Also, I should also mention the fact that legislation against encryption is ridiculously counter-productive; if the feds are after someone for any good reason, and that person is a criminal, they aren't going to respect such a restriction if they're already violating more serious laws. If all they succeed in doing is reducing legitimate commercial trade in such products, they're hurting themselves but at the same time improving the market tremendously for illicit dealers (note this observation applies to drugs as well, hmm).
Because it presents the same words to many, many people. Yes, 10 people can all be wrong, but how likely is it that more than half of 100 people are all wrong in exactly the same way?
Because everyone should know that once you eat enough, the benevolent hand of God staples some legs to your mono-cellular ass and tosses you out of the pool.
Two things: Your computer is either old, or underpowered. Upgrading to 4 GB of DDR2 memory is all of $50 on newegg. Speed is likely related to that particular spec.
Secondly, you said
Microsoft has to do better if they expect people to pay for their software and OS.
and I hope you were being sarcastic. Microsoft is not obligated to "do better" than taking a "couple of hours" to do an ill-advised upgrade (ALWAYS DO A FRESH INSTALL) on an old computer, and they wouldn't even be obligated to do so if they didn't own 90-plus % of the market and have people locked in to a fixed upgrade path.
Several people have already explained what it does. As is obvious, it is not doing that, and you should be more careful, or people might accidentally believe you.
Right, because so many people have issues where Windows breaks on their hardware. So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
I won't address your other points, because they're valid, and this is/.
Lol. Because Linux hackers are (to a corporation) incomprehensible and unreliable. They have no contract that's broken if they choose NOT to help. History (linux people fix their software pretty much always) != reliability.
Similar answer. Case Western Reserve University's software center (free downloads for everything available) offers Linux support for everything from antivirus to VPN programs.
Do you understand DRM? With a five digit UID I would think so. Your posts are a bit muddled, though, let me see if I can clarify. Correct me where you think I'm wrong.
DRM is the "feature" that makes it so you only have one copy of a digital file (something that would normally be trivial to copy). DRM means, in this case, that the hypothetical digital library can only check out as many copies as they've purchased, and that the users cannot copy the files and keep them. DRM is an attempt to make digital files media-dependent (you need the CD to play, you need the DVD to watch, etc) and is largely anachronistic, but in this case, it actually makes a reasonable amount of sense, and a DRM free digital library is simply implausible.
With a 6-digit UID, I'm sure you know this, but for those who might not have taken a university level computing class (or who took one a long time ago), I'm going to elaborate briefly on your post.
Problems like factoring products of primes (This is a big deal in crypto, but the explanation of why is hard if you haven't taken a university number theory course) and the above-mentioned Traveling Salesman Problem (The question of how I can most efficiently reach each of a given set of points, after given fixed distances between said points) are what we call np-complete. This means, in short, that the amount of time it takes to solve them goes up more and more for each item (point in TS, making the prime gigantic in crypto) you add. It's trivial to factor 15, as shown here, but non-trivial to factor (2 ^ 43112609 -1) * (2 ^ 42643801 -1).
So, yes, if it can solve the traveling salesman problem (in polynomial time. Solving it is easy, unless you consider that with enough nodes, it'll take until the heat death of the universe), it IS a big deal for modern crypto because it shows that np-complete problems (whose only REAL issue is that they are computationally difficult) can be solved in a realistic amount of time, and most modern crypto counts on the fact that it cannot.
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Yet again (curse you, lameness filter):
TI-89:
prp76 factor: 2231124525637629443181963045297394875 (lameness filter remove this) 470510167130210300957267082210173784611
prp79 factor: 32268855342401474150182483974101012 (lameness filter remove this) 86362761128614350056368675111071170873486957
(these are factors of 719958345686847736367204386511 (lameness filter remove this) 6047229712788448020653515684 (lameness filter remove this) 330784137805088971433273011970552138 (lameness filter remove this) 960583799368215373582308591928985045059261105298431035818727)
And more: (filter hates long strings)
TI-84 (Plus):
prp77 factor: 67070508990537181066342707695603050521324524613874331879259881495826493920589
prp78 factor: 186923771200711284770368041572205320486346816476524340240220962467860568859381
n=EF5FEF0B0AB6E22731C17539658B2E91E53A59BF8E00FCC81D05758F26C1791CD35AF6101B1E35
43AC3E78FD8BB8F37FC8FE85601C502EABC9132CEAD4711CB1
p=94489014C63CC9E1E1ADB192DBBDD1F78F90A630DA9C86EFC4CBCA44E5B4D54D
q=19D431AF2794229620B884E3750D622D1C74F2E4569DC15486FC8D5A3BCDFE2F5
d=2A3E1B2010F318D9BD7C7E19300980B055A0E2A9554B77E7142E23CDF7C7CA13C233A3D462FDFC
968B1F9CEAF2AC2CF305147992AD9E834192ACEBB517DB9941
e=11
Here are the keys, sorry for the long post:
TI-83 (Plus):
n=82EF4009ED7CAC2A5EE12B5F8E8AD9A0
AB9CC9F4F3E44B7E8BF2D57A2F2BEACE
83424E1CFF0D2A5A7E2E53CB926D61F3
47DFAA4B35B205B5881CEB40B328E58F
p=B709D3A0CD2FEC08EAFCCF540D8A100BB38E5E091D646ADB7B14D021096FFCD
q=B7207BD184E0B5A0B89832AA68849B29EDFB03FBA2E8917B176504F08A96246CB
d=4D0534BA8BB2BFA0740BFB6562E843C7
EC7A58AE351CE11D43438CA239DD9927
6CD125FEBAEE5D2696579FA3A3958FF4FC54C685EAA91723BC8888F292947BA1
e=11
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Also, I should also mention the fact that legislation against encryption is ridiculously counter-productive; if the feds are after someone for any good reason, and that person is a criminal, they aren't going to respect such a restriction if they're already violating more serious laws. If all they succeed in doing is reducing legitimate commercial trade in such products, they're hurting themselves but at the same time improving the market tremendously for illicit dealers (note this observation applies to drugs as well, hmm).
And guns, too, hmm?
Because it presents the same words to many, many people. Yes, 10 people can all be wrong, but how likely is it that more than half of 100 people are all wrong in exactly the same way?
It's both of them simultaneously.
Because everyone should know that once you eat enough, the benevolent hand of God staples some legs to your mono-cellular ass and tosses you out of the pool.
And here I thought you couldn't stop the signal...
Nice to meet you, Mr. Jobs!
Because there aren't a
million options already
distrowatch dot org
In the end (say 200 years from now), we'll all probably be using one standard OS (or at least hope to)
We have seen the future, and it is now.
Secondly, you said
Microsoft has to do better if they expect people to pay for their software and OS.
and I hope you were being sarcastic. Microsoft is not obligated to "do better" than taking a "couple of hours" to do an ill-advised upgrade (ALWAYS DO A FRESH INSTALL) on an old computer, and they wouldn't even be obligated to do so if they didn't own 90-plus % of the market and have people locked in to a fixed upgrade path.
Several people have already explained what it does. As is obvious, it is not doing that, and you should be more careful, or people might accidentally believe you.
Right, because so many people have issues where Windows breaks on their hardware. So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
/.
I won't address your other points, because they're valid, and this is
Perhaps they would if they didn't know never to insult good science fiction.
+1 Helpful Person On Slashdot.
Lol. Because Linux hackers are (to a corporation) incomprehensible and unreliable. They have no contract that's broken if they choose NOT to help. History (linux people fix their software pretty much always) != reliability.
Similar answer. Case Western Reserve University's software center (free downloads for everything available) offers Linux support for everything from antivirus to VPN programs.
You're one of those people who can't enjoy anything unless it's technically accurate, aren't you?
Easy. If influence is unnecessary, it's because laws cannot be MORE beneficial to the corporations.
Do you understand DRM? With a five digit UID I would think so. Your posts are a bit muddled, though, let me see if I can clarify. Correct me where you think I'm wrong.
DRM is the "feature" that makes it so you only have one copy of a digital file (something that would normally be trivial to copy). DRM means, in this case, that the hypothetical digital library can only check out as many copies as they've purchased, and that the users cannot copy the files and keep them.
DRM is an attempt to make digital files media-dependent (you need the CD to play, you need the DVD to watch, etc) and is largely anachronistic, but in this case, it actually makes a reasonable amount of sense, and a DRM free digital library is simply implausible.
With a 6-digit UID, I'm sure you know this, but for those who might not have taken a university level computing class (or who took one a long time ago), I'm going to elaborate briefly on your post.
Problems like factoring products of primes (This is a big deal in crypto, but the explanation of why is hard if you haven't taken a university number theory course) and the above-mentioned Traveling Salesman Problem (The question of how I can most efficiently reach each of a given set of points, after given fixed distances between said points) are what we call np-complete. This means, in short, that the amount of time it takes to solve them goes up more and more for each item (point in TS, making the prime gigantic in crypto) you add. It's trivial to factor 15, as shown here, but non-trivial to factor (2 ^ 43112609 -1) * (2 ^ 42643801 -1).
So, yes, if it can solve the traveling salesman problem (in polynomial time. Solving it is easy, unless you consider that with enough nodes, it'll take until the heat death of the universe), it IS a big deal for modern crypto because it shows that np-complete problems (whose only REAL issue is that they are computationally difficult) can be solved in a realistic amount of time, and most modern crypto counts on the fact that it cannot.
*whoosh*
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