In that case, you need to either
1) have previously established communication between A and B, thus defeating the purpose of anonymity
2) using a public-key system, communicate your identity, thus defeating the purpose of anonymity
or
3) send the keys through C as well, opening yourself up to a man-in-the-middle attack, and defeating the purpose of encrypting the data in the first place.
Now, I'm not an encryption expert (just as IANAAE), but I don't see how this system can possibly hide your identity from both B and C, either of which could easily be infiltrated by a large corporation shoveling bills in that direction.
Yes, the electricity moves much faster than the electrons (which is what I was getting at with my analogy of pushing them through a tube). But still nothing approaching the speed of light. Optical IS faster, not that it usually makes a measurable difference.
Electricity does NOT travel at the speed of light. I don't recall the exact numbers, but we're talking about cramming electrons into a tube until it pushes some out the other end, not photons traveling through vacuum.
Now either the search function on my browser is busted, or nobody got the aylee/sluggy freelance reference Michael put in there (the dandruff shampoo part). Bad slashdot!
(well, either that or it wasn't there to begin with and I'm just imagining it... but really, am I the only person who made this connection?)
Threepio didn't get a battle droid stuck to his foot, wave it around, and blow up three others completely by accident. He found a stormtrooper and got shot into little bitty bits. And in response to another post, the ewoks didn't accidentally fly into the hangar of a massive battleship, accidentally fire the torpedos, and set off a remarkably large chain reaction destroying the whole thing. They used a number of clever, if low-tech traps and gadgets to fight the much better-equipped stormtroopers... and some of them paid the price. They fought and died, not surrendered to an army with orders to kill them and get taken prisoner anyway (did anyone ever figure that one out?) Ok, I'm done ranting now. I just hope the next two movies mature into something targetted to the teen-and-older audience instead of all the "my son would think this is so great" stuff...
Hm... I wonder who they could possibly use as another Sith villain to kill, after the popularity of Darth Maul... what was the name of this movie again?
People said the same thing about computers when they started out (why would I pay that much money for something to tell me how many hats I have in my closet?), but you don't see that many abacuses (abaci? I don't know) or slide rules in use anymore. The new technology is always unwieldy and expensive when it first comes out, but fuel cells could well replace batteries in laptops someday in the not-too-distant future...
Because you have an overdeveloped sense of irony maybe?
(I wonder if RMS would consider relaxing his restraints so as to allow the packaging of Windows with the otherwise "all free, all the time" Debian...)
(hell, it's funny just to think of bundling it with the non-free packages)
So maybe they're paving the way for a chip that doesn't?
Yeah, I know, I don't believe the Hammer will be clockless either (please, AMD, don't hurt 'em!), but the P4 has some (very) limited steps in that direction (double-pumped ALUs, for example)... so who knows? It would be cool to see something more like that (and SMT, and a quantum coprocessor... a guy can still dream, can't he?)
Well, I don't have such magnificent hardware myself, but Slackware has the ata100.i bootdisk image, and an equivalent pre-built kernel if you go for such things. You should really go to the trouble to compile your own kernel, though, especially if you're running Slackware.
That page has no links (that I could see) that were dated after June 1999. Links to links to articles over a year old is hardly worthy of "+3 informative"...
We seem to be at a turning point here. We need it to be small enough to be REALLY portable, like a palm, but we need the big screens and easy-to-use input devices like a laptop and/or webpad. Barring a neural interface (I only browsed through JonKatz's cyberpunk article earlier, but I don't remember those being mentioned), we need to come up with a different (ie better, more innovative, etc) interface. I admit, I don't know exactly how to do it, maybe an image projected onto the inside of sunglasses and some kind of gloves or rings that monitor hand movements, but we need to come up with something smaller (and less power-hungry, for the battery life issue) than a keyboard and monitor!
So many people have written something to this effect that I'm just going to say here, this is not about storing little re-writable CDs in your computer. It uses the same material (that's chemical composition, no more) as the re-writable CDs. Other things, like the filesystems they use or the cute little motor to spin them up, will not come with the package. For people who already know this, I apologize, but I'm convinced I do have an audience out there.
Speaking of spelling, it's "amateurs." Seriously, though, if we keep on second-guessing ourselves and adding in more double-checks to make sure embarassing things like this don't happen, you know what we get, in the end? A bureaucracy.
You can delete the.pwl files in the c:\windows directory; that usually forces you to log on the next time. And if you do enter a password when you do log in, it'll ask you every time (which usually isn't what you want).
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fool the detection and then compare results on the same hardware
In that case, you need to either 1) have previously established communication between A and B, thus defeating the purpose of anonymity 2) using a public-key system, communicate your identity, thus defeating the purpose of anonymity or 3) send the keys through C as well, opening yourself up to a man-in-the-middle attack, and defeating the purpose of encrypting the data in the first place. Now, I'm not an encryption expert (just as IANAAE), but I don't see how this system can possibly hide your identity from both B and C, either of which could easily be infiltrated by a large corporation shoveling bills in that direction.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is faster. It all depends on what you mean when you say it's "the fastest robot to date."
you mean they'll offer free webmail under the aol brand. I've had my netscape.net account since the mid-90's.
Yes, the electricity moves much faster than the electrons (which is what I was getting at with my analogy of pushing them through a tube). But still nothing approaching the speed of light. Optical IS faster, not that it usually makes a measurable difference.
Electricity does NOT travel at the speed of light. I don't recall the exact numbers, but we're talking about cramming electrons into a tube until it pushes some out the other end, not photons traveling through vacuum.
Now either the search function on my browser is busted, or nobody got the aylee/sluggy freelance reference Michael put in there (the dandruff shampoo part). Bad slashdot!
(well, either that or it wasn't there to begin with and I'm just imagining it... but really, am I the only person who made this connection?)
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971018
I don't know, maybe they actually looked at the content and not the author.
Just a guess.
Threepio didn't get a battle droid stuck to his foot, wave it around, and blow up three others completely by accident. He found a stormtrooper and got shot into little bitty bits.
And in response to another post, the ewoks didn't accidentally fly into the hangar of a massive battleship, accidentally fire the torpedos, and set off a remarkably large chain reaction destroying the whole thing. They used a number of clever, if low-tech traps and gadgets to fight the much better-equipped stormtroopers... and some of them paid the price. They fought and died, not surrendered to an army with orders to kill them and get taken prisoner anyway (did anyone ever figure that one out?)
Ok, I'm done ranting now. I just hope the next two movies mature into something targetted to the teen-and-older audience instead of all the "my son would think this is so great" stuff...
Hm... I wonder who they could possibly use as another Sith villain to kill, after the popularity of Darth Maul... what was the name of this movie again?
Firepower is only a deterrent if the other fellow believes you're willing to use it. So unfortunately, we have to demonstrate this from time to time.
People said the same thing about computers when they started out (why would I pay that much money for something to tell me how many hats I have in my closet?), but you don't see that many abacuses (abaci? I don't know) or slide rules in use anymore. The new technology is always unwieldy and expensive when it first comes out, but fuel cells could well replace batteries in laptops someday in the not-too-distant future...
Because you have an overdeveloped sense of irony maybe?
(I wonder if RMS would consider relaxing his restraints so as to allow the packaging of Windows with the otherwise "all free, all the time" Debian...)
(hell, it's funny just to think of bundling it with the non-free packages)
So maybe they're paving the way for a chip that doesn't?
Yeah, I know, I don't believe the Hammer will be clockless either (please, AMD, don't hurt 'em!), but the P4 has some (very) limited steps in that direction (double-pumped ALUs, for example)... so who knows? It would be cool to see something more like that (and SMT, and a quantum coprocessor... a guy can still dream, can't he?)
it's VOLTRON!
That's not a haiku.
You must count your syllables
More closely next time.
Well, I don't have such magnificent hardware myself, but Slackware has the ata100.i bootdisk image, and an equivalent pre-built kernel if you go for such things. You should really go to the trouble to compile your own kernel, though, especially if you're running Slackware.
That page has no links (that I could see) that were dated after June 1999. Links to links to articles over a year old is hardly worthy of "+3 informative"...
Do you realize how much power the Itanium uses? The batteries in a laptop would last 5 minutes, assuming the whole thing didn't melt.
Can't people recognize sarcasm when they hear it?
Nobody seriously posts like that on Slashdot unless they're
1) Trying to be funny or
2) trolling
That's the kind of stuff they've said for the last 3 years. I think I'll just wait for the neural interface at this rate.
We seem to be at a turning point here. We need it to be small enough to be REALLY portable, like a palm, but we need the big screens and easy-to-use input devices like a laptop and/or webpad. Barring a neural interface (I only browsed through JonKatz's cyberpunk article earlier, but I don't remember those being mentioned), we need to come up with a different (ie better, more innovative, etc) interface. I admit, I don't know exactly how to do it, maybe an image projected onto the inside of sunglasses and some kind of gloves or rings that monitor hand movements, but we need to come up with something smaller (and less power-hungry, for the battery life issue) than a keyboard and monitor!
So many people have written something to this effect that I'm just going to say here, this is not about storing little re-writable CDs in your computer. It uses the same material (that's chemical composition, no more) as the re-writable CDs. Other things, like the filesystems they use or the cute little motor to spin them up, will not come with the package. For people who already know this, I apologize, but I'm convinced I do have an audience out there.
Thank you.
Speaking of spelling, it's "amateurs."
Seriously, though, if we keep on second-guessing ourselves and adding in more double-checks to make sure embarassing things like this don't happen, you know what we get, in the end? A bureaucracy.
You can delete the .pwl files in the c:\windows directory; that usually forces you to log on the next time. And if you do enter a password when you do log in, it'll ask you every time (which usually isn't what you want).