Farscape returns to SCI FI April 5 with the final four episodes of Season Three. These include (in airing order) 319: "I Yehsch, You Yehsch," 320: "Into the Lion's Den, Pt. 1," 321: "Into the Lion's Den, Pt. 2," and 322: "Dog with Two Bones." Season Four begins June 7th.
One-time pads are indeed unbreakable, but who cares? The problem with one time pads is two-fold. First, use them more than once and they become breakable (hence the name). Second, due to the first limitation, both parties have to have a large number of synched one-time random number pads, know what order to use them, and here's the real catch, make sure they are somehow 100% secure from prying eyes. Any of these fail, and your messages become transparent. They are great for folks that have to send occasional messages to a secure site, but for everyday use they are logistically a pain in the butt.
But of course, in the infosphere that is slashdot, the true one-pad story is two stories below this one: Practical Quantum Cryptography. Vastly oversimplifying things, QC is a secure, tamper-proof way of providing two (theoretically) random people a way to exchange secure one-tame pads.
...now more accurate than time itself. In a press release Time said that with advent of the new clock, it was no longer required, and was considering retiring to Whyoming for some well deserved self-off. When asked how it would occupy itself, Time suggested it might take up Fly fishing. Time said the flies reminded it of Fruit Flies, whose affinity for Bannanas was a constant source of amusement for Time over the years.
The problem with UML is that it doesn't really help to be pretty good with UML.
If everyone isn't completely proficient, you're back to square one, ambiguity, miscommunication of ideas, all the stuff that you're trying to avoid by using by UML.
Having said that, be aware that this the view of a computer artist that does some programming, not a dyed-in-wool enginner.
"It could be one of those fruity British names that's pronounced B'rass."
Hmmm...Hugh B'rass. Hubris?
The must be quite proud of their ability to pull off such hoax....
Well, at least you're not smug about it.
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There is certainly more crappy television (by percentage) than crappy books (probably), but there is certainly some television that is better than a crappy book.
(Like say, Martha Stewart's latest written opus, which will tell you what to buy. Or the latest Howard Stern tome, which will tell you what to think, or a book by Pat Buchannon, which will tell you who to hate, or one of a gazillion romance novels which will expound on questionable ways (if not precisly whom) to love.)
When we abandon the oral tradition, I'm sure there was a self-satisfied elite who pooh-poohed the written word as crass and inferior. Whatever.
The world's a pretty interesting place. Take the good stuff wherever you can find it.
So what are you suggesting, that we invent a wheel that is an order of magnitude...wheelier?
We're talking about a basic shift in the way things are done, from humans adding colums of numbers to an industrial number-adding machine.
You don't get the next big thing from microsoft, or from open source, or from programming at all.
You get it from inventing the next widget that automates, streamlines, accelerates some human activity.
What is it? A better word processor? Nope. Who knows. An automated intuiter? An enlarged and speed up memory core for the human brain? Something that turns dioxin into peanut butter?
Ginger?
Damned if I know, kemosabi. But when you're making those kind of calls, you're in the high country....
The folk etymology of "bug" is that, in the early days of electronic computing, an actual insect flew into the innards of the Harvard Mark II, and caused a malfunction (this did happen), and that is where we get the word bug (in the sense of a flaw in the process). It seems however that the word was already in use in that sense in industrial manufacturing circles at the end of the 19th century.
Then, with a couple of 20 cm bits of duct tape, attache one of these to the front.
Photosensitive Sphincter: anyone read the article?
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Good lhord, did anyone actual read the damn article? Here's a clue: No.
The technology described will not scan your luggage, nor will it make body cavity searches obsolete, unless you have a spherical, photosensitive rectum.
Not a cure for cancer, or a replacement for a cat scan or MRI.
What the technology excels at is showing you what's inside a specially constructed sphere. This information could also be garnered with a sufficiently large hammer.
A cool physics party trick, and some interesting basic research. That's about it.
'So many of the leftover fertilized embryos could become human beings if they were similarly implanted, which is where the idea that using these embryos to develop the stem cells used in research involves "terminating a life".'
If you make a batch of cookie dough, and decide not to put it in the oven, are you "terminating a cookie," or simply deciding not to make cookies?
Leave the dough on the counter overnight & see if it becomes cookies by itself. No? Takes some human intervention to make that dough into a cookie. But hey, the dough's pretty good all by itself.
Do I have a point? No, but you've got to admit, it's a great metaphor.
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From scifi.com:
Farscape returns to SCI FI April 5 with the final four episodes of Season Three. These include (in airing order) 319: "I Yehsch, You Yehsch," 320: "Into the Lion's Den, Pt. 1," 321: "Into the Lion's Den, Pt. 2," and 322: "Dog with Two Bones."
Season Four begins June 7th.
I think this is covered by the "No Honor Among Theives" clause of the EULA.
One-time pads are indeed unbreakable, but who cares? The problem with one time pads is two-fold. First, use them more than once and they become breakable (hence the name). Second, due to the first limitation, both parties have to have a large number of synched one-time random number pads, know what order to use them, and here's the real catch, make sure they are somehow 100% secure from prying eyes. Any of these fail, and your messages become transparent. They are great for folks that have to send occasional messages to a secure site, but for everyday use they are logistically a pain in the butt.
But of course, in the infosphere that is slashdot, the true one-pad story is two stories below this one: Practical Quantum Cryptography. Vastly oversimplifying things, QC is a secure, tamper-proof way of providing two (theoretically) random people a way to exchange secure one-tame pads.
And Microsoft Office! As it turns out, it's not an office at all, but merely some software.
And now I have no idea where I'm going to put all these office chairs.
...now more accurate than time itself. In a press release Time said that with advent of the new clock, it was no longer required, and was considering retiring to Whyoming for some well deserved self-off. When asked how it would occupy itself, Time suggested it might take up Fly fishing. Time said the flies reminded it of Fruit Flies, whose affinity for Bannanas was a constant source of amusement for Time over the years.
The audience is building because they are airing the old episodes more regularly. And there are a few new episodes in the pipe.
Give your best card, and I will bring it to its knees....bwahahaa!
A 3D program like Lightwave or Maya can easily task the fastest card out there. Not surprising if you're working on a scene with 3-4 million polys.
Cheating doesn't necessarily mean screwing your friends, it could mean making countless dupes of his powerful "Axe of Machismo."
In an MMPO, some cheats are for screwing other players, but the far more serious bugs cheat the world economy.
But I'm hoping the hit oil.
Just see how fast we go to Mars then...
The problem with UML is that it doesn't really help to be pretty good with UML.
If everyone isn't completely proficient, you're back to square one, ambiguity, miscommunication of ideas, all the stuff that you're trying to avoid by using by UML.
Having said that, be aware that this the view of a computer artist that does some programming, not a dyed-in-wool enginner.
On, of all places, Nickelodeon, has much the same twisted sensibility as The Tick cartoon (I love them both, truly I do.)
Also the brainchild of a independent comic...uh...guy, the fellow who did Johnny the Homicidal Manic.
Doom Dooom Doom Dooom Doom Dooom De Doom Dooom....
"It could be one of those fruity British names that's pronounced B'rass."
Hmmm...Hugh B'rass. Hubris?
The must be quite proud of their ability to pull off such hoax....
There is certainly more crappy television (by percentage) than crappy books (probably), but there is certainly some television that is better than a crappy book.
(Like say, Martha Stewart's latest written opus, which will tell you what to buy. Or the latest Howard Stern tome, which will tell you what to think, or a book by Pat Buchannon, which will tell you who to hate, or one of a gazillion romance novels which will expound on questionable ways (if not precisly whom) to love.)
When we abandon the oral tradition, I'm sure there was a self-satisfied elite who pooh-poohed the written word as crass and inferior. Whatever.
The world's a pretty interesting place. Take the good stuff wherever you can find it.
But then I got a girlfriend.
The reason they can't convince you you're standing in a box has to do with the inherent boxness of the space in which you stand.
Bigger TV == Still TV
TV != Life
Extremely doubtful that the signal (in usable form) can make it past the pole transformer in either direction. That's quite a security dongle.
All you have to worry about is your neighbor (or the EffBeeEye) running an extension ccord to a socket on the side of your house...};^)
So what are you suggesting, that we invent a wheel that is an order of magnitude...wheelier?
We're talking about a basic shift in the way things are done, from humans adding colums of numbers to an industrial number-adding machine.
You don't get the next big thing from microsoft, or from open source, or from programming at all.
You get it from inventing the next widget that automates, streamlines, accelerates some human activity.
What is it? A better word processor? Nope. Who knows. An automated intuiter? An enlarged and speed up memory core for the human brain? Something that turns dioxin into peanut butter?
Ginger?
Damned if I know, kemosabi. But when you're making those kind of calls, you're in the high country....
The folk etymology of "bug" is that, in the early days of electronic computing, an actual insect flew into the innards of the Harvard Mark II, and caused a malfunction (this did happen), and that is where we get the word bug (in the sense of a flaw in the process). It seems however that the word was already in use in that sense in industrial manufacturing circles at the end of the 19th century.
(New Hacker's Dictionary)
What you say is true, if you happen to have a work visa good for the early 1990s.
This is the best approach I can think of.
Start with one of these.
Then, with a couple of 20 cm bits of duct tape, attache one of these to the front.
Good lhord, did anyone actual read the damn article? Here's a clue: No.
The technology described will not scan your luggage, nor will it make body cavity searches obsolete, unless you have a spherical, photosensitive rectum.
Not a cure for cancer, or a replacement for a cat scan or MRI.
What the technology excels at is showing you what's inside a specially constructed sphere. This information could also be garnered with a sufficiently large hammer.
A cool physics party trick, and some interesting basic research. That's about it.
Is like saying, that was a tasty "Big Mac."
It's all assembly-line crap, crafted to closely resemble actual [food/movies], and thus fool the consumer into ingesting more.
You have been assimilated, muchacos. Happy?
(Having said that, II was definitely best...};^)
Greed Wants
'So many of the leftover fertilized embryos could become human beings if they were similarly implanted, which is where the idea that using these embryos to develop the stem cells used in research involves "terminating a life".'
If you make a batch of cookie dough, and decide not to put it in the oven, are you "terminating a cookie," or simply deciding not to make cookies?
Leave the dough on the counter overnight & see if it becomes cookies by itself. No? Takes some human intervention to make that dough into a cookie. But hey, the dough's pretty good all by itself.
Do I have a point? No, but you've got to admit, it's a great metaphor.
Well, it's safe to say that at least one human got a good feel...