The big whoha is that factoring numbers is computationally difficult. Public Key encryption
is based upon the fact that it is very easy to randomly pick some prime numbers and multiply them together to get an answer. The number that is produced can only be produced by multiplication of those two numbers, so there is only one pair of numbers that can be deduced by factorisation. Now, there is no easy way to determine the factors of a number, the only way is to use a brute force approach. That takes time, due to the large amount of time needed, it makes this ideal for implementation in a cryptographic system, and guess what? That's what most public key systems use. So it makes it possible for somebody to totally undermine all the existing e-commerce infrastructure and grep all of your passwords and credit card numbers and al-Queda arms shipments.
Don't forget Lemuria or 'Mu' for short.
It was fabled to exist either in the Pacific or indian oceans, I can't entirely remember.
Indian ocean sounds good because I think I remember something being said about Madagascar.
Analog copmuting has many advantages over digital computing, especially in the AI arena, Since there can never be a digital concept of infinity
How on earth do you create equipment to handle or even create this value of infinity?
Binary computer, touch CMOS chip, it dies
Analog computer, touch chip, you die
personally I would prefer a computer that I could kill and not the other way around.
Seriously though.
IANAEE (I am not an Electrical Engineer), but I don't see any way in which you could generate or store infinite voltages, however infinite currents could be manipulated if the computer was made out of superconductive materials.
With the current state of superconductor technology, the cooling rig for a machine like that would truly be a beast.
Thats probably what they said when the prototype got run over.:)
For the benefit of the many who are not enlightened enough to be Australian this is funny because we have a Toyota(?) advert over here which involves a farm ute being used for various tasks, the ute is supposedly very powerful and goes over board for every task here are some examples:
Pulling stump out of ground: Stump gets airborne and smashes up dunny (outside toilet)
Dog tries to jump onto ute but ute takes off, dog lands in mud and dog says bugger.
You probably don't have the idea yet but believe me, it is funny (Could some of you other Aussies back me up here before the karma police lock me up?)
The story I heard was that there was some explorer
or something who was going to go for a trundle in the arctic, Tesla told him to look towards a range of mountains in a certain position at a set time on a given date. This guy did but luckily Tesla miscalculated it and hit somewhere else instead. This particle beam weapon of his apparently vapourised an owl one night when it flew into the beam.
Step One:
We wet out pants over it (I know I did:P)
Step Two:
We realised it was a hoax
Step Three:
Are we going to do something about it?
This sounds very cool, the OODBMS for starters is cool, it saves so much wasted space; the practicalities of the 3dGUI are a bit suspect but
all the other details are good.
Personally, I think it would be good to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch every so often. It is about time that somebody created a new OS FROM SCRATCH. It would be a mammoth undertaking but in the end we would have something beautiful, the next generation of OS.
(If I don't stop in a minute I'll cream my pants again:P)
There is a perfectly good reason as to why it had a very low head shake count, they used a technical consultant who knew what he was on about, the legendary Captain Crunch. This guy was one of the first phreakers and discovered that a plastic whistle from a box of captain crucnh breakfast cereal could make the magical 2600Hz tone.
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The reason the Australia Card proposal was not that technologically advanced was that the proposal was made a wahile ago, back in the seventies I think (don't quote me). But the commie hippy sympathizers didn't like it.
The whole idea has some good points as well as some bad points and there is no real way to prevent its missuse. The only thing to do is if government agencies become more aggressive in collecting information and then putting it together and actually taking notice of it, make everything happen behind the scenes. By forcing companies to hand over all customer data, only the government has the info and there is less chance of individual companies targetting you because of that information.
You forgot the Binary Large OBjects (BLOBS) for storing the photo and fingerprint details.
You also need to decide what to use for the primary key, probably the SSN.:)
I live in Australia and in the northern part of my state (i live at the bottom of the mainland),
They are considering building a 1km high tower with a large greenhouse at the bottom, the sun warms air in the greenhouse and hot air rises so air flys up the tower. At the base of the tower is a large fan which is spun by the air going up and it will be used for power generation.
Just wondering, has anybody figured out if it is possible to use this technology to build a large tower and use it for power generation, also what would the figures be for power generation, cost (a biggy) life-span structural strength etc.
Also, you could possibly utilize a coastal volcano and build a big one of these with heatsinks either end and stick one heatsink in the water, or pump water up over it and sit the other end above the lava.
between.1 and.13 billion innocent people slaughtered over the past 100 years.
Add the fatalities for 'official' wars and
include domestic murders and the amount of humans
killed intentionally by humans over the past 100
years is close to.2 billion.
This is a bit OT but, they can help speed
up the war on drugs a bit, they just need to find a good reason of why they should do a large scale
napalm drop on civilian poppy fields.
Something a bit more practical is to figure out where the stockpiles of heroin supposedly worth
$1 * 10^9 are hidden, dump a few bombs on them and then pretend it was a vital military target.
They could just openly say they tried to destroy drug stockpiles but that would just annoy all the useless whacked out communist hippies hanging around.
Once the afgans have run out of drugs, the military only need a good reason to take on the golden triangle in asia and the columbians and the drug problem will almost be totally solved.
That has already been done before, sorry no links
for you but I think it may have appeared somewhere on slashdot, no guarantees but maybe somewhere in the past 6months.
Basically the guy hacked up a keyboard and cut it in half, one half had the mouse underneath and the other half was static. Problem was that it was UGLY, it was a prototype though.
The late great Nikola Tesla turned down a Nobel for his work because he was unhappy that that guigqwertylglkg Marconi got the Nobel for 'inventing' radio when Tesla demonstrated it years before Marconi was born.
At least Tesla got the last laugh when Marconi's patents were overturned a couple of years after Tesla's death.
I think I saw about three or four episodes scheduled for on channel seven but I missed one of them, I saw the rest, but still, a bit short for a season. If memory serves me, I think the first one was either on christmas or boxing day at about midnight.
It may still be 'officially' shown but channel 9 are probably going to treat it like they have many other shows like La Femme Nikita, ie. move it to horrible time slots take it off for weeks on end put back on one night take it off the next etc. etc. etc.
All this will be compounded by the fact that channel nine now have the *(&)^% footy and will have to squeeze the hours from somewhere, at least the dodgy matches will be given to channel ten so they don't have to screw up their schedules like seven have in the past, but I digress.
If it continues to air here in Australia, it will most likely be a hit and miss affair.
Glubco had plans for a device that consisted of the magnetron out of an old microwave and the flyback transformer from an old television.
This produced a very cool device which was used to nuke almost anything they could get their hands on, but for some reason they no longer have any details for it (probably safety issues, liability etc.). They used to have a railgun as well, but now they only have their Tesla Coil, I still gotta get the time and funds to build one of those suckers.
A web/mail/Usenet/IRC/bind 9.1 cluster running LVS (Linux Virtual Servers, www.lvs.org) on 5 rack 1U computers. I chose no-name rack units that have been sitting around idly in my lab. Each has 512 MB of RAM, 18-GB internal disk, and two NICs.
This guy obviously isn't poor, who in their right mind has five 1U computers lying around doing nothing. He could have at least been running folding, genome, seti etc.
Treason is treason, he betrayed his country and like all others who commit treason, should be executed. No questions asked, money back guarantee. Shoot the fscker.
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The big whoha is that factoring numbers is computationally difficult. Public Key encryption
is based upon the fact that it is very easy to randomly pick some prime numbers and multiply them together to get an answer. The number that is produced can only be produced by multiplication of those two numbers, so there is only one pair of numbers that can be deduced by factorisation. Now, there is no easy way to determine the factors of a number, the only way is to use a brute force approach. That takes time, due to the large amount of time needed, it makes this ideal for implementation in a cryptographic system, and guess what? That's what most public key systems use. So it makes it possible for somebody to totally undermine all the existing e-commerce infrastructure and grep all of your passwords and credit card numbers and al-Queda arms shipments.
Ooh! I forgot the best one.
T'leth is cool.
Beware the seahorse.
Fans of Terror From The Deep will understand.
Don't forget Lemuria or 'Mu' for short.
It was fabled to exist either in the Pacific or indian oceans, I can't entirely remember.
Indian ocean sounds good because I think I remember something being said about Madagascar.
Analog copmuting has many advantages over digital computing, especially in the AI arena, Since there can never be a digital concept of infinity
How on earth do you create equipment to handle or even create this value of infinity?
Binary computer, touch CMOS chip, it dies
Analog computer, touch chip, you die
personally I would prefer a computer that I could kill and not the other way around.
Seriously though.
IANAEE (I am not an Electrical Engineer), but I don't see any way in which you could generate or store infinite voltages, however infinite currents could be manipulated if the computer was made out of superconductive materials.
With the current state of superconductor technology, the cooling rig for a machine like that would truly be a beast.
On of the local rags up here in Australia is reporting that three possible sites have been identified.
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Link Here: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_pag
Thats probably what they said when the prototype got run over. :)
For the benefit of the many who are not enlightened enough to be Australian this is funny because we have a Toyota(?) advert over here which involves a farm ute being used for various tasks, the ute is supposedly very powerful and goes over board for every task here are some examples:
Pulling stump out of ground: Stump gets airborne and smashes up dunny (outside toilet)
Dog tries to jump onto ute but ute takes off, dog lands in mud and dog says bugger.
You probably don't have the idea yet but believe me, it is funny (Could some of you other Aussies back me up here before the karma police lock me up?)
The story I heard was that there was some explorer
or something who was going to go for a trundle in the arctic, Tesla told him to look towards a range of mountains in a certain position at a set time on a given date. This guy did but luckily Tesla miscalculated it and hit somewhere else instead. This particle beam weapon of his apparently vapourised an owl one night when it flew into the beam.
A bit further OT, but wouldn't chucking your mail in the microwave for a bit before opening kill any anthrax spores?
You would probably have to be extremely paranoid to do this but better safe than sorry.
Step One: :P)
:P)
We wet out pants over it (I know I did
Step Two:
We realised it was a hoax
Step Three:
Are we going to do something about it?
This sounds very cool, the OODBMS for starters is cool, it saves so much wasted space; the practicalities of the 3dGUI are a bit suspect but
all the other details are good.
Personally, I think it would be good to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch every so often. It is about time that somebody created a new OS FROM SCRATCH. It would be a mammoth undertaking but in the end we would have something beautiful, the next generation of OS.
(If I don't stop in a minute I'll cream my pants again
There is a perfectly good reason as to why it had a very low head shake count, they used a technical consultant who knew what he was on about, the legendary Captain Crunch. This guy was one of the first phreakers and discovered that a plastic whistle from a box of captain crucnh breakfast cereal could make the magical 2600Hz tone.
Portable XBOX?
Can you say laptop?
The reason the Australia Card proposal was not that technologically advanced was that the proposal was made a wahile ago, back in the seventies I think (don't quote me). But the commie hippy sympathizers didn't like it.
The whole idea has some good points as well as some bad points and there is no real way to prevent its missuse. The only thing to do is if government agencies become more aggressive in collecting information and then putting it together and actually taking notice of it, make everything happen behind the scenes. By forcing companies to hand over all customer data, only the government has the info and there is less chance of individual companies targetting you because of that information.
You forgot the Binary Large OBjects (BLOBS) for storing the photo and fingerprint details. :)
You also need to decide what to use for the primary key, probably the SSN.
I live in Australia and in the northern part of my state (i live at the bottom of the mainland),
They are considering building a 1km high tower with a large greenhouse at the bottom, the sun warms air in the greenhouse and hot air rises so air flys up the tower. At the base of the tower is a large fan which is spun by the air going up and it will be used for power generation.
Just wondering, has anybody figured out if it is possible to use this technology to build a large tower and use it for power generation, also what would the figures be for power generation, cost (a biggy) life-span structural strength etc.
Also, you could possibly utilize a coastal volcano and build a big one of these with heatsinks either end and stick one heatsink in the water, or pump water up over it and sit the other end above the lava.
Those numbers are pretty big.
.1 and .13 billion innocent people slaughtered over the past 100 years.
.2 billion.
:(
between
Add the fatalities for 'official' wars and
include domestic murders and the amount of humans
killed intentionally by humans over the past 100
years is close to
That is just phenominal
This is a bit OT but, they can help speed
up the war on drugs a bit, they just need to find a good reason of why they should do a large scale
napalm drop on civilian poppy fields.
Something a bit more practical is to figure out where the stockpiles of heroin supposedly worth
$1 * 10^9 are hidden, dump a few bombs on them and then pretend it was a vital military target.
They could just openly say they tried to destroy drug stockpiles but that would just annoy all the useless whacked out communist hippies hanging around.
Once the afgans have run out of drugs, the military only need a good reason to take on the golden triangle in asia and the columbians and the drug problem will almost be totally solved.
IANAP(olitician)
That has already been done before, sorry no links
:(
for you but I think it may have appeared somewhere on slashdot, no guarantees but maybe somewhere in the past 6months.
Basically the guy hacked up a keyboard and cut it in half, one half had the mouse underneath and the other half was static. Problem was that it was UGLY, it was a prototype though.
Sorry again for no links
Seriously OT:
The late great Nikola Tesla turned down a Nobel for his work because he was unhappy that that guigqwertylglkg Marconi got the Nobel for 'inventing' radio when Tesla demonstrated it years before Marconi was born.
At least Tesla got the last laugh when Marconi's patents were overturned a couple of years after Tesla's death.
I still reckon babelfish do a better job at solving that language-barrier. :)
Even further OT, what are the chances of the goa'uld from Stargate being highly evolved babelfish?
How long was the first season?
I think I saw about three or four episodes scheduled for on channel seven but I missed one of them, I saw the rest, but still, a bit short for a season.
If memory serves me, I think the first one was either on christmas or boxing day at about midnight.
It may still be 'officially' shown but channel 9 are probably going to treat it like they have many other shows like La Femme Nikita, ie. move it to horrible time slots take it off for weeks on end put back on one night take it off the next etc. etc. etc.
All this will be compounded by the fact that channel nine now have the *(&)^% footy and will have to squeeze the hours from somewhere, at least the dodgy matches will be given to channel ten so they don't have to screw up their schedules like seven have in the past, but I digress.
If it continues to air here in Australia, it will most likely be a hit and miss affair.
Glubco had plans for a device that consisted of the magnetron out of an old
microwave and the flyback transformer from an old television.
This produced a very cool device which was used to nuke almost anything they could get their hands on, but for some reason they no longer have any details for it (probably safety issues, liability etc.). They used to have a railgun as well, but now they only have their Tesla Coil, I still gotta get the time and funds to build one of those suckers.
Glubco can be found here:
http://www.glubco.com/weaponry/
Yeah, thats my $0.02 worth.
A web/mail/Usenet/IRC/bind 9.1 cluster running LVS (Linux Virtual Servers, www.lvs.org) on 5
rack 1U computers. I chose no-name rack units that have been sitting around idly in my lab.
Each has 512 MB of RAM, 18-GB internal disk, and two NICs.
This guy obviously isn't poor, who in their right mind has five 1U computers lying around doing nothing. He could have at least been running folding, genome, seti etc.
Blah blah blah blah beowulf blah blah blah.
Invent something that can't be built?
What, you mean like an infinite improbability device?
Treason is treason, he betrayed his country and like all others who commit treason, should be executed. No questions asked, money back guarantee. Shoot the fscker.