Even if these hypothetical systems crack at the rate of megaflops per nanosecond, it's still possible to scale conventional crypto to the point where brute force takes longer than universal proton decay. This looks like NSA fudd to me, analogous to those flying saucer reports in Iran.
The process is called "programming." Duh. What you suggest is like mountain-climbing by adding rope. Miles and miles of rope. In a big pile. Up you go. Whee.
I suspect that each individual one of us is a simple facet of a hyperdimensional individual who is either psychotic or criminal, and is at odds with other hyperdimensional individuals who wear H.I.P.D. badges. I suspect the universe would be utterly incomprehensible if it were not also recursive.
A couple of iterations ago, setup was only a snap if it worked first time on your box. Who uses Yellow Dog Linux, anyway? I thought it was one of those military contract spin-offs Steve Jobs gets from his old NeXT spook connections?
I lost track of Ursula Le Guin when she "paraphrased" -- not to be remotely confused with actual translation of living, i.e., not remotely dead, languages like Chinese -- the Tao Te Ching, but I have to say the Sci Fi channel has kind of lost the mandate of Heaven on this one. Do the pop growl moguls who give you Fear Factor and Crossing Over in the same brown and lumpy output stream as Earthsea even understand the stuff they purvey? Futurama, yes, Cowboy Bebop, yes, GITS, yes, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, maybe, but Earthsea? No. No. No.
Beggars can't be chosers, but outsourcing to YOU is the first step to outsourcing to New Delhi. The "contractor" title is flattery, and that's what you'll get: No bennies. No health insurance. No dental. No eyeglasses. No 401k (although a poorly managed retirement IRA at Sharebuilder can be made to seem like a reasonable substitute, for a while). "Easier to get approval, and we'll move you to employee status later" is a joke. Either you're talking to (*expletive deleted*) or that line is now generic pointy haired goose crap. The MAIN thing you'll miss is weekly meetings and daily or hourly contact with somebody at the company; in lieu of human interaction, you'll get last minute rush revisions in the specs, and YOUR missed deadline will cover THEIR managerial incompetence. Ugh. Yechhh. Yrp. Gah.
Assuming you have a Mac (or FreeBSD?) which implements/dev/random using Yarrow, you can encrypt using Mersenne Twister (initializing the large internal table according to the docs), on the fly, passing the key to an external USB or dongle, to seed AES in one or more of its less familiar modes. This has been in the public domain for years.
Please, no argumentae ex asimoviae. This has been coming since Bionic Woman proved we could leave out the meat. My personal favorites will be autonomous AI hexpods packing C4. You can get 55,000 of those for the price of one Second Lieutenant.
Internet Explorer has a well-deserved reputation for working well on nearly every web page that matters - i.e., those involving the exchange of money. It's only its abuse in monopoly practices, i.e., Microsoft's absurd attempt a few years ago to shackle a simple web browser to OLE and ActiveX "standards" the world rightly sneers at, that makes my hackles rise. If the devil is a woman, Internet Explorer is her browser of choice, and would be mine except that Apple ties "security" to the use of Safari, a vastly inferior product imho.
The asteroid hit here about two years ago. Suggest you accumulate bacon grease for those long, cold, winter nights.
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Your novel Snow Crash invites the question, because it suggests mere perception is able to crash 3 billion years of evolved neural net wetware by "introducing a virus." Was this just a gimmick?Do you subscribe to the doctrine that languages shape, distort, or render unintelligible to speakers of dissimilar languages, perceptions of the world? Is there a world separate from perception? Is there perception separate from language?
Mac OS X is already just a Unix emulator that runs on generic hardware. Just as I can emulate CP/M faster than it ever ran on on my Kaypro 10, under Mac OS 9 (Classic) under Mac OS X 10.3.5, I would be happy to be able to restore my ASR images onto x86 or any other silicon aggregrate out there. In 20 years it would be nice to see my entire iBook running on a low-end holographic screen GameBoy.
Common sense applies. If you intend to parody a work, you are obliged to create your own extended passages in the style you wish to lampoon. Inability to create similar material is bad parody, but fair use. Swiping someone else's work and drawing mustaches over every frame of their original art is both plagiarism and vandalism. Cease and desist is the fair rejoinder.
"Product differential" is what you sell when there's no perceptible difference between your product and the other guy's (or in the case of Microsoft, when your product is inferior to the other guy's -- i.e., not free). So, back when cigarette ads were allowed on television, the only difference between Marlboro and Winston was the cowboy and the cachet. When you start to see dx/dP marketspeak instead of R&D, you can count the beads of sweat on management's forehead.
This is roughly akin to saying the human brain, as wetware, comes with language ROMs pre-assembled and built in, which was Noam Chomsky's There-Oughta-Be-A-Nobel-Prize-For-This assertion thirty years ago. Watch, though. The Sapir Whorf nazis will be along any minute now to assert that's what's happening is really language acquisition driven by cultural factors hitherto unrecognized. SWH idiots believe human language transcends the gross material world and descends (as culture) from spiritual heights. Noam Chomsky, on the other hand, was (is, really) a materialist reductionist commie who got it right: Language really did evolve in the larynxes of singing apes 12 million years ago, and is innate.
Jules Verne, H. G. Wells... Yup! That's hit the old nail on the cabeza. Who the hell gives spock about science anymore? Boring, life threatening, comfort eroding, rule delineating Know It All Science, anyway. Oh, wait. No, that's Engineering Fiction! Science fiction is about fantasy.
Yeah, I saw that. One's in Eden Prairie, I may have to road trip that day. Four hours. Cedar Rapids is in the Styx, anime wise. GITS1 was little more than an extended sophomoric pothead b.s. session, then I remembered that Japan does not really indulge in soliloquy (a Western, nay, Shakespearean concept) but in a kind of highflown confessional style which derives from novels older than Meiji. There are two endings for Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People), e.g., the American post-Atomic gaijin guilt trip, and the Japanese post-Atomc victim shame trip. I much prefer the Jap confessional style. GITS2 should be fun, culture shokku style.
Yep. Actually you can still find a file called hhgg.z5 out there in the cybervoid, which is an Inform formatted version of the original Infocom game. Runs under emulation, you need something like MacZip or whatever your platform needs. Curiously, it runs on my Panther iBook in Mac OS 9 Classic Mode in ZIP emulation about 10 times faster than it ran on my Kaypro 10. Even stranger, it's possible to find the ORIGINAL INFOCOM INVISICLUES which tells you how to get the babelfish. (You DO read your mail, right?)
Remember? In GITS1, she could always opt out of the system, provided she returned the company software operating her brain. Not Open Software, so no thanks.
Ethnology is full of traveller's tales which usually boil down to three cases: a) The ethnologist is a white German lady filmmaker and the stud is dusting his dong because the batty crone pays him to, b) The ethnologist is Margaret Mead and the chief of the Gilhoulies is having her on, or c) The ethnologist has delusions of linguistic competence, and -- whilst demonstrating photography to the savages -- translates the perfectly sensible Papuan expression "Hey, that looks like my reflection in water! How you do dat, bub?" as "Funny fellow in water" -- thereby "demonstrating" that Papua New Guineans have no sense of self! Give me a break! I'll draw a major coda under the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis when I see this result vetted by independent grad students who can FIND the same tribe.
Fill a room full of bombs, wait for the flame dancers to show up,
fly the trigger in and set it off. Sure, there's easier ways, but there's points for STYLE, too!
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Even if these hypothetical systems crack at the rate of megaflops per nanosecond, it's still possible to scale conventional crypto to the point where brute force takes longer than universal proton decay. This looks like NSA fudd to me, analogous to those flying saucer reports in Iran.
The process is called "programming." Duh. What you suggest is like mountain-climbing by adding rope. Miles and miles of rope. In a big pile. Up you go. Whee.
I suspect that each individual one of us is a simple facet of a hyperdimensional individual who is either psychotic or criminal, and is at odds with other hyperdimensional individuals who wear H.I.P.D. badges. I suspect the universe would be utterly incomprehensible if it were not also recursive.
A couple of iterations ago, setup was only a snap if it worked first time on your box. Who uses Yellow Dog Linux, anyway? I thought it was one of those military contract spin-offs Steve Jobs gets from his old NeXT spook connections?
I lost track of Ursula Le Guin when she "paraphrased" -- not to be remotely confused with actual translation of living, i.e., not remotely dead, languages like Chinese -- the Tao Te Ching, but I have to say the Sci Fi channel has kind of lost the mandate of Heaven on this one. Do the pop growl moguls who give you Fear Factor and Crossing Over in the same brown and lumpy output stream as Earthsea even understand the stuff they purvey? Futurama, yes, Cowboy Bebop, yes, GITS, yes, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, maybe, but Earthsea? No. No. No.
Ahhhh, sanity! Thanks.
Beggars can't be chosers, but outsourcing to YOU is the first step to outsourcing to New Delhi. The "contractor" title is flattery, and that's what you'll get: No bennies. No health insurance. No dental. No eyeglasses. No 401k (although a poorly managed retirement IRA at Sharebuilder can be made to seem like a reasonable substitute, for a while). "Easier to get approval, and we'll move you to employee status later" is a joke. Either you're talking to (*expletive deleted*) or that line is now generic pointy haired goose crap. The MAIN thing you'll miss is weekly meetings and daily or hourly contact with somebody at the company; in lieu of human interaction, you'll get last minute rush revisions in the specs, and YOUR missed deadline will cover THEIR managerial incompetence. Ugh. Yechhh. Yrp. Gah.
Assuming you have a Mac (or FreeBSD?) which implements /dev/random using Yarrow, you can encrypt using Mersenne Twister (initializing the large internal table according to the docs), on the fly, passing the key to an external USB or dongle, to seed AES in one or more of its less familiar modes. This has been in the public domain for years.
Please, no argumentae ex asimoviae. This has been coming since Bionic Woman proved we could leave out the meat. My personal favorites will be autonomous AI hexpods packing C4. You can get 55,000 of those for the price of one Second Lieutenant.
Internet Explorer has a well-deserved reputation for working well on nearly every web page that matters - i.e., those involving the exchange of money. It's only its abuse in monopoly practices, i.e., Microsoft's absurd attempt a few years ago to shackle a simple web browser to OLE and ActiveX "standards" the world rightly sneers at, that makes my hackles rise. If the devil is a woman, Internet Explorer is her browser of choice, and would be mine except that Apple ties "security" to the use of Safari, a vastly inferior product imho.
The asteroid hit here about two years ago. Suggest you accumulate bacon grease for those long, cold, winter nights.
Your novel Snow Crash invites the question, because it suggests mere perception is able to crash 3 billion years of evolved neural net wetware by "introducing a virus." Was this just a gimmick?Do you subscribe to the doctrine that languages shape, distort, or render unintelligible to speakers of dissimilar languages, perceptions of the world? Is there a world separate from perception? Is there perception separate from language?
Idiot! That's Homo erectus.
Mac OS X is already just a Unix emulator that runs on generic hardware. Just as I can emulate CP/M faster than it ever ran on on my Kaypro 10, under Mac OS 9 (Classic) under Mac OS X 10.3.5, I would be happy to be able to restore my ASR images onto x86 or any other silicon aggregrate out there. In 20 years it would be nice to see my entire iBook running on a low-end holographic screen GameBoy.
Don't kid yourself. Caffeine in excess causes cardiac arrest. Sugar is just the dentist's kid's scholarship.
Common sense applies. If you intend to parody a work, you are obliged to create your own extended passages in the style you wish to lampoon. Inability to create similar material is bad parody, but fair use. Swiping someone else's work and drawing mustaches over every frame of their original art is both plagiarism and vandalism. Cease and desist is the fair rejoinder.
"Product differential" is what you sell when there's no perceptible difference between your product and the other guy's (or in the case of Microsoft, when your product is inferior to the other guy's -- i.e., not free). So, back when cigarette ads were allowed on television, the only difference between Marlboro and Winston was the cowboy and the cachet. When you start to see dx/dP marketspeak instead of R&D, you can count the beads of sweat on management's forehead.
This is roughly akin to saying the human brain, as wetware, comes with language ROMs pre-assembled and built in, which was Noam Chomsky's There-Oughta-Be-A-Nobel-Prize-For-This assertion thirty years ago. Watch, though. The Sapir Whorf nazis will be along any minute now to assert that's what's happening is really language acquisition driven by cultural factors hitherto unrecognized. SWH idiots believe human language transcends the gross material world and descends (as culture) from spiritual heights. Noam Chomsky, on the other hand, was (is, really) a materialist reductionist commie who got it right: Language really did evolve in the larynxes of singing apes 12 million years ago, and is innate.
Jules Verne, H. G. Wells... Yup! That's hit the old nail on the cabeza. Who the hell gives spock about science anymore? Boring, life threatening, comfort eroding, rule delineating Know It All Science, anyway. Oh, wait. No, that's Engineering Fiction! Science fiction is about fantasy.
Yeah, I saw that. One's in Eden Prairie, I may have to road trip that day. Four hours. Cedar Rapids is in the Styx, anime wise. GITS1 was little more than an extended sophomoric pothead b.s. session, then I remembered that Japan does not really indulge in soliloquy (a Western, nay, Shakespearean concept) but in a kind of highflown confessional style which derives from novels older than Meiji. There are two endings for Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People), e.g., the American post-Atomic gaijin guilt trip, and the Japanese post-Atomc victim shame trip. I much prefer the Jap confessional style. GITS2 should be fun, culture shokku style.
Yep. Actually you can still find a file called hhgg.z5 out there in the cybervoid, which is an Inform formatted version of the original Infocom game. Runs under emulation, you need something like MacZip or whatever your platform needs. Curiously, it runs on my Panther iBook in Mac OS 9 Classic Mode in ZIP emulation about 10 times faster than it ran on my Kaypro 10. Even stranger, it's possible to find the ORIGINAL INFOCOM INVISICLUES which tells you how to get the babelfish. (You DO read your mail, right?)
Remember? In GITS1, she could always opt out of the system, provided she returned the company software operating her brain. Not Open Software, so no thanks.
Technology schmecknology. When that wire whips down and slashes a swath from Moline to Atlanta, who picks up THAT tab? Dream on.
Ethnology is full of traveller's tales which usually boil down to three cases: a) The ethnologist is a white German lady filmmaker and the stud is dusting his dong because the batty crone pays him to, b) The ethnologist is Margaret Mead and the chief of the Gilhoulies is having her on, or c) The ethnologist has delusions of linguistic competence, and -- whilst demonstrating photography to the savages -- translates the perfectly sensible Papuan expression "Hey, that looks like my reflection in water! How you do dat, bub?" as "Funny fellow in water" -- thereby "demonstrating" that Papua New Guineans have no sense of self! Give me a break! I'll draw a major coda under the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis when I see this result vetted by independent grad students who can FIND the same tribe.
Fill a room full of bombs, wait for the flame dancers to show up, fly the trigger in and set it off. Sure, there's easier ways, but there's points for STYLE, too!