Usenet makes a perfectly good blind drop. All each party needs to know how to identify a steganographic message, and that could be something as simple as "run every message in this newsgroup through this software".
I think that's about when they realized that rubber-hose cryptography was easier than trying to keep up with all the encryption methods.
Even if they do have a method that lets them exhaust the keyspace of 256-bit encryption in a matter of hours, they still need to know when they've got the correct key. If you're tunneling encrypted audio over a VoIP link, how would the feds know when they've got the right key? Since audio data is meaningless to a computer, they'd need a person to listen to each decryption attempt.
Steganography. Hide your message in an image posted to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. The feds might be able to figure out that a message was sent, but they won't have a clue who the recipient was.
I learned classic touch typing, and a split ergonomic keyboard interferes with the habits I formed: y, g, h, and b might be typed with either hand.
On the other hand, an ergonomic keyboard is so much more comfortable than a straight keyboard that it's worth the inconvienience. I just wish someone made an ergo keyboard with the 5,6,t,y,g,h,b,n keys on both sides of the split.
72 wpm at TypingTest.com, with 88% accuracy -- but half the errors were from hitting the backspace key to correct the previous error. Why do typing tests always tell you not to backspace over errors?
Aren't absentee ballots usually not counted until after the election is pretty much determined anyway?
Remeber just how close the presidential election was in Florida? 400 votes, give or take the counting method. Absentee ballots could have made an enormous difference.
The problem is, emulators are all well and good, until you actualy need to access a periphrial.
So you emulate those, as well... And usually, they take a lot less to emulate than the core system.
What about real peripherals? Ones you can't emulate?
I once worked at a mechanical testing lab. The "peripherals" were fatigue testing machines that connected using a 30-pin DIN connector. Some of the pins were digital input, some were analog input, and some were analog output. Further, some of the internal circuitry on the controller board that would need to be emulated was analog, while the overall controller logic was digital.
Looks like I'm doing better than average. Of the games I've started writing, I've actually reached 100% for one of them -- a re-implementation of RoboWar. Of course, now I'm bogged down trying to upgrade the graphics to something more sophisticated than basic 32x32 sprites.
Does anyone know of a C++-compatible scene graph library?
Nor is anything in there it verified 99.9% of the time.
You sure about that? One time, I added a note to the article on the M1 Abrams tank about reactive armor, and later that day I got a note from an army mechanic who stated that that particular modification had never actually been made. Seems to me there's plenty of verification.
I think Wikis are eventually going to die off, and blogs with rating systems will ultimately reign supreme. Everyone talks, everyone determines what articles are top notch, and someone truly in control can axe things if necessary. There's no true control with Wiki, and that's its biggest hurdle.
Have you looked at the internal process at Wikipedia? There's plenty of control.
Vandalize an article? Unless you pick something very minor and obscure, there's someone who has it on a watchlist who will find what you've done and fix it quickly.
Repeated vandalism? You (or your IP address) can get a one-day ban by any of the administrators. A longer ban can be placed if needed.
Having an edit war? One of the admins can protect the page from further changes, while arranging for a mediator to sort out the differences.
There are plenty of procedures in place for dealing with problem users. They're not needed very often, which is why it doesn't look like they exist.
I don't see an Alexa rating of over 1000 as meaningful -- one site I visit boosted its ranking from >500,000 to around 5000 simply by encouraging visitors to use the toolbar for a few days. The ratings are just too easy to game outside the top.
And finally, unless the platters shatter, or the heads start scraping the coating off the platters, it only costs a few hundred dollars to have professionals recover the data from a broken hard drive.
The cheapest data recovery company I found charges $1150 if they need to open your drive in a cleanroom.
For me, KDE is a fifteen-hour compile. That's long enough that I wouldn't want it to happen automatically -- I'd want to put it off until I've got a large block of time that I'm not using the computer.
That's why I like a game like Nethack -- it can be divided up into bite-sized chunks of time. With Nethack, if I've got 15 minutes to spare, I can fire up the game and clear out a level of the dungeon -- or, if I'm having a particularly unlucky day, get my current character killed off.
(Carnildo-bar-hum-neu, killed by a wand of death on level 9)
You don't understand it? It's pretty straightforward: a black hole has an event horizon, but nothing ever actually crosses it. The information can be retrieved from the black hole because it was never inside the event horizon.
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Usenet makes a perfectly good blind drop. All each party needs to know how to identify a steganographic message, and that could be something as simple as "run every message in this newsgroup through this software".
That's what you've been taught. That's what you've learned. That's what you've been led to believe.
What makes you think the government doesn't have some technology you can't even fathom?
If they were that far ahead, I'd be writing this from prison.
I think that's about when they realized that rubber-hose cryptography was easier than trying to keep up with all the encryption methods.
Even if they do have a method that lets them exhaust the keyspace of 256-bit encryption in a matter of hours, they still need to know when they've got the correct key. If you're tunneling encrypted audio over a VoIP link, how would the feds know when they've got the right key? Since audio data is meaningless to a computer, they'd need a person to listen to each decryption attempt.
Steganography. Hide your message in an image posted to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. The feds might be able to figure out that a message was sent, but they won't have a clue who the recipient was.
I learned classic touch typing, and a split ergonomic keyboard interferes with the habits I formed: y, g, h, and b might be typed with either hand.
On the other hand, an ergonomic keyboard is so much more comfortable than a straight keyboard that it's worth the inconvienience. I just wish someone made an ergo keyboard with the 5,6,t,y,g,h,b,n keys on both sides of the split.
72 wpm at TypingTest.com, with 88% accuracy -- but half the errors were from hitting the backspace key to correct the previous error. Why do typing tests always tell you not to backspace over errors?
In order to vote absentee you must swear by penalty of perjury that you are on active duty or otherwise outside the U.S.
It is a criminal offense to vote absentee while remaining in the states.
In what state? Some places, that might be the rule. Others, you can get an absentee ballot just by asking for it.
Aren't absentee ballots usually not counted until after the election is pretty much determined anyway?
Remeber just how close the presidential election was in Florida? 400 votes, give or take the counting method. Absentee ballots could have made an enormous difference.
The problem is, emulators are all well and good, until you actualy need to access a periphrial.
So you emulate those, as well... And usually, they take a lot less to emulate than the core system.
What about real peripherals? Ones you can't emulate?
I once worked at a mechanical testing lab. The "peripherals" were fatigue testing machines that connected using a 30-pin DIN connector. Some of the pins were digital input, some were analog input, and some were analog output. Further, some of the internal circuitry on the controller board that would need to be emulated was analog, while the overall controller logic was digital.
Have fun!
And if you've got a newfangled video card, it actually has a tile-based graphical interface!
Looks like I'm doing better than average. Of the games I've started writing, I've actually reached 100% for one of them -- a re-implementation of RoboWar. Of course, now I'm bogged down trying to upgrade the graphics to something more sophisticated than basic 32x32 sprites.
Does anyone know of a C++-compatible scene graph library?
Can you try a transfer from /dev/zero on one box to /dev/null on the other?
it calls the person i ask for (i would say 95% accurate, if carefully setup)
So you're the one responsible for all those wrong numbers I get!
Depends. Is he cute?
I'll shoot the next guy who tries to tell me that violence on TV is a bad thing!
It might just be my Powerbook monitor, but I see the games section colorscheme as a very nice-looking blue gradient on white.
Nor is anything in there it verified 99.9% of the time.
You sure about that? One time, I added a note to the article on the M1 Abrams tank about reactive armor, and later that day I got a note from an army mechanic who stated that that particular modification had never actually been made. Seems to me there's plenty of verification.
I think Wikis are eventually going to die off, and blogs with rating systems will ultimately reign supreme. Everyone talks, everyone determines what articles are top notch, and someone truly in control can axe things if necessary. There's no true control with Wiki, and that's its biggest hurdle.
Have you looked at the internal process at Wikipedia? There's plenty of control.
Vandalize an article? Unless you pick something very minor and obscure, there's someone who has it on a watchlist who will find what you've done and fix it quickly.
Repeated vandalism? You (or your IP address) can get a one-day ban by any of the administrators. A longer ban can be placed if needed.
Having an edit war? One of the admins can protect the page from further changes, while arranging for a mediator to sort out the differences.
There are plenty of procedures in place for dealing with problem users. They're not needed very often, which is why it doesn't look like they exist.
I don't see an Alexa rating of over 1000 as meaningful -- one site I visit boosted its ranking from >500,000 to around 5000 simply by encouraging visitors to use the toolbar for a few days. The ratings are just too easy to game outside the top.
And finally, unless the platters shatter, or the heads start scraping the coating off the platters, it only costs a few hundred dollars to have professionals recover the data from a broken hard drive.
The cheapest data recovery company I found charges $1150 if they need to open your drive in a cleanroom.
For me, KDE is a fifteen-hour compile. That's long enough that I wouldn't want it to happen automatically -- I'd want to put it off until I've got a large block of time that I'm not using the computer.
That's why I like a game like Nethack -- it can be divided up into bite-sized chunks of time. With Nethack, if I've got 15 minutes to spare, I can fire up the game and clear out a level of the dungeon -- or, if I'm having a particularly unlucky day, get my current character killed off.
(Carnildo-bar-hum-neu, killed by a wand of death on level 9)
My understanding is that you do own the game. You're paying for download access to their game library.
You don't understand it? It's pretty straightforward: a black hole has an event horizon, but nothing ever actually crosses it. The information can be retrieved from the black hole because it was never inside the event horizon.
Physics is a wonderful place, where not even the physicists know what the hell is going on!
Seventy years ago, Einstein estimated that there were only two people in the world who understood general relativity, and he was one of them.