Comment php and threading! (Score 0) 295
php and threading! ... um nevermind nothing to see here.
Mean while efforts to get python running nicely without the GIL etc. are still going on without press.
Comment ok short term money for long term pain! (Score 0) 370
ok short term money for long term pain!
Google is better than Bing. Yahoo is dying please ignore them. This is only going to harm the users of ubuntu.
Comment Re:open means closed for cellphones (Score 0) 238
Probably. I don't know SHR is fairly usable. The problem is that call quality has always been bad.
However, openmoko isn't a very good "phone".
Comment Apple the computer for the rest of us... (Score 0) 945
Whatever happened to "Apple the computer for the rest of us..."
Comment Re:The only way to maintain sanity (Score 1) 390
Please provide proof of this happening. I for one, have never seen it. Stop using bad editors.
Comment Finally! (Score 0) 390
Finally us tab users have our *rightful* revenge!
use tabs or be re-indented!
Comment Re:Micropayments again (Score 0) 198
Micropayments make no sense.
Enforcing the use of valid domain keys is a start. However it isn't a complete solution. We need something stronger than domain keys that prevents abuse *that* everyone *has* to use.
Comment 95% of slashdoters don't RTFA (Score 1, Informative) 198
95% of slashdoters don't RTFA.
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 0) 265
Good. However, if you just so happen to be on windows(im not), how would that work ? (vlc?.....)....
Comment actually i want to have each variable a slightly i (Score 0) 394
actually i want to have each variable a slightly different colour. That way i can easily follow the use of the variable throughout the entire source. (globals etc.) .
Comment nsa account ftw! (Score -1, Troll) 138
oooo im on as the nsa ooo pretty!
Comment Re:Lots of low Slashdot IDs commenting on this... (Score 1) 249
well are you compensating for something then ? :P
Comment Re:mail (Score 1) 268
In a word 'no'. PST i don't think he gets it :P
8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus 478
An anonymous reader writes "About 8 percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to an article by University of Texas at Arlington biology professor Cédric Feschotte, published in the Jan. 7, 2010 issue of Nature magazine."
Submission + - RSA-768 broken (iacr.org)
cryptopathe writes: An international team involving cryptographers from EPFL (Switzerland), NTT (Japan), University of Bonn (Germany), INRIA (France), Microsoft Research (USA) and CWI (Netherlands) has published a paper on the IACR Eprint Archive announcing the break of a 768-bit RSA modulus with help of the NFS factorization algorithm. The previous record what that of a 663-bit modulus and was established in 2005. The computation involved the equivalent of almost 2000 years of computing on a single core 2.2GHz AMD Opteron with in the order of 2^67 instructions being carried out. The authors mentioned that "Nevertheless, a 1024-bit RSA modulus is still about one thousand times harder to factor than a 768-bit one. If we are optimistic, it may be possible to factor a 1024-bit RSA modulus within the next decade by means of an academic effort on the same limited scale as the effort presented here. From a practical security point of view this is not a big deal, given that standards recommend phasing out such moduli by the end of the year 2010.
