HA ! I should move to Holland ! In Germany you have to pay the TV/Radio tax if you have a receiving device (even if you have for example a Radio+CD player and you only use CDs because you don't know german). You have to pay the TV/Radio tax if you have a PC, only because you could use your pc to listen to radio/tv on-line !!!!
The short answer is no, it won't be "pretty fast". There are just too many prime numbers between 2 and sqrt(A), if A is something like 2^1024 or 2^2048 or 2^4096 (...) to test them all. Right now we have better (=faster) ways to factor large integers than to bruteforce for all the prime numbers smaller than sqrt(A). Way faster.
Think about it. There are about x/log x prime numbers smaller than x ! There are too many prime numbers to generate between 1 and 2^200, even if you generate one prime number in a clock cycle, no matter how fast is your computer or how many computers you have !
RSA is "strong" not because we cannot generate prime numbers (or test if one given number is prime). In fact we can do both things VERY fast.
RSA is "strong" because we cannot solve fast simple ecuations like x*y=A (where A is BIG, x,y integers). And bruteforce is NOT the fastest method available to factor integers. If it were, yes, it would help to have a faster algorithm to generate/test primes. But it's not.
Uh, I fail to see why this was moderated as interesting. "128 bit technology" ? I assume you are talking about symmetrical alg., like IDEA, CAST, and many others. These are not even remotely related to prime numbers (some of them are, but not very close). And it's already simple enough to generate big prime numbers. Next step is to ask: "will my Diesel car become obsolete because of this theory" ?
The Pythagorean Theorem is a Theorem because it fits the definition for the Theorem, not because some stupid reason about infinity. A theorem is a logical assertion which can be proved using (=it is implied) by the axioms (statements which are given to be true).
The ARC AAA uses one AAA (surprize) and it will be BRIGHT for many hours (it's semiregulated). You can read or hike or do anything at night with one VERY small light (smaller than Mag$ Solitare). Just visit the web site and you'll see what I mean. The small light is of course waterproof; and the head is totally sealed; you can take the light apart under water without any problems. This small light has been freezed inside an ice cube, boiled in oil and run over by SUVs. Did I mentioned it's HA (hard anodized) III. If you wonder why HA III is important just look at your Mag$ Solitare (regular HA) and you'll see what I mean. By the way, Mag$'s does not qualify (IMHO) as "high quality existing flashlight". Maybe they were, 30 years ago. Maybe they still are compared to 1.99$ lights from department store. But for example a Princeton Tec 40 (around 12-25 $) will be smaller (fits in a pocket) and about 60 g (!). With batteries (standard 4xAA) will be around 130g. And will have a nice white output (no rings). In a 3D Mag$ you'll find: ringy, yelowish output (and less brightness), about 460 g dead weight + 400-450 g for batteries. Oh, and the Princeton Tec is waterproof to 2000 ft (yes 2 and three 0) while mag will be flooded if you try to see how it's working in the pool.
Nothing new here; you need the passport AND registration to buy a pre-paid card in Germany. As a tourist there is no chance to buy a pre-paid card in any decent shop. Of course, there are quite a few shops with turkish (?) people and you could buy _anything_ there. Or you could buy one off the ebay, or from flea market. I wonder how could they ban the flea market...
you have to pay about 200 EUR / yr. for TV and radio (of course for a couple of state own stations). But wait, there is more ! You have to pay the tax if you have a pc and a modem ! Because you could, in principle listen to radio / watch TV with your PC (is, TV over a dial up line).
And, starting with 2003 the companies will have to pay the fee for each PC connected to internet !
And because in Europe you never know for what you have to pay. Let's take Germany for example: if you have a PC with a modem you have to pay the TV&radio tax (and is not cheap, something like 15$/mo.) ! If you don't read your mail and you get a form from "The office for statistical data" (www.hsl.de) you have to pay 75 EUR. The form will come again (with the bill) one month later. Forget to fill the form in time (and to send it back using your own money) ? Thats's another 150 EUR !
What the heck is wrong with legacy ports ? You can buy for about 50 $ a decent mobo for the latest Athlon WITH all the legacy ports. Of course it's very good for the hardware manfct. to sell you a dongle for 25+ $ (and you need to install drivers, and to find out that it's working only with windows XXXX and so on). And no, it is not creative to go and spend 25$ / pice to connect an old printer/digital camera/scanner/etc. to your new shiny mobo only because somebody decided to save some cents.
I am too soo sick about this "flash in everithing" thread. You have flash in sound cards, in video cards, motherboards of course, speakers (yes, speakers), keyboards and mices (yes), monitors (yes, monitors), keyboard/monitor switches, cd-roms (well, not cd-roms - cdrom drives), hard drives, network, SCSI cards, etc, etc, etc. 4 years ago I was waiting for a virus with a database for the most used components - maybe it is not possible to put viral code in any flash - but at least it's possible to kill hundreds of $$$ worth of hardware with 1 k code. At some point we had to return/replace more than 50 creative sb awe 64 because the firmware got "corrupted" sometimes. 3 years later we found a software to rewrite the flash on these cards. Why do you need to put R/W memory in a device and leave it R/W so any random event (read windows "detect hardware" thing) will kill your device ?
Now we only need to have disks with the software needed to download the drivers from the device to the host operating system (still one disk for each device) !
I am quite surprised that nobody pointed out that we are victims of marketing. ANY digital camera will advertise the number of RAW pixels, that is you get this number if you shout B/W. If you want colour, there is a process called demosaicing, and you end up with about 1/3 pixels (it's a little bit more complicated, depending on bit-depth and the actual algorithm, but 1/3 is close). Example: an old film scanner (minolta dimage dual scan II) will get from a 35 mm frame a little bit over 10 000 000 pixels (no interpolation, no tricks). This are "real", "color" pixels. To match this with a digital camera you need 30 Mpixels (= advertised Mpixels).
There is no problem with gravity ! For 90% of time life on earth was ocean-based, and there you don't care about gravity as long as you are submerged in a liquid about the same density as yours.
Or maybe the space contraction made the distance smaller ? There are MANY pitfalls in relativity. However, the page looks all right (they state that it's not possible to send information faster than light).
to quote:
Information coded using a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c using this effect. Hence, it is still true to say that "Information carried by a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c." The detailed reasons are very complex and are still under debate. However, using this effect, one might be able to increase information transfer speed up to c. In present day technology, information is transmitted at speed far slower than c in most cases such as through the Internet and inside a computer.
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HA ! How about this: there are two gsm _providers_ in Luxembourg (population about 400k) !
HA ! I should move to Holland ! In Germany you have to pay the TV/Radio tax if you have a receiving device (even if you have for example a Radio+CD player and you only use CDs because you don't know german). You have to pay the TV/Radio tax if you have a PC, only because you could use your pc to listen to radio/tv on-line !!!!
The short answer is no, it won't be "pretty fast". There are just too many prime numbers between 2 and sqrt(A), if A is something like 2^1024 or 2^2048 or 2^4096 (...) to test them all.
Right now we have better (=faster) ways to factor large integers than to bruteforce for all the prime numbers smaller than sqrt(A). Way faster.
Think about it. There are about x/log x prime numbers smaller than x ! There are too many prime numbers to generate between 1 and 2^200, even if you generate one prime number in a clock cycle, no matter how fast is your computer or how many computers you have !
Of course they are prime ! ANY number is either:
6n (not prime of course)
6n+1
6n+2 (not prime of course)
6n+3 (not prime of course)
6n+4 (not prime of course)
6n+5
And 6n+5 is the same as 6(n+1)-1 so indeed you are right. You deserve a price for finding a 6th grade theorem.
RSA is "strong" not because we cannot generate prime numbers (or test if one given number is prime). In fact we can do both things VERY fast.
RSA is "strong" because we cannot solve fast simple ecuations like x*y=A (where A is BIG, x,y integers). And bruteforce is NOT the fastest method available to factor integers. If it were, yes, it would help to have a faster algorithm to generate/test primes. But it's not.
Uh, I fail to see why this was moderated as interesting. "128 bit technology" ? I assume you are talking about symmetrical alg., like IDEA, CAST, and many others. These are not even remotely related to prime numbers (some of them are, but not very close). And it's already simple enough to generate big prime numbers.
Next step is to ask: "will my Diesel car become obsolete because of this theory" ?
The Pythagorean Theorem is a Theorem because it fits the definition for the Theorem, not because some stupid reason about infinity. A theorem is a logical assertion which can be proved using (=it is implied) by the axioms (statements which are given to be true).
Please mod the parent up, but NOT as funny. And move along, there is nothing else to see here.
Look, Pi is _irrational_. The proof is not trivial, but it's clear. Pi is not even algebraic (this is proved, also).
I wonder why nobody mentioned arc flashlights
www.arcflashlight.com
The ARC AAA uses one AAA (surprize) and it will be BRIGHT for many hours (it's semiregulated). You can read or hike or do anything at night with one VERY small light (smaller than Mag$ Solitare). Just visit the web site and you'll see what I mean. The small light is of course waterproof; and the head is totally sealed; you can take the light apart under water without any problems. This small light has been freezed inside an ice cube, boiled in oil and run over by SUVs. Did I mentioned it's HA (hard anodized) III. If you wonder why HA III is important just look at your Mag$ Solitare (regular HA) and you'll see what I mean.
By the way, Mag$'s does not qualify (IMHO) as "high quality existing flashlight". Maybe they were, 30 years ago. Maybe they still are compared to 1.99$ lights from department store. But for example a Princeton Tec 40 (around 12-25 $) will be smaller (fits in a pocket) and about 60 g (!). With batteries (standard 4xAA) will be around 130g. And will have a nice white output (no rings). In a 3D Mag$ you'll find: ringy, yelowish output (and less brightness), about 460 g dead weight + 400-450 g for batteries. Oh, and the Princeton Tec is waterproof to 2000 ft (yes 2 and three 0) while mag will be flooded if you try to see how it's working in the pool.
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Nothing new here; you need the passport AND registration to buy a pre-paid card in Germany. As a tourist there is no chance to buy a pre-paid card in any decent shop. Of course, there are quite a few shops with turkish (?) people and you could buy _anything_ there. Or you could buy one off the ebay, or from flea market. I wonder how could they ban the flea market ...
Been there, done that - had my review published. But they edited it (quite heavy, enough to change the general idea).
you have to pay about 200 EUR / yr. for TV and radio (of course for a couple of state own stations). But wait, there is more ! You have to pay the tax if you have a pc and a modem ! Because you could, in principle listen to radio / watch TV with your PC (is, TV over a dial up line).
And, starting with 2003 the companies will have to pay the fee for each PC connected to internet !
And because in Europe you never know for what you have to pay. Let's take Germany for example: if you have a PC with a modem you have to pay the TV&radio tax (and is not cheap, something like 15$/mo.) ! If you don't read your mail and you get a form from "The office for statistical data" (www.hsl.de) you have to pay 75 EUR. The form will come again (with the bill) one month later. Forget to fill the form in time (and to send it back using your own money) ? Thats's another 150 EUR !
This is because your cisco is ALREADY configured, and NEVER go south and you NEVER have to recover a password, and so on ...
You can get a serial to usb dongle but:
1. it will cost too much (something like a good fraction - up to half- from the mb price)
2. most likely you'll have to install drivers
3. it is possible to not work with all the programs
What the heck is wrong with legacy ports ? You can buy for about 50 $ a decent mobo for the latest Athlon WITH all the legacy ports. Of course it's very good for the hardware manfct. to sell you a dongle for 25+ $ (and you need to install drivers, and to find out that it's working only with windows XXXX and so on). And no, it is not creative to go and spend 25$ / pice to connect an old printer/digital camera/scanner/etc. to your new shiny mobo only because somebody decided to save some cents.
I am too soo sick about this "flash in everithing" thread. You have flash in sound cards, in video cards, motherboards of course, speakers (yes, speakers), keyboards and mices (yes), monitors (yes, monitors), keyboard/monitor switches, cd-roms (well, not cd-roms - cdrom drives), hard drives, network, SCSI cards, etc, etc, etc. 4 years ago I was waiting for a virus with a database for the most used components - maybe it is not possible to put viral code in any flash - but at least it's possible to kill hundreds of $$$ worth of hardware with 1 k code.
At some point we had to return/replace more than 50 creative sb awe 64 because the firmware got "corrupted" sometimes. 3 years later we found a software to rewrite the flash on these cards. Why do you need to put R/W memory in a device and leave it R/W so any random event (read windows "detect hardware" thing) will kill your device ?
Now we only need to have disks with the software needed to download the drivers from the device to the host operating system (still one disk for each device) !
The topic is "Connecting PCs and Macs via Infrared Communications" so either you have trouble reading either you are the idiot. Pick one.
I am quite surprised that nobody pointed out that we are victims of marketing. ANY digital camera will advertise the number of RAW pixels, that is you get this number if you shout B/W. If you want colour, there is a process called demosaicing, and you end up with about 1/3 pixels (it's a little bit more complicated, depending on bit-depth and the actual algorithm, but 1/3 is close). Example: an old film scanner (minolta dimage dual scan II) will get from a 35 mm frame a little bit over 10 000 000 pixels (no interpolation, no tricks). This are "real", "color" pixels. To match this with a digital camera you need 30 Mpixels (= advertised Mpixels).
There is no problem with gravity ! For 90% of time life on earth was ocean-based, and there you don't care about gravity as long as you are submerged in a liquid about the same density as yours.
Or maybe the space contraction made the distance smaller ? There are MANY pitfalls in relativity. However, the page looks all right (they state that it's not possible to send information faster than light).
to quote:
Information coded using a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c using this effect. Hence, it is still true to say that "Information carried by a light pulse cannot be transmitted faster than c." The detailed reasons are very complex and are still under debate. However, using this effect, one might be able to increase information transfer speed up to c. In present day technology, information is transmitted at speed far slower than c in most cases such as through the Internet and inside a computer.