"It's much more powerful and effective to send a message encrypted with good asymmetric key cryptography."
which stands out like a dogs balls.
steganography and platen codes are about the only way to convey information innocuously.
About the only way for encrypted data to be transmitted innocuously is if it would be innocuous to transfer large amounts of 'static' (or noise or very large random numbers). But somehow I doubt that any covert listener would fail to notice, and be suspicious of such data transfers.
'uh yeah me and my friend are exchanging humungous random numbers for our, uh, computer game. Yeah'.
right.
(one of the strengths of this sort of 'encryption' is that it is uncomputably strong; its simply not possible for a methodical (or algorithmic or computational) process to 'decrypt' a platen code).
"Is it illegal to write a small voice chat application with some encryption without a backdoor for the feds?"
Presumably, if you live in the USA, land of the free, it is or soon will be illegal. Just like it would have been under Saddam Hussein or is under Col. Gaddafi or Dear Leader in North Korea.
You gotta appreciate the freedom that this sort of thing gives you; if the feds couldn't tap your phones how would they be able to protect you???
"[Original developers] BioWare will provide tools, technology, and game assets from the original Neverwinter Nights as well as lend creative input and oversight to the development process."
So the storyline and gameplay will be every bit as 'good' as the original NWN?
"Aparently it is hard for some people to understand that it is worth the trip even if you don't expect to have a nice native population to exploit uppon your arrival."
Absolutely.
Theres no brown people in space, so I can see why NASA lost interest. Its not even worth a cruise missile.
But you wait till some robotic probe finds brown people in space, then Haliburton (oops *NASA*) will be *very* keen to get some grunts up there to exploit them and maybe some bombers to blow them to bits if they don't cooperate!
Given the number of cars that roll straight through red lights when pedestrians are crossing the road, I reckon that popup roadspikes which activate on a red light would be the best thing yet.
Just fit ambulances and fire engines with spike-resistant tires (the ones that can still go when they are full of holes).
*Then* traffic lights might actually get some damn respect.
fallout had such a cool atmosphere... even the way that your cohorts were totally out of control had its moments, and being able to view it all from third person made it so entertaining.
first person would ruin it... (mind you I think it *always* ruins a game; I just feel like a blinkered dalek in a neck brace when playing FPS games).
I suspect that Mars *did* once have a magnetic field. My guess is that some really *big* impact caused sufficient vulcanism to blow enough magma out to sap the energy from the core and stop the magneto.
Once that was gone it would have been a matter of time before the solar wind removed the atmosphere and water.
"You're missing the point. It is poor UI design. Really crappy UI design"
When I go to reboot a box and walk off thinking that it'll just reboot by itself, only to come back 15 mins later, hoping to find it rebooted,only to see a dialog box telling me that something or other didn't shut down properly and with just *one* button labelled 'ok', *thats* crappy UI design.
I know, it does serve some peoples needs and it is stable, in both senses.
But when it does come time that a client wants something thats not in stable, things can get hairy. Very hairy, very fast. Ie unstable. Often in both senses.
(eg huge lists of upgraded packages when running apt-get upgrade, some of which *are* broken).
I have found mandrake cooker a bit easier to deal with in this way; their dependencies seem less vast so I can use a lot of things from cooker in my stable box (like its latest lvm and dm tools) without having to upgrade much else at all.
debian desktop? What kind of crack are you smoking?
(we had to roll out sarge (as it was back then) because woody had no support for the graphic hardware in the dell desktop boxes we were going to have to use. Its been a pain in the butt ever since).
Drag one of those old Soviet 'Typhoon' class subs up onto the ice shelf, complete with reactors (though maybe without the missiles) and set it up as a base in antarctica! And declare (if one *did* keep the missiles) the Autonomous Anonymous Anarchic Antarctic Republic!
"Oh, the reviewer has a ready answer to that. You shouldn't use nested directories because they are a "bad habit':
What is the real cause of all these attacks on the spatial Nautilius? In my opinion, it is just bad file organisation coupled with a bunch of old bad habits. It's really hard to use a spatial file browser if someone keeps his or her files in a ten-folder-deep structure."
Ok I guess that they were happy with the Windows 3.1 program manager.
Personally it sounds to me that if they need to make excuses like this, maybe their 'spatial file browser' is just a bad idea to start with; reminds me of 'saving theories' from my old philosophy of science classes.
"Always believe that you'll be fighting against an enemy who will learn and exploit your weaknesses."
Like wheels or tracks?
I doubt that this sort of system will eve be applied to moving parts.
Go for the wheels or tracks, its pretty obvious.
(and surely applies to more than just light vehicles? I mean, how many RPG shots would it take to make an M1 Abrams slough a track and thereby immobilise it?)
However if you were to attend a course in language design and definition, as presented in modern universities, you would (unless you slept through the lectures) be in a FAR better position to design a decent language; a lot has been learnt since those days.
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"It's much more powerful and effective to send a message encrypted with good asymmetric key cryptography."
which stands out like a dogs balls.
steganography and platen codes are about the only way to convey information innocuously.
About the only way for encrypted data to be transmitted innocuously is if it would be innocuous to transfer large amounts of 'static' (or noise or very large random numbers). But somehow I doubt that any covert listener would fail to notice, and be suspicious of such data transfers.
'uh yeah me and my friend are exchanging humungous random numbers for our, uh, computer game. Yeah'.
right.
(one of the strengths of this sort of 'encryption' is that it is uncomputably strong; its simply not possible for a methodical (or algorithmic or computational) process to 'decrypt' a platen code).
"Is it illegal to write a small voice chat application with some encryption without a backdoor for the feds?"
Presumably, if you live in the USA, land of the free, it is or soon will be illegal. Just like it would have been under Saddam Hussein or is under Col. Gaddafi or Dear Leader in North Korea.
You gotta appreciate the freedom that this sort of thing gives you; if the feds couldn't tap your phones how would they be able to protect you???
"[Original developers] BioWare will provide tools, technology, and game assets from the original Neverwinter Nights as well as lend creative input and oversight to the development process."
So the storyline and gameplay will be every bit as 'good' as the original NWN?
uh oh...
more and newer biological warfare agents!
And look! Its being researched in the US of A!
yeah yeah troll, flamebait, whatever. The USA has a long history of using WMDs against civilian populations, mod me as you will.
"Aparently it is hard for some people to understand that it is worth the trip even if you don't expect to have a nice native population to exploit uppon your arrival."
Absolutely.
Theres no brown people in space, so I can see why NASA lost interest. Its not even worth a cruise missile.
But you wait till some robotic probe finds brown people in space, then Haliburton (oops *NASA*) will be *very* keen to get some grunts up there to exploit them and maybe some bombers to blow them to bits if they don't cooperate!
Given the number of cars that roll straight through red lights when pedestrians are crossing the road, I reckon that popup roadspikes which activate on a red light would be the best thing yet.
Just fit ambulances and fire engines with spike-resistant tires (the ones that can still go when they are full of holes).
*Then* traffic lights might actually get some damn respect.
For copy protection purposes, some commercial software checks for just this; so that it makes it tougher to crack it.
There are plenty of apps that, for this reason, won't run in vmware for example.
please oh *please*...
fallout had such a cool atmosphere... even the way that your cohorts were totally out of control had its moments, and being able to view it all from third person made it so entertaining.
first person would ruin it... (mind you I think it *always* ruins a game; I just feel like a blinkered dalek in a neck brace when playing FPS games).
"the salt actually works its way out of the ice"
so, where does the salt go?
up? down? where?
I suspect that Mars *did* once have a magnetic field. My guess is that some really *big* impact caused sufficient vulcanism to blow enough magma out to sap the energy from the core and stop the magneto.
Once that was gone it would have been a matter of time before the solar wind removed the atmosphere and water.
'What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand'
Where it says 'in the context of a well regulated militia', thats the part I don't understand.
"You're missing the point. It is poor UI design. Really crappy UI design"
When I go to reboot a box and walk off thinking that it'll just reboot by itself, only to come back 15 mins later, hoping to find it rebooted,only to see a dialog box telling me that something or other didn't shut down properly and with just *one* button labelled 'ok', *thats* crappy UI design.
Thanks MS, you are brilliant.
I know, it does serve some peoples needs and it is stable, in both senses.
But when it does come time that a client wants something thats not in stable, things can get hairy. Very hairy, very fast. Ie unstable. Often in both senses.
(eg huge lists of upgraded packages when running apt-get upgrade, some of which *are* broken).
I have found mandrake cooker a bit easier to deal with in this way; their dependencies seem less vast so I can use a lot of things from cooker in my stable box (like its latest lvm and dm tools) without having to upgrade much else at all.
"Debian is probably the best/most stable GNU/Linux available,"
only if you stick with debian 'stable' and are, therefore, prepared to use outdated packages.
If you want something new, go to 'backports' or to 'unstable' and, uh, lose stability...
debian desktop? What kind of crack are you smoking?
(we had to roll out sarge (as it was back then) because woody had no support for the graphic hardware in the dell desktop boxes we were going to have to use. Its been a pain in the butt ever since).
go mandrake.
Yes!
Drag one of those old Soviet 'Typhoon' class subs up onto the ice shelf, complete with reactors (though maybe without the missiles) and set it up as a base in antarctica! And declare (if one *did* keep the missiles) the Autonomous Anonymous Anarchic Antarctic Republic!
"With bonus, the plural was boni. Well, there were a lot of plural forms... boni, bonorum, bonis, bonos."
Ok Mr Latin Expert, wheres "boner"?
"In addition, pilots provide intelligence"
Intelligence?
Considering the amount of 'friendly fire' incidents involving US airmen, this is a dubious claim...
"How would having Webmasters looking for a 'trusted' flag solve anything? Users don't infect websites."
Yeah but it'd stop the morons from blogging!
I am no chemist, but maybe there is a chemical reaction involving CO2, sulphuric acid and iron oxide which could benefit both Venus and Mars?
"after years of rusting away"
rusty titanium?
Surely its not made of ferrous metal?
or even got much ferrous metal in it...?
"Oh, the reviewer has a ready answer to that. You shouldn't use nested directories because they are a "bad habit':
What is the real cause of all these attacks on the spatial Nautilius? In my opinion, it is just bad file organisation coupled with a bunch of old bad habits. It's really hard to use a spatial file browser if someone keeps his or her files in a ten-folder-deep structure."
Ok I guess that they were happy with the Windows 3.1 program manager.
Personally it sounds to me that if they need to make excuses like this, maybe their 'spatial file browser' is just a bad idea to start with; reminds me of 'saving theories' from my old philosophy of science classes.
"Always believe that you'll be fighting against an enemy who will learn and exploit your weaknesses."
Like wheels or tracks?
I doubt that this sort of system will eve be applied to moving parts.
Go for the wheels or tracks, its pretty obvious.
(and surely applies to more than just light vehicles? I mean, how many RPG shots would it take to make an M1 Abrams slough a track and thereby immobilise it?)
However if you were to attend a course in language design and definition, as presented in modern universities, you would (unless you slept through the lectures) be in a FAR better position to design a decent language; a lot has been learnt since those days.
I don't doubt that he could easily get a job at SCO.