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  1. Re:Can someone explain... on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    They aren't primes... they are relatively prime... big big difference :)

    I'm sorry, that's just wrong in the case of RSA: RSA on wikipedia.

    Step 1: Choose 2 distinct primes.

    etc...

  2. Re:Btrfs on Linux 2.6.37 Released · · Score: 1

    https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Problem_FAQ has the answer: cp --reflink=always ... You will need a non-ancient version of coreutils for this to work. Cheers, Michael

  3. Reading from the actual article... on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1, Troll

    The article indicates the driver was going about 15mph over the speed limit. I'd say that was relatively easy to identify by sight. So what the majority said, which is in fact "given the totality of the circumstances", such an officer's testimony may be held to be credible. If you can show at trial that the officer has borne you a grudge since high school, that may well be another story. And of course it's not in front of a jury - its $50, for crying out loud!

  4. Re:So - how's he gonna end up? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stephen Fielding is the one you're talking about - Xenophon is anti-pokies, and seems to me to be relatively deliberative on other matters, and generally reasonable. Stephen Fielding is a climate change skeptic; Nick Xenophon is not.

    Cheers.

  5. The court gets all of 3 options, right? on French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It sounds to me like saying that the defendant doesn't have the option of defending the charge might get it torn up, but I know nothing up French law... I know remarkably little about US law, either, since IANAL.

    Since there is no article linked in the summary, how long before someone links one in?

    Cheers

  6. Re:Facts can't be copyrighted. on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 5, Informative

    You may wish to compare copyright schemes - In particular, the EU & AU recognise the so-called "sweat of the brow" right extant in databases, which a timetable would qualify under. Times of football matches also seem to qualify.

    The controlling law in Australia is Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd [âoeDtMSâ] v Telstra Corporation Limited [2002] FCAFC 112. At paras 253 & 254:

    253 It was not their alphabetical arrangement or their designation as headings that attracted copyright protection to the compilation of headings constituting the Headings Books. Rather, it was the labour of building up the collection (of headings). Desktop appropriated the benefit of all or most of that labour.

    254 Accordingly, by parity of reasoning with my reasons for concluding above that Desktop reproduced a substantial part of the White Pages Directories and a substantial part of the Yellow Pages Directories, it also reproduced a substantial part of the Headings Books, and so infringed Telstra's copyright in those Books.

    So, under Australian law, you can copyright a compilation of facts.

    Cheers,

    Michael

  7. Re:The issue is not the pollution on Coal — The Other Alt Fuel · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't military vessels use on-board nuclear reactors? Why could we not do so for commercial shipping?

    Cheers,

    Michael

  8. Re:What I'm really looking for... on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music? · · Score: 1

    Well, plugging "trumpet public domain" into Google gets me a page of trumpet pieces from the mutopia project, but the thing is the most prolific authors of trumpet pieces were not renaissance - and the later ones are, by most people, considered far more grandiose. I would instead recommend you visit a conservatorium library to find what you want.

    Cheers,

    Michael

  9. CPDL on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music? · · Score: 1

    Try the Choral Public Domain Library, which has 8301 scores that a free to use (and counting). Of course, the fact that it's PD music means that there's nothing prior to 1923... But that works well enough for me, Purcell et al died many, many years ago :)

    Cheers,

    Michael

  10. Re:Extra information on 68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox · · Score: 1

    OK, I found this on rolling out firefox using unattended. It's cumbersome, but, for the current time, works.

    Cheers,

    Michael

  11. Re:Keeping Firefox up to date on Windows on 68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox · · Score: 1

    You'll have to spec your problem a bit more tightly, I'm afraid... Do you have administrative access on the machines you wish to install stuff onto, through a domain or something (if you've been added to the local administrator group on each of the target machines)? If so, you could use unattended, and make a service using perl to modify the registry to start unattended on next reboot, and go through and do all the installation tasks. I estimate about a week to do all the research, right now the part that isn't in place is the service that adds stuff to the registry, AFAICT....

    Cheers,

    Michael

  12. Re:bah on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    In your sig, you state that:

    For units with bitlength a multiple of 4, (0x2B | ~0x2B) == 0xFFFFF.... So there. (Revision 4 and counting...)

    This is merely a specific instance of the general (x | ~x) == 0xFFFF... (assuming a bitlength of four, due to hex characters used :) ). The reason for this is that (x || ~x) is always true, and you're just doing that on every bit in the integer.

    Cheers,

    Michael

  13. Re:Good! on Dutch Court Orders Lycos to Reveal Client · · Score: 1

    Note: IANAL, but...

    Well, no: The standard for slander/libel is that the statements made were made in knowledge of their falsity, or in disregard of its falsity or otherwise (actual malice or negligence).

    Thus, the claim that I am a baby killer is highly likely to be able to be shown to have been made in disregard of its falsity or otherwise. However:

    The other part of course, is that it is a tort: You must establish damages. If a statement did not damage you, you cannot possibly claim any damages (due to the fact that they don't exist).

    As noone will likely believe you, I'm going to have trouble recovering (i.e. not at all). Apart from that, if the context shows that it was hyperbole, then it shall not be actionable at all.

  14. Re:I thought... on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: 1

    The standard also has "reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the statement". I don't think that your talking about any alleged eating of children on my part would be made with any reason to believe its truth. Of course, outside the USA, we have the more common English standard and its derivations, which seem very much aimed at protecting nobility/other forms of rich lowlife (such as corporations :) ) (c.f. Canada, Australia, and other former British colonies. Civil Law jurisdictions, see Mainland Europe, are quite different (usually much more restrictive)).

    HTH,

    Michael

  15. Re:I don't think it is a violation of the DMCA... on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    The term you are looking for is "Doctrine of Waiver"

    Cheers,

    Michael

  16. Re:After reading the benchmarks... on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 1

    s/System/Program/gc. Damn, too early, no coffee yet... :(

  17. After reading the benchmarks... on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can only conclude that they made no attempt to use the extra registers. Of *course* an f'ing 32-bit system will outpace a 64-bit system; Why do you think most Solaris apps are still 32-bit?

    The reason why x86-64 is a win is because there are more registers as well. This allows compilers to do a better job.

  18. Re:Yard Sales.. on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the marginal tax rate here (coincidental, I'm sure...)

  19. Re:Yard Sales.. on eBay sellers Told to Include GST · · Score: 1

    No, you do not have to levy GST on transactions where you are the vendor if you are not registered for GST (which means you have less that A$50,000 turnover). However, you would still have an ABN registration. You must quote an ABN on all tax invoices - not quoting an ABN means that the buyer must withhold 48.5% of the sale and send that to the ATO. (Which led to a silly question in my head - how am I meant to enforce this for drink vending machines? :) )

    HTH,

    Michael

  20. Re:Upload, not download on Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month · · Score: 1

    That means then, that I could do this with a CD of Mozart or Bach performed by a big name orchestra?

    Hmm... Unless, I suppose, the conductor made enough changes in the score, or something...

  21. Re:Why? on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Oops - just realised I misread your statement. Forget I said it. Indeed, it never misreports a composite, but may misreport a prime.

    Classic example of Monte Carlo algorithm.

    Cheers.

  22. Re:Why? on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    You're talking about the wrong test - the Fermat test. What you wanted was the Miller Rabin test. The Parent was correct - fuck, I wrote a program implementing both in first semester, first year!!

    Cheers,

    the Vandy Monster

  23. Re:Collision free hash? on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    There's no point in avoiding collisions. The point is that it should be computationally infeasible to come up with a message that has the same hash as another message. They're fixed length because there's no reason to make them variable length - what in particular would it help? The only way to avoid collisions is to send the entire message, and our only aim is to make it verifiably so that a missive was sent by the person signing the hash (listening in undergrad *does* help :) ). CRC-32 is only good for transmission stuff - computationally, it's trivial to come up with a message with a particular CRC-32.

  24. Re:Collision free hash? on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Oops, spelling should be taught (/me learns not to click "Submit" immediately...)

  25. Re:Collision free hash? on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, it's called the Pigeonhole Principle, and is tought in first year discrete mathematics.

    Cheers,

    Michael