When I was in the Airforce, it was not uncommon to run a signal
through several layers of crypto’s on its way to the end-‘customer’.
Do NOT assume that Loria Bushear and friends are naïve enough
to let plain text slip into the hands of unknown parties. They’ve
shown better sense than that on several occasions. If they do, it
is surely with nefarious purposes >:-) (evil grin smiley)
Agreed; however if the only code known is a simple substitution algorithm and everyone knows it then you can bet your message has been intercepted and correctly decoded.
If someone then decides to try putting the coded message through a different substitution algorithm (ie use a double layer algorithm) then his messages are safe – until someone figures out what he has done.
And to decrypt the message they would not only need to know both substitution algorithms, but the order in which they were applied.
So if the message is ‘intercepted’ or not depends a lot on the relative status of encryption and decryption technology each has; and we do not have enough information to make that call yet.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I was thinking more like impromptu performance for any secreted
observers to hide the fact that they are leaving as potential
allies and not instant adversaries. But we’ll see.
Not necessarily changed plans, just increased caution. Ambassador Palis does not yet have enough information to decide if Ambassador Mitchel is trustworthy.
Of coarse the human embassy being occupied when her intelligence said it was vacant should be enough to make her at least suspicious.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
This will be a night for Seb to remember….if he lives through it.
Good idea, to get an all over massage. Seb will be stiff and sore
tomorrow, but he won’t be tied up in knots and spasms. And he probably
won’t wake up until tomorrow night. Good night, Seb. Sleep tight, Seb.
Being as old as Seb myself (probably), I have to admire his
maintenance of his personal fitness. When I retired from Uncle Sam
Ain’t Released Me Yet, I just stopped all fitness training. Sure,
I’m still in shape….if you count “round” as a shape.
I know of a great weight-loss program that worked for me:
Kidney cancer I lost 40 lbs in 2 months LOL!
Not idea but so far after surgery I’ve only gained back 5-10 lbs I
can see my feet again! LMBO It is very hard to get into shape after
60 trust me I know if you weren’t there to start with it’s an uphill
battle and then hill is a 60 degree angle lol. If dancing with a
young lady is tough try doing 50 squat thrusts in under a minute
I am NOT trying that again…
Got you beat. Back in 14 (after I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis
but before it went away on its own) between the pitting edema and the
ascites my weight had ballooned to 360 from my previous weight of long
standing of 325. All this while I could feel myself losing muscle mass.
Then they got my water (piss) pills right and I went 360 to 240 in LESS
THAN six weeks! After the other symptoms abated I went up to 280 but these
days have dropped to under 220 and am still losing slowly. Oh, and I feel
like shit if I’m vertical for more than a few minutes. I finally got the
VA’s attention. Now I have a medico trying to figure what the hell is
going on.
This was my second time with kidney cancer the first time I lost
50lbs in under a month and lost a huge amount of muscle mass and a
kidney as well. This time it was caught earlier so they were able
to save some of the kidney so dodged the dialysis machine for now 🙂
From what I have read I suspect I am the oldest person commenting on this comic (79 tomorrow week).
I might have an invalid parking permit, but I am nowhere near as badly off as you two.
I am 63 Kg (130Lb) with nothing on and the heaviest I have been is 72 Kg (145Lb) 18 months ago. Height is 163cm (5ft 4in) so no weight problems.
P.S. These comments were written before I read today’s update; which is what I am going to do next.
AH poor Seb… But think of the bragging rights you’ll have once
your body forgives you…
In a year or so lol
Yeah I’d say that whole thing with Mitchell would have me checking
corners and calling for back-up ASAP that guy extrudes slime like
that sea snake/worm (shiver).
But they did expect trouble just not at that level I think the Core
humans are switching tactics but still trying to control the Catians
in some form I wonder if the war is charging up rather
than sneaking in now.
BTW, does Mrs. Mitchell look a bit like our former spy-(do-not)-wannabe?
The female ‘hill-billy’-sibling? Doesn’t have the time to surf the
archives for her name this side of Easter…
NMI (wife -interrupt, y’know), several, in fact…
Figured out a (so far) foolproof way to get rid of phone scammers.
I simply ask them, “Do I know you?”. The way I look at it is that
if they want me to listen to them they need to establish some sort
of business or personal relationship. Hey! I figure if you want me
to put out the least you can do is treat me to dinner and a movie
first. Am I right?
The late-great Robin Williams came up with a real good way”
(off-mike) “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!” “Gramma! git back inyer cage!…
(phone)Hello? what can I do for you?”
(click)
I was in tears when he did that bit LOL
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
I had a scammer that would continually call me, trying to use different
ploys to bait me. I tried different attempts to get rid of the asshole:
scream into the phone, use different accents and languages, tell him
to “eff off”, hang up as soon as I heard his voice, try to shame him
(why don’t you get a real job/isn’t your mama ashamed?)
What finally worked was I pretended to be a radio station, in my best
oily DJ voice, “HI! YOU’VE REACHED RADIO WXYZ, WITH A FLAIR
FOR WHAT’S ON THE AIR WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW
WORDS TO OUR RADIO AUDIENCE….
(meanwhile, I was standing next to a radio playing music, for realistic
background effect)….((click)).
He called back again a few minutes later, lather rinse, repeat….
((click)).
Haven’t heard from him since, it’s been over a year (knock on wood).
So, if the communiques are not fakes, Bushear, Catia and the Empire KNOW the
human seat on Xanadu is not vacant. One wonders how long they have known,
since communication by the back door is so slow and Palas was in contact with
Teresa AFTER he knew he was going to Dogishua. (Her oath was that specific.)
Curiouser and curiouser. However, when Palas last heard from Catia there had
been no traffic through the wormhole connecting Catia with Lamia for ‘many
years’. (Too bad for the hoped-for romance between Loria and Aadam.) There’s
a lot of undiscovered story here, or the messages are fakes.
Poor, poor Seb. Dances all night with a girl that is now an adult but could still
be his grandaughter, is pretty and the most powerful being we know of, then
gets a thorough-if-painful massage from two pretty girls in, at most, bathrobes.
My heart bleeds.
“…while I read my correspondence.”
Which you can assume has already been read,
decrypted, and analyzed by the opposition.
When I was in the Airforce, it was not uncommon to run a signal
through several layers of crypto’s on its way to the end-‘customer’.
Do NOT assume that Loria Bushear and friends are naïve enough
to let plain text slip into the hands of unknown parties. They’ve
shown better sense than that on several occasions. If they do, it
is surely with nefarious purposes >:-) (evil grin smiley)
Agreed; however if the only code known is a simple substitution algorithm and everyone knows it then you can bet your message has been intercepted and correctly decoded.
If someone then decides to try putting the coded message through a different substitution algorithm (ie use a double layer algorithm) then his messages are safe – until someone figures out what he has done.
And to decrypt the message they would not only need to know both substitution algorithms, but the order in which they were applied.
So if the message is ‘intercepted’ or not depends a lot on the relative status of encryption and decryption technology each has; and we do not have enough information to make that call yet.
“….follow my lead.”
(massive change of plans. High alert!
Head on a swivel, high, low, and 360)
I was thinking more like impromptu performance for any secreted
observers to hide the fact that they are leaving as potential
allies and not instant adversaries. But we’ll see.
Not necessarily changed plans, just increased caution. Ambassador Palis does not yet have enough information to decide if Ambassador Mitchel is trustworthy.
Of coarse the human embassy being occupied when her intelligence said it was vacant should be enough to make her at least suspicious.
This will be a night for Seb to remember….if he lives through it.
Good idea, to get an all over massage. Seb will be stiff and sore
tomorrow, but he won’t be tied up in knots and spasms. And he probably
won’t wake up until tomorrow night. Good night, Seb. Sleep tight, Seb.
Being as old as Seb myself (probably), I have to admire his
maintenance of his personal fitness. When I retired from Uncle Sam
Ain’t Released Me Yet, I just stopped all fitness training. Sure,
I’m still in shape….if you count “round” as a shape.
I know of a great weight-loss program that worked for me:
Kidney cancer I lost 40 lbs in 2 months LOL!
Not idea but so far after surgery I’ve only gained back 5-10 lbs I
can see my feet again! LMBO It is very hard to get into shape after
60 trust me I know if you weren’t there to start with it’s an uphill
battle and then hill is a 60 degree angle lol. If dancing with a
young lady is tough try doing 50 squat thrusts in under a minute
I am NOT trying that again…
Got you beat. Back in 14 (after I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis
but before it went away on its own) between the pitting edema and the
ascites my weight had ballooned to 360 from my previous weight of long
standing of 325. All this while I could feel myself losing muscle mass.
Then they got my water (piss) pills right and I went 360 to 240 in LESS
THAN six weeks! After the other symptoms abated I went up to 280 but these
days have dropped to under 220 and am still losing slowly. Oh, and I feel
like shit if I’m vertical for more than a few minutes. I finally got the
VA’s attention. Now I have a medico trying to figure what the hell is
going on.
This was my second time with kidney cancer the first time I lost
50lbs in under a month and lost a huge amount of muscle mass and a
kidney as well. This time it was caught earlier so they were able
to save some of the kidney so dodged the dialysis machine for now 🙂
From what I have read I suspect I am the oldest person commenting on this comic (79 tomorrow week).
I might have an invalid parking permit, but I am nowhere near as badly off as you two.
I am 63 Kg (130Lb) with nothing on and the heaviest I have been is 72 Kg (145Lb) 18 months ago. Height is 163cm (5ft 4in) so no weight problems.
P.S. These comments were written before I read today’s update; which is what I am going to do next.
AH poor Seb… But think of the bragging rights you’ll have once
your body forgives you…
In a year or so lol
Yeah I’d say that whole thing with Mitchell would have me checking
corners and calling for back-up ASAP that guy extrudes slime like
that sea snake/worm (shiver).
But they did expect trouble just not at that level I think the Core
humans are switching tactics but still trying to control the Catians
in some form I wonder if the war is charging up rather
than sneaking in now.
BTW, does Mrs. Mitchell look a bit like our former spy-(do-not)-wannabe?
The female ‘hill-billy’-sibling? Doesn’t have the time to surf the
archives for her name this side of Easter…
NMI (wife -interrupt, y’know), several, in fact…
Belle ,. her name is Belle.. 🙂
and yes a little,, probably used the same Daz base model..
Figured out a (so far) foolproof way to get rid of phone scammers.
I simply ask them, “Do I know you?”. The way I look at it is that
if they want me to listen to them they need to establish some sort
of business or personal relationship. Hey! I figure if you want me
to put out the least you can do is treat me to dinner and a movie
first. Am I right?
The late-great Robin Williams came up with a real good way”
(off-mike) “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!” “Gramma! git back inyer cage!…
(phone)Hello? what can I do for you?”
(click)
I was in tears when he did that bit LOL
I had a scammer that would continually call me, trying to use different
ploys to bait me. I tried different attempts to get rid of the asshole:
scream into the phone, use different accents and languages, tell him
to “eff off”, hang up as soon as I heard his voice, try to shame him
(why don’t you get a real job/isn’t your mama ashamed?)
What finally worked was I pretended to be a radio station, in my best
oily DJ voice, “HI! YOU’VE REACHED RADIO WXYZ, WITH A FLAIR
FOR WHAT’S ON THE AIR WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW
WORDS TO OUR RADIO AUDIENCE….
(meanwhile, I was standing next to a radio playing music, for realistic
background effect)….((click)).
He called back again a few minutes later, lather rinse, repeat….
((click)).
Haven’t heard from him since, it’s been over a year (knock on wood).
So, if the communiques are not fakes, Bushear, Catia and the Empire KNOW the
human seat on Xanadu is not vacant. One wonders how long they have known,
since communication by the back door is so slow and Palas was in contact with
Teresa AFTER he knew he was going to Dogishua. (Her oath was that specific.)
Curiouser and curiouser. However, when Palas last heard from Catia there had
been no traffic through the wormhole connecting Catia with Lamia for ‘many
years’. (Too bad for the hoped-for romance between Loria and Aadam.) There’s
a lot of undiscovered story here, or the messages are fakes.
Poor, poor Seb. Dances all night with a girl that is now an adult but could still
be his grandaughter, is pretty and the most powerful being we know of, then
gets a thorough-if-painful massage from two pretty girls in, at most, bathrobes.
My heart bleeds.