So, supposedly, implement this in Verilog on an fpga and you've got one efficient encryption scheme. Your handy video processor would still be faster without the encryption though.
"I admire those people -- and in Russia it seems to be a cultural thing -- who can easily give up objects. Maybe it's years of living under the USSR, or maybe it's the bleak landscape (in some areas), but my Russian friends seem not to fret about throwing things away. Me? I have a ticket stub from a U2 concert that I'm keeping. I have a cigarette lighter from my crashed 3000GT."
I think your over-generalizing in your grand self-psychoanalysis of this story. People keep things, from Russia to, apparently, your house. I suggest that rather than draw parallels between your own rather nutty para psychological profile to Soviet times, you instead look to more practical matters such as the costs involved in housing and upkeep of a huge spacecraft like the Buran. As a symbol of Soviet technical achievement having made one un-manned space flight, it ranks with the Sputnik. Compared with your self-absorbed proclivity to pack rat junk, its not even in the same ballpark. Not even on the same planet. End of discussion.
"If i remember correctly, it never had a manned flight and the only fully completed orbiter got just one unmanned flight."
THAT is the question I was wondering about; was a Buran ever launched? I remember when they trotted that thing out. My first reaction was "Oh yeah, they copied the shuttle." Except bigger. But then, nothing. I in fact distinctly recall wondering in the late 90's wtf ever happened to it. I guess the Soviets couldn't afford to fill the gas tanks.
The charge or any other quantum property of the particle is immaterial, the net gain of energy is negative due to the action of a rather convoluted series of interactions related to black body radiation in a vacuum. If you want to read about it just google "hawking radiation black hole evaporation" but I promise the plainest explanation of it is deeply mathematical. If your not mathematically inclined (like me) you can read it and you might as well be reading Greek.
Wordpress and a number of other blogging software out there confirm to a number of publishing, subscription, customization, and xml feed standards that make it easier to do all those things. There was one in particular I found was deeply entrenched in many blogware offerings but its exact name escapes me at the mo.
Still, it was a clever hack. I mean come on...tip your cap just on the technical aptitude. And of course I'd never do it, but stealing from the telco is like, well, stealing from the telco.
'BTW, on a more serious note: a quick google search of "hawking radiation disproved" [google.com] doesn't seem to come up with much serious material.'
Well, you generally shouldn't come up with a lot of material for or against this theory; you need a black hole to really test it.
We all understand what Hawking radiation is, right? Its the run-off of actual particles created when a virtual particle pair "pops" into existence near the event horizon of a black hole; normally the two annihilate each other but in this case one of the two gets sucked into the black hole, the other shoots off into spacetime. This also gives the hole a little negative mass, leading to the other huge implication in this theory; black holes can evaporate.
"So you can take your self-righteousness and shove it straight up your ass."
I agree, I'm troubled by what more people than me are calling the 21st century equivalent of the Salem witch trials, made even more cogent by these frame charges. Every one of the supposed "witches" were simply accused of witchcraft by a group of four bored teenagers. The lives of the entire family faculty of McMartin PreSchool were destroyed because one child lied. Mere possession can land you in more hot water than murder? That's ridiculous. I'm not condoning pedophilia, but I think people & media are caught in a sensationalism that rivals yellow journalism from the 1900's.
"It seems that for whatever reason this chain of stores hadn't implemented the basic security measures, or they were ineffective, probably due to human error (i.e. forgetting to set the alarm in the roofspace)."
Forgetting to set the alarm on 15 different "Monoprix" (whatever that is) stores? No, there was a fundamental design flaw in the system. They didn't implement a basic security measure, ie; installing a simple, one-way baffle or hatch that would allow the money to enter the strong room but not leave it, at least through the pneumatic tube system, was all that would have been required. Good allegory on security in the digital age; your only as strong as your weakest point. Usually its the system architect. I wonder if Monoprix had had this cash delivery system peer reviewed if it would have still passed into general use.
Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Auchswitz, should we have stopped asking after the 5th death camp was revealed? The 10th? The 20th? Where would you have stopped asking for a moral responsibility?
"So, what they want is a private IP-based network. No sweat..."
You're absolutely right, of course. The problem comes in when they're working on their great little pos application in their walled garden and then some one says "Hey! You know what'd be great? If we installed SATAN and did an audit of Router D over there, well lemme just jump over to... oh yeah...", then they connect up and their walled garden is for sh*t...
"When the U.S. embargoed oil to Japan in July, 1941 it was almost a certainty that war would soon follow."
Only because of Japanese expansionist imperial policy and the invasion of Manchuria made it clear what Japanese goals were in the pacific. And their attack on Pearl Harbor later that year didnt help.
I should add that I've disagreed with nothing, you're putting words in my mouth. I merely described a scenario. Since the law is so perfectly clear it should be very easy for you to answer the question.
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So, supposedly, implement this in Verilog on an fpga and you've got one efficient encryption scheme. Your handy video processor would still be faster without the encryption though.
"I find it hard to believe those people would get a console in the first place, PC games are a great deal easier to pirate."
Sh*t, minecraft. Whatever....
Must be chipmunk-powered as there's no getting in to see the warcraft enterprise right now.
Yup. IPv4 addys alone are enough to cause chaos the likes of which we've not seen since the riot scene on "Airplane!", scary stuff.
Its never been as huge a looming problem as first predicted thanks to NAT.
"Who ever heard of a piece of software being named after its website?"
Hundreds of java class name spaces would beg to differ with you.
"I admire those people -- and in Russia it seems to be a cultural thing -- who can easily give up objects. Maybe it's years of living under the USSR, or maybe it's the bleak landscape (in some areas), but my Russian friends seem not to fret about throwing things away. Me? I have a ticket stub from a U2 concert that I'm keeping. I have a cigarette lighter from my crashed 3000GT."
I think your over-generalizing in your grand self-psychoanalysis of this story. People keep things, from Russia to, apparently, your house. I suggest that rather than draw parallels between your own rather nutty para psychological profile to Soviet times, you instead look to more practical matters such as the costs involved in housing and upkeep of a huge spacecraft like the Buran. As a symbol of Soviet technical achievement having made one un-manned space flight, it ranks with the Sputnik. Compared with your self-absorbed proclivity to pack rat junk, its not even in the same ballpark. Not even on the same planet. End of discussion.
"If i remember correctly, it never had a manned flight and the only fully completed orbiter got just one unmanned flight."
THAT is the question I was wondering about; was a Buran ever launched? I remember when they trotted that thing out. My first reaction was "Oh yeah, they copied the shuttle." Except bigger. But then, nothing. I in fact distinctly recall wondering in the late 90's wtf ever happened to it. I guess the Soviets couldn't afford to fill the gas tanks.
"I can read Russian just fine thanks.
Yeah, we commentators should have known YOU read Russian. Silly us.
The charge or any other quantum property of the particle is immaterial, the net gain of energy is negative due to the action of a rather convoluted series of interactions related to black body radiation in a vacuum. If you want to read about it just google "hawking radiation black hole evaporation" but I promise the plainest explanation of it is deeply mathematical. If your not mathematically inclined (like me) you can read it and you might as well be reading Greek.
Wordpress and a number of other blogging software out there confirm to a number of publishing, subscription, customization, and xml feed standards that make it easier to do all those things. There was one in particular I found was deeply entrenched in many blogware offerings but its exact name escapes me at the mo.
Still, it was a clever hack. I mean come on...tip your cap just on the technical aptitude. And of course I'd never do it, but stealing from the telco is like, well, stealing from the telco.
"Furthermore, I dub it a "Hawking battery" or "Hawking capacitor" if it ever comes to pass!"
Too late, and don't you dare. I've trademarked and patented both.
'BTW, on a more serious note: a quick google search of "hawking radiation disproved" [google.com] doesn't seem to come up with much serious material.'
Well, you generally shouldn't come up with a lot of material for or against this theory; you need a black hole to really test it.
We all understand what Hawking radiation is, right? Its the run-off of actual particles created when a virtual particle pair "pops" into existence near the event horizon of a black hole; normally the two annihilate each other but in this case one of the two gets sucked into the black hole, the other shoots off into spacetime. This also gives the hole a little negative mass, leading to the other huge implication in this theory; black holes can evaporate.
"Black cats to be tied up in a sack and thrown into Long Island Sound."
I think that's standard procedure when Cablevision comes out to fix problems with your service, innit?
"So you can take your self-righteousness and shove it straight up your ass."
I agree, I'm troubled by what more people than me are calling the 21st century equivalent of the Salem witch trials, made even more cogent by these frame charges. Every one of the supposed "witches" were simply accused of witchcraft by a group of four bored teenagers. The lives of the entire family faculty of McMartin PreSchool were destroyed because one child lied. Mere possession can land you in more hot water than murder? That's ridiculous. I'm not condoning pedophilia, but I think people & media are caught in a sensationalism that rivals yellow journalism from the 1900's.
But thank God we did.
"It seems that for whatever reason this chain of stores hadn't implemented the basic security measures, or they were ineffective, probably due to human error (i.e. forgetting to set the alarm in the roofspace)."
Forgetting to set the alarm on 15 different "Monoprix" (whatever that is) stores? No, there was a fundamental design flaw in the system. They didn't implement a basic security measure, ie; installing a simple, one-way baffle or hatch that would allow the money to enter the strong room but not leave it, at least through the pneumatic tube system, was all that would have been required. Good allegory on security in the digital age; your only as strong as your weakest point. Usually its the system architect. I wonder if Monoprix had had this cash delivery system peer reviewed if it would have still passed into general use.
Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Auchswitz, should we have stopped asking after the 5th death camp was revealed? The 10th? The 20th? Where would you have stopped asking for a moral responsibility?
"So, what they want is a private IP-based network. No sweat..."
You're absolutely right, of course. The problem comes in when they're working on their great little pos application in their walled garden and then some one says "Hey! You know what'd be great? If we installed SATAN and did an audit of Router D over there, well lemme just jump over to... oh yeah...", then they connect up and their walled garden is for sh*t...
"When the U.S. embargoed oil to Japan in July, 1941 it was almost a certainty that war would soon follow."
Only because of Japanese expansionist imperial policy and the invasion of Manchuria made it clear what Japanese goals were in the pacific. And their attack on Pearl Harbor later that year didnt help.
All I can say is thank god for NoScript.
I should add that I've disagreed with nothing, you're putting words in my mouth. I merely described a scenario. Since the law is so perfectly clear it should be very easy for you to answer the question.