Seriously, do any of you have information that is THAT secret?
Not me, but I can imagine various scenarios where steg would be useful. e.g. espionage -- where you use a one time pad to encrypt the info, then steg to insert it in a jpeg which you could transport through airports, etc. on a memory card in your digital camera. Much less incriminating than carrying a floppy or cd...
I can imagine that a similar "stealth" technique could be employed using mp3s and an iPod.
What I don't understand is why a bunch of soldiers would want to spend their downtime playing war games (e.g. Crimson Skies) on the XBox. Don't they get enough of the real thing?
That's like an accountant going home and playing a slightly more exciting Excel/Quickbooks simulator.
On the other hand, the soldiers can play racing games or sports games, which are okay I guess, but still not optimal for relaxation. (Better solution: drink some beers and watch Monday Night Football.)
If I'd ever applied for a job like that, and I ended up with the "dentist chair" reaction to the polygraph, I would've screwed up exactly the same way as him
It is unfortunate if the author failed because of his extreme nervousness during the polygraph interview. However, I would think that the NSA would not want to hire someone who's going to freak out (as was the case) anytime he's subject to a degree of stress.
Some people just deal with stress better than others. Some people get so nervous that they can't write exams, give presentations, etc. This may disqualify them from certain occupations.
Man receives expensive mp3 player for review Man likes it, of course, it's really nice Man posts good review of it on his website, guaranteeing he'll receive further units for evaluation in the future
So if it's nice, why shouldn't he post a good review?
How many people would bend the law in order to make real money?
I'm not saying it's beyond the realm of possibility that there are mercenary crackers out there. I just think they're far outnumbered by crackers who are in it for the glory.
Besides, it seems that these days the best way for black-hat hackers to make money are (a) blackmail by threatening DDOS attacks against corporate websites, and (b) creating trojans to install zombie SMTP servers for spammers.
Either hackers have decided they *hate* OSS (not likely) or someone is putting up a purse trying to damage the OSS communities security image.
Or (C) None of the above. To want to crack something you don't need to hate it (or to be paid to hate it). The possibility of finding vulnerabilities is tantalizing enough on its own. To crack something that big would be a major black-hat ego trip, don't you think?
The "Atari 2600's most successful rival" was clearly ColecoVision. For those of us old enough to remember, Coleco was the bomb with near-perfect (or so it seemed) arcade ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Burger Time, Q*Bert, etc.
Also, Coleco had the Turbo game pack with steering wheel controller and gas pedal. That thing was possibly the best present my parents ever bought me.
Oh, and Coleco had an expansion port on the side into which you could plug a peripheral that allowed you to play Atari carts.
They aren't "White" in that sense. It's probably the eyes throwing you off.
No, a lot of them have blond or light brown hair as well as blue eyes (e.g. Sailor Moon, the kids on Digimon, and a million other ones I've seen but don't know the names).
"I predict that within 100 years, laptops will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
I would like to go on record to point out how much I hate Japanese RPGs. Am I the only one? I know Japanophiles love them (for the same unfathomable reason they love manga), but I find them boring and generic. This is not to say that I don't love other Japanese games. Nintendo is my favorite platform. However, the RPGs suck!
Here's something funny about Metro-X, sort of: Way back then, someone at my uni managed to snag the Metro Motif source, somehow (open ftp). There was much excitement amongst the undergraduate CS students until we realized that there was absolutely nothing for which we needed Motif. I think maybe Netscape for Linux was compiled with Motif, but it was statically linked anyway.
Someone must decide how to distribute wealth. That class of people will inevitably favor themselves.
During the time of Marx and Engels' writing, the proletariat class was by far the largest. The theory was that by becoming conscious of itself (as a class), the proletariat would become aware that it could seize power (owing to its greater numbers and especially its labor power).
So, the proletariat would seize power. In so doing, it would be a class acting in its own self-interest. There is no contradiction here between socialism and the majority pursuing its own self-interest (to wrest control from the elite class). And as I said, once private property is abolished, social class effectively disappears, so that no one class exists to exploit another.
As for the USSR -- I have not studied the modern history of socialism. But I suspect the failure the USSR can mostly be blamed on Stalin turning the country into a totalitarian terror state before pure communism had had a chance to take root.
Socialism is not much different than feudalism. A small minority (the rulling class or govt.) comtrols all the wealth, and doles out enough for the proletariat to keep them alive.
You've got it all backwards, buddy. In a purely socialist society, the proletariat becomes the ruling class, hence the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat." Of course, once private property is abolished and industries are nationalized, class divisions evaporate altogether -- such that the initial dictatorship of the proletariat becomes unnecessary. That's the theory, anyway.
Software is evaluated in the context in which it's released (time-specific, technology-specific).
For instance, a reviewer in 1992 may well have given OS/2 2.0 a four out of five. If the same package were released today, however, he would be unlikely to do so.
This is why it is specious to compare the release of Windows 2000 to the release of Panther. It's like asking who would win a game between the 1936 and the 1998 Yankees.
Atkins diet is basically just a low calorie diet in disguise (as you eliminate carbs, you eliminate a major source of calories).
Also, as in ANY diet, under Atkins you are forced to pay close attention to your food consumption. This is a good, healthy thing in itself (to be aware of your food consumption). That awareness alone, regardless of the Atkins method specifically, may promote weight loss.
BTW, I suspect all Atkins' insulin, ketosis, etc. theory is all junk science.
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Seriously, do any of you have information that is THAT secret?
Not me, but I can imagine various scenarios where steg would be useful. e.g. espionage -- where you use a one time pad to encrypt the info, then steg to insert it in a jpeg which you could transport through airports, etc. on a memory card in your digital camera. Much less incriminating than carrying a floppy or cd...
I can imagine that a similar "stealth" technique could be employed using mp3s and an iPod.
Yeah, just like the Space Invaders cart for the 2600 was supposed to contain 112 video games (if I recall correctly).
What I don't understand is why a bunch of soldiers would want to spend their downtime playing war games (e.g. Crimson Skies) on the XBox. Don't they get enough of the real thing?
That's like an accountant going home and playing a slightly more exciting Excel/Quickbooks simulator.
On the other hand, the soldiers can play racing games or sports games, which are okay I guess, but still not optimal for relaxation. (Better solution: drink some beers and watch Monday Night Football.)
If I'd ever applied for a job like that, and I ended up with the "dentist chair" reaction to the polygraph, I would've screwed up exactly the same way as him
It is unfortunate if the author failed because of his extreme nervousness during the polygraph interview. However, I would think that the NSA would not want to hire someone who's going to freak out (as was the case) anytime he's subject to a degree of stress.
Some people just deal with stress better than others. Some people get so nervous that they can't write exams, give presentations, etc. This may disqualify them from certain occupations.
Man receives expensive mp3 player for review
Man likes it, of course, it's really nice
Man posts good review of it on his website, guaranteeing he'll receive further units for evaluation in the future
So if it's nice, why shouldn't he post a good review?
How many people would bend the law in order to make real money?
I'm not saying it's beyond the realm of possibility that there are mercenary crackers out there. I just think they're far outnumbered by crackers who are in it for the glory.
Besides, it seems that these days the best way for black-hat hackers to make money are (a) blackmail by threatening DDOS attacks against corporate websites, and (b) creating trojans to install zombie SMTP servers for spammers.
Either hackers have decided they *hate* OSS (not likely) or someone is putting up a purse trying to damage the OSS communities security image.
Or (C) None of the above. To want to crack something you don't need to hate it (or to be paid to hate it). The possibility of finding vulnerabilities is tantalizing enough on its own. To crack something that big would be a major black-hat ego trip, don't you think?
FYI, XBox runs a custom PIII at 733MHz.
The "Atari 2600's most successful rival" was clearly ColecoVision. For those of us old enough to remember, Coleco was the bomb with near-perfect (or so it seemed) arcade ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Burger Time, Q*Bert, etc.
Also, Coleco had the Turbo game pack with steering wheel controller and gas pedal. That thing was possibly the best present my parents ever bought me.
Oh, and Coleco had an expansion port on the side into which you could plug a peripheral that allowed you to play Atari carts.
No, a lot of them have blond or light brown hair as well as blue eyes (e.g. Sailor Moon, the kids on Digimon, and a million other ones I've seen but don't know the names).
Why are the characters in anime always white? Why don't Japanese people want to see Japanese characters on TV?
"I predict that within 100 years, laptops will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
Seriously.
I would like to go on record to point out how much I hate Japanese RPGs. Am I the only one? I know Japanophiles love them (for the same unfathomable reason they love manga), but I find them boring and generic. This is not to say that I don't love other Japanese games. Nintendo is my favorite platform. However, the RPGs suck!
Here's something funny about Metro-X, sort of: Way back then, someone at my uni managed to snag the Metro Motif source, somehow (open ftp). There was much excitement amongst the undergraduate CS students until we realized that there was absolutely nothing for which we needed Motif. I think maybe Netscape for Linux was compiled with Motif, but it was statically linked anyway.
During the time of Marx and Engels' writing, the proletariat class was by far the largest. The theory was that by becoming conscious of itself (as a class), the proletariat would become aware that it could seize power (owing to its greater numbers and especially its labor power).
So, the proletariat would seize power. In so doing, it would be a class acting in its own self-interest. There is no contradiction here between socialism and the majority pursuing its own self-interest (to wrest control from the elite class). And as I said, once private property is abolished, social class effectively disappears, so that no one class exists to exploit another.
As for the USSR -- I have not studied the modern history of socialism. But I suspect the failure the USSR can mostly be blamed on Stalin turning the country into a totalitarian terror state before pure communism had had a chance to take root.
Oh, and you can read about it all in this piece by Engels, if you want.
You've got it all backwards, buddy. In a purely socialist society, the proletariat becomes the ruling class, hence the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat." Of course, once private property is abolished and industries are nationalized, class divisions evaporate altogether -- such that the initial dictatorship of the proletariat becomes unnecessary. That's the theory, anyway.
Software is evaluated in the context in which it's released (time-specific, technology-specific).
For instance, a reviewer in 1992 may well have given OS/2 2.0 a four out of five. If the same package were released today, however, he would be unlikely to do so.
This is why it is specious to compare the release of Windows 2000 to the release of Panther. It's like asking who would win a game between the 1936 and the 1998 Yankees.
Atkins diet is basically just a low calorie diet in disguise (as you eliminate carbs, you eliminate a major source of calories).
Also, as in ANY diet, under Atkins you are forced to pay close attention to your food consumption. This is a good, healthy thing in itself (to be aware of your food consumption). That awareness alone, regardless of the Atkins method specifically, may promote weight loss.
BTW, I suspect all Atkins' insulin, ketosis, etc. theory is all junk science.