The point that these two guys are alleging, btw, is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that observation of a particle changes the probability of it's existence to virtually zero.
So, if one were to attempt to 'brute force' attack a quantum crypto-stream, one would have to have had to receive a copy of that stream before it hit the 'quantum wire', ie before it reached the point where quantum mechanics superceded the laws of the seeable, knowable universe.
Not impossible, but not likely either.
Once again, Slashdot and it's readers manages to fuck up a fantastic article written months in print.
Looks like you assholes need to learn how to read.
i've never seen a cat head up an open-source operating system development team.
nor have i seen theo take a dump in a catbox.
the point is, while the analogy is entertaining, it's inaccurate. theo's just plainly an egotistical self-centered prick who proclaims his operating system to be secure, but sacrifices for security functionality, features, and general ease of use.
if you can live with that, use OpenBSD. i used it for three years, got sick of his pedantic, terse, and rude replies to people who had valid, helpful input, and switched to freebsd in the end.
the bottom line is an operating system is as secure as you make it. while OpenBSD has certain characteristics which make it MORE secure than other operating systems, that does not make other operating systems, BSD or otherwise, INFERIOR security-wise, for the simple reason that security is a function of the level of paranoia of the administrator.
i also did not graduate from college, though i have four plus years under my belt and am completing my degree as we speak.
my point is this: why ask a stupid question like this? a job is what you make of it. if you're smart (or at least as much as you like to present), you'll do well regardless of the fleece that proves you've done it. if you aren't, you'll post dumbass slashdot questions like this and wish maybe you hadn't submitted a dimwitted question to equally dimwitted people (and yeah, i DO mean you/. admins).
* 1 terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on operating environment.
** Depends on the computer configuration.
*** Apple G4 processor required for use with FireWire 800
what does all that mean? well, for you linux people, it means you're out of luck. for you windows people it means XP doesn't support a single drive with that size of a partition.
so i guess the only people who can use this are people with mac osx server's running in their basement?
...hooks this somewhat useful contraption up to a computer and this makes slashdot headline news?
what in the fuck has gone so completely wrong with the geek world that we find attaching a hamburger grill to a computer and making it "accessible" even somewhat interesting?
yeah, my karma is bad, but, every time i read anything on this website anymore, i wonder why i even care.
this is exactly the kind of shit that gives slashdot such a stupid reputation. reporting on rumors of a techno-icon running for president is akin to reports of aliens in the new york post or the national enquirer.
but like the fucking morons that most of you are, you'll both continue to report it and continue to read about it.
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The point that these two guys are alleging, btw, is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that observation of a particle changes the probability of it's existence to virtually zero.
So, if one were to attempt to 'brute force' attack a quantum crypto-stream, one would have to have had to receive a copy of that stream before it hit the 'quantum wire', ie before it reached the point where quantum mechanics superceded the laws of the seeable, knowable universe.
Not impossible, but not likely either.
Once again, Slashdot and it's readers manages to fuck up a fantastic article written months in print.
Looks like you assholes need to learn how to read.
This opinion is somehow secretly funded my Microsoft in an attempt to further their regime and smash the rebel Open-Source community into oblivion.
It's also called a network telescope. CAIDA has been implementing this type of thing for several months.
also note that the OS was not written with the specific intention of saving lives. nor was it written for the specific intention of taking lives.
it's only purpose is to control a computer.
blaming microsoft for deaths occurring during a worm attack is ridiculous.
who would you blame if they were running freebsd and someone ran a DoS attack on ssh?
i've never seen a cat head up an open-source operating system development team.
nor have i seen theo take a dump in a catbox.
the point is, while the analogy is entertaining, it's inaccurate. theo's just plainly an egotistical self-centered prick who proclaims his operating system to be secure, but sacrifices for security functionality, features, and general ease of use.
if you can live with that, use OpenBSD. i used it for three years, got sick of his pedantic, terse, and rude replies to people who had valid, helpful input, and switched to freebsd in the end.
the bottom line is an operating system is as secure as you make it. while OpenBSD has certain characteristics which make it MORE secure than other operating systems, that does not make other operating systems, BSD or otherwise, INFERIOR security-wise, for the simple reason that security is a function of the level of paranoia of the administrator.
i've worked at three different very large ISPs.
/. admins).
i also did not graduate from college, though i have four plus years under my belt and am completing my degree as we speak.
my point is this: why ask a stupid question like this? a job is what you make of it. if you're smart (or at least as much as you like to present), you'll do well regardless of the fleece that proves you've done it. if you aren't, you'll post dumbass slashdot questions like this and wish maybe you hadn't submitted a dimwitted question to equally dimwitted people (and yeah, i DO mean you
...hooks this somewhat useful contraption up to a computer and this makes slashdot headline news?
what in the fuck has gone so completely wrong with the geek world that we find attaching a hamburger grill to a computer and making it "accessible" even somewhat interesting?
yeah, my karma is bad, but, every time i read anything on this website anymore, i wonder why i even care.
we're geeks, not fucking morons.
this is exactly the kind of shit that gives slashdot such a stupid reputation. reporting on rumors of a techno-icon running for president is akin to reports of aliens in the new york post or the national enquirer.
but like the fucking morons that most of you are, you'll both continue to report it and continue to read about it.
glad i'm leaving this idiot industry.
how many times are we going to see the same goddamn research about p2p networks posted?
WE GET THE POINT. ENOUGH ALREADY.