It uses elliptic curve crypto. It has nothing to do with ellipses. Elliptic curves are not ellipses and have absolutely nothing to do with ellipses. OK - they do have a historical connection with ellipses because elliptic curves arise out of the study of elliptic functions and elliptic functions can be used to find the arc-length of an ellipse. But really the use of the word 'elliptic' is just a historical accident.
Running W95 or W98 on workstations? This is a troll right? Nobody uses an OS without memory protection as a workstation do they? I'm no great fan of MS but W2K does satisfy some of the criteria to be called an OS - for example it manages memory and prevents applications writing over each other's memory. W95 and W98 provide little protection. In fact all applications share half of their address space. This makes W95/8 great for single applications like games playing. But you're not seriosuly trying to tell us you use these not-quite-OS's for workstations?
Palm for my Palm that I'd like to read on a different platform. That document seemed to be saying that I am allowed to reverse engineer the reader for the purposes of program interoperability. Does that mean I am allowed to crack the program (pretty trivial I guess seeing as all the decryption takes place in the executable itself and you can just single step through it) so that I can read it on a Desktop PC instead? IANAL but maybe someone who is knows the answer to my question.
If I say that slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool I'll get censored into oblivion by offended moderators pretty damn quickly. Here, watch:
<Ducks for cover>
Slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool
</Ducks for cover>
...interesting to see if Internet traffic jumps sharply as people switch to using steganography to stuff their confidential emails inside mp3's and jpg's.
Oh, that's a good idea. We'd better invade all those countries that value liberty differently from the US and deprive them of their security as well. Oh...we've already been doing that...
Do you really believe that they are doing this so that they can rat you out to your wife if you cheat on her, or to prevent you from having an anti government conference call?
What you say is very close to the truth. Listening to TV and radio over the last two days not a few politicians have said that even if Bin Laden isn't involved we should attack him anyway because of other crimes. Americans now have a lust for blood and politicians seem to freely admit that they want to satisfy this lust even if it has nothing to do with dealing with the issue in hand.
The Alien
and the Shepherd Boy
A Shepherd Boy tended his master's flock of Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found lifeforms in the pasture to be very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's flute.
One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Alien, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.
His master had told him to call for help should a Alien attack the sheep and the Villagers would come immediately and drive the Alien away. So now, though he had not seen a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Alien! Alien!"
As expected, the Villagers who heard the boy's cry for help dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled over in laughter at the trick he had played on them.
A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Alien! Alien!" Again the Villagers ran to help the boy only to be laughed at again.
Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did jump out of the underbrush and leap upon the flock of Sheep.
In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Alien! Alien! Alien!" But though the Villagers heard the boy's call, they did not stop working and run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.
The Alien ate many of the Shepherd Boy's sheep and then escaped back into the dark forest.
The moral of the story is:
If you tell people there's life on Mars enough time they'll start giving you cash
Mass and energy are interchangeable. E=mc^2 'n' all that. Fortunately for us those jumping kids caused a mini-black hole that swallowed them up otherwise there'd be nothing left of the Earth or the Moon after a 75,000 ton energy burst...
...send a probe out to the focal point of the Sun's gravitational lensing effect (about 550 AU from the Sun) and use the Sun as a *gigantic* gravitational lens to observe distant parts of the universe at super hi res.
I have to agree. Nobody even bothers to check the titles of science stories - for example this one looks like its about conductors of fluorine and silver.
...secrets. If you leak them they're not secret any more and you no longer have protection.
If you have some intellectual property you have 4 ways to protect it:
Trade Mark
Copyright
Patent
Trade Secret
The first three rely on government protection. The last one relies on your own ability to keep it secret. If you're unable to keep it secret then you should use one of the first three methods to protect yourself. If you fail to keep it secret and don't use one of the other methods then you are unprotected and there's nothing you can do - that's why the other methods exist.
IANAL But I recently had one explain all this to me.
They'd be useless on Earth. However using the anti-gravity shield that NASA have been researching we could have really cool drones straight out of the work of Iain M Banks.
Propaganda is more subtle than just saying facts outright. NASA carefully use language like 'suggests that...' which seems incredibly modest but the sum total of these claims are in fact much stronger than the evidence allows. It's like me saying "I'm not 100% sure, but some evidence does suggest that maybe I do have some limited telekinetic ability". Modest language but an outrageous claim.
The fact that it didn't succeed in raising funds is in no way evidence that it was in fact a ploy to raise funds. In fact I have been complaining about NASA's exaggerations for many years now on the grounds that it's short sighted, people will eventually see through them, and thus the money will suddenly dry up due to disillusionment with the whole subject of Mars.
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The thing about chicken teeth is old as the hills and the rest is pure speculative content of the type that was bandied around at the time of JP1. I can't even blame/. - it was actually reported by the Beeb. Shame on them.
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It uses elliptic curve crypto. It has nothing to do with ellipses. Elliptic curves are not ellipses and have absolutely nothing to do with ellipses. OK - they do have a historical connection with ellipses because elliptic curves arise out of the study of elliptic functions and elliptic functions can be used to find the arc-length of an ellipse. But really the use of the word 'elliptic' is just a historical accident.
Running W95 or W98 on workstations? This is a troll right? Nobody uses an OS without memory protection as a workstation do they? I'm no great fan of MS but W2K does satisfy some of the criteria to be called an OS - for example it manages memory and prevents applications writing over each other's memory. W95 and W98 provide little protection. In fact all applications share half of their address space. This makes W95/8 great for single applications like games playing. But you're not seriosuly trying to tell us you use these not-quite-OS's for workstations?
Palm for my Palm that I'd like to read on a different platform. That document seemed to be saying that I am allowed to reverse engineer the reader for the purposes of program interoperability. Does that mean I am allowed to crack the program (pretty trivial I guess seeing as all the decryption takes place in the executable itself and you can just single step through it) so that I can read it on a Desktop PC instead? IANAL but maybe someone who is knows the answer to my question.
Who's Anne Tomlinson?
;-)
If I say that slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool I'll get censored into oblivion by offended moderators pretty damn quickly. Here, watch:
<Ducks for cover>
Slashdot is a load of old crap with contributions from a bunch of smelly spotty sex-starved geeks who think something like an operating system can actually be cool
</Ducks for cover>
...interesting to see if Internet traffic jumps sharply as people switch to using steganography to stuff their confidential emails inside mp3's and jpg's.
Oh, that's a good idea. We'd better invade all those countries that value liberty differently from the US and deprive them of their security as well. Oh...we've already been doing that...
I'm guess you were born after Nixon's presidency.
What you say is very close to the truth. Listening to TV and radio over the last two days not a few politicians have said that even if Bin Laden isn't involved we should attack him anyway because of other crimes. Americans now have a lust for blood and politicians seem to freely admit that they want to satisfy this lust even if it has nothing to do with dealing with the issue in hand.
The Alien
and the Shepherd Boy
A Shepherd Boy tended his master's flock of Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found lifeforms in the pasture to be very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's flute.
One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Alien, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.
His master had told him to call for help should a Alien attack the sheep and the Villagers would come immediately and drive the Alien away. So now, though he had not seen a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Alien! Alien!"
As expected, the Villagers who heard the boy's cry for help dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled over in laughter at the trick he had played on them.
A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Alien! Alien!" Again the Villagers ran to help the boy only to be laughed at again.
Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did jump out of the underbrush and leap upon the flock of Sheep.
In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Alien! Alien! Alien!" But though the Villagers heard the boy's call, they did not stop working and run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.
The Alien ate many of the Shepherd Boy's sheep and then escaped back into the dark forest.
The moral of the story is:
If you tell people there's life on Mars enough time they'll start giving you cash
Mass and energy are interchangeable. E=mc^2 'n' all that. Fortunately for us those jumping kids caused a mini-black hole that swallowed them up otherwise there'd be nothing left of the Earth or the Moon after a 75,000 ton energy burst...
Miced by mice is a tautology. You simply want to say "a miced spacecraft". Or better still "a moused spacecraft".
Well at least Microsoft are honest. You definitely do need a 2000MHz CPU to get tolerable performance out of NT5.
...send a probe out to the focal point of the Sun's gravitational lensing effect (about 550 AU from the Sun) and use the Sun as a *gigantic* gravitational lens to observe distant parts of the universe at super hi res.
I have to agree. Nobody even bothers to check the titles of science stories - for example this one looks like its about conductors of fluorine and silver.
...correct the title or is the science department not worthy of proof-reading.
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If you have some intellectual property you have 4 ways to protect it:
- Trade Mark
- Copyright
- Patent
- Trade Secret
The first three rely on government protection. The last one relies on your own ability to keep it secret. If you're unable to keep it secret then you should use one of the first three methods to protect yourself. If you fail to keep it secret and don't use one of the other methods then you are unprotected and there's nothing you can do - that's why the other methods exist.IANAL But I recently had one explain all this to me.
--...where eventually all /. stories are about life on Mars.
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Then again, maybe not.
--...I have all of the Infocom adventure games on a device the size of a stamp - an SD card for my Palm.
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The fact that it didn't succeed in raising funds is in no way evidence that it was in fact a ploy to raise funds. In fact I have been complaining about NASA's exaggerations for many years now on the grounds that it's short sighted, people will eventually see through them, and thus the money will suddenly dry up due to disillusionment with the whole subject of Mars.
--The thing about chicken teeth is old as the hills and the rest is pure speculative content of the type that was bandied around at the time of JP1. I can't even blame /. - it was actually reported by the Beeb. Shame on them.
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