John Aldrich wrote: in a one-time-pad generation algo That, on the other hand is a completely different story. In that case it becomes a pretty good system for encryption, just as good as the traditional one time pad which to my understanding is unbreakable by it's very nature, but still subject to the same exploits of knowing or procuring a copy of the image etc. What might be interesting is a more "fuzzy" algorithm that would allow (for example) a key to be determined from an image taken from a particular spot of a particular scene. Fuzzy in that two different people with different equipment could take the same picture and basically just be pointed in the right direction and in focus and the same key can be derived. Good enough for a spy novel idea at the very least. ;) Don't get me wrong, it's certainly possible for a novel new method of encryption to come along, it's just very despairing to believe that the more you read up on the subject. Of course history is filled with people who invented things mostly for the sole reason that someone told them it couldn't be done! In fact I think the saying should really be: "Skepticism is the mother of invention"

homicide, as in my unsuspecting victims want to kill me! :laugh: Software Zen: delete this;

I'm afraid I've turned into a smooth jazz fan in my old age. I listen to folks like The Rippingtons, Eric Marienthal, Boney James, Candy Dulfer, (man the list is huge). I envy your ability to compose (and hopefully perform) music. Unfortunately my mother was stingy with the music genes (she plays piano), and I didn't even get a decent sense of pitch. All I got was a baritone voice that stays on key as long as there are enough other baritones around me :((. It's a good thing our priest at church has a nice voice in the same range as mine; I can follow him, and not convince any of the other parishoners that the anti-Christ is trying to throw things off. John Aldrich wrote: whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now... I thought you'd understand. Software Zen: delete this;

I tend to shy away from using prepackaged implementations, especially when it comes to something that I'm going to need to customize to an extreme extent. I will however look into it and possibily build something similar, but more customized toward what I need exactly. I think having something like this would be really cool. It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now... [Shog9 on Kid Programmers]

How about we are able to get a list of who voted and what their vote was? Then you can find out who did it, spam their mailbox, find out where they live, burn down their parent's house, kidnap their cat, feed chicken bones to their dog, throw them in a deep pit, have them rub lotion on their skin until they are all prunish, then make them confess as to why they voted your article poorly. Perhaps I just need my medication adjusted. :rolleyes:

Trollslayer wrote: how about displaying the name of the first voter I would imagine there are people out there that would not want to seem harsh or maybe would vote just to kiss umm.. yeah, that lower section.. ;) How about having a vote to be a comment log with a vote attached which you view when you click on the rating, not simply a head count. That is, when you vote you have a comment box and a vote level. Maybe forc a comment on a votes with a level less than 3. Could still be anonymous but at least there would be feedback with negative votes which would all you to determine if they had any validity. Rocky Moore <><

Very similar to Alex's reply above, except the rand() % i should be rand() % (i+1): template <class T> inline void fisher_yates_shuffle(T* array, int size) { srand(static_cast<unsigned int>(time(0))); for(int i=size-1; i>-1; --i) { int j = rand() % (i + 1); if(i != j) { T temp = array[i]; array[i] = array[j]; array[j] = temp; } } } Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge) Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

AFAIK, Wave files should be great for that purpose too :) Cheers, Marc :beer: Click to see my *real* signature :beer:

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That is what I said, just very very poorly. Ewwww.... I must proof read more. Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

Unfortunately, i can't support 2000, as I have no way to test this except on 9x. But none the less, that is something to look at. Thanks for the info It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now... [Shog9 on Kid Programmers]

Sure, the docs for the general purpose plugin sdk are rather sparse. But then its hardly a complex interface is it? This hasn't stopped other people from writing some pretty impressive plugins. Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030 Arthur-Anderson, proud sponsor of the Corporate Make A Wish Foundation.

Indeed, from what I remember Fraunhofer have something to do with the rights for it, and a couple of students developed some encoder and they were asked to pay $25,000 each for a licence!

John Aldrich wrote: I woudl be interested in hearing others thoughts on this I once talked to an atheist who was so dead set against believing in God that he went so far as to say, "Even if God himself came right up to me and shook my hand I still wouldn't believe. I'd check myself into an insane asylum and live the rest of my days whacked out on thorazine. There is NO GOD!" Such is the attitude of many of the atheists I've encountered. There is no God because they don't want there to be one, not because it hasn't been proven. We believers are all self-deluded, grasping at straws in an insane effort to find meaning to our pathetic little lives. They are far too smart to fall for such nonsense. In essense trying to convince an atheist of God's existence using personal testimony doesn't work because they dismiss it as subjective. Using Science doesn't work because "creationist science is biased". Sometimes the best thing to do is to just walk away. "Don't cast your pearls before swine," as Jesus said. If you have done everything you can and the atheist still isn't swayed, then you simply commend them to God and move on. "Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will." -2 Timothy 2:23-26 PS. I'm still friends with the atheist I quoted above, though we have yet to convince each other either way. "I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" -xterm

Use the following and be done with it: *szBufferName = '\0'; I see code all the time when folks zero out strings for no reason. They waste processor time and their own. I had a friend who told me once that he worked with a contractor that zero'ed out every string by using a for-loop. Clever...

char szStringArray[95] = ""; char szRandomBytes[64] = ""; memset(szStringArray,0,95); memset(szRandomBytes,0,64); And off u go Papa Murex Co. while (TRUE) Papa.WillLove ( Bebe ) ;

John Aldrich wrote: Just made that change. My dubug statement is still showing no values in the array. is there another check I can do to see if there actually are values? That's because nElementValue is initially 0 and you assign it as the first value of your array. Strings are 0-terminated. Thus your MessageBox won't come up because it sees a null string. Start with nElementValue = 32. 32 is space and 32 upwards is legal characters and stop at 127. otherwise you have all kinds of funny control chasracters which might end up as boxes in the text on screen or might have other bad side effects. Nish Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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