The difference is that HTML and POSIX (and C and C++) are designed by committees/consortiums/whatever which you (theoretically at least) can join and become a voting member. Java is not. I'm not saying that one way is better than another. --
I know I'm going to regret getting into this but...
Start regretting now.
You having no information is not the same as the string having no information. I may not have the key to a locked room but that doesn't mean it must be empty.
This particular encryption system (known as one-time pad BTW) is interesting: the key and the message are mathematically indistinguishable. So you cannot ban just the message, or just the key, because you don't know where's the message and where's the key.
In other words, there's no key, just a message split in two halves. You must have both halves in order to reconstruct the message.
Also, in the string 010101010101 any given bit has a 50/50 chance of being 0 or 1 but it ain't random.
No, in the string 010101010101 odd bits and even bits have unequal chances of being either 0 or 1. So I can easily predict what the next bit will be.
If you have A = B xor C and C is random, so is A. If you cannot predict bits of C, you cannot predict bits of A.
By the way this illustrates why the key and the ciphertext are indistinguishable: if ciphertext = plaintext xor key, then key = plaintext xor ciphertext. --
DMCA doesn't talk about decryption programs. It mentions circumvention devices. To be banned a circumvention device should not have significant non-circumvention uses.
Now, it's clear to me that:
a T-shirt is not a circumvention device (I cannot decrypt DVDs with a T-shirt)
it does have significant non-circumvention uses (I can wear it)
I hope MPAA wil be laughed out of court on this one. --
The same picture says that Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury. Does it mean that Mercury is not a planet, or that Ganymede and Titan are planets? --
Inference rules and real-world knowledge are not fundamentally different. I know of a project that represented them identically. Oh, and grammar rules too! It was really cool. You could tell the system (more or less):
Sky is blue
Plurals end with "s"
_X knows that _Y and _X says "not _Y" => _X is being ironic or sarcastic
I simplify a lot of course.
The plan was to "raise" something more or less AI-ish much like children are raised. The project didn't fly but there are plans to revive it. --
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Cool fact of the day: the earth is round!
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Yes.
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Gentle Slashdot authors, there's a "Search" button at the bottom of each Slasdot page. Please use it.
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dejavu.org is running Netscape-FastTrack/3.01 on Compaq Tru64 UNIX
Makes one really wonder...
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By the way standards have nothing to do with code, or forking thereof. And oh, yes, I never said I love committees.
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No it would not. Junkbuster doesn't filters bodies of pages, just headers. You have to add a whole bunch of new code, with HTML parser and all.
Besides it will not work on secure sites. The best solution is to hack an open-source browser.
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Will you miss the MDMA guy?
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The difference is that HTML and POSIX (and C and C++) are designed by committees/consortiums/whatever which you (theoretically at least) can join and become a voting member. Java is not. I'm not saying that one way is better than another.
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Somewhat related: Digital Light Processing.
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OK. So Java isn't very open to change. Is it necessarily a bad thing? Look what they did with C++. I'd rather let Bjarne control the damn thing :)
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But you used the word "malleable". Please explain what do you mean (I've already checked my dictionary, thanks).
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- Get a powerful laser (couple of kilowatts should be enough), point it to the Moon (preferably when it's new), and modulate with DeCSS source.
- Everybody puts one line of DeCSS source to their
.sig and starts posting to Usenet. - XOR it with the text of US Constitution and distribute that.
- Write a long story in such a way that CRC8 checksum of Nth line is the Nth byte of DeCSS.
Should be fun to watch all this stuff banned...--
Start regretting now.
You having no information is not the same as the string having no information. I may not have the key to a locked room but that doesn't mean it must be empty.
This particular encryption system (known as one-time pad BTW) is interesting: the key and the message are mathematically indistinguishable. So you cannot ban just the message, or just the key, because you don't know where's the message and where's the key.
In other words, there's no key, just a message split in two halves. You must have both halves in order to reconstruct the message.
Also, in the string 010101010101 any given bit has a 50/50 chance of being 0 or 1 but it ain't random.
No, in the string 010101010101 odd bits and even bits have unequal chances of being either 0 or 1. So I can easily predict what the next bit will be.
If you have A = B xor C and C is random, so is A. If you cannot predict bits of C, you cannot predict bits of A.
By the way this illustrates why the key and the ciphertext are indistinguishable: if ciphertext = plaintext xor key, then key = plaintext xor ciphertext.
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Now, it's clear to me that:
- a T-shirt is not a circumvention device (I cannot decrypt DVDs with a T-shirt)
- it does have significant non-circumvention uses (I can wear it)
I hope MPAA wil be laughed out of court on this one.--
Either TrojaNET or ViruSWAP would be better.
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What do you mean "lost"? It's in Murmansk. You, from all people, should know.
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Good luck using this energy in the sea of X particles :)
when you aren't concerned with timescales then the amount doesn't matter.
IIRC if you have X joules of energy, you can flip Y bits, regardless of how slow you go. But then again, I may be wrong. Don't quote me on this.
what about a way to extract energy from the expansion of space-time?
Or from $3 crack? It seems there's an infinite amount of it floating around. :)
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As for the second possibility, I really don't know. Don't quantum effects prevent you from running on arbitrary low power, or something?
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Of course we probably will be winked out of existance much, much sooner, but those are hard limits.
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Not that I need it; I'm wearing this shirt right now :)
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If you insist that trace quantities of whatever gasses around Mercury constitute an atmosphere, then our Moon has atmosphere too!
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The same picture says that Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury. Does it mean that Mercury is not a planet, or that Ganymede and Titan are planets?
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But I can factor arbitrarily large primes without any computer! OTOH factoring composite numbers is a bit tricky.
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- Sky is blue
- Plurals end with "s"
- _X knows that _Y and _X says "not _Y" => _X is being ironic or sarcastic
I simplify a lot of course.The plan was to "raise" something more or less AI-ish much like children are raised. The project didn't fly but there are plans to revive it.
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