Here's a tip. Instead of setting up dummy yahoo/hotmail accounts for your spam mail, try http://dea.spamcon.org. They allow you to set up as many as 3 cuurently active random e-mail address that are forwarded to your primary account. They can be turned on/off at will (once you've gotten the password to the porn site). With some nice JavaScript copy/paste functionality, it is very easy to use without having to remember some rather cryptic e-mail addresses.
Well, replace the book with the formula for the irrational number of the day (today we use PI, tommorrow we'll use e/PI) and you have the same system but without the need to use an extremely long pad (the length of the message) or repeating the pad over and over again to encrypt the message.
Well, the point of failure of this system is the would be cracker getting a hold of the one time pad by monitoring the exchange.
I don't really see what's so special about this system. People have been using this for years (why else would it be called a pad).
Maybe I don't understand encryption too well but why can't we just use an irrational number as the key. The numbers have an infinite series of digits and are completely random so you could randomize any arbitrary data. Another beneift is that the key can be calculated and not transmitted as a whole (it takes a lot of bandwidth and time to transmit the value of PI). In addition to all of this, you also have an ininfinate series of irrationals to choose from.
Perhaps if I brain storm enough, I can come up with a personal anthrax sterilization system. Any ideas? I was thinking of taking a $15 smoke detector, breaking it open and placing the alpha-particle emmiter in a shoe box wrapped in aluminum foil and label it "Nuclear Mail Irradiator" and sell it for 4 easy payments of $79.95.
Uhh.. The reason a monkey can climb the pole has noting to do with the size or difficulty of splitting atoms but with a simple fact, the monkey crosses each half distance in half the time. If the monkey took the same amount of time to cover each segment (its speed constantly getting halfed as it covered each segment), then it may run into a problem at the plank length but otherwise it will never get to the top.
I live in Dallas and my wife and I have been using netflix for several months. We really do like their service. I've got Cristopher Walken's Brainstorm on the way - try finding that at BlockBuster.
Now, one interesting side effect of this rental system is that you try to turn around movies as fast as you can so you can maximize the number you can get per month and thus increase your values (getting 6 movies for $20 instead of 3).
There are a couple of features NetFlix needs to add to their service:
1) Multiple sign-in accounts per 1 rental account:
NetFlix allows you to rate movies and then makes suggestions based on your ratings (much like TiVo). Now, if my wife signs in (as me, of course), her ratings will completely screw up its suggestions to me (I couldn't stand 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape').
2) The ability to set a definite sequence in your rental queue: With NetFlix, you set up a list on 10 movies you would like to see. If the first on your list isn't available, they will send you the seconds one. I am not sure how the algorithm works but what if I wanted to see the Godfather trilogy, I don't want to get II then III then I.
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If Leahy is supporting a lobby, where do I sign up?
/. lobby?
Wouldn't it be nice if us geeks had our own PAC? Are there any lawyers / former congressmen / aides out there who would represent the
Damn, that would suck. I need to put /.'s IP address in my hosts file.
Here's a tip. Instead of setting up dummy yahoo/hotmail accounts for your spam mail, try http://dea.spamcon.org. They allow you to set up as many as 3 cuurently active random e-mail address that are forwarded to your primary account. They can be turned on/off at will (once you've gotten the password to the porn site). With some nice JavaScript copy/paste functionality, it is very easy to use without having to remember some rather cryptic e-mail addresses.
Well, replace the book with the formula for the irrational number of the day (today we use PI, tommorrow we'll use e/PI) and you have the same system but without the need to use an extremely long pad (the length of the message) or repeating the pad over and over again to encrypt the message.
I don't really see what's so special about this system. People have been using this for years (why else would it be called a pad).
Maybe I don't understand encryption too well but why can't we just use an irrational number as the key. The numbers have an infinite series of digits and are completely random so you could randomize any arbitrary data. Another beneift is that the key can be calculated and not transmitted as a whole (it takes a lot of bandwidth and time to transmit the value of PI). In addition to all of this, you also have an ininfinate series of irrationals to choose from.
Words like this may cause some minor misunderstandings.
Perhaps if I brain storm enough, I can come up with a personal anthrax sterilization system. Any ideas? I was thinking of taking a $15 smoke detector, breaking it open and placing the alpha-particle emmiter in a shoe box wrapped in aluminum foil and label it "Nuclear Mail Irradiator" and sell it for 4 easy payments of $79.95.
Uhh.. The reason a monkey can climb the pole has noting to do with the size or difficulty of splitting atoms but with a simple fact, the monkey crosses each half distance in half the time. If the monkey took the same amount of time to cover each segment (its speed constantly getting halfed as it covered each segment), then it may run into a problem at the plank length but otherwise it will never get to the top.
I live in Dallas and my wife and I have been using netflix for several months. We really do like their service. I've got Cristopher Walken's Brainstorm on the way - try finding that at BlockBuster.
Now, one interesting side effect of this rental system is that you try to turn around movies as fast as you can so you can maximize the number you can get per month and thus increase your values (getting 6 movies for $20 instead of 3).
There are a couple of features NetFlix needs to add to their service:
1) Multiple sign-in accounts per 1 rental account:
NetFlix allows you to rate movies and then makes suggestions based on your ratings (much like TiVo). Now, if my wife signs in (as me, of course), her ratings will completely screw up its suggestions to me (I couldn't stand 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape').
2) The ability to set a definite sequence in your rental queue: With NetFlix, you set up a list on 10 movies you would like to see. If the first on your list isn't available, they will send you the seconds one. I am not sure how the algorithm works but what if I wanted to see the Godfather trilogy, I don't want to get II then III then I.