Looking at commercial CO2 cutting lasers, even a secondhand one will rush you between £40,000 and £110,000 (with control systems).
Having said that, most of these lasers are > 1KW, so it may be that you could pick up (or build) a straight 500W CO2 laser for around £1000 (no control systems etc.)
I just sent the missus on holiday with a £100 digital video camera that can record 15 minutes of video on a £20 64MB SmartMedia card. The quality is good enough for TV display.
Next week in Aldi stores here, there will be a similar camera going for £50.
If anyone's bothered by having to swap a card every 15 minutes or so (for personal rather than pro use), I'd personally consider them dumb.
It works for me - at least when I am working where my DAB set gets a poor signal (i.e. downstairs at home) - I listen regularly to BBC 6Music on my ADSL connection, and even cranked down to 64Kbit/s it's perfectly listenable.
Granted, when I had a dialup connection, I couldn't download and listen at the same time, but the sound at 44Kbit/s was still tolerable.
£99 expensive?
For the equivalent quality to my DAB set, I'd have to spend £300 plus on analogue equipment.
The worst thing about DAB is that you get all the background sound as clear as day - when a cellphone goes off at a press conference, I still leap up and see if it's mine.
Most Indians living in Britain are far too well integrated, well mannered and sensible to be upset by any supposed racial slurs - certainly the few Indians that I know personally would quietly inform me that those comments ought really to be addressed to Pakistanis, rather than Indians.
Now if you criticise a Pakistani in any way whatsoever...
Expect the overclockers to come out with the KAII Vindaloo anytime soon.
Other options - the Tandoori (in a bright red case), the Korma (running Windoze emulation for the English taste), and the ultimate - the Beowulf banquet of these...
1. Mr Ishigawa works for the FBI to find kiddie fiddlers. Good - this needs to be stopped.
2. Mr Ishigawa also works for the *AA, which is bad.
3. Mr Ishigawa claims to have been responsible for Dimitri Skylarov's persecution, which is very bad.
4. As part of his kiddie porn search, he uses the following methodology: BayTSP's spider programs use patented algorithms to scour public web sites looking for pictures, video, and music files. "Our algorithms are adaptive," claims Ishikawa. "You can cut a picture in half and we'll still find it, matching the cut-down version against a database of originals, effectively matching the electronic DNA of the target."
5. Am I wrong, or does this mean the guy has a very big collection of kiddie porn on his system?
Perhaps a/. reader in the Bay Area would like to alert the local police to this evil collection?
Added to which, it's considered to be 'restraint of trade' under EU law, and hence unenforceable.
Paid-for NDAs can, however be enforced - if you can find something else to do for a year or two, this is sometimes the most profitable strategy.
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So a lot of dead folk used to believe in God?
Tell me something new, then tell me why there is a need for a Creator anyway.
As William of Occam had it, Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate (Plurality should not be posited unnecessarily).
If an explanation that removes the need for a supernatural being exists, I'll take that one over faith any day.
It's a problem if Ashcroft's anywhere near it...
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Creation Science, anyone?
It might not be such an issue if it's just a relaxation of rules for the benefit of the economy in general (excepting the potential for problems caused by untested organisms and products appearing in the wild), but I personally would not like to see science budgets overseen by the Witchfinder General and his strange Christian fundamentalist friends.
But I'm in the UK, so I don't mind what happens on your side of the pond...
Physical security of the pad is the problem here - if the pad is stolen, the encryption is broken, period.
The use of public key crypto is widespread because it is proof against this sort of attack (assuming you keep your private key secure, of course;-)) - the only issue with public key is how difficult it is to crack, which doesn't depend at all on how heavily it is used, but simply on the algorithm and the key length. The public keys can be transmitted in the clear, since it is *very* difficult to extract the private key from them. Hence they do not suffer from the security and convenience problems inherent in the one time pad methods.
The whole point of public key is that it is extremely time consuming to crack messages, so it's not worth trying most of the time.
It means that your lovely intelligent children will never be exposed to his intelligent and reasoned analysis of cryptographic issues - but then your offspring probably wouldn't be able to absorb such complex ideas, given your obvious stupidity.
You obviously don't mind your name being censored, since you choose to post anonymously.
Arsehole.
Serpent and Rijndael are vulnerable to this attack - it seems Twofish isn't - damn government should have chosen Twofish for AES instead...
Seriously, though - any approach that manages to reduce the difficulty of cracking these algorithms by a factor of 2^100 is impressive, and Schneier at least simplifies it enough that us folks with very rusty number theory can appreciate the achievement.
His comment later in Cryptogram about his name appearing on a list of banned words is much, much scarier - looks like he's upset someone in the content censorship Gestapo. That same content filter would deny access to today's Slashdot front page - nasty.
With the new Squeal like a pig, boy broadband connection from Deliverance Networks, you banjo-playing inbreeds can communicate at the speed of sound.
Simply plug your modem cable into the ass of a dumb city-boy (preferably one with a purdy mouth), play that ole banjo tune, and our acoustic routers will pass your signal to the internet.
Of course, the higher you make the purdy boy squeal, the higher the bandwidth, so if you want gigabit connections, you really have to make the mother squeal.
A pilot scheme in Royston Vaizey got over 1Mbit, by multiplexing several inner-city Mancunians.
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Looking at commercial CO2 cutting lasers, even a secondhand one will rush you between £40,000 and £110,000 (with control systems).
Having said that, most of these lasers are > 1KW, so it may be that you could pick up (or build) a straight 500W CO2 laser for around £1000 (no control systems etc.)
I just sent the missus on holiday with a £100 digital video camera that can record 15 minutes of video on a £20 64MB SmartMedia card. The quality is good enough for TV display.
Next week in Aldi stores here, there will be a similar camera going for £50.
If anyone's bothered by having to swap a card every 15 minutes or so (for personal rather than pro use), I'd personally consider them dumb.
It works for me - at least when I am working where my DAB set gets a poor signal (i.e. downstairs at home) - I listen regularly to BBC 6Music on my ADSL connection, and even cranked down to 64Kbit/s it's perfectly listenable.
Granted, when I had a dialup connection, I couldn't download and listen at the same time, but the sound at 44Kbit/s was still tolerable.
£99 expensive? For the equivalent quality to my DAB set, I'd have to spend £300 plus on analogue equipment. The worst thing about DAB is that you get all the background sound as clear as day - when a cellphone goes off at a press conference, I still leap up and see if it's mine.
Most Indians living in Britain are far too well integrated, well mannered and sensible to be upset by any supposed racial slurs - certainly the few Indians that I know personally would quietly inform me that those comments ought really to be addressed to Pakistanis, rather than Indians.
Now if you criticise a Pakistani in any way whatsoever...
Expect the overclockers to come out with the KAII Vindaloo anytime soon.
Other options - the Tandoori (in a bright red case), the Korma (running Windoze emulation for the English taste), and the ultimate - the Beowulf banquet of these...
Will I still need to wear my tinfoil hat to defend against the mind-altering rays?
That's quite alright - I never use P2P stuff anyway.
But I do object to an arsehole who claims to have been involved in the persecution of Dimitri Skylarov.
My IP address is 81.86.161.107 - if he wants to probe that, then he's welcome.
Great point - I've made the same point above, and then again - looks like the moderator is either asleep or dead.
2. Mr Ishigawa also works for the *AA, which is bad.
3. Mr Ishigawa claims to have been responsible for Dimitri Skylarov's persecution, which is very bad.
4. As part of his kiddie porn search, he uses the following methodology:
BayTSP's spider programs use patented algorithms to scour public web sites looking for pictures, video, and music files. "Our algorithms are adaptive," claims Ishikawa. "You can cut a picture in half and we'll still find it, matching the cut-down version against a database of originals, effectively matching the electronic DNA of the target."
5. Am I wrong, or does this mean the guy has a very big collection of kiddie porn on his system?
Perhaps a /. reader in the Bay Area would like to alert the local police to this evil collection?
Mod parent up - should be 5-funny.
Unless of course s/he means it...
Added to which, it's considered to be 'restraint of trade' under EU law, and hence unenforceable.
Paid-for NDAs can, however be enforced - if you can find something else to do for a year or two, this is sometimes the most profitable strategy.
Tell me something new, then tell me why there is a need for a Creator anyway.
As William of Occam had it, Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate (Plurality should not be posited unnecessarily).
If an explanation that removes the need for a supernatural being exists, I'll take that one over faith any day.
Creation Science, anyone?
It might not be such an issue if it's just a relaxation of rules for the benefit of the economy in general (excepting the potential for problems caused by untested organisms and products appearing in the wild), but I personally would not like to see science budgets overseen by the Witchfinder General and his strange Christian fundamentalist friends.
But I'm in the UK, so I don't mind what happens on your side of the pond...
Oops - didn't check first...
but it was supposed to be a humourous comment anyway....
Bri.
woohoo - someone told you about one-time pads!
;-)) - the only issue with public key is how difficult it is to crack, which doesn't depend at all on how heavily it is used, but simply on the algorithm and the key length. The public keys can be transmitted in the clear, since it is *very* difficult to extract the private key from them. Hence they do not suffer from the security and convenience problems inherent in the one time pad methods.
Physical security of the pad is the problem here - if the pad is stolen, the encryption is broken, period.
The use of public key crypto is widespread because it is proof against this sort of attack (assuming you keep your private key secure, of course
The whole point of public key is that it is extremely time consuming to crack messages, so it's not worth trying most of the time.
You're still a fucking troll.
Love,
Brian.
It means that your lovely intelligent children will never be exposed to his intelligent and reasoned analysis of cryptographic issues - but then your offspring probably wouldn't be able to absorb such complex ideas, given your obvious stupidity. You obviously don't mind your name being censored, since you choose to post anonymously. Arsehole.
And I thought Rijndael was picked because there was an 8-bit implementation of it suitable for smart card use - Doh!
Serpent and Rijndael are vulnerable to this attack - it seems Twofish isn't - damn government should have chosen Twofish for AES instead...
Seriously, though - any approach that manages to reduce the difficulty of cracking these algorithms by a factor of 2^100 is impressive, and Schneier at least simplifies it enough that us folks with very rusty number theory can appreciate the achievement.
His comment later in Cryptogram about his name appearing on a list of banned words is much, much scarier - looks like he's upset someone in the content censorship Gestapo. That same content filter would deny access to today's Slashdot front page - nasty.
It seems that COBOL will be supported.
;).
My elderly relatives will be pleased - now they can be part of Open Source, too.
Come to think of it, if something's written in COBOL, it may as well be closed source
Damn - no good for pr0n, then...
Agree wholeheartedly - but then I don't even agree with frames.
99.9% of all web pages are tarty bits of crap that try to be more than they are - a source of information.
Use HTML for the informative bits, and if some marketing tart insists on prettyness, put some Flash in to cheer them up.
I need nothing more than well laid out and clear text, unless I'm browsing pr0n, in which case a standard "img" tag does for me.
What's wrong with spending 20 bucks to register the damn game?
Tightwad!
Simply plug your modem cable into the ass of a dumb city-boy (preferably one with a purdy mouth ), play that ole banjo tune, and our acoustic routers will pass your signal to the internet.
Of course, the higher you make the purdy boy squeal, the higher the bandwidth, so if you want gigabit connections, you really have to make the mother squeal.
A pilot scheme in Royston Vaizey got over 1Mbit, by multiplexing several inner-city Mancunians.
It's coming your way soon....
Do I detect a hint of irony here?
I hope I do...