You'd also NEVER want to use a Mersenne prime in RSA, which about the only way to bring this back on topic.
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A one-time-pad ciphertext of length n decodes to all 2^n possible messages with equal probability. This situation can not occur if the message being encrypted is larger than the key being used.
And *managing* projects (comprised of skilled - intelligent - IT folk)..is very difficult? As to WTF "advanced" means... I'm guessing 'managing' a portfolio of projects.. woo-hoo, tough stuff.
Management will never be outsourced because how else will executives' relatives make a living ? THEY'D HAVE TO MOVE TO INDIA! What horror. Watch this get +4 insightful.
I encourage anyone running a desktop system to try 2.6.0-test10. I've occasionally tried the various 2.5.x kernels, but I've always found myself going back to 2.4.2x with Con Kolivas' patchset. Well, no longer. 2.6.0-test10 is better than I expected the 2.6.0 release version to be. If you're the type of person who would upgrade to a new 2.4.x version readily, you should get the new bandwagon now.
Here is where my libertarian ideals come in to play. - uh oh... just kidding.
You have a lot of nice ideas, and I agree with most of them, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
The problem is that there are a lot of people who do not share your "hands-off" philosophy of government, and won't hesitate to encourage tyrrany of the majority where it would benefit themselves or their political goals - consider the abortion issue as the prime example. The fact is, there are always contentious issues in society, and you can't expect to get rid of them by removing government from peoples' lives. If anything, having a larger, slower moving government is a source of stability when society is trying to cope with difficult issues.
Furthermore, tyrrany of the majority is a much bigger problem than you acknowledge. Our society is very large, with increasingly deep divisions in wealth, education, and culture. Furthermore, we celebrate and encourage self-interest; and this attitude is fueled by advertising and commercialism. This situation, where society contains vastly disparate groups with little or no common experience, is a precursor to tyrrany of the majority.
Secondly, we have this incredible concentration of the media, and an unhealthy collusion of media and business interests. Imagine a referendum on a real issue, with dire consequences for a small minority (say 20%) set against majority interest. People in the majority would be seeking reassurance of their beliefs, and the media would readily sell it to them. The editorial pages would be filled with hate for the minority, for the sole purpose of alleving the guilt of the majority. I could go on, but this is turning into quite the rant.
Anyway, I hope that one day society at large will be able to act in unencumbered democratic self-interest, but I think it will take a much more enlightened and compassionate society than what we have today. The first step towards such a society is to bring people together under common experience, so that they can relate to oneanother. The distribution of wealth has to be more reasonable, instead of having CEOs of failing companies making a billion dollars a year, while the working poor struggle to pay rent. Our ideals have to become more homogenized, and/or we have to develop a deeper respect for differing opinion. We have to hold back our relentless self-interest and better assess the impact of our actions on others. Honestly, it's not going to happen anytime soon.
What a pathetic troll. You have to START with a relevant remark, and WORK TOWARDS your offtopic, inflammitory position. You got it completely backwards.
I don't know why they even invented an rsync protocol. - To efficiently synchronize a large amount of data over a slow connection. The algorithm is one of the fundamental gems of computing science, and I'm suprised you don't appreciate it.
That was my initial thought as well. It seems like the same pattern over and over again. Public institutions are starved for money until they are cannibalized by private interests. Nothing new to see here folks, just the gradual diminishment and eventual disappearance of libraries.
If you were way too powerful for a monster, you would just automatically win.
I think a more elegant solution would be to not encounter monsters at all - if you're so strong maybe they would stay the hell away from you ! Then you could have a "hunt monsters" mode for when you want to encounter them.
The other solution I liked was used in the first Dragon Warrior. I think there was a cheap spell which you got about halfway though the game which kept really weak monsters away. I thought that was a pretty reasonable idea, especially after fighting thousands of green slimes.
"YOU ARE APPROACHED BY A GREEN SLIME ! (sirens: woo woo) [attack] YOU HAVE HIT THE GREEN SLIME AND INFLICTED 2078 DAMAGE. YOU HAVE KILLED THE GREEN SLIME !"
The industry's position is that you bought the media along with a license to view the content which is tied to that media. A strict interpretation of "fair-use" is that you have a right to make personal copies things on your own media, and you are allowed to publish portions or derivatives of works as part of a criticism, satire, etc.
I don't own a cell phone, and I haven't even seen The Two Towers. I'm generally not interested in "hype" - I appreciate predictable, reliable and elegantly designed technology without a lot of "crap" in it. You're right that it's easy to mock what we don't understand, but this is something I *do* understand.
The examples I give in the grandparent post are real. Some people that I personally know really do think that a worm spreading through email is normal, and don't understand that it could be prevented by using a different email client. And someone I know really is both simultaneously annoyed by the deficiencies of IE and disinterested in trying Mozilla. Another person I know was shocked to hear that there even was an alternative to IE at all, and that a web browser is just a program that can be replaced. How can you use a computer every day for YEARS, and not have even the slightest idea of how they work ?! I may not be a mechanic, but I have a car, so I take it upon myself to have at least a basic familiarity with the various parts and how they work and interact. I probably couldn't design an internal combustion engine correctly, but at least I have the first idea of how to.
For the most part, I've found that ignorance is a compelling force in our society. People don't want the burden of having to think, regardless of the possibilities or consequences. I think a lot of this probably comes from advertising and the media. People have become so accustomed to being bombarded with ideas, what to buy, political opinion, and so on, that they resist doing any thinking of their own. I have a few more thoughts on this topic, but I'll save them for a more appropriate discussion.
In general, people will put up with mediocrity as long as they think everyone else is in the same boat. A lot of people think it's perfectly normal for a worm to spread through email, and that there's "nothing anyone could do about it, except buy a virus scanner". Everyone hates pop-up ads too, but they put up with them. You can tell them there are free alternatives, and they can't be bothered - but you can bet when WinXP Service Pack 2 introduces pop-up blocking "everyone" will "need" to have it. People really are sheep.
Perhaps somebody smart enough could start a business defeating Googles filters...
There are plenty of businesses which try and do this. I recall SearchKing getting into a bit of a flap with Google, when a bunch of their customers' sites were downgraded. There are probably thousands of little piss-pot companies that will link to your page a million times for a hundred bucks or some such garbage. People should recognize this for what it is: web-spam. Millions of fake, garbage sites set up for the sole purpose of vastly decreasing the signal to noise ratio, until you can't help but see at least a bit of their trash, at which point they make a dollar.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. Novell/Redhat/Sun would have to succeed beyond everyones' wildest expectations to make it happen. I think we'll have KDE vs. Gnome for years to come, and we'll have situation where gradually, over time, the interoperabilities will be ironed out or smoothed over. Hopefully, KDE vs. Gnome will become a question of how you want your desktop to operate, without all the technical issues of whether or not programs work and whether they "look right".
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Maple says they are both prime. Granted, it's a probabilistic algorithms, but the chance of failure is extremely low. What were you using ?
You'd also NEVER want to use a Mersenne prime in RSA, which about the only way to bring this back on topic.
A one-time-pad ciphertext of length n decodes to all 2^n possible messages with equal probability. This situation can not occur if the message being encrypted is larger than the key being used.
They took him out to get people to upgrade to Office XP.
And *managing* projects (comprised of skilled - intelligent - IT folk) ..is very difficult? As to WTF "advanced" means ... I'm guessing 'managing' a portfolio of projects.. woo-hoo, tough stuff.
Management will never be outsourced because how else will executives' relatives make a living ? THEY'D HAVE TO MOVE TO INDIA! What horror. Watch this get +4 insightful.
This is good because now Open Office will compete with Microsoft Office on *every* level.
I don't think anyone can reasonably compete with Microsoft when it comes to annoying office "assistants".
British secret agent in Denver!Witnesses say he drives a cool car with lots of gadgets. Single women beware!
I encourage anyone running a desktop system to try 2.6.0-test10. I've occasionally tried the various 2.5.x kernels, but I've always found myself going back to 2.4.2x with Con Kolivas' patchset. Well, no longer. 2.6.0-test10 is better than I expected the 2.6.0 release version to be. If you're the type of person who would upgrade to a new 2.4.x version readily, you should get the new bandwagon now.
Here is where my libertarian ideals come in to play. - uh oh... just kidding.
You have a lot of nice ideas, and I agree with most of them, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
The problem is that there are a lot of people who do not share your "hands-off" philosophy of government, and won't hesitate to encourage tyrrany of the majority where it would benefit themselves or their political goals - consider the abortion issue as the prime example. The fact is, there are always contentious issues in society, and you can't expect to get rid of them by removing government from peoples' lives. If anything, having a larger, slower moving government is a source of stability when society is trying to cope with difficult issues.
Furthermore, tyrrany of the majority is a much bigger problem than you acknowledge. Our society is very large, with increasingly deep divisions in wealth, education, and culture. Furthermore, we celebrate and encourage self-interest; and this attitude is fueled by advertising and commercialism. This situation, where society contains vastly disparate groups with little or no common experience, is a precursor to tyrrany of the majority.
Secondly, we have this incredible concentration of the media, and an unhealthy collusion of media and business interests. Imagine a referendum on a real issue, with dire consequences for a small minority (say 20%) set against majority interest. People in the majority would be seeking reassurance of their beliefs, and the media would readily sell it to them. The editorial pages would be filled with hate for the minority, for the sole purpose of alleving the guilt of the majority. I could go on, but this is turning into quite the rant.
Anyway, I hope that one day society at large will be able to act in unencumbered democratic self-interest, but I think it will take a much more enlightened and compassionate society than what we have today. The first step towards such a society is to bring people together under common experience, so that they can relate to oneanother. The distribution of wealth has to be more reasonable, instead of having CEOs of failing companies making a billion dollars a year, while the working poor struggle to pay rent. Our ideals have to become more homogenized, and/or we have to develop a deeper respect for differing opinion. We have to hold back our relentless self-interest and better assess the impact of our actions on others. Honestly, it's not going to happen anytime soon.
What a pathetic troll. You have to START with a relevant remark, and WORK TOWARDS your offtopic, inflammitory position. You got it completely backwards.
I don't know why they even invented an rsync protocol. - To efficiently synchronize a large amount of data over a slow connection. The algorithm is one of the fundamental gems of computing science, and I'm suprised you don't appreciate it.
That was my initial thought as well. It seems like the same pattern over and over again. Public institutions are starved for money until they are cannibalized by private interests. Nothing new to see here folks, just the gradual diminishment and eventual disappearance of libraries.
The FCC won't let me be / try to shut down my VOIP
Thank you, thank you. I now owe the music industry millions of dollars.
+1 Insightful, and not really funny at all.
But how many of them could factor a quadratic equation?
Uh, probably all of them. That was a standard exercise for students in ancient Babylon, around 3000 BC.
The simple fact is kids with puters are reading far faster and typing far faster and that is a very useful ability.
I think you vouch for their writing ability as well.
If you were way too powerful for a monster, you would just automatically win.
I think a more elegant solution would be to not encounter monsters at all - if you're so strong maybe they would stay the hell away from you ! Then you could have a "hunt monsters" mode for when you want to encounter them.
The other solution I liked was used in the first Dragon Warrior. I think there was a cheap spell which you got about halfway though the game which kept really weak monsters away. I thought that was a pretty reasonable idea, especially after fighting thousands of green slimes.
"YOU ARE APPROACHED BY A GREEN SLIME ! (sirens: woo woo) [attack] YOU HAVE HIT THE GREEN SLIME AND INFLICTED 2078 DAMAGE. YOU HAVE KILLED THE GREEN SLIME !"
SNAFU ? TLA's MIA ? WTF ?!
The industry's position is that you bought the media along with a license to view the content which is tied to that media. A strict interpretation of "fair-use" is that you have a right to make personal copies things on your own media, and you are allowed to publish portions or derivatives of works as part of a criticism, satire, etc.
I don't own a cell phone, and I haven't even seen The Two Towers. I'm generally not interested in "hype" - I appreciate predictable, reliable and elegantly designed technology without a lot of "crap" in it. You're right that it's easy to mock what we don't understand, but this is something I *do* understand.
The examples I give in the grandparent post are real. Some people that I personally know really do think that a worm spreading through email is normal, and don't understand that it could be prevented by using a different email client. And someone I know really is both simultaneously annoyed by the deficiencies of IE and disinterested in trying Mozilla. Another person I know was shocked to hear that there even was an alternative to IE at all, and that a web browser is just a program that can be replaced. How can you use a computer every day for YEARS, and not have even the slightest idea of how they work ?! I may not be a mechanic, but I have a car, so I take it upon myself to have at least a basic familiarity with the various parts and how they work and interact. I probably couldn't design an internal combustion engine correctly, but at least I have the first idea of how to.
For the most part, I've found that ignorance is a compelling force in our society. People don't want the burden of having to think, regardless of the possibilities or consequences. I think a lot of this probably comes from advertising and the media. People have become so accustomed to being bombarded with ideas, what to buy, political opinion, and so on, that they resist doing any thinking of their own. I have a few more thoughts on this topic, but I'll save them for a more appropriate discussion.
In general, people will put up with mediocrity as long as they think everyone else is in the same boat. A lot of people think it's perfectly normal for a worm to spread through email, and that there's "nothing anyone could do about it, except buy a virus scanner". Everyone hates pop-up ads too, but they put up with them. You can tell them there are free alternatives, and they can't be bothered - but you can bet when WinXP Service Pack 2 introduces pop-up blocking "everyone" will "need" to have it. People really are sheep.
A free press is good except if it's arabic and critizes US policy then you should shut them down or bomb them.
Who says they have to be arabic?
Perhaps somebody smart enough could start a business defeating Googles filters...
There are plenty of businesses which try and do this. I recall SearchKing getting into a bit of a flap with Google, when a bunch of their customers' sites were downgraded. There are probably thousands of little piss-pot companies that will link to your page a million times for a hundred bucks or some such garbage. People should recognize this for what it is: web-spam. Millions of fake, garbage sites set up for the sole purpose of vastly decreasing the signal to noise ratio, until you can't help but see at least a bit of their trash, at which point they make a dollar.
1) On what grounds?
2) Show me!
And when they show you some matching code, which happens to come from BSD or something, how are you going to figure that out ?
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. Novell/Redhat/Sun would have to succeed beyond everyones' wildest expectations to make it happen. I think we'll have KDE vs. Gnome for years to come, and we'll have situation where gradually, over time, the interoperabilities will be ironed out or smoothed over. Hopefully, KDE vs. Gnome will become a question of how you want your desktop to operate, without all the technical issues of whether or not programs work and whether they "look right".