What the summary doesn't detail is that link is Poland. Germany gave Spain modified Enigma machines that did not have plugboards. Also non-military versions lacked the plugboard. Plugboards increased the complexity of the encryption. Poland working with Knox and the British was able to reverse engineer the workings of these early machines as the Poles could intercept the early signals but Britain could not. This early work led to the decoding of the German military versions later
My understanding of the Enigma is that the plugboards didn't do nearly as much to increase the difficulty of the code-breaking effort as people want to believe. It is, after all, a simple substitution cipher added to the Enigma encryption. You can say that there was an insanely large number of possible plugboard combinations that should have made Enigma uncrackable, but that clearly wasn't the case.
Enigma had at least one fatal flaw, that being that a ciphered letter != its plain text letter. That, at least, made it quick to eliminate incorrect solutions, which can be a difficult problem to solve when cipher breaking.
I don't yet find streaming to be a suitable replacement for the actual physical disc -- whether BluRay or DVD.
1: It's hard to skip around on the stream. Easy on the actual disc.
2: Streaming quality has always been lower than quality off of the disc.
3: If I want to capture images for Fair Use purposes, almost impossible off of the stream, quite easy with my DVD software.
4: Netflix streams in the past of some movies have actually deleted scenes that were on the DVD. One movie for example, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was many minutes shorter in the streamed version. Netflix says that the studio supplies the streaming version so it can easily be different than the DVD version.
5: Bonus features seem missing from streams a lot more often from DVD's, although Netflix's new "rental movie only" DVD's are an unhappy trend in this direction. They may turn me into a Red Box customer yet over that omission.
6: I have Comcast cable, but still things can get choppy in the evenings.
A lot -- not all, but a lot -- of the above could be fixed by an Internet box that would read my Netflix queue and download ahead of time the entire DVD-level content of the next movie(s) in my queue. Internet speed wouldn't matter as much since that download could proceed while I was at work, or even in the off-peak early morning hours with a special deal from my Internet supplier for using otherwise unused off-peak time. I get a rental image of the entire DVD to use as if it was the DVD, and when I'm done I just click return, that movie is wiped off of my local storage, and the next item in my queue starts downloading. You could even give me selectable quality of fast & small downloads verses large and hi-res.
But hey, while this could work great for the consumer, it makes too much sense to ever be allowed to be this easy by the troglodytes running the movie studios.
Regarding the notion of Cold Fusion as a whole and not in regard to any particular experiment, do you consider the whole concept of Cold Fusion to be impossible overall, or that it remains an intriguing possibility?
I don't care what sort of up sides it has. The government being able to track every last penny spent is far too frightening to even consider.
Even worse -- or at least as bad -- is the $0.80 transaction fee for every such transaction. And the law that says that you cannot recover this fee from the customer. What the hell is a merchant supposed to in that situation? This is The Banks Make Billions Society now.
I see this as just another out-of-control (I won't go quite as far as bought off) California judge that the 99% of us would be far better off if s/he were removed from the bench permanently. With judges like this I'm surprised that we ever got as far as being allowed to have our own electric lights. S/he surly would have killed of the VCR if ever given the chance, likely along with the cassette and reel-to-reel decks as well if they had recording abilities. S/he would likely take out your DVR as well, given the chance.
It's not enough that you want unfettered access to remove funds at whim from my bank account. Now you want to decide what I read too? Yet another reason to NOT use Paypal ever...
Your problem is that there isn't a good alternative to Paypal. Trust me, people have been looking for one very hard.
You're saying that the Most Powerful Country in the World can't stop one of the most backwater little burgs out there from screwing with our money? Can't even stop a company from selling them the right ink? Why can't we just have some cruise missile veer off course some night and take it out? And if they complain, ask them what was actually destroyed? Or sneak in SEAL Team 6 with a few bricks of C-4. That's just an ongoing insult to us otherwise.
Of course, Iran has been doing it too for awhile now and we don't stop them either.
If you wanted to be useful, Facebook, you'd tell us the agency, the person in the agency, and the additional information that they wanted you to log. But because it's a Democratic administration that is lavishly supported starting from the very top of FB, why am I not surprised that you've said as little as you can get away with to avoid embarrassing them?
That's why I use Monster Cables for my neutrino experiments. It increases the roundness of the bass end, creates a punchier mid-range, and makes my neutrinos less superluminal.
Yes I love how Monster Cables improve my all-digital HDMI connection, while emptying my wallet (hence making it easier to sit comfortably on the couch) in the process. The way those cheaper HDMI cables distorted the color of my flat screen was simply not to be tolerated any longer.
I would have thought that the concept of patents and copyright are instances of government intervention. The government creates the legislation that grants temporary(!) monopolies to holders of these patents.
Lack of government intervention would mean that no such monopolies could be enforced.
I find that more of government encouragement of rewarding the effort to go out and improve things that benefit us all -- usually.
So it's ok for Motorola to anti-competitively abuse an industry because Microsoft acted poorly in the past and you don't like them? I do believe that's about as succinct a summary of the short-sighted opinions that are flowing in this thread...
I believe that you are succinctly correct, although I needed details to make my case, hence an initial lack of succinctness.
But I also believe that you are wrong about deeming any of this short-sighted. The best corrective action for bad behavior on the part of any one player is to receive it back in return in spades. And let them become an object lesson for everyone else who wants to play this game as well.
I've been reading the comments, and there doesn't seem to be any talk about the argument at all. Just "taste of your own medicine" "deserves it" "that's rich". Are we too blinded by fanbiosm to even have a valid discussion anymore?
I think that the valid discussion is: Live by patent extortion, die by patent extortion.
Also, FRAND said "Fair and Reasonable". Who defines "fair" and "reasonable"? The seller, or the buyer?
Once upon a time in the automobile industry all of the existing patent holders got together to pool their patents and prevent any new competitors from being able to enter the industry. The government finally put a stop to that. I'd say that, for the good of everyone else, the government needs to do the same here.
(Note: I don't support government intervention often, but the overall good of everybody is tied into our technological devices today in the same way that it once was in a fair market for automobiles.)
Now Google, by way of Motorola, is proving its own point by charging obscene percentage-based royalties on h.264.>
EXCUSE ME, BUT...
Google doesn't, or barely, owns Motorola yet. This action was set into motion long before Google has ever taken control. You might fairly be able to complain about Motorola, but not Google.
Oh boo hoo Microsoft. No sympathy here. Your extortion of Linux users, Android users, USB drive users, and pretty much everyone else in the computer industry for some of the most questionable patents earns you no sympathy here. And that's not to mention your threats where you won't even list the patents allegedly infringed that you're threatening over. And even that's not to mention how questionable some of these patents are. And that even further not to mention that patent trolls you've enabled when you haven't wanted to get your own hands dirty. And still not to mention how your licensing terms give you control over future hardware design decisions for devices that you don't even manufacture yourself (thank you Barnes & Noble Nook) And now you cry foul? You are pathetic!
Maybe they can make it a condition of your job to join, but can they really make you use it? Just telling them that you don't post much because you're not that kind of guy or gal would be a hard argument for them to refute.
It's total B.S. since once they start blocking it continues to the end of the billing period. AT&T likely isn't suffering congestion at 2am, or if you go to a completely different area. They should be sued out of existence as a warning to the other cell phone companies over this sham!
What a load of crap. It's not as though the sales of this Batmobile are cutting into the profits of DC Comics Batmobile sales. If anything, it helps spur interest in the franchise to see one of these tooling down the street. This just makes me hate DC.
at the very center of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a sphere of uranium five mile in diameter which acts as a natural nuclear reactor so these nuclear reactions cause a loss of mass of about 16 tonnes per year.
Sounds like the ultimate source of geothermal energy, so let's start drilling for it. Got to get there before Iran goes and makes a bomb out of it.
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What the summary doesn't detail is that link is Poland. Germany gave Spain modified Enigma machines that did not have plugboards. Also non-military versions lacked the plugboard. Plugboards increased the complexity of the encryption. Poland working with Knox and the British was able to reverse engineer the workings of these early machines as the Poles could intercept the early signals but Britain could not. This early work led to the decoding of the German military versions later
My understanding of the Enigma is that the plugboards didn't do nearly as much to increase the difficulty of the code-breaking effort as people want to believe. It is, after all, a simple substitution cipher added to the Enigma encryption. You can say that there was an insanely large number of possible plugboard combinations that should have made Enigma uncrackable, but that clearly wasn't the case.
According to Wikipedia, the Polish cracked the code in 1932.
I'm always suspicious of "one person" doing anything; usually, it takes a whole group of people to accomplish these things.
You discount the genius or savant who sees an insight into the cipher that everyone else has missed.
Enigma had at least one fatal flaw, that being that a ciphered letter != its plain text letter. That, at least, made it quick to eliminate incorrect solutions, which can be a difficult problem to solve when cipher breaking.
I don't yet find streaming to be a suitable replacement for the actual physical disc -- whether BluRay or DVD.
1: It's hard to skip around on the stream. Easy on the actual disc.
2: Streaming quality has always been lower than quality off of the disc.
3: If I want to capture images for Fair Use purposes, almost impossible off of the stream, quite easy with my DVD software.
4: Netflix streams in the past of some movies have actually deleted scenes that were on the DVD. One movie for example, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was many minutes shorter in the streamed version. Netflix says that the studio supplies the streaming version so it can easily be different than the DVD version.
5: Bonus features seem missing from streams a lot more often from DVD's, although Netflix's new "rental movie only" DVD's are an unhappy trend in this direction. They may turn me into a Red Box customer yet over that omission.
6: I have Comcast cable, but still things can get choppy in the evenings.
A lot -- not all, but a lot -- of the above could be fixed by an Internet box that would read my Netflix queue and download ahead of time the entire DVD-level content of the next movie(s) in my queue. Internet speed wouldn't matter as much since that download could proceed while I was at work, or even in the off-peak early morning hours with a special deal from my Internet supplier for using otherwise unused off-peak time. I get a rental image of the entire DVD to use as if it was the DVD, and when I'm done I just click return, that movie is wiped off of my local storage, and the next item in my queue starts downloading. You could even give me selectable quality of fast & small downloads verses large and hi-res.
But hey, while this could work great for the consumer, it makes too much sense to ever be allowed to be this easy by the troglodytes running the movie studios.
Regarding the notion of Cold Fusion as a whole and not in regard to any particular experiment, do you consider the whole concept of Cold Fusion to be impossible overall, or that it remains an intriguing possibility?
Thank you!
I don't care what sort of up sides it has. The government being able to track every last penny spent is far too frightening to even consider.
Even worse -- or at least as bad -- is the $0.80 transaction fee for every such transaction. And the law that says that you cannot recover this fee from the customer. What the hell is a merchant supposed to in that situation? This is The Banks Make Billions Society now.
Is this all worth it for something that might not even work?"
Short answer: YES!
Longer answer: HELL YES!
I see this as just another out-of-control (I won't go quite as far as bought off) California judge that the 99% of us would be far better off if s/he were removed from the bench permanently. With judges like this I'm surprised that we ever got as far as being allowed to have our own electric lights. S/he surly would have killed of the VCR if ever given the chance, likely along with the cassette and reel-to-reel decks as well if they had recording abilities. S/he would likely take out your DVR as well, given the chance.
Well they've banned the bible (Genesis 6:2). Anyone know about the Koran?
Didn't The Prophet - blessings be upon him - marry a 9 year old girl?
It's not enough that you want unfettered access to remove funds at whim from my bank account. Now you want to decide what I read too? Yet another reason to NOT use Paypal ever...
Your problem is that there isn't a good alternative to Paypal. Trust me, people have been looking for one very hard.
You're saying that the Most Powerful Country in the World can't stop one of the most backwater little burgs out there from screwing with our money? Can't even stop a company from selling them the right ink? Why can't we just have some cruise missile veer off course some night and take it out? And if they complain, ask them what was actually destroyed? Or sneak in SEAL Team 6 with a few bricks of C-4. That's just an ongoing insult to us otherwise.
Of course, Iran has been doing it too for awhile now and we don't stop them either.
If you wanted to be useful, Facebook, you'd tell us the agency, the person in the agency, and the additional information that they wanted you to log. But because it's a Democratic administration that is lavishly supported starting from the very top of FB, why am I not surprised that you've said as little as you can get away with to avoid embarrassing them?
That's why I use Monster Cables for my neutrino experiments. It increases the roundness of the bass end, creates a punchier mid-range, and makes my neutrinos less superluminal.
Yes I love how Monster Cables improve my all-digital HDMI connection, while emptying my wallet (hence making it easier to sit comfortably on the couch) in the process. The way those cheaper HDMI cables distorted the color of my flat screen was simply not to be tolerated any longer.
I would have thought that the concept of patents and copyright are instances of government intervention. The government creates the legislation that grants temporary(!) monopolies to holders of these patents.
Lack of government intervention would mean that no such monopolies could be enforced.
I find that more of government encouragement of rewarding the effort to go out and improve things that benefit us all -- usually.
So it's ok for Motorola to anti-competitively abuse an industry because Microsoft acted poorly in the past and you don't like them? I do believe that's about as succinct a summary of the short-sighted opinions that are flowing in this thread...
I believe that you are succinctly correct, although I needed details to make my case, hence an initial lack of succinctness.
But I also believe that you are wrong about deeming any of this short-sighted. The best corrective action for bad behavior on the part of any one player is to receive it back in return in spades. And let them become an object lesson for everyone else who wants to play this game as well.
Yes, I think that succinctly sums it all up.
I've been reading the comments, and there doesn't seem to be any talk about the argument at all. Just "taste of your own medicine" "deserves it" "that's rich". Are we too blinded by fanbiosm to even have a valid discussion anymore?
I think that the valid discussion is: Live by patent extortion, die by patent extortion.
Also, FRAND said "Fair and Reasonable". Who defines "fair" and "reasonable"? The seller, or the buyer?
Once upon a time in the automobile industry all of the existing patent holders got together to pool their patents and prevent any new competitors from being able to enter the industry. The government finally put a stop to that. I'd say that, for the good of everyone else, the government needs to do the same here.
(Note: I don't support government intervention often, but the overall good of everybody is tied into our technological devices today in the same way that it once was in a fair market for automobiles.)
Enough discussion?
Now Google, by way of Motorola, is proving its own point by charging obscene percentage-based royalties on h.264.>
EXCUSE ME, BUT...
Google doesn't, or barely, owns Motorola yet. This action was set into motion long before Google has ever taken control. You might fairly be able to complain about Motorola, but not Google.
MS currently licence 2,300 patents relating to H.264 for 2 cents per unit. Google/Motorola want $22.50 for the remaining 50 patents it holds, per unit
This is unjustifiable on Motorolas part
Not all patents have equal value. Numbers alone do not tell the whole story.
And I find it completely justifiable on Motorola's part, given Microsoft's treatment of them.
Oh boo hoo Microsoft. No sympathy here. Your extortion of Linux users, Android users, USB drive users, and pretty much everyone else in the computer industry for some of the most questionable patents earns you no sympathy here. And that's not to mention your threats where you won't even list the patents allegedly infringed that you're threatening over. And even that's not to mention how questionable some of these patents are. And that even further not to mention that patent trolls you've enabled when you haven't wanted to get your own hands dirty. And still not to mention how your licensing terms give you control over future hardware design decisions for devices that you don't even manufacture yourself (thank you Barnes & Noble Nook) And now you cry foul? You are pathetic!
Maybe they can make it a condition of your job to join, but can they really make you use it? Just telling them that you don't post much because you're not that kind of guy or gal would be a hard argument for them to refute.
There's just one word for this: YEAH!
...for trying to use the product they bought.
It's total B.S. since once they start blocking it continues to the end of the billing period. AT&T likely isn't suffering congestion at 2am, or if you go to a completely different area. They should be sued out of existence as a warning to the other cell phone companies over this sham!
Hey, it's Sony. So why are you surprised?
What a load of crap. It's not as though the sales of this Batmobile are cutting into the profits of DC Comics Batmobile sales. If anything, it helps spur interest in the franchise to see one of these tooling down the street. This just makes me hate DC.
at the very center of the Earth, within the inner core, there exists a sphere of uranium five mile in diameter which acts as a natural nuclear reactor so these nuclear reactions cause a loss of mass of about 16 tonnes per year.
Sounds like the ultimate source of geothermal energy, so let's start drilling for it. Got to get there before Iran goes and makes a bomb out of it.