Does anybody else remember seeing advertisements for a multi-user AD&D game called "Neverwinter Nights" that was available on AOL included with the old SSI games. Like "Champions of Krynn," "Secrect of the Silver Blades," etc...
What is the relationship with this game?
My first email address's domain was linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us... And that was over 7 years ago. So I know that.us domains have been around for a while. So whats the story? Who stopped mainting them, and why do we need somebody else to maintain them?
> Unicode is 2 bytes per char, ascii is 1. A
> simple converstion program is trivial to write,
> you simply have to find the mappings.
This is not entirely true, there are many different ways to store unicode:
utf-7,utf-8,utf-16,utf-32,ucs-2,ucs-4,etc...
I believe you are talking about encodings, Unicode is like ascii, one numeric identifer = one character. Now how you store your numeric identifer is another matter...
What we generalize as chinese is actually many different related languages (dialects) that cannot be mutally understood when spoken, but can be mutally understood when written in the standard manner.
I wonder if any of these over-reacting political figures have given thought to the fact that by putting backdoors in encryption schemes that we could be potentially endangering our social infrastructure? I mean, if backdoors are in place what is to say that someone could not steal the tech to unlock it, break the tech, or have a double agent in our government. If this took place then wouldn't all bank's, fund's transfers, private defense contractors, businesses, etc. encrypted transactions be vulnerable. Which are all potential targets for info-warfare. This could actually help terrorism, not hinder it. Some how I feel that the people who are arguing for back doors have not sat down and thought about this logically. We cannot stand to lose our freedoms by blind reactionism.
We need stronger encryption to protect us, not backdoors!
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Does anybody else remember seeing advertisements for a multi-user AD&D game called "Neverwinter Nights" that was available on AOL included with the old SSI games. Like "Champions of Krynn," "Secrect of the Silver Blades," etc... What is the relationship with this game?
My first email address's domain was linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us ... And that was over 7 years ago. So I know that .us domains have been around for a while. So whats the story? Who stopped mainting them, and why do we need somebody else to maintain them?
> Unicode is 2 bytes per char, ascii is 1. A > simple converstion program is trivial to write, > you simply have to find the mappings. This is not entirely true, there are many different ways to store unicode: utf-7,utf-8,utf-16,utf-32,ucs-2,ucs-4,etc... I believe you are talking about encodings, Unicode is like ascii, one numeric identifer = one character. Now how you store your numeric identifer is another matter...
What we generalize as chinese is actually many different related languages (dialects) that cannot be mutally understood when spoken, but can be mutally understood when written in the standard manner.
I wonder if any of these over-reacting political figures have given thought to the fact that by putting backdoors in encryption schemes that we could be potentially endangering our social infrastructure? I mean, if backdoors are in place what is to say that someone could not steal the tech to unlock it, break the tech, or have a double agent in our government. If this took place then wouldn't all bank's, fund's transfers, private defense contractors, businesses, etc. encrypted transactions be vulnerable. Which are all potential targets for info-warfare. This could actually help terrorism, not hinder it. Some how I feel that the people who are arguing for back doors have not sat down and thought about this logically. We cannot stand to lose our freedoms by blind reactionism.
We need stronger encryption to protect us, not backdoors!