I'll make the point then. Games can make people cry if a person can be made to feel the same level of connection to the protagonist in a game that they feel towards the protagonist in a movie. Can a person feel a connection to a bunch of pixels, probably not. Can a person feel a connection to a character represented by a bunch of pixels and whose story is told both graphically and textually on screen? Almost certainly. You could argue that a game is just a novel with the added graphics, or a movie with the ability to add text when needed.
The scary thing is, saying it that way almost makes it sound like the story is more important then the graphics!
Metals. Gold, silver, titanium, maybe even gallium or iridium alloys. The shiny stuff that we can't, as of yet, easily make out of aluminium, charcoal, and air.
Rolemaster does publish alot of their stuff online now. Just looking at copies of Arms Law available, there is the '99, '03, and '05 versions available in PDF form. I can't find a copy of many of the source books, though. Guess my paper copy of Eidolon will just have to survive a while longer.
Pity the pdf books are easier to find then players.
You run the checking software on itself. In one instance, it finds an error. In another, it just solves the halting problem and tells you that your program works fine.
What if you could upload two cell phones with indentical one-time-pads via their data cables, then use D/H or something to set up a session to choose one of the one-time-pad entries to encrypt the rest of the call? Then delete that pad entry from the phones after use.
I'm not sure, given the way that most flash memory behaves, that it would be possible to securely delete the entire pad. I don't work with flash memory much, but I recall reading that the write cycles vary where they write, even if you just overwrite a section, to keep the number of write cycles high. So, unless you use the entire flash card to store a pad (all of it, not just the parts that it wants to let you use this write cycle) and then overwrite the same with first random data and then zeros as soon as the call is done, you can't be sure that if the phone won't give away your one time pad after you have completed the call.
Picture it like this: Alice calls Bob, both have phones equiped with your described one time pad. They start an encrypted conversation, talk for a while, then hang up. Bob is immediately arrested for running a stop sign, and has his phone confiscated. Who ever recorded the encrypted phone call is going to want to examine the phone to see if that one time pad is still available.
Now, with a mini hard drive, you would still have to delete the file fast enough (as the pad was being read might be preferable) but you can be fairly certain that the drive will actually delete the data.
Where would Vonage decrypt the VOIP signal at? At their server, where it transfers to the telephone wires for transmission to someone on a normal telephone or just before it goes to another VOIP user without an encrytion capable phone? If Vonage is willing to sell out your phone calls, this won't matter since they are decrypting it so it's no more private then a unencrypted call
If you only want to use it to talk to someone else with a similerly specilized phone, try googling for 'secure telephone' or reading the wiki article of the same name. A quick look at STU-III shows that the cheapest model they sell is just over 2000$ (USD) and it only goes up from there.
That would be very interesting, putting a backdoor trojan on a dvd and adding an autorun.inf. Reminds me of a post someone made about the CEH 312-50 study disc on a pirate website.
Then again, would shipping a DVD loaded with trojans and backdoor programs count as transporting a weapon of mass (data) destruction?
I think you may well mean that A equals one plus the square root of 5 quantity over 2 while B equales one minus the square root of 5 quantity over 2, then the function of N, where N is the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence, is equal to A to the N power plus B to the N power quantity over the square root of 5. So
the eighth number in the squence is A to the eigth,fourty seven plus twenty one times the square root of five quantity divided by two, plus b to the eighth, same but minus instead,all divided by the root of five.
(now that that's over with!) It's times like this I wish I had signed up for an account long ago. Line wrap ruined the artistic value of the above poem. So much for that. Anyways let a = (1+sqrt(5))/2 and b=(1-sqrt(5))/2. Then f_n = (a^n - b^n)/sqrt(5). That was something handed out in a discreet math class I took, oh... 3 years ago. Knew I saved it for a reason.
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I'll make the point then. Games can make people cry if a person can be made to feel the same level of connection to the protagonist in a game that they feel towards the protagonist in a movie. Can a person feel a connection to a bunch of pixels, probably not. Can a person feel a connection to a character represented by a bunch of pixels and whose story is told both graphically and textually on screen? Almost certainly. You could argue that a game is just a novel with the added graphics, or a movie with the ability to add text when needed.
The scary thing is, saying it that way almost makes it sound like the story is more important then the graphics!
Metals. Gold, silver, titanium, maybe even gallium or iridium alloys. The shiny stuff that we can't, as of yet, easily make out of aluminium, charcoal, and air.
Rolemaster does publish alot of their stuff online now. Just looking at copies of Arms Law available, there is the '99, '03, and '05 versions available in PDF form. I can't find a copy of many of the source books, though. Guess my paper copy of Eidolon will just have to survive a while longer.
Pity the pdf books are easier to find then players.
You run the checking software on itself. In one instance, it finds an error. In another, it just solves the halting problem and tells you that your program works fine.
What if you could upload two cell phones with indentical one-time-pads via their data cables, then use D/H or something to set up a session to choose one of the one-time-pad entries to encrypt the rest of the call? Then delete that pad entry from the phones after use.
I'm not sure, given the way that most flash memory behaves, that it would be possible to securely delete the entire pad. I don't work with flash memory much, but I recall reading that the write cycles vary where they write, even if you just overwrite a section, to keep the number of write cycles high. So, unless you use the entire flash card to store a pad (all of it, not just the parts that it wants to let you use this write cycle) and then overwrite the same with first random data and then zeros as soon as the call is done, you can't be sure that if the phone won't give away your one time pad after you have completed the call.
Picture it like this: Alice calls Bob, both have phones equiped with your described one time pad. They start an encrypted conversation, talk for a while, then hang up. Bob is immediately arrested for running a stop sign, and has his phone confiscated. Who ever recorded the encrypted phone call is going to want to examine the phone to see if that one time pad is still available.
Now, with a mini hard drive, you would still have to delete the file fast enough (as the pad was being read might be preferable) but you can be fairly certain that the drive will actually delete the data.
Where would Vonage decrypt the VOIP signal at? At their server, where it transfers to the telephone wires for transmission to someone on a normal telephone or just before it goes to another VOIP user without an encrytion capable phone? If Vonage is willing to sell out your phone calls, this won't matter since they are decrypting it so it's no more private then a unencrypted call
If you only want to use it to talk to someone else with a similerly specilized phone, try googling for 'secure telephone' or reading the wiki article of the same name. A quick look at STU-III shows that the cheapest model they sell is just over 2000$ (USD) and it only goes up from there.
That would be very interesting, putting a backdoor trojan on a dvd and adding an autorun.inf. Reminds me of a post someone made about the CEH 312-50 study disc on a pirate website.
Then again, would shipping a DVD loaded with trojans and backdoor programs count as transporting a weapon of mass (data) destruction?
I
think
you may
well mean that
A equals one plus
the square root of 5 quantity
over 2 while B equales one minus the square root
of 5 quantity over 2, then the function of N, where N is the Nth number
in the Fibonacci sequence, is equal to A to the N power plus B to the N power quantity over the square root of 5. So
the eighth number in the squence is A to the eigth,fourty seven plus twenty one times the square root of five quantity divided by two, plus b to the eighth, same but minus instead,all divided by the root of five.
(now that that's over with!)
It's times like this I wish I had signed up for an account long ago. Line wrap ruined the artistic value of the above poem. So much for that. Anyways let a = (1+sqrt(5))/2 and b=(1-sqrt(5))/2. Then f_n = (a^n - b^n)/sqrt(5). That was something handed out in a discreet math class I took, oh... 3 years ago. Knew I saved it for a reason.