! > ! (I exchanged e-mails with USAF and US Army military ! pilots who think ! > ! Tom Clancy is a joke). ! > ! > If any pilots Helio knows think Clancy is a joke, then ! Clancy doesn't ! > know what he's talking about; Some pilots Helio corresponds ! with think ! > that Clancy is a joke; therefore, Clancy doesn't know what he's ! > talking about. ! > ! > That's interesting "logic". ! > ! > You exchange emails with some select individuals, I'd say. These ! > wouldn't happen to be the "don't ask, don't tell" pilots would they, ! > Toshi? ! ! Come on Bob , personally i don't communicate with flier boys but ! those books are full of inaccuracies. ! In the one i've read during vacation fe - forgot the title already ! <s>- he talks about encryption and it was the usual story : NSA can ! break all codes and all codes are dev. in the US. Both statements are ! wrong oc. ! The latest AES encryption algorithm was dev. over here.. ! http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/rijndael/
I wasn't defending Clancy's bona fides ... I was mostly just yanking Helio's chain. :) A specific example of an inaccuracy goes a LOT farther than vague anecdotal "evidence" based on a subjective interpretation of certain email correspondence, is all. The only thing I'll say is that a lot of competant techno writers take liberties with certain things to move their plot along. Neal Stevenson takes some of his knowledge of computers and programming and does some pretty, shall we say, speculative things with it... And his books are none the worse for it. I already confessed Clancy really isn't my cup of tea, so my defence of him isn't exacly what one might categorize as "vigorous". I'll happly amend my previous statement about his knowledge being "uncanny" though technically that word does not imply compentent... Just... Uncanny... :) - Bob ! ! A+ ! jml ! ! [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
