I was about to say that you'd need a "crib", or a piece of plaintext that could be identified as belonging with a piece of ciphertext. But... since it's a OTP, that doesn't get you any further than that one message.
However, were you to build up enough of these mini "rosetta stones", you might be able to determine if the random letter selection method for creating the OTPs is truly random or not. Perhaps it isn't, which would then be a "crib" in itself for decoding other messages.
If the enemy's operational security is airtight, you could cause your own cribs by causing an event of significance to them, which is sure to be reported to HQ *in code*, the combination of which gives you a likely plaintext & ciphertext pair (perhaps a city name, person's name, or military unit designation).
The Houston Chronicle reported that the ISS astronauts/cosmonauts took shelter earlier this week from the radiation effects of the sunspots. I imagine they are doing the same with this new, stronger, storm. But seeing as how they got a week's worth of radiation in a 12-hour period earlier, I imagine they're concerned about the strength of tonights activity.
What with medical records being transcribed overseas in countries with no privacy protection...
HMOs who consider a hangnail as a "pre-existing condition"...
Employers doing medical database checks as a condition of employment...
The Plum Crazy in Raleigh got shut down as a public nuisance due to all the gunfire, gang fights, and a stabbing or two. Not to tar all the clubs by that name with the same brush, but the one in Charlotte had similar problems.
Let's just say being a nightclub owner is not a business I'd like to be in.
The DTFM (Touch-Tone(R)) scheme already has four additional tones defined (making a total of 16). The military uses them for prioritization of voice traffic, the Bell System (remember them?) used them for tolls and long distance switching (remember blue boxes?). I don't know if they're currently used by today's phone network - they might be available for use.
So, with 16 available tones, you just need to press two buttons in sequence for every IP address you want to call.
Is this a promising sign for Bluetooth in the automotive industry, or just another example of technology lag on the auto industries' part?
For cars, Bluetooth is a godsend. If you go buy a new Mercedes S-Class (well, after winning the lottery), the integrated phone is a $1995 option. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but the worst part is in 3 years the phone is worn out and old-tech. But with a Bluetooth enabled car, you can go buy the latest phone, or hop in the wife's car with your phone, or even switch providers, and not have to change the car out too!
Landing tends to be most coasting/parachuting, which is relatively easy to do right.
Landing is indeed the relatively-easy part (assuming the parachute opens/retro-rockets fire, etc). The hard part is reentry. Go in at too steep an angle and you burn up. Go in at too shallow of an angle, and you skip off the top of the atmosphere.
I'm willing to bet that in the product-testing lab at Apple there's a guy with a set of Grados who said "These op-amps the accountants want to use sound like crap. They should have used these other ones instead."
The best part about the Apple organization is that someone listened to him and changed them out for the better-sounding ones, no matter that they cost $0.05 more. After all, the whole purpose behind the iPod is to listen to your music, and a cheap op-amp would have ruined the experience.
Chip H.
BTW: I can't afford Grados - I'm stuck with consumer-grade Sennheisers, but even so, they're a *huge* improvement over earbuds.
Damn, I wish I'd known they made this. I wouldn't have cheaped-out on the warehouse-club special LCDs, and gone for the Samsung instead. Like the article says, the size of the bezel really matters, and on the cheap LCDs with a 2.5" gap between them, it takes a little getting used to when a dialog box gets split in two across them.
I haven't had the stumble or "yo-yo" as it's also known in my September 02 build MINI Cooper S ('03 model year). Could be that the right conditions just haven't happened for me. The Raleigh area doesn't use the reformulated (i.e. crappy) gasoline, although we do get high temps in the summer (95F and up).
I am selling my car, however. The MINI is a fantastic car, but I want an IS-300 instead.
The Mint is doing something right -- they're not printing the old $20 anymore, and are switching to the new peach-colored one. *Unlike* with the Sacagawea dollar, where they kept producing paper dollars. How did they expect people to make a switch when the old & familiar is still available?
Why not buy a NAT box with a built-in firewall? That way they can't scan your PC. Of course, they could still monitor the traffic thru your RJ-45 port, so you can't share (and I'm one of those people who think you shouldn't anyway). But at least you'll have *some* privacy.
North Carolina already has a "white goods" tax (you pay a tax when you buy a new refrigerator or washing machine), and I think most states have a disposal fee when you buy new tires for the car ($1 per tire in NC). I wouldn't really have a problem paying $5 extra for each monitor & computer as long as I knew the money was really going to be used for recycling, and not going into the state's General Fund. It would also be helpful if the adjoining states had similar laws.
Another question to be answered is "Who would do the recycling"? Would a company like Waste Management want to get into the business? Or would someone like Goodwill Industries, or maybe one of the cardiac rehabilitation centers want to get started disassembling the computers? The principle cost would be labor, not supplies or materials, and as everyone knows, labor in the US isn't cheap.
Would people in the US be OK with taking advantage of NAFTA and sending our electronic trash to Mexico or Canada for recycling?
According to the Indianapolis Star Online, next summer Coca-cola will feature a promotion in which winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans....
My god - you know what this means?
It means that this damned thing (throws aluminum-foil beanie on floor) doesn't work!
Like it or not, the majority of Internet users today are what a typical slashdot reader would call "newbies". (Think about your mom using a web browser and ending up at whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov)
Anything that increases the complexity of internet addressing without good cause would cause more harm than good. In other words, it violates the KISS principle to keep it simple.
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I was about to say that you'd need a "crib", or a piece of plaintext that could be identified as belonging with a piece of ciphertext. But... since it's a OTP, that doesn't get you any further than that one message.
However, were you to build up enough of these mini "rosetta stones", you might be able to determine if the random letter selection method for creating the OTPs is truly random or not. Perhaps it isn't, which would then be a "crib" in itself for decoding other messages.
If the enemy's operational security is airtight, you could cause your own cribs by causing an event of significance to them, which is sure to be reported to HQ *in code*, the combination of which gives you a likely plaintext & ciphertext pair (perhaps a city name, person's name, or military unit designation).
My head is already starting to ache!
Chip H.
The big question is, would you tattoo it on your arm like Charles Petzold and his Windows logo?
Chip H.
The Houston Chronicle reported that the ISS astronauts/cosmonauts took shelter earlier this week from the radiation effects of the sunspots. I imagine they are doing the same with this new, stronger, storm. But seeing as how they got a week's worth of radiation in a 12-hour period earlier, I imagine they're concerned about the strength of tonights activity.
Chip H.
Microgravity.
What happens to all the pencil shavings and eraser crumbs?
Chip H.
What with medical records being transcribed overseas in countries with no privacy protection...
HMOs who consider a hangnail as a "pre-existing condition"...
Employers doing medical database checks as a condition of employment...
I've decided I'm just not going to get sick.
Chip H.
It seems that X10 has assets of $1-10M, and debts of $10-50M.
How much of that debt belongs to their bandwidth provider?
"Nevermind, we'll make it up on volume!"
Chip H.
The Plum Crazy in Raleigh got shut down as a public nuisance due to all the gunfire, gang fights, and a stabbing or two. Not to tar all the clubs by that name with the same brush, but the one in Charlotte had similar problems.
Let's just say being a nightclub owner is not a business I'd like to be in.
Chip H.
Oops - that would be two buttons for every dotted-part of an IP address. 8 in all for a IPv4 address. More for a IPv6 number, of course.
Chip H.
The DTFM (Touch-Tone(R)) scheme already has four additional tones defined (making a total of 16). The military uses them for prioritization of voice traffic, the Bell System (remember them?) used them for tolls and long distance switching (remember blue boxes?). I don't know if they're currently used by today's phone network - they might be available for use.
So, with 16 available tones, you just need to press two buttons in sequence for every IP address you want to call.
Chip H.
They suggest that a mobile phone could be powered by squirting water at high pressure through an array of such channels.
So, in 50 years of innovation, we go from the dribble glass to the dribble phone?
Chip H.
For us at work, the hot issues are:
- The ability to handle millions of little 2k files.
- Performance
The two are somewhat opposite goals, but maybe the new WinFS will be better than the combination of NTFS and Microsoft Distributed File System.
Chip H.
Is this a promising sign for Bluetooth in the automotive industry, or just another example of technology lag on the auto industries' part?
For cars, Bluetooth is a godsend. If you go buy a new Mercedes S-Class (well, after winning the lottery), the integrated phone is a $1995 option. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but the worst part is in 3 years the phone is worn out and old-tech. But with a Bluetooth enabled car, you can go buy the latest phone, or hop in the wife's car with your phone, or even switch providers, and not have to change the car out too!
Chip H.
Landing tends to be most coasting/parachuting, which is relatively easy to do right.
Landing is indeed the relatively-easy part (assuming the parachute opens/retro-rockets fire, etc). The hard part is reentry. Go in at too steep an angle and you burn up. Go in at too shallow of an angle, and you skip off the top of the atmosphere.
Chip H.
I'm willing to bet that in the product-testing lab at Apple there's a guy with a set of Grados who said "These op-amps the accountants want to use sound like crap. They should have used these other ones instead."
The best part about the Apple organization is that someone listened to him and changed them out for the better-sounding ones, no matter that they cost $0.05 more. After all, the whole purpose behind the iPod is to listen to your music, and a cheap op-amp would have ruined the experience.
Chip H.
BTW: I can't afford Grados - I'm stuck with consumer-grade Sennheisers, but even so, they're a *huge* improvement over earbuds.
As I've asked before, what will they *do* with it once they've posted their performance benchmarks?
Japan's Earth Simulator will be used for climate studies. What will VT use it for?
Chip H.
Damn, I wish I'd known they made this. I wouldn't have cheaped-out on the warehouse-club special LCDs, and gone for the Samsung instead. Like the article says, the size of the bezel really matters, and on the cheap LCDs with a 2.5" gap between them, it takes a little getting used to when a dialog box gets split in two across them.
Chip H.
I haven't had the stumble or "yo-yo" as it's also known in my September 02 build MINI Cooper S ('03 model year). Could be that the right conditions just haven't happened for me. The Raleigh area doesn't use the reformulated (i.e. crappy) gasoline, although we do get high temps in the summer (95F and up).
I am selling my car, however. The MINI is a fantastic car, but I want an IS-300 instead.
Chip H.
The Mint is doing something right -- they're not printing the old $20 anymore, and are switching to the new peach-colored one. *Unlike* with the Sacagawea dollar, where they kept producing paper dollars. How did they expect people to make a switch when the old & familiar is still available?
Chip H.
Many of the messages Carlson is accused of sending were obscene and scatological;
Isn't calling spam "obscene" redundant?
Chip H.
Why not buy a NAT box with a built-in firewall? That way they can't scan your PC. Of course, they could still monitor the traffic thru your RJ-45 port, so you can't share (and I'm one of those people who think you shouldn't anyway). But at least you'll have *some* privacy.
Chip H.
A DVD of Office Space
Chip H.
North Carolina already has a "white goods" tax (you pay a tax when you buy a new refrigerator or washing machine), and I think most states have a disposal fee when you buy new tires for the car ($1 per tire in NC). I wouldn't really have a problem paying $5 extra for each monitor & computer as long as I knew the money was really going to be used for recycling, and not going into the state's General Fund. It would also be helpful if the adjoining states had similar laws.
Another question to be answered is "Who would do the recycling"? Would a company like Waste Management want to get into the business? Or would someone like Goodwill Industries, or maybe one of the cardiac rehabilitation centers want to get started disassembling the computers? The principle cost would be labor, not supplies or materials, and as everyone knows, labor in the US isn't cheap.
Would people in the US be OK with taking advantage of NAFTA and sending our electronic trash to Mexico or Canada for recycling?
Chip H.
Glad someone did!
Chip H.
According to the Indianapolis Star Online, next summer Coca-cola will feature a promotion in which winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans....
My god - you know what this means?
It means that this damned thing (throws aluminum-foil beanie on floor) doesn't work!
Chip H.
Like it or not, the majority of Internet users today are what a typical slashdot reader would call "newbies". (Think about your mom using a web browser and ending up at whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov)
Anything that increases the complexity of internet addressing without good cause would cause more harm than good. In other words, it violates the KISS principle to keep it simple.
Chip H.