Just curious, do you have your DTiVo hooked up to a phone line? If so, it should've grabbed an update a while ago that speeds up the interface a whole lot. Mine was unbearable when it was first installed, but after a few days it was great. The guide interface is actually faster than the old straight DirecTV box that I used to have.
I have a DirecTiVo, and with the exception of HD, it does everything on your list. There is also an HD DirecTiVo, but it's being phased out with the switch to MPEG-4.
The title makes it sound like some alternate reality platformer or something. Collect all the hidden gems to face the big boss--Steve Ballmer with his Mighty Chair!
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So wait a second. In your analogy, which part of Linux plays the Leonardo DiCaprio role? (I'm curious to know which part of Linux I should take out back and kick repeatedly.)
What you seem to be missing is the element of 'audience.' The articles that you are referring to appear in gaming magazines, to whose audience he doesn't particularly need an introduction. However, this appeared in Time Magazine, which is not focused on gaming at all. Hence, it's written for a different audience--one that is not familiar with him.
Looking at the book that's available for download, the entire "layout/desktop publishing" aspect of it is incredibly pedestrian. He essentially set it to full justification and that's about it. No adjustments were made with regard to hyphenation. Page numbering is centered and there is no gutter. What he's done is some word processing on a 4.5x8 inch page.
Raising the question, why not put your key material on a 400G disk, put that in a tamper-evident container, and ship it via one of the armored car services that routinely handle shipments worth USD tens of millions?
Because even those get jacked from time to time. Yes, it's secure, but it's not totally secure. Remember, the point is to make sure that the key is never discovered. If you detect someone eavesdropping on your quantum key exchange, you scrap that exchange and repeat it until you get a clean, un-eavesdropped transmission.
Woah woah woah! Are you trying to tell me that progress has been made in the past 30 years with regards to technology?!? I'm glad this is finally getting some press...
The actual encrypted message is sent using a one-time pad encryption scheme over standard telco lines. This is secure because a one-time pad can be totally unbreakable if you don't have the pad (the key). So this means that the real problem lies in key distribution. Using the method you suggest (courier), there's no way to detect a man-in-the-middle attack. However, due to the nature of quantum cryptography, it is invulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, because as soon as someone begins intercepting/detecting the photons, it becomes apparent to both the sender and receiver (due to their comparison of random photon orientations after the fact). Hence, you send the impossible-to-crack message (which will probably be fairly long bit-wise) over standard transmission methods, and send the key via secure means. It's okay if the message is intercepted (it's impossible to decrypt without the key), but it's not okay if the key is intercepted.
As I read the headline, there are three words that can be used as either verbs or nouns (rain, drops, signal. However, it appears that Zonk, in his infinite editorial wisdumb is using them all as nouns, which means there's no verb in there at all. Even if 'signal' is used as a verb, the headline still says the exact opposite of what the BBC article headline says, as someone else pointed out below. The quality on this site is appalling, yet it's still better than most tech sites out there. I find this very disturbing.
Actually, I just copy/pasted the text of an email I received from one Hermann Pasquale a few moments earlier. It had made it through our spam filter, which actually does a fairly reasonable job. My answer at the bottom of my post would've posted with no interference from the lameness filter.
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Might as well be called U.S. Junior.
But then you'd upset the Canadians. : p
No, they should be putting them on chairs!!!
Thank god the airlines are thinking of doing something about that.
Meesah think you friend is not so smart. Bork bork bork.
...and also refers to movie piraters as "bandits".
Some bandits wear eyepatches...
I'm far more concerned about getting slapped with a lawsuit than I am about getting a virus or crappy quality when I download.
There's info about it here. You should've received it by now, although there is a list of models that couldn't/didn't get the update.
Just curious, do you have your DTiVo hooked up to a phone line? If so, it should've grabbed an update a while ago that speeds up the interface a whole lot. Mine was unbearable when it was first installed, but after a few days it was great. The guide interface is actually faster than the old straight DirecTV box that I used to have.
I have a DirecTiVo, and with the exception of HD, it does everything on your list. There is also an HD DirecTiVo, but it's being phased out with the switch to MPEG-4.
The title makes it sound like some alternate reality platformer or something. Collect all the hidden gems to face the big boss--Steve Ballmer with his Mighty Chair!
ctrl-q
alt-q
alt-F4
ctrl-c
ctrl-d
esc-esc-esc-esc
awww, screwit...
*power button*
No, that's just the smell of voodoo carrying over from the Wii article...
You forgot 'sorry.'
Pffft. It'll be buggy. I'll wait until they release the Rev. 2 version.
So wait a second. In your analogy, which part of Linux plays the Leonardo DiCaprio role? (I'm curious to know which part of Linux I should take out back and kick repeatedly.)
What you seem to be missing is the element of 'audience.' The articles that you are referring to appear in gaming magazines, to whose audience he doesn't particularly need an introduction. However, this appeared in Time Magazine, which is not focused on gaming at all. Hence, it's written for a different audience--one that is not familiar with him.
Looking at the book that's available for download, the entire "layout/desktop publishing" aspect of it is incredibly pedestrian. He essentially set it to full justification and that's about it. No adjustments were made with regard to hyphenation. Page numbering is centered and there is no gutter. What he's done is some word processing on a 4.5x8 inch page.
Raising the question, why not put your key material on a 400G disk, put that in a tamper-evident container, and ship it via one of the armored car services that routinely handle shipments worth USD tens of millions?
Because even those get jacked from time to time. Yes, it's secure, but it's not totally secure. Remember, the point is to make sure that the key is never discovered. If you detect someone eavesdropping on your quantum key exchange, you scrap that exchange and repeat it until you get a clean, un-eavesdropped transmission.
Woah woah woah! Are you trying to tell me that progress has been made in the past 30 years with regards to technology?!? I'm glad this is finally getting some press...
Yeah, but with Monster Cables you can literally hear the orientation of the photons.
Ahhh. Good point. Well, it still prevents you from needing to send twice as much data over the quantum line.
The actual encrypted message is sent using a one-time pad encryption scheme over standard telco lines. This is secure because a one-time pad can be totally unbreakable if you don't have the pad (the key). So this means that the real problem lies in key distribution. Using the method you suggest (courier), there's no way to detect a man-in-the-middle attack. However, due to the nature of quantum cryptography, it is invulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, because as soon as someone begins intercepting/detecting the photons, it becomes apparent to both the sender and receiver (due to their comparison of random photon orientations after the fact). Hence, you send the impossible-to-crack message (which will probably be fairly long bit-wise) over standard transmission methods, and send the key via secure means. It's okay if the message is intercepted (it's impossible to decrypt without the key), but it's not okay if the key is intercepted.
Do you have any idea how far away Tuesday is?!?
As I read the headline, there are three words that can be used as either verbs or nouns (rain, drops, signal. However, it appears that Zonk, in his infinite editorial wisdumb is using them all as nouns, which means there's no verb in there at all. Even if 'signal' is used as a verb, the headline still says the exact opposite of what the BBC article headline says, as someone else pointed out below. The quality on this site is appalling, yet it's still better than most tech sites out there. I find this very disturbing.
Actually, I just copy/pasted the text of an email I received from one Hermann Pasquale a few moments earlier. It had made it through our spam filter, which actually does a fairly reasonable job. My answer at the bottom of my post would've posted with no interference from the lameness filter.