That psycho math/physics professor sounds like any other crackpot. Warning: if someone is confusing as hell, and pretends to be a math genius, just ignore him.
One of the largests gains that the proof of FLT has brought to math is that in the long run it will likely diminish the number of not-quite-sane people bothering mathematicians with their 'proofs' of FLT. I've had to deal with a number of those myself. You may think that a false proof is just that, and that pointing at the first error in the logic is sufficient, but it doesn't really work that way, because these proof just don't have any logic in them.
Ken Ribet was the guy who did that (prove the epsilon conjecture). Frey was the first to come up with a possible link between STW and FLT. Then Serre outlined a possible proof and called it the epsilon conjecture. And like I said Ken Ribet was the one to finish the proof of the connection. With that in hand, we knew that STW => FLT, and in fact already a part of STW would be sufficient.
The fact that FLT is true in itself doesn't however say anything about STW.
It seems that Ken Ribet is involved in the current full proof of STW.
Assuming the traffic is packet based (which is most likely the case), block ciphers will do just as fine.
At least I was thinking of encrypting things like videostreams. Given that you already have a public key block encryption algorithm, you can use that to answer the posed question with: yes, you can encrypt these things.
(So I don't need to use the fact that there exist stream ciphers.)
Streams are packet-based too, so you can just encrypt packet by packet. Computational overhead might be a practical problem, but can be overcome by either using more powerful equipment or weaker encryption. All depends on the application, of course.
One of the things I find particularly disturbing is that you can't even file your complaints with TRUSTe without them asking for your identity. There is no need for them to know exactly who I am when I point them to a site having the TRUSTe stamp and blatantly violating users rights (e.g. hotmail).
Lowering prices has never seen to hurt anybody in telecommunications... with lower prices you will just sell so much more.
Two or three years ago, a phone call from Holland to the US would cost me at least $1.50 per minute. It's down to 9 cents now with the former state monopolist, and it's 6 cents if you're willing to dial an extra 4-digit number before making the call.
As a Dutchman it is pretty amazing for me that I now have had cable modem since september, while even many US people are still waiting for faster connections (I used to pay by the minute for my 28k8). Next year ADSL is supposed to be available throughout the country. I'm not convinced they will make it, though. Cable is already available in large parts. About half (I think) of the cable modem users are with some sucky provider called Casema with a cable modem connected to the serial port giving a sucky 115200bps max but in practice not exceeding the speed of a 28k8. I'm pretty happy with my 2Mbps bursts:)
Is that Carly Fiorina could leave Lucent all of a sudden to become CEO at HP one week later, while Lucent would like to (and quite possibly legally do) own all code I write in my spare time until a year after my contract expires.
With high volume mailinglists it is kind of annoying because I regularly end up rereading and redeleting some hundred messages. Say I read mails 1-100 in one Mutt window, and 101-200 in another, then there's no way to merge my reading efforts.
But indeed, I've never had corruption.
Will file locking finally work?
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Elm always refused to let me screw up my mailboxes, but mutt gladly allows me to open one mailbox in two mutt windows.
This was not a troll attempt at all. The idea is that inevitably some people will start complaining about kernel release announcements on Slashdot. If those are all posted under one thread, then people not interested in the complaints can just skip that one thread.
Exactly... IP property reasons for not being able to publish under GPL apply to SCSL just the same. In fact, Boerries stating these reasons make the 'trap theory' of infecting and destroying open source projects with SCSL code much more believable.
Without actually reading the story, my guess is that Sun giving him lots of money did influence his decision to not use the GPL. I don't blame him for that, but GPL'ing StarOffice would have given it so much more support.
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In fact, if you read physics papers by people like Witten, you'll get smacked around your ears with elliptic curves.
That psycho math/physics professor sounds like any other crackpot. Warning: if someone is confusing as hell, and pretends to be a math genius, just ignore him.
One of the largests gains that the proof of FLT has brought to math is that in the long run it will likely diminish the number of not-quite-sane people bothering mathematicians with their 'proofs' of FLT. I've had to deal with a number of those myself. You may think that a false proof is just that, and that pointing at the first error in the logic is sufficient, but it doesn't really work that way, because these proof just don't have any logic in them.
Ken Ribet was the guy who did that (prove the epsilon conjecture). Frey was the first to come up with a possible link between STW and FLT. Then Serre outlined a possible proof and called it the epsilon conjecture. And like I said Ken Ribet was the one to finish the proof of the connection. With that in hand, we knew that STW => FLT, and in fact already a part of STW would be sufficient.
The fact that FLT is true in itself doesn't however say anything about STW.
It seems that Ken Ribet is involved in the current full proof of STW.
Assuming the traffic is packet based (which is most likely the case), block ciphers will do just as fine.
At least I was thinking of encrypting things like videostreams. Given that you already have a public key block encryption algorithm, you can use that to answer the posed question with: yes, you can encrypt these things.
(So I don't need to use the fact that there exist stream ciphers.)
Streams are packet-based too, so you can just encrypt packet by packet. Computational overhead might be a practical problem, but can be overcome by either using more powerful equipment or weaker encryption. All depends on the application, of course.
We've been through W already...
One of the things I find particularly disturbing is that you can't even file your complaints with TRUSTe without them asking for your identity. There is no need for them to know exactly who I am when I point them to a site having the TRUSTe stamp and blatantly violating users rights (e.g. hotmail).
Lowering prices has never seen to hurt anybody in telecommunications... with lower prices you will just sell so much more.
Two or three years ago, a phone call from Holland to the US would cost me at least $1.50 per minute. It's down to 9 cents now with the former state monopolist, and it's 6 cents if you're willing to dial an extra 4-digit number before making the call.
As a Dutchman it is pretty amazing for me that I now have had cable modem since september, while even many US people are still waiting for faster connections (I used to pay by the minute for my 28k8). Next year ADSL is supposed to be available throughout the country. I'm not convinced they will make it, though. Cable is already available in large parts. About half (I think) of the cable modem users are with some sucky provider called Casema with a cable modem connected to the serial port giving a sucky 115200bps max but in practice not exceeding the speed of a 28k8. I'm pretty happy with my 2Mbps bursts :)
What do you know about Transmeta's CPU design?
In many civilized countries people are allowed to drink at 18. In Holland you're allowed to drink beer and wine at 16.
Read this.
Is that Carly Fiorina could leave Lucent all of a sudden to become CEO at HP one week later, while Lucent would like to (and quite possibly legally do) own all code I write in my spare time until a year after my contract expires.
Well as long as you have an Xserver running that would be quite easy with ssh :)
(except for the fact that Balsa is kind of a bad crashy example)
With high volume mailinglists it is kind of annoying because I regularly end up rereading and redeleting some hundred messages. Say I read mails 1-100 in one Mutt window, and 101-200 in another, then there's no way to merge my reading efforts.
But indeed, I've never had corruption.
Elm always refused to let me screw up my mailboxes, but mutt gladly allows me to open one mailbox in two mutt windows.
This was not a troll attempt at all. The idea is that inevitably some people will start complaining about kernel release announcements on Slashdot. If those are all posted under one thread, then people not interested in the complaints can just skip that one thread.
I suppose people won't mind too much if I use this place to point out that 'better than' is the correct spelling.
It could be that uptime is smart enough to interprete this value as an unsigned integer. In that case you would notice it only after 980 days.
Here in the Netherlands, RMS usually stands for Republic of the South Moluccas.
As long as you include the source it's perfectly legal and acceptable.
Exactly... IP property reasons for not being able to publish under GPL apply to SCSL just the same. In fact, Boerries stating these reasons make the 'trap theory' of infecting and destroying open source projects with SCSL code much more believable.
Without actually reading the story, my guess is that Sun giving him lots of money did influence his decision to not use the GPL. I don't blame him for that, but GPL'ing StarOffice would have given it so much more support.
GTK+ is standard for Mozilla on Linux/UNIX, but the source tree includes (or will include soon) front-ends for QT and even plain Xlib.
As Linus would say: Show me the source...