the technique unacceptable. Firewalls? Well, how about using a small 2.4GHz frequency jammer. You can at least postpone the exam.
I mean, if you're going to allow connectivity and communication, you might as well take away the time limit and call it "course work"
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No. Low entropy means highly compressible; high entropy means not very compressible (due to the data being disordered). He was right and you were wrong ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You shouldn't show it - if you're getting visibly pissed off it's all the more entertaining for the ACs.
Also, the most important dimension of a credit card is its thinness. When people claim that devices are credit-card sized, they usually mean in only two dimensions. This technology is another example of that - the thing is 10mm thick. That's not sleek enough to carry around in your wallet!
No need to cry
You're still wrong. And you're a grotesquely ugly freak.
No! That is utterly meaningless. There is no such thing as "connected directly to the internet with no sort of network attached to it". The internet is a public network. Whenever you send data across a public network you should assume it is being sniffed. Apart from the fact that the original post was a joke.
Listen, polar_bear, OpenSSH is licensed under the BSD license. It was developed by many of the same developers that work on OpenBSD.
There are several reasons why this idea is flawed. Firstly, a fair exam requires that nobody in the exam can communicate with anyone else in the world during the exam. Anyone with a basic knowledge of cgi programming could easily cheat by punching the questions into a web form, having arranged previously for someone not taking the exam to collect this input and send some valid answers
Secondly, equal opportunity. Laptops aint cheap.
Thirdly, security. There's always going to be one kid in the class who leaves a script somewhere on the net to take out half his classmates. Even one successful DoS attack per exam would make the technique unacceptable. Firewalls? Well, how about using a small 2.4GHz frequency jammer. You can at least postpone the exam.
I mean, if you're going to allow connectivity and communication, you might as well take away the time limit and call it "course work"
Yes, that's fantastic. Good education could do with another way of weeding out the poor.