You pay your $19 and get put on a list of active downloaders. Not just any downloaders, but ones who think they are doing something illegal enough that they need insurance.
For a moment I was amazed that the DoJ was able to detain a major deity.
Deities who don't show up for the weekly DoJ prayer meetings are automatically placed on the "potential terrorists" list and subject to detention/interrogation whenever or wherever they are found.
Yes, sort of. I wrote a bunch of ASM/370 macros that corresponded to the Z80 opcodes and generated DCs for the Z80 binary. I then used that to write a native Z80 assembler that would run on my SD Systems Z80 Starter Kit. It was one-pass, no macros, and it fit in less than 4K.
Why 13 photocells? The card has 12 rows.
The 13th was for the hole clock. Being slid across the photocells by hand, it had to be self-clocking. I ran a piece of Dymo Label-maker tape through a card punch, then stuck it to the underside of a piece of clear plexiglass, below the card. I used two more pieces of Dymo tape at each end of the card to hold it in position so the that the septums (spaces between the holes) of the clock tape lined up in the centers of the card holes. I could hand-feed about 15-20 cards per minute.
In 1979 I built a manually operated punched card reader using 13 phototransistors and a desk lamp. I used it to load assembled object code from a mainframe into my Z80 development board.
The consequence of this is that although it is practical to break an 128 bit symmetric key, it is NOT practical to do so in the time interval in which the call is taking place. Hence the encryption applied is strong enough for protecting calls in the short term, although if someone captured the call they could possibly decrypt it at a later date.
If only a few people are using this, the low volume of encrypted calls makes capture and offline analysis feasable. Only when encrypted calls are the norm will they be safe from routine decryption.
That still leaves non-routine decryption. If traffic analysis flags Monsieur Terroriste (or the Honorable Senator Joe "Let's Impeach the President" Blow) as a person of interest, his calls will be decrypted, offline if necessary.
I'm not a cryptologist, but it seems like one-time-pads are the only truly secure way to go. What if you could upload two cell phones with indentical one-time-pads via their data cables, then use D/H or something to set up a session to choose one of the one-time-pad entries to encrypt the rest of the call? Then delete that pad entry from the phones after use. Yes, there is the problem of having to physically get the programmed phones to their users securely, but for many situations (two VPs in a company, or two Senators) that's not an issue.
How many of us have eve's dropped on other peoples conversations?
I wouldn't call it eavesdropping, exactly. It's more like forgetting to bring earplugs with you. Some of the people on my bus talk loud enough for the whole bus to hear, and they talk to absolute strangers about the most personal stuff.
That's just to the person sitting beside them. When they're on their cellphone, they literally shout so the person on the other end can hear them. (Well, that other person is pretty far away, right?)
Fisson is easy to create. A team of boy scouts can do it in their own back yard.
Yes, and as their Scoutmaster, it fell upon me to explain to them why it was a really bad idea. In the end I could come up with only one bullet point: It's illegal.
Their patrol leader countered with: Yeah, but it's so cool!
What could I say? Fortunately, in Boy Scouts at least, illegal trumps cool.
My vision of future machines run amuck is a rusty R2 unit hanging out on a street corner with a cardboard sign reading "Will find prime numbers for methanol."
I'm thinking, that probably blackholes create these bangs. After they attain a certain threshold of mass, as in several super-blackholes combine, they explode again. But then, I'm not an astro-physicist and have no data to back this up.
We don't need no steenkin' data, man. Your eye-witness account is good enough for us, but if you did manage to get it on video, dude! that would be awesome to see. Did you?
The US uses the UN to give them legitimacy when it suits them, and flagrantly disregards the fact that's a signatory to some of those treaties when they wish.
You say that like it's a ~bad~ thing.
Didn't they not have playgrounds where you grew up? Did you not learn the rules of bullying? Or how to deal with bullies?
If you ~act~ like you're top dog, at least some of the sheep will accept that unquestioningly. If you throw a few punches now and then, others will cringe when you feint in their direction. Always pick your targets well, and always pick weak targets. If you keep others afraid of you, you'll rarely have to risk a real fight where the outcome is in doubt.
Okay, so the sheep in the US have elected a bully. Relax, it's only for three more years. According to the polls, the sheep are starting to recognize him and his gang for what they are.
This will require non-IT college students to learn about strong encrytion methods and the importance of using them, a lesson that will help them later on in life. It might even prompt some whiz-kids to come up with something even the NSA can't break.
You can outsource all the pyramid building you want to the israelites, but when you employ cheap slave labor, you get 1/3 less cubits.
Math, people, math!
This ~is~ slashdot after all.
"X is one third more than Y" is the same as "Y is one fourth less than X".
Besides, the numbers quoted in the article don't add up. The Great Pyramid was originaly 481 ft. but is now only 451 ft. (Don't ask me, must be old age or something.) One third taller than 481 ft. is 641 ft., not 722 ft., but one half taller than 481 ft. works out to 721.5 ft.
So it turns out the Bosnian pyramid is one-half taller than the pyramid in Gaza, which makes the Gaza pyramid one-third shorter than the Bosnian pyramid.
Which makes the parent post correct, after all.
Proving one again that it's better to be lucky than good.
Wish they'd talk about it from the beginning instead of trying to beat each other to the punch and then act as if they were going to unify the standard.
When the two formats were on the drawing boards, they were closely guarded trade secrets. Each side would never consider even telling the other what they were working on, let alone divulge the details.
Would you consider a college that had a policy of "no cars or bicycles on or around campus - you have to use the campus bus service"? How about "no personally-owned computers on campus - only the one we rent to you"?
It's not only the personal inconvenience that's involved. Wouldn't you question the administration's ability to make sound decisions in other areas, based on their bad decisions in areas that are visible. Would you want to attend a college run by a bunch of yahoos?
"Most students will welcome this." Wrong! Most students will not have an opinion until they experience it. Many will still not have an opinion after that.
If students discover that they are no longer threatened by virus/trojan/spyware every time they open an email, that's a really big deal.
Joe College isn't so much worried about who controls his email as he is worried about getting his psych/history/econ homework turned in on time. He wants his computer to be reliable. If MS can do that, he'll embrace Windows Live faster than you can say "no more patches".
I'm not implying that MS ~can~ do that, but if that's the perception, that's a big head start for them.
I tried that, but the duct tape covered up part of the LCD panel and when the hard drive got warm, the hot-glue melted and the hard drive and battery fell out.
I finally just bought a used Dell CP-600 (PIII/850) for $250. I dunno, maybe laptops are rocket science.
Like magic, the fake OTP looks like it must be real and true, because it (random looking characters) used with the original ciphertext submitted as court evidence, makes a very clean real message. Nobody can deny this plausible decryption using cryptographic methods.
...how exactly could someone exploit this RFID range to make my life worse?
Muggers would be forced to employ a technical assistant who would scan prospective victims as they approached. Only those with lots of cash or a great credit score would be mugged.
Hmmm.. This might actually help you, depending on your financial situation.
Bet it would hurt the bigshots who pass the law, though. Wait! On second thought, they'll probably write themselves an exemption and not have to carry RFIDs.
"First you get the sugar & gold nanoparticles, then you get the power, then you get the women".
From TFA: "The research team is also looking into ways of using the detection system to help scene of crime officers analyse biological fluids such as sweat that criminals leave behind."
Don't forget the biological fluids. Women are apparently very keen on biological fluids such as sweat, and possibly some others.
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Why does this remind me of a sting operation?
You pay your $19 and get put on a list of active downloaders. Not just any downloaders, but ones who think they are doing something illegal enough that they need insurance.
Deities who don't show up for the weekly DoJ prayer meetings are automatically placed on the "potential terrorists" list and subject to detention/interrogation whenever or wherever they are found.
It's in the DoJ bylaws somewhere.Yes, sort of. I wrote a bunch of ASM/370 macros that corresponded to the Z80 opcodes and generated DCs for the Z80 binary. I then used that to write a native Z80 assembler that would run on my SD Systems Z80 Starter Kit. It was one-pass, no macros, and it fit in less than 4K.
Why 13 photocells? The card has 12 rows.The 13th was for the hole clock. Being slid across the photocells by hand, it had to be self-clocking. I ran a piece of Dymo Label-maker tape through a card punch, then stuck it to the underside of a piece of clear plexiglass, below the card. I used two more pieces of Dymo tape at each end of the card to hold it in position so the that the septums (spaces between the holes) of the clock tape lined up in the centers of the card holes. I could hand-feed about 15-20 cards per minute.
I haven't used it much lately.
If only a few people are using this, the low volume of encrypted calls makes capture and offline analysis feasable. Only when encrypted calls are the norm will they be safe from routine decryption.
That still leaves non-routine decryption. If traffic analysis flags Monsieur Terroriste (or the Honorable Senator Joe "Let's Impeach the President" Blow) as a person of interest, his calls will be decrypted, offline if necessary.I'm not a cryptologist, but it seems like one-time-pads are the only truly secure way to go. What if you could upload two cell phones with indentical one-time-pads via their data cables, then use D/H or something to set up a session to choose one of the one-time-pad entries to encrypt the rest of the call? Then delete that pad entry from the phones after use. Yes, there is the problem of having to physically get the programmed phones to their users securely, but for many situations (two VPs in a company, or two Senators) that's not an issue.
I wouldn't call it eavesdropping, exactly. It's more like forgetting to bring earplugs with you. Some of the people on my bus talk loud enough for the whole bus to hear, and they talk to absolute strangers about the most personal stuff.
That's just to the person sitting beside them. When they're on their cellphone, they literally shout so the person on the other end can hear them. (Well, that other person is pretty far away, right?)Yes, and as their Scoutmaster, it fell upon me to explain to them why it was a really bad idea. In the end I could come up with only one bullet point: It's illegal.
Their patrol leader countered with: Yeah, but it's so cool!What could I say? Fortunately, in Boy Scouts at least, illegal trumps cool.
Because there is no $ in 31337.
My vision of future machines run amuck is a rusty R2 unit hanging out on a street corner with a cardboard sign reading "Will find prime numbers for methanol."
Cell cubed, dude-guy.
We don't need no steenkin' data, man. Your eye-witness account is good enough for us, but if you did manage to get it on video, dude! that would be awesome to see. Did you?
You say that like it's a ~bad~ thing.
Didn't they not have playgrounds where you grew up? Did you not learn the rules of bullying? Or how to deal with bullies?If you ~act~ like you're top dog, at least some of the sheep will accept that unquestioningly. If you throw a few punches now and then, others will cringe when you feint in their direction. Always pick your targets well, and always pick weak targets. If you keep others afraid of you, you'll rarely have to risk a real fight where the outcome is in doubt.
Okay, so the sheep in the US have elected a bully. Relax, it's only for three more years. According to the polls, the sheep are starting to recognize him and his gang for what they are.Or from a library, or from various campus PCs, or from a notebook with WiFi.
Math, people, math!
This ~is~ slashdot after all.
"X is one third more than Y" is the same as "Y is one fourth less than X".Besides, the numbers quoted in the article don't add up. The Great Pyramid was originaly 481 ft. but is now only 451 ft. (Don't ask me, must be old age or something.) One third taller than 481 ft. is 641 ft., not 722 ft., but one half taller than 481 ft. works out to 721.5 ft.
So it turns out the Bosnian pyramid is one-half taller than the pyramid in Gaza, which makes the Gaza pyramid one-third shorter than the Bosnian pyramid.Which makes the parent post correct, after all.
Proving one again that it's better to be lucky than good.When the two formats were on the drawing boards, they were closely guarded trade secrets. Each side would never consider even telling the other what they were working on, let alone divulge the details.
It's not only the personal inconvenience that's involved. Wouldn't you question the administration's ability to make sound decisions in other areas, based on their bad decisions in areas that are visible. Would you want to attend a college run by a bunch of yahoos?
Wrong! Most students will not have an opinion until they experience it. Many will still not have an opinion after that.
If students discover that they are no longer threatened by virus/trojan/spyware every time they open an email, that's a really big deal.
Joe College isn't so much worried about who controls his email as he is worried about getting his psych/history/econ homework turned in on time. He wants his computer to be reliable. If MS can do that, he'll embrace Windows Live faster than you can say "no more patches".I'm not implying that MS ~can~ do that, but if that's the perception, that's a big head start for them.
I tried that, but the duct tape covered up part of the LCD panel and when the hard drive got warm, the hot-glue melted and the hard drive and battery fell out.
I finally just bought a used Dell CP-600 (PIII/850) for $250. I dunno, maybe laptops are rocket science.You, sir, are a diabolically clever genious!
Muggers would be forced to employ a technical assistant who would scan prospective victims as they approached. Only those with lots of cash or a great credit score would be mugged.
Hmmm.. This might actually help you, depending on your financial situation.Bet it would hurt the bigshots who pass the law, though. Wait! On second thought, they'll probably write themselves an exemption and not have to carry RFIDs.
So why even bother with crypto?
The rest of Windows is just support and compatability code to enable Solitaire to run on the many hardware configurations that exist.
From TFA: "The research team is also looking into ways of using the detection system to help scene of crime officers analyse biological fluids such as sweat that criminals leave behind."
Don't forget the biological fluids. Women are apparently very keen on biological fluids such as sweat, and possibly some others.