How, exactly, am I locked in on my Apple. I can open up the CLI, use my favorite package manager and get most any tool I want, edit the config files for my servers, write my own software. What, exactly, am I locked into?
AGGGH just noticed the date on that article. I'm such a tool.
You're forgetting that we can see our own TV signals, sent out and then reflected back at us by an unknown source from 47 years ago. If a low quality mirror is enough to span 47 light years, than a direct view of something 12 light years away should be fine.
Gold is scarce, but it is only valuable because people value it and it is useful for dental fillings (a small part of demand). But value because of value is just like paper money.
"can Microsoft compete ANYWHERE on a level playing field" I do really like their keyboards.
SSH does not use a one-time pad. If it did, you'd have to get data sent over sneaker net to act as the pads, and that doesn't happen.
Your point can only be this: the set of messages that might reasonably have been sent can be guessed as the deciphered text. The actual encrypted data gives you zero information on that if the OTP was used properly.
"It's fun to do this with NASA photos of the moon, some of them have lens flares added from photoshop.
Not at all, those are the files photoshop's lens flare is based on.
Uh, no. It just means that they use their huge leverage to over price the cars before they sell it to the dealer. Same eventual over-price to consumers for desirable cars and under price for undesirable cars.
It actually continues to work past 92%, that is where it was when JFK took office and, at the time, interviews with people earning 92% they said that if the tax was raised they would work more hours. This, by the way, implies raising taxes would increase "job creators" work.
They had no intention of balancing the budget on the advice of every sane economist on Earth.
Congress does not write the budget, the President makes a budget proposal that congress changes by less than 1% and then passes. Typically, the changes are just red herrings put in there for them to change.
Technically, congress passes an outline of a budget with total dollar amounts for each agency that the President fills in, but congress hasn't had a working budget process for about 10 years.
When executed properly, Vernam ciphers map to any message of equal or shorter length with the same probability, so no information can be gained about them. There really is nothing required to solve them.
By this logic, I could use metal utensils on a flight over US airspace... but I can't.
Even if there were bricks of gold sitting on the surface of the moon, it would not be cost effective to go get them. It's very far from pat.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
