If I press Menu, Entertainment, Record Sound, Select, then it uses the phone's own mic to record a sound bite -- which I can later use as a ringtone, and even send to other people by BT or IR. And it works better than you might think. Modern phone mics are quite directional; it has automatic gain control; and the ultimate frequency response is limited at playback time by the ringer speaker. These are all factors that work in your favour. What can the phone manufacturers do about this? Not a lot.
They can prevent using microphone input as a ringtone.
There is a reason they tried this on RSA, and not, say, encrypting a large file with some symmetric key algo:
All operations in the RSA cryptosystem involve modular exponentiation, which means that for relatively large chunks of time (a few dozen microseconds, maybe), is either squaring a very large number, multiplying it by another very large number, or reducing the very large number to a not-so-large number.
Each of these operations might last long enough to have a detectable acoustic signature, knowing the particular sequence of operations (square, multiply, etc.) would tell you the private key.
But that would only work if the computer is decrypting, signing, or creating a new key.
What exactly do you mean by level playing field?
A few hours after the test in a certain subject is first given, the risk of giving some students an unfair advantage over others vanishes because ALL testing locations in ALL timezones have already finished giving that test.
Tho teachers continue to give old tests for their students to practice on, these scores are not reported to college board, and frankly, I don't see why CB gives a flying fuck about what is done with their old testing material...
Usually when College Board phases something out, they make the transition gradual so that the instructors can better prepare the students. I never took this test, but I'm guessing that in the last year of C++, they were avoiding operator overloading and other C++-specific constructs to ease the transition to Java.
If you simply put together something from prefab pieces, it is NOT computer science.
So you'd be willing to claim that the interconnections between prefab pieces has absolutely no scientific merit, and that any old codemonkey can pull a build system like GNU make or Apache Ant out of his ass?
(and those developers writing hordes of applications is what gives Windows its staying power - not something lightly abandoned)
But those 3rd-party developers are not doing what Ximian did, namely to reimplement the core of the.NET platform (C# bytecode interpreter/compiler, base classes, etc.)
Mono is much more likely to grab Microsoft's attention.
The first clause is contradictory. How can you be certain that a product is monopolistic if you haven't even finished the case?
We have a bad case of chicken-and-egg syndrome here.
intermolecular forces can't handle the forces. According to Niven's RW introduction, you would need the strong nuclear force. A strangelet ring might be a candidate, since it would be one giant particle, but strangelet's seem kind of dangerous.
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If I press Menu, Entertainment, Record Sound, Select, then it uses the phone's own mic to record a sound bite -- which I can later use as a ringtone, and even send to other people by BT or IR. And it works better than you might think. Modern phone mics are quite directional; it has automatic gain control; and the ultimate frequency response is limited at playback time by the ringer speaker. These are all factors that work in your favour. What can the phone manufacturers do about this? Not a lot.
They can prevent using microphone input as a ringtone.
more likely they are looking to appeal to the kinds of guys that want to crack 128-bit encrypted data streams in real-time, ...
STFU.
Silence, naysayer. The future is now!
So many people have open access nodes, i know in my house i can log in to my neighbors wireless just as easy as my own.
where I live, that's legally equivalent to h4x0ring vis n3++w3rk, so be careful.
Perhaps if we got Linus on board, the whole KiB/MiB/GiB thing would gain acceptance.
Oh wait...
There is a reason they tried this on RSA, and not, say, encrypting a large file with some symmetric key algo: All operations in the RSA cryptosystem involve modular exponentiation, which means that for relatively large chunks of time (a few dozen microseconds, maybe), is either squaring a very large number, multiplying it by another very large number, or reducing the very large number to a not-so-large number. Each of these operations might last long enough to have a detectable acoustic signature, knowing the particular sequence of operations (square, multiply, etc.) would tell you the private key. But that would only work if the computer is decrypting, signing, or creating a new key.
What exactly do you mean by level playing field? A few hours after the test in a certain subject is first given, the risk of giving some students an unfair advantage over others vanishes because ALL testing locations in ALL timezones have already finished giving that test. Tho teachers continue to give old tests for their students to practice on, these scores are not reported to college board, and frankly, I don't see why CB gives a flying fuck about what is done with their old testing material...
Usually when College Board phases something out, they make the transition gradual so that the instructors can better prepare the students. I never took this test, but I'm guessing that in the last year of C++, they were avoiding operator overloading and other C++-specific constructs to ease the transition to Java.
If you simply put together something from prefab pieces, it is NOT computer science. So you'd be willing to claim that the interconnections between prefab pieces has absolutely no scientific merit, and that any old codemonkey can pull a build system like GNU make or Apache Ant out of his ass?
Mono is much more likely to grab Microsoft's attention.
So apparently they had a way of producing these WIMPS for calibration purposes? Sounds like BS to me.
it's essentially a neon sign when it's in use. You know, that thing businesses use when they want lots of attention...
The British Empire, of course...
The first clause is contradictory. How can you be certain that a product is monopolistic if you haven't even finished the case? We have a bad case of chicken-and-egg syndrome here.
intermolecular forces can't handle the forces. According to Niven's RW introduction, you would need the strong nuclear force. A strangelet ring might be a candidate, since it would be one giant particle, but strangelet's seem kind of dangerous.