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  1. Re:They're insane. on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    I would have much preferred to get through three levels of free content then decided the game was shithouse rather than having to learn that at the cost of $70.

    Most publishers publish free demos that you can easily download.

  2. Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 1

    It's not support for Wikipedia, but rather support for OpenSearch autodiscovery.

  3. Finally, the perfect keyboard for Windows on Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard reviewed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just configure the three keys as ctrl, alt, and delete.
    :)

  4. This is just so wrong on Debunking a Bogus Encryption Statement? · · Score: 1
    If you have a block size of N bits, then there are 2^N possible plaintext/ciphertext blocks, but there are factorial(2^N) possible keys. Think of each key as a permutation of the blocks (which is actually what it is).

    Out of those factorial(2^N) keys, only a very very very very very few are actually used, since the key size is nowhere near that large. In AES, for example, the block size is 128 bits, but the largest key size is 256 bits, even though the number of possible keys is 128!. This means that given a random plaintext/ciphertext block, it's actually very improbable that you'd find a key to generate that result.

    The only reason that double encryption doesn't provide "double security", is that a meet-in-the-middle attack is possible (see other comments for more details), and that kind of attack only takes twice the time (on average) than a brute force attack on a single key. 3DES provides more security than regular DES, since a meet-in-the-middle attack on 3DES makes its security roughly equivilant to using a 112 bit key (56*2), and that's still too large to be practically broken by brute force alone.

  5. Re:SciTe - no on Source Code Browsing Tools? · · Score: 1

    ...and also totally irrelevant to this discussion. The question was about source browsing tools, not about source editing tools. The "find" and "find in files" functions that SciTe provides don't really count as browsing tools.

  6. Here's an idea on No One Wins NASA Space Elevator Contest · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...although a group from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada set the height record at 12 meters

    Maybe if we stacked them...

  7. is this really your bottleneck? on Arrays vs Pointers in C? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    When the goal is maximum performance across multiple CPU architectures, can one always assume that this is true?

    One can always check the resulting assembly code, if one is so concerned about this.

    Though I'm pretty sure this isn't the performance bottleneck in your code (just remember - profile, profile, profile)

  8. Oblig. bash.org quote on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 5, Funny

    #88575 +(4830)- [X]

    <Stormrider> I should bomb something
    <Stormrider> ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
    <Stormrider> Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
    <Elzie_Ann> I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
    *** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
    <FBI> We saw it anyway.
    *** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )

  9. Re:UFOs! on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 1

    Nope. Just swamp gas.
    Nothing to see here.

  10. Re:Just state machine? on A Model Railroad That Computes · · Score: 2, Informative

    "billions of states" can be achieved with ~30 bits of memory.
    I believe that in order to model "any physical computation device" you're going to need many many more states
    (1KB RAM == 2^8192 states == ~1e2466 states).