Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 2, 2005, at 5:06 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, fair enough -- but how would that really supply you with an answer? If you simulated all senders and receivers, how would that be significantly different from the message content's

Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-05-02 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, fair enough -- but how would that really supply you with an answer? If you simulated all senders and receivers, how would that be significantly different from the message content's encryption itself? You'd have a reduced range of

Close, but not yet...

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7304 The article describes new inroads into electronically sensing what human brains are perceiving. There's quite a lot of sensationalistic language to it, and not much substance IMO, but there are a couple of interesting passages to me: The pair

Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-04-25 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This intrigues me because of something in my WIP, _The Seven-Year Mirror_ -- one of the subplots involves using schizophrenics as information couriers. The reason is pretty simple. In the 2K+ -year-distant future there's a sophisticated

Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 25, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would be the way to prevent that mapping from working? It seemed obvious to me: A one-time pad. One-time pads are used to scramble a coded message and are then discarded (hence their