"that's a big waste, especially because SETI doesn't seem likely to yield results"
Err, according to my dictionary definition of 'scientific results', SETI yields results with every completed workload. The result says: "This patch of sky doesn't have the nonrandom signals we are searching for".
Scientific investigation yields results, whether they're sexy or boring.
/ runs Mersenne, because I'm greedily optimistic that way
You're arguing something the essayist isn't arguing. Nobody is claiming you shouldn't decide how to run your computer. He's arguing your spare cycles could be used for more productive purposes.
You retain your cycle rights. That's not at issue.
#2: No, given everything public sector mathematicians and cryptographers know, #2 isn't viable even for the NSA. Even if the NSA owned a galaxy full of conventional supercomputers.
#3: The simple answer is that the mathematicians need to find a shortcut to factor a big number (find that 7 and 3 are factors of 21). Mankind has been working on this problem for a couple thousand years to no avail.
I feel safe because: A. If the NSA has created huge practical quantum computers to crack assymmetric encryption, they're not wasting the resource or risking the phenomenal secret on me or anything remotely as inconsequential as me.
B. If the NSA can factor large numbers, or has found a practical break to symmetric encryption, again this would be so mondo huge that they wouldn't waste it on anybody but North Korea-types.
"Clearly, despite DRM's widely discussed inadequacies and regular aggravations, more than a few consumers are willing to put up with it when the price is right. That's just basic free-market economics."
This is an all too common mistake, that rights are dependent upon willing consumers and/or basic free-market economics.
I'm not going to elaborate, because I'm not willing to put more thought and effort into my post than McAllister did his article. Clearly, he had a tough deadline on a slow news week.
I've been working on getting MythTV installed on FC2...
First, I installed my WinTV Go, booted into XP, installed the cheesy PVR software that came with the WinTV Go. Everything worked fine.
Second, booted into FC2. Uhh... hours later, after a lot of command line apt-gets, no package founds, chmod this, etc., MythTV is about ready to go. Except, unfortunately, no friggin' sound. I'm sure it's solvable, but oiy, it would be nice to have an open source PVR system that just installs and works, without ridiculously long HOWTOs, on Linux or Windows. I wonder how nice the SUSE Pro PVR is.
I downloaded this Media Portal and I look forward to trying it out.
I'm not sure. Quantum computing square roots the search time. This is impressive, but hardly enough I think. AES is 256, easy is 512, 4096 keys should be no big deal 'soon' [insert your own definition of 'soon' here], etc.
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Funny, I just rolled through Zork last night for the first time in 20 years. I had a great time. Yes, some classics are really good.
"that's a big waste, especially because SETI doesn't seem likely to yield results"
Err, according to my dictionary definition of 'scientific results', SETI yields results with every completed workload. The result says: "This patch of sky doesn't have the nonrandom signals we are searching for".
Scientific investigation yields results, whether they're sexy or boring.
/ runs Mersenne, because I'm greedily optimistic that way
You're arguing something the essayist isn't arguing. Nobody is claiming you shouldn't decide how to run your computer. He's arguing your spare cycles could be used for more productive purposes.
You retain your cycle rights. That's not at issue.
#2: No, given everything public sector mathematicians and cryptographers know, #2 isn't viable even for the NSA. Even if the NSA owned a galaxy full of conventional supercomputers.
#3: The simple answer is that the mathematicians need to find a shortcut to factor a big number (find that 7 and 3 are factors of 21). Mankind has been working on this problem for a couple thousand years to no avail.
I feel safe because:
A. If the NSA has created huge practical quantum computers to crack assymmetric encryption, they're not wasting the resource or risking the phenomenal secret on me or anything remotely as inconsequential as me.
B. If the NSA can factor large numbers, or has found a practical break to symmetric encryption, again this would be so mondo huge that they wouldn't waste it on anybody but North Korea-types.
"Clearly, despite DRM's widely discussed inadequacies and regular aggravations, more than a few consumers are willing to put up with it when the price is right. That's just basic free-market economics." This is an all too common mistake, that rights are dependent upon willing consumers and/or basic free-market economics. I'm not going to elaborate, because I'm not willing to put more thought and effort into my post than McAllister did his article. Clearly, he had a tough deadline on a slow news week.
blurring the line between human and animal Newsflash: there is no line.
I've been working on getting MythTV installed on FC2...
First, I installed my WinTV Go, booted into XP, installed the cheesy PVR software that came with the WinTV Go. Everything worked fine.
Second, booted into FC2. Uhh... hours later, after a lot of command line apt-gets, no package founds, chmod this, etc., MythTV is about ready to go. Except, unfortunately, no friggin' sound. I'm sure it's solvable, but oiy, it would be nice to have an open source PVR system that just installs and works, without ridiculously long HOWTOs, on Linux or Windows. I wonder how nice the SUSE Pro PVR is.
I downloaded this Media Portal and I look forward to trying it out.
Jeez, even Mr. Magoo beat Nader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer
- Rob Vega
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/products/tech_specs .php
Quick google for old Trillian encryption exploit. I don't know how it's faring now:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/26690/2 6690.html
I still use it, as I put it in the 'better than nothing' column. I also have IMSecure on (56-bit DES, oh no!) but I'm a community of one.
- Rob Vega