The parent's point is that America is going out of its way to only allow American companies to get contracts re-building Iraq;
As such, America is simply boosting her economy by preying on the destruction it caused. The benefits, of course, are going to two american companies: The company who makes the bombs and the company who rebuilds. War, as they say, is an excellent way to boost a failing economy.
I agree about iTunes crashing: having tested iTunes, I find that it is incredibly buggy.
For playing OGGs (or MP3s), Winamp 2 Just Works(tm). I don't do playlists (although if on occasion I do, I find it easy to do with winamp).
Then again, if XMMS was ported to Windows we could tweak our music player just as we wanted -- all hail open source! (plus XMMS sounds cooler than winamp...)
Doom 3 uses OpenGL for the graphics -- John Carmack has said, I believe, that he intensely dislikes DirectX's graphics interface.
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that he is using DirectX for input, etc. on Windows.
I wouldn't anticipate any kind of e-mail appearing very soon on this fiber optic network, so we have yet to see whether or not a spammer would even want on it.
Pardon, but are you kidding? Think of all those people doing PhDs! "Get your degree from the university of spammersville". It's perfect! Cut out 5 years of research on a 400Gbps network, get your PhD and go home to your 56k... ah. Maybe not.
Disclaimer: Granted your nuke carpet bombing statements were (I assume) meant as a jest, however I imagine the sentiments behind them were not
I can't tell a lie, the best way to help in this case would be to nuke both. Problem solved.
Let us not forget that Israel today is a nation that was created out of land that was rightfully Palestinian (regardless how it was many hundreds of years ago -- has anyone demanded the creation of the austro-hungarian empire again?). While the methods of both sides are disgraceful, I can't help but sympathise with the Palestinians, whose land has been taken
I'm (obviously from this post) in favour of the dissolution of the state of Israel and the return of the land to the Palestinians: superpower guilt after WW2 is no excuse to cut up another country: it is decidedly undemocratic and, quite frankly, shows a disregard for Everyone Else[tm]
At the risk of getting Flamebait, I must take issue with your retort:
the reason that the EU hates George Bush is because he exhibits Christian values in his decisions
I won't bother arguing there. He does show some, albeit misguided xian religiousness in his decisions: however I believe xianity teaches generally that war is wrong -- as is coveting thy neighbour's oil-err... donkey.
unlike yourself
I think that's probably a gross over-generalisation to make, given that the grandparent said nothing about religion at all -- conversely, s/he also said nothing that could not be construed as a pro-xian opinion.
Indeed, there are plenty of xians in Europe, as in America and Japan, etc. -- your insinuation that the grandparent is simply persecuting George Bush because of his religion is illogical.
I think generally people in the Europe (if not the world) dislike Bush (and lesser by extension the people who elected him) because of his warmongering big-business favouring bully tactics with the rest of the world.
... IP address isn't fixed to the laptop - mac address is...
Sensible stealers could just dump the network card and put a new one - or use a proxy over DSL.
The comment you're referring to said "software phoning home": i.e. nothing to do with the MAC address. It's easy for such software to operate- wait until there's a connection to the internet, send the company's Unique Id For Your Computer(tm) to The Man. If the computer's been reported as stolen, they now know the IP and can track that to an ISP and then an account and a user...
Also you could use it to exchange your contact information (phone number, address, etc) to someone who has another stick.
Great opportunity for big mistakes: given that most users make mistakes easily, you'd end up beaming your keys to "Bob the auto guy".
On the other hand, changing the locks would be easier; mm... security through obscurity
I did a load of research and according to some people who seem to be smarter than me, it's not possible to get 802.11b on my clie running PalmOS 4.1.
It's a great time to upgrade to a pocket pc -- plus, it's easy enough to get linux running on them (mm... mobile python)
Unfortunately, images from high-end cameras (such as the Canon EOS-1Ds) can be very large: at 11mpixels, RAW data is in excess of 40MB.
The EOS-1Ds can shoot at 3fps, meaning that there is well in excess of 100MB/sec requirement, potentially.
You would need quite a hefty wireless link to deal with this: certainly not 802.11b. Currently, as mentioned, high-end cameras use a buffer (meaning that the EOS-1Ds can take up to 10 shots at 3fps).
For lower-end few mpixel cameras it'd be possible, but I imagine cost-prohibitive (and not too useful for most consumers).
Quantum Crypto allows for the possibility of data bring lost in the transmission: just as it allows for selecting the wrong filter at the recieving end.
Even if only a small amount of the photons sent are actually recieved, they can be used (although, obviously, the system wouldn't be as fast or efficient as if all photons had been recieved, since there's then the added problem of selecting the right filter!)).
We can always wait for Bruce Schneier's opinion whether it's snake oil or not in his next cryptogram , due out in a week or so.
Sure they can do another trilogy:
Think about the chances they have to do a prequel: plus, they can lift the dialogue and the sequences from the first film and pretend it's some stylistic way of indicating that time is, upon reflection, a loop.
I leave you with this, slightly more ominous alternative:
SCENE: Little Girl from the end of the film is sitting at her computer as a grubby teenager
[ Computer comes alive ]
SCREEN [ Tapping out character by character]
Wake up Neo-err... whatsyourname
The matrix has you
LITTLE GIRL
What the hell?
SCREEN
Follow the multi-coloured rabbit
There's people that look like they're talking to themselves on trains... then there are people who stick their fingers in their ears and start having a lively conversation.
The mental institutions will either overflow or empty ("I was just talking on my phone, doctor... honest!")
Surely google can already be used for file sharing? It caches a copy of all the web-pages that it crawls.
If MP3 files were reduced to words so that google would crawl the page and index the terms, yadda yadda, you could simply use google's cached copy of that page to get a fast copy of a page regardless of the original user's speed?
Now! Who's going to implement it in 128 bytes of perl?
As has been stated previously, one time pads are provably impossible to break when properly implemented. Part of the proper implementation is the transmission of the random bits -- once your 700MB of data is in the hands of somebody else (and even if they destroy the CD) they'll have to put it somewhere!
Schneier's description of a one time pad in Applied Cryptography is interesting reading, however if you aren't willing to shell out the cash for the book then you might also read his recent article on one time pads in the Crypto-Gram mailing list here.
The article itself explains how one time pads are infesable for use in most domestic applications.
But I digress.
you can simply generate the 'OTP' at the time, and send it over one channel and the encrypted data over another.
Quantum cryptography is a variation on this, however it's also rather impossible over large distances. If eve is sophisticated enough to be listening on the line transmitting the encrypted data, it's more than likely she'll be listening on the others as well -- and have you physically bugged at all times.
Probably best to do this after you've encrypted it using conventional means, though
The whole proof of one time pads rests on the fact that you're replacing a large secret (the plaintext) with an equally large secret (the key). Conventional cryptography aims to replace a large secret (the plaintext) with a small secret (the key). If you generate a one time pad and then encrypt it you aren't making it much more difficult for the attacker to break your system (think for a minute: how would you transmit the key to the conventional encryption algorithm securely anyway?!). You are essentially replacing your large secret with another large secret which is being replaced with a small secret -- nullifying the whole point!
It should be pointed out that, if you havn't read the cryptogram article, Russian spies used one time pads -- however they cheated and used the same pads more than once (and so the NSA was able to break the messages). The British did it properly and put the pads on silk and only used them once (Go us British!).
I'd also like to end on my opinion of patenting of the invention: don't waste your money. Your invention isn't revolutionary. It's 99.999% likely to be worthless. Have you read Applied Cryptography? Do you subscribe to the Cryptogram mailing list? If not, do so! They provide invaluable insights into cryptography: Applied Cryptography detailing the theory in general and the protocols, Cryptogram outlining things that one of the world's foremost security consultant -- and formerly one of the world's foremost cryptographers -- thinks about what's happening in cryptography. You'll see lots of people in the doghouse for providing snake oil (and for me, the snake oil warning bells went off as soon as you mentioned 'improving' one time pads).
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Except it's unlikely that the users of this system are going to be viddying a bit of the old ultra-violence...
The parent's point is that America is going out of its way to only allow American companies to get contracts re-building Iraq;
As such, America is simply boosting her economy by preying on the destruction it caused. The benefits, of course, are going to two american companies: The company who makes the bombs and the company who rebuilds. War, as they say, is an excellent way to boost a failing economy.
I agree about iTunes crashing: having tested iTunes, I find that it is incredibly buggy. For playing OGGs (or MP3s), Winamp 2 Just Works(tm). I don't do playlists (although if on occasion I do, I find it easy to do with winamp). Then again, if XMMS was ported to Windows we could tweak our music player just as we wanted -- all hail open source! (plus XMMS sounds cooler than winamp...)
Doom 3 uses OpenGL for the graphics -- John Carmack has said, I believe, that he intensely dislikes DirectX's graphics interface. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that he is using DirectX for input, etc. on Windows.
Let us not forget that Israel today is a nation that was created out of land that was rightfully Palestinian (regardless how it was many hundreds of years ago -- has anyone demanded the creation of the austro-hungarian empire again?).
While the methods of both sides are disgraceful, I can't help but sympathise with the Palestinians, whose land has been taken
I'm (obviously from this post) in favour of the dissolution of the state of Israel and the return of the land to the Palestinians: superpower guilt after WW2 is no excuse to cut up another country: it is decidedly undemocratic and, quite frankly, shows a disregard for Everyone Else[tm]
I won't bother arguing there. He does show some, albeit misguided xian religiousness in his decisions: however I believe xianity teaches generally that war is wrong -- as is coveting thy neighbour's oil-err... donkey.
I think that's probably a gross over-generalisation to make, given that the grandparent said nothing about religion at all -- conversely, s/he also said nothing that could not be construed as a pro-xian opinion.
Indeed, there are plenty of xians in Europe, as in America and Japan, etc. -- your insinuation that the grandparent is simply persecuting George Bush because of his religion is illogical.
I think generally people in the Europe (if not the world) dislike Bush (and lesser by extension the people who elected him) because of his warmongering big-business favouring bully tactics with the rest of the world.
On the other hand, changing the locks would be easier; mm... security through obscurity
I did a load of research and according to some people who seem to be smarter than me, it's not possible to get 802.11b on my clie running PalmOS 4.1. It's a great time to upgrade to a pocket pc -- plus, it's easy enough to get linux running on them (mm... mobile python)
Unfortunately, images from high-end cameras (such as the Canon EOS-1Ds) can be very large: at 11mpixels, RAW data is in excess of 40MB.
The EOS-1Ds can shoot at 3fps, meaning that there is well in excess of 100MB/sec requirement, potentially.
You would need quite a hefty wireless link to deal with this: certainly not 802.11b. Currently, as mentioned, high-end cameras use a buffer (meaning that the EOS-1Ds can take up to 10 shots at 3fps).
For lower-end few mpixel cameras it'd be possible, but I imagine cost-prohibitive (and not too useful for most consumers).
Quantum Crypto allows for the possibility of data bring lost in the transmission: just as it allows for selecting the wrong filter at the recieving end.
Even if only a small amount of the photons sent are actually recieved, they can be used (although, obviously, the system wouldn't be as fast or efficient as if all photons had been recieved, since there's then the added problem of selecting the right filter!)).
We can always wait for Bruce Schneier's opinion whether it's snake oil or not in his next cryptogram
, due out in a week or so.
Hmm. It would seem somebody forgot to type BR. Oh well. You get the idea, yes?
Sure they can do another trilogy: Think about the chances they have to do a prequel: plus, they can lift the dialogue and the sequences from the first film and pretend it's some stylistic way of indicating that time is, upon reflection, a loop. I leave you with this, slightly more ominous alternative: SCENE: Little Girl from the end of the film is sitting at her computer as a grubby teenager [ Computer comes alive ] SCREEN [ Tapping out character by character] Wake up Neo-err... whatsyourname The matrix has you LITTLE GIRL What the hell? SCREEN Follow the multi-coloured rabbit
There's people that look like they're talking to themselves on trains... then there are people who stick their fingers in their ears and start having a lively conversation. The mental institutions will either overflow or empty ("I was just talking on my phone, doctor... honest!")
Now we have absolutely *no* way of telling who's crazy and who's just talking to their friend on their phone. Thanks a lot!
Surely google can already be used for file sharing? It caches a copy of all the web-pages that it crawls.
If MP3 files were reduced to words so that google would crawl the page and index the terms, yadda yadda, you could simply use google's cached copy of that page to get a fast copy of a page regardless of the original user's speed?
Now! Who's going to implement it in 128 bytes of perl?
As has been stated previously, one time pads are provably impossible to break when properly implemented. Part of the proper implementation is the transmission of the random bits -- once your 700MB of data is in the hands of somebody else (and even if they destroy the CD) they'll have to put it somewhere!
Schneier's description of a one time pad in Applied Cryptography is interesting reading, however if you aren't willing to shell out the cash for the book then you might also read his recent article on one time pads in the Crypto-Gram mailing list here. The article itself explains how one time pads are infesable for use in most domestic applications.
But I digress.
Quantum cryptography is a variation on this, however it's also rather impossible over large distances. If eve is sophisticated enough to be listening on the line transmitting the encrypted data, it's more than likely she'll be listening on the others as well -- and have you physically bugged at all times. The whole proof of one time pads rests on the fact that you're replacing a large secret (the plaintext) with an equally large secret (the key). Conventional cryptography aims to replace a large secret (the plaintext) with a small secret (the key). If you generate a one time pad and then encrypt it you aren't making it much more difficult for the attacker to break your system (think for a minute: how would you transmit the key to the conventional encryption algorithm securely anyway?!). You are essentially replacing your large secret with another large secret which is being replaced with a small secret -- nullifying the whole point!It should be pointed out that, if you havn't read the cryptogram article, Russian spies used one time pads -- however they cheated and used the same pads more than once (and so the NSA was able to break the messages). The British did it properly and put the pads on silk and only used them once (Go us British!).
I'd also like to end on my opinion of patenting of the invention: don't waste your money. Your invention isn't revolutionary. It's 99.999% likely to be worthless. Have you read Applied Cryptography? Do you subscribe to the Cryptogram mailing list? If not, do so! They provide invaluable insights into cryptography: Applied Cryptography detailing the theory in general and the protocols, Cryptogram outlining things that one of the world's foremost security consultant -- and formerly one of the world's foremost cryptographers -- thinks about what's happening in cryptography. You'll see lots of people in the doghouse for providing snake oil (and for me, the snake oil warning bells went off as soon as you mentioned 'improving' one time pads).
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