Hi, I missed yesterday, I'm sorry about that. News below.* But before I get to personal news, I want to explain this image. The PNG file is different from the JPG file, so look at them both if you want. The PNG file is 8-bit, the JPG file is 24-bit. The difference (other than lossy vs. lossless) is that the PNG file is sharpened using the sharpen filter in Gimp. Why did I do that? So that I could get a superior 8-bit image. You can see how nice it looks compared to this one
Hi there, Here you can see three new fun technologies at work to enhance an old picture. You can originally find that picture at the start of Scene 5. It's a decent picture and it may be the first line that I like in JF. I'm going to be redoing all the script for JF Final to make certain a few things that are uncertain now:
Good evening, tonight I decided to do a bit of fun stuff. You know how yesterday I said that no government agency could decode truth. That is true. However, it is not true that a government agency could be notified of the truth existing. Both, mathematically and practically, it is possible for a gov't agent decoding the truth from my message. With that, s/he could find a bogus unconstitutional law to frame me for and have me put in jail. Then, accidentally of course, I could be killed during a jail riot initiated by spooks. It's not like it hasn't been done before, even after the FOIA and the infamous reign of J. Edgar Hoover. One shouldn't be too paranoid since a person who is so mediocre and ignorant is the least of the totalitarian's worries. But if you want mathematical and practical security that no one can read what you wrote, PGP is pretty good for privacy. For example, a diary that no one cares about can be stored and password protected using PGPfreeware 7.0.3. It's not very easy, but if you can figure out the learning curve, you're not broadcasting your message to any loser. However, it does depend on how secure you are about it. I wrote a bit about how a determined person can get your info a while back. I came up with a new one for PGP. Instead of a person, a huge group of people allied against a lot of people including you can decode a lot of PGPs. They can just use their own generator to generate public and private blocks, right? Say that they have a 50 gigakey per second machine on the task. That means that they can also save 50 gigakeys per second. They would have a database (a very large one at that) and would have all the keys. That is where the mathematics breaks down, I would guess. Instead of one in million years, it becomes one per year. Not only that, every new user is likely also in that database. In a year, a very powerful computer could have half of the PGPs in use and half of the ones to be used in the near future. That is what mass use of encryption can do. In fact, it has already been done. The distributed supercomputer has done it, but I wonder if they stored it in a database. Of course they did!
Ah, now what is this? Well, from the caption you ought to know. It is star birth clouds - M18, not to be confused with star birth pangs - M16. *cough, cough*. So, you're probably destegging this as we speak, right? You've got your Cray Supercomputer firing away, a gigakey per second. You've gotten into the fifty-letter keys and the fifteen word keys. It won't budge. My encryption is too much for the trillion-dollar budget of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and UN. You are wasting your time. My encryption is that of the mind. Individuals who have minds can read what I write, look at what I draw, and decode it without a hitch. Those organizations which have no minds will find it mighty tough to decode the truth. Read on mindful thinker. Above is a beautiful picture. If it's greyscale, that means that you're looking only at the intensity of the red in that image. It is also half-size. Blame lossless compression for that. The other one is much better. It's four times as much area and three times as much color. However, it lacks a bit of information. Who cares, right? Okay, the real thing is that this image is beautiful. You might not notice it for what it really is. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this picture in 1995. The colors are really amazing. It is showing us something that we cannot see with a ground-based telescope, let alone our naked eye. It is next to impossible for use to see something like this here on planet Earth without the Hubble Telescope and everything that led up to it. The fact that a non-astronomer like myself could get ahold of this is even more amazing. Beyond Hubble, there had to be the FOIA (See NASA Ames FOIA). Beyond the FOIA, there had to be an entrepreneur that wanted my parents money. Beyond the entrepreneur, there had to be my parents. It's a system that is very odd indeed. Before Hubble, there was all the space missions, such as Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Challenger, and the brave astronauts who repaired the Hubble. One might actually thank those who set the human race teetering on the brink of extinction during the Cold War. Was the Cold War a necessary step to bring us this picture? Certainly if we say that the Cold War gave us Hubble, we can also easily say that it brought us the Internet since the net was designed to aid scientific rebuilding after a nuclear holocaust. But then you have the alternate historians who say that had the USSR been friendly towards the US (and visa-versa depending on who wrote the story) the Space program would have produced something like the International Space Station, but improved by a factor of ten. War, productive or not (depending on how you look at it), is based on destruction and domination. Creativity in a war machine simply breeds more destruction and cooperation in war often leads to more seperation. In 1984, Emanuell Goldstein writes that war is equivalent in action to producing goods to be thrown on a fire. All the nuclear weapons not used are as good as a deadly joke ala Monty Python. The two nuclear weapons used were extremely harmful.
