If you trust root to identify the mapping you leave the system open to attack by anyone with local root access. This would prevent Linux from being adopted in some environments.
No, we can't do anything that would allow attacks simply because someone has root access...
Jearl Walker (physics education guru) used to do this trick too. He'd put a drop of liquid nitrogen on his tongue and blow a plume of vapor that a dragon would be proud of. One time he blew the drop off his tongue into one of his teeth and the sudden temperature change shattered the enamel. He doesn't do that trick anymore.
OTP is certainly not new. And in fact it's only ever been governments who have the resources to put it into practice. Generating random numbers even at just enough rate to cover all your text is not cheap. No you can't use a cryptorandom number generator. Think about it, if it was an algorithmic generator, you could just give both parties copies of your unbreakable but deterministic generator
What if you use an algorithmic generator to generate a stream of 2048-bit pseudorandom numbers and then only use the 1024 most significant bits in your one-time pad? Then knowledge of the pseudorandom algorithm does no good. A cracker with full knowledge of your algorithm and access to some already used one-time pads still needs all of the lost bits to get an identical stream out of the pseudorandom algorithm to guess at future onetime pads.
when we can finally overcome the short-sightedness of nature and create the perfect forms....
...then being able to download your brain into it.
never have more than 2% body fat, or one with neon green skin, or something realy extravagent (like wings). Of course, no meat-flesh could ever possibly match the greatness....
This is 'Exhibit A' of the very hubris Gould was talking about.
The article rightfully mentions complexity theory. "Chaos theory" is an inappropriate way to look at this problem, since genetics is actually very robust.
There is a whole field of bioinformatics, which applies information theory and statistical methods to gene sequencing. This is a branch of science that (like "chaos theory") is trying to escape the reductionist paradigm that Gould points out as being rather arrogant.
There was a fair amount of trash talk on Slashdot before the event. Mind you, these were the early days of Slashdot, and most readers had actually used both [vi and emacs].
I can see it now: The big trash-talk flamewars of the future will be gedit vs. kedit.
FreeBSD makes as good a desktop os as it does a server os.
Why wouldnt it?
As long as you comply with the (extensive) hardware compatability list, its as good if not better than Linux.
Ah, yes. Hardware compatibility. You will find that BSD 4 runs circles around Linux 2.4 on certain more compatible hardware, such as walnut shells and inner tubes. If you think Linux is better, it's just because you're using bleeding edge technology, like "Intel compatible PCs."
I saw it in RSA Unleashed and later on in Teach Yourself Cryptography in 24 Hours! (Sam's Publishing, 1998)
Of course, my favorite method of encryption is the ultra-secure, one-way method that gives you optimal compression to boot: piping to/dev/null.
I heard a piece on NPR this morning about the art galleries and sculpture, etc. flourishing in Baghdad since the embargo. Maybe they just want to start their own 3L337 D3M0 scene as well.
The product, in the case of computer games, is the entertainment, the diversion, the thing that you find worth spending time with.
The product is not the list of bits on the disk.
If game companies made old games freely available, it WOULD cut into their new business. You can not simultaneously argue that they should free these old games since you would love to play them and argue that they aren't losing business when they free the old games.
The week you spend playing Bard's Tale is one week of delayed revenues for Ultima 2001 Pro Special Gold Edition.
Just realized I have "helped" a small portion of the MPAA, since Sony is a member.
Chill, man. Buy their trinitrons and Aibos but not their media products. Duh. Different business units, different profitabilities, different policies get made in the future.
It's taking momentum from Jupiter, not mass, not gravity. Gravity is the force that mediates the interaction, but in the end, it is only the momenta of the two bodies that is different.
To guestimate, I suspect the real numbers are about 10^12:1 false matches, which is quite alarming, if there are 10^7 entries, one in 10,000 will be a
false hit with someone totally at random.
No, No, No. Using your guesstimate, If there are 10^7 entries, then there is a one in 100,000 chance that a single one of them will be a false positive, not that one in 10,000 (sic) of the entries will be a false positive.
Completely aside from the factor of 10, you have used your 100,000 number in place of your 10^12 guesstimate. What you have argued is that if the error rate is 10^-12, then the error rate is 10^-5.
The idea that you can know all there is to know, all that is True, from scratch plus experiment plus logic, is provably wrong. Godel's theorem shows that in any axiomatic logical system of sufficient complexity, there are truths that can not be arrived at by deduction from axioms. What is a "sufficiently complex logical system?" Well, ordinary arithmetic, for example. I submit that the universe is substantially more complex than that, and therefore is sufficiently complex to have unprovable Truths.
How do you respond to the assertion that the free duplication of capital and labor-reducing tools (in the form of software and/or databases, for example) should be encouraged as a matter of policy, as it allows other physically limited resources to be put to better use?
Clearly this ruffles the feathers of traditional businesses of many sorts, but if you truly believed that it would help free enrterprise in the long run, it must be addressed through policies on patents and copyrights concerning information technology.
That is, do you think that basic premises of what "wealth" is need to be rethought in this age, and how far are you willing to go to do so?
I'm Bingo Foo, and not only do I vote, I volunteer. I walk precincts. I call voters on election day.
...charging that
because of its inclusion of a compiler that was not binary compatible with anything else, Red Hat was
beginning an attempt to create a proprietary distribution.
Cox denied these charges in the discussion, reiterating his point that Red Hat's efforts were innovative,
and not divergent.
Slashdot Mirror
If I knew this weapon were being used on me, I'd wear chainmail. (Faraday cage)
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No, we can't do anything that would allow attacks simply because someone has root access...
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What if you use an algorithmic generator to generate a stream of 2048-bit pseudorandom numbers and then only use the 1024 most significant bits in your one-time pad? Then knowledge of the pseudorandom algorithm does no good. A cracker with full knowledge of your algorithm and access to some already used one-time pads still needs all of the lost bits to get an identical stream out of the pseudorandom algorithm to guess at future onetime pads.
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Wouldn't there be a better equillibrated labor market if there were no union?
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when we can finally overcome the short-sightedness of nature and create the perfect forms....
never have more than 2% body fat, or one with neon green skin, or something realy extravagent (like wings). Of course, no meat-flesh could ever possibly match the greatness....
This is 'Exhibit A' of the very hubris Gould was talking about.
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There is a whole field of bioinformatics, which applies information theory and statistical methods to gene sequencing. This is a branch of science that (like "chaos theory") is trying to escape the reductionist paradigm that Gould points out as being rather arrogant.
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linnucks is my firstest favorite workserver to. I can be all ignorant n stuff.
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I can see it now: The big trash-talk flamewars of the future will be gedit vs. kedit.
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What do you mean they are "supposed to?" Are they "supposed to" work for free? Who enforces the rule about what they are "supposed to" do?
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
Uh.... Is it a contradiction that a self-described poet and programmer can't spell "internet?"
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Why wouldnt it?
As long as you comply with the (extensive) hardware compatability list, its as good if not better than Linux.
Ah, yes. Hardware compatibility. You will find that BSD 4 runs circles around Linux 2.4 on certain more compatible hardware, such as walnut shells and inner tubes. If you think Linux is better, it's just because you're using bleeding edge technology, like "Intel compatible PCs."
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Of course, my favorite method of encryption is the ultra-secure, one-way method that gives you optimal compression to boot: piping to
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Depends on if you ever want to be able to decrypt...
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Pardon me, but there is no "F" in knowledge.
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The product is not the list of bits on the disk.
If game companies made old games freely available, it WOULD cut into their new business. You can not simultaneously argue that they should free these old games since you would love to play them and argue that they aren't losing business when they free the old games.
The week you spend playing Bard's Tale is one week of delayed revenues for Ultima 2001 Pro Special Gold Edition.
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Chill, man. Buy their trinitrons and Aibos but not their media products. Duh. Different business units, different profitabilities, different policies get made in the future.
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No, No, No. Using your guesstimate, If there are 10^7 entries, then there is a one in 100,000 chance that a single one of them will be a false positive, not that one in 10,000 (sic) of the entries will be a false positive.
Completely aside from the factor of 10, you have used your 100,000 number in place of your 10^12 guesstimate. What you have argued is that if the error rate is 10^-12, then the error rate is 10^-5.
Have you spent any time in Florida lately?
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Clearly this ruffles the feathers of traditional businesses of many sorts, but if you truly believed that it would help free enrterprise in the long run, it must be addressed through policies on patents and copyrights concerning information technology.
That is, do you think that basic premises of what "wealth" is need to be rethought in this age, and how far are you willing to go to do so?
I'm Bingo Foo, and not only do I vote, I volunteer. I walk precincts. I call voters on election day.
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