One-time pad (OTP) is the only "unbreakable" encryption.
The rest are algorithmic, and therefore susceptible to decryption by algorithmic attacks. Decryption of them is a matter of being clued to the nature of the algorithm, and perhaps in possession of the knowledge of a secret constant with which the decryption algorithm can be generated. And once the constant is guessed, all messages based on it are decrypted.
The only ways to decipher OTP-encrypted messages are to physically access the encryption or decryption pads, or steal the cleartext before it's encrypted or after it's decrypted.
(Note: since VENONA was not used only once, it's not actually OTP.)
Productive workers "lose" over $10 Trillion to non-Productive administrative, managerial and ownership personnel, annually.
Why good people don't recognize that the value they create with their hands is worth 2-5 times what they're paid is testament to the success of the massive propaganda campaign waged by the boss class.
Despise the things. I never get virii either, so a/v daemons just suck up resources and bog down every access to the filesystem or network.
Browser Used?
Primarily Firefox, but IE6 about 20% of the time (rendering and backtracking are slightly better in IE).
I'm starting to side with the other responder: anyone who has trojans (virii or spyware) does so because they do not understand that downloading executables is a risk.
Oh, and I *never* access AOL. I don't have an AOL account, and I don't use AIM. Maybe that's the significant structural difference.
I have a cable modem (no protection) and a wireless/wired switch (NAT firewall), so that explains why I don't get port-scanned to death.
I download software but don't open executable attachments, and when I DL I google first for the software name and "spyware" and don't DL if there's any indication it's a trojan.
The only "spyware" I get are tracking cookies. And Ad-aware cleans those up if it knows them, when I run it, maybe once a month. But they come back, because I go to those sites again.
Am I missing something? Where is all this spyware coming from if I'm doing minimal or sub-minimal prophylaxis?
I think it was almost exactly ten years ago that I purchased the only retail copy of OS/2 available in Phoenix, tried to install it, watched it go tits-up, and returned it for a full refund.
It was an open-box sale, so clearly someone else had done the same, and no doubt someone did so afterwards.
So, the question is, was there ever more than one copy available, anywhere?
What you pay per-part and what Apple would pay IBM or Intel per-part are two different things.
Intel would gladly have sold Apple parts at incremental cost less than what IBM could afford at their yield and volume. IBM would lose their biggest customer for PPC, and Intel would gain full control of the consumer desktop.
Only the irrational attitude of those at Apple towards the Wintel hegemony kept it from happening.
What is so surprising is that so many people don't understand that it was illogical for Apple to use higher-priced parts for 20 years just to be different.
I expect further incursions of logic into Apple's business practices. The use of aftermarket motherboards and fungible accessories, e.g.
Its days as an iconoclast are over.
Which means its days as a boutique development shop are over.
So if you're a hardware designer working for Apple, you'd better either start sucking up hard hoping you're one of the few who are kept, or start buffing your resume', and maybe learning Chinese.
This is no troll. This is business, and Apple finally joined up.
No lawyer would ever allow a technology licensing agreement to depend on the branding of the product, not even one of AMD's ridiculous shysters...
Intel introduced the Pentium name because of competition from others using "86" in their CPU names. Grove et al were tired of Cyrix and AMD getting value from Intel's advertising dollars.
They had taken out no trademark on the number 86, and it was far too late to shut the barn door.
(N.B.: I was there; I remember the naming contest; they didn't pick mine; I hated "Pentium" at the time, but since then the idea they promoted that it's an "ingredient" sunk in, even though "ingredient" was the wrong word...).
Intel did still have to share some Pentium, P2, P4, and P5 designs with AMD, because they still used parts of the 386/486 technology covered in the licenses.
> you can make hydrogen out of pretty much anything, while you cannot make gasoline out of electricity.
Sez who?
At some point, it will be more profitable to synthesize gasoline from short-chain hydrocarbons than to mine it out of the ground. I'm sure electricity will be an important input to the manufacturing process.
Will it be more profitable than making an equivalent amount of hydrogen energy? That depends on who values the two processes...
I don't want my computer to clique me into a particular "community".
I want it to be a toolbox that allows me to be a part of many communities I choose to join.
And if you don't like the software available, it is, you know, possible to write your own, to your - or the world's[1][2][3][4][5][6] - standards of function, style, consistency, robustness, and hipness.
So is it Windows's fault that it's too broad and not restrictive enough on new tools, or is it Mac's fault that it's provincial and overweaning?
Intel, in the interest of not riling the FTC, has been treating AMD with kid gloves, allowing it considerable leeway in infringing on proprietary technology and conducting anticompetitive practices itself.
I suspect with this petulant outburst AMD has obviated any sense at the FTC that it needs protecting.
Intel is going to lay into AMD like a pissed-off mom finally going ballistic at her second husband's spoiled children.
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One-time pad (OTP) is the only "unbreakable" encryption.
The rest are algorithmic, and therefore susceptible to decryption by algorithmic attacks. Decryption of them is a matter of being clued to the nature of the algorithm, and perhaps in possession of the knowledge of a secret constant with which the decryption algorithm can be generated. And once the constant is guessed, all messages based on it are decrypted.
The only ways to decipher OTP-encrypted messages are to physically access the encryption or decryption pads, or steal the cleartext before it's encrypted or after it's decrypted.
(Note: since VENONA was not used only once, it's not actually OTP.)
Someone needs to send the submitter the brochure for a good online remedial-English school...
...sheesh...
I'm still not sure what half of that posting was about.
7 square mile of Californian real estate that gets nearly total sunshine year-round.
Plus an enormous storage system for maintaining supply during cloudy periods.
Plus an enormous distribution system for getting the power from the grid to the, um, grid...
Space is the safest place to be, in terms of passenger-miles.
Think about it. We're all in space. And we're all still alive.
(30 minutes later)
/. was intended for.
Now that's the sort of post
Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity sit on the Martian regolith listening to the news.
They look at each other, then, after a beat, say, in unison, "ROAD TRIP!"
I was wondering why today was going so slow.
The Earth has been slashdotted....
He one funny guy...not.
Productive workers "lose" over $10 Trillion to non-Productive administrative, managerial and ownership personnel, annually.
Why good people don't recognize that the value they create with their hands is worth 2-5 times what they're paid is testament to the success of the massive propaganda campaign waged by the boss class.
There isn't enough arable land in the universe to satisfy the corn production needs of a pure-ethanol automotive energy economy.
Couple of Questions?
Shoot.
Anti-virus?
Despise the things. I never get virii either, so a/v daemons just suck up resources and bog down every access to the filesystem or network.
Browser Used?
Primarily Firefox, but IE6 about 20% of the time (rendering and backtracking are slightly better in IE).
I'm starting to side with the other responder: anyone who has trojans (virii or spyware) does so because they do not understand that downloading executables is a risk.
Oh, and I *never* access AOL. I don't have an AOL account, and I don't use AIM. Maybe that's the significant structural difference.
I have a Windows PC running XP Pro.
I have a cable modem (no protection) and a wireless/wired switch (NAT firewall), so that explains why I don't get port-scanned to death.
I download software but don't open executable attachments, and when I DL I google first for the software name and "spyware" and don't DL if there's any indication it's a trojan.
The only "spyware" I get are tracking cookies. And Ad-aware cleans those up if it knows them, when I run it, maybe once a month. But they come back, because I go to those sites again.
Am I missing something? Where is all this spyware coming from if I'm doing minimal or sub-minimal prophylaxis?
I think it was almost exactly ten years ago that I purchased the only retail copy of OS/2 available in Phoenix, tried to install it, watched it go tits-up, and returned it for a full refund.
It was an open-box sale, so clearly someone else had done the same, and no doubt someone did so afterwards.
So, the question is, was there ever more than one copy available, anywhere?
What you pay per-part and what Apple would pay IBM or Intel per-part are two different things.
Intel would gladly have sold Apple parts at incremental cost less than what IBM could afford at their yield and volume. IBM would lose their biggest customer for PPC, and Intel would gain full control of the consumer desktop.
Only the irrational attitude of those at Apple towards the Wintel hegemony kept it from happening.
Mercedes is now Chrysler.
You do the math.
What is so surprising is that so many people don't understand that it was illogical for Apple to use higher-priced parts for 20 years just to be different.
I expect further incursions of logic into Apple's business practices. The use of aftermarket motherboards and fungible accessories, e.g.
Its days as an iconoclast are over.
Which means its days as a boutique development shop are over.
So if you're a hardware designer working for Apple, you'd better either start sucking up hard hoping you're one of the few who are kept, or start buffing your resume', and maybe learning Chinese.
This is no troll. This is business, and Apple finally joined up.
Oh, bullshit.
No lawyer would ever allow a technology licensing agreement to depend on the branding of the product, not even one of AMD's ridiculous shysters...
Intel introduced the Pentium name because of competition from others using "86" in their CPU names. Grove et al were tired of Cyrix and AMD getting value from Intel's advertising dollars.
They had taken out no trademark on the number 86, and it was far too late to shut the barn door.
(N.B.: I was there; I remember the naming contest; they didn't pick mine; I hated "Pentium" at the time, but since then the idea they promoted that it's an "ingredient" sunk in, even though "ingredient" was the wrong word...).
Intel did still have to share some Pentium, P2, P4, and P5 designs with AMD, because they still used parts of the 386/486 technology covered in the licenses.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you can't scorn someone you're defeating in the marketplace just because you stole your ideas from them.
/. submission is based on a failure to understand human nature)
(i.e., this whole
> you can make hydrogen out of pretty much anything, while you cannot make gasoline out of electricity.
Sez who?
At some point, it will be more profitable to synthesize gasoline from short-chain hydrocarbons than to mine it out of the ground. I'm sure electricity will be an important input to the manufacturing process.
Will it be more profitable than making an equivalent amount of hydrogen energy? That depends on who values the two processes...
I call.
Ballmer is bluffing.
He's the worst poker player ever, and his air of aloof pretense spreads like strawberry frosting.
I'm all-in.
The problem is always the same: How do I make a computer do just what I want it to do?
In C, you can do that. Even if the solution is to invent another language compiled by a C program. Or to embed assembly code in your C code.
I don't want my computer to clique me into a particular "community".
I want it to be a toolbox that allows me to be a part of many communities I choose to join.
And if you don't like the software available, it is, you know, possible to write your own, to your - or the world's[1][2][3][4][5][6] - standards of function, style, consistency, robustness, and hipness.
So is it Windows's fault that it's too broad and not restrictive enough on new tools, or is it Mac's fault that it's provincial and overweaning?
1. The cross-licensing is insufficient to cover the total use of Intel's technology, and Intel has always known it.
2. Getting the entire nation of Germany to build you a fab is anti-competitive in Germany. And only one example.
Now sit down and shut up.
Intel, in the interest of not riling the FTC, has been treating AMD with kid gloves, allowing it considerable leeway in infringing on proprietary technology and conducting anticompetitive practices itself.
I suspect with this petulant outburst AMD has obviated any sense at the FTC that it needs protecting.
Intel is going to lay into AMD like a pissed-off mom finally going ballistic at her second husband's spoiled children.
Amazon created a novel process for automatically generating user recommendations.
What's wrong with patenting that?
Nothing.
What would be wrong is if you're too lame to negotiate an appropriate royalty when they come to collect.
I'd say 0.05% on net would be your upper limit.
And if they don't accept it, then just keep using your system, and be prepared to replace it with a dummy when they try to examine your code.