[Shanes noticed that there was a high prime in the
transmission that was not the highest one currently
known to mankind]
Can someone submit a patch, please? We don't want ET to think we're complete retards.
What do you think they'll think about
it anyway? Even this new highest prime was
found using a quite old algorithm that didn't
use any advanced technology. The only thing
we'd show this way is that we don't yet know
a working formula to calc any prime.
Currently, higher primes are only found by
using more and more plain violent computing
power, not by any advanced mathematical
knowledge. I don't think this impresses
anybody.
<sarcasm>Include a picture of
Hiroshima instead, so they know we can handle nuclear fusion.</sarcasm>
Geeks, there's even a nude woman in it.
Starts at about offset 176910 (print the
columns with 127 bits per line).
On the other hand, by placing a well-built
Ken beneath her, at least we show to aliens
that we know about the basic principles
of heterosexuality.
I wonder if they will send the signal 24 hours
a day into the sky or only after 11pm to give
German government a chance to protect our
poor children from smut like this.
You're wrong. First, a stream that is written
to is not a memory but a stream (which only
includes memory), so its primary use is to transport
data, not only to hold it. Where the stream ends or
is splitted or received in another way, you
will have full read/write facilities.
It's just the possibility of in-place-editing
of optic information that excites me here.
From a technical point of view, it never
seemed naturally impossible to me to delay
photons. For a long time now, it has been
possible to send photons to atoms, have them
"suck them in", changing into a higher energy
level, jumping back into a lower energy level
and re-emit a photon.
This takes time. A "microscopic" amount
of time, but it takes time. The atom re-emits
because it gets some instability from the
new, higher, unbalanced energy level. This is
also not a fixed amount of time. Just when the
"situation collapses", the atom emits energy
again in form of a photon.
Having appropriate matter, it should be
possible to extend this "photon lag" by some
quite high amount, maybe 10x or even 100x the
time it would take in household kitchen matter. Just
find/create atoms that can handle the additional load
longer without collapsing.
I was always taught that the speed of light was a constant 186,000 miles per second, and that the Theory of Relativity stated nothing could go faster than the speed of light.
You cannot accelerate something to
speeds > light speed without more than an
impossible high amount of energy. This doesn't affect
the speed the particles/whatever were created
with, though.
Hemmer's team use a second laser beam to excite atoms in a substance to new energy states. Light can be considered to propagate through a material by being sequentially absorbed and re-emitted by atoms. The second beam manipulates this process so that it becomes more and more difficult for the light to make the step from one atom to the next.
You could use this (while providing the medium
with additional energy or cooling it down) to
change the wavelength of the photons while they
are absorbed and re-emitted within the matter.
Think of it as some kind of "modifying
receiver". Forwards streams of photons while
being able to re-set the information transported
in the stream by changing the frequency.
You could overwrite (or: for the first time
write to them, think of an empty ATM fixed-size
packet stream where you can inject-by-overwrite
data in) data which would make it possible to
manipulate (write-only) data in a photon stream
without any active elements at the injector
or breaking/transforming the stream.
What about you CIA people? Any further ideas to
modify/sniff sub-ocean cables?
Interesting. Do you have anything to back this up?
Here
is a scan (German) from 1992 that is supposed to be one
of the letters that this "Girl" wrote to cluesless
people to convince them to copy games and trade
them with her (which resulted in aforementioned
law company to contact you if you responded).
Yes, back in 1992. Looks like there are always
ways to make money by frightening people.
Much of Gravenreuth's tactics in these days
happened in the German magazine "64'er". I think
this has also been covered in this magazine
itself once. The scheme was more or less the
same every time: Some people (kids, in most
cases) annonced something in the private ads
part of the magazine. A computer game, for
example, but not a copy. They were then
contacted by some girl by snail-mail, often
including a photo (the same photo, but different
names for the girl..) who was interested in
the ad. She then asked, if one would like to
"trade" some other games. If the victim
sent back a list of (copied..) games back,
he was sued a short time after.
So this "girl" *asked* to trade her
copied software and then sued the people
who responded in the name of the
software company.
Gravenreuth later started to work for
companies like Symicron. Symicron claimed
to have an older Trademark "Explorer",
and Gravenreuth successfully negotiated
some sum of money with Microsoft (they
did this instead of going to court; hell
knows why). The point is that Symicron
hasn't proven yet that an actual Symicron
product called "Explorer" ever existed.
But they, with Gravenreuth as lawyer,
continue to sue nearly everybody who
uses the name "Explorer" in Germany
for computer thingies. Like a tool
named "FTP-Explorer" and so on.
They even went to court against
Heise (which host the newsticker that
this Slashdot story is based on), because
they just put one of these tools *named*
with something like "Explorer" on their
CD for the printed magazine "c't". They
threatened to go to _every_ shop that
had this issue of the magazine legally
to frighten them so sell it.
There are lots of stories about
Gravenreuth. Most of the very details
are not known because it's always
legal affairs and you can easily
be sued yourself by Gravenreuth if
he claims you wrote something that
is not correct or not publically
proven.
So, of course this whole posting
is just IMHO, AFAIK and AFAIR, and
IANAL, and nothing of all this is
true anyway.... (I'm living in
Germany.)
At times it'd be nice if there were a Linux API to get the name and version number of the
distribution, rather than that of the kernel, if for no other reason than to let you more easily or more automatically get that information from users when reporting bugs.
Mostly useless. The only thing you could get
would be the distribution release no. of the
initial installation, maybe together
with a counter about how many packages _might_
have been upgraded/changed (don't think about
those geeks who still rpm -e (or their
counterparts) and
update from source.. eek!).
Things like "Uses FileSystem Standard x.y" and
"BSDish/SysVish rc-s" according with libc version
and gcc STL and binary API would be more interesting.
It's still ill to see how many packages are
still offered to be "for" RedHat 7.0, 7.1,
or this crap SuSE fs standard.
Things like Linux or GNOME don't have to
competite against "high" version numbers,
since things like "98", "ME", "2000", "XP"
aren't "version numbers". The real
version number of windows 9x is still 4.x,
the one of 2000 5.x, AFAIR.
Of course, this doesn't prevent RedHat/S.u.S.E.
from using their own 7.x version numbers at the
moment so they can competite eachother..:-/
Slashdot Mirror
What do you think they'll think about it anyway? Even this new highest prime was found using a quite old algorithm that didn't use any advanced technology. The only thing we'd show this way is that we don't yet know a working formula to calc any prime.
Currently, higher primes are only found by using more and more plain violent computing power, not by any advanced mathematical knowledge. I don't think this impresses anybody.
<sarcasm>Include a picture of Hiroshima instead, so they know we can handle nuclear fusion.</sarcasm>
Rather paint it in US colors and have it write "Terrorists win." on their largest continent.
I still wonder why aliens should even think of talking to a species that every few months ignores even the very simplest form of diplomacy.
Geeks, there's even a nude woman in it. Starts at about offset 176910 (print the columns with 127 bits per line).
On the other hand, by placing a well-built Ken beneath her, at least we show to aliens that we know about the basic principles of heterosexuality.
I wonder if they will send the signal 24 hours a day into the sky or only after 11pm to give German government a chance to protect our poor children from smut like this.
Spamuel wrote:
Will not using ports save Europeans from malicious programs from over the ocean?
You're wrong. First, a stream that is written to is not a memory but a stream (which only includes memory), so its primary use is to transport data, not only to hold it. Where the stream ends or is splitted or received in another way, you will have full read/write facilities.
It's just the possibility of in-place-editing of optic information that excites me here.
From a technical point of view, it never seemed naturally impossible to me to delay photons. For a long time now, it has been possible to send photons to atoms, have them "suck them in", changing into a higher energy level, jumping back into a lower energy level and re-emit a photon.
This takes time. A "microscopic" amount of time, but it takes time. The atom re-emits because it gets some instability from the new, higher, unbalanced energy level. This is also not a fixed amount of time. Just when the "situation collapses", the atom emits energy again in form of a photon.
Having appropriate matter, it should be possible to extend this "photon lag" by some quite high amount, maybe 10x or even 100x the time it would take in household kitchen matter. Just find/create atoms that can handle the additional load longer without collapsing.
You cannot accelerate something to speeds > light speed without more than an impossible high amount of energy. This doesn't affect the speed the particles/whatever were created with, though.
You could use this (while providing the medium with additional energy or cooling it down) to change the wavelength of the photons while they are absorbed and re-emitted within the matter.
Think of it as some kind of "modifying receiver". Forwards streams of photons while being able to re-set the information transported in the stream by changing the frequency.
You could overwrite (or: for the first time write to them, think of an empty ATM fixed-size packet stream where you can inject-by-overwrite data in) data which would make it possible to manipulate (write-only) data in a photon stream without any active elements at the injector or breaking/transforming the stream.
What about you CIA people? Any further ideas to modify/sniff sub-ocean cables?
Here is a scan (German) from 1992 that is supposed to be one of the letters that this "Girl" wrote to cluesless people to convince them to copy games and trade them with her (which resulted in aforementioned law company to contact you if you responded).
Yes, back in 1992. Looks like there are always ways to make money by frightening people.
Recursive Google fun on this law article:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Ftranslate.google.com%2Ftranslate%3Fu%3Dhttp%253 A%252F%252Fwww.heise.de%252Fbin%252Fnt.print%252Fn ewsticker%252Fdata%252Fodi-07.01.02-000%252F%253Fi d%253Dfa2a03da%2526todo%253Dprint%26langpair%3Dde% 257Cen%26hl%3Den&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en
(Too bad the re-translation to English again breaks the URL.)
The funny thing, even with this article being in German, for me is that Lawian speak still doesn't make sense after encryption.
Much of Gravenreuth's tactics in these days happened in the German magazine "64'er". I think this has also been covered in this magazine itself once. The scheme was more or less the same every time: Some people (kids, in most cases) annonced something in the private ads part of the magazine. A computer game, for example, but not a copy. They were then contacted by some girl by snail-mail, often including a photo (the same photo, but different names for the girl..) who was interested in the ad. She then asked, if one would like to "trade" some other games. If the victim sent back a list of (copied..) games back, he was sued a short time after.
So this "girl" *asked* to trade her copied software and then sued the people who responded in the name of the software company.
Gravenreuth later started to work for companies like Symicron. Symicron claimed to have an older Trademark "Explorer", and Gravenreuth successfully negotiated some sum of money with Microsoft (they did this instead of going to court; hell knows why). The point is that Symicron hasn't proven yet that an actual Symicron product called "Explorer" ever existed. But they, with Gravenreuth as lawyer, continue to sue nearly everybody who uses the name "Explorer" in Germany for computer thingies. Like a tool named "FTP-Explorer" and so on.
They even went to court against Heise (which host the newsticker that this Slashdot story is based on), because they just put one of these tools *named* with something like "Explorer" on their CD for the printed magazine "c't". They threatened to go to _every_ shop that had this issue of the magazine legally to frighten them so sell it.
There are lots of stories about Gravenreuth. Most of the very details are not known because it's always legal affairs and you can easily be sued yourself by Gravenreuth if he claims you wrote something that is not correct or not publically proven.
So, of course this whole posting is just IMHO, AFAIK and AFAIR, and IANAL, and nothing of all this is true anyway.... (I'm living in Germany.)
Mostly useless. The only thing you could get would be the distribution release no. of the initial installation, maybe together with a counter about how many packages _might_ have been upgraded/changed (don't think about those geeks who still rpm -e (or their counterparts) and update from source.. eek!).
Things like "Uses FileSystem Standard x.y" and "BSDish/SysVish rc-s" according with libc version and gcc STL and binary API would be more interesting.
It's still ill to see how many packages are still offered to be "for" RedHat 7.0, 7.1, or this crap SuSE fs standard.
Things like Linux or GNOME don't have to competite against "high" version numbers, since things like "98", "ME", "2000", "XP" aren't "version numbers". The real version number of windows 9x is still 4.x, the one of 2000 5.x, AFAIR.
Of course, this doesn't prevent RedHat/S.u.S.E. from using their own 7.x version numbers at the moment so they can competite eachother.. :-/
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