In the sense that given enough time and speed, you can try every possible password, there isn't much point. However, there is no need to store the password on the drive at all, much less with such weak encryption.
Part of the point of this encryption is to give the end user time to react if the hard drive is stolen for espionage. If there is security information on the hard drive, he should have time to change his security. If there are trade secrets stored, then he wants the de-encryption to take long enough (years) so that they will be obsolete by the time they are cracked. Allowing somebody to crack the hard drive in, say, 1 day is just not acceptable.
It all depends on how much money you are willing to spend and the particular situation.
In principle you may be able to crack the screen with a blow-gun (or other quiet projectile weapon) from far-enough away that the camera can't see you.
Thereare probably many ways to jam the camera with radiation. Micro-wave radiation can permanently damage some electronics, but its tricky to avaoid frying people (including yourself), animals, or non-targetted property. I believe http://www.plans-kits.com/ has information on how to build some micro-wave devices, but they do tend to be quite bulky.
All of this is probably quite illegal in most circumstances though, so I would advise against it. As mentioned by others, there are more effective ways than vandalism to discourage corporate irresponsibility. Corporations operate by maximizing expected profits, and your unexpected erratic vandalism has much less effect on future expectations than a boycott.
Since all the Hamiltonians involved are time-reversible, wouldn't it make just as much sense to start with the current conditions and work backwards? Unless they think they have a better understanding of the initial conditions than of the present conditions. Which seems quite unlikely to me.
Because you have a laptop with batteries that can run off that firewood-powered generator you keep in your log cabin in Alaska. (You know, the one with no running water.) That way you can write novels in complete seclusion while living off the land, and you can keep a back-up in case a bear wanders into your cabin and thrashes your laptop, or you drop it in the water while fishing, or whatever.
The population is larger now and a higher percentage watch movies regularly. There are more movie theatres. Etc., etc. So I don't even like the inflation adjusted model. I would rather see a cumulative market share model.
1. Blade Runner (1982) Dir: Ridley Scott - Because the main protagonist is Harrison Ford, and it went over budget in production, and the script has a few profound lines, and a hidden sub-plot that some people never realize. All and all, its pretty hard to beat
2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick - This is just blatant bias because they like the author.
3 Star Wars (1977)/Empire Strikes Back (1980) - No, really, who would have thought. It was only the first truly popular scifi movie ever. (As in you weren't automaticly a nerd for being a fan.)
4 Alien (1979) Dir: Ridley Scott - Because its the best series of horror movies ever, and it just happens to have a scifi element. And the feminists like it too.
5 Solaris (1972) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky - Because its obscure, requires a lot of focus to follow the metaphysics, and has an element of tragic drama. In other words, its the nerds' pick.
6 Terminator (1984)/T2: Judgment day (1991) Dir: James Cameron - Because the scientists want to suck up to politicians.
Although Logans Run is one of the best sci-fi films from its era (possibly ever), most people have never heard of it, including people who have actually watched it. And this is coming from an avid fan of the series. Oh, you didn't know they made a series too? That's exactly the type of ignorance I'm talking about.
I suggest either cancelling Cable to help pay for the DVD's, or get TiVo so you can have something closer to the DVD experience with your favorite programs. Either way you go, its much better than suffering through commercials right at a cliff-hanger, or missing the climax because your girl-friend wants to talk.
I forgt to mention Firefly myself. Excellent sereis. It never even finished the first season on TV. Oh, they aired the last episode on TV, but not the whole season. Which is why every sci-fi fan should buy it on DVD. Seriously, the quality is much better than farscape, and its the only way you will ever see it for a very very long time.
After getting Babylon 5 on DVD and watching most of Angel and Stargate SG1 on TiVo, I tried watching some episodes of Farscae that I hadn't seen before. It just grates on my nerves. Its predictable, uninteresting, and repetitive. I might give up TV soon. I'm running out of programming that I enjoy.
Contest designer Frank Thornton of Blackthorn Systems has added a technological wrinkle or two to this year's contest. The Running Man Web page has a secret message on it, which will require cryptographic and puzzle-solving skills to decode. Competitors can't run around the hotel simply asking everyone, "Are you the Running Man?" Instead, they have to decode the message and say it to the Running Man. The first team to do so wins.
The Virtual Woman Beta is still available. I think it was the first software in this pathetic sub-genre. At least you can find out what is so appealing and addictive about this without spending too much money.
I call it a sub-genre because it isn't much different than the AI on Personality Forge. The main difference is that it does 'more than chat'. Not much more, though.
For the record, I find that its very easy to smuggle outside food and drinks into a theatre. Get a coat with pockets. Bring food and drink that fits nicely in the pockets and doesn't make a mess.
And the tickets generally run around $5-$8 where I live, which is is not enough to make even consider the price as a major decision-making factor.
The biggest down-side to the theatre is just the time comittment. I can't press pause like I can on TiVo/DVD and get up to start another load of laundry in the washer/drier and then come back and press play. I can't check my email. It's about 2.5 hours of time wasted on entertainment and nothing else. If you're on a date, its even more awkward to try to cuddle than at home. Those theatre chairs are quite restrictive, and the people behind you will complain of your girlfriend sits on your lap.
As any MENSA member can tell you, it all depends on whether you are looking at numerical order or the episodes or chronological order of release. I would argue that since episode I is by far the worse, the you can't beat the bondage scene in episode VI, the pattern really goes according to numerical order of the episodes. Therefore expect the last thre episodes to be spectacular!
Furthermore, if this continues to be the story of Anaken (sp?) Skywalker, then we could get to see much more "ghosts of the dead Jedi Knights" in action. And that could be cool. Really.
These tribes typically have some individual(s) who have a more sophisticated counting system resembling binary or trinary. These few individuals are employed by chiefs to act as a sort of ceremonial accountant. However, it is true that the vast majority of people who speak these languages (that only have words for numbers upto 3) will have trouble with counting and arithmetic. And even if they know the binary/trinary counting system they might not want to bother with it, especially when talking to a non-native speaker.
... that the high-speed Cable internet installation CD instructs the user to turn off all anti-virus and fire-wall software during installation. Talk about a security flaw! It's like telling somebody to remove all contraceptives before... you know... for the first time.
You could just invest in some cost-effective disk storage, dump all the copy-righted digital media to one device, and then re-sell the original CD's and DVD's. Sure, you won't be able to play anything anymore with a CD/DVD player, but now you can just play it from your computer, and you don't have to worry about scratching disks.
But it costs too much to buy new stuff and then sell it used, you say? Well then, buy it used and sell it used! Then you just pay shipping, on average, if that. (If you are just going for volume rather than specific content, buy it at garage sales, estate sales, etc, then sell it online.)
Not that I would ever do something like that. I'm just saying, P2P is NOT the only way to do piracy. The fact is, media piracy has a very long history.
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Part of the point of this encryption is to give the end user time to react if the hard drive is stolen for espionage. If there is security information on the hard drive, he should have time to change his security. If there are trade secrets stored, then he wants the de-encryption to take long enough (years) so that they will be obsolete by the time they are cracked. Allowing somebody to crack the hard drive in, say, 1 day is just not acceptable.
I'm sure lots of people would pay for this technology. Geeks or otherwise.
In principle you may be able to crack the screen with a blow-gun (or other quiet projectile weapon) from far-enough away that the camera can't see you.
Thereare probably many ways to jam the camera with radiation. Micro-wave radiation can permanently damage some electronics, but its tricky to avaoid frying people (including yourself), animals, or non-targetted property. I believe http://www.plans-kits.com/ has information on how to build some micro-wave devices, but they do tend to be quite bulky.
All of this is probably quite illegal in most circumstances though, so I would advise against it. As mentioned by others, there are more effective ways than vandalism to discourage corporate irresponsibility. Corporations operate by maximizing expected profits, and your unexpected erratic vandalism has much less effect on future expectations than a boycott.
Since all the Hamiltonians involved are time-reversible, wouldn't it make just as much sense to start with the current conditions and work backwards? Unless they think they have a better understanding of the initial conditions than of the present conditions. Which seems quite unlikely to me.
Cryptography will outlast the human race as warring factions of intelligent robots battle for domination of the galaxy.
Because you have a laptop with batteries that can run off that firewood-powered generator you keep in your log cabin in Alaska. (You know, the one with no running water.) That way you can write novels in complete seclusion while living off the land, and you can keep a back-up in case a bear wanders into your cabin and thrashes your laptop, or you drop it in the water while fishing, or whatever.
They never made a movie sequel. They just made a soundtrack for a sequel. How artsy.
The population is larger now and a higher percentage watch movies regularly. There are more movie theatres. Etc., etc. So I don't even like the inflation adjusted model. I would rather see a cumulative market share model.
2 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick - This is just blatant bias because they like the author.
3 Star Wars (1977)/Empire Strikes Back (1980) - No, really, who would have thought. It was only the first truly popular scifi movie ever. (As in you weren't automaticly a nerd for being a fan.)
4 Alien (1979) Dir: Ridley Scott - Because its the best series of horror movies ever, and it just happens to have a scifi element. And the feminists like it too.
5 Solaris (1972) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky - Because its obscure, requires a lot of focus to follow the metaphysics, and has an element of tragic drama. In other words, its the nerds' pick.
6 Terminator (1984)/T2: Judgment day (1991) Dir: James Cameron - Because the scientists want to suck up to politicians.
etc...
Although Logans Run is one of the best sci-fi films from its era (possibly ever), most people have never heard of it, including people who have actually watched it. And this is coming from an avid fan of the series. Oh, you didn't know they made a series too? That's exactly the type of ignorance I'm talking about.
I suggest either cancelling Cable to help pay for the DVD's, or get TiVo so you can have something closer to the DVD experience with your favorite programs. Either way you go, its much better than suffering through commercials right at a cliff-hanger, or missing the climax because your girl-friend wants to talk.
I forgt to mention Firefly myself. Excellent sereis. It never even finished the first season on TV. Oh, they aired the last episode on TV, but not the whole season. Which is why every sci-fi fan should buy it on DVD. Seriously, the quality is much better than farscape, and its the only way you will ever see it for a very very long time.
After getting Babylon 5 on DVD and watching most of Angel and Stargate SG1 on TiVo, I tried watching some episodes of Farscae that I hadn't seen before. It just grates on my nerves. Its predictable, uninteresting, and repetitive. I might give up TV soon. I'm running out of programming that I enjoy.
Contest designer Frank Thornton of Blackthorn Systems has added a technological wrinkle or two to this year's contest. The Running Man Web page has a secret message on it, which will require cryptographic and puzzle-solving skills to decode. Competitors can't run around the hotel simply asking everyone, "Are you the Running Man?" Instead, they have to decode the message and say it to the Running Man. The first team to do so wins.
On a more serious note, it probably ventilates to the outside air or uses internal well-insulated heat sinks. Either way could work in theory.
... could also be used to increase the objectification of women. All technology has its abuses.
I call it a sub-genre because it isn't much different than the AI on Personality Forge. The main difference is that it does 'more than chat'. Not much more, though.
And the tickets generally run around $5-$8 where I live, which is is not enough to make even consider the price as a major decision-making factor.
The biggest down-side to the theatre is just the time comittment. I can't press pause like I can on TiVo/DVD and get up to start another load of laundry in the washer/drier and then come back and press play. I can't check my email. It's about 2.5 hours of time wasted on entertainment and nothing else. If you're on a date, its even more awkward to try to cuddle than at home. Those theatre chairs are quite restrictive, and the people behind you will complain of your girlfriend sits on your lap.
Furthermore, if this continues to be the story of Anaken (sp?) Skywalker, then we could get to see much more "ghosts of the dead Jedi Knights" in action. And that could be cool. Really.
These tribes typically have some individual(s) who have a more sophisticated counting system resembling binary or trinary. These few individuals are employed by chiefs to act as a sort of ceremonial accountant. However, it is true that the vast majority of people who speak these languages (that only have words for numbers upto 3) will have trouble with counting and arithmetic. And even if they know the binary/trinary counting system they might not want to bother with it, especially when talking to a non-native speaker.
... can't the spammer just keep copies of old RPOW tokens and reuse them himself later? How is this prevented?
... that the high-speed Cable internet installation CD instructs the user to turn off all anti-virus and fire-wall software during installation. Talk about a security flaw! It's like telling somebody to remove all contraceptives before ... you know ... for the first time.
But it costs too much to buy new stuff and then sell it used, you say? Well then, buy it used and sell it used! Then you just pay shipping, on average, if that. (If you are just going for volume rather than specific content, buy it at garage sales, estate sales, etc, then sell it online.)
Not that I would ever do something like that. I'm just saying, P2P is NOT the only way to do piracy. The fact is, media piracy has a very long history.
... to make security experts more valuable by making security vulnerablities easier to exploit.