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Submission + - X11 7.7 Released (freecode.com)

Jizzbug writes: The X Window System made release X11 7.7 last night on this 9th of June, 2012: "This release incorporates both new features and stability and correctness fixes, including support for reporting multi-touch events from touchpads and touchscreens which can report input from more than one finger at a time, smoother scrolling from scroll wheels, better cross referencing and formatting of the documentation, pointer barriers to control cursor movement, and synchronization fences to coordinate between X and other rendering engines such as OpenGL."

Comment Re:Ireland's native annals & genealogies corro (Score -1) 309

I posted a reply to this citing sources & documentary evidence, but strangely it has been deleted...

Basically, too many people groups from too many eras across too many cultures, languages, and countries have documentary evidence of their descent from Odin for it to have been made up. Look up Guala/Hvala/Hawala, his genealogy documents the long line of descent from Thor to Odin.

My own genealogy corroborates the Odin genealogies but I am not descended from Odin (Odin is some kind of ancient great uncle to me). My common ancestor to Odin is Milesius 3,000 years ago. The genealogies diverge & corroborate at nearly every generation, e.g., the Smith clan is not descended from Odin either, but my common ancestor to the Smiths (M'Gowans) is about 1,500 years ago.

Back in those days names were often titles, and they were used and reused all over the place. You can't really trust modern scholars when they say that Tacitus "may have" referred to Odin, since the Odin who was worshipped by the Norsemen is very well known to history.

You should study your family history, you just might discover the secrets of the world at a library near you.

Comment Re:Ireland's native annals & genealogies corro (Score -1) 309

Odin was a prince who lived circa 400 AD and who founded the Kingdoms of Kent & Wessex. Odin was never a stone-age deity, Odin was descended from the House of Heremon. He has always been a perfectly historical figure (until he was worshipped as a deified ancestor by Norsemen 300 year later [euhemerism]).

Comment Ireland's native annals & genealogies corrobor (Score -1) 309

FTFA: "Until now our knowledge of the Tower of Babel has been based on the account in Genesis 11:1-9, and of Herodot: The Histories I:178 - 182, with the measurement of the first 2 steps, and a Seleucid tablet of 229 BC (Louvre AO 6555), giving the sizes of the steps."

This is not entirely true, the Irish genealogies of Milesius (corroborated by disparate genealogies throughout Europe) also attest to the Tower of Babel and its peoples.

The Tower of Babel story occurs in the Irish & European genealogies with the namesake of the Phoenicians, Fenius Farsa, and his son Niul the Linguist.

These genealogies diverge at nearly every generation & they corroborate independently across countries & cultures. They're are among the most valuable documentary evidence we have of ancient world history (more so than the bible).

See, e.g., http://books.google.com/books?id=h5MNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8.

The story among the Irish also corroborates the Slashdot story about the common source of languages (and, yes, the genealogies pre-date the arrival of Semitic biblical texts to Ireland [if the bible is Semitic, these records are Japhetic]).

Comment Re:GPS jamming (Score -1) 647

By doing this Iran has announced to the world that RSA is broken. Military grade M-code GPS has two modes, red-key mode for classified hardware like stealth drones, and black-key mode for unclassified hardware. They each use RSA in symmetric & asymmetric modes, respectively.

To spoof the GPS signal the drone would be locked on to, Iran either got the secret keys or fast-factored the large semiprime RSA numbers.

Iranian ComodoHacker claimed to be in pursuit of a crack to RSA, go read his broken English rants.

Submission + - The Contrapositive Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (oeis.org)

Jizzbug writes: "Yesterday AT&T's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences accepted an entry, A198382, for a prime-counting function & a contrapositive proof of the Riemann hypothesis. What was accepted is 1 of the of 300 total prime-counting functions that enumerate the prime numbers according to last-digit- & digital-root-preserving sequences. A198382 is the prime-counting function for primes congruent to 37 mod 45 when A198382(n)*90+37."

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