If you number individual words and phrases, then you can only use each word or phrase once, otherwise it's not a one-time pad anymore. Think about it... how long would it take a cryptanalyst to figure out the code for "the" or "you"?
The pad should simply be a chunk of random bits, and both sides need to keep track of which bits have been used. Then encrypt your messages by xoring them with an unused stretch of bits.
They always burn the bread or toast it unevenly. Or the toast gets stuck when it's supposed to jump up, and I end up electrocuting myself while trying to get it out with a knife. There's a lot of room for improvement in that interface.
If she has "skill to work with a subject, get the lighting right, set up the pose, and produce an ideal moment for a photograph", then that is a valuable skill. I'm sure most wedding organizers like to give the guests some opportunities for taking nice pictures. Instead of feeling resentful about people taking the "same shot", she could feel happy about providing a service and being paid for it. If you look at it that way, she's not even in the image-capturing business, she's in the moment-creation business.
This is exactly what the Blender Foundation is doing with Blender 3D. They're raising funds to buy the Blender sources in order to publish them under the GPL.
I also started by thinking about an array or tree based approach, but there's a much simpler algorithm: add all the numbers and subtract from 55.
55 is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10, so the difference will give you the missing one. This also easily scales to larger ranges, though of course it doesn't scale as well to more than one missing number.
If every bit individually has a 50% chance of being wrong, then you still know nothing. Bits have only two possible states, and if they each have a 1-in-2 chance of being in the wrong state, then they carry no information.
879, 1997, and 7059 also have this property, whatever it is. The guy even explains this on his site. I wonder who he is, and why he doesn't put his name anywhere.
It's possible to own mindless patents on fucking fonts. See US patent 5,155,805, which covers basic math (project one vector on another and add the result to a point) as applied to glyph outlines.
This is part of Apple's hold on TrueType.
I don't think the gems will get bigger. They're found, after all -- there's no way to increase the average size of diamonds. Instead, they will get more expensive, thus "proving" their value as an investment.
The second law of thermodynamics is just a statistical consequence of more fundamental laws of physics. I don't see why breaking it is automatically "illegal", while messing with the speed of light is fair game. You get temporal paradoxes if the speed of light is not the same everywhere[1], and that bothers me far more than cups of coffee getting hotter.
[1] General relativity rules out the concept of "everywhere at the same time", so if the speed of light changes, it can't change uniformly, because there's no uniform.
Some EU countries are about to make this the law, because of some silly EU directive. Norway is not an EU country, though. In fact I'll bet that only a tiny percentage of people here are familiar with Norwegian copyright law, so I'm assuming that comments are talking out of their asses until proven otherwise:)
And you haven't arbitrarily had "compatibility" declared to mean "appears exactly identical to how it looks on this page of spec." Not "close" but "exact".
Sometimes you have to take idiotic measures to comply with idiotic policies. That doesn't make them any less idiotic.
If a site uses popups (and gets through Mozilla's filtering), then I leave and don't come back. I don't show up in their statistics at all, but they did lose a potential customer. It seems that AOL has finally caught on to this.
I use Mozilla for all my web browsing, except when I use lynx for speed. It hasn't crashed on me in a month or so, and it seems to render all sites well. Of course I have no idea what they're "supposed" to look like on IE, but watch me not care.
This tool was already using it, so we already have to upgrade our detection tools (where necessary) to deal with odd protocol numbers. If many other trojan writers start using the same trick, then it will just make them that much easier to detect.
I won't make any comments about troll schools, but copyright is related: copyright lasts for a limited time (does anyone still know this?), and for works owned by corporations, the clock starts ticking at the date of first publication.
The movie industry has in the past tried to manipulate this by claiming that movies were "unpublished" even after being shown in theaters, because no copies of the reels were sold. They had to give this up in order to sell videos though:)
Now, if there were a decision (even in an unrelated area such as defamation) that the "publication date" of a web page is the last time it was viewed, then I expect that the copyright industry would indeed try to use this to extend copyright forever.
There's a large number of ways to defeat PGP that don't involve brute-forcing RSA or IDEA at all. Your "make it simple" actually makes it way more difficult.
The easiest way to defeat PGP wholesale is probably to create a worm that publishes secret key files, the way SirCam did with Word documents. For extra credit, encrypt the keys before sending them out, and publish them on alt.flame:-)
Of course, deploying the worm means finding and exploiting a security hole in a well-known service. And we know those have all been fixed by now. Certainly no government site would run with a vulnerable web server, for example.
Anything can be an excuse for raising prices. The Dutch phone company once used "We have to double the local rates because the average length of a call is 2 minutes". It didn't seem to bother anyone (except geeks) that there was no logical connection between those statements.
A number of comments seem to say what you're saying here: that email is more intrusive because it arrives throughout the day. I don't get it. What's keeping you from only checking it once a day? Just turn off the "you have new mail" thing and check email when you feel like it.
But you didn't "buy" the product, the company is only selling you a license to use the software.
This is a fiction that software companies are happy to promote. That doesn't make it true, though. Would you accept the equivalent assertion about books? If not, why would software be different?
They appreciate their work, not necessarily their employers. Their employers are bankrupt. Future employers will probably see this as "tendency toward rebellious behaviour". No cigars there. They probably did it because they would feel bad about blowing a big hole in the European Internet. Especially after spending so many sleepless nights keeping it running.
Remember that this is the EULA for a game. Obviously the game starts with a simulation of being a contract lawyer, and you can win the first level by clicking on "I accept". It's a pretty simple, sure, but games have to start out simple and introduce you to their complexities later. They're more fun that way. I hear that the game discussed here will later allow you to play other characters than contract lawyers; I think that's neat!
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If you number individual words and phrases, then you can only use each word or phrase once, otherwise it's not a one-time pad anymore. Think about it... how long would it take a cryptanalyst to figure out the code for "the" or "you"?
The pad should simply be a chunk of random bits, and both sides need to keep track of which bits have been used. Then encrypt your messages by xoring them with an unused stretch of bits.
They always burn the bread or toast it unevenly. Or the toast gets stuck when it's supposed to jump up, and I end up electrocuting myself while trying to get it out with a knife. There's a lot of room for improvement in that interface.
If she has "skill to work with a subject, get the lighting right, set up the pose, and produce an ideal moment for a photograph", then that is a valuable skill. I'm sure most wedding organizers like to give the guests some opportunities for taking nice pictures. Instead of feeling resentful about people taking the "same shot", she could feel happy about providing a service and being paid for it. If you look at it that way, she's not even in the image-capturing business, she's in the moment-creation business.
This is exactly what the Blender Foundation is doing with Blender 3D. They're raising funds to buy the Blender sources in order to publish them under the GPL.
I also started by thinking about an array or tree based approach, but there's a much simpler algorithm: add all the numbers and subtract from 55. 55 is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10, so the difference will give you the missing one. This also easily scales to larger ranges, though of course it doesn't scale as well to more than one missing number.
If every bit individually has a 50% chance of being wrong, then you still know nothing. Bits have only two possible states, and if they each have a 1-in-2 chance of being in the wrong state, then they carry no information.
879, 1997, and 7059 also have this property, whatever it is. The guy even explains this on his site. I wonder who he is, and why he doesn't put his name anywhere.
It's possible to own mindless patents on fucking fonts. See US patent 5,155,805, which covers basic math (project one vector on another and add the result to a point) as applied to glyph outlines. This is part of Apple's hold on TrueType.
I don't think the gems will get bigger. They're found, after all -- there's no way to increase the average size of diamonds. Instead, they will get more expensive, thus "proving" their value as an investment.
If you bought a diamond you could afford, then you didn't go with tradition :-)
The second law of thermodynamics is just a statistical consequence of more fundamental laws of physics. I don't see why breaking it is automatically "illegal", while messing with the speed of light is fair game. You get temporal paradoxes if the speed of light is not the same everywhere[1], and that bothers me far more than cups of coffee getting hotter.
[1] General relativity rules out the concept of "everywhere at the same time", so if the speed of light changes, it can't change uniformly, because there's no uniform.
Some EU countries are about to make this the law, because of some silly EU directive. Norway is not an EU country, though. In fact I'll bet that only a tiny percentage of people here are familiar with Norwegian copyright law, so I'm assuming that comments are talking out of their asses until proven otherwise :)
If a site uses popups (and gets through Mozilla's filtering), then I leave and don't come back. I don't show up in their statistics at all, but they did lose a potential customer. It seems that AOL has finally caught on to this.
You can look it up in their search engine.
I use Mozilla for all my web browsing, except when I use lynx for speed. It hasn't crashed on me in a month or so, and it seems to render all sites well. Of course I have no idea what they're "supposed" to look like on IE, but watch me not care.
What does the air marshal program have to do with ticket resale?
This tool was already using it, so we already have to upgrade our detection tools (where necessary) to deal with odd protocol numbers. If many other trojan writers start using the same trick, then it will just make them that much easier to detect.
I won't make any comments about troll schools, but copyright is related: copyright lasts for a limited time (does anyone still know this?), and for works owned by corporations, the clock starts ticking at the date of first publication.
The movie industry has in the past tried to manipulate this by claiming that movies were "unpublished" even after being shown in theaters, because no copies of the reels were sold. They had to give this up in order to sell videos though :)
Now, if there were a decision (even in an unrelated area such as defamation) that the "publication date" of a web page is the last time it was viewed, then I expect that the copyright industry would indeed try to use this to extend copyright forever.
There's a large number of ways to defeat PGP that don't involve brute-forcing RSA or IDEA at all. Your "make it simple" actually makes it way more difficult.
The easiest way to defeat PGP wholesale is probably to create a worm that publishes secret key files, the way SirCam did with Word documents. For extra credit, encrypt the keys before sending them out, and publish them on alt.flame :-)
Of course, deploying the worm means finding and exploiting a security hole in a well-known service. And we know those have all been fixed by now. Certainly no government site would run with a vulnerable web server, for example.
Anything can be an excuse for raising prices. The Dutch phone company once used "We have to double the local rates because the average length of a call is 2 minutes". It didn't seem to bother anyone (except geeks) that there was no logical connection between those statements.
A number of comments seem to say what you're saying here: that email is more intrusive because it arrives throughout the day. I don't get it. What's keeping you from only checking it once a day? Just turn off the "you have new mail" thing and check email when you feel like it.
This is a fiction that software companies are happy to promote. That doesn't make it true, though. Would you accept the equivalent assertion about books? If not, why would software be different?
They appreciate their work, not necessarily their employers. Their employers are bankrupt. Future employers will probably see this as "tendency toward rebellious behaviour". No cigars there. They probably did it because they would feel bad about blowing a big hole in the European Internet. Especially after spending so many sleepless nights keeping it running.
Remember that this is the EULA for a game. Obviously the game starts with a simulation of being a contract lawyer, and you can win the first level by clicking on "I accept". It's a pretty simple, sure, but games have to start out simple and introduce you to their complexities later. They're more fun that way. I hear that the game discussed here will later allow you to play other characters than contract lawyers; I think that's neat!