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  1. Re:Quantum Computers on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    The real-world applications for quantum computers are very limited.

    No, the real-world scenarios where quantum computers are a major improvement are limited. They can be used for everything normal computers are as well.

  2. Re:Complexity. on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    To give a comparison, most machines on the net today is clocked at ~4Ghz, that is 4 000 000 000 instructions per second

    Uh, no they're not. But for the sake of mathematical illustration, I'll allow it.

  3. Re:Complexity. on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    Aw, now I don't get to make fun of you. Sadness.

  4. Re:Complexity. on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    No, they did something really stupid in the AES-256 version that made it vulnerable.

  5. Re:Complexity. on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    Apparently you missed the part about AES-256 being down to 2^119, which is less that 2^128.

  6. Re:Furthers my stand on crypto, which is: DON'T on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't feed the troll.

  7. Re:Posner on Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whatever you are smoking, please share. This has NOTHING to do with the first amendment. The death of the Old Media business model is NOT a blow to the first amendment, it STRENGTHENS it, because broadcasted speech becomes less controlled and more democratic. When the cost of entry to the broadcast medium (the internet) is effectively zero, EVERYONE becomes a member of the press. The death of the Old Media business model is the best thing that could possibly happen for freedom of speech.

  8. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Sounds better than Los Angeles still. Similar taxes, lower unemployment, and fewer street gangs. Not to mention traffic and air pollution.

    Mind you, I wasn't being serious, just saying that in perspective where I live is worse off (if you want to talk about out of work migrant construction workers I can GAURANTEE that LA County is worse off).

  9. Re:Nope, ~35C on Milky Way's Spiral Arms Could Not Have Caused Climate Change · · Score: 1

    20 degrees more by man-made causes

    We do not have 20 degrees more from man-made causes. Yes, inherent atmospheric effects raise the surface temperature. Those are not man-made. The 2 degrees centigrade is the purportedly man-made portion.

  10. Re:Decepticons on Milky Way's Spiral Arms Could Not Have Caused Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Does your friend have a mental disability (includes being under the age of 12)? If so, well, you're a better friend than I. If not...you need to redefine "friend."

  11. Re:Climatologists struggle to stay relevant on Milky Way's Spiral Arms Could Not Have Caused Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Another 2 degrees. 2. Not 20.

  12. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Real unemployment is already higher than that in California. Ireland here I come!

  13. Re:I'm glad someone's pointing out this fraud on Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    The difference is that Shakespeare's plays are public domain, but videos of their performances are not. Given how much one performance can differ from another it should be clear that the performance is substantially different from the mere text.

  14. Re:Combating Cyberfraud on Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Most professors (and lesser teachers as well) outside of Computer Science, Math, Physics, and associated disciplines view the internet as the Great Satan, good for nothing but facilitating plagiarism by students.

    I'm an english major and have been lectured extensively about not using the internet for research articles. Nevermind that databases like JSTOR are the most convenient sources for journal articles around (I hate digging through libraries), and likewise with gutenberg for anything published before 1923. I use them anyway, though gutenberg makes mla citations a pain (google books though lets me find page numbers in a published edition to cite though).

  15. Re:Combating Cyberfraud on Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Wow, you just *WHOOSHED* on a not even ironic post.

    GP was saying the Gutenberg is the kind of project the GGP was describing--a clearinghouse for verified public domain works. If it's on there, you're in the clear.

  16. Re:Combating Cyberfraud on Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they'd all be censored to blame the Great Satan for everything.

  17. Re:Autopilot? on Solar Plane To Make Public Debut · · Score: 1

    Complexity yes, weight no.

  18. Re:I hope this is the path NASA takes on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 2, Funny

    To have a viable colony you need about 50% of said volanteers be female

    The history of European colonization says this is wrong, so long as the native Martians are attractive enough to rape.

  19. Re:No Australians on Mars... on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    But Australia didn't turn out so bad...Sign me up for the Martian Penal Colony!

  20. Re:Good ideas. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except it's not a colossal amount of money at all--this is the absurd misconception about space travel. The reality is it is peanuts. Cheaper in fact than fixing this world, by a several orders of magnitude.

  21. Re:Shut down your web browser on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer that for its totality. I've got five web browsers here, if I'm really jonesing for /. no firefox plugin will save me. Now that you have suggested it though, I am off to write just such a perl script.

  22. Re:Surely that's obvious on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    HEAVILY. It's absurd. I get ads based on individual words from my profile.

  23. Re:Hm... on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 4, Funny
  24. Re:Hey MPAA! on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be FarSub?

  25. Re:Link on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    Preach it Brother!