I have an algorithm that lets me factor any number with runtime complexity O(1) with a probability 1/(2^log2(n)) and can run on any system with support for/dev/random. No need for expensive quantum hardware. Preliminary tests have been able to break 4-bit RSA quite reliably. Encryption as we know it is doomed. Where should I go to collect my grant money?
PS: You can leave the Nobel Prize next to my garden gnome. Thanks.
The Prize will be encrypted as a second gnome.
If you reach for the wrong one, then the prize vanishes.
I used to program in Cobol and I used to measure my code in the number of feet of paper that the lineprinter would print instead of lines of code. Even the "Hello World" program would be more than 1 foot in length...
In the 1401 days, there was a Fortran compiler that used 63 passes of compiler against the source text. When it was done the text was replaced with executable code.
They decided to write a Cobol compiler. What else, they wrote it in Fortran.
Hello world compiled in 30 minutes.
When the 360's came out, they could compile Fortran before the last punch card fell in the hopper.
Yeah, certainly nothing to celebrate over. But is this common? I would have expected a company founded for the sole purpose of licensing and litigating patents to know more about what is needed for a successful patent lawsuit.
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I'd go for a vuvuzela on mine.
Considering the sound proof quality of most cars, how would they hear it?
Wouldn't it be distracting to blow while driving?
I am surprised they don't specify a particular one.
Different knots look better on different people (neck size has a lot to do with this) .. and with different shirts.
And if you tie a full Windsor knot, you may be asked if it is your little brother's tie.
640 k is enough for anybody.
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Is this the roid raid rock?
The "low" (green) and "guarded" (blue) levels have never actually been used, and probably won't ever be, so they're only really there in theory.
All those blue screens never happened?
Sulfur has an atomic weight of 32. Anything more is for commies.
I used to resemble that remark.
I have an algorithm that lets me factor any number with runtime complexity O(1) with a probability 1/(2^log2(n)) and can run on any system with support for /dev/random. No need for expensive quantum hardware. Preliminary tests have been able to break 4-bit RSA quite reliably. Encryption as we know it is doomed.
Where should I go to collect my grant money?
PS: You can leave the Nobel Prize next to my garden gnome. Thanks.
The Prize will be encrypted as a second gnome.
If you reach for the wrong one, then the prize vanishes.
Yes, copyright infringement is like when you put a Mercedes star on your Ford's hood.
Is this bad enough, or do you want worse?
Its like Ferrari prancing horsie decals on the sides. Its just like the real thing, and its as close as one is likely to get.
Companies forming pacts of mutual defense? Some day patents are going to result in the litigative equivalent of World War I.
The Quadruple Entente (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and EMC) against whom Bub?
2012 will be the year of the personal backyard aircraft.
Sign in a College parking lot:
Juniors, Seniors, and Grduates.
I used to program in Cobol and I used to measure my code in the number of feet of paper that the lineprinter would print instead of lines of code. Even the "Hello World" program would be more than 1 foot in length...
In the 1401 days, there was a Fortran compiler that used 63 passes of compiler against the source text. When it was done the text was replaced with executable code.
They decided to write a Cobol compiler. What else, they wrote it in Fortran.
Hello world compiled in 30 minutes.
When the 360's came out, they could compile Fortran before the last punch card fell in the hopper.
And a black hole the size of an elementary particle would instantly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation.
And electrons moving around a center would radiate energy away; before Bohr that is.
Their mascot? The Molten Salt Girl
And if they do this in situ in a salt mine, then what could go wrong?
Frayed knot.
It's the first time I hear they hit the transaction server. Source?
Maybe they have source now.
Steve Ballmer smiles, pumps fists and yells "Hoo yeah! Git some!"
FTFY
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Hip Hip Hyprocasy
Gordon Ramsey meet Wikileaks.
Suppose a copy of Playboy gets classified so it can be taken into a classified area.
Didn't we get crackers from China?
And we still do.
On a show:
Contestant: My wife castrates me.
Host: You mean she castigates you.
Contestant: No, castrates, she balls me out all the time.
That's no Death Star, that's Bill Gates wallet.
Getting diabetes fixed is great.
Getting castigated or bawled out -- not so much.
Two words: Frank Luntz.
Two MIT profs were arguing which was smarter.
One pointed at a 14" disk drive and said "I can make that walk across the room."
He keyed in something and after a few seeks it lurched onto two legs and walked across the room.
The other one said "That's nothing; I can make it turn around and go back."
Yeah, certainly nothing to celebrate over. But is this common? I would have expected a company founded for the sole purpose of licensing and litigating patents to know more about what is needed for a successful patent lawsuit.
Are they firing HR personnel then?