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  1. protected memory? 30 years too late by toby · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Most Successful Failure
    protected memory (when apps crash, the OS survives)

    Only more than thirty years after it was industry standard... Another M$ innovation, I see.

  2. No need for mutiple lasers... by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 1 · on Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed

    ...just a complex arrangement of mirrors.

  3. 1Gb for what ? by jdifool · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?
    Giving away 1Gb is, as previously said, the perfect way to attract warez, and affiliated nasty stuff.

    I get 100Mb available on my very french provider, I've been using this address for five years, and I'm still at 30% of the total capacity.

    Binary attachments, furthermore, are rarely re-used over time, and only constitute evidence against you in court... :)

    Tip : when you visit pr0n, or any kind of sensitive contente / untrusted source, just use another email address previously registered only for that specific use. So far, only 2 spams a week on my normal mail : and this is only because I began to work (ah... the basement.).

    Regards,
    jdif

  4. Re:Is factoring hard by akruppa · · Score: 2, Informative · on Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir
    >But can you prove (not show with arbitrary probability)
    >in your head that a given number is prime? For that matter,
    >can you prove using a computer that a given large number
    >(if you go for any) is prime? For some reason, I don't think so...

    It depends on how much time you are willing to afford. A trivial algorithm is to try every (prime) number sqrt(N) to see if it divides N, if there is none, N is prime. But in practice this is too slow to let you get much beyond N ~20 digits.

    Elliptic Curve Primality Proving is state of the art for general primality proofs today, try Primo which has been used to prove a 5020 digit number prime.

    Integer factoring is much harder than proving primality, the current record for a GNFS factorization is a 158 digit composite, see here.

    Alex

  5. For those interested in the program by xyle · · Score: 1 · on GNU TeXmacs and Structured Text Editing

    There's a very nice Doxygen-generated site with inheritance & composition graphs for the TeXmacs C++ classes and other goodies:

    Take me to the TeXmacs source code.

  6. Re:Using Konqueror standalone by Straker+Skunk · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0.1 is out

    Interesting idea. Bring some of that KDE/Gnome panel applet goodness to the *Step dock!

    I figure storing 9 16x16 icons and using the wharf icon corners (upper left and lower right) to page between them would be best. And perhaps have the panel icons which changed status pop up to the top of the pile too.

    If I may make a suggestion... what if you were to multiplex them somewhat like this? (screenshot nabbed from the wmmenu site)

    The row of tiles could slide out on mouseover (or a click), and slide back in on mouseout. It would let you see all the applets at once.

  7. Re:Using Konqueror standalone by Straker+Skunk · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0.1 is out

    Interesting idea. Bring some of that KDE/Gnome panel applet goodness to the *Step dock!

    I figure storing 9 16x16 icons and using the wharf icon corners (upper left and lower right) to page between them would be best. And perhaps have the panel icons which changed status pop up to the top of the pile too.

    If I may make a suggestion... what if you were to multiplex them somewhat like this? (screenshot nabbed from the wmmenu site)

    The row of tiles could slide out on mouseover (or a click), and slide back in on mouseout. It would let you see all the applets at once.