While I can't say that I've been a daily reader, I have been reading for quite some time, mostly lurking, but I do have to say that in several ways, this site affected the progress of my schooling (all three degrees), research, and politics.
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>If none of the stuff you normally like keeps, you are not eating right.
Not to be picky, but eating fresh fruit and vegetables means someone is not eating right? (Yes, of course you're not going to be able to find these in a disaster) For what it's worth, the shelf life of Chunky Soup is 1-2 years, maybe a bit longer if it's in a cold root cellar most of the time.
>Real survivalists stock MRE's
I'd argue that real survivalists stock dehydrated foods, dry beans, rice, wheat, yeast, cooking oil (watch the shelf life on this) and the like. These items allow for a much greater flexibility in preparation over a long period of time (shelf life can be 10 years+ pretty easily), and don't result in the digestive "features" of MREs. (Not to mention, MREs are outrageously expensive in comparison and shelf life is supposed to be 5-7 years) You definitely don't want to live on them. For a day or two if you absolutely positively can't find any water or fuel, OK, but if you don't have those, you have bigger problems anyway.
I would highly recommend getting a hold of the AGS. They have an extensive collection of maps and are in the process of digitizing their own collection. I suspect that they would be willing to help you, or at least provide the necessary information to get you on the right track. If you happen to be within driving distance of Milwaukee, even better. Here's their contact information:
The AGS Library
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 604
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0604
Tel: (414) 229-4785
Over the past couple of months, there have been two new cryptanalysis papers on AES. The attacks presented in the paper are not practical — they're far too complex, they're related-key attacks, and they're against larger-key versions and not the 128-bit version that most implementations use — but they are impressive pieces of work all the same.
This new attack, by Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Adi Shamir, is much more devastating. It is a completely practical attack against ten-round AES-256.
While ten-round AES-256 is not actually used anywhere, Schneier goes on to explain why this shakes some of the cryptology community's assumptions about the security margins of AES."
The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higher primates — monkeys, apes and humans — and more distant relatives.
Ida was discovered in the 1980s in a fossil treasure-trove called Messel Pit, near Darmstadt in Germany. For much of the intervening period, it has been in a private collection.
The investigation of the fossil's significance was led by Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway.
He said the fossil creature was "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor" and described the discovery as "a dream come true"
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain