You'd have to go through one helluva security clearance for sure. The problem I see is that in any job where you're working on classified material you can't tell anyone about it. That would suck, to find out something cool and not be able to share it.
I've seen people's resumes that worked at the NSA for years and that's about all they can say, that they were there. From their homepage: Because of the nature of our work, the employment process is thorough and lengthy, so you should apply to NSA several months in advance of your availability date. Applicants must undergo an extensive background investigation, psychological and polygraph exams, and several interviews. If you are accepted for a position at NSA we believe you will find NSA is more than just a place to work - it's a place to succeed!
That sounds pretty intense. It seems like they could use a proofreader though.
If you're interested in the NSA James Bamford has done a great job writing a history of No Such Agency, _The_Puzzle_Palace_ It doesn't have the latest developments (written in the early 80's) but it's about as good as I think you can get being on the outside.
They also have a homepage: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/
One big source of revenue on the moon is Helium-3 which can be used for clean nuclear energy. http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/he3-intro.html Lunar Helium-3 as an Energy Source.
The problem with space now is that people just aren't excited enough about it. If we had the kind of public outcry that we had in Kennedy's time so many exciting things would happen.
Just imagine what would happen to the president or leader of business that got us to the moon for economic reasons. What about getting a person to Mars. It wouldn't matter what else they did. they would be remembered forever in history.
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain are mostly known for their helping of Columbus. That was their claim to historical fame. For many people this is the only thing they know of these people. The fact that they were also leaders of the Spanish Inquisition, while still important, has been overshadowed by their funding of the discovery of the New World.
How could you trust someone like that? If that service is actually used they must have a huge amount of dirt on their customers. After a year or 2 of doing this they could turn and charge 10 times as much to divulge what they did a few years ago. Scary.
Speaking of bargain basement satellites why not have a whole constellation! Iridium has been having a whole lot of trouble. I think there was a Cringely a few weeks ago saying that if they go belly up the satellites will sell for a relative song. Now that would be cool, sending your data to every place on the planet.
but a control key to the left of the 'a' is purest evil for finger injuries.
How do you come to this conclusion? I can't see how just moving your finger to the side AND down is better than just a side motion. I speak from personal experience here but it's not a very large data set.
This isn't a new thing. The "competent" AV software providers have been doing this for at least 6 years under the name heuristics. It's just looking for new viruses that have similar characteristics to known ones.
The analogy to the body is a poor one though. In nature you sacrifice species that can't compete against the viruses (not that I would be sad to see some companies selected out.) In computerland if the software says "restore from backup, you're dead" people aren't going to accept that. Computer users demand 100%, something that just doesn't happen in nature. We're also not constantly adding new organs and such to the body that need protection because they insist on keeping their hearts on the outside of their body for ease of surgery instead of inside where they are hard to get at.
It is a nice idea to have "active update" capabilities to your system but you'd better be sure that it can't be compromised or you'll have one super way to put more viruses in the system.
Blockbuster books, you can't be serious. I agree that oftentimes I need to wait a little while to read new books that come out, if I want to get them from the library. If you really can't wait go buy it, otherwise there is a whole library, imagine that, of other books, some of which are probably more worth your time than the book you're looking for. I bought Cryptonomicon because I wanted a quick fix, but when I go to the library and they don't have what I'm looking for I can always find something else that's just as interesting if not more so.
On a sidenote would you really want the Blockbuster mentality, I'm sure they would want to censor your best sellers, think Showgirls.
CTS is just the tip of the repetative strain iceburg, all sorts of things can cause pain from overuse. There is an excellent book called Repetitive Strain Injury : A Computer User's Guide by Pascarelli and Quilter.
This book talks about all sorts of things from symptoms to how to recover, both physically as well as some mental issues as well. I found it at the library and found it to be very enlightening. Even if you're without pain a little education could very well keep you that way. If you're already having problems it's a must read.
As a sidenote after the article on this a few months ago I went out and got a Kinesis keyboard, it's made a big difference. What an excellent keybaord, well worth the price.
There seem to be 2 books written by Stephenson with I believe his uncle under the psuedonym Stpehen Bury, Interface, and The Cobweb. I thought that Interface was great, the premise blew me away about half way through the book when it came together what was about to happen. Interface was more enjoyable and memorable than Diamond Age. I'm still amazed that Diamond Age was able to win a Hugo. Working off another post the opening scene with the deliverator in Snow Crash is my favorite first chapter in any book I have read. I miss the word play in Snow Crash, "like crampons through a room full of puppies" still has yet to be matched as a great analogy. It may not be a pretty thought but it sure did get the idea across.
So far it looks like no one else has remembered but How Stuff Works beat out slashdot for "Cool Site of the Year" a few months ago. I took a look then, quite a collection of interesting info, almost as good as The Straight Dope but not quite.
If you really want to get hardcore automation stuff take a look at Lonworks. This is one of the places where the big boys go to automate entire office buildings. Neat stuff. There are all kinds of media that this can run on, from twisted pair to fence wire in New Zealand.
Sorry, I must have just taken a big toke off the old crack pipe when I wrote the first paragraph of the last message. According to Applied Cryptography a 1024bit public key is about as secure as a 90 bit symmetric key which is still a hell of a lot of messages to keep around. You can't compare public keys like I did. oops
The amount of data that you would have to stored to have a useful dictionary is mind boggling. Suppose that the people you want to listen to use just 1024 bit encryption. According to the prime number theorem the frequency of primes among the numbers near m is about 1/log(m). For 2^1024 that's about a prime every 308 numbers. 2^1024 is 1.88*10^308. That's about 6*10^305 primes. Can you say the volume of the universe in cubic centimeters and still not be close?
That also assumes that you know exactly what they will send. Using any good system "Attack at dawn." will encrypt to something totally different from "Attack at dawn!" A dictionary attack is almost totally worthless with a well designed system.
The real attacks will not come against the math but against the implementation or the people using the system. Check out Why Cryptosystems Fail
I think that this is the requisite response to a question about unbreakable systems. We have it and it's the one time pad. It has the same problem as all symmetric systems in that you need to secretly share the key with the added bonus of having to keep a key as long as the message, and never being able to reuse a key. It's a nightmare for key distribution.
Since what you are combining with is totally random there is no way to crack this system. One decryption is equally as likely as any other. I'm looking forward to Tuesday to see what the paper turns out to be.
The people who look through your luggage at the airport aren't paid that well, I would guess close to minimum wage. When's the last time you met someone who wanted to do that? The other problem with things like this is that the people have an easier time if they just let things go through the conveyor. People get upset and yell at you when you have to stop the line to search someone's bag. It's easier to just let questionable things go through, after all you're not flying. I think you're right though in that this might get them more interested but I can't imagine it would last long, this about an ob/gyn (not even going to try to spell that thing), after a days work it can't be that interesting to see nakedness.
I had a teacher in hs that said something to our class one day that I remember to this day. I have a feeling he was paraphrasing someone else but...
"If you find a job you love you'll never work a day in your life"
I hope that I can do that someday. Still in school reaching for it.
I found college to be so much better than high school, people just don't bother to be jerks anymore they seem to have better things to do. There is also some selection going on regarding the type of people that will go to the same school you will also.
There is a nice rebuttal to the Liebowitz and Margolis article here. They are definately not unbiased.
If you think of yourself as a hacker a crappy design should just frost your cookies. Just think about it, Dvorac was specifically designed to be easy to use. While you may not be able to prove it's better it definately can't be any worse. I have a hot switchable Q/D keyboard from Kinesis but haven't had the time to switch, opefullly this summer.
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I've seen people's resumes that worked at the NSA for years and that's about all they can say, that they were there. From their homepage: Because of the nature of our work, the employment process is thorough and lengthy, so you should apply to NSA several months in advance of your availability date. Applicants must undergo an extensive background investigation, psychological and polygraph exams, and several interviews. If you are accepted for a position at NSA we believe you will find NSA is more than just a place to work - it's a place to succeed!
That sounds pretty intense. It seems like they could use a proofreader though.
If you're interested in the NSA James Bamford has done a great job writing a history of No Such Agency, _The_Puzzle_Palace_ It doesn't have the latest developments (written in the early 80's) but it's about as good as I think you can get being on the outside.
They also have a homepage: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/
One big source of revenue on the moon is Helium-3 which can be used for clean nuclear energy. http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/he3-intro.html Lunar Helium-3 as an Energy Source.
The problem with space now is that people just aren't excited enough about it. If we had the kind of public outcry that we had in Kennedy's time so many exciting things would happen.
Just imagine what would happen to the president or leader of business that got us to the moon for economic reasons. What about getting a person to Mars. It wouldn't matter what else they did. they would be remembered forever in history.
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain are mostly known for their helping of Columbus. That was their claim to historical fame. For many people this is the only thing they know of these people. The fact that they were also leaders of the Spanish Inquisition, while still important, has been overshadowed by their funding of the discovery of the New World.
How could you trust someone like that? If that service is actually used they must have a huge amount of dirt on their customers. After a year or 2 of doing this they could turn and charge 10 times as much to divulge what they did a few years ago. Scary.
Speaking of bargain basement satellites why not have a whole constellation! Iridium has been having a whole lot of trouble. I think there was a Cringely a few weeks ago saying that if they go belly up the satellites will sell for a relative song. Now that would be cool, sending your data to every place on the planet.
but a control key to the left of the 'a' is purest evil for finger injuries.
How do you come to this conclusion? I can't see how just moving your finger to the side AND down is better than just a side motion. I speak from personal experience here but it's not a very large data set.
This isn't a new thing. The "competent" AV software providers have been doing this for at least 6 years under the name heuristics. It's just looking for new viruses that have similar characteristics to known ones.
The analogy to the body is a poor one though. In nature you sacrifice species that can't compete against the viruses (not that I would be sad to see some companies selected out.) In computerland if the software says "restore from backup, you're dead" people aren't going to accept that. Computer users demand 100%, something that just doesn't happen in nature. We're also not constantly adding new organs and such to the body that need protection because they insist on keeping their hearts on the outside of their body for ease of surgery instead of inside where they are hard to get at.
It is a nice idea to have "active update" capabilities to your system but you'd better be sure that it can't be compromised or you'll have one super way to put more viruses in the system.
Blockbuster books, you can't be serious. I agree that oftentimes I need to wait a little while to read new books that come out, if I want to get them from the library. If you really can't wait go buy it, otherwise there is a whole library, imagine that, of other books, some of which are probably more worth your time than the book you're looking for. I bought Cryptonomicon because I wanted a quick fix, but when I go to the library and they don't have what I'm looking for I can always find something else that's just as interesting if not more so.
On a sidenote would you really want the Blockbuster mentality, I'm sure they would want to censor your best sellers, think Showgirls.
CTS is just the tip of the repetative strain iceburg, all sorts of things can cause pain from overuse. There is an excellent book called Repetitive Strain Injury : A Computer User's Guide by Pascarelli and Quilter.
This book talks about all sorts of things from symptoms to how to recover, both physically as well as some mental issues as well. I found it at the library and found it to be very enlightening. Even if you're without pain a little education could very well keep you that way. If you're already having problems it's a must read.
As a sidenote after the article on this a few months ago I went out and got a Kinesis keyboard, it's made a big difference. What an excellent keybaord, well worth the price.
There seem to be 2 books written by Stephenson with I believe his uncle under the psuedonym Stpehen Bury, Interface, and The Cobweb. I thought that Interface was great, the premise blew me away about half way through the book when it came together what was about to happen. Interface was more enjoyable and memorable than Diamond Age. I'm still amazed that Diamond Age was able to win a Hugo. Working off another post the opening scene with the deliverator in Snow Crash is my favorite first chapter in any book I have read. I miss the word play in Snow Crash, "like crampons through a room full of puppies" still has yet to be matched as a great analogy. It may not be a pretty thought but it sure did get the idea across.
So far it looks like no one else has remembered but How Stuff Works beat out slashdot for "Cool Site of the Year" a few months ago. I took a look then, quite a collection of interesting info, almost as good as The Straight Dope but not quite.
If you really want to get hardcore automation stuff take a look at Lonworks. This is one of the places where the big boys go to automate entire office buildings. Neat stuff. There are all kinds of media that this can run on, from twisted pair to fence wire in New Zealand.
Sorry, I must have just taken a big toke off the old crack pipe when I wrote the first paragraph of the last message. According to Applied Cryptography a 1024bit public key is about as secure as a 90 bit symmetric key which is still a hell of a lot of messages to keep around.
You can't compare public keys like I did.
oops
The amount of data that you would have to stored to have a useful dictionary is mind boggling. Suppose that the people you want to listen to use just 1024 bit encryption. According to the prime number theorem the frequency of primes among the numbers near m is about 1/log(m). For 2^1024 that's about a prime every 308 numbers. 2^1024 is 1.88*10^308. That's about 6*10^305 primes. Can you say the volume of the universe in cubic centimeters and still not be close?
That also assumes that you know exactly what they will send. Using any good system "Attack at dawn." will encrypt to something totally different from "Attack at dawn!" A dictionary attack is almost totally worthless with a well designed system.
The real attacks will not come against the math but against the implementation or the people using the system. Check out Why Cryptosystems Fail
I think that this is the requisite response to a question about unbreakable systems. We have it and it's the one time pad. It has the same problem as all symmetric systems in that you need to secretly share the key with the added bonus of having to keep a key as long as the message, and never being able to reuse a key. It's a nightmare for key distribution.
Since what you are combining with is totally random there is no way to crack this system. One decryption is equally as likely as any other. I'm looking forward to Tuesday to see what the paper turns out to be.
The people who look through your luggage at the airport aren't paid that well, I would guess close to minimum wage. When's the last time you met someone who wanted to do that? The other problem with things like this is that the people have an easier time if they just let things go through the conveyor. People get upset and yell at you when you have to stop the line to search someone's bag. It's easier to just let questionable things go through, after all you're not flying.
I think you're right though in that this might get them more interested but I can't imagine it would last long, this about an ob/gyn (not even going to try to spell that thing), after a days work it can't be that interesting to see nakedness.
"If you find a job you love you'll never work a day in your life"
I hope that I can do that someday. Still in school reaching for it.
I found college to be so much better than high school, people just don't bother to be jerks anymore they seem to have better things to do. There is also some selection going on regarding the type of people that will go to the same school you will also.
If you think of yourself as a hacker a crappy design should just frost your cookies. Just think about it, Dvorac was specifically designed to be easy to use. While you may not be able to prove it's better it definately can't be any worse. I have a hot switchable Q/D keyboard from Kinesis but haven't had the time to switch, opefullly this summer.