Besides, like another poster mentioned, at the end of the day, it's really about the apps. A perfect example is Photoshop. Adobe has designed an interface for Photoshop that suits the application and its' users perfectly.
Why on earth did you pick Photoshop? Not only is Photoshop available on the mac, but just about anyone who does graphic design will tell you that this it is one area where the Mac really outshines Windows. Photoshop is pretty much THE application I'd rather be running on a Mac over a PC.
I'm sorry but anyone that can't go a weekend with their "gaming fix" probably has an addiction problem. Maybe this is just my preference, but if I got to travel all around at 17 fencing, then I would probably find something more interesting wherever I went than computer games. Like something I couldn't do at home. But maybe that's just me
I've that about writing a simple script to search out article as they pass into the 3 month old range and then resubmit them automatically to save teh editors some time.
We are attempting to calculat trends in global warming with.000000057% of the total data?
Even more absurd than that from the article:
researchers seized upon the unique opportunity to compare the climate data for the clear skies on Sept. 11-14 against days of normal air traffic when jets streak the heavens with contrails.
They're comparing the temperatures over a range of 3 days! (article doesn't say to what they're comparing it to). Sounds to me like the simplest explanation is just a cold front.
Start at 10^100 and count down using this algorythm, and youll find it in P time instead of NP time. It'll still take forever, literally and figuratively, but wouldn't it take significantly less time than before?
None of the other replies have really clearly answered your question. I haven't finished the paper but it sounds like their algorithm is only a primality test. It only tells you whether a number is prime or not. If it is composite it doesn't tell you what the factors are which is what you really need to be applicable to RSA. Considering that eariler primality test could give you a relatively confident guess as to the primality of a number this will likely do very little for cracking RSA
How on earth does a law pertaining to the circumvention of copyright protection systems apply at all to someone releasing a security flaw in an operating system?
In ten years, you can get a 120 Terabyte drive. Only one problem: What the hell would you put on it to fill it up?
Kinda like the predicament they find with broadband. There's nothing else to do with all that bandwidth than download mp3s and pr0n and warez. Oops.
I began pondering exactly how much "pr0n" 120 Terabytes would be. From the bit of encoding I've done you can get a pretty good movie down to about 512 megs (rounding to simplify my atrocious arithmetic). So that's about 4 hours per gig or 4048 hours pers terabyte. So 120 terabytes comes out to around 480000 hours or 56 years worth of pr0n.
well.. as I just tried to load the ads myself (this is probably the first time ever I've tried to load an ad intentionally) the ad agency seems/.'ed. So my suggestion is this: the slashdot editors post irresistable stories pointing to all major ad agencies and watch as/. makes it's largest contribution to the internet by stopping these things from the source. Why didn't we think of this before?
My favortie response so far is to the credit card solicitors (which I get tons of being a college student whom the cc companies know are ripe for the financial raping). I let them go through their whole routine about how great the card is, then I give them my own routine, "Lets say I get your card, and since I now have all this free money I take a fine girl (which there are many of here at my school) on a weekend ski trip to Colorado. So, things go on like this for a few years, and I manage to graduate with some low grades because I've been partying all the time with this wonderful free money credit card you gave me. I can't get into medical school because of my grades and my dad won't help me pay my $5,000 credit card debt, so I end up in a dead in job selling credit cards to people over the phone....:)"
Apparently, we're intent on pacifying the populace in the literal sense rather than the military sense. This will make a *Big* difference when U.S. tanks and personell carriers start rolling through for any kind of ground activity.
I don't know about you, but I don't think even a starving person will be "pacified" by food when they've just watched a family member die from a stray bomb that was intended for a military installment. If we had really wanted to pacify the common man in Afghanistan I don't think a single bomb with a significant chance of hitting civilians would have been dropped. All of these attacks have been carried out on major cities, it's almost impossible that some non-terrorist, non-Taleban, starving people didn't die in these attacks.
I've wondered since this type of incident has become more common who the ISPs consider authoritative enough to respond to a copyright infringement notice for. Apparently with the MPAA they recieve a letter and immediately terminate the connection with little/no investigation. I wonder if I, myself, send off a letter saying such and such IP address is violating my copyright for some non-existant piece of IP will they terminate a connection just as quickly? Who will they listen to?
If they have developed a game you want to play, there's no reason not to buy it dispite the condition they happen to be in.
The main point here is the IF. Many people are advocating going out and buying Loki games which you may not be all that interested in playing in order to support the company in hopes of keeping it afloat. If it's the case though that the company has been mismanaged (as the LT article and a number of other posters are asserting) and will continue to be, then doing this is just lining the pockets of someone who doesn't actually plan on contributing to the community at all.
From the link you posted:
"Despite all the modern government resentment toward "jury nullification," its roots run deep in both our history and law. At
least two provisions of the Constitution, and arguably three, protect the jury's power to nullify. They also explain why that power is
limited to criminal cases, and has no analogy in the civil context."
The article states that juries have the right to decide wether a criminal law is legal or not, but that there is "no analogy" in the civil context. So, while this may be applicable to the criminal side of the DMCA for Dimitry it will have no bearing on civil suit applications of the DMCA such as the DeCSS case.
Get an old PC, do the concrete trick. Or, go one more and use lead or depleted uranium in lieu of concrete. Place computer in cardboard box and seal box (assuming you can lift the computer... a crane of some sort might be necessary).
heh... why depleted uranium? It would be a much better "joke" with real uranium.
I also remember one team being disqualified for writing a virus to spread another of the distributing computing clients (didn't spread through outlook though), but I couldn't find it on Symantec.
At least for awhile there though AOL was nice enough to pu the billing process almost completely on the client-side so paying the hourly fee became almost optional:).
Also the thrust required may cause bits to drop off, adding to space junk threatening the ISS and anything else going into space.
Space junk shouldn't be a problem. It will only be a matter of time before we have convicts in bright orange space suits shipped up there to clean it all up.
You raise a very good point that has perplexed me about recent media reviews of OS X lately. Just about every article I've read lately at least points out, if not harps on, the fact that CD Burning and DVD playing are not including with the shipment. But any operating system I've used comes the exact same way. Wether you're installing Windows, NT, or Linux it's not like any of these include features. It seems like many people in the media are simply looking for something to harp on. If that's the best they can find then I think Mac did a pretty good job with this one.
Nintendo's been milking the Game Boy for about what, 10 years now? They were all the rage when I was in first grade, and now they're all the rage now in tenth grade.
I'd say that Nintendo has done much more than milk Game Boy. The 15,000 versions of pokemon that annoyingly dominated all the gaming sales for awhile are almost responsible for keeping Nintendo afloat (if not financially at least in people's minds) for the past 2 years.
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You'd have to ask someone with more than my stick-man level artistic abilities to tell you that :)
Besides, like another poster mentioned, at the end of the day, it's really about the apps. A perfect example is Photoshop. Adobe has designed an interface for Photoshop that suits the application and its' users perfectly.
Why on earth did you pick Photoshop? Not only is Photoshop available on the mac, but just about anyone who does graphic design will tell you that this it is one area where the Mac really outshines Windows. Photoshop is pretty much THE application I'd rather be running on a Mac over a PC.
I'm sorry but anyone that can't go a weekend with their "gaming fix" probably has an addiction problem. Maybe this is just my preference, but if I got to travel all around at 17 fencing, then I would probably find something more interesting wherever I went than computer games. Like something I couldn't do at home. But maybe that's just me
Can't the editors do a simple SEARCH?
I've that about writing a simple script to search out article as they pass into the 3 month old range and then resubmit them automatically to save teh editors some time.
We are attempting to calculat trends in global warming with .000000057% of the total data?
Even more absurd than that from the article:
researchers seized upon the unique opportunity to compare the climate data for the clear skies on Sept. 11-14 against days of normal air traffic when jets streak the heavens with contrails.
They're comparing the temperatures over a range of 3 days! (article doesn't say to what they're comparing it to). Sounds to me like the simplest explanation is just a cold front.
Start at 10^100 and count down using this algorythm, and youll find it in P time instead of NP time. It'll still take forever, literally and figuratively, but wouldn't it take significantly less time than before?
None of the other replies have really clearly answered your question. I haven't finished the paper but it sounds like their algorithm is only a primality test. It only tells you whether a number is prime or not. If it is composite it doesn't tell you what the factors are which is what you really need to be applicable to RSA. Considering that eariler primality test could give you a relatively confident guess as to the primality of a number this will likely do very little for cracking RSA
Scott
Ok someone fill me in here:
How on earth does a law pertaining to the circumvention of copyright protection systems apply at all to someone releasing a security flaw in an operating system?
Well.. that'd have to be playboy, and penthouse
In ten years, you can get a 120 Terabyte drive. Only one problem: What the hell would you put on it to fill it up? Kinda like the predicament they find with broadband. There's nothing else to do with all that bandwidth than download mp3s and pr0n and warez. Oops.
I began pondering exactly how much "pr0n" 120 Terabytes would be. From the bit of encoding I've done you can get a pretty good movie down to about 512 megs (rounding to simplify my atrocious arithmetic). So that's about 4 hours per gig or 4048 hours pers terabyte. So 120 terabytes comes out to around 480000 hours or 56 years worth of pr0n.
Just in case you were wondering.
well.. as I just tried to load the ads myself (this is probably the first time ever I've tried to load an ad intentionally) the ad agency seems /.'ed. So my suggestion is this: the slashdot editors post irresistable stories pointing to all major ad agencies and watch as /. makes it's largest contribution to the internet by stopping these things from the source. Why didn't we think of this before?
LFTL
7:14 PM
My favortie response so far is to the credit card solicitors (which I get tons of being a college student whom the cc companies know are ripe for the financial raping). I let them go through their whole routine about how great the card is, then I give them my own routine, "Lets say I get your card, and since I now have all this free money I take a fine girl (which there are many of here at my school) on a weekend ski trip to Colorado. So, things go on like this for a few years, and I manage to graduate with some low grades because I've been partying all the time with this wonderful free money credit card you gave me. I can't get into medical school because of my grades and my dad won't help me pay my $5,000 credit card debt, so I end up in a dead in job selling credit cards to people over the phone.... :)"
Scott
Apparently, we're intent on pacifying the populace in the literal sense rather than the military sense. This will make a *Big* difference when U.S. tanks and personell carriers start rolling through for any kind of ground activity.
I don't know about you, but I don't think even a starving person will be "pacified" by food when they've just watched a family member die from a stray bomb that was intended for a military installment. If we had really wanted to pacify the common man in Afghanistan I don't think a single bomb with a significant chance of hitting civilians would have been dropped. All of these attacks have been carried out on major cities, it's almost impossible that some non-terrorist, non-Taleban, starving people didn't die in these attacks.
I've wondered since this type of incident has become more common who the ISPs consider authoritative enough to respond to a copyright infringement notice for. Apparently with the MPAA they recieve a letter and immediately terminate the connection with little/no investigation. I wonder if I, myself, send off a letter saying such and such IP address is violating my copyright for some non-existant piece of IP will they terminate a connection just as quickly? Who will they listen to?
If they have developed a game you want to play, there's no reason not to buy it dispite the condition they happen to be in.
The main point here is the IF. Many people are advocating going out and buying Loki games which you may not be all that interested in playing in order to support the company in hopes of keeping it afloat. If it's the case though that the company has been mismanaged (as the LT article and a number of other posters are asserting) and will continue to be, then doing this is just lining the pockets of someone who doesn't actually plan on contributing to the community at all.
From the link you posted: "Despite all the modern government resentment toward "jury nullification," its roots run deep in both our history and law. At least two provisions of the Constitution, and arguably three, protect the jury's power to nullify. They also explain why that power is limited to criminal cases, and has no analogy in the civil context."
The article states that juries have the right to decide wether a criminal law is legal or not, but that there is "no analogy" in the civil context. So, while this may be applicable to the criminal side of the DMCA for Dimitry it will have no bearing on civil suit applications of the DMCA such as the DeCSS case.
Get an old PC, do the concrete trick. Or, go one more and use lead or depleted uranium in lieu of concrete. Place computer in cardboard box and seal box (assuming you can lift the computer... a crane of some sort might be necessary). heh... why depleted uranium? It would be a much better "joke" with real uranium.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hyd @mm.html
I also remember one team being disqualified for writing a virus to spread another of the distributing computing clients (didn't spread through outlook though), but I couldn't find it on Symantec.
At least for awhile there though AOL was nice enough to pu the billing process almost completely on the client-side so paying the hourly fee became almost optional :).
Also the thrust required may cause bits to drop off, adding to space junk threatening the ISS and anything else going into space.
Space junk shouldn't be a problem. It will only be a matter of time before we have convicts in bright orange space suits shipped up there to clean it all up.
You raise a very good point that has perplexed me about recent media reviews of OS X lately. Just about every article I've read lately at least points out, if not harps on, the fact that CD Burning and DVD playing are not including with the shipment. But any operating system I've used comes the exact same way. Wether you're installing Windows, NT, or Linux it's not like any of these include features. It seems like many people in the media are simply looking for something to harp on. If that's the best they can find then I think Mac did a pretty good job with this one.
Nintendo's been milking the Game Boy for about what, 10 years now? They were all the rage when I was in first grade, and now they're all the rage now in tenth grade.
I'd say that Nintendo has done much more than milk Game Boy. The 15,000 versions of pokemon that annoyingly dominated all the gaming sales for awhile are almost responsible for keeping Nintendo afloat (if not financially at least in people's minds) for the past 2 years.