This means they are able to factorize large prime numbers. If the principle they use is a general one, (not closely tied with the size of 512 bits), then this is very troubling news. However, I think this is a phony. Presented like this without reference to teqniques used (other than "quantum computing" and "optical computing" there is still no reason to worry. So what about my 2048 bit RSA key? Will they be able to crack that as well? They are welcome to try!
The GPL is actually quite simple in this respect. If you can have the binary code, you can have the source code. If you use code that is under the GPL for your own purposes only and don't give the binary code to anyone, you don't have to give the source code to anyone either. But as soon as you give someone the binary, you are obliged to give them the source code as well on their request. You also cannot stop them from redistributing the code. So go ahead and download the beta and distribute, reverse-engineer or whatever you like. Corel can't stop you.
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It can't pronounce Bjork correctly, what makes you think it would understand me saying Bjork to it?
How can you expect it to pronounce Björk correctly if you can't even spell it correctly?
http://www.se.gnome.org/conspiracy/
...we blackholed Sweden instead?
That would really make an impact on the Internet society.
Why doesn't ebay just deny connections from the machine the spider is on? No more problems for them...
Another favourite hate object of mine is xmms, which stubbornly fails to obey my window manager preferences.
Just whining, perhaps somebody will make a nice chrome to make mozilla look unchromed.
Just noting that the link doesn't work.
So any news on when 4.0 _really_ is coming. This is just some boring bugfix stuff...
We all know Australia can be hot...
Don't know if there is any truth in it though
Last I heard, Microsoft claimed a 99.9% service availability on NT servers.
How does this add up? 99.9% and one reboot per day means that a reboot can only take 86.4 seconds...
This means they are able to factorize large prime numbers. If the principle they use is a general one, (not closely tied with the size of 512 bits), then this is very troubling news. However, I think this is a phony. Presented like this without reference to teqniques used (other than "quantum computing" and "optical computing" there is still no reason to worry. So what about my 2048 bit RSA key? Will they be able to crack that as well? They are welcome to try!
The GPL is actually quite simple in this respect.
If you can have the binary code, you can have the source code.
If you use code that is under the GPL for your own purposes only and don't give the binary code to anyone, you don't have to give the source code to anyone either.
But as soon as you give someone the binary, you are obliged to give them the source code as well on their request.
You also cannot stop them from redistributing the code.
So go ahead and download the beta and distribute, reverse-engineer or whatever you like. Corel can't stop you.