I think you misread what the other post was about.
He is talking about the creation of the data which then gets encrypted via the one time pad method. OTP encryption can work with any data stream, it is highly flexible. It is by far most likely that additional encryption / coding is being used.
Additionally, by using numerically coded phrases (such as 17 = "first post") for the "plain text" message (before encryption) you dramatically decrease the length of the message and therefore make it much more cryptographically secure.
Some things are very very hard, so people name them impossible. Some things are proven to be impossible under certain assumptions. One Time Pad encryption is proven to be unbreakable assuming that the key remains secure (well d'uh), the key is truely random, and the key used once and only once. The only points of attack would seem to be either espionage (steal the key, or some variation thereof), or exploiting some weakness in the random number generator.
Theoretically it might just barely be possible to exploit the very very small "non-randomness" of the random number generator, however I would rather bet on a computer completely solving chess than this (which, btw, is simply not possible, due to the sheer size of the solution to chess compared with the size of our universe).
Wavelet compression is truely a technological step up from previous jpeg compression schemes. And with the addition of loss-less compression, it should alleviate some of the downsides of using jpeg and make it the de facto standard for images on the web (and finally get rid of that pesky gif format). Additionally, the attachment of xml code directly to the image will finally allow people to actually perform searches on images. JPEG 2000 has been in the making for quite some time and since nobody really stands to profit much from it directly, I don't see many reasons why the makers of JPEG 2000 would need to overly hype / promote it.
Also, loss-less compression, XML, wireless internet access, these are not buzzwords, they are reality. WAP is definately overly hyped, but wireless access is not, and XML has already proven its worth in many areas though it has not quite transformed the web as we know it yet.
Note non-image data not equal viruses It will have descriptive information etc it will not have VBS scripting or javascript or macros or whathaveyou Might as well create a text file virus
ALL NON ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS DELETED DUE TO STUPID NON FUNCTIONAL ASCII ART FILTER. FIX THAT DAMN THING WILL YOU
There is NOT a one to one relationship between encoded "numbers" and characters in a one time pad encrypted message. In fact, there is no relationship at all, that is why OTP is so secure. OTP encryption uses a random key that is exactly as long as the entire message, then the key and the message are "convoluted" together to create an essentially random (as random as your key) message which is essentially uncrackable without the key.
OTP encryption has been cracked before but ONLY when the same key was used more than once.
Even if it was possible (and I doubt it is, since it probably uses OTP encryption). Would this be such a good idea to crack the numbers stations? We know that this is most likely information passed to and from secret agents "in the field". The information in those messages has a very high chance of (if made public) causing people to get killed. People that have put their life on the line to help out the US and other countries. I think we can be almost certain that some of this information is going to agents who have infiltrated terrorist organizations.
I don't know about other people's ideas, but I'd rather not have that kind of blood on my hands, you can count me out of this project.
1 6,167,386 Method for conducting an on-line bidding session with bid pooling
OK, I can believe that, sounds moderately reasonable at least. 2 6,073,117 Mutual credit server apparatus and a distributed mutual credit system
Zuh?! I guess it's time slashdot paid eBay the royalties for their karma system. 3 6,058,417 Information presentation and management in an online trading environment
Yeah, this is practically the definition of an overly broad patent. 4 6,058,379 Real-time network exchange with seller specified exchange parameters and interactive seller participation
Makes sense, but I don't think it's enough of a "new idea" to be patentable. 5 6,044,363 Automatic auction method
Huh? Are they talking about incrementing the bid until it's above everyone but one person's highest bid? Yeah, that sounds like an incredibly complicated and new idea. 6 6,012,045 Computer-based electronic bid, auction and sale system, and a system to teach new/non-registered customers how bidding, auction purchasing works
The teaching part makes some sense, but I don't really think either one of those are particularly patentable ideas.
Ya know, I don't think we would all mind if these numnutz patented genuinly new and unique concepts instead of trying to patent everything and the kitchen sink just because they were in the market early and have tons of cash.
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It takes effort to keep information "out there", much less effort on the internet, but still a considerable amount. Consider one solitary website or webpage. Such things as domain registration expiration, hosting fees, technology changes, server outages, hard disk failures, DNS services, and people who want to censor your information etc. All these things can serve as erosive elements. If you don't pay your bills your site goes offline, and if you use a free service, eventually it will get deleted if it doesn't change and you don't respond to your email. Or maybe it'll just get destroyed or lost during a server reconfiguration or something. These things happen. Or maybe a coalition of concerned parents (or what-have-you) will get your hosting provider or ISP to shut down your site when you're not paying attention because they find the content objectionable. In short, you have to "stay on the ball" to keep your information simply available let alone to actually promote it. There are many websites, newsgroups, email lists, etc. that I just plain do not know about and it's highly unlikely that I ever will know about most of them (even if I would find the information useful). The same is true of books, movies, music, and even television.
The fact of the matter is that information on the internet is not inherently longer lived or less subject to "predation" than information in any other source. The main problem with "information overload" on the internet at present is due to the lack of high quality indexes. "Portal sites" mostly follow the method of Yahoo, i.e. a large collection of categorized links with very little descriptive information and no rankings as to the "quality" of the site in question. Eventually, such things will improve, making it easier to find the "good stuff" and ignore the "bad stuff". Personally, even know I find that there isn't nearly as much stuff on the Internet as I'd like, there are huge chasms of information missing that I am interested in (and I'm sure I'm not alone here). No, the internet isn't some fabulously new phenomenon that will destroy our brains because there's so much information on it.
Also, did anyone else think that the writer of this article was being a little uhhh pretentious maybe? Using big words and 1337 post modern philosophy jargon to make the article sound more profound?
New music doesn't "suck", and you can sometimes get an odd idea of what "new music" is by listening to the radio, MTV, etc. because frankly those outlets are mostly out of touch with "the music scene" in general. They play the top selling songs for the last year or so but nothing else, and that tends to result in a hodgepodge of stuff that appeals to some but not to everybody.
Personally, I'm no oldster (pushing 25), but I'd say I haven't "lost touch" yet music wise. I don't have much interest in the present craze of boy and girl bands (blech), but there's plenty music out now that I like and listen, some of it is even popular. My music tastes are pretty eclectic though, my playlist spans several centuries and a large number of styles, everything from classical and jazz to "classic" rock&roll and pop to electronica and techno to hip-hop and punk and some that can only be classified as "other".
I think that some people just don't take the time to listen to music they are not already into. And when you go into it with that much prejudice and your not really paying attention to the music but mentally listing reasons why you don't like it, you can't help but hate it. I find that often I have to listen to something completely new (new band, and even more so a new style I'm not familiar with) a few times before I even know whether I like it and how much I like it.
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He is talking about the creation of the data which then gets encrypted via the one time pad method. OTP encryption can work with any data stream, it is highly flexible. It is by far most likely that additional encryption / coding is being used.
Additionally, by using numerically coded phrases (such as 17 = "first post") for the "plain text" message (before encryption) you dramatically decrease the length of the message and therefore make it much more cryptographically secure.
Some things are very very hard, so people name them impossible. Some things are proven to be impossible under certain assumptions. One Time Pad encryption is proven to be unbreakable assuming that the key remains secure (well d'uh), the key is truely random, and the key used once and only once. The only points of attack would seem to be either espionage (steal the key, or some variation thereof), or exploiting some weakness in the random number generator.
Theoretically it might just barely be possible to exploit the very very small "non-randomness" of the random number generator, however I would rather bet on a computer completely solving chess than this (which, btw, is simply not possible, due to the sheer size of the solution to chess compared with the size of our universe).
Boooo!
Wavelet compression is truely a technological step up from previous jpeg compression schemes. And with the addition of loss-less compression, it should alleviate some of the downsides of using jpeg and make it the de facto standard for images on the web (and finally get rid of that pesky gif format). Additionally, the attachment of xml code directly to the image will finally allow people to actually perform searches on images. JPEG 2000 has been in the making for quite some time and since nobody really stands to profit much from it directly, I don't see many reasons why the makers of JPEG 2000 would need to overly hype / promote it.
Also, loss-less compression, XML, wireless internet access, these are not buzzwords, they are reality. WAP is definately overly hyped, but wireless access is not, and XML has already proven its worth in many areas though it has not quite transformed the web as we know it yet.
Note non-image data not equal viruses It will have descriptive information etc it will not have VBS scripting or javascript or macros or whathaveyou Might as well create a text file virus
ALL NON ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS DELETED DUE TO STUPID NON FUNCTIONAL ASCII ART FILTER. FIX THAT DAMN THING WILL YOU
Sheesh.
OTP encryption has been cracked before but ONLY when the same key was used more than once.
Yes, it will support wavelet compression. As well as a whole bunch of other nifty stuff.
I don't know about other people's ideas, but I'd rather not have that kind of blood on my hands, you can count me out of this project.
1 6,167,386 Method for conducting an on-line bidding session with bid pooling
OK, I can believe that, sounds moderately reasonable at least.
2 6,073,117 Mutual credit server apparatus and a distributed mutual credit system
Zuh?! I guess it's time slashdot paid eBay the royalties for their karma system.
3 6,058,417 Information presentation and management in an online trading environment
Yeah, this is practically the definition of an overly broad patent.
4 6,058,379 Real-time network exchange with seller specified exchange parameters and interactive seller participation
Makes sense, but I don't think it's enough of a "new idea" to be patentable.
5 6,044,363 Automatic auction method
Huh? Are they talking about incrementing the bid until it's above everyone but one person's highest bid? Yeah, that sounds like an incredibly complicated and new idea.
6 6,012,045 Computer-based electronic bid, auction and sale system, and a system to teach new/non-registered customers how bidding, auction purchasing works
The teaching part makes some sense, but I don't really think either one of those are particularly patentable ideas.
Ya know, I don't think we would all mind if these numnutz patented genuinly new and unique concepts instead of trying to patent everything and the kitchen sink just because they were in the market early and have tons of cash.
The fact of the matter is that information on the internet is not inherently longer lived or less subject to "predation" than information in any other source. The main problem with "information overload" on the internet at present is due to the lack of high quality indexes. "Portal sites" mostly follow the method of Yahoo, i.e. a large collection of categorized links with very little descriptive information and no rankings as to the "quality" of the site in question. Eventually, such things will improve, making it easier to find the "good stuff" and ignore the "bad stuff". Personally, even know I find that there isn't nearly as much stuff on the Internet as I'd like, there are huge chasms of information missing that I am interested in (and I'm sure I'm not alone here). No, the internet isn't some fabulously new phenomenon that will destroy our brains because there's so much information on it.
Also, did anyone else think that the writer of this article was being a little uhhh pretentious maybe? Using big words and 1337 post modern philosophy jargon to make the article sound more profound?
Now, to be fair, Brittney Spears does have a good voice and is musically talented. However, the bubble gum corporate pop stuff she does really sucks.
Personally, I'm no oldster (pushing 25), but I'd say I haven't "lost touch" yet music wise. I don't have much interest in the present craze of boy and girl bands (blech), but there's plenty music out now that I like and listen, some of it is even popular. My music tastes are pretty eclectic though, my playlist spans several centuries and a large number of styles, everything from classical and jazz to "classic" rock&roll and pop to electronica and techno to hip-hop and punk and some that can only be classified as "other".
I think that some people just don't take the time to listen to music they are not already into. And when you go into it with that much prejudice and your not really paying attention to the music but mentally listing reasons why you don't like it, you can't help but hate it. I find that often I have to listen to something completely new (new band, and even more so a new style I'm not familiar with) a few times before I even know whether I like it and how much I like it.