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Researchers at the University of Rochester have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encrypted message can be sent with a key that's far shorter than the message—the first time that has ever been done. When your security mechanism can be broken with a flashlight, I think you have more work to do
Bonus blurb: if you can explain just how it works to me (aka a moron), you get +1 Internets. Flatten your wavefront? Something I'd like to do, but I thought that was situps, not security.
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It's all done with mirrors.
Marc
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Yes, but no smoke!
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It would take me a LOT of that to understand Quantum Physics.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Science. It's awesome.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I read a paper that was like that while working on the Ciphers for Ghost in the wires.
The first part of the baisicly decscribes a 1 time pad.
The rest of it gets into bit shifts based on filters if I remember correctly.
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From the article: "While our device is not 100 percent secure...."
What they did is cool, but it doesn't do what they claim.
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If they want to see if it can be broken just have it integrated into IE and wait 2 days minutes.
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Researchers from Stanford and Microsoft have created a scientific methodology to measure the frequency and output of intransigent commenters in social networks – those whose contributions are written as statements of fact, rather than contributions to a discourse. But there's such a shortage of them
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Now I know what or very own did for the last six month...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I already knew everything they wrote in that article.
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Newspaper association filed complaint with FTC in May that objected to ad-blocking, ad-replacement, and payment schemes like Brave's For those who don't like ads, and don't like blocking ads
I think it's a pretty small set, personally
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Netflix compared 5,000 clips from 500 titles in its library using the x264, x265, and libvpx codecs. x265's implementation of HEVC was the clear winner on quality and efficiency, but whether that matters in light of compatibility and licensing issues isn't so obvious But of course, what do they know about video
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Study shows workloads in cloud rising from 41% today to 60% in two years Was the question about software, or "management's heads"?
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Microsoft working on its own Slack competitor under Skype If you can't buy 'em, rewrite 'em
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Slack competitor under Skype
Nothing like failing right out of the gate. Skype?
Marc
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That was my first three reactions as well.
TTFN - Kent
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Well, we advocate "fail fast" in our code, why not in our projects as well?
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Windows 10 users had many good reasons to install the Anniversary Update at the beginning of August, even if most changes were incremental. At least they didn't wait for the second anniversary to fix it
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If you look at the low-end ($200-$300) Windows laptop market in 2016 you’ll notice that the hardware spec is mostly the same regardless of which brand name is on the casing. You had me at, "It's Microsoft's fault"
I kid because I love (and yes, all the other big companies would be much worse if they were in the same position of power)
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It's Microsoft fault that they aren't able to build an Operating System smaller than an elephant. It is not safe enough, customizable enough or reliable enough to justify the ever incresing mastodontic system requirements to make it run.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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"ever incresing mastodontic system requirements"
Lets look at those:
Version Memory Storage CPU
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Vista 512MB 20GB 800MHz
7 1GB 16GB 1GHz
8 1GB 16GB 1GHz
10 1GB 16GB 1GHz
So, no increases since Windows 7, which increased memory requirements to a staggering 1GB, while reducing Hard Disk requirements. Memory requirements can be double that for 7, 8 and 10, but only if using 64-bit architectures, which shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone who claims to be a software developer.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Have you ever run Windows 7 on a 1 GHz CPU, with 1 GB of ram? Because I did (to be fair the CPU was a 2.8 Ghz one). It's like trying to push-start a truck. Loaded. Uphill.
You know, there is a SLIGHT difference between stated minimum requirements and actual usability...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It ran way, way, way better than Windows XP on 1GB of RAM. (I'm not sure XP SP3 will even run on 1GB of RAM.)
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