The first event that pops into my mind as quite possibly the biggest lan party in North America is the Million Man Lan. It spans two cities with 2500 people housed in each city.
Being a student of mathematics, this is just ridiculous. Most encryption standards are based in some area of mathematics (Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, etc), so what are we going to do next? Ban all mathematics? Take the RSA encryption standard, it is so simple I learned it in an Abstract Algebra course within a couple of minutes. So should the government install backdoors into people who know how to write a cryptosystem program? Prevent said people from leaving the country? Or, better yet, we should stop teaching foriegners mathematics so that they can't develop new cryptosystems for their own country that we couldn't penetrate at all.
Sure, this sounds pretty cool, if any of it is actually true, but is it worth giving money to MICROSOFT for something like this? It will only expand thier ever increaseing empire...
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The first event that pops into my mind as quite possibly the biggest lan party in North America is the Million Man Lan. It spans two cities with 2500 people housed in each city.
5000 > 1200.
Being a student of mathematics, this is just ridiculous. Most encryption standards are based in some area of mathematics (Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, etc), so what are we going to do next? Ban all mathematics? Take the RSA encryption standard, it is so simple I learned it in an Abstract Algebra course within a couple of minutes. So should the government install backdoors into people who know how to write a cryptosystem program? Prevent said people from leaving the country? Or, better yet, we should stop teaching foriegners mathematics so that they can't develop new cryptosystems for their own country that we couldn't penetrate at all.
--elrog
Sure, this sounds pretty cool, if any of it is actually true, but is it worth giving money to MICROSOFT for something like this? It will only expand thier ever increaseing empire...