So far, telemarketers haven't started calling it. Everyone who is likely to call me knows that number. I have the ringer turned off on the landline, and just check the answering machine every evening. The only reason I have a landline is for 911 service.
You could have some lunatic driving around shooting random people. Oh, wait, you do have some lunatic driving around shooting random people.
Kinda puts network outages in perspective.
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Back when I was running Red Hat 4.2. I have 1300 comments (this is 1301). 1300. At approx 1 to 2 minutes per comment that's 20 to 40 hours spent commenting on slashdot. Shit. I want that day back!
Evey post disparaging someone else's spelling or grammar, or lauding one's own spelling or grammar, will inevitably contain a spelling or grammatical error.
Yes the settlement is not final yet, however, Saddam Hussein claims that he is complying with the terms of the proposed settlement. Therefore, it is important to point out Saddam is lying.
Hopefully this will make the UN wise up to the fact that Iraq will find a way around anything.
All evidence points to Yoda as co-villain with the emperor all along -- one lightside of the force lying-pompous-schmuck and one darkside heavybreathing-sadist-schmuck. QuiGon was dimly aware of this problem, which is why he tried bypassing Yoda -- twice! -- and yearned for balance. So did Obiwan. And their student? How esthetic it would be for QuiGon and Obiwan to turn out to have been right and Yoda wrong!
How about this? Annakin self-hypnotized an inner core of himself to hide behid a mask while pretending to be the emperor's lackey, getting ready for a day of reckoning with BOTH of those sanctimonious bastards, Yoda and Palpatine! It works!
Here's part of the SALON article that never got included:
Oh, wait. I get it. Annakin was actually a secret agent spy all along! Here's the secret facts:
Vader's the one who sent the secret plans to Leia's ship! He arranged for the droids to get away, and coincidentally land just a few miles from his hidden son! (It explains why Obiwan "hid" Luke on the one planet Darth (I mean Anniken) was most familiar with in the whole universe. The same PART of that planet. It only makes sense if the two were really in cahoots!)
Remember how, a little later, Vader talks Tarkin into "letting them go so we can trace them"? Likewise, he's the only close-up witness to Obiwan disappearing, when he supposedly "killed" his master in that sword fight! (Maybe he actually helped Obiwan pull a vanishing act.) Note that the "fight" with Obiwan distracted the guards & helped let Luke get away!
But there's more! Remember how Vader "chased" Luke in that Tie fighter... which had the chief effect of turning off all the antiaircraft guns and giving the boy a clear shot to blow up the first Death Star! (From which event, Vader is conveniently the only Imperial survivor.)
Recall how in The Empire Strikes Back Vader offered to make Luke co-ruler? (Presumably it would thus be a nicer dynasty than the emperor's). Then in Jedi recall how Vader brought Luke aboard the second Death Star? Could it be because he knew the kid would irritate the emperor and get him upset enough to finally let Darth get a crack at him from behind?
I knew there had to be some reason why Vader didn't seem to detect his own daughter -- all filled with that magic force shit -- when he grabbed her arm and looked into her eyes in Episode... um... IV is it? Then he drug-interrogated her, without detecting any Force? Can there be any explanation except that he already knew?
Pah! He let them both get away deliberately! And whenever they needed guidance, there were the droids... his own special droids, assigned to help and guide his children to their destiny.
In all of the time we spend observing the Rebel Alliance, we never hear of their governing strategy or their plans for a post-Imperial universe. All we see are plots and fighting. Their victory over the Empire doesn't liberate the galaxy--it turns the galaxy into Somalia writ large: dominated by local warlords who are answerable to no one.
Which makes the rebels--Lucas's heroes--an unimpressive crew of anarchic royals who wreck the galaxy so that Princess Leia can have her tiara back.
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I'm talking about the classic implementation. You have two columns. Left column is the lits of words/phrases, right column is the list of codes used for those words/phrases. It can be done by hand (as I did it in the Army), or automated.
Last spring GM had demonstration units at the auto shows. Apparently you can lift one body type, such as 4-dr sedan, and replace it with another, such as pickup truck. Plug'n'play.
Don't encode 'the' or 'you'. Encode them as parts of phrases, or leave them out where possible.
I used one time pads in the army. You wouldn't use one to transmit War and Peace. But you would use it to send "Attack is Tomorrow, sell IBM". Or to send "Name of agent in NSA is CowboyNeal."
Those would be encoded as the phrases "attack is tomorrow", "sell IBM", "name of agent","in NSA". The word "is" could be encoded, or dropped (the sentence would be parseable without it.) Only "CowboyNeal" might have to be encoded letter by letter. Or it could be encoded as "cowboy"+"n"+"e"+"a"+"l".
Generally, using a one time pad to encode letter by letter is a bad idea. Done only when there is no alternative.
They're easy to generate. All you need is a good source of randomness. A small analog input card connected to a thermocouple wire with a bad (therefore noisy) connection makes a wonderful source of randomness. Use the low four bits of a 12 bit card. Two reads gives one random byte. String random bytes together to generate however many you need.
Once you have the list of numbers, get the list of words and phrases to encode. Put one random number next to each word or phrase (watch for duplicate codes here!)
Put the pad on a cd, send it to whoever you want to communicate with. Doing this last part is the only large potential insecurity, plus it's inefficient. But the one time pad is theoretically unbreakable.
The article said the company is not disseminating the diskman glued shut. So if they're not doing it, why are people so upset? Seems that allowing the review copies to be freely disseminated is something Good.
What's that? You mean he meant is now disseminating? Oh, well, in that case, Flame On!
Several years ago at Comdex one of the casinos (MGM Grand?) had their outside display blue screen on them. It was the talk of the show. Well, that and the new digital LCD screens.
Come to think of it, digital LCD screens were the last new consumer item that everyone at Comdex was talking about.
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So far, telemarketers haven't started calling it. Everyone who is likely to call me knows that number. I have the ringer turned off on the landline, and just check the answering machine every evening. The only reason I have a landline is for 911 service.
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That was my first thought. On that day Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and other places became "rip'n'read" sites and held up quite well under the load.
Kinda puts network outages in perspective.
Back when I was running Red Hat 4.2. I have 1300 comments (this is 1301). 1300. At approx 1 to 2 minutes per comment that's 20 to 40 hours spent commenting on slashdot. Shit. I want that day back!
Btw, it's "grammar".
But programmers yearn to be paid.
That's the point of XML.
Damn, never have mod points when I need them.
Has your head exploded yet?
Hopefully this will make the UN wise up to the fact that Iraq will find a way around anything.
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6)A lady
7)A tiger
No! It's the loo!
Except for that PhysicsGenius guy. He's the Real Thing.
The Army still uses one time pads that way.
That's part of GM's sales model for this tech.
Last spring GM had demonstration units at the auto shows. Apparently you can lift one body type, such as 4-dr sedan, and replace it with another, such as pickup truck. Plug'n'play.
I used one time pads in the army. You wouldn't use one to transmit War and Peace. But you would use it to send "Attack is Tomorrow, sell IBM". Or to send "Name of agent in NSA is CowboyNeal."
Those would be encoded as the phrases "attack is tomorrow", "sell IBM", "name of agent","in NSA". The word "is" could be encoded, or dropped (the sentence would be parseable without it.) Only "CowboyNeal" might have to be encoded letter by letter. Or it could be encoded as "cowboy"+"n"+"e"+"a"+"l".
Generally, using a one time pad to encode letter by letter is a bad idea. Done only when there is no alternative.
Once you have the list of numbers, get the list of words and phrases to encode. Put one random number next to each word or phrase (watch for duplicate codes here!)
Put the pad on a cd, send it to whoever you want to communicate with. Doing this last part is the only large potential insecurity, plus it's inefficient. But the one time pad is theoretically unbreakable.
What's that? You mean he meant is now disseminating? Oh, well, in that case, Flame On!
Ummm. It doesn't splashdown. It burns up on re-entry.
Come to think of it, digital LCD screens were the last new consumer item that everyone at Comdex was talking about.