books are terrible sources of random for a one time pad. All you have to do is drag around some common words like "the" and then you'll start to get the plaintext/ciphertext. IIRC, this approach is called crib dragging. With a little guesswork (which a professional is capable of), they can figure out the source book in no time.
Thank you for speaking up. I'm always shocked how many times the same joke about prison rape is repeated and everyone finds it funny. It seems to be spreading a meme that prisoners deserve rape and it's time to go back to the feudal system of revenge, rather than rehabilitation.
At my place (and my old place, and my parents' place) there's a microwave over the stove with an exhaust vent. I turn it on if I'm going to fry something. You may also have a window in/near the kitchen.
My boss rides to work, and he just changes clothes when he gets here. If you're sweating a lot, you can bring a washcloth and clean yourself in the bathroom. That may not be an option for you year round, but it's an option for a lot of people. (I walk or take the bus to work)
If everyone went to med school and became doctors, we'd have no one to build things. What if everyone did that? Becoming a doctor must not be a good thing.
The amount of REM sleep that an animal requires depends on how long it's taken care of by other animals.
"A different approach to assessing the relation between REM sleep and intelligence is to examine the enormous variation in amount of REM sleep across mammals. Contrary to what might be expected, humans do not exhibit unusually high amounts of REM sleep, calculated either in hours per 24-hour period or as a percentage of sleep time. Figure 1 presents examples of species with high and low amounts of REM sleep. In general, animals that are born relatively mature, such as the guinea pig and marine mammals, have low amounts of REM sleep, whereas animals born relatively immature, such as the platypus, ferret, and armadillo, have high amounts of REM sleep throughout their lives (36, 37). "
36. J. M. Siegel, et al., Neuroscience 91, 391 (1999).
37. H. Zepelin, in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, M. H. Kryger, T. Roth, W. C. Dement, Eds. (Saunders, Philadelphia, ed. 3. 2000), pp. 82-92.
The passage and its bibliography was found here
REM seems to be there to help build instincts and whatnot. It happens to occur more later in sleep because sleep just gets lighter as it goes. (graph here)
The parent said "there's nothing better to switch to". He didn't say what's the best OS that anyone can switch to without any preparation. OS X is great for most people. Most people aren't tied into some random proprietary piece of in-house 8 year old software that isn't supported. For some people Windows is necessary, they've been locked in for whatever reason. For many other people, OSX would be a better option. For some people, Linux would be a better option. Maybe he should tell us what he actually does because otherwise we can't give him any recommendations. Although since this is a security discussion, we should recommend OpenBSD as an OS.
Linspire has you running as root by default. That's not a good thing, in fact if Linspire were to catch on, it could easily have the problems that Microsoft Windows has if they make a few wrong moves (this started as a security discussion, so I'm trying to stay on topic). I'm not sure about Xandros, but Ubuntu seems to be noob-ready but smarter. For the record, I use Gentoo but wouldn't recommend it to others.
If I take the battery out of my phone (Nokia something), the clock is reset. However, It takes about 30 seconds for it to grab the correct time from the network, so it's not a big deal. Maybe your phone is just faster at it than mine is? Or maybe you didn't watch it the moment it turned on again.
You realize you can switch keyboard layouts right? In Linux, setxkbmap dvorak/en_US/se/de/whatever layout you want. On the Mac, in the international settings. In Windows, well I don't know but I know it's possible.
xterm -ls -fa 'bitstream vera sans mono-12'
or whatever fonts you want. I found gnome-terminal to be too bloated and slow (an app I was working out printed debug information constantly and quickly and xterm was wayyy faster at it).
Here are the full xterm options I use (in case you want more than just different fonts):
xterm -ls -fa 'bitstream vera sans mono-12' -j -bg black -fg white +sb +ah -cr red -s -bw 0
as far as multitasking in a term goes, I use GNU Screen for it, which I like better than Gnome-terminal's tabs.
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The G in GNOME stands for GNU.
That's not the crime rate, that's the incarceration rate.
books are terrible sources of random for a one time pad. All you have to do is drag around some common words like "the" and then you'll start to get the plaintext/ciphertext. IIRC, this approach is called crib dragging. With a little guesswork (which a professional is capable of), they can figure out the source book in no time.
if veggies are so much healthier than chocolate, why does chocolate taste so much better than veggies?
I may be wrong, but I don't think that'll work with tap water
Thank you for speaking up. I'm always shocked how many times the same joke about prison rape is repeated and everyone finds it funny. It seems to be spreading a meme that prisoners deserve rape and it's time to go back to the feudal system of revenge, rather than rehabilitation.
you never reboot? (runlevel 6)
At my place (and my old place, and my parents' place) there's a microwave over the stove with an exhaust vent. I turn it on if I'm going to fry something. You may also have a window in/near the kitchen.
There are free alternatives, use them.
My boss rides to work, and he just changes clothes when he gets here. If you're sweating a lot, you can bring a washcloth and clean yourself in the bathroom. That may not be an option for you year round, but it's an option for a lot of people. (I walk or take the bus to work)
about:config
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled true
If everyone went to med school and became doctors, we'd have no one to build things. What if everyone did that? Becoming a doctor must not be a good thing.
The amount of REM sleep that an animal requires depends on how long it's taken care of by other animals.
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"A different approach to assessing the relation between REM sleep and intelligence is to examine the enormous variation in amount of REM sleep across mammals. Contrary to what might be expected, humans do not exhibit unusually high amounts of REM sleep, calculated either in hours per 24-hour period or as a percentage of sleep time. Figure 1 presents examples of species with high and low amounts of REM sleep. In general, animals that are born relatively mature, such as the guinea pig and marine mammals, have low amounts of REM sleep, whereas animals born relatively immature, such as the platypus, ferret, and armadillo, have high amounts of REM sleep throughout their lives (36, 37). "
36. J. M. Siegel, et al., Neuroscience 91, 391 (1999)
37. H. Zepelin, in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, M. H. Kryger, T. Roth, W. C. Dement, Eds. (Saunders, Philadelphia, ed. 3. 2000), pp. 82-92.
The passage and its bibliography was found here
REM seems to be there to help build instincts and whatnot. It happens to occur more later in sleep because sleep just gets lighter as it goes. (graph here)
I'd be surprised if they bought the same instructor's notes more than once meaning that you'd end up with a big fat $50 at the end...
Little Endianness vs Big Endianness makes a difference in how stack overflows work.
The parent said "there's nothing better to switch to". He didn't say what's the best OS that anyone can switch to without any preparation. OS X is great for most people. Most people aren't tied into some random proprietary piece of in-house 8 year old software that isn't supported. For some people Windows is necessary, they've been locked in for whatever reason. For many other people, OSX would be a better option. For some people, Linux would be a better option. Maybe he should tell us what he actually does because otherwise we can't give him any recommendations. Although since this is a security discussion, we should recommend OpenBSD as an OS.
Linspire has you running as root by default. That's not a good thing, in fact if Linspire were to catch on, it could easily have the problems that Microsoft Windows has if they make a few wrong moves (this started as a security discussion, so I'm trying to stay on topic). I'm not sure about Xandros, but Ubuntu seems to be noob-ready but smarter. For the record, I use Gentoo but wouldn't recommend it to others.
Your OS can't treat a file as a filesystem? bummer
"The day we start implementing autopilots on cars is the day I stop driving."
yeah, that's the point.
If I take the battery out of my phone (Nokia something), the clock is reset. However, It takes about 30 seconds for it to grab the correct time from the network, so it's not a big deal. Maybe your phone is just faster at it than mine is? Or maybe you didn't watch it the moment it turned on again.
You realize you can switch keyboard layouts right? In Linux, setxkbmap dvorak/en_US/se/de/whatever layout you want. On the Mac, in the international settings. In Windows, well I don't know but I know it's possible.
It didn't work for me either: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051213 Firefox/1.5
xterm -ls -fa 'bitstream vera sans mono-12'
or whatever fonts you want. I found gnome-terminal to be too bloated and slow (an app I was working out printed debug information constantly and quickly and xterm was wayyy faster at it).
Here are the full xterm options I use (in case you want more than just different fonts):
xterm -ls -fa 'bitstream vera sans mono-12' -j -bg black -fg white +sb +ah -cr red -s -bw 0
as far as multitasking in a term goes, I use GNU Screen for it, which I like better than Gnome-terminal's tabs.
They don't do it because some people (like me) would just use it as a free DVD player. An ugly DVD player, but a free DVD player...
Coke has caffeine, orange juice (at least the stuff I get at the supermarket) doesn't.