Maybe their just going to make a 2.5TB database of possible PGP keys to make decrypting code obsolete.
Instead a user will just run it through a program that will calculate the public key and send it to the database which will instantly send back the key that matches.
Ya...
They'll be renting it out to use for their EVIL MP3 sharer searches. /. Headline: "In compensation for NSA making 2.5TB of fast access database of MP3's RIAA has been given permission to use the terminal for their searches for 6hours a day free of charge for it's lifetime and $5 an hour after that..." click for details
Well duh they bought it at Fry's.
Your talking about the U.S. government here.
A bunch of not so techonological advanced politicians who sit around all day making orders for things that need to be built right. Who do they have build the order? The lowest bidder. Maybe they got lucky this time and heard of NewEgg.
Longhorn: A 64bit extension and waste of RAM to a thrity-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
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Make a mirror first: http://www.pcstats.com.nyud.net:8090/articleview.c fm?articleID=1720
Apparently nyud.net got through long enough to get the first page I requested about an hour ago. As for the second? Nyud is giving me 503s.
Did you change the permissions for them?
Maybe their just going to make a 2.5TB database of possible PGP keys to make decrypting code obsolete.
Instead a user will just run it through a program that will calculate the public key and send it to the database which will instantly send back the key that matches.
Ya...
/. Headline: "In compensation for NSA making 2.5TB of fast access database of MP3's RIAA has been given permission to use the terminal for their searches for 6hours a day free of charge for it's lifetime and $5 an hour after that..." click for details
They'll be renting it out to use for their EVIL MP3 sharer searches.
Well duh they bought it at Fry's. Your talking about the U.S. government here. A bunch of not so techonological advanced politicians who sit around all day making orders for things that need to be built right. Who do they have build the order? The lowest bidder.
Maybe they got lucky this time and heard of NewEgg.
Microsoft Tech: "Time to boot up that beta disk we've been working on!"
Longhorn: A 64bit extension and waste of RAM to a thrity-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.