Having a bunch of users with little - or even not at all - unix experience makes CDE the only choice, not by it's virtues, but more by the lack of "features" (windows-style) of OpenWindows, twm, mwm etc.
I wonder if this time they'll try to take pictures of the 'artifacts' (like 'The Face') that were conspicously avoided by all the probes after Voyager. I'm not really in the conspiracy theories, but some things seem to go way against the natural odds...
I think that's the problem: sending the initial ping will almost guarantee detection, both in water and on the internet; the other problems, the changing (non-static) conditions only come to make this worse, 'cause you have to send additional 'pings' when the environment changes enough to make the transmissino incomprehensible.
...then history will repeat itself and the worlds crypto experts will be in Russia and other countries which don't ban it.
Only this time, the US of A will go after "anybody harboring the terrorists"; probably there'll be fewer countries willing to risk to upset the said US of A.
So the problem might get ugly. Besides, what government in their right mind would kick an occasion like this one to put in a few laws to increase the surveillance of their people?
Some encryption methods can't be "broken", although I suppose given an infinite amount of time you might generate all possible permutations of the encrypted data and weed out the results that look like reasonable messages
Well, in a loooong - not infinite - amount of time you'll get *all* the plaintext messages of a certain length - which is of no use, of course. Although you can easily weed out the illogical ones, you'll still have so many that make sense that you'll end up suspecting everybody using encryption of being a terrorist. This you can do without bothering to crack any code.
It's even harder to *detect* encrypted messages concealed in pictures. as discussed widely somewhere else.
The article mainly restates what was previously done and known - no breaking news here. It may be interesting, though, because it's addressed to a different audience than, say,/.
Nice reading if you were somewhere in a hole for the last 2-3 years.:)
It may not be next week, or even this year, but history shows it will be. It's only a matter of when.
But that's exactly the point: by making it happen later rather than sooner they (sony) get the time to get the big $$$ and launch ps3, ps4 etc.
By the time ps/2 emulators will be widely available, ps/2 games will be very old news.
Speaking of which,
The money spent to produce the four studies underscores the importance the industry
attaches to the issue.
This isn't included in the mentioned "information tax", is it? It's taken right out of their profits... not.
Slashdot Mirror
[...]I will smash it into tiny little pieces and send it back by U.S. Mail
Err... not *too* tiny, I hope. I mean, keep clear from sending dust...
Having a bunch of users with little - or even not at all - unix experience makes CDE the only choice, not by it's virtues, but more by the lack of "features" (windows-style) of OpenWindows, twm, mwm etc.
Now, are you sure you aren't into conspiracy theories? :)
What can I say? I'm not. Maybe misinformed. Definitely not trolling.
Thanks for the links.
I wonder if this time they'll try to take pictures of the 'artifacts' (like 'The Face') that were conspicously avoided by all the probes after Voyager. I'm not really in the conspiracy theories, but some things seem to go way against the natural odds...
possibly without revealing your exact location
I think that's the problem: sending the initial ping will almost guarantee detection, both in water and on the internet; the other problems, the changing (non-static) conditions only come to make this worse, 'cause you have to send additional 'pings' when the environment changes enough to make the transmissino incomprehensible.
...then history will repeat itself and the worlds crypto experts will be in Russia and other countries which don't ban it.
Only this time, the US of A will go after "anybody harboring the terrorists"; probably there'll be fewer countries willing to risk to upset the said US of A.
So the problem might get ugly. Besides, what government in their right mind would kick an occasion like this one to put in a few laws to increase the surveillance of their people?
Some encryption methods can't be "broken", although I suppose given an infinite amount of time you might generate all possible permutations of the encrypted data and weed out the results that look like reasonable messages
Well, in a loooong - not infinite - amount of time you'll get *all* the plaintext messages of a certain length - which is of no use, of course. Although you can easily weed out the illogical ones, you'll still have so many that make sense that you'll end up suspecting everybody using encryption of being a terrorist. This you can do without bothering to crack any code.
It's even harder to *detect* encrypted messages concealed in pictures. as discussed widely somewhere else.
The article mainly restates what was previously done and known - no breaking news here. It may be interesting, though, because it's addressed to a different audience than, say, /.
:)
Nice reading if you were somewhere in a hole for the last 2-3 years.
It may not be next week, or even this year, but history shows it will be. It's only a matter of when.
But that's exactly the point: by making it happen later rather than sooner they (sony) get the time to get the big $$$ and launch ps3, ps4 etc.
By the time ps/2 emulators will be widely available, ps/2 games will be very old news.
Speaking of which, The money spent to produce the four studies underscores the importance the industry attaches to the issue. This isn't included in the mentioned "information tax", is it? It's taken right out of their profits ... not.
It actually checks just for glibc. And it's a good idea to keep current with the updates anyway... much better than keeping up with file managers.