The book Niven wrote concerning a man who underwent cryogenic freezing and has his mind read into the brain of a felon is "A World Out of Time", (its also the one with the snake-cats).
It seems possible that a "back door" itself could be made in such a way as to avoid compromising cryptographic security. Perhaps this could be achievedthrough something along the lines of the NSA specified DES tables or the use of a public/private key encryption scheme to encrypt the key itself and include it with the cypher text. The private key could even be split ala a one time pad and half of it kept by a regulatory agency distinct from the government.
Admittedly this is a poor compronmise. The security of the message encryption is reduced to the security of the key encryption, and it still allows the government to read your encrypted documents, however it seems better than the classic "backdoor" method of just including the cleartext key with the cyphertext.
Apparently someone is now bombing Kabul, Afghanistan with incendiaries. Hopefully, this is not the U.S., but it haven't seen any confirmation either way yet.
I've already posted this in the earlier topic, but it's a bit buried.
The date itself indicated that this is probably a Palestinian action. September 11th is the mean date of the Camp David Accords, which essentially ended the conflict between Egypt and Israel and indirectly lead to the current conflict there.
There are reports that this attack is a commemoration of the signing of the camp david accords. Which were worked out from September 5th to 17th (the 11th is the average date).
A series of events very similar to this happens in the last chapter of "Debt of Honor" by Clancy (capitol building instead of pentagon). Specifically, he makes a point of the vulnerability in this country against suicide missions involving hijacked planes. Where is Jack Ryan when we need him?
Think of the possibilities. There could be a lego arena game where the combatant machines attempt to disassemble each other and build analogs of themselves, sort of battle bots meets Core Wars.
Of course this could lead to Earth being taken over by lego-based lifeforms.
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The book Niven wrote concerning a man who underwent cryogenic freezing and has his mind read into the brain of a felon is "A World Out of Time", (its also the one with the snake-cats).
With folded Hands by Jack Williamson. Technically this is a novella, but it's about as dystopic as you can get.
Anyone else remember using alt+255 and other special characters to make hard to open directories (idiot proof anyway) on shared command line systems?
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Delphi. It does everything and can be used by (clever) monkeys. It's main disadvantage is a lack of third-party support.
Mteropolis at the Century in Chicago.
I'm pretty sure the word Avatar was used to denote virtual personas in Shadow Run prior to 1992. Can anyone confirm this?
It seems possible that a "back door" itself could be made in such a way as to avoid compromising cryptographic security. Perhaps this could be achievedthrough something along the lines of the NSA specified DES tables or the use of a public/private key encryption scheme to encrypt the key itself and include it with the cypher text. The private key could even be split ala a one time pad and half of it kept by a regulatory agency distinct from the government.
Admittedly this is a poor compronmise. The security of the message encryption is reduced to the security of the key encryption, and it still allows the government to read your encrypted documents, however it seems better than the classic "backdoor" method of just including the cleartext key with the cyphertext.
Apparently someone is now bombing Kabul, Afghanistan with incendiaries. Hopefully, this is not the U.S., but it haven't seen any confirmation either way yet.
I've already posted this in the earlier topic, but it's a bit buried.
The date itself indicated that this is probably a Palestinian action. September 11th is the mean date of the Camp David Accords, which essentially ended the conflict between Egypt and Israel and indirectly lead to the current conflict there.
There are reports that this attack is a commemoration of the signing of the camp david accords. Which were worked out from September 5th to 17th (the 11th is the average date).
A series of events very similar to this happens in the last chapter of "Debt of Honor" by Clancy (capitol building instead of pentagon). Specifically, he makes a point of the vulnerability in this country against suicide missions involving hijacked planes. Where is Jack Ryan when we need him?
Before someone builds a lego von neumann machine?
Think of the possibilities. There could be a lego arena game where the combatant machines attempt to disassemble each other and build analogs of themselves, sort of battle bots meets Core Wars.
Of course this could lead to Earth being taken over by lego-based lifeforms.
Phear the Hamburglar.
Thus it is revealed that "Much Ado About Nothing" is actually a polynomial time solver of the "Love Triangle" subclass of NP-complete problems.