There are lots of good reasons to encrypt the data on your laptop, but keeping it from the eyes of U.S. customs agents is not one of those reasons. Because that customs agent will say "assume the position and supply the password!" and if you refuse, he/she will just confiscate the laptop or deny you entry to the country (note: "logical or") - oh, and you might get a body cavity search too just for good measure.
I think you've misunderstood something. "Quantum encryption" is something of a misnomer. It's actually a physical process that can be used by Alice and Bob to establish a commonly shared secret that is random (and unknown to even Alice and Bob before the process starts). This secret is then typically used as a one-time pad.
It certainly opens the possibility for some "fun" denial of service attacks. How many files do you need on your desktop before explorer.exe croaks? I presume the number is well under 100,000?
Apple has AFAIK for a long time (always?) subscribed to the philosophy that folders in your computer should mimic paper folders. In particular, when you come with a folder named "Documents" and you already have one named "Documents", the "paper way" to handle that is to throw one you have in the shredder and put the new one in its place.
You can argue that this is retarded and I'd agree with you. That design decision has probably caused much more data loss than the bug in TFA ever has or ever will, but it's The Apple Way(TM) and it's not likely to change. Ever.
I'm sure some people are thinking about prepositions too.
Quite a few are probably thinking about German group sex according to the words 'an', 'auf', 'hinter', 'in', 'neben', 'über', 'unter', 'vor' and 'zwichen'.
Sorry, o(oooo)ld joke, but it just seemed to fit in.
They wrote an article on their research in the previous edition of Gamma (the quarterly (IIRC) thingie about physics that's published at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen (help me out here Danish physics students... I'm not too sure on the specifics of who is responsible and what its scope is))
IANANS (guess...) but I do find it very agreeable that it is odd that strength of an aneastaesia (yeah, it's misspelled) is proportional to its solubility in lipids if the inner workings of nerves are driven by electricity.
Surprised? I sure am not. I don't think a lot of corporate PCs out there have 1Gb memory -- let alone half a gigabyte. Heck, most computers out there probably struggle just to run Fisher Pri^W^W XP...
At least Dell/Gateway and the memory makers is going to (eventually -- i.e. when MS stops support on 2k/XP) make a killing off of that OS.
I think it has been established pretty clearly that an effective copy protection mechanism doesn't have to have any actual effect on how difficult it is copy something. It only means that when the work is consumed, something happens other than straight up decoding and display/performance of data.
When considering English language text, ROT26 is a no-op and would probably not be considered an effective mechanism, but ROT13 probably would be (AFAIK the encryption that Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested for breaking was ROT13).
Who didn't see that coming like a mile away? Windows XP N is a hard sell to say the least. Not only does it cost exactly the same amount of money as regular Windows XP, you will probably also get more support calls from angry costumers who say something along the lines of "why isn't video working".
I think I read somewhere that if the UK police want to decrypt something of yours, you're legally obliged to comply and hand over the decryption key. Failing to comply would make you guilty of withholding information from the police and you could be thrown in jail for that.
Am I completely off track here, or is my memory still non-broken on this matter?
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There are lots of good reasons to encrypt the data on your laptop, but keeping it from the eyes of U.S. customs agents is not one of those reasons. Because that customs agent will say "assume the position and supply the password!" and if you refuse, he/she will just confiscate the laptop or deny you entry to the country (note: "logical or") - oh, and you might get a body cavity search too just for good measure.
I think you've misunderstood something. "Quantum encryption" is something of a misnomer. It's actually a physical process that can be used by Alice and Bob to establish a commonly shared secret that is random (and unknown to even Alice and Bob before the process starts). This secret is then typically used as a one-time pad.
It certainly opens the possibility for some "fun" denial of service attacks. How many files do you need on your desktop before explorer.exe croaks? I presume the number is well under 100,000?
There. It's been a while since I made a stupid joke here. Quota fulfilled for the next couple of months I guess :)
You can argue that this is retarded and I'd agree with you. That design decision has probably caused much more data loss than the bug in TFA ever has or ever will, but it's The Apple Way(TM) and it's not likely to change. Ever.
Quite a few are probably thinking about German group sex according to the words 'an', 'auf', 'hinter', 'in', 'neben', 'über', 'unter', 'vor' and 'zwichen'.
Sorry, o(oooo)ld joke, but it just seemed to fit in.
Larp no! Why the loomp would I be quinking of Gundam?
PS: I hate that living slime. And those nigh-invisible spiders.
libtorrent uses the BSD license. It says so right on their page: http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/featu res.html#license
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
Anyway, you can read that article in its entirety here: http://www.gamma.nbi.dk/Galleri/gamma143/nerves.pd f
IANANS (guess...) but I do find it very agreeable that it is odd that strength of an aneastaesia (yeah, it's misspelled) is proportional to its solubility in lipids if the inner workings of nerves are driven by electricity.
Thanks for lettuce gnomes, /.?
(Yeah, it's a WoW forums thing)
Surprised? I sure am not. I don't think a lot of corporate PCs out there have 1Gb memory -- let alone half a gigabyte. Heck, most computers out there probably struggle just to run Fisher Pri^W^W XP... At least Dell/Gateway and the memory makers is going to (eventually -- i.e. when MS stops support on 2k/XP) make a killing off of that OS.
Vote against Net Neutrality, everybody, so those pesky purple skinned elves can go extinct.
FOR THE HORDE!
At least they will come with a preset kill limit so we can just throw wave after wave of men at them until they shut down.
Yes, it will clearly be a great breakthrough if someone can come up with an algorithm to factor large primes.
When considering English language text, ROT26 is a no-op and would probably not be considered an effective mechanism, but ROT13 probably would be (AFAIK the encryption that Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested for breaking was ROT13).
And curiously, practically noone seems to own a player that can play *any* of those two formats. Now why could that possibly be?!
Futurama is coming back. Or maybe it doesn't. Either way I'm indifferent about what happens. ... or so you thought! YIPPIE!
Ramen.
Fine. Then they should teach Flying Spaghetti Monsterism as well.
Who didn't see that coming like a mile away? Windows XP N is a hard sell to say the least. Not only does it cost exactly the same amount of money as regular Windows XP, you will probably also get more support calls from angry costumers who say something along the lines of "why isn't video working".
I think I read somewhere that if the UK police want to decrypt something of yours, you're legally obliged to comply and hand over the decryption key. Failing to comply would make you guilty of withholding information from the police and you could be thrown in jail for that. Am I completely off track here, or is my memory still non-broken on this matter?