Mailing cash around is orders of magnitude more work than sending money over the internet, and far less secure. Expecting people to do that for you is a recipe for disaster.
Specifically, you will notice that cipher-feedback, output-feedback and counter modes (CFB, OFB, CTR) all use only the encryption half of the symmetric cipher they are based on. Thus, you can trivially replace the symmetric cipher with a one-way hash function.
Somewhat easily, yes, but not quite that easily. You should never use a cryptographic algorithm carelessly like that. Always look up the recommended ways to do these things, because naïve algorithms like the one you suggest tend to have unexpected weaknesses.
The single use for hashes where you want them to be slow is protecting passwords in databases. This is a tiny fraction of the use cases for cryptographic hashes.
Of course they say "around the world" to sound fancy. But in practice it's going to be a lot easier to get people locally, so most hiring will still be from there, with a few people coming from elsewhere.
Mass of the object does not determine terminal velocity(though it indirectly can).
Terminal velocity is when mass times gravitational acceleration equals air resistance as a function of velocity. Why on earth would you think that mass does not determine terminal velocity?
Or are they trying to justify this by saying it will use half the electricity of previous and thus has half the CO2 emissions? Then trying to estimate the source of power and calculate actual average emissions? Pretty weak sauce.
Why would you need to "esitmate the source of power"?
Outright wrong, I have been involved with several Anon initiatives that had nothing at all to do with 4chan.
Not at all wrong. It is simply that the meme has spread far outside of 4chan by now.
this made me laugh, as if the word anonymous was spawn when 4chan appeared, no buddy it was here before 4chan, the internet, and many other things.
Nobody claimed the word was invented by 4chan. That is silly strawman. It is the group identity "Anonymous" with-a-capital-A that was created on 4chan. Basic internet history, there.
In EVERY anon event i have been a part of there has always been a small group at the top
1% of 4chan's userbase is a HUGE number. They could each do only one thing, ever, and there would still be many left over who haven't had a chance to do anything yet. Your numbers there are entirely made up, and likely off by orders of magnitude.
"Anonymous" is neither particularly proficient with anything in particular, nor does it have "senior members".
It's just people doing things, and using the name "Anonymous" while doing so. They could be anybody. There's no actual organization named "Anonymous", it's just a label anybody can use.
It did not appear out of nowhere -- someone had the idea and a small group of people liked that idea and it grew from there. We can call the person who had the idea a "founder" and the people who are deeply involved with the movement "senior members".
No, really, you're just showing you don't know what you're talking about here. "Anonymous" isn't some "small group of people", and never was. It's a name for posters on 4chan. That's pretty much it. Some of these people do things, sometimes. They use the name "Anonymous" when doing so, sometimes. Sometimes people who don't even post on 4chan use the name. There is no organization, and there is no membership.
Sometimes some people might organize behind the scenes to do something, while using the name "Anonymous". The next week, someone else might also organize something. It might be the same people, or it might not. This doesn't mean they are somehow more representative of "Anonymous" than anyone else on the planet, or any more than you or me.
The name existed long before anyone was actually trying to use it for direct actions. It used to just be a name for people who looked at porn on 4chan. This group of people was not "small". There was no "founder", other than moot and his helpers, and he has absolutely nothing at all to do with what people do under the name "Anonymous" nowadays.
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Mailing cash around is orders of magnitude more work than sending money over the internet, and far less secure. Expecting people to do that for you is a recipe for disaster.
Which also hides the tabs, essentially crippling the browser. Yeah, no, we do need something better than that, really.
Read up on modes of operation of ciphers. (For instance, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation)
Specifically, you will notice that cipher-feedback, output-feedback and counter modes (CFB, OFB, CTR) all use only the encryption half of the symmetric cipher they are based on. Thus, you can trivially replace the symmetric cipher with a one-way hash function.
Somewhat easily, yes, but not quite that easily. You should never use a cryptographic algorithm carelessly like that. Always look up the recommended ways to do these things, because naïve algorithms like the one you suggest tend to have unexpected weaknesses.
The single use for hashes where you want them to be slow is protecting passwords in databases. This is a tiny fraction of the use cases for cryptographic hashes.
Cryptographic hashes for a huge number of things besides protecting passwords, which indeed they are somewhat poorly suited for.
You'd rather give money to frauds than to people doing actual work?
Of course they say "around the world" to sound fancy. But in practice it's going to be a lot easier to get people locally, so most hiring will still be from there, with a few people coming from elsewhere.
Apple hardware is pretty far from "commodity", if you actually try opening it up.
(Or using it.)
Why are the "Top Talents" going to go to Nokia instead of Google or Apple?
Because they are in Finland, where neither Google nor Apple has much of a hiring presence.
So how far does the consistency argument go?
Because Firefox doesn't run on Windows 3.11, maybe it shouldn't run anywhere?
It has never been quite explained to me why "works on some machines" is a worse choice than "works on no machines".
Where are the Mac games? Where are the Mac game developers?
Wrong question. What you should be asking is "Where are the iOS games?". Suddenly, the answer is "everywhere".
That is pretty much true for their mobile devices, yes.
There's no need to speculate, you can just look at the image to know.
Somebody posted the key and referenced his account. He replied, repeating the key, beacuse he didn't know what it was.
Mass of the object does not determine terminal velocity(though it indirectly can).
Terminal velocity is when mass times gravitational acceleration equals air resistance as a function of velocity. Why on earth would you think that mass does not determine terminal velocity?
You know, you could just click the link next to my name and find out who I am.
See, your problem is you think "Anonymous" started with some "raids" in 05 or 06.
Ok, let's try this again: Why do you think you need to have a figure in tons of CO2 to be able to say that you have halved your emissions?
Or are they trying to justify this by saying it will use half the electricity of previous and thus has half the CO2 emissions? Then trying to estimate the source of power and calculate actual average emissions? Pretty weak sauce.
Why would you need to "esitmate the source of power"?
Outright wrong, I have been involved with several Anon initiatives that had nothing at all to do with 4chan.
Not at all wrong. It is simply that the meme has spread far outside of 4chan by now.
this made me laugh, as if the word anonymous was spawn when 4chan appeared, no buddy it was here before 4chan, the internet, and many other things.
Nobody claimed the word was invented by 4chan. That is silly strawman. It is the group identity "Anonymous" with-a-capital-A that was created on 4chan. Basic internet history, there.
In EVERY anon event i have been a part of there has always been a small group at the top
Has it been the same one for each of them?
1% of 4chan's userbase is a HUGE number. They could each do only one thing, ever, and there would still be many left over who haven't had a chance to do anything yet. Your numbers there are entirely made up, and likely off by orders of magnitude.
"Anonymous" is neither particularly proficient with anything in particular, nor does it have "senior members".
It's just people doing things, and using the name "Anonymous" while doing so. They could be anybody. There's no actual organization named "Anonymous", it's just a label anybody can use.
It did not appear out of nowhere -- someone had the idea and a small group of people liked that idea and it grew from there. We can call the person who had the idea a "founder" and the people who are deeply involved with the movement "senior members".
No, really, you're just showing you don't know what you're talking about here. "Anonymous" isn't some "small group of people", and never was. It's a name for posters on 4chan. That's pretty much it. Some of these people do things, sometimes. They use the name "Anonymous" when doing so, sometimes. Sometimes people who don't even post on 4chan use the name. There is no organization, and there is no membership.
Sometimes some people might organize behind the scenes to do something, while using the name "Anonymous". The next week, someone else might also organize something. It might be the same people, or it might not. This doesn't mean they are somehow more representative of "Anonymous" than anyone else on the planet, or any more than you or me.
The name existed long before anyone was actually trying to use it for direct actions. It used to just be a name for people who looked at porn on 4chan. This group of people was not "small". There was no "founder", other than moot and his helpers, and he has absolutely nothing at all to do with what people do under the name "Anonymous" nowadays.
In properly civilized countries, you can insist on just that.