I think it is more of a one time KEY as opposed to a one time pad.
The one time pad uses a substitution cipher for each letter. That is, the key is as long as the message.
I assume from the limited informational and physical spead of the this encryption they would only be trasnmitting the key.
Anyone know better?
Yeah, they mention in the news.com article that silicon is a poor producer of light, what it is good at though is amplifying it via the Ramen effect.
A Raman laser, in some ways, is ideally suited for silicon. The Raman Effect, discovered in 1928 by Nobel laureate Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, roughly works as follows: Light hits a substance, causing the atoms in the substance to vibrate. The collision causes some of the photons to gain or lose energy, resulting in a secondary light of a different wavelength. A Raman laser essentially involves taking this secondary light and then amplifying it (by reflecting it and pumping energy into the system) to emit a functional beam.
Because of its crystalline structure, silicon atoms readily vibrate when hit with light. The Raman Effect, in fact, is 10,000 times stronger in silicon than standard glass, which should make it far easier to amplify.
If you really want to worry about our kids, let's take a real, good look at our schools and what they're doing to our kids (to us.)
Today it seems like a given that everyone should be taken from their close communities, neighborhoods, etc and subjected to to an enviroment so oppisite a kids spontaneous, highly intelligent, independently motivated learning experinces.
Yeah, the connotations embodied by this bike are amazing.. 6 people pedaling, one person steering. The one person steering is the only one who really can see where they're going...
You know, I've always felt this, but I never felt it so strongly as when earlier yesterday. I think it was FOXNews, they were talking about the nuclear capabilities of various countries (hrrm.. wonder why this has all the sudden popped back up... ), and the reporter actually said
"... North Korea and other countries in the so called 'Axis of Evil'..."
So we have something that's massivly economically feasable, but it would pull some control out of the hands of the bourgeoisie. I wonder why this bothers "managers".
Maybe because they're afraid we'll figure out we don't need them.
Yes, I know this is a simple and almost disingenuous statement and the language is clear cut "us and them.":: shrug::
Another consideration. Any time a corporation puts money into tweaking an egine that they purchused, that's money in the toilet. After their game, they can't sell the engine to anyone, and the have to buy a new liscense next time. With F/OSS when you put in effort it reciprocates because it makes the code that much more usable and attracts others to using it.
But this isn't how open source works! We don't get one genius that can code a whole engine, game and graphics at once, that's not how any game works.
There's a reason that all the greatest games are $50 (besides marketing.) It's beace it requires a massive coordinated effort to produce these games, some people like Id, Valve, EA, etc make the engines and have the money to hire all the graphics artists game programmers, level designers, sound effects, etc to get the game out before the engine is out of date!
Open source can't compete on these grounds. The reason that web servers and similar programs work so well on linux is that they've followed the unix progression.
The UNIX ideal is that you make programs to do a very specfic, specialzed job, really really well. And then, you can combine these specialized jobs into more sophisticated systems, but you never just build one general purpose program from scratch and have people use it. That would be duplicating code.
Luckily, this has been slowly happening in the F/OSS community. I was elated when I read on here about NovodeX, the Open Source physics engine. Awesome! Now every time someone wants to make a 3D shoot 'em up, they don't need to take a class in physics and figure out how the hell to do object colisions most efficently. This is the UNIX mentality. Now we can have people focus more on the graphics side of things.
The advantage of Open Source is that it builds exponentially. Now we have this physics engine here, and maybe people will use it. If they tweak it, test it, bug-fix it, they give back to the community. As more people use it, it gets better, as it gets better, more people use it. Pretty soon you have game developers having a viable alternative to Havoc.
So what is my advice? If you're thinking about writing a game, start off and see if there's components that might work to your advantage... perhaps pair the NovodeX with a free source graphics engine and the tweak them both.
So wait... does that mean you've been classically conditioned to associate computing power with the coming of food?:: imagines a closed box with a computer and a nerd in it... every time the computer rolls over a certain nuber of cycles the nerd gets a twinkie::
This is wonderful, and a step in the right direction to be sure. I was actually just pondering if this kind of thing was possible the other day.
Unfortunatly, buildings are still made like huge heat syncs.
This is because a flat surface has a very poor surface area to volume ratio, other sky scraper shapes, such as cylinders, are even worse. R. Buckminster Fuller explains this in his Critical Path. What really elucidates this is he says if we theoretically covered all the buildings from 20th to 80th St, I think it was, in Manhatten with one large dome we would decrease the surface area exposed to the elements by a factor of 84. Consequently, it would take 1/84th of the energy to heat and cool the environment.
Yeah, and if stealing that from a submarine movie wasn't bad enough, they desided to go overboard (no pun intended) and make another part like a damned pirate movie
"Yarr matie, give em a broadside!":: both ships line up side by side with cannons and blast away at each other...::
Now Enders Game... There's a movie that if done right would have som e insanely badass stuff.
As opposed to a small isolated box. On a block where you don't know your neighbors, except by what type of car they have, how much better or worse their lawn is then yours, or whether or not their house is enviable. In a city whose schools indoctrinate your children into paradigms 50 years old, trying to turn them into good little robots, leaving imprints at fertile ages up to teachers you may never know. Yes I agree that the rich people you talk about probably won't ever want to live in an arcology. I think really, they're meant for communities of tight knit people. I'm biased though, I want to create such a community some day...
Back when I had a 486 I had a 6 disc changer from pioneer... it was a cool concept, the only real problem was that it had to tell the OS what every CD was, so it made 6 drives. Then periodically the Windows 95 would go through checking each one (for some reason) so if the CD was being used or not it'd cycle through removing one disc, and loading the next, reading a little bit, and putting it back, etc, for all 6. I'd hope they've figured out better methods if these type of devices exsist now, the same problems with 100+ cds would be impossible!
But seriously, who is going to want a microchip embedded in their body just for paying for stuff. Apart from the odd wierdo, most people get completely creeped out by this kind of thing.
And some people dream about it. Neat Stephenson had this technology in Diamond Age, except it was implanted into the hip, and used nanotech. Even if this particular tech wasn't that important, body augmentation was a serious part of the society in that book. Perhaps this is just the beginning of a trend towards that kind of future?
Very well put! That's all I have to say, every time I read a viewpoint that opens my perceptions a little farther, it makes me happy, and you've certainly done that.
I can't believe I just read this entire thing and didn't see one link to Skype! Wasn't this just on Slashdot a few days ago?
You'd have to get your friends onto the service, but it reeally is very easy, it's encrypted, and the quality is quite good for 56k.
"Harrison Ford can still kick the s**t out of most people half his age," Spielberg told us. "I think he's in great condition to put the fedora and the hat and the leather jacket back on and crack that bullwhip a few more times."
Yeah, but if he says "I'm getting to old for this shit" I may have to shoot him...
Because I'm on a "dynamic IP" I'm blocked as spam. My IP hasn't changed in over a year, and my server does *NOT* allow open relaying. Thanks AOL, you're really helpful.
Since these comments have been going every which way (Racing, proper javascripting, etc) I figure I could addd to the entropy =)
The quote in your signature is from the Matrix bastardization done by "cr0bar" formerly of Detonate.net. When he sold off the site he put up all his bastardizations in a few files, I've got 'em if you want 'em. =)
Slashdot Mirror
Googlenet. eh? Getting awefully close to Skynet aren't we!?
I think it is more of a one time KEY as opposed to a one time pad. The one time pad uses a substitution cipher for each letter. That is, the key is as long as the message. I assume from the limited informational and physical spead of the this encryption they would only be trasnmitting the key. Anyone know better?
Yeah, they mention in the news.com article that silicon is a poor producer of light, what it is good at though is amplifying it via the Ramen effect.
A Raman laser, in some ways, is ideally suited for silicon. The Raman Effect, discovered in 1928 by Nobel laureate Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, roughly works as follows: Light hits a substance, causing the atoms in the substance to vibrate. The collision causes some of the photons to gain or lose energy, resulting in a secondary light of a different wavelength. A Raman laser essentially involves taking this secondary light and then amplifying it (by reflecting it and pumping energy into the system) to emit a functional beam. Because of its crystalline structure, silicon atoms readily vibrate when hit with light. The Raman Effect, in fact, is 10,000 times stronger in silicon than standard glass, which should make it far easier to amplify.
So, you're saying if someone completely ignorant came up with a workable solution, what, we'd have to discard it or something?
If you really want to worry about our kids, let's take a real, good look at our schools and what they're doing to our kids (to us.)
t m
Today it seems like a given that everyone should be taken from their close communities, neighborhoods, etc and subjected to to an enviroment so oppisite a kids spontaneous, highly intelligent, independently motivated learning experinces.
This is an extremely interesting book (readable onine) detailing a long time public school teachers research into the true history of forced education: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.h
Yeah, the connotations embodied by this bike are amazing.. 6 people pedaling, one person steering. The one person steering is the only one who really can see where they're going...
Great conditioning I guess.
You know, I've always felt this, but I never felt it so strongly as when earlier yesterday. I think it was FOXNews, they were talking about the nuclear capabilities of various countries (hrrm.. wonder why this has all the sudden popped back up... ), and the reporter actually said
..."
"... North Korea and other countries in the so called 'Axis of Evil'
D=
Oh yes.. very objective.
So we have something that's massivly economically feasable, but it would pull some control out of the hands of the bourgeoisie. I wonder why this bothers "managers".
:: shrug ::
Maybe because they're afraid we'll figure out we don't need them.
Yes, I know this is a simple and almost disingenuous statement and the language is clear cut "us and them."
Another consideration. Any time a corporation puts money into tweaking an egine that they purchused, that's money in the toilet. After their game, they can't sell the engine to anyone, and the have to buy a new liscense next time. With F/OSS when you put in effort it reciprocates because it makes the code that much more usable and attracts others to using it.
and oops, that was meant to be because above. =/
But this isn't how open source works! We don't get one genius that can code a whole engine, game and graphics at once, that's not how any game works.
There's a reason that all the greatest games are $50 (besides marketing.) It's beace it requires a massive coordinated effort to produce these games, some people like Id, Valve, EA, etc make the engines and have the money to hire all the graphics artists game programmers, level designers, sound effects, etc to get the game out before the engine is out of date!
Open source can't compete on these grounds. The reason that web servers and similar programs work so well on linux is that they've followed the unix progression.
The UNIX ideal is that you make programs to do a very specfic, specialzed job, really really well. And then, you can combine these specialized jobs into more sophisticated systems, but you never just build one general purpose program from scratch and have people use it. That would be duplicating code.
Luckily, this has been slowly happening in the F/OSS community. I was elated when I read on here about NovodeX, the Open Source physics engine. Awesome! Now every time someone wants to make a 3D shoot 'em up, they don't need to take a class in physics and figure out how the hell to do object colisions most efficently. This is the UNIX mentality. Now we can have people focus more on the graphics side of things.
The advantage of Open Source is that it builds exponentially. Now we have this physics engine here, and maybe people will use it. If they tweak it, test it, bug-fix it, they give back to the community. As more people use it, it gets better, as it gets better, more people use it. Pretty soon you have game developers having a viable alternative to Havoc.
So what is my advice? If you're thinking about writing a game, start off and see if there's components that might work to your advantage... perhaps pair the NovodeX with a free source graphics engine and the tweak them both.
So wait... does that mean you've been classically conditioned to associate computing power with the coming of food? :: imagines a closed box with a computer and a nerd in it... every time the computer rolls over a certain nuber of cycles the nerd gets a twinkie ::
This is wonderful, and a step in the right direction to be sure. I was actually just pondering if this kind of thing was possible the other day. Unfortunatly, buildings are still made like huge heat syncs. This is because a flat surface has a very poor surface area to volume ratio, other sky scraper shapes, such as cylinders, are even worse. R. Buckminster Fuller explains this in his Critical Path. What really elucidates this is he says if we theoretically covered all the buildings from 20th to 80th St, I think it was, in Manhatten with one large dome we would decrease the surface area exposed to the elements by a factor of 84. Consequently, it would take 1/84th of the energy to heat and cool the environment.
Yeah, and if stealing that from a submarine movie wasn't bad enough, they desided to go overboard (no pun intended) and make another part like a damned pirate movie "Yarr matie, give em a broadside!" :: both ships line up side by side with cannons and blast away at each other... ::
Now Enders Game... There's a movie that if done right would have som e insanely badass stuff.
The Diamond Age
As opposed to a small isolated box. On a block where you don't know your neighbors, except by what type of car they have, how much better or worse their lawn is then yours, or whether or not their house is enviable. In a city whose schools indoctrinate your children into paradigms 50 years old, trying to turn them into good little robots, leaving imprints at fertile ages up to teachers you may never know. Yes I agree that the rich people you talk about probably won't ever want to live in an arcology. I think really, they're meant for communities of tight knit people. I'm biased though, I want to create such a community some day...
If only these were popular...
Back when I had a 486 I had a 6 disc changer from pioneer... it was a cool concept, the only real problem was that it had to tell the OS what every CD was, so it made 6 drives. Then periodically the Windows 95 would go through checking each one (for some reason) so if the CD was being used or not it'd cycle through removing one disc, and loading the next, reading a little bit, and putting it back, etc, for all 6. I'd hope they've figured out better methods if these type of devices exsist now, the same problems with 100+ cds would be impossible!
Very well put! That's all I have to say, every time I read a viewpoint that opens my perceptions a little farther, it makes me happy, and you've certainly done that.
I can't believe I just read this entire thing and didn't see one link to Skype! Wasn't this just on Slashdot a few days ago? You'd have to get your friends onto the service, but it reeally is very easy, it's encrypted, and the quality is quite good for 56k.
Popular Enterprises, huh. I wonder if they thought it up before or after the bussiness plan?
I guess it does bring a whole new meaning to headshots... *ducks*
Because I'm on a "dynamic IP" I'm blocked as spam. My IP hasn't changed in over a year, and my server does *NOT* allow open relaying. Thanks AOL, you're really helpful.
Since these comments have been going every which way (Racing, proper javascripting, etc) I figure I could addd to the entropy =) The quote in your signature is from the Matrix bastardization done by "cr0bar" formerly of Detonate.net. When he sold off the site he put up all his bastardizations in a few files, I've got 'em if you want 'em. =)