Whenever my doctor asks me these kinds of questions I just answer with the "correct" answers. No way I'm flagging myself with issues.

It's all about profit margin.

Auto makers basically need to hit X dollars per car to keep the lights on, pay the wages, and hit the desired profit margin.

$25K cars are loss-leaders. They are designed to get young, first-time car buyers in the door and hope that brand loyalty will keep them buying their more expensive models later.

But my guess is most car manufacturers have decided they can't stomach a car that makes no profit. Why sell $25K cars when you can sell $40K cars?

Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... nevermind.

AES-CTR being based on a permutation rather than a true PRF might matter if SSH used all the counter values, but SSH rekeys every 2^32 blocks at most - a tiny fraction of the 2^128 possible counters.

That's pretty amazing. You are making not quite double my salary in Engineering.

Is it worth it?

If you have any cases where you think that Chrome is failing to comply with the terms of a free software license, then please file a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list - we take license compliance very seriously. (I'm a Google engineer, though not working Chrome).

No, it is not vulnerable to this attack. The Brumley/Tuveri paper describes a timing leak in a specific algorithm that is only used for elliptic curve crypto over binary/GF(2m) fields. OpenSSH uses ECC over prime fields that use different algorithms that have no known timing leaks. A result against ECC using prime fields would be more difficult because the curve point components are integers and so can use well-tested modular arithmetic code.

It's a good thing we did that before banning ozone-depleting freons.

OpenSSH isn't vulnerable to this attack: https://twitter.com/#!/damienmiller/status/72814031941017600

Never mind the millions displaced by rising sea levels or changed rainfall patterns effecting their crops, we might lose a few bars of wifi reception!

>Trust me, you say you want all that, but once you get it, you'll be adding on more criteria such as something that is light and easy to carry around.

Anything would almost certainly be lighter than my bookbag full of books and notebooks.

>You can go onto eBay and buy something like what you say you want for less than $300 in the form of an XP tablet.

I will go and look into this.

Here's what I want:

I want an electronic device approximately 8.5 x 11 inches in size that I can write on with a stylus just like writing on paper.

I need to be able to store some PDF versions of textbooks on it also.

This device would give me one single thing to carry all my college text books and notebooks on.

I want this device to cost no more than $300.

>Really? You speak for "we"? Interesting. Arrogance
>aside, please describe one single thing that will make
>money from space.

I'm sure they asked the backers of all the colonial expeditions to the New World the same question. They came hoping to find gold. Instead they found everything else that made America wealthy.

Who knows what will be found in space that will be worth money. Hell, just the REAL ESTATE will be worth money, once people can reliably get there and back.

>Hmm, that's right, the few things that do make money
>from space don't involve people in space:
>communications satellites and recon satellites.

These are things that we know of TODAY that make money.

The rest of your post is just a complaint about the limitations of man's abilities TODAY. You speak as if they will never be overcome. Maybe they won't. But unless we TRY, they certainly won't be.

But all of this is beside my point, which is, man explores not for "no particular reason", but for a very specific reason - personal gain. Assuming we figure out how, man will go forth into space for the same reasons he has gone anywhere - looking for the greener grass on the other side of the fence.

>I pity you.
>
>Not only do you have a view of humanity that is culturally
>naive and bordering on shallow but you compound the
>problem by being incorrect.

I think you need to study some history then.