There is a very funny scene at the end of the third book where a character is on the 'throne'.
Funny? Man, you have a warped sense of humor. (The excreting gold thing (which is what I assume to be that to which you are referring) could be considered to be "mildly amusing" or "dark humor", but it's not "funny" in the context of patricide.)
Does the author spend much time recapping the "story so far" in each new book?
No. If you don't read the books in order, you will not know what came before, unless the characters discuss it, which they never do as a device to bring the reader up-to-date. (They might discuss it for other reasons, as you or I might discuss something that happened last week or last year. However, they do it in a way that, if you haven't read the previous books, you may not understand what happened before. It's like when two people disucuss a common prior experience, they don't review it, but each person assumes that the other person knows what happened.)
... a steel splinter that was embeded in one of his eyes...
That's why you should get a head X-Ray before you get an MRI (at least your first one). When I got an MRI, the doctor recommended that I get an X-Ray because I occasionally use a grinder to sharpen my lawnmower blade, but it's always a good idea to get one no matter what, at least for your first MRI. It's inexpensive insurance against a possible cause of blindness.
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They eat humanatables?
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It is not madness that CD's or DVD's come in cartridges - quite the contrary.
Please re-read parent, which was stating that "it's madness that neither CDs or DVDs come in cartridges", that is, it's madness that they don't come in cartriges, in his/her/its opinion. You may have misread because he/she/it used "or", instead of "nor".
I happen to disagree with this, myself; carts would make them more expensive, and not as compact. (I store them in those new-fangled "slim" cases.) Note that some models of CD-* cartridge drives do exist (or at least, existed several years ago), but are not very successful compared to the plain ones. The carts are thicker then slim cases, IIRC, and I don't know whether or not a cart standard exists. (Now, a drive that could load/unload a CD from/to one of these cases might have more success.)
I have never had any problems with scratches or fingerprints on bare CD-Rs/RWs, but then, I have no kids.
Since you are giving different keys to f and g, the example should be more like:
- f encrypts by adding kf to every binary value. - g encrypts by subtracting kg from every binary value.
In this case, f*g is no weaker than f or g alone (although, in this case, it's no stronger, either).
Now, if you want to adjust the algorithms thusly:
- f encrypts by adding kf to every binary value. - g encrypts by subtracting kg+1 from every binary value.
and the user picks a keys kf and kg=kf-1, then the combination is weaker, but only for those keys. It is highly unlikely that a user will, by accident, pick keys kf and kg that compromise f*g.
In addition, there are ways to reduce further the likelyhood of picking algorithm/key combinations that, together, are weaker than a single algorithm/key. For example, in for block cyphers, pick different block sizes for the different encryption stages. In your example case, the blocks sent to f could be 7 bits long, and those sent to g could be 11 bits long. This would effectively make the f*g combination an 77-bit cypher.
the [...] point of encryption is to be able to turn the encrypted data back into plaintext... WHAT [...] is the point of encryption if that is impossible?
Undecryptable encryption can be useful for data verification. That's what md5, etc., do.
I got a Citizen GSX130 24pin dot matrix in '93. It still works but I seldom use it.
Ditto, and ditto. I haven't printed a single page in over five years.
When I first started using computers in college, I submitted a punched card deck to a little window, then came back an hour or so later to pick up my deck and printout. Printouts were the only output possible at that time (well, except for plotter output and auto card punch, but those weren't helpful for debugging programs). A little later, I was able to gain access to a teletype and paper tape reader/punch (a device which printed on paper as you were typing in, similar to another device of the time called a "type-writer"), so the "printer" was built in to the input device.
When I started working professionally, I had graduated to 12x80, then 24x80 CRT text-only displays and online storage, but it still would have been very difficult to do much without printouts, because of the small amount of information that could be displayed on the CRTs.
The system that I have now (1600x1200 on a 19" CRT) can display two full pages side by side. That, along with multiple virtual desktops (for even more open files, man pages, etc.), visualization software, the ability to open a debugger in a new window, etc., etc., makes a printer unecessary for me now (at least for what I do: designing, coding, and debugging software (oh, and game-playing)).
Except for Post-It Notes and the occasional sheet of paper to scribble on (usually the backs of old printouts from years ago), my office is now paperless. I've still got a couple of unused ribbons for my GSX-130, so if I ever needed to print something, I could, and I've still got my old laser printer (that dims the lights when it's running), and, if I were desperate, an old electric discharge printer that prints on aluminized paper, but I don't know whether I will ever need any of these things ever again.
The only reason that I could see for buying an inkjet would be for printing photos or other color graphics. A dot-matrix is fine for text (except in low-noise areas), and a laser is good for both text and mono graphics. I also think that a laser is cheaper than an inkjet in the long run, after the cartridge scam is factored in.
I guess the point that I am trying to make is that printers, inkjets and otherwise, aren't as necessary now as they once were.
Most "developed" societies have birth rates well below the replacement rate.
Agreed. For example, my parents have four children and three grandchildren. It's unlikely that they will have any more grandchildren, and two of the grandchildren (both adults) do not want or plan to have any children of their own. So, unless the youngest wants kids, the line will die out, and the delta population from my parents' time will be -2 after we all die. This is probably an extreme example, but it is in no way unique.
please DO NOT send "automatic nastygrams", because in the majority of the cases the return addresses are faked
That's why you should complain to the originating or upstream IP, instead. I complain to abuse@, admin@, sales@, etc., etc., at the IP's contacts (and the domain's contacts, as well, if the RDNS resolves), along with any domains that the SPAM is pushing, along with whoever is responsible for the IP that a DNS of the domain resolves to, plus the domain that an RDNS of the IP resolves to (if any).
I also send a copy to the person in the From: and Reply-To: fields anyway, with an explanation that I believe that the header was forged, and here is the SPAM email, in case you want to take legal action against the SPAMmer.
And, of course, I send a copy to uce@ftc.gov, and forward the SPAM to my ISP's SPAM detector submission address and submit@spamarchive.org.
I have at times sent complaints to over 100 email addresses about a single piece of SPAM. If they don't like it, then they shouldn't send me SPAM in the first place.
So, couldn't a spammer's mailer just send a nonsense msg to [spamlist], a confirmation message to [spamlist] and then the actual spam to [spamlist]?
No, becuase the request for confirmation would likely not make it back to the SPAMmer, because most SPAM has faked Reply-To: fields. If you are thinking about sending the confirmation without even getting a request, that is easily foiled by including a random string (e.g., "f8vd09") in the request subject or body. If the confirmation emial subject or body does not contain the random string, it's a fake confirmation, and can be discarded.
There are many other ways that this type of scheme can be defeated.
If you get too much ozone in your office, you could always release som CFCs, which readily break down O3 and make it harmless.
My understanding is that the CFCs themselves do not break down ozone. What happens is that, in the upper atmosphere, sunlight breaks down the CFC, releasing, among other things, chlorine (the first "C" in CFC). The freed chlorine is what breaks down the ozone. In your room, the CFC is not going to break down (at least not in any measurable amount), and so will not break down the ozone.
OTOH, dumping Chlorox in a pan might have the desired effect:) , but this can cause other problems, as chlorine is poisonous.
I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be being still tied to a contract that was no longer the contract which I had signed.
Then don't sign a contract that has a severability clause in it. In fact, make sure that it has a clause in it similar to "if any part of this contract is found to be invalid or illegal, this entire contract becomes void". (IANAL, so have your lawyer do the exact wording.)
I must have missed the meeting were we decided that all nano machines must be designed for medical use and applied by inhale/ingest.
It was last Tuesday. Sorry you weren't there; we were waiting for you. The decision was nearly unanimous, except for Charlie, but, as you know, no one these days pays attention to Charlie anyway.
Hate to break it to ya, but the Bronze Age didn't replace the Iron Age because it came before the Iron Age. If anything, the Iron Age replaced the Bronze Age.
Sorry, I was thinking, er, uh, steel age. Yeah, that's it, steel age. The steel age replaced the iron age.
...
No, wait, wait, I meant stone age. The Bronze Age replaced the Stone Age. There, that's better. Yes, the Bronze Age replaced the Stone Age, but stone was still used.
The Bronze Age didn't replace the Iron Age; iron was still used. The Information Age didn't replace the Industrial Age/Atomic Age/Space Age; the things that named those ages are still used. A newer age and newer technologies build on and/or encompass the old.
Parts of the older technologies are abandoned or relegated to the "little-used" catagory as they become obsolete (animal-driven wooden plows, self-modifying code, slide rules), but many other things remain (planting in rows, satellites, nuclear power plants, mostly sequential program execution, octal/hexidecimal notation).
Similarly, the post-OO world will probably encompass OO and use many aspects of it. So the useful concepts of OO will not "go away", any more than have the useful concepts of structured programming, assembly-language programming, or even machine-language programming, when something new came along.
ever read the book series (red, gree, blue) mars where the cable came crashing down on mars?
The martian cable was a big thick cable that came down on a planet without much of an atmosphere. The Earth cable will be a relatively thin ribbon that will easily burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. There is still the problem of what possible adverse environmental/health effects would be caused by pieces of singed cable floating around in the atmosphere afterwards, but it's not as serious as a cable wrapping itself around the equator.
As far as the shadow thing is concerned, the Space Elevator's base will be place out in the ocean. The ribbon will probably be totally invisible from land, and won't cast any noticable shadow at all.
Most of these issues are covered quite well on the web site.
Even ignoring environmental effects (e.g., wind), steel is not strong enough to use it to build a tower into space, even using an Eiffel-type arrangement (large base, tapering to a small top). No material (yet known) is. The bottom just could not support the weight of everything above it.
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Also, any person who names a world ("Xanth") after himself, even in this subtle way, has to have an ego the size of Jupiter.
Man, you have a warped sense of humor.
(The excreting gold thing (which is what I assume to be that to which you are referring) could be considered to be "mildly amusing" or "dark humor", but it's not "funny" in the context of patricide.)
If you don't read the books in order, you will not know what came before, unless the characters discuss it, which they never do as a device to bring the reader up-to-date.
(They might discuss it for other reasons, as you or I might discuss something that happened last week or last year.
However, they do it in a way that, if you haven't read the previous books, you may not understand what happened before.
It's like when two people disucuss a common prior experience, they don't review it, but each person assumes that the other person knows what happened.)
When I got an MRI, the doctor recommended that I get an X-Ray because I occasionally use a grinder to sharpen my lawnmower blade, but it's always a good idea to get one no matter what, at least for your first MRI.
It's inexpensive insurance against a possible cause of blindness.
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You may have misread because he/she/it used "or", instead of "nor".
I happen to disagree with this, myself; carts would make them more expensive, and not as compact.
(I store them in those new-fangled "slim" cases.)
Note that some models of CD-* cartridge drives do exist (or at least, existed several years ago), but are not very successful compared to the plain ones.
The carts are thicker then slim cases, IIRC, and I don't know whether or not a cart standard exists.
(Now, a drive that could load/unload a CD from/to one of these cases might have more success.)
I have never had any problems with scratches or fingerprints on bare CD-Rs/RWs, but then, I have no kids.
Since you are giving different keys to f and g, the example should be more like:
- f encrypts by adding kf to every binary value.
- g encrypts by subtracting kg from every binary value.
In this case, f*g is no weaker than f or g alone (although, in this case, it's no stronger, either).
Now, if you want to adjust the algorithms thusly:
- f encrypts by adding kf to every binary value.
- g encrypts by subtracting kg+1 from every binary value.
and the user picks a keys kf and kg=kf-1, then the combination is weaker, but only for those keys.
It is highly unlikely that a user will, by accident, pick keys kf and kg that compromise f*g.
In addition, there are ways to reduce further the likelyhood of picking algorithm/key combinations that, together, are weaker than a single algorithm/key.
For example, in for block cyphers, pick different block sizes for the different encryption stages.
In your example case, the blocks sent to f could be 7 bits long, and those sent to g could be 11 bits long.
This would effectively make the f*g combination an 77-bit cypher.
That's what md5, etc., do.
I got a Citizen GSX130 24pin dot matrix in '93. It still works but I seldom use it.
Ditto, and ditto.
I haven't printed a single page in over five years.
When I first started using computers in college, I submitted a punched card deck to a little window, then came back an hour or so later to pick up my deck and printout.
Printouts were the only output possible at that time (well, except for plotter output and auto card punch, but those weren't helpful for debugging programs).
A little later, I was able to gain access to a teletype and paper tape reader/punch (a device which printed on paper as you were typing in, similar to another device of the time called a "type-writer"), so the "printer" was built in to the input device.
When I started working professionally, I had graduated to 12x80, then 24x80 CRT text-only displays and online storage, but it still would have been very difficult to do much without printouts, because of the small amount of information that could be displayed on the CRTs.
The system that I have now (1600x1200 on a 19" CRT) can display two full pages side by side.
That, along with multiple virtual desktops (for even more open files, man pages, etc.), visualization software, the ability to open a debugger in a new window, etc., etc., makes a printer unecessary for me now (at least for what I do: designing, coding, and debugging software (oh, and game-playing)).
Except for Post-It Notes and the occasional sheet of paper to scribble on (usually the backs of old printouts from years ago), my office is now paperless.
I've still got a couple of unused ribbons for my GSX-130, so if I ever needed to print something, I could, and I've still got my old laser printer (that dims the lights when it's running), and, if I were desperate, an old electric discharge printer that prints on aluminized paper, but I don't know whether I will ever need any of these things ever again.
The only reason that I could see for buying an inkjet would be for printing photos or other color graphics.
A dot-matrix is fine for text (except in low-noise areas), and a laser is good for both text and mono graphics.
I also think that a laser is cheaper than an inkjet in the long run, after the cartridge scam is factored in.
I guess the point that I am trying to make is that printers, inkjets and otherwise, aren't as necessary now as they once were.
Most "developed" societies have birth rates well below the replacement rate.
Agreed.
For example, my parents have four children and three grandchildren.
It's unlikely that they will have any more grandchildren, and two of the grandchildren (both adults) do not want or plan to have any children of their own.
So, unless the youngest wants kids, the line will die out, and the delta population from my parents' time will be -2 after we all die.
This is probably an extreme example, but it is in no way unique.
please DO NOT send "automatic nastygrams", because in the majority of the cases the return addresses are faked
That's why you should complain to the originating or upstream IP, instead.
I complain to abuse@, admin@, sales@, etc., etc., at the IP's contacts (and the domain's contacts, as well, if the RDNS resolves), along with any domains that the SPAM is pushing, along with whoever is responsible for the IP that a DNS of the domain resolves to, plus the domain that an RDNS of the IP resolves to (if any).
I also send a copy to the person in the From: and Reply-To: fields anyway, with an explanation that I believe that the header was forged, and here is the SPAM email, in case you want to take legal action against the SPAMmer.
And, of course, I send a copy to uce@ftc.gov, and forward the SPAM to my ISP's SPAM detector submission address and submit@spamarchive.org.
I have at times sent complaints to over 100 email addresses about a single piece of SPAM.
If they don't like it, then they shouldn't send me SPAM in the first place.
So, couldn't a spammer's mailer just send a nonsense msg to [spamlist], a confirmation message to [spamlist] and then the actual spam to [spamlist]?
No, becuase the request for confirmation would likely not make it back to the SPAMmer, because most SPAM has faked Reply-To: fields.
If you are thinking about sending the confirmation without even getting a request, that is easily foiled by including a random string (e.g., "f8vd09") in the request subject or body.
If the confirmation emial subject or body does not contain the random string, it's a fake confirmation, and can be discarded.
There are many other ways that this type of scheme can be defeated.
If you get too much ozone in your office, you could always release som CFCs, which readily break down O3 and make it harmless.
:) , but this can cause other problems, as chlorine is poisonous.
My understanding is that the CFCs themselves do not break down ozone.
What happens is that, in the upper atmosphere, sunlight breaks down the CFC, releasing, among other things, chlorine (the first "C" in CFC).
The freed chlorine is what breaks down the ozone.
In your room, the CFC is not going to break down (at least not in any measurable amount), and so will not break down the ozone.
OTOH, dumping Chlorox in a pan might have the desired effect
I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be being still tied to a contract that was no longer the contract which I had signed.
Then don't sign a contract that has a severability clause in it.
In fact, make sure that it has a clause in it similar to "if any part of this contract is found to be invalid or illegal, this entire contract becomes void".
(IANAL, so have your lawyer do the exact wording.)
I must have missed the meeting were we decided that all nano machines must be designed for medical use and applied by inhale/ingest.
It was last Tuesday.
Sorry you weren't there; we were waiting for you.
The decision was nearly unanimous, except for Charlie, but, as you know, no one these days pays attention to Charlie anyway.
Hate to break it to ya, but the Bronze Age didn't replace the Iron Age because it came before the Iron Age. If anything, the Iron Age replaced the Bronze Age.
Sorry, I was thinking, er, uh, steel age.
Yeah, that's it, steel age.
The steel age replaced the iron age.
...
No, wait, wait, I meant stone age.
The Bronze Age replaced the Stone Age.
There, that's better.
Yes, the Bronze Age replaced the Stone Age, but stone was still used.
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Spot-on, archeopterix!
The Bronze Age didn't replace the Iron Age; iron was still used.
The Information Age didn't replace the Industrial Age/Atomic Age/Space Age; the things that named those ages are still used.
A newer age and newer technologies build on and/or encompass the old.
Parts of the older technologies are abandoned or relegated to the "little-used" catagory as they become obsolete (animal-driven wooden plows, self-modifying code, slide rules), but many other things remain (planting in rows, satellites, nuclear power plants, mostly sequential program execution, octal/hexidecimal notation).
Similarly, the post-OO world will probably encompass OO and use many aspects of it.
So the useful concepts of OO will not "go away", any more than have the useful concepts of structured programming, assembly-language programming, or even machine-language programming, when something new came along.
Actually... water does not conduct electricity.
Except that they are discussing mercury, which does conduct electricity.
I think that Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek) once said about Space 1999 (paraphrasing here):
"Moons simply do not go galavanting about the galaxy, and if they did, they'd raise the biggest goddam tidal waves you ever saw."
ever read the book series (red, gree, blue) mars where the cable came crashing down on mars?
The martian cable was a big thick cable that came down on a planet without much of an atmosphere.
The Earth cable will be a relatively thin ribbon that will easily burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
There is still the problem of what possible adverse environmental/health effects would be caused by pieces of singed cable floating around in the atmosphere afterwards, but it's not as serious as a cable wrapping itself around the equator.
As far as the shadow thing is concerned, the Space Elevator's base will be place out in the ocean.
The ribbon will probably be totally invisible from land, and won't cast any noticable shadow at all.
Most of these issues are covered quite well on the web site.
Even ignoring environmental effects (e.g., wind), steel is not strong enough to use it to build a tower into space, even using an Eiffel-type arrangement (large base, tapering to a small top).
No material (yet known) is.
The bottom just could not support the weight of everything above it.
Ooops. That's moon, of course.
Heh, I read it as a typo of "moaning conspiracy theorists", which is just as accurate, IMO.
Hey, if forking a project is good for Open Source, why not for the Space Elevator project?