It is still considered extremely dorky to wear a phone headset outside of a car. We would have to come up with a whole new range of adjectives to describe the level of dorkiness associated with wearing one of these. I doubt it will catch on before it becomes less visible than an earpiece...
True, but flushing CPU cache is many orders of magnitude faster than writing to disk. Except they probably want to use this technology to merge disk and RAM.
You've missed an important point here. Non-volatile RAM means than powering off does not imply a reboot. When power returns the next morning, or after the weekend, the computer is still in the same state as when you pulled the plug Friday evening./trold
Revealing 10.5 bits of information about yourself will place you in one of roughly 1500 groups, not in a group of size 1500. With more than 1.5 billion internet users, you are "identified" as being in a group of 1 million.
I guess someone thought it would be an effective way to prevent piracy
Once you've started a legitimate copy of a game, what process do they figure will turn the copy into an illegitimate one during gameplay?
I am guessing someone starting the game with the same credentials. Steam allows you to install your games on several computers, but only play on one at a time. This is done by only allowing one Steam client to connect with a given username. This can be circumvented by starting a game, and then disconnecting from the internet. The Ubisoft fix is to require continuous connectivity, which then ruins the game for those of us with an unstable internet conne...
It is pretty easy to get within the error margins these guys are working with. Assuming you are testing on a uniform sample of the population, you would be right more than 90% of the time by saying "not gay".
robots.txt is not for security. Using it as such is the same as protecting your sensitive data by writing "DONT READ" in the top. Even worse, if you do rely on it, you provide a public list of what might be interesting on your site.
What kind of backup do you need?
0 K = DAMN COLD! 10 K = DAMN COLD! 20 K = DAMN COLD! 30 K = DAMN COLD! 40 K = DAMN COLD! 50 K = DAMN COLD!... 200K = Pee freezes before hitting the ground 400K = Pee evaporates before hitting the ground
"Twice as hot" only makes sense in a scientific context. It is akin to saying that one computer is twice as blue as another.
I think the big limitation against a robot "eating" living things at this point is that the energy required in harvesting anything that moves is far in excess of the energy that the robot will be able to extract from it. Bound to be an inefficient process.
Yeah, I can't imagine anything surviving on what it would have to hunt itself... Oh, wait, predatory carnivores do this all the time. It might be too pessimistic to assume that the efficiency in nature cannot be approximated.
Good hardware running code written by bad programmers just means the code will fail faster. The primary goal of a programmer is to make the code work, and that does not change no matter how fast your hardware is.
I have frozen myself so I may live to see the wonders of the future. Thaw me out when robot wives are cheap and effective. P.S. Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.
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Does P = NP?
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The calculations:
NP: (2^160)/(2^155) = 2^(160-155) = 2^5 = 32 times as hard.
P: (160^16)/(155^16) = (160/155)^16 = 1.66192932761 times as hard
/trold
Re:Huge crytography implications!
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Does P = NP?
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>Rubbish! RSA only depends on that it is *hard* to factorize integers. If the polynomial is aggressive enough RSA may still be effective.
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> Have you ever worked with O(n^16) algorithms? They are P allright but . . .
RSA is heavily dependant on that factoring an integer can't be done (at this moment) in polynomial time. e.g. The RSA-155 challenge, where a 155 digit integer was to be factored into two prime numbers, was solved in roughly 8000 MIPS-years of CPU-effort. The next RSA challenge, RSA-160 (still not solved!), where only 5 more decimal digits are added, will require about 32 times (2^5 times) the CPU usage! This way it won't matter how fast a given computer-network can compute, you just add a few more digits to the key, and they'll have tons of work.
If you could factorize an integer in polynomial time, you would have to use enormous keys. e.g. If it could be done in polynomial time (say O(n^16)) RSA-160 would only require 1.66 times the effort of RSA-155. The complexity-class means everything...
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... Teach a man to fish, and you've turned him into a habitual liar.
"We have put the keys in alphabetical order"
Yes, we all remember the good old alphabet: "...ghZij..." WTF?
It is still considered extremely dorky to wear a phone headset outside of a car. We would have to come up with a whole new range of adjectives to describe the level of dorkiness associated with wearing one of these. I doubt it will catch on before it becomes less visible than an earpiece...
The product is clearly a knockoff
True, but flushing CPU cache is many orders of magnitude faster than writing to disk. Except they probably want to use this technology to merge disk and RAM.
You've missed an important point here. Non-volatile RAM means than powering off does not imply a reboot. When power returns the next morning, or after the weekend, the computer is still in the same state as when you pulled the plug Friday evening. /trold
No. If it gets 100 times worse, it's still not as bad as Chernobyl.
Revealing 10.5 bits of information about yourself will place you in one of roughly 1500 groups, not in a group of size 1500. With more than 1.5 billion internet users, you are "identified" as being in a group of 1 million.
I guess someone thought it would be an effective way to prevent piracy
Once you've started a legitimate copy of a game, what process do they figure will turn the copy into an illegitimate one during gameplay?
I am guessing someone starting the game with the same credentials. Steam allows you to install your games on several computers, but only play on one at a time. This is done by only allowing one Steam client to connect with a given username. This can be circumvented by starting a game, and then disconnecting from the internet. The Ubisoft fix is to require continuous connectivity, which then ruins the game for those of us with an unstable internet conne...
It is pretty easy to get within the error margins these guys are working with. Assuming you are testing on a uniform sample of the population, you would be right more than 90% of the time by saying "not gay".
since most all Linux distros can be downloaded anonymously for free from many servers/mirrors around the world there is no way of knowing for sure...
Penguinpeople always read from a single file to hide there numbers.
robots.txt is not for security. Using it as such is the same as protecting your sensitive data by writing "DONT READ" in the top. Even worse, if you do rely on it, you provide a public list of what might be interesting on your site.
What kind of backup do you need? ...
0 K = DAMN COLD!
10 K = DAMN COLD!
20 K = DAMN COLD!
30 K = DAMN COLD!
40 K = DAMN COLD!
50 K = DAMN COLD!
200K = Pee freezes before hitting the ground
400K = Pee evaporates before hitting the ground
"Twice as hot" only makes sense in a scientific context. It is akin to saying that one computer is twice as blue as another.
If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.
If she is clever enough to get IE to run properly on the aforementioned linux systems, she is clever enough to configure her own porn-blocker...
The second that Linux gets above a 50% market, it will also be targeted by viruses, and anti-virus will then be a must for Linux.
So, unless we want that to happen: Keep quiet and enjoy your virus-free Linux.
... it bites!
And it is pretty much just one big bug.
The combination is so common that Merriam-Webster included Cathloholic is a proper word.
I think the big limitation against a robot "eating" living things at this point is that the energy required in harvesting anything that moves is far in excess of the energy that the robot will be able to extract from it. Bound to be an inefficient process.
Yeah, I can't imagine anything surviving on what it would have to hunt itself... Oh, wait, predatory carnivores do this all the time. It might be too pessimistic to assume that the efficiency in nature cannot be approximated.
Good hardware running code written by bad programmers just means the code will fail faster. The primary goal of a programmer is to make the code work, and that does not change no matter how fast your hardware is.
If you buy the newest hardware gizmo on the market, the geeks will be begging you to let them code for it.
I have frozen myself so I may live to see the wonders of the future. Thaw me out when robot wives are cheap and effective. P.S. Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.
The calculations:
/trold
NP: (2^160)/(2^155) = 2^(160-155) = 2^5 = 32 times as hard.
P: (160^16)/(155^16) = (160/155)^16 = 1.66192932761 times as hard
>Rubbish! RSA only depends on that it is *hard* to factorize integers. If the polynomial is aggressive enough RSA may still be effective.
/trold
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> Have you ever worked with O(n^16) algorithms? They are P allright but . . .
RSA is heavily dependant on that factoring an integer can't be done (at this moment) in polynomial time. e.g. The RSA-155 challenge, where a 155 digit integer was to be factored into two prime numbers, was solved in roughly 8000 MIPS-years of CPU-effort. The next RSA challenge, RSA-160 (still not solved!), where only 5 more decimal digits are added, will require about 32 times (2^5 times) the CPU usage! This way it won't matter how fast a given computer-network can compute, you just add a few more digits to the key, and they'll have tons of work.
If you could factorize an integer in polynomial time, you would have to use enormous keys. e.g. If it could be done in polynomial time (say O(n^16)) RSA-160 would only require 1.66 times the effort of RSA-155. The complexity-class means everything...