The good geek karma dictated that this number should be a prime and the rest is now the history
Uninformed. You obviously were in such a hurry to post your message that you didn't actually follow the link, where it clearly explains the formula he used to turn the code into a prime:
First Carmody took the original anonymous version of the DeCSS C-code and gzip'ed it... By Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progression, we know that for each fixed integer b relatively prime to k, there are infinitely many primes ak+b. For technical reasons, if we choose a to be a power of 256 larger than b, the resulting number can still be unzipped to get the original file. This means there are infinitely many prime numbers which yield the same code. These include: k*256^2+2083 and k*256^211+99.
The idea that all IP is just "numbers" and can't be owned is a fallacy. My car has a number, and I most certainly can own it.
Even though you're probably a troll, i'll address this. Your car may have a VIN number, but you don't own that number. I can publish that number, and that doesn't mean i'm stealing it from you.
Copyrighting a number may make sense: the task of -finding- the number that happens to be the source to win2000 is very very difficult for mankind to do. First mankind has to write Win2000. To compensate Microsoft for undertaking this task, the government gives them temporary rights to control the distribution of this number. While i think this time period should be about five years instead of several dozen, it makes sense.
But to say that someone else cannot distribute a number which THEY have undertaken the task of finding makes no sense.
It'll be a real natural selection process over the next few months as the ones that suck lose members to the ones that rock, and the ones that rock get cease and decsist orders as a result.
Two colleagues and I have just started a project on SourceForge to do just this - make it easy to integrate S/MIME and other mail encryption capabilities to MUAs.
Two colleagues and I have just started a project on SourceForge to do just this - make it easy to integrate S/MIME and other mail encryption capabilities to MUAs.
So if i look up a word in Webster's Dictionary, and then my friend comes over and looks up a word, and we both use that word in our daily conversations, that's stealing a dictionary?
And if i have a really nice solarium added on to my house, and my friends come over and enjoy it, instead of building their own, they're all stealing solariums?
How about if i go to the library, walk up to a computer terminal, and read a story on Slashdot? I guess then i'm stealing both a computer and internet access.
I think an NES would be better - just think of games like Zelda, with built-in heart monitors. When you supply of hearts gets low, it starts beeping. Viola.
Sorry to be a "me too"er, but i took that class last year, and it was the best CS class of my college career, both in terms of how much i learned and how valuable that information turned out to be in the real world.
Writing new system calls, device drivers, schedulers... Mention to an interviewer that you know how to do this and they drool.
Great investment for VMWare, too - they give free licenses to the class, and in return, 150 VMWare-loving kids a year are pumped out and into influential software development positions.
The idea that there's a huge shortage of IPv4 addresses is a myth. According to even the most aggressive growth estimates, we have enough for at least the next ten years.
The reason there's such a push for IPv6 is simplification of routing tables. Under the current system, 128.59.34.22 could be on one continent and 128.59.35.22 could be on another. IPv6 is much more hierarchical.
Wow.. won't this make spamming people that much easier? Thanks for the email address, I'll just do an LDAP lookup and give you a call
LDAP has a high-precision security model. It would be trivial to mark certain attributes as public and restrict others.
Most LDAP systems store the very usernames/passwords they use to authenticate users in their own data set! That should give you an idea how common and well-tested it is to mark LDAP fields as private.
Does anyone else think it's horribly stupid to map numbers onto names which map onto other numbers? Dumb da dumb dumb
I don't see why it's dumb, so you're going to have to back up your argument with a little more than a song.
Having a transition system is critical in deploying a new technology or migrating people to it. (Microsoft understands this very well, but that's a topic for another day) People aren't going to just say "Well, there are telephones on the Internet. I guess i can throw out my old phone." It's the whole chicken-and-egg thing.
Or more accurately, the chicken-and-another-chicken thing. Think- who bought the first telephone? The first fax machine? Why is everyone sticking with ICQ and Napster when better alternatives exist?
Because there is no migration path. We need something like this so that the old phones can use the new system and the new phones can use the old system. It also allows hybrid phones to be made.
But to just sweep this away at first glance because "well, you're just translating from one number to another number" is.. i have to use the word ridiculous again.
I hope this doesn't get me branded "Flamebait", or worse, "Troll."
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Of what?
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And what would Verisign be forwarding, exactly? They never see the private key.
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Redundant. It says this right there in the link.
The good geek karma dictated that this number should be a prime and the rest is now the history
Uninformed. You obviously were in such a hurry to post your message that you didn't actually follow the link, where it clearly explains the formula he used to turn the code into a prime:
First Carmody took the original anonymous version of the DeCSS C-code and gzip'ed it... By Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progression, we know that for each fixed integer b relatively prime to k, there are infinitely many primes ak+b. For technical reasons, if we choose a to be a power of 256 larger than b, the resulting number can still be unzipped to get the original file. This means there are infinitely many prime numbers which yield the same code. These include: k*256^2+2083 and k*256^211+99.
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Even though you're probably a troll, i'll address this. Your car may have a VIN number, but you don't own that number. I can publish that number, and that doesn't mean i'm stealing it from you.
Copyrighting a number may make sense: the task of -finding- the number that happens to be the source to win2000 is very very difficult for mankind to do. First mankind has to write Win2000. To compensate Microsoft for undertaking this task, the government gives them temporary rights to control the distribution of this number. While i think this time period should be about five years instead of several dozen, it makes sense.
But to say that someone else cannot distribute a number which THEY have undertaken the task of finding makes no sense.
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Orders to cease and desist doing what?
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*As a previous poster said, this is a noble task, and we could certainly use more.
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Feel free to lend a hand.
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project on SourceForge to do just this - make it easy to integrate S/MIME and other mail encryption capabilities to MUAs.
Feel free to lend a hand.
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And if i have a really nice solarium added on to my house, and my friends come over and enjoy it, instead of building their own, they're all stealing solariums?
How about if i go to the library, walk up to a computer terminal, and read a story on Slashdot? I guess then i'm stealing both a computer and internet access.
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No, with pay-per-view, one person can pay and all of his friends can come over and view. This is more like a movie theater.
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I guess that's why simple, subtle ads have more or less been replaced by in-your-face ones.
On that note, check out the link in my sig.
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No, wait, that's not what i meant to say.
What i meant to say was: Huh? What? You've got to be kidding me. As Shatner said on SNL, get a life!
No, this isn't flamebait. It's a wake-up call. Anime hardsuits. Please.
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Seek social surroundings.
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Writing new system calls, device drivers, schedulers... Mention to an interviewer that you know how to do this and they drool.
Great investment for VMWare, too - they give free licenses to the class, and in return, 150 VMWare-loving kids a year are pumped out and into influential software development positions.
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"Are you eating right? You're not eating right, are you? Don't make that face, young man. I can tell."
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The reason there's such a push for IPv6 is simplification of routing tables. Under the current system, 128.59.34.22 could be on one continent and 128.59.35.22 could be on another. IPv6 is much more hierarchical.
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LDAP has a high-precision security model. It would be trivial to mark certain attributes as public and restrict others.
Most LDAP systems store the very usernames/passwords they use to authenticate users in their own data set! That should give you an idea how common and well-tested it is to mark LDAP fields as private.
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I don't see why it's dumb, so you're going to have to back up your argument with a little more than a song.
Having a transition system is critical in deploying a new technology or migrating people to it. (Microsoft understands this very well, but that's a topic for another day) People aren't going to just say "Well, there are telephones on the Internet. I guess i can throw out my old phone." It's the whole chicken-and-egg thing.
Or more accurately, the chicken-and-another-chicken thing. Think- who bought the first telephone? The first fax machine? Why is everyone sticking with ICQ and Napster when better alternatives exist?
Because there is no migration path. We need something like this so that the old phones can use the new system and the new phones can use the old system. It also allows hybrid phones to be made.
But to just sweep this away at first glance because "well, you're just translating from one number to another number" is
I hope this doesn't get me branded "Flamebait", or worse, "Troll."
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