To follow up: Found 141,739 primes, the largest being 1,895,693 before I decided I needed the CPU cycles for something else. (one prime for every 13.3745... numbers). Log file is about 1mb. It took about two hours to get to that number. Might take a little longer to get to a new record.;)
Then, all i have to do is edit the executable file and put $x=(1895693 +1) to pick up where I left off.
Good point! Up to 461207 and a 256k log file. Its on a smaller partition, but if I have to, I can change the value of the first $x to the last prime, and move it over to another partition. Got almost a terrabyte total on the machine, and half of it free.
It's running in the background on my home linux router, an older AMD XP 2700+. Already up to 334157 and the load is only 2.50. Wonder how long it will take until I get to 2^32582657?;)
Once a/home folder is encrypted, any settings that a web browser is likely to dump onto disk will be beyond the reach of anyone who does not have your key/passphrase.
Except that does you no good, since if a warrant was issued for the computer, you would forced to provide the password or be held in jail for contempt. The law is pretty clear on this. And being held for contempt doesn't have time limits. Deleting after a subpoena is issued will also get you in trouble, and possibly the maximum penalty under law.
I would imagine that the same could be done if you continued to refuse to provide the key for your encrypted folder or partition. Your suggestions might make it difficult for someone to view your cached files, but it wouldn't prevent you from being locked up, and could result in a tougher sentence in the long run. Not the solution.
Anonymity is the degree of how hard it is to spot you in a crowd. I can't see how having cached files affects that.
If the police take your laptop, then they know every website you have visited. That isn't very anonymous.
Now, say you are a blogger, and you are interested in finding out how easy it is to find info on building a bomb, for instance. So you spend 4 hours Googling(tm) and looking at sites before drawing your conclusion. Your goal is to find out how accessible the info is only, but now the police (and in 5 minutes, the NSA and FBI) know you were looking for "how to make a bomb". Your accounts are frozen, etc. etc. etc. While you sit in jail until it can be determined if you are a risk or not.
Or maybe you live in Saudi Arabia, or Iran, etc., and have opinions about your government but don't want to die.
There is a case for being anonymous. I have never bothered trying to be anonymous but then, I don't do anything exciting enough that anyone would care. But I can see why people want it, not only while they are surfing, but afterwards as well.
If you allow a cookie for searching Google, and delete that cookie after each session, it is very easy to get results in English only. Not much of a security or anonyminity issue to do that.
But less people use Firefox, so they don't write as many exploits for it. Almost like "security through obscurity", and I hear you can get RICH doing that with operating systems and browsers.
If you go back and look at your post, you might see it could be taken as an arguement, since the wikipedia article somewhat contradicts my statements by making absolute statements (ie: indentical). Looking back, now I see what you meant, but the meaning wasn't clear at first glance.
Also, on/., most posts that start with a Wikipedia link ARE arguements, thus the initial confusion. Appologies if I stepped on toes.
If profit at any cost is the bottom line,.... Those that do would have an advantage over those that don't.
That isn't capitalism, that is greed, which happens in any economic system. And just like in all other systems, some people are stupid, some smart, some honest, some dishonest. To think that just because a system is capitalistic, everyone involved suddenly becomes greedy and doesn't care about people demonstrates you don't truly understand capitalism.
Capitalism isn't a religion, it's only an economic system. To think that capitalism somehow corrupts a majority of people seems to indicate you have little faith in the average person. I would be more leary of corruption in an economic system that doesn't reward hard work and individualism, as it would be the only way to get ahead.
Capitalism has a flaw in that it "prefers" ( as an emergent behaviour ) people without character for high positions like this.
Total nonsense. Capitalism does not "prefer" power hungry fools, and there are plenty of these fools in communist and socialist societies. For every example of a company with a jerk at the top, I can give you an example of the head of a large company that is NOT. Every economic system suffers from a few individuals who are too greedy, for money or power.
You simply have a bias against capitalism like many others here, and everytime a CEO is shown to be an ass, you want it to be proof that capitalism is bad. To shift blame for the convenience of blaming capitalism is just bunk, no matter how good it makes you feel inside.
Yes. Three is more than two, so three processors can exist in a SMP setup. Identical is relative, as I have stated, I have installed processors that were NOT identical, but very close, and they worked fine. I remember reading about "unsupported SMP" combinations in Intel's literature (was PDF or I could quickly google a copy).
Again, the specification doesn't require there be an EVEN number of chips, and yes, you CAN use different speeds of chips, which is even LESS "identical" or different stepping chips, which are NOT identical. Being connected to the same main memory is what makes it symmetrical, not the fact that the chips are exactly the same. Because they don't have to be, although YMMV with advanced features. Obviously, stability is better if they are truly identical, but go look up a SMP table for a processor family and you will see "compatible" steppings: Chips that are NOT identical, but identical enough for SMP and run stable.
Just because you read something in Wikipedia doesn't mean you understand it. Try working with SMP for a dozen years or so, then decide if the article is oversimplifying it for the masses.
The flaws are not with capitalism, but with the character (or lack thereof) Ms. Dunn. Again, to assign the blame to capitalism is simply saying "It's not her fault, it is capitalisms fault".
I only have a couple of years on you, but my bitter cynicism is directed toward the government and those who are elected on promises they have no intention of keeping. What give ME faith in capitalism is that it is practiced by everyday people, every day. Most of them are pretty good people, and most people are smart enough to know a bad one when they see them. Dunn is not just a bad Chairman, but a bad person.
Winston Churchill put it best: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
My using Communism as an obvious example does not indicate you prefer it to capitalism. That was made clear when I said " (and why whatever brand of economics you prefer is "right") ".
I have no idea what brand of economics you prefer, but your prejudice against capitalism is obvious, and the point. Logic isn't the issue, prejudice is.
When you hit the cover of Newsweek as a shining example of corporate misbehaviour, it's safe to say your days are numbered.
Two words: Book Deal
This is America, where we celebrate those that do wrong and actually had to make a LAW that says if you murder or rape someone, you can't make money off any books/tv deals (but other crimes, and it's ok). Think about that, that means that people will buy books written by these criminals, and make the criminals potentially RICH, if you don't make it illegal. Might even get a "made for TV movie" out of it.
I am pretty sure that Communism had plenty of examples of spying and evil deeds. To assign this purely to the "ills of capitalism" demonstrates you are prejudiced against capitalism in general. My bet is that Ms. Dunn would be just as much of an ass if she were in power in a communist economy.
Capitalism does not require people act unethically, illegally or immorally. My fear is that people like you will simply use this situation to "prove" how capitalism is bad (and why whatever brand of economics you prefer is "right"), rather than understand it for what it is: PEOPLE that are bad, and would be just as bad, in any other economic system.
Another pisser is that by blaming capitalism, you are releasing her from fault, as it is "capitalism" that is at fault, and not an overzealous and unethical person, Ms. Dunn. She shares the blame with no one.
I think the Symmetrical in SMP means the chips are more or less the same, not that they are in equal numbers. Any SMP system will always have different loads on each cpu at any given time, so they are not USED exactly the same amount either. The chips do NOT work in 'lock step' or anything. Technically, you can even Speed Step one down while the other is at full speed. The Symmetrical part of SMP is not as symmetrical as one would think.
This is the idea behind using 2 physical cpus with the same stepping in smp. Not for speed, but because different stepping have different features (that is what stepping means, after all). Also, although not commonly done, I have heard of SMP setups with different SPEED processors. I have run SMP systems with cpus that had different cache amounts (256k & 512k on PPro 200mhz), thus different stepping, although I had to run the 256k chip as CPU0 and the MB ignored the extra 256k cache on the CPU1, making them both virtual 256k cache chips. This was a limitation of the chipset, not the specification.
There is no reason you can't have odd numbers, although if I remember right, the traditional x86 specification makes it difficult to have more than 15 (yes, 15 ie: 16-1) cpus on a single motherboard. Its supposed to be a legacy issue, although that may be dealt with by now.
So DVD then? That is, until HDCP is cracked. Shouldn't be long.
Don't hold your breath. The fact that CSS was cracked is more of the fact that Xing screwed up and put an unecrypted key in their player. Once they got ahold of the basic encryption, brute forcing 40 bit keys wasn't that hard (couldn't be stronger than 40 bit due to US export laws on encryption at the time).
Even a bad implimentation can take forever to break. If Xing didn't screw up, we would never have heard of DeCSS.
Or perhaps MS was hoping the project would be farther along, and close to a commercial project by now, thus they could come in and threaten legal action or "buy them out" for a song?
I hate to be cynical, but it is not like MS hasn't played dirty in the past. A lot. But in all fairness, we need more info. My guess is MS won't be forthcoming with any.
You have to work unpaid overtime You get sod all holidays You can be let go without stated cause
I am not sure if you live in the US and don't understand how the laws work, or spreading FUD. I will give the benefit of the doubt and just say you are misinformed.
First, many states DO require overtime is paid for salaried employees. Many jobs descriptions clearly state that you are expected to work 50 hours, and that is what the salary is to cover, and you get 1.5x for overtime, or 1.5x compensation time off. Some do not, and you just work it for "free". It varies from state to state, and job to job. You can always quit and go work somewhere else.
Second, almost all laws about employment are done at the state level, NOT federal level. Many (if not most) states require federal holidays be paid for employees who have worked full-time for over 1 year, and mandate at least 1 week vacation/holiday. Every state has a system in place to deal with employee complaints that is legally binding. Not perfect, but it generally works.
Third, you can NOT be go without cause in all states. Some states are "Right To Work" states, where yes, you can be let go without cause, but you are fully elligible for unemployment payments, which are paid for by insurance by the employer. In most states, the employer pays MORE payments if they are laying off more people than average, so simply firing people for no reason costs them a lot more money. Other states are fully Unionized, which means you get to (I mean FORCED TO) join a Union and pay dues for the luxury of working. These states do not enjoy a lower unemployment level than Right To Work states.
It isn't a perfect system, none is, but the average employee in the USA isn't abused, and does enjoy some of the highest standard of living in the world. Most important, you can always quit and go somewhere else.
There are lots of laws I would like see changed, added, removed, but the USA isn't a giant wasteland where Corporations roam free and abuse everyone without repercussion.
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To follow up: Found 141,739 primes, the largest being 1,895,693 before I decided I needed the CPU cycles for something else. (one prime for every 13.3745... numbers). Log file is about 1mb. It took about two hours to get to that number. Might take a little longer to get to a new record. ;)
Then, all i have to do is edit the executable file and put $x=(1895693 +1) to pick up where I left off.
Good point! Up to 461207 and a 256k log file. Its on a smaller partition, but if I have to, I can change the value of the first $x to the last prime, and move it over to another partition. Got almost a terrabyte total on the machine, and half of it free.
Once a /home folder is encrypted, any settings that a web browser is likely to dump onto disk will be beyond the reach of anyone who does not have your key/passphrase.
Except that does you no good, since if a warrant was issued for the computer, you would forced to provide the password or be held in jail for contempt. The law is pretty clear on this. And being held for contempt doesn't have time limits. Deleting after a subpoena is issued will also get you in trouble, and possibly the maximum penalty under law.
I would imagine that the same could be done if you continued to refuse to provide the key for your encrypted folder or partition. Your suggestions might make it difficult for someone to view your cached files, but it wouldn't prevent you from being locked up, and could result in a tougher sentence in the long run. Not the solution.
Anonymity is the degree of how hard it is to spot you in a crowd. I can't see how having cached files affects that.
If the police take your laptop, then they know every website you have visited. That isn't very anonymous.
Now, say you are a blogger, and you are interested in finding out how easy it is to find info on building a bomb, for instance. So you spend 4 hours Googling(tm) and looking at sites before drawing your conclusion. Your goal is to find out how accessible the info is only, but now the police (and in 5 minutes, the NSA and FBI) know you were looking for "how to make a bomb". Your accounts are frozen, etc. etc. etc. While you sit in jail until it can be determined if you are a risk or not.
Or maybe you live in Saudi Arabia, or Iran, etc., and have opinions about your government but don't want to die.
There is a case for being anonymous. I have never bothered trying to be anonymous but then, I don't do anything exciting enough that anyone would care. But I can see why people want it, not only while they are surfing, but afterwards as well.
If you allow a cookie for searching Google, and delete that cookie after each session, it is very easy to get results in English only. Not much of a security or anonyminity issue to do that.
You mean like any ecommerce or membership based site, like, say, /., Amazon, and the like?
How exactly can you buy from Amazon and remain anonymous?
This is kinda the thinking behind SCO "swinging for the bleachers" with IBM and Linux, isn't it?
But less people use Firefox, so they don't write as many exploits for it. Almost like "security through obscurity", and I hear you can get RICH doing that with operating systems and browsers.
Slashdot WAS down earlier, or at least I got a 500 error page, which begs the questions:
;)
If a website goes down, but no hears it, does it make a whimper?
It has been the day for rants.
/., most posts that start with a Wikipedia link ARE arguements, thus the initial confusion. Appologies if I stepped on toes.
If you go back and look at your post, you might see it could be taken as an arguement, since the wikipedia article somewhat contradicts my statements by making absolute statements (ie: indentical). Looking back, now I see what you meant, but the meaning wasn't clear at first glance.
Also, on
If profit at any cost is the bottom line,.... Those that do would have an advantage over those that don't.
That isn't capitalism, that is greed, which happens in any economic system. And just like in all other systems, some people are stupid, some smart, some honest, some dishonest. To think that just because a system is capitalistic, everyone involved suddenly becomes greedy and doesn't care about people demonstrates you don't truly understand capitalism.
Capitalism isn't a religion, it's only an economic system. To think that capitalism somehow corrupts a majority of people seems to indicate you have little faith in the average person. I would be more leary of corruption in an economic system that doesn't reward hard work and individualism, as it would be the only way to get ahead.
Capitalism has a flaw in that it "prefers" ( as an emergent behaviour ) people without character for high positions like this.
Total nonsense. Capitalism does not "prefer" power hungry fools, and there are plenty of these fools in communist and socialist societies. For every example of a company with a jerk at the top, I can give you an example of the head of a large company that is NOT. Every economic system suffers from a few individuals who are too greedy, for money or power.
You simply have a bias against capitalism like many others here, and everytime a CEO is shown to be an ass, you want it to be proof that capitalism is bad. To shift blame for the convenience of blaming capitalism is just bunk, no matter how good it makes you feel inside.
two or more identical processors
Yes. Three is more than two, so three processors can exist in a SMP setup. Identical is relative, as I have stated, I have installed processors that were NOT identical, but very close, and they worked fine. I remember reading about "unsupported SMP" combinations in Intel's literature (was PDF or I could quickly google a copy).
Again, the specification doesn't require there be an EVEN number of chips, and yes, you CAN use different speeds of chips, which is even LESS "identical" or different stepping chips, which are NOT identical. Being connected to the same main memory is what makes it symmetrical, not the fact that the chips are exactly the same. Because they don't have to be, although YMMV with advanced features. Obviously, stability is better if they are truly identical, but go look up a SMP table for a processor family and you will see "compatible" steppings: Chips that are NOT identical, but identical enough for SMP and run stable.
Just because you read something in Wikipedia doesn't mean you understand it. Try working with SMP for a dozen years or so, then decide if the article is oversimplifying it for the masses.
The flaws are not with capitalism, but with the character (or lack thereof) Ms. Dunn. Again, to assign the blame to capitalism is simply saying "It's not her fault, it is capitalisms fault".
I only have a couple of years on you, but my bitter cynicism is directed toward the government and those who are elected on promises they have no intention of keeping. What give ME faith in capitalism is that it is practiced by everyday people, every day. Most of them are pretty good people, and most people are smart enough to know a bad one when they see them. Dunn is not just a bad Chairman, but a bad person.
Winston Churchill put it best: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
My using Communism as an obvious example does not indicate you prefer it to capitalism. That was made clear when I said " (and why whatever brand of economics you prefer is "right") ".
I have no idea what brand of economics you prefer, but your prejudice against capitalism is obvious, and the point. Logic isn't the issue, prejudice is.
When you hit the cover of Newsweek as a shining example of corporate misbehaviour, it's safe to say your days are numbered.
Two words: Book Deal
This is America, where we celebrate those that do wrong and actually had to make a LAW that says if you murder or rape someone, you can't make money off any books/tv deals (but other crimes, and it's ok). Think about that, that means that people will buy books written by these criminals, and make the criminals potentially RICH, if you don't make it illegal. Might even get a "made for TV movie" out of it.
I am pretty sure that Communism had plenty of examples of spying and evil deeds. To assign this purely to the "ills of capitalism" demonstrates you are prejudiced against capitalism in general. My bet is that Ms. Dunn would be just as much of an ass if she were in power in a communist economy.
Capitalism does not require people act unethically, illegally or immorally. My fear is that people like you will simply use this situation to "prove" how capitalism is bad (and why whatever brand of economics you prefer is "right"), rather than understand it for what it is: PEOPLE that are bad, and would be just as bad, in any other economic system.
Another pisser is that by blaming capitalism, you are releasing her from fault, as it is "capitalism" that is at fault, and not an overzealous and unethical person, Ms. Dunn. She shares the blame with no one.
I think the Symmetrical in SMP means the chips are more or less the same, not that they are in equal numbers. Any SMP system will always have different loads on each cpu at any given time, so they are not USED exactly the same amount either. The chips do NOT work in 'lock step' or anything. Technically, you can even Speed Step one down while the other is at full speed. The Symmetrical part of SMP is not as symmetrical as one would think.
This is the idea behind using 2 physical cpus with the same stepping in smp. Not for speed, but because different stepping have different features (that is what stepping means, after all). Also, although not commonly done, I have heard of SMP setups with different SPEED processors. I have run SMP systems with cpus that had different cache amounts (256k & 512k on PPro 200mhz), thus different stepping, although I had to run the 256k chip as CPU0 and the MB ignored the extra 256k cache on the CPU1, making them both virtual 256k cache chips. This was a limitation of the chipset, not the specification.
There is no reason you can't have odd numbers, although if I remember right, the traditional x86 specification makes it difficult to have more than 15 (yes, 15 ie: 16-1) cpus on a single motherboard. Its supposed to be a legacy issue, although that may be dealt with by now.
So DVD then? That is, until HDCP is cracked. Shouldn't be long.
Don't hold your breath. The fact that CSS was cracked is more of the fact that Xing screwed up and put an unecrypted key in their player. Once they got ahold of the basic encryption, brute forcing 40 bit keys wasn't that hard (couldn't be stronger than 40 bit due to US export laws on encryption at the time).
Even a bad implimentation can take forever to break. If Xing didn't screw up, we would never have heard of DeCSS.
I think the downside of the existence of flash memory is that embedded system companies are using it as a crutch instead of doing appropriate testing.
And how long before the all the new "dvd"s come out with software to OVERWRITE any firmware on your system that isn't "official"?
It will happen, I will bet my lunch money on it.
Or perhaps MS was hoping the project would be farther along, and close to a commercial project by now, thus they could come in and threaten legal action or "buy them out" for a song?
I hate to be cynical, but it is not like MS hasn't played dirty in the past. A lot. But in all fairness, we need more info. My guess is MS won't be forthcoming with any.
You have to work unpaid overtime
You get sod all holidays
You can be let go without stated cause
I am not sure if you live in the US and don't understand how the laws work, or spreading FUD. I will give the benefit of the doubt and just say you are misinformed.
First, many states DO require overtime is paid for salaried employees. Many jobs descriptions clearly state that you are expected to work 50 hours, and that is what the salary is to cover, and you get 1.5x for overtime, or 1.5x compensation time off. Some do not, and you just work it for "free". It varies from state to state, and job to job. You can always quit and go work somewhere else.
Second, almost all laws about employment are done at the state level, NOT federal level. Many (if not most) states require federal holidays be paid for employees who have worked full-time for over 1 year, and mandate at least 1 week vacation/holiday. Every state has a system in place to deal with employee complaints that is legally binding. Not perfect, but it generally works.
Third, you can NOT be go without cause in all states. Some states are "Right To Work" states, where yes, you can be let go without cause, but you are fully elligible for unemployment payments, which are paid for by insurance by the employer. In most states, the employer pays MORE payments if they are laying off more people than average, so simply firing people for no reason costs them a lot more money. Other states are fully Unionized, which means you get to (I mean FORCED TO) join a Union and pay dues for the luxury of working. These states do not enjoy a lower unemployment level than Right To Work states.
It isn't a perfect system, none is, but the average employee in the USA isn't abused, and does enjoy some of the highest standard of living in the world. Most important, you can always quit and go somewhere else.
There are lots of laws I would like see changed, added, removed, but the USA isn't a giant wasteland where Corporations roam free and abuse everyone without repercussion.
Believe it or not, we are not ALL consultants at big blue.
;)
So are you a lawyer or in marketing?