Is not imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
From this comment, which I found very underrated:
Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "All your base are belong to us." You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the game before. Because that's what it says in the game, right? Isn't it? "All your base are belong to us." And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to use in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart person you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God, you're so funny!
Adapted Family Guy.
That was stewie, for those of you not lucky enough to know of this gem:)
I seem to remember hearing that a lot of Third World countries carried on using the German cryptosystems for a long time after the war, and that was why all the Bletchley technology was kept black - we rather liked being able to read everyone's mail. Don't know how true that is, though...
Well, there is something related here; Dennis Ritchie dabbles in cryptography. He talks about cryptanalysis of the hagelin m-209b crypto device (I bought one on ebay:)). They submitted their findings for voluntary review by the NSA before publishing, and Ritchie was visited by a "Retired Man" from the NSA.
The relevant bit:
He got a bit more specific about two things: the agency didn't particularly care about the M-209. What they did care about was that the method that Reeds had discovered was applicable to systems that were in current use by particular governments, and that even though it was hard to imagine that these people would find the paper and relate it to their own operations (which used commercially-available crypto machines), still... perhaps we should exercise discretion? It was certainly legal to publish, but publication might cause difficulties for some people in the agency.
Full story in the first link.
So, even though this has nothing to do with the UK and colossus/enigma/lorenz directly, it still is a similar story.
True, but that's for general, unstructured numbers, while mersenne numbers are structured so that they're much easier to test for primeness than other numbers of that size. IANANumberTheorist, but it's such a huge difference that I doubt the general polytime test will ever be faster than the special mersenne test...
BTW wasn't the polynomial order 6 whenever a unproved-but-likely hypothesis was true?
Is it really surprising that plagiarism is so rampant when these universities are becoming so big and impersonal that there's a bureaucrat for everything?
What surprises me is what it could be that you think one has to do with the other?
Not that I'm a computer-language conservative myself, but it's worth pointing out that historically, there has been quite a big discrepancy between which languages the Comp-Sci researchers feel everyone should be using, and the ones which actually are used.
True, but that doesn't mean the researchers are wrong..!
sorry but roulette with just picking the color gives your 50% odds of winning. That's pretty damn good and pretty much the best you can expect of any form of gambling. (payout is lower though)
There are some things wrong with this..
You have less than 50% odds of winning due to
the green colour.
The odds by themselves aren't so important,
it's the odds and payout that matter. (The sum
of the product of the odds and corresponding
payouts are the `expected return', which is negative in any casino in business for long;).)
No need for us to prove it. You can do it yourself. The equation is E=mc^2. c is a really big number.
IANAPhysicist, but that equation goes with the amount of energy released when mass is annihilated, and turned into pure energy - which is different from fusion..
At one time six or seven kids was normal, now more than two or three is rather unusual. If people start living for centuries, it's only a matter of time before 0-1 is the standard.
don't forget that, presuming children are per 2 people, you need 2 children to not shrink your population..
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I click a complex number of times.
You realize the SCO case has nothing to do with patents right? (but copyright)
advanced, eh? I hate the soft power feature (thanks for the word), because it's so fragile.
Well, there is something related here; Dennis Ritchie dabbles in cryptography. He talks about cryptanalysis of the hagelin m-209b crypto device (I bought one on ebay :)). They submitted their findings for voluntary review by the NSA before publishing, and Ritchie was visited by a "Retired Man" from the NSA.
The relevant bit:
Full story in the first link.So, even though this has nothing to do with the UK and colossus/enigma/lorenz directly, it still is a similar story.
Their normal job being mugging people ;) ?
BTW wasn't the polynomial order 6 whenever a unproved-but-likely hypothesis was true?
As was algorithmics. Not so useless now! :)
Although you are right, it's a bad example because e^-x * e^x is 1 everywhere, not just as x->infinity :)
Could you elaborate on the scheduling software bit? I'm interested..
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base64 bloats 1/3, not 1/2.. i agree it's not great though. (Makes me wonder why newsgroups are so popular for leet file sharing.)
Wow, that's an old joke you got all those moderators to laugh at..
I found something here.
Good lord, Insightful? What's the insightful part, the fact that he says he doesn't know what he's talking about?
- how 'hacking' through social engineering is often easier than 'regular hacking',
- how technical skills and social skills can sometimes be found in the same person..
In context with the post I was replying to, they are fantastic points.and