OTP is NOT unbreakable if the "opposition" gets the a hold of the pad somehow.
Well even the most complicated security schemes can be thrawted by social engineering. What if the recipient with the one time pad is a double agent and willfully hands over the data he decrypts?
This is of course a matter of trust and not a matter of encryption strength.
The question in this case would be "Do you trust the recipient?" rather than "Do you trust the encryption stregnth?"
The idea of quantum cryptography is that you have some form of signal sent both ways that only the receivers can receive, since it can't be tapped in the middle due to detected signal loss and single-atomic-unit transmissions being measured. It's pointless, because anything the actual receiver can do, I can do too, and anything the actual receiver can't do I can't do either.
Eeeehh... Quantum entaglment encryption isn't that simple.
Here is a site by Colossalstorage that explains one of the patents involved in it:
To give a layman's translation... You take two photons and entagle them and then send them down two fiber optic line of the same length (say 4km) and then a device on each end determines which direction the spin is.
Since the spin is the same for the particles regardless of how far apart they are (no information being transfered faster than the speed of light) they have a reference of what the other party is seeing.
Now of course particle spin is random, but the key factor is knowing what the other party is seeing.
Now, you can use the spin as a one time pad and basically encrypt everything based off this... Or rather changes are you'll need another method of communication such as having the actual encrypted data on another fiber line and knowing the spin of the photon gives you the key to unencrypt it.
Now if someone spliced the fiber line, you instantly know it has been comprised because data no longer unencrypts because the particle spin changed on observation and chances are unless the eves dropper has the ability to observe particle spin he might not get much useful data either.
What happens if this thing comes out and it has massive lag, or a problem with the box "losing" the controller, or any number of other technical glitches
Do you really Nintendo would not bother to beta test their flagship product?
I'd think if they were going to ship a product that was horribly flawed they would notice it before they spent millions of dollars to bring it to market.
So you should never expect anyone to give up their free time to help you, but it's perfectly normal and acceptible for them to give up their free time to lash out needlessly at you. Got it.
I thought Slashdot had already shown that to be the case. I mean... Why would there be any other reason to be commenting?
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Because what you said it isn't true, at least not for all musicians. See, you have to separate the love of the art we have from our desirve to live a decent quality of life. Us musicians don't just want to make music for everyone's enjoyment, you see. Some of us want to eat as well!
Take if from me (I own an Indie label).
If you want to make a living from just CD sales and not bothering to make T-shirts and go on tours like most musicians... Well... You are horribly mistaken.
We make more money on T-shirts and without going to shows we'd never sell any CDs.
So, I ask. The response? A snub. Worded from a community member to a third person for me to read: "Maybe the problem isn't Mailman or any of the other awesome software he's running, it's the user not reading all the available documentation." I note that I read it, but I don't understand it. No response at all.
Did you pay this person for support? Are they in some way morally obligated to help you?
Personally, I'm a n00b as they come when you are dealing with Linux, but I know good and damn well that if I ask someone on a forum and they give me a bad response then I just have to find another resource other than a forum or an IRC channel.
It's the same with Windows or any other application.
People aren't obligated to fix your problems if you aren't paying them anything or you haven't bought anything from them.
Sure this may be a problem with Linux adoption, but maybe people that need to us Linux for a business need to pay others to help them solve their problems.
I work for a total Microsoft Solution center (and we throw in Macs for the publishing houses) and people pay us by the minute to solve their Windows problems that would almost make any slashdoter laugh at the waste of money.
But business people don't want to dick around on forums, Google groups, and IRC to get answers. They need to get things done ASAP and that is why they pay the money for it.
Just be grateful that the software is free and that there are people out there that do try to help without expecting money in return.
When you are single and unemployed, it is easy to play The Godfather for nine straight hours the day the game hits the shelf. When you are married, it becomes tougher.
Ahhh... So the problem is the kids, then the wife, and then the job.
Well... I need a job to support my drinking habbits so I can't really give that up.
But the wife and the kids I could do without.
I came close to getting married and then realized I was a horrible person when it comes to being loyal and later discovered the joy of being in a permanent "open relationship" with someone.
Secondly, I don't see the need to procreate. It occurred to me one day that I for one have no reason to be having children (and I wish a lot of people would realize this too). I mean you have made it this far without having children yet, have you really sat down and thought it over why you really want kids? To make yourself happy? Grand experiment? Living vicariously? Creating life like god? Passing your genes into the gene pool? Make the wife happy by fufilling her natural instincts? I'm not saying having kids is wrong, but sometimes I am under the impression that many people get married and have kids because they think it will somehow make them happy or they do it because everyone in their family expects them to do it.
But... If you already have them then you gotta love them because anything less would be wrong. People should have kids for the right reasons and strive to be the best possible parents possible which is one of the reason I have decided to decline in the act.
Besides I've got insane psychotic relatives on one side of the family and the other is alcoholics with personal issues.
I don't want to force those genes on anyone... Maybe if I settled down I'd adopt some poor asian kid, but I digress.
But here is the crux of the matter... Many people think growing up involves getting married and having kids. Actually, that has nothing to do with. I knew plenty of people who have kids and are married (or divorced) yet they still are immature bastards.
Secondly, having kids and getting married doesn't entail you not having fun.
I've got two seperate friends who have kids, yet one plays city of heroes and the other plays tons and tons of console games (xbox and ps2) and yet they both hold full time jobs and spend plenty of time with their kids. (In fact the xbox one plays the games with them)
Sure its tougher for them to find more free time to spend 9 hours a day grinding on their RPGs, but so is it for me when I'm spending more time at work, working on small business stuff, and out drinking and clubbing.
To generalize this as growing up doesn't always hold true.
who are so insecure about their own beliefs that they can't really wrap their head around someone else who is so secure in theirs
I'd rather be around someone who admits they are wrong than someone who blindly believes in their own infalibility.
Or rather... I perfer people who take this view "I believe myself to be correct now, but given extra information or changes in stuations I understand and accept I could be horribly wrong in the future."
Being an ass and strongly believing yourself to be correct... doesn't make you correct.
Well, in a perfect world, wars would be fought by a handful of kids and nerf darts. In a perfect world we wouldn't have B-52s and nuclear bombs.
But guess what... War isn't about being nice. War is about destroying the enemy any means possible.
War is horrible yes, but if you think they are making robots just to save human life because they are humanists, you've got another thing coming.
Robots are coming because they win wars. Sure... A dead soldier is less expensive than a robot, but what happens in a protracted war in which a nation has tens if not hundreds of thousands of casualties like WWII?
They can build more robots, but they can't instantly build more men. Germany lost WWII simply because it could not replace its huge casualties in its officer core nor replace all its well trained fighter pilots after several years of attrition.
What if this same nation could simply replace all its air craft with automated fighters and robotic tanks?
The simply have to outproduce the enemey and they win.
Any nation that fails to use robotics in warfare will loose to a nation that correctly implements said technology. We simply do not have a choice.
If less than five hundred corporations are responsible for the production, delivery, and requisite supplies for your little toy, I would be incredibly surprised.
Um... I think that was what the grand parent was advocating. To have many small companies produce everything.
If only one large company was responsible for producing everything in our computer we'd still be using 286s.
They helpfully suggest using it, as mac os x cannot natively write to an ntfs partition
I had to get some data off some old NTFS win2k hard drives laying around and all I had was my USB drive case and a mac. I found a source forg project that did the trick: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/
Of course this was on my 10.2 computer a while back and according to the site it doesn't support newer 10.4 versions of OS X, but perhaps they can rememdy that someday.
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Moore's Law is only an observation, not a performance goal. Of course it'll go away at some point.
It will go away once we stop using transistors.
OTP is NOT unbreakable if the "opposition" gets the a hold of the pad somehow.
Well even the most complicated security schemes can be thrawted by social engineering. What if the recipient with the one time pad is a double agent and willfully hands over the data he decrypts?
This is of course a matter of trust and not a matter of encryption strength.
The question in this case would be "Do you trust the recipient?" rather than "Do you trust the encryption stregnth?"
The idea of quantum cryptography is that you have some form of signal sent both ways that only the receivers can receive, since it can't be tapped in the middle due to detected signal loss and single-atomic-unit transmissions being measured. It's pointless, because anything the actual receiver can do, I can do too, and anything the actual receiver can't do I can't do either.
Eeeehh... Quantum entaglment encryption isn't that simple.
Here is a site by Colossalstorage that explains one of the patents involved in it:
http://colossalstorage.net/entangled.htm
To give a layman's translation... You take two photons and entagle them and then send them down two fiber optic line of the same length (say 4km) and then a device on each end determines which direction the spin is.
Since the spin is the same for the particles regardless of how far apart they are (no information being transfered faster than the speed of light) they have a reference of what the other party is seeing.
Now of course particle spin is random, but the key factor is knowing what the other party is seeing.
Now, you can use the spin as a one time pad and basically encrypt everything based off this... Or rather changes are you'll need another method of communication such as having the actual encrypted data on another fiber line and knowing the spin of the photon gives you the key to unencrypt it.
Now if someone spliced the fiber line, you instantly know it has been comprised because data no longer unencrypts because the particle spin changed on observation and chances are unless the eves dropper has the ability to observe particle spin he might not get much useful data either.
People really need to quit referring to anything as "unbreakable" or 100% secure.
Well a one time pad is considered unbreakable if employed correctly.
However, if you reuse the same pad over again and over again it tends to be easier to break. Maybe that is why they call it a one time pad though...
She actually suggested waiting for the PS3 release.
Why not get the Nintendo DS?
Pretty much all the games are rated Teen or less and are pretty simple for any kid (or adult) to pickup and learn to play in less than 5 minutes.
I'm having a blast with mine. Tetris DS is way too fun!
What happens if this thing comes out and it has massive lag, or a problem with the box "losing" the controller, or any number of other technical glitches
Do you really Nintendo would not bother to beta test their flagship product?
I'd think if they were going to ship a product that was horribly flawed they would notice it before they spent millions of dollars to bring it to market.
But crashing the computer? Sounds more like array-bounds, which can happen no matter how simple the equations are.
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright
Non spinning black holes?
Is there such a thing?
Can a single point spin?
Although, I don't know if the center of a black hole is more than a single point
..would he have developed General Relativity sooner, or just played WarCraft?
;)
Oh come on! This is Einstein we are talking about
He'd be playing "Red Alert: Command and Conquer"
So you should never expect anyone to give up their free time to help you, but it's perfectly normal and acceptible for them to give up their free time to lash out needlessly at you. Got it.
I thought Slashdot had already shown that to be the case. I mean... Why would there be any other reason to be commenting?
Because what you said it isn't true, at least not for all musicians. See, you have to separate the love of the art we have from our desirve to live a decent quality of life. Us musicians don't just want to make music for everyone's enjoyment, you see. Some of us want to eat as well!
Take if from me (I own an Indie label).
If you want to make a living from just CD sales and not bothering to make T-shirts and go on tours like most musicians... Well... You are horribly mistaken.
We make more money on T-shirts and without going to shows we'd never sell any CDs.
So, I ask. The response? A snub. Worded from a community member to a third person for me to read: "Maybe the problem isn't Mailman or any of the other awesome software he's running, it's the user not reading all the available documentation."
I note that I read it, but I don't understand it. No response at all.
Did you pay this person for support? Are they in some way morally obligated to help you?
Personally, I'm a n00b as they come when you are dealing with Linux, but I know good and damn well that if I ask someone on a forum and they give me a bad response then I just have to find another resource other than a forum or an IRC channel.
It's the same with Windows or any other application.
People aren't obligated to fix your problems if you aren't paying them anything or you haven't bought anything from them.
Sure this may be a problem with Linux adoption, but maybe people that need to us Linux for a business need to pay others to help them solve their problems.
I work for a total Microsoft Solution center (and we throw in Macs for the publishing houses) and people pay us by the minute to solve their Windows problems that would almost make any slashdoter laugh at the waste of money.
But business people don't want to dick around on forums, Google groups, and IRC to get answers. They need to get things done ASAP and that is why they pay the money for it.
Just be grateful that the software is free and that there are people out there that do try to help without expecting money in return.
When you are single and unemployed, it is easy to play The Godfather for nine straight hours the day the game hits the shelf. When you are married, it becomes tougher.
Ahhh... So the problem is the kids, then the wife, and then the job.
Well... I need a job to support my drinking habbits so I can't really give that up.
But the wife and the kids I could do without.
I came close to getting married and then realized I was a horrible person when it comes to being loyal and later discovered the joy of being in a permanent "open relationship" with someone.
Secondly, I don't see the need to procreate. It occurred to me one day that I for one have no reason to be having children (and I wish a lot of people would realize this too). I mean you have made it this far without having children yet, have you really sat down and thought it over why you really want kids? To make yourself happy? Grand experiment? Living vicariously? Creating life like god? Passing your genes into the gene pool? Make the wife happy by fufilling her natural instincts? I'm not saying having kids is wrong, but sometimes I am under the impression that many people get married and have kids because they think it will somehow make them happy or they do it because everyone in their family expects them to do it.
But... If you already have them then you gotta love them because anything less would be wrong. People should have kids for the right reasons and strive to be the best possible parents possible which is one of the reason I have decided to decline in the act.
Besides I've got insane psychotic relatives on one side of the family and the other is alcoholics with personal issues.
I don't want to force those genes on anyone... Maybe if I settled down I'd adopt some poor asian kid, but I digress.
But here is the crux of the matter... Many people think growing up involves getting married and having kids. Actually, that has nothing to do with. I knew plenty of people who have kids and are married (or divorced) yet they still are immature bastards.
Secondly, having kids and getting married doesn't entail you not having fun.
I've got two seperate friends who have kids, yet one plays city of heroes and the other plays tons and tons of console games (xbox and ps2) and yet they both hold full time jobs and spend plenty of time with their kids. (In fact the xbox one plays the games with them)
Sure its tougher for them to find more free time to spend 9 hours a day grinding on their RPGs, but so is it for me when I'm spending more time at work, working on small business stuff, and out drinking and clubbing.
To generalize this as growing up doesn't always hold true.
who are so insecure about their own beliefs that they can't really wrap their head around someone else who is so secure in theirs
I'd rather be around someone who admits they are wrong than someone who blindly believes in their own infalibility.
Or rather... I perfer people who take this view "I believe myself to be correct now, but given extra information or changes in stuations I understand and accept I could be horribly wrong in the future."
Being an ass and strongly believing yourself to be correct... doesn't make you correct.
And yes... Harlan started it.
This wouldn't even have been discovered without it.
I'm sure a Communist Archealogist could have found a dinosaur, but they would have named it "Stalin-saurus" or maybe "The People's Dinosaur".
Studies have shown that it's the concentration one needs to carry on a cell conversation that causes the distraction, so hands-free doesn't even help.
Studies have shown a lot of things.
Depending on who funded them.
As much as Closed Source prevents them.
Apparently some people are bit too enthusiastic about a product which may or may not end up like Laser Disc or BetaMax.
I'd least wait till Blue Ray comes out before getting one or the other...
Well if you've got the money to blow, the more power to you.
Although, I can't berate them too much, I used to own a Laser Disc player (but it was mostly for Anime imports back in the 90's).
Why would dividing a mega-corp into a bunch of little corps make anything any better?
Competition
Fuck these guys. War should be fought by people.
Well, in a perfect world, wars would be fought by a handful of kids and nerf darts. In a perfect world we wouldn't have B-52s and nuclear bombs.
But guess what... War isn't about being nice. War is about destroying the enemy any means possible.
War is horrible yes, but if you think they are making robots just to save human life because they are humanists, you've got another thing coming.
Robots are coming because they win wars. Sure... A dead soldier is less expensive than a robot, but what happens in a protracted war in which a nation has tens if not hundreds of thousands of casualties like WWII?
They can build more robots, but they can't instantly build more men. Germany lost WWII simply because it could not replace its huge casualties in its officer core nor replace all its well trained fighter pilots after several years of attrition.
What if this same nation could simply replace all its air craft with automated fighters and robotic tanks?
The simply have to outproduce the enemey and they win.
Any nation that fails to use robotics in warfare will loose to a nation that correctly implements said technology. We simply do not have a choice.
Wars will be fought by robots.
If less than five hundred corporations are responsible for the production, delivery, and requisite supplies for your little toy, I would be incredibly surprised.
Um... I think that was what the grand parent was advocating. To have many small companies produce everything.
If only one large company was responsible for producing everything in our computer we'd still be using 286s.
They helpfully suggest using it, as mac os x cannot natively write to an ntfs partition
I had to get some data off some old NTFS win2k hard drives laying around and all I had was my USB drive case and a mac. I found a source forg project that did the trick: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/
Of course this was on my 10.2 computer a while back and according to the site it doesn't support newer 10.4 versions of OS X, but perhaps they can rememdy that someday.
Ideas have consequences.
The three ideas called Religion, Rascism, and Nationalism have killed more people than any form of entertainment has ever done.
It'll just be an idea over the head, and no one will know why it looks like that.
Kind of like the 3.5" floppy disk icon in Microsoft Word.
If the company goes under, will it still be considered a success???
Only if you make millions of dollars with your stock options in the process!
*cough* Darl Mcbride *cough*