Even though the statute of limitations may have expired for the original robbery, you could probably still be charged with possession of stolen property. If that charge is viable, then the original robbery is part of a continuing criminal conspiracy, and you could still be prosecuted for it, n years later.
I don't think you're comparing apples and oranges. The SETI project has the possibility of finding something truly important. The best that distributed.net can do is crack an encrypted test message.
That distributed.net will eventually crack the code is a given. All they'll have proven is that it takes a long time to crack RC5, even with lots of computers. There was never any question that it was possible -- just how long it would take. And now we know that it takes a very long time.
SETI, on the other hand, could discover alien intelligence.
Sure, encryption is a very relevant topic. But is distributed.net?
One coal fired electrical plant causes a lot less pollution than the thousands of internal combustion engines it could replace. The coal plant operates much more efficiently -- it's always running at a constant rate picked for maximum efficiency, rather than accelerating and decelerating constantly.
Unless I'm mistaken (and I very well may be) I believe that POSIX requires that time_t be an integral data type, and that it represent the number of seconds since 1970. OS/2 used^Hs a double for time_t, but it's not POSIX.
So anyone working with POSIX systems only is justified in treating time_t like a number.
You certainly couldn't use a structure, since time_t is defined to be an arithmetic type by the ANSI C spec.
Oops! I replied to the wrong article. I was pointing out that DEC Unix does indeed have this problem. A previous poster claimed that Alpha's were immune.
Not if you're running DEC Unix. Don't know about Linux, but sizeof(time_t) is 4 on DEC Unix.
peter
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Check out the list of authors at the bottom. You know - the 'Readers who bought this book also bought books by these authors' section. They're all about learning Swedish. Is this part of the Masonic plot?
Bloody furby clones...
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I can think of one thing it would be good for. I'd like to get one to leave home with my real dog while I'm at work. Bet it would keep him busy for hours!
Sure, and I've never seen a place where, if you were careful (as you should be) in designing your code, you couldn't have nice matching label/goto pairs. But all you structured programming weenies insist on using while loops and for loops and switch statements.
Garbage collection isn't necessary, but it makes the programmer's life much easier and simplifies your code by moving the memory management responsibilities out of the program and into the language runtime library (or VM, or whatever).
Do you have a clue about how internic works??? Just because you can't ping a name (or browse it with IE) doesn't mean that it's not registered. You don't need an IP address to register a name.
(Clue: you can use 'whois' to find out registeration information about domains)
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Has anybody here seen s digital projection of it?
What's the quality like? Is the resolution high enough? Brightness? Saturation?
peter
IANAL, but I watch Law & Order :)
Even though the statute of limitations may have expired for the original robbery, you could probably still be charged with possession of stolen property. If that charge is viable, then the original robbery is part of a continuing criminal conspiracy, and you could still be prosecuted for it, n years later.
peter
You had a 70mm projector in your high school?
Why does this seem unlikely?
peter
I read somewhare on the page (the FAQ, maybe?) that they'll list you as a co-discoverer in any articles they publish.
It's not $10000, but it's still cool.
peter
I don't think you're comparing apples and oranges. The SETI project has the possibility of finding something truly important. The best that distributed.net can do is crack an encrypted test message.
That distributed.net will eventually crack the code is a given. All they'll have proven is that it takes a long time to crack RC5, even with lots of computers. There was never any question that it was possible -- just how long it would take. And now we know that it takes a very long time.
SETI, on the other hand, could discover alien intelligence.
Sure, encryption is a very relevant topic. But is distributed.net?
peter
One coal fired electrical plant causes a lot less pollution than the thousands of internal combustion engines it could replace. The coal plant operates much more efficiently -- it's always running at a constant rate picked for maximum efficiency, rather than accelerating and decelerating constantly.
peter
Unless I'm mistaken (and I very well may be) I believe that POSIX requires that time_t be an integral data type, and that it represent the number of seconds since 1970. OS/2 used^Hs a double for time_t, but it's not POSIX.
So anyone working with POSIX systems only is justified in treating time_t like a number.
You certainly couldn't use a structure, since time_t is defined to be an arithmetic type by the ANSI C spec.
peter
Oops! I replied to the wrong article. I was pointing out that DEC Unix does indeed have this problem. A previous poster claimed that Alpha's were immune.
peter
Not if you're running DEC Unix. Don't know about Linux, but sizeof(time_t) is 4 on DEC Unix.
peter
Check out the list of authors at the bottom. You know - the 'Readers who bought this book also bought books by these authors' section. They're all about learning Swedish. Is this part of the Masonic plot?
peter
Is this a very subtle joke, or a missing link?
/peter
http://www.tuxedo.org/~es r/jargon/html/Z/404-compliant.html
I can think of one thing it would be good for. I'd like to get one to leave home with my real dog while I'm at work.
Bet it would keep him busy for hours!
peter
Sure, and I've never seen a place where, if you were careful (as you should be) in designing your code, you couldn't have nice matching label/goto pairs. But all you structured programming weenies insist on using while loops and for loops and switch statements.
Garbage collection isn't necessary, but it makes the programmer's life much easier and simplifies your code by moving the memory management responsibilities out of the program and into the language runtime library (or VM, or whatever).
peter
This is not a flame, but...
Do you have a clue about how internic works???
Just because you can't ping a name (or browse it with IE) doesn't mean that it's not registered. You don't need an IP address to register a name.
(Clue: you can use 'whois' to find out registeration information about domains)
peter