I finally understand why Americans fear their government!
Here in Holland, you have privacy laws on snail-mail, and these days even on E-mail. Reading someone else's E-mail simply is a crime.
I don't know how politics work in the USA, but perhaps there should be new privacy laws overthere, dealing with stuff like this. This means making your Congressman (this is the usual way?) aware of the problem. Perhaps other methods apply.
This E-mail privacy is necesarry, because they can now ask/force you to open up your mail, next they won't ask anymore, where does it stop?
Firstly, we need a calendar to identify the seasons. In month X it is summer, in month Y it is winter.
Secondly, a year doesn't last X months, it lasts 365 days, six hours and a bit.
Even an earth day doesn't last 24 hours (oh no it don't) it lasts 23 hours 59 minutes and 58 seconds.
Lastly, they had the leap year wrong a long time. When Christmas started falling in summer, European countries 'invented' the leap year and between 1534 and 1538 all countries in Europe scratched one month, i.e. any date November 1536 does not exist in Holland.
I don't really know under what license Beowulf goes, but as far as I'm concerned,GPL is here to garantee that free software remains free (i.e. as in freedom).
Secondly, the US shoot themselves in their own ass with all these export regulations, why? Well because here in Europe, we don't have export restrictions for countries like Cuba and Iran.
No sirrrrrr, even the USA wanted to stop us exporting to Cuba, but they didn't as Europe said 'We don't like that guys', and Clinton never signed.
I think those USA export restrictions are isolating the great super-power, but I don't mind, I think American attitude can be very arrogant sometimes.
I totally agree with you. For expert users, there should be choice, for average users there should be a standard.
Point is that Microsoft's (bussiness) succes relies in marketing. I heard that when Win95 came out, elder people who'm do not own a PC at all, bought a Win95 package! Can say anything negative about this, but this is the power of marketing
This marketing power is enforced by a stable, consequent face. You need a face, users will ask for Windows in the retail shop. "Windows" sounds nicer than X, or KDE, or Gnome, which are words, pronounced in English or any Germanic language, with hard sounds, the word "Windows" is pronounced using more commonly accepted soft-sounds.
So who cares? Well, me mommy really isn't going to buy anything which is ackward to pronounce, or anything sounding very complex. Marketing is psychology, you need a face, you need a sound, you need as much cognition as possible, and it needs to be a consequent manner.
If Linux is ever to be a succesful operating system in the manner of many users, it really needs stuff like this (a face, a sound (remember the start-up tune of win95?), a nice name for the WM (I think enlightment is quite good) and a reference (i.e. killer-apps)). If Linux is ever to be a succesful operating system in the manner of software availability, it needs many users.
One thing I don't understand:
Linux community exists of programmers, advocates, graphical artists, volunteers for promotional actions etc. It is possible to organize open-source projects, even the documentational side-projects are organized, how difficult is it to organize a group dealing with image? Even RedHat is not doing very well in this field.
I'm a great C++ fan, I like learning new things about the (core) language although this doesn't happen too often anymore. I don't like STL, I prefer writing my own stuff.
In the literature I have, there's this little information-gap:
1. protected inheritance - what is it good for? (I used it a couple of times, for specific reasons, but what is the 'official' intention of this scheme?)
In the decisions made for designing the language features, I wonder whether the following has been considered:
2. pure abstract propperties - why is it that only method-propperties can be pure virtual, why not make data propperties pure virtual as well? I know cases where this would be suitable, and where templates are no option.
Takes 0.27 seconds on my Celeron 466 (best time after a couple of retrials).
Note, 4 threads are started here, so I don't know the exact computing time. I'm deeply ashamed, but just found out there's an infinite loop in the prog. This shouldn't happen too often though, but I'll look into it.
What's hard is factoring large composite numbers that are the product of two large primes.
This is exactly what the program does.
Your doubts are justified, I wouldn't believe the whole thing myself. The used algorithmn is at least interesting, but I'd like to do some more work te get it faster before I release the basic priciples
doesn't sound like you know enough math
I'm an educated IT-engeneer, I know enough math for my proffesion. For math advice I go to a guy who does know math better than me, but this guy isn't a programmer.
16-bit composites can be decomposed into prime factors in much, much, much less than a second
1. The primes were 16-bit, not the composites
2. The algorithmn starts 4 threads, take the time for this startup in account.
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Besides, I bet that even bruteforce-factoring a 16-bit prime is faster...
With brute force you must have all primes available for checking, this algorithmn doesn't have these available. It's just a very directive search.
Could you please at least post the inner loop to the web page
There are actually two inner loops (this is a four-way search). Posting either of the loops, or even posting both is pointless as long as you don't know the basic idea behind it.
The most outer loop is the slowest one (and this is the point I'm still working on).
I've done a web site on the explanation of the algorithmn, if I have time, I'll rewrite the thing in more cold-blooded manner (it's too enthousiastic now), and mirror it on a geocities web-site, or any other site which is free.
The order of searches is about O( c* ( Q - (P+1) )/36 ). I'll look into the size of c.
At the moment, I don't have a clue how fast it is, it broke 16-bit prime codes in less than 0.64 seconds, I don't know whether this is fast.
It doesn't use much memory (i.e. I think less than 4k)
I'll won't post the source code as I think I'm on to something (and maybe it fails in the end, you never know), if I do succeed, I'll be taking all credits for it.
I'm still doing all sorts of mathematical research to get the program faster, so complexity is growing.
At the moment, complexity is quite low (well it is for me anyway), but it's hard to explain the principle to somebody else (and boy, I tried!)
First of all, I'm absolutely no security expert, the only thing I know is that finding large primes is very hard. So this part of the whole thing kept me busy, I posted it here to get some reactions, maybe some ideas.
Secondly, the binary I posted is not factoring primes, it does a numerical determination, so it won't find them right away, it must search.
Althoug it searches, this searching is done very fast.
Thirdly, I don't care what critics say, as I'll be working on this program to get it even faster, and I will support larger integers in future. I just hope somebody enjoys it.
Well, less crap gets my vote... (more crap would too, makes the decision to continue or quit Slashdot much easier).
Hackers and crackers will continue to exists
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Like one code is broken, then they think of a new one. Like DVD, we can now see movies on our computer, a scandinavian kid breaks it (or publishes the crack) and they come up with a new challenge.Life certainly is a game!
Kernigan and Ritchie invented a lot of things which are now to be considered as standard C (not C++). Usually this applies for the include files like stdio.h, stdlib.h etc.
Most C compilers will claim K&R compliancy, this means you can buy the K&R book, and program C without the anxiety for cross-compiler incompatibilities.
I think that the presented ideas have have the correct spirit. But isn't it such that organizing hackers, where all nozes point in the same direction, is very difficult?
Perhaps the hacker community is too fragmented, there are multiple leaders here.
Secondly, hackers are not like 'hippies' or 'rockers' or 'ravers', everybody has his own motive.
To be a malicious hackers or not to be a malicious hacker, that's a choice.
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Here in Holland, you have privacy laws on snail-mail, and these days even on E-mail. Reading someone else's E-mail simply is a crime.
I don't know how politics work in the USA, but perhaps there should be new privacy laws overthere, dealing with stuff like this. This means making your Congressman (this is the usual way?) aware of the problem. Perhaps other methods apply.
This E-mail privacy is necesarry, because they can now ask/force you to open up your mail, next they won't ask anymore, where does it stop?
Firstly, we need a calendar to identify the seasons. In month X it is summer, in month Y it is winter.
Secondly, a year doesn't last X months, it lasts 365 days, six hours and a bit.
Even an earth day doesn't last 24 hours (oh no it don't) it lasts 23 hours 59 minutes and 58 seconds.
Lastly, they had the leap year wrong a long time. When Christmas started falling in summer, European countries 'invented' the leap year and between 1534 and 1538 all countries in Europe scratched one month, i.e. any date November 1536 does not exist in Holland.
Maybe small 3rd world countries don't need leap years... ;-)
NETBEUI, no thank you
Secondly, the US shoot themselves in their own ass with all these export regulations, why? Well because here in Europe, we don't have export restrictions for countries like Cuba and Iran.
No sirrrrrr, even the USA wanted to stop us exporting to Cuba, but they didn't as Europe said 'We don't like that guys', and Clinton never signed.
I think those USA export restrictions are isolating the great super-power, but I don't mind, I think American attitude can be very arrogant sometimes.
Yep, and the release anouncement on freshmeat is already couple-a-days old.
Point is that Microsoft's (bussiness) succes relies in marketing. I heard that when Win95 came out, elder people who'm do not own a PC at all, bought a Win95 package! Can say anything negative about this, but this is the power of marketing
This marketing power is enforced by a stable, consequent face. You need a face, users will ask for Windows in the retail shop. "Windows" sounds nicer than X, or KDE, or Gnome, which are words, pronounced in English or any Germanic language, with hard sounds, the word "Windows" is pronounced using more commonly accepted soft-sounds.
So who cares? Well, me mommy really isn't going to buy anything which is ackward to pronounce, or anything sounding very complex. Marketing is psychology, you need a face, you need a sound, you need as much cognition as possible, and it needs to be a consequent manner.
If Linux is ever to be a succesful operating system in the manner of many users, it really needs stuff like this (a face, a sound (remember the start-up tune of win95?), a nice name for the WM (I think enlightment is quite good) and a reference (i.e. killer-apps)). If Linux is ever to be a succesful operating system in the manner of software availability, it needs many users.
One thing I don't understand:
Linux community exists of programmers, advocates, graphical artists, volunteers for promotional actions etc. It is possible to organize open-source projects, even the documentational side-projects are organized, how difficult is it to organize a group dealing with image? Even RedHat is not doing very well in this field.
Just some thoughts...
In the literature I have, there's this little information-gap:
1. protected inheritance - what is it good for? (I used it a couple of times, for specific reasons, but what is the 'official' intention of this scheme?)
In the decisions made for designing the language features, I wonder whether the following has been considered:
2. pure abstract propperties - why is it that only method-propperties can be pure virtual, why not make data propperties pure virtual as well? I know cases where this would be suitable, and where templates are no option.
{
for ( j = 1; j = 5; j++)
cout '*';
cout endl;
}
No output at all?
I don't care at all, I'll be continuing this program anyway.
As you can see, the slashdot environment can be very hostile, so I have no reason to publish the source codes.
Stop posting anonymously, give me your E-mail, do this thing quiet.
Takes 0.27 seconds on my Celeron 466 (best time after a couple of retrials).
Note, 4 threads are started here, so I don't know the exact computing time. I'm deeply ashamed, but just found out there's an infinite loop in the prog. This shouldn't happen too often though, but I'll look into it.
This is exactly what the program does.
Your doubts are justified, I wouldn't believe the whole thing myself. The used algorithmn is at least interesting, but I'd like to do some more work te get it faster before I release the basic priciples
doesn't sound like you know enough math
I'm an educated IT-engeneer, I know enough math for my proffesion. For math advice I go to a guy who does know math better than me, but this guy isn't a programmer.
1. The primes were 16-bit, not the composites
2. The algorithmn starts 4 threads, take the time for this startup in account.
With brute force you must have all primes available for checking, this algorithmn doesn't have these available. It's just a very directive search.
Could you please at least post the inner loop to the web page
There are actually two inner loops (this is a four-way search). Posting either of the loops, or even posting both is pointless as long as you don't know the basic idea behind it.
The most outer loop is the slowest one (and this is the point I'm still working on).
I've done a web site on the explanation of the algorithmn, if I have time, I'll rewrite the thing in more cold-blooded manner (it's too enthousiastic now), and mirror it on a geocities web-site, or any other site which is free.
The order of searches is about O( c* ( Q - (P+1) ) /36 ). I'll look into the size of c.
It doesn't use much memory (i.e. I think less than 4k)
I'll won't post the source code as I think I'm on to something (and maybe it fails in the end, you never know), if I do succeed, I'll be taking all credits for it.
I'm still doing all sorts of mathematical research to get the program faster, so complexity is growing.
At the moment, complexity is quite low (well it is for me anyway), but it's hard to explain the principle to somebody else (and boy, I tried!)
First of all, I'm absolutely no security expert, the only thing I know is that finding large primes is very hard. So this part of the whole thing kept me busy, I posted it here to get some reactions, maybe some ideas.
Secondly, the binary I posted is not factoring primes, it does a numerical determination, so it won't find them right away, it must search.
Althoug it searches, this searching is done very fast.
Thirdly, I don't care what critics say, as I'll be working on this program to get it even faster, and I will support larger integers in future. I just hope somebody enjoys it.
Console run you must type ./pfa where is a product of two primes. Disclaimer is that is only works for signed 64-bit numbers only.
enjoy!
As I know it, this is based on the N=PQ public and secret key algorithmns.
As I posted a few weeks ago, I wrote that I was working on an algorithmn which can find primes fast.
If you have some patience, I'll put a binary on the web and post the download link in this thread.
The binary actually is on the web right now, but my provider hates heavy traffic.
and how many stories were rejected? (or are they now called 'declined'?)
Well, less crap gets my vote... (more crap would too, makes the decision to continue or quit Slashdot much easier).
Like one code is broken, then they think of a new one. Like DVD, we can now see movies on our computer, a scandinavian kid breaks it (or publishes the crack) and they come up with a new challenge.Life certainly is a game!
Most C compilers will claim K&R compliancy, this means you can buy the K&R book, and program C without the anxiety for cross-compiler incompatibilities.
Perhaps the hacker community is too fragmented, there are multiple leaders here.
Secondly, hackers are not like 'hippies' or 'rockers' or 'ravers', everybody has his own motive.
To be a malicious hackers or not to be a malicious hacker, that's a choice.