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  1. Re:Not in this case... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More directly (without induction):
    if T = 2^(2p+1) + 1:
    T = 2^(2p+1) - 2 [mod 3]
    T = 2(2^2p - 1) [3]
    T = 2(4^p - 1) [3]
    T = 2(1^p - 1) [3]
    T = 0 [3]
    qed

  2. Re:In this case, so what if it's changed? on "A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer · · Score: 1

    No only the ending is "unsound", but the whole premise.
    Killing a butterfly probably doesn't have more effect than spraying paint on a dinosaur...

  3. Is anyone reminded... on Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Introducing the latest nazi type ... *drums* .. on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 1

    caveat Paypal means "let Paypal be wary". What you were probably looking for is caveatis Paypal(um)
    Or, more likely, cave Paypal (as in cave canem, beware the dog) Subjonctive is used in place of imperative for the third person.

  5. Re:is this a testament to today's computing power? on Attacking WinZip AES Encryption · · Score: 1

    Like the subject says, could carelessness in encryption have been a non factor even a couple years ago? Does the raw processing power on the average desktop make it that much easier to exploit a mistake or break weak encryption?
    From my crypto teacher: "you can break css on a wristwatch". The processing power of today's machine is not always a factor.

  6. Re:Yet another reason for the US to switch to metr on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    IMHO, the metric system is doomed in the US because it's not American
    That's why this was designed!

  7. Re:You too can play such exciting titles as... on Via-based Handheld Game Console Runs PC Games · · Score: 1

    Do you know people play SNES games (at least as old as Warcraft...) on GBAs? And come on, even some games sold today are playable on a 500MHz PC.

  8. Re:Secure email on ExtremeTech Reviews Google's Gmail Beta · · Score: 1

    Also, I recently received a zipped executable named TextDocument.zip from a gmail account. I wonder, have spammers already started using Gmail? Or perhaps a virus impersonating the address?
    Gmail doesn't allow executables, even inside zip files. So I guess it was spoofed (and it definitely was a virus, spammers only send ads)

  9. Re:Cannot do partial word searches on ExtremeTech Reviews Google's Gmail Beta · · Score: 1

    Google itself has the feature
    What?
    Google doesn't offer partial word search (it would be WAY too expensive!), although it indeed has a "spell-checking" feature.

  10. Re:This can only be good news for fileswappers. Ma on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    The courts, however, might rule that one cannot patent things such as this-- there's little-to-no qualitative difference between folks patenting this and me patenting a method for a DDOS or patenting a method used in a computer virus. Depending on the judge, they may be in for a surprise if their patent goes to court.
    The difference, in this case, would be that the patent is worth going to court for (which means someone else is officially interested in the technology)

  11. Re:The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 1

    I remember thinking "If you mess this up, it'll be your last mistake"
    I don't know how it was for you, but when I was in the army, I also throwed a hand grenade (offensive, i.e. not much more than a loud "bang", defensive is nasty), I was in some sort of small concrete shelter, of which I could jump out in case I made a "mistake". Outside of war, the army is paranoid with safety (N.B. this was not the US army, YMMV of course)

  12. Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't normally do this, but considering the subject, I will:
    It's phenomenon (phenomena is a greek plural)

  13. Re:Duplicating work? on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 1

    Same great compression, but when you encode video with it, all the actors end up wearing kilts, speaking with incomprehensible accents and getting into bar fights.
    And then alien blancmanges can win Wimbledon! Mwahahahahahahahaha!

  14. Re:My choices on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    Adobe Acrobat
    I started using ghostview for pdf since Acrobat (sorry, Adobe Reader) is so damn slow.

  15. Re:There's a Hamas leader involved? on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Was I the only one that read that "Researchers to climb 'Arafat' to Seek Noah's Ark"
    I read "Areat", I guess I play Diablo II too much...

  16. Re:Why am I reminded of that scene... on OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird · · Score: 1

    mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine

    So maybe it should be a Microsoft mascot after all...

  17. Re:Potential problems... on Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, you can't lend your card to anyone anymore (my mother sometimes lent me her card to go buy something, she just gave me the secret code).
    Although of course here in the US you almost always have to sign...

  18. Re:authpf? on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 1

    Stenography
    I guess you mean steganography.

  19. Re:4DOS? on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patents don't cover a concept, they cover a method.
    Unfortunately these days it seems when you patent a method it covers the concept.

  20. Re:In this article, we do not violate the laws on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power · · Score: 1

    to produceth
    I highly doubt this is correct grammar, even in old english.
    He is omnicient, which means "All Powerfull"
    Omniscient means "all knowing", not "all powerful" (that would be omnipotent). Of course He is said to be both...

  21. Re:So, let me get this straight... on Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think you missed the part, where it pulls your relative location off of the tower you're using.
    This may speed up the search, but doesn't really change anything about the sheer amount of data (and the difficulty to collect it)

  22. Re:URL Short cuts - cool! on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Same thing with Mozilla's custom keywords.
    And you can do that with most web searches (using http GET, I believe there's a way to use POST but I haven't find any good links).

  23. Re:Weird findings regarding IE on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    What Google are you using?
    I heard google uses several servers with somewhat different databases... I guess that's the reason.
    I have, in order: opera, mozilla, ie, netscape, safari, wasp, galeon, lynx, "viewable by any browser".

  24. Re:Weird findings regarding IE on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    The same happens on google. Who's fishy now? Amazon didn't edit the google results.
    I don't know what google you're using, but on mine (clicking your link), IE is on third place.

  25. Re:This will tick off C++ programmers but... on Slow Down the Security Patch Cycle? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If they wrote their software in Pascal, this wouldn't be a problem.
    If they used STL string / vector, this would also probably not be a problem.
    Not to mention, a buffer overflow in Pascal would make the program quit with a runtime error: great security!