According to mersenne.org, a single iteration of a small exponent (6.52M-7.76M) takes 0.211 seconds on a PII-400 (not unreasonable for the average user), so a whole primality test will take, at the very least, 0.211*6.52e6 = 1375720 seconds, roughly 16 days, assuming the computer runs 24/7. Oops.
Of course, ignoring the fact that only 222k exponents need double-testing (yet), so the number of emails sent through this method is capped, without including the changes needed to mail servers, the effective destruction of mailing lists...
I'll elaborate on point #3. Devices, apps, games etc. You can walk in to any Staples or Best Buy and pick up any piece of software or any printer, digital camera, mp3 player etc. bring it home, plug it in, insert the cd-rom and presto! it just works.
but then you say
Stability? I'm running XP right now and I've had more hardware issues than software.
It seems your definition of "just works" is different from most peoples' definition.
Myself, I'm glad what happened to this guy. I think everyone these days knows well that what he was doing is illegal.
True (DMCA et al.). But is it fair for him to be punished? You already have ownership of radio waves that transit over your house. Why shouldn't you have the right to intercept and decrypt them? No copyright infringment happened -- people who bought his device already owned the radio waves. They may do anything they please with them, and that means decrypting them.
But CDMA is by far the technically superior solution, however patent incumbered. Building an infrastructure from the ground up on TDMA technology is just brain-dead politics.
But going through the hassle of designing a brand new image file format (PNG) because GIFs are patent encumbered is just fine?
Also, to my knowledge there is no study about the medical effects of
beaming high wattage infrared light right into the eyes of cinema visitors
(including children).
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda arrested for terrorism from the free-cmdrtaco dept.
Police officers arrested today Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, chief editor of slashdot.org, under five charges of terrorism. When asked for information, officials replied that "gross editorial incompetence is obviously a thing only a terorist would do. If you're not a terrorist, why would you need to post the same story five times in a row? And why are you asking this? If you don't know you must be one of them. Guards! Arrest him!"
Slashdot.org's chief editor charged for terrorism from the if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us dept.
As long as there's a eletric potential difference. A superconductor dissipates zero energy when it is in transit. It does not feed that energy into itself nor generates energy.
Sad part is your comment shows as (+3, Interesting).
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Spoken like a physicist. To a mathematican, the best way to understand imaginary numbers is to say something like, "It annoyed people that the equation 'x^2 = -1' didn't have a solution. They just made up an answer to give them something to play with. Oh it also turns out that this models real world stuff for some reason, but that's not very important."
Bzzt! Wrong. Mathematicians started to handle complex numbers when they found out that to find roots third-degree equations that have only distinct real solutions using Cardano's formula they needed to extract cubic roots of (now known as) complex numbers. This led to the complex number theory.
What about using the same algorithm used to encode data in MiniDV video to create a data DVD? How are they going to force users to create only video DVDs?
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According to mersenne.org, a single iteration of a small exponent (6.52M-7.76M) takes 0.211 seconds on a PII-400 (not unreasonable for the average user), so a whole primality test will take, at the very least, 0.211*6.52e6 = 1375720 seconds, roughly 16 days, assuming the computer runs 24/7. Oops.
Of course, ignoring the fact that only 222k exponents need double-testing (yet), so the number of emails sent through this method is capped, without including the changes needed to mail servers, the effective destruction of mailing lists...
If you can't be bothered with hacking the source, hire a Linux sysadmin (we're talking about corporate settings, remember?).
You say
but then you say
It seems your definition of "just works" is different from most peoples' definition.
True (DMCA et al.). But is it fair for him to be punished? You already have ownership of radio waves that transit over your house. Why shouldn't you have the right to intercept and decrypt them? No copyright infringment happened -- people who bought his device already owned the radio waves. They may do anything they please with them, and that means decrypting them.
But going through the hassle of designing a brand new image file format (PNG) because GIFs are patent encumbered is just fine?
Hmmm... I wonder what will happen when MS Office 2003 goes gold.
Or you could first type
(which does absolutely nothing) and then recall the command and reissue it without the hash mark.
Will the DVD version have the evil bit set on the shots featuring Saruman?
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda arrested for terrorism
from the free-cmdrtaco dept.
Police officers arrested today Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, chief editor of slashdot.org, under five charges of terrorism. When asked for information, officials replied that "gross editorial incompetence is obviously a thing only a terorist would do. If you're not a terrorist, why would you need to post the same story five times in a row? And why are you asking this? If you don't know you must be one of them. Guards! Arrest him!"
Slashdot.org's chief editor charged for terrorism
from the if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us dept.
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As long as there's a eletric potential difference. A superconductor dissipates zero energy when it is in transit. It does not feed that energy into itself nor generates energy.
Sad part is your comment shows as (+3, Interesting).
Bzzt! Wrong. Mathematicians started to handle complex numbers when they found out that to find roots third-degree equations that have only distinct real solutions using Cardano's formula they needed to extract cubic roots of (now known as) complex numbers. This led to the complex number theory.
It's geeky. 'Nuff said.
What about using the same algorithm used to encode data in MiniDV video to create a data DVD? How are they going to force users to create only video DVDs?