You are thinking of the Copper traces instead of Aluminium, the transistors remained Silicon. Here they are talking about metal transistors.
Not true at all. The copper in IBM's process is for interconnects, not traces. I'm not sure what metal they use for the traces, but it's probably aluminum and definitely not copper. The connection between layers (interconnect) are copper plugs.
The metal intel is talking about is strictly for the gate terminal connection of the transistor. The transistor is still doped silicon or gallium arsenide or whatever semiconductor they are using.
i want to know what my windows machine is thinking while it's trying to retain its memory. does it wish it was another os? does it wonder why this is happening again?... i mean didn't i just blue screen a few minutes ago for the very same reason?
That was a brilliant post! Definitely the funniest I've read today.
"First Microsoft was forced to split itself into 2 divisions, now they are actively doing it themselves."
My friends, we have long believed that microsoft is a cancerous tumor on the prostate of society. Now, for all the world to see, we are witnessing Microsoft Mitosis.
The key (no pun intended) here is that there is no way to know when you have the correct key. With the XOR example, there exist keys that will produce every possible combination of output bits, and no way to tell which one is right.
That's why you attack how the keys are generated instead of the the key itself. It's actually pretty difficult to generate a truly random data. Attacks can be made against entropy collectors in many situations (timing ethernet packets, etc...).
On top of that, you have the key somewhere, and that somewhere can be attacked. And where ever the message is destined has to have a copy of the same key.
Probably the worst part about it is that when they call it a One Time Pad, they aren't kidding. You can't use the pad more than once (on different plain text). If you do, it becomes possible to recover the original key, or at least portions of it, through statistical analysis.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I would venture that it is a well known policy at microsoft that pictures aren't allowed. That the content of the picture was seemingly benign had nothing to do with the policy of no pictures. And the guy was fired for breaking policy... said so himself.
Microsoft has been around for a while now, and I'm willing to bet this wasn't the first incident of something like this happening. And the first time they very well might have sent out a company e-mail. But that solves nothing... a person would have no knowledge about e-mails sent prior to their being hired, and if ms sends out as much corporate spam to their employees as my company does to its own, there's a good chance an e-mail like that would be missed anyway.
All our company policies are on an intranet page, cameras and photography are listed as no-nos. Cellphones were even forbidden until recently. It's considered a duty of employment that we be familiar with company policies.
Anyway, it's a good lesson learned for the guy. Ignorance is not a valid excuse.
Reading some excerpts from his blog gave me the impression that this guy doesn't put a lot of forthought into his actions.
One telling quote in particular (paraphrased) was "oh well - you just can't plan for something like that". referring to the relation of his finances and getting fired.
Anyone can plan on getting fired. My finances probably wouldn't handle it much better than this guys, but the fact is you can plan for it and many people do. That computer he just bought was probably a mac, and as such it stands a good chance of representing two months food and rent. Maybe just a month in california, I don't really know.
In today's job market, it's probably wise to have enough savings to survive on for 6 months.
I've used my HP48G extensively for the last 9 years. Right now I mostly use it for base conversions, and it is very handy to have the variable word length. My last project had a word size of 14 bits, which is a little unusual.
I even did a hardware mod on my 48g to upgrade the ram from 32k to 128k (per someone elses instructions). Here's a link on how to do it yourself if you're bored: 48g mod They actually go further and tell you how to emulate a ram card using some and gates and a 1meg resistor.
The agenda of both policical parties is to get power and to hold onto it. It's that simple. The policies (e.g., tax the rich vs. give to the poor, less government vs. more programs) are only a means to an end.
Amen brother. I think another problem is liberals and conservatives in the populace have different agenda's than liberals and conservatives in governement. There are exceptions, of course, but I don't think any of the potential presidential candidates are (incumbant or otherwise).
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You are thinking of the Copper traces instead of Aluminium, the transistors remained Silicon. Here they are talking about metal transistors.
Not true at all. The copper in IBM's process is for interconnects, not traces. I'm not sure what metal they use for the traces, but it's probably aluminum and definitely not copper. The connection between layers (interconnect) are copper plugs.
The metal intel is talking about is strictly for the gate terminal connection of the transistor. The transistor is still doped silicon or gallium arsenide or whatever semiconductor they are using.
i want to know what my windows machine is thinking while it's trying to retain its memory. does it wish it was another os? does it wonder why this is happening again?... i mean didn't i just blue screen a few minutes ago for the very same reason?
That was a brilliant post! Definitely the funniest I've read today.
"First Microsoft was forced to split itself into 2 divisions, now they are actively doing it themselves."
My friends, we have long believed that microsoft is a cancerous tumor on the prostate of society. Now, for all the world to see, we are witnessing Microsoft Mitosis.
The key (no pun intended) here is that there is no way to know when you have the correct key. With the XOR example, there exist keys that will produce every possible combination of output bits, and no way to tell which one is right.
That's why you attack how the keys are generated instead of the the key itself. It's actually pretty difficult to generate a truly random data. Attacks can be made against entropy collectors in many situations (timing ethernet packets, etc...).
On top of that, you have the key somewhere, and that somewhere can be attacked. And where ever the message is destined has to have a copy of the same key.
Probably the worst part about it is that when they call it a One Time Pad, they aren't kidding. You can't use the pad more than once (on different plain text). If you do, it becomes possible to recover the original key, or at least portions of it, through statistical analysis.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I would venture that it is a well known policy at microsoft that pictures aren't allowed. That the content of the picture was seemingly benign had nothing to do with the policy of no pictures. And the guy was fired for breaking policy... said so himself.
Microsoft has been around for a while now, and I'm willing to bet this wasn't the first incident of something like this happening. And the first time they very well might have sent out a company e-mail. But that solves nothing... a person would have no knowledge about e-mails sent prior to their being hired, and if ms sends out as much corporate spam to their employees as my company does to its own, there's a good chance an e-mail like that would be missed anyway.
All our company policies are on an intranet page, cameras and photography are listed as no-nos. Cellphones were even forbidden until recently. It's considered a duty of employment that we be familiar with company policies.
Anyway, it's a good lesson learned for the guy. Ignorance is not a valid excuse.
Reading some excerpts from his blog gave me the impression that this guy doesn't put a lot of forthought into his actions.
One telling quote in particular (paraphrased) was "oh well - you just can't plan for something like that". referring to the relation of his finances and getting fired.
Anyone can plan on getting fired. My finances probably wouldn't handle it much better than this guys, but the fact is you can plan for it and many people do. That computer he just bought was probably a mac, and as such it stands a good chance of representing two months food and rent. Maybe just a month in california, I don't really know.
In today's job market, it's probably wise to have enough savings to survive on for 6 months.
I've used my HP48G extensively for the last 9 years. Right now I mostly use it for base conversions, and it is very handy to have the variable word length. My last project had a word size of 14 bits, which is a little unusual.
I even did a hardware mod on my 48g to upgrade the ram from 32k to 128k (per someone elses instructions). Here's a link on how to do it yourself if you're bored: 48g mod They actually go further and tell you how to emulate a ram card using some and gates and a 1meg resistor.
The agenda of both policical parties is to get power and to hold onto it. It's that simple. The policies (e.g., tax the rich vs. give to the poor, less government vs. more programs) are only a means to an end.
Amen brother. I think another problem is liberals and conservatives in the populace have different agenda's than liberals and conservatives in governement. There are exceptions, of course, but I don't think any of the potential presidential candidates are (incumbant or otherwise).
Looks like that project was made by a bunch of Ho's.
...get to hear an inverterted sound wave...
...and lots of trivially "scrambled' speech can be secretly recorded...
If you invert a sound wave, it basically sounds the same. Try it on your computer.
"...can give to your children that will last them a lifetime: Education. Everything else can be lost, stolen, taken by the government, etc."
I'd just like to point out that drugs (including alcohol) can, in fact, steal your education. and your self respect, your job, your life.
By this time, I had canceled my credit cards and put an alert on my credit reports.
Is this a service offered by your state or the credit reporting agencies? Do you have to pay for this?