So, (5) Sender computes (message XOR key) -- The message is encrypted. (6) Sender transmits (message XOR key) -- The message is not encrypted (7) Receiver receives (message XOR key) -- The message is encrypted (8) Receives computes ((message XOR key) XOR key) == message -- The message is unencrypted then encrypted again.
Yeah, I know that now... Although there were no print operators there, and I was a sysop in addition to being a programmer/analyst. I was the only employee other than the "president" (yeah, she referred to herself as president of a three employee company). On the plus side, the business went under when a huge company came in and stole all seven of her customers. Her customers were hospitals, and we did ALL of their insurance programming, so we worked our asses off. On the downside, I lost my job and took the first job that came along (tech support, WHEEEeE!) and stayed there so long (I heard job hopping was a reason to not hire people) that my skills are no longer considered current.
$20 an hour? That sounds about right for a REALLY entry-level programming job, I'm getting better than that for ISP tech support.
Then again, my first job was programming on AS/400s for $10 (eventually $12) per hour, but I didn't know any better and at the time (17, right out of HS, welfare family) it seemed like I was rich.
I guess it just goes to show that experience doesn't count for squat if you don't have a college degree. I did that for 3 years, I've got a few 1st place awards in programming competitions, and I can't get a programming job to save my life.
Have fun with your new job, asshole.
(J/K, I'm happy for anyone who manages to get a job programming, you just better be good God damnit.)
Maybe I'm underestimating the average Joe here, but I doubt it.
The average Joe is stupid. Not just a little slow, either, they'll just plain never ever get there. Sorry, but the day the average joe starts designing traffic lights in a city is the day I... well, I won't stop driving, but it'll probably be the day I die.
It's times like this I wish/. was a face to face conversation, because if it was...
OK, see this orange? Try to remember every detail of it, the sight, the smell, the feel, the taste... what's that, you don't know what it sounds like? OK, close your eyes...
Now concentrate harder. Can you hear the orange now? Trust me, it'll come? Still no? Hmm. Keep 'em closed, and concentrate...
Whooosh --- *thwap*!
There! That's what an orange sounds like! Hahahahaha!
I do tech support for a large national ISP, so I know what I'm talking about.
You have no clue how stupid these people are. Absolutely nothing will stop them from responding to spam and buying their product short of them not receiving the spam. We recently updated our spam filters to be far more effective, and people call up to COMPLAIN! that they are not receiving the HUNDREDS! of spam they normally receive every day.
The person I'm talking to RIGHT NOW has just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to type their name. NOTHING will stop them. I am shocked that these people survive through each day, they're SO FUCKING STUPID.
They will see your commercial, and even if you show somebody sitting at their computer, buying spam products and being anally raped and murdered (ANALLY!) by the person they bought from, and they will not make the connection between that commercial and their computing habits. Anybody who is intelligent enough to understand that commercial, and I'm estimating a required IQ of about 80 for that task, already does not pay attention to spam.
Sorry, nothing is going to work short of making it IMPOSSIBLE to send e-mail anonymously.
Oh, my views in no way reflect my company's. As a matter of fact, I'd probably get in trouble for so much as thinking this.
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It's from a Futurama episode.
1/10th of a photon? Huh?
Um...
So,(5) Sender computes (message XOR key) -- The message is encrypted.
(6) Sender transmits (message XOR key) -- The message is not encrypted
(7) Receiver receives (message XOR key) -- The message is encrypted
(8) Receives computes ((message XOR key) XOR key) == message -- The message is unencrypted then encrypted again.
Huh?
Yeah, I know that now... Although there were no print operators there, and I was a sysop in addition to being a programmer/analyst. I was the only employee other than the "president" (yeah, she referred to herself as president of a three employee company). On the plus side, the business went under when a huge company came in and stole all seven of her customers. Her customers were hospitals, and we did ALL of their insurance programming, so we worked our asses off. On the downside, I lost my job and took the first job that came along (tech support, WHEEEeE!) and stayed there so long (I heard job hopping was a reason to not hire people) that my skills are no longer considered current.
$20 an hour? That sounds about right for a REALLY entry-level programming job, I'm getting better than that for ISP tech support.
Then again, my first job was programming on AS/400s for $10 (eventually $12) per hour, but I didn't know any better and at the time (17, right out of HS, welfare family) it seemed like I was rich.
I guess it just goes to show that experience doesn't count for squat if you don't have a college degree. I did that for 3 years, I've got a few 1st place awards in programming competitions, and I can't get a programming job to save my life.
Have fun with your new job, asshole.
(J/K, I'm happy for anyone who manages to get a job programming, you just better be good God damnit.)
Maybe I'm underestimating the average Joe here, but I doubt it.
The average Joe is stupid. Not just a little slow, either, they'll just plain never ever get there. Sorry, but the day the average joe starts designing traffic lights in a city is the day I... well, I won't stop driving, but it'll probably be the day I die.
It's times like this I wish /. was a face to face conversation, because if it was...
OK, see this orange? Try to remember every detail of it, the sight, the smell, the feel, the taste... what's that, you don't know what it sounds like? OK, close your eyes...
Now concentrate harder. Can you hear the orange now? Trust me, it'll come? Still no? Hmm. Keep 'em closed, and concentrate...
Whooosh --- *thwap*!
There! That's what an orange sounds like! Hahahahaha!
*runs*
Ahahaha! Beautiful :)
I do tech support for a large national ISP, so I know what I'm talking about.
You have no clue how stupid these people are. Absolutely nothing will stop them from responding to spam and buying their product short of them not receiving the spam. We recently updated our spam filters to be far more effective, and people call up to COMPLAIN! that they are not receiving the HUNDREDS! of spam they normally receive every day.
The person I'm talking to RIGHT NOW has just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to type their name. NOTHING will stop them. I am shocked that these people survive through each day, they're SO FUCKING STUPID.
They will see your commercial, and even if you show somebody sitting at their computer, buying spam products and being anally raped and murdered (ANALLY!) by the person they bought from, and they will not make the connection between that commercial and their computing habits. Anybody who is intelligent enough to understand that commercial, and I'm estimating a required IQ of about 80 for that task, already does not pay attention to spam.
Sorry, nothing is going to work short of making it IMPOSSIBLE to send e-mail anonymously.
Oh, my views in no way reflect my company's. As a matter of fact, I'd probably get in trouble for so much as thinking this.