Sooo the real benefit would be, then, that if you could do the initial exchange securely (as in, hand it to them or whatever) then you'd be able to have a permanent, more-or-less unlimited size 'pad', since you could always use one transmission to say how to decrypt the next one? Interesting. As with any "actual" (i.e. "theoretical", heh) OTP, the encryption itself would be perfect, the attacker is reduced to having to obtain the pad...or a decrypted message.
Still, you'd be limited to doing another secure hand-off if you want to ever 'change your password', in effect.
True, somewhat. Install this, bill goes down -> success. Bill stays the same -> failure. Of course who's bill stays the same every month? I'm sure they're hoping to claim a modest enough reduction that it's within the bounds of the the month-to-month "fudge factor". I think of this as being like those magnetic doo-dads that you clamp around your car's fuel line to "align the fuel molecules for greater combustion efficiency" or whatever techno-babble they use.
The balancing factors are your certifications (you don't get a tank if you're not certified to drive one) and the timer on some equipment
Yow, yow, yow. No way I'm playing a game where something called "certifications" control things. Every time I'd see the word I'd think of how I should instead be working on real-world certs.:) Hm, in fact...[off to study].
Good lord, you're right. That's precisely what the article says, at least. I am amazed (I know I shouldn't be, but whatever, I still am) at the amount of completely baseless ranting and general nonsense I had to read through to get to this post, the one comment so far that actually has a clue. I have mod points but you're already at five--although this warrants something more like "delete everything above this post" (probably to include the incediary and inaccurate text of the Slashdot article itself). What a circus.
If I had been a subject I might well have been inclined to "beat" the system buy fucking with what everyone knew, i.e,, not following directions and taking neither the ring or the watch.
But they'd know you hadn't taken either one. Better yet...take them both--for a while. Take them both, put them in your pocket, revel in the fact that you have taken them both...then put one back before leaving the room. Did you take it? Yes (for a while).
After the first hour or two, does anyone really notice the eye-candy graphics?
Yes. It may not be your bag, but for some it is. While I'm as use-your-imagination-luke old-school as they come with regard to RPGs in general (as in "okay, so the little d6's are the zombies and the bottlecaps are the ghasts") I'm all for something a little more visually compelling than an ampersand to represent Asmodeus on my computer screen. Sorry.
Yes, yes. This would all be much more interesting were it not for the fact that however biased he is and whatever he has said in the past, his statements on this matter appear (to me, who hates office as much as any right-thinking person would) to be pretty much spot-on.
There isn't much helium at all in the atmosphere. Maybe they could crack hydrogen from atmospheric water vapor, though. Oh the pwnmanity if one goes down though.
Really? Even some boring ol' black and white photocopier? Interesting. If they had a 'signature' at all I'd think it would change as often as the print drum.
Oh good lord. "kill someone for one" Hey, Othello Von Melodrama, instead maybe you could look around a bit and buy a few for 20 bucks each like I did a year ago. Hint: http://www.pcpartsinc.com/
Or, if you'd rather not look around, go
here.
and pay maybe fifty bucks for one.
I thought you were joking...so, you're telling me that they're removed the button and replaced it with some touchpad-thingy, and then put a speaker in it so that it sounds like a button is being clicked? Yeah, right. But then I read the design page. Wow.
No, but seriously. Do anyone read books, watch CRTs etc for hours at a time without interruption? Literally. I believe most people look up from their books from time to time, to look out the window or at Miss Gorgeous in the next row at the library, or something like that.
I only wish it were true. As it is, I can't tear my tortured eyes away from the Roland Piquepaille blog o' doom.
Well I guess if you pay cash for your color laser printer you're sorta okay. (Meaning, yeah, if they actually come to your house and sieze it they could still tie it to a document, but at that point you're basically done anyway.) Paying cash would prevent the from just taking document X and looking up its author on the oh-so-handy list of Who We Sold Printers To that the manufacturers evidently provide the government.
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Sooo the real benefit would be, then, that if you could do the initial exchange securely (as in, hand it to them or whatever) then you'd be able to have a permanent, more-or-less unlimited size 'pad', since you could always use one transmission to say how to decrypt the next one? Interesting. As with any "actual" (i.e. "theoretical", heh) OTP, the encryption itself would be perfect, the attacker is reduced to having to obtain the pad...or a decrypted message.
Still, you'd be limited to doing another secure hand-off if you want to ever 'change your password', in effect.
What he said. If there is such a page, I want to see it.
True, somewhat. Install this, bill goes down -> success. Bill stays the same -> failure. Of course who's bill stays the same every month? I'm sure they're hoping to claim a modest enough reduction that it's within the bounds of the the month-to-month "fudge factor". I think of this as being like those magnetic doo-dads that you clamp around your car's fuel line to "align the fuel molecules for greater combustion efficiency" or whatever techno-babble they use.
Yow, yow, yow. No way I'm playing a game where something called "certifications" control things. Every time I'd see the word I'd think of how I should instead be working on real-world certs. :) Hm, in fact...[off to study].
Good lord, you're right. That's precisely what the article says, at least. I am amazed (I know I shouldn't be, but whatever, I still am) at the amount of completely baseless ranting and general nonsense I had to read through to get to this post, the one comment so far that actually has a clue. I have mod points but you're already at five--although this warrants something more like "delete everything above this post" (probably to include the incediary and inaccurate text of the Slashdot article itself). What a circus.
But they'd know you hadn't taken either one. Better yet...take them both--for a while. Take them both, put them in your pocket, revel in the fact that you have taken them both...then put one back before leaving the room. Did you take it? Yes (for a while).
Wow, you just summarized the entirety of slashdot.
http://www.xeromag.com/cheat.html
Yes. It may not be your bag, but for some it is. While I'm as use-your-imagination-luke old-school as they come with regard to RPGs in general (as in "okay, so the little d6's are the zombies and the bottlecaps are the ghasts") I'm all for something a little more visually compelling than an ampersand to represent Asmodeus on my computer screen. Sorry.
Yeah, but you have to admit that hand forging those difference engine cams out of scrap bronze did get kinda old after a while.
Yes, yes. This would all be much more interesting were it not for the fact that however biased he is and whatever he has said in the past, his statements on this matter appear (to me, who hates office as much as any right-thinking person would) to be pretty much spot-on.
Thanks much! I hadn't read TFA and knowing that it's comprised of this sort of nonsense tells me I'm not missing much.
There isn't much helium at all in the atmosphere. Maybe they could crack hydrogen from atmospheric water vapor, though. Oh the pwnmanity if one goes down though.
Bah, how ridiculous. And I will sue anyone who responds to this post, you cyberstalkers!
Really? Even some boring ol' black and white photocopier? Interesting. If they had a 'signature' at all I'd think it would change as often as the print drum.
If you're printing out your ransom demands on a color laser printer, send a photocopy of the printout instead.
The bastards! Next thing you'll be telling me the Dell dude is just a marketing ploy.
Oh good lord. "kill someone for one" Hey, Othello Von Melodrama, instead maybe you could look around a bit and buy a few for 20 bucks each like I did a year ago. Hint: http://www.pcpartsinc.com/ Or, if you'd rather not look around, go here. and pay maybe fifty bucks for one.
Funniest damn thing I've ever seen...
Really. What internet is this guy on, anyway?
Geez, it's a joke. Some people...
Good lord, it's a troll article.
I thought you were joking...so, you're telling me that they're removed the button and replaced it with some touchpad-thingy, and then put a speaker in it so that it sounds like a button is being clicked? Yeah, right. But then I read the design page. Wow.
No, but seriously. Do anyone read books, watch CRTs etc for hours at a time without interruption? Literally. I believe most people look up from their books from time to time, to look out the window or at Miss Gorgeous in the next row at the library, or something like that. I only wish it were true. As it is, I can't tear my tortured eyes away from the Roland Piquepaille blog o' doom.
Of course, only criminals use cash.