Journal heironymouscoward's Journal: How to contact a perfect stranger? 10
Posting an email address to Slashdot is too indiscrete for my purposes. A telephone number can be abused. Perhaps the simplest way to meet is the old-fashioned way, in a dimly-lit cafe, for instance near the Bourse.
Hmm.. (Score:1)
Actually, it's hard to guess the real answer to your problem w/out knowing what you're really trying to do, and of course, that's exactly what you probably don't want to say. ;-)
I think I remember reading about a weird crypto algorithm where one person shouts out a big number in public, then
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OpenPGP protocol (Score:1)
The later is easier to use, while the former works on more platforms. Both can "talk" to each other.
- Benad
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You can do exactly that using public key crypto: the two parties each broadcast, for example, an RSA public key. They can then use their own private keys to encrypt and decry
how to meet a perfect stranger (Score:1)
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Re: Motes (Score:1)
Re: Motes (Score:2)
It's a hunch. My UIs always try to display all possible actions. Ergo, all motes should be visible, even if only as small dots.
Re: Motes (Score:1)
Anyway, you say yourself: 'but we've found that it's easy to remember what things are by their relative position on the screen'. I really like the sounds of this, but I really don't like the idea of no overlapping. Sounds like GEM/3 or Windows 1 to me
But on a different note, I'm suddenly reminded of something else simi
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I've done a little research on implementations of the clutter concept but there are none, AFAICS.
The "everything is always visible" principle is not a problem if you allow objects to become very small, and if you allow the creation of arbitrary levels of embedded desktops.
Anyhow I appreciate the feedback very much. We will be pushing to get a prototype ready early next year.