I thought about that, but then the question arises: if in 15 years, we have the processing power to easily crack whatever I encrypted today... then in 15 years shouldn't we also have enough processing power to easily generate these primes Of This Magnitude?
I have a basic understanding of the principle, but I'm still not seeing the practical application of constantly finding larger and larger prime numbers. Sure, a million-digit prime number is cool if math is your thing, but as best I can tell it's not useful in a practical sense. (Maybe it has some academic value that I'm not aware of, entirely possible.)
I can run PGP and have it generate primes for me within a few seconds that are sufficient for decent encryption, and they don't need to be a gazillion digits long.
I could be way off on this, but that's just how it seems to me.
Wikipedia lists the total death count from BOTH bombings by the end of 1945 at 220,000.
The Department of War estimated at the time that an invasion of Japan would result in 400,000 to 800,000 American and five to ten million Japanese fatalities.
--- Can CBC please do some research on eHealth? This article clearly misleads by confusing an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) with an integrated EHR (Electronic Health Record). OSCAR is an EMR, not an EHR. Apples and oranges as they say.
eHealth Ontario is primarily concerned with developing an iEHR. An EHR is a whole 'nother thing and is a much bigger and way more challenging part of the overall eHealth problem. There are plenty of EMRs around of which OSCAR is only one option.
To put things in perspective, it would be very useful for CBC and others to read this overview from Canada Health Infoway...
This document will clarify that an integrated EHR infostructure is the problem that eHealth Ontario has been struggling to provide. While EMR is a part of the solution, it really is a much smaller element and a non-issue for Ontario.
Dr Chan should know this but I suppose he is enamoured with his 'baby' and assumes that EMR solves all eHealth problems. Perhaps he disagrees with the Registry-centric iEHR model that Canada Health Infoway has selected over the alternative of an Information Sharing architecture (that favours EMRs). That train, however, has left the station and all provinces are already deeply committed to the CHI approach.
CBC seems more interested in digging up dirt than providing clarity. I suggest a little more integrity and accuracy and a little less innuendo and inflamatory reportng is in order. --
And as you're all nodding your heads in agreement, please keep the parent's words in mind next time you're tempted to rail on what a terrible country the USA is.
too many of my friends now use it to grandly announce every mundane detail of their life to the world as if they're some sort of celebrity and we're all supposed to be deeply concerned about them cutting their pinky finger or enraptured by their new haircut, etc etc.
Don't know about you, but I'm actually interested in what's going on in my friends' lives.
I'm assuming you're referring to the video of "military" troops grabbing somebody and shoving them into an unmarked sedan... they were police officers in military-style uniforms, not actual military personnel.
Maybe you shouldn't post every detail of your life on a website.
Many of us are fortunate enough to have friends who *are* actually interested in the details of our lives. I don't run a blog of my day-to-day life because I'm fully aware that the Internet community as a whole doesn't care. I do, however, run a fairly active commentary on my day-to-day life through my Facebook status, where the people on my friend-list who do care comment.
What ever happened to calling people?
Because I don't want to call all 258 people on my friend-list to say "I'M ON A BOAT."
So, if I'm reading you right, you're recommending: - Effectively paralyzing all clients who rely on a "jailed" corporation to do their own business. - Putting a lot of employees out of work because some manager, probably outside their division, made a stupid decision.
Every time someone posts something about Blizzard or WoW, there's always someone (usually a pathological WoW-hater, it seems) who jumps in to tag the article with "whocares" or post something to that effect.
Sorry to break it to you, but one of the biggest companies in computer gaming announcing an expansion to the most successful MMO in history (not to mention the SC2/D3/unnamed-new-franchise stuff)... is news for nerds.
One of the reasons I liked WoW when I started playing was because I *didn't* have to figure out what spells/attributes I wanted when I was levelling up (a la KOTOR/NWN.)
Slashdot Mirror
Words don't hurt people, but they do cause some people to hurt themselves.
Whether that should be illegal, in real life or online, is the question.
I thought about that, but then the question arises: if in 15 years, we have the processing power to easily crack whatever I encrypted today... then in 15 years shouldn't we also have enough processing power to easily generate these primes Of This Magnitude?
I have a basic understanding of the principle, but I'm still not seeing the practical application of constantly finding larger and larger prime numbers. Sure, a million-digit prime number is cool if math is your thing, but as best I can tell it's not useful in a practical sense. (Maybe it has some academic value that I'm not aware of, entirely possible.)
I can run PGP and have it generate primes for me within a few seconds that are sufficient for decent encryption, and they don't need to be a gazillion digits long.
I could be way off on this, but that's just how it seems to me.
Freezin's the reason.
Wikipedia lists the total death count from BOTH bombings by the end of 1945 at 220,000.
The Department of War estimated at the time that an invasion of Japan would result in 400,000 to 800,000 American and five to ten million Japanese fatalities.
There weren't really any good options.
Air power never wins wars
Not on its own, no, but you can't win a war without it.
"The United States relies on the Air Force, and the Air Force has never been the decisive factor in the history of wars." - Saddam Hussein, 1991
Wrong.
file:// is the "protocol", then the path (with leading slash) follows afterwards.
Albert Gonzalez, not to be confused with the former US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez.
Stolen from the comments section of the article:
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Can CBC please do some research on eHealth? This article clearly misleads by confusing an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) with an integrated EHR (Electronic Health Record). OSCAR is an EMR, not an EHR. Apples and oranges as they say.
eHealth Ontario is primarily concerned with developing an iEHR. An EHR is a whole 'nother thing and is a much bigger and way more challenging part of the overall eHealth problem. There are plenty of EMRs around of which OSCAR is only one option.
To put things in perspective, it would be very useful for CBC and others to read this overview from Canada Health Infoway...
http://www2.infoway-inforoute.ca/Documents/Vision_2015_Advancing_Canadas_next_generation_of_healthcare%5B1%5D.pdf
This document will clarify that an integrated EHR infostructure is the problem that eHealth Ontario has been struggling to provide. While EMR is a part of the solution, it really is a much smaller element and a non-issue for Ontario.
Dr Chan should know this but I suppose he is enamoured with his 'baby' and assumes that EMR solves all eHealth problems. Perhaps he disagrees with the Registry-centric iEHR model that Canada Health Infoway has selected over the alternative of an Information Sharing architecture (that favours EMRs). That train, however, has left the station and all provinces are already deeply committed to the CHI approach.
CBC seems more interested in digging up dirt than providing clarity. I suggest a little more integrity and accuracy and a little less innuendo and inflamatory reportng is in order.
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I do have to wonder, though - at what point do they actually decide the winners?
He may have been *nominated* just 10 days after he was inaugurated, but selected as the winner months down the road.
Either way, I still think it's way, way too early, but I'm just sayin'.
I love you.
And as you're all nodding your heads in agreement, please keep the parent's words in mind next time you're tempted to rail on what a terrible country the USA is.
I certainly hope not, because he's not dead yet.
too many of my friends now use it to grandly announce every mundane detail of their life to the world as if they're some sort of celebrity and we're all supposed to be deeply concerned about them cutting their pinky finger or enraptured by their new haircut, etc etc.
Don't know about you, but I'm actually interested in what's going on in my friends' lives.
Not to rain rocks on your rainbow parade
Fixed.
I dunno why this is modded troll.
Sarcastic and biting, but still a valid point...
Does the word "passenger" mean anything to you?
I'm assuming you're referring to the video of "military" troops grabbing somebody and shoving them into an unmarked sedan... they were police officers in military-style uniforms, not actual military personnel.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/25/video-the-purported-military-arrest-at-the-g-20-protest/
I'm actually hearing the Street Fighter 2 announcer yelling "HADOOPKEN! HADOOPKEN!" in my head.
After eight long years
The alpha release is done
It took long enough
Maybe you shouldn't post every detail of your life on a website.
Many of us are fortunate enough to have friends who *are* actually interested in the details of our lives. I don't run a blog of my day-to-day life because I'm fully aware that the Internet community as a whole doesn't care. I do, however, run a fairly active commentary on my day-to-day life through my Facebook status, where the people on my friend-list who do care comment.
What ever happened to calling people?
Because I don't want to call all 258 people on my friend-list to say "I'M ON A BOAT."
So, if I'm reading you right, you're recommending:
- Effectively paralyzing all clients who rely on a "jailed" corporation to do their own business.
- Putting a lot of employees out of work because some manager, probably outside their division, made a stupid decision.
What a, um, brilliant idea.
I agree, but I'm in the Air Force, not the military.
Every time someone posts something about Blizzard or WoW, there's always someone (usually a pathological WoW-hater, it seems) who jumps in to tag the article with "whocares" or post something to that effect.
Sorry to break it to you, but one of the biggest companies in computer gaming announcing an expansion to the most successful MMO in history (not to mention the SC2/D3/unnamed-new-franchise stuff)... is news for nerds.
And nobody would play it. I wouldn't, anyway.
One of the reasons I liked WoW when I started playing was because I *didn't* have to figure out what spells/attributes I wanted when I was levelling up (a la KOTOR/NWN.)
Simple = good.