It's not for you! It's for someone who just wants to be able to buy a box that has a certain feature set, and works right as soon as you plug it in. In other words, it's for the TiVo crowd, not the MythTV crowd. Nothing wrong with that.
They're submitted by any random joe -- but the editors (not mods. Moderators are the users.) are supposed to actually find the ones that have some shred of relevance and/or truth, and discard the rest, rather than post any vaguely tech-related piece of crap that someone saw somewhere that's completely made up. See the difference?
Of course while Bush speaks of "privatization" he means NOTHING of the sort.
And in fact, Bush doesn't speak of "privatization". The new buzzword is "private accounts", which means nothing, as it could easily be applied to the current system.
It would really be nice if people knew what they were talking about when they posted, especially when given a week's lead time, and the chance to see others corrected repeatedly for making the same mistake. Or, they could just RTFA.
The updates are in question are for Office. Office. Office is not WINE, and there's no reason for MS to change their agreement wrt updating Office because someone is running it on WINE.
Hrm... a setup where you pay to receive benefits down the road, but the only way you're going to get paid is to recruit new suckers to join up and send you money -- and if it stops, or if the current inductees start to outnumber the new suckers, the current inductees get screwed. Where have I heard of something like this before?
Indeed. You pay a little bit for the convenience of knowing
What you're getting
That you will be able to get it, and quickly (no 'waiting on queue for hours')
That the quality is good.
That the service will be, on the whole, convenient.
Basically, they're the same benefits that you would get from iTunes, if iTunes could work directly with artists, and not the RIAA, and if they offered downloads in good formats, instead of a DRM-locked version of an already-encumbered format.
We don't generally think that government is passing unenforceable legislation because they're entirely clueless.
When you break the law, your government then has the power to fine or jail or shoot you, or to offer to look the other way as long as you provide them some other service. That is to say, governments exercise power through law; specifically they exercise their power when people break the law. People in positions of power will act to maintain and expand their power. Therefore, it is in the interest of those who rule over you to make it so that everything you do breaks the law.
Now isn't that far more sensible than assuming they're just a bunch of idiots?
Indeed. I didn't think about the current maths, but I was sure it was a spoof when I realized he wasn't even _clocking_ the chips. They're not going to draw nearly as much power that way.:)
Okie doke. The one that I remember from that era as being easiest to use, and providing better compression and better multi-volume support, was ARJ. But you're quite right that ARJ is anything but an open standard; I missed out on that. It's just that ZIP has these little niggling shortcomings:)
Rar files are much better than zip files in that people can download (let's say) a.rar that's been split into 15 parts.
ZIP has been able to do this since long before RAR has existed; it just wasn't very convenient. ARJ and loads of other archivers could do it conveniently, but ZIP became a de-facto standard on PR grounds, rather than technical ones. RAR is pretty much exactly the same as any number of formats that existed 15 years ago, but people are willing to adopt it because it's new and better, rather than old and better:)
Indeed. $11 billion over the past two years? Distributed among the (rough guess) 13 million households? That's over $400/household/year they've been paying to get there.
I think you're right about the crypto implications; sure, these people have an amazing ability, but it's still nothing that a good microprocessor can't match. It's only amazing because usually humans have a hard time the things that microprocessors can do (and microprocessors have a damn hard time at the things that humans can do).
But mostly I just wanted to volunteer the fact that the word you were hunting for is "primality".
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Or, and this is a good one, you could do that. For any message that I create, and sign for SHA-1, it's now possible that I created another duplicate message, and that I could, at any point in the future, say "Oh no, I didn't sign _that_!"
So, there are two lessons to be learned. 1. Don't trust SHA1 as part of an algorithm for signing a document that someone else gave you. Actually, this is not so much of a risk, because any reasonable signature algorithm signs more than just a straight hash of the document.
2. Don't trust any document signed by someone else with an algorithm using SHA1, if they created that document themselves; they might have a way to repudiate that signature, leaving you out in the cold. This one is actually more dangerous.
Yes, but we haven't actually proved that the result of the multiplication-addition operation is prime. However, we don't have to, because if it is prime, then it's necessarily a prime that's not on the list, and if it's composite, then by the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic it has a unique set of prime factors, and by the way you constructed the number, none of those primes are in the list. Either way, you've found at least one prime that wasn't in the list, contradicting the claim that the list was complete.
You see? For completeness, we say "either N is prime, in which case the list is incomplete, or N is composite, in which case the list is incomplete", and save ourselves worrying about whether N is prime or not.
No, you're wrong. This is different from every other case of sales-tax related things on the internet.
Usually, if I buy goods from Company X, and I live in State Y, then I only pay tax to State Y if Company X has a presence in Y. If I remember my Slashdot right, there was a story not to long ago (= 1 year) about how they decided not to change this (not to start enforcing every state's taxes on online merchants).
What's happening in this case is that people are using online merchants to import cigarettes into Michigan, to avoid the tax that's laid specifically against cigarettes. The reason that there's trouble is that Michigan has a law against importing cigarettes, unless you pay the tax (via TFA). So, Michigan decided to take legal action to recover the taxes on these imported goods.
Maybe it's not really "holographic", whatever the quotes mean, but it is really holographic. It's not a sci-fi holoscreen, but it still uses holography to project a picture.
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People who question whether the USA is a democracy are morons. The US isn't a democracy, and has never claimed to be.
It's not for you! It's for someone who just wants to be able to buy a box that has a certain feature set, and works right as soon as you plug it in. In other words, it's for the TiVo crowd, not the MythTV crowd. Nothing wrong with that.
They're submitted by any random joe -- but the editors (not mods. Moderators are the users.) are supposed to actually find the ones that have some shred of relevance and/or truth, and discard the rest, rather than post any vaguely tech-related piece of crap that someone saw somewhere that's completely made up. See the difference?
and 1 atmosphere equals what? 101325 kg / m s^2, of course.
And in fact, Bush doesn't speak of "privatization". The new buzzword is "private accounts", which means nothing, as it could easily be applied to the current system.
There's a significant difference between n^2 and 2^n for all n greater than 4, so maybe you need a better example. :)
It would really be nice if people knew what they were talking about when they posted, especially when given a week's lead time, and the chance to see others corrected repeatedly for making the same mistake. Or, they could just RTFA.
The updates are in question are for Office. Office. Office is not WINE, and there's no reason for MS to change their agreement wrt updating Office because someone is running it on WINE.
Hrm... a setup where you pay to receive benefits down the road, but the only way you're going to get paid is to recruit new suckers to join up and send you money -- and if it stops, or if the current inductees start to outnumber the new suckers, the current inductees get screwed. Where have I heard of something like this before?
Basically, they're the same benefits that you would get from iTunes, if iTunes could work directly with artists, and not the RIAA, and if they offered downloads in good formats, instead of a DRM-locked version of an already-encumbered format.
Um, this has nothing, nothing at all, to do with RAR.
Actually, you're misjudging slashdotters.
We don't generally think that government is passing unenforceable legislation because they're entirely clueless.
When you break the law, your government then has the power to fine or jail or shoot you, or to offer to look the other way as long as you provide them some other service. That is to say, governments exercise power through law; specifically they exercise their power when people break the law. People in positions of power will act to maintain and expand their power. Therefore, it is in the interest of those who rule over you to make it so that everything you do breaks the law.
Now isn't that far more sensible than assuming they're just a bunch of idiots?
Indeed. I didn't think about the current maths, but I was sure it was a spoof when I realized he wasn't even _clocking_ the chips. They're not going to draw nearly as much power that way. :)
Okie doke. The one that I remember from that era as being easiest to use, and providing better compression and better multi-volume support, was ARJ. But you're quite right that ARJ is anything but an open standard; I missed out on that. It's just that ZIP has these little niggling shortcomings :)
ZIP has been able to do this since long before RAR has existed; it just wasn't very convenient. ARJ and loads of other archivers could do it conveniently, but ZIP became a de-facto standard on PR grounds, rather than technical ones. RAR is pretty much exactly the same as any number of formats that existed 15 years ago, but people are willing to adopt it because it's new and better, rather than old and better
Indeed. $11 billion over the past two years? Distributed among the (rough guess) 13 million households? That's over $400/household/year they've been paying to get there.
30031 is (2)(3)(5)(7)(11)(13) + 1; I guess the grandparent just missed one :)
The "patent" icon does just fine!
I think you're right about the crypto implications; sure, these people have an amazing ability, but it's still nothing that a good microprocessor can't match. It's only amazing because usually humans have a hard time the things that microprocessors can do (and microprocessors have a damn hard time at the things that humans can do).
But mostly I just wanted to volunteer the fact that the word you were hunting for is "primality".
Or, and this is a good one, you could do that. For any message that I create, and sign for SHA-1, it's now possible that I created another duplicate message, and that I could, at any point in the future, say "Oh no, I didn't sign _that_!"
So, there are two lessons to be learned.
1. Don't trust SHA1 as part of an algorithm for signing a document that someone else gave you. Actually, this is not so much of a risk, because any reasonable signature algorithm signs more than just a straight hash of the document.
2. Don't trust any document signed by someone else with an algorithm using SHA1, if they created that document themselves; they might have a way to repudiate that signature, leaving you out in the cold. This one is actually more dangerous.
Yes, but we haven't actually proved that the result of the multiplication-addition operation is prime. However, we don't have to, because if it is prime, then it's necessarily a prime that's not on the list, and if it's composite, then by the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic it has a unique set of prime factors, and by the way you constructed the number, none of those primes are in the list. Either way, you've found at least one prime that wasn't in the list, contradicting the claim that the list was complete.
You see? For completeness, we say "either N is prime, in which case the list is incomplete, or N is composite, in which case the list is incomplete", and save ourselves worrying about whether N is prime or not.
Minivans generally have more of their space dedicated to seating, which increases their maximum person-miles per gallon. That's relevant, innit?
No, you're wrong. This is different from every other case of sales-tax related things on the internet.
Usually, if I buy goods from Company X, and I live in State Y, then I only pay tax to State Y if Company X has a presence in Y. If I remember my Slashdot right, there was a story not to long ago (= 1 year) about how they decided not to change this (not to start enforcing every state's taxes on online merchants).
What's happening in this case is that people are using online merchants to import cigarettes into Michigan, to avoid the tax that's laid specifically against cigarettes. The reason that there's trouble is that Michigan has a law against importing cigarettes, unless you pay the tax (via TFA). So, Michigan decided to take legal action to recover the taxes on these imported goods.
I love how "Informative" misinformation can be.
The first one is actually pretty likely, considering how much MS is into "trusted computing". You can't trust a virtualized environment.
Maybe it's not really "holographic", whatever the quotes mean, but it is really holographic. It's not a sci-fi holoscreen, but it still uses holography to project a picture.