The average anyone isn't stylish enough to have a Mac. How happy you feel to see an average obese, gun-toting, gay-hater with a Macbook under one arm and a half-digested super-extra-deluxe-mega-cheeseburger oozing from his pours waddling towards a 16ft long truck for a two minute drive?
Seriously, Footballer's Wives and Dirtiest Homes are at the bottom of the darkest pit in quality TV terms. Agree with you about Have I got News for You and Coupling though.
I remember on the Amiga a program called 'why'. You could type it into the CLI after a command had failed and it would tell you in plain English what had happened.
Yup, if fact it's even easier than that. If the amount of entropy in the key is the same size as the plaintext, and it is properly applied then the code is unbreakable.
Or something...:)
The 'discard and try again tack' is a slight mis-conception. Even if Eve does aquire some of the message - by either attempting to split the beams or by intercepting the signal, guessing the polorisation and resending the result - Alice and Bob will be prefectly aware that she has done this and will even be able to estimate how much of the message she knows. They can then apply something called Privacy Amplification to the keys they share to ensure she know none of it. Basically this is a hash function X -> Y where if knowledge of X is less than perfect, knowledge of Y will be nil.
Check out Generalized Privacy Amplification (1992) by Charles Bennet et. al if you're really interested.
And for the record, we are, at least in the South, Gwai-Lo. It means something like Ghost-Man or White-Devil depending on the translation from the Cantonese.
Needless to say, like all good insults (the elephant logo for the Republicans and the word 'Tory' in the UK) it has been adopted by the ex-pats out here as an affictionate nick-name.
China's always going to be in an awkward situation with regards to the Internet as long as they cling to their obsolete totalitarian, isolationist regime. Write your senators and tell them that all this dicking around with China is a farce, and must be stopped. Don't allow them on the Free Internet until they become a Free State, I say.
Oh, boy. Where to begin? I think my favourite part of you post was the last line. You misunderstand the idea of freedom if you assume that you must be free to oppress others. China has a dictatorial regime, true; but if the internet is free then it should be embrace it, just as it embraces pornographers, neo-Nazis, gun nuts, religious zealots and all of the other dreadful things that we tolerate under the banner of free-speech but really wish weren¦t there.
Second point is this idea that we can force change onto countries by ignoring them. The Americans don't seem to have learned much from Castro in the last 30 years. If change is to be brought to China then the only options we have available are
to allow it to come fully into the free world and evolve
I know that I've said things like this last time this was discussed but these 'spam' blocks are unfair and deny the point of the internet.
I live in Hong Kong and because of them I can¦t get e-mail through to some of my family and friends. Now I¦m a decent person, I post to/. send in bug reports for open-source software and I¦ve never spammed anyone in my life but I still have to suffer these restrictions.
The whole joy of the internet is that anyone can communicate with anyone else. If an ISP were to put a blanket ban on certain websites because a few of them throw up annoying adverts there would be outcry. Freedom of communication is considered important enough that people just have to deal with the annoying side effects themselves. Why is this not the case with e-mail as well?
I hope that China does something about spam mail but this really is not the way to encourage it.
I'm from the UK hence I have family and a number of good friends in the West, both Europe and the States. I'm a good e-mail user and I've never sent spam. I read GNU mailing lists and I post to/. Sometime (once my C is back up to speed) I hope to write patches for open source projects.
Does the fact that I happen to live in Hong Kong for a year mean that all of this is forgotten and I can no longer talk to my friends?
Please, this is supposed to be an open forum of worldwide communication. Lets not let a few rotten apples spoil it for everyone.
I realise that since this discussion is now a little old there is little chance that this will get picked up on but I had so say it anyway. Just my 2cents if you like. (That's Hong Kong cents, of course:) )
She can handle a little Slashdot. The Beeb's (another nickname) website and server farm is huge. It's the biggest and most popular website in Europe. If the new streams fail it won't be due to lack of bandwidth.
[This post was written in the knowledge that there's a good chance I'll be made to eat these words!]
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The average anyone isn't stylish enough to have a Mac. How happy you feel to see an average obese, gun-toting, gay-hater with a Macbook under one arm and a half-digested super-extra-deluxe-mega-cheeseburger oozing from his pours waddling towards a 16ft long truck for a two minute drive?
Laugh all you want. Who's the billionaire?
Wow, that sounds like a fun library! At mine they just let you borrow books.
Curses!
-- One-Fingured Pete
It's quiet because it didn't appear on the frontpage of Slashdot.
Oh, wait...
None these days, sadly. Except that you get to call yourself, 'Sir'.
All the cool stuff with castles, madiens and dragons are in the past.
"LOL OMG M$ sucks" - more probably.
OK, we'll trade for iTMS.
Seriously, Footballer's Wives and Dirtiest Homes are at the bottom of the darkest pit in quality TV terms. Agree with you about Have I got News for You and Coupling though.
Bring that one back and go from there...
Don't worry, they won't. The RIAA has no power in the UK and none over the government.
Part of the fun of being British these days is the RIAA can't bribe - sorry, fund - polititions in Westminister nearly as easily as in Washington.
Nice article at the BBC on this and Chinese censorship today. Needless to say, rejected :(
Yup, if fact it's even easier than that. If the amount of entropy in the key is the same size as the plaintext, and it is properly applied then the code is unbreakable. Or something ... :)
Check out Generalized Privacy Amplification (1992) by Charles Bennet et. al if you're really interested.
24/7 footage of people touching up images and creating flashy effects with filters against the decadent backdrop of MacOS X.
This week, Unsharp Mask gets pushed to 150% and Blur More is upset at the arrival of a new Plugin.
I'd pay to see that. No, really.
Problem is iPods only have enough processing power to decode MP3s and run a small b&w display. Not much use for number-crunching.
Now if someone could put togeather a 10gb firewire-backed portable RAID device, that would be cool!
And for the record, we are, at least in the South, Gwai-Lo. It means something like Ghost-Man or White-Devil depending on the translation from the Cantonese.
Needless to say, like all good insults (the elephant logo for the Republicans and the word 'Tory' in the UK) it has been adopted by the ex-pats out here as an affictionate nick-name.
Oh, boy. Where to begin? I think my favourite part of you post was the last line. You misunderstand the idea of freedom if you assume that you must be free to oppress others. China has a dictatorial regime, true; but if the internet is free then it should be embrace it, just as it embraces pornographers, neo-Nazis, gun nuts, religious zealots and all of the other dreadful things that we tolerate under the banner of free-speech but really wish weren¦t there.
Second point is this idea that we can force change onto countries by ignoring them. The Americans don't seem to have learned much from Castro in the last 30 years. If change is to be brought to China then the only options we have available are
to allow it to come fully into the free world and evolve
war. I know which option I prefer.
I live in Hong Kong and because of them I can¦t get e-mail through to some of my family and friends. Now I¦m a decent person, I post to /. send in bug reports for open-source software and I¦ve never spammed anyone in my life but I still have to suffer these restrictions.
The whole joy of the internet is that anyone can communicate with anyone else. If an ISP were to put a blanket ban on certain websites because a few of them throw up annoying adverts there would be outcry. Freedom of communication is considered important enough that people just have to deal with the annoying side effects themselves. Why is this not the case with e-mail as well?
I hope that China does something about spam mail but this really is not the way to encourage it.
Two vital facts
- I live in Hong Kong
- I've never spamed anyone in my life
I'm from the UK hence I have family and a number of good friends in the West, both Europe and the States. I'm a good e-mail user and I've never sent spam. I read GNU mailing lists and I post toDoes the fact that I happen to live in Hong Kong for a year mean that all of this is forgotten and I can no longer talk to my friends?
Please, this is supposed to be an open forum of worldwide communication. Lets not let a few rotten apples spoil it for everyone.
I realise that since this discussion is now a little old there is little chance that this will get picked up on but I had so say it anyway. Just my 2cents if you like. (That's Hong Kong cents, of course :) )
[Unless they announce the new MacOS development releases, which I guess is possible. But they're up to 10.something now!]
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She can handle a little Slashdot. The Beeb's (another nickname) website and server farm is huge. It's the biggest and most popular website in Europe. If the new streams fail it won't be due to lack of bandwidth.
[This post was written in the knowledge that there's a good chance I'll be made to eat these words!]
Radio 2 = Easy Listening music + speak
Radio 3 = Classical
Radio 4 = Speak (mostly high-brow stuff)
Radio 5 (live) = News and Sport coverage with phone-ins etc. Not as high brow as R4.