Comment Re:currency (Score 4, Funny) 138
Only if you explain how Hershey's somehow make millions of dollars every year selling products that taste like, to use your colonial vernacular, ass.
Only if you explain how Hershey's somehow make millions of dollars every year selling products that taste like, to use your colonial vernacular, ass.
If Ofcom really want to help ham radio operators they could do more to ban or restrict power network adapters and the multitude of other gadgets that leak QRM all over the airwaves.
Bring back the Radiocommunications Agency. Ofcom is a behemoth that has its fingers in too many pies to be an effective regulator.
In the UK pilots often receive NOTAMs stating that the military are conducting GPS jamming trials in certain areas. From personal experience and reports from other pilots the jamming is very effective.
I was thinking the same, and I'm no expert in cryptography. After all distributed.net have spent 12 years trying to brute-force a 72-bit key and have only managed to test 3% of the total keys. 2^1024 is such a mind-bogglingly large number the entire world's computers couldn't crack it in a billion lifetimes.
Anyway, wiki to the rescue:
As of 2003 RSA Security claims that 1024-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 80-bit symmetric keys, 2048-bit RSA keys to 112-bit symmetric keys and 3072-bit RSA keys to 128-bit symmetric keys. RSA claims that 1024-bit keys are likely to become crackable some time between 2006 and 2010 and that 2048-bit keys are sufficient until 2030. An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required beyond 2030.[6] NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 256-bit symmetric keys.
It was amazing to see a nearly 80 year old man bouncing around. He is the same age as my Grandmother, yet he had more energy and was more with it than she was at 60.
I'd love to know his secret.
Swallow it and you'll end up shitting Brix.
He'll be disappointed though, nostalgia isn't half as good as it used to be.
Translation: Microsoft trying to extort expensive license fees from London Council.
FTFY
I think that's a poor example as Intel no longer make 8031s and 8051s and they can't earn money by selling licenses for them because the patents expired long ago.
Not really, what matters most is cost, and at that ARM wins hands down. Most ARM chips cost less than $5, with some selling for pennies. Intel enjoys 60%+ margins on everything it sells and they will experience a lot of pain giving them up.
The only way Intel can compete is if they sell their mobile chips at or below cost. Oh wait, they already are.
That's terrible. This means that Slashdot editors could end up in a federal PYITA prison.
On second thoughts, I don't really have a problem with this.
Indeed. I've always found the Star Trek universe to be a poor imagination of a post-scarcity society. The Culture books do it so much better, especially with their interactions with less advanced civilisations. Starfleet would have been a much more interesting organisation if they had their own 'Special Circumstances' department.
The real embarrassment is that Windows is already up to 8.1, while the Linux kernel is only at 3.1
If my math is correct that's a whole 5 metric torvalds* better.
Get your shit together Linux!
*I think MS still use imperial ballmers, but I'm not sure.
The chief reason why ceramic engine doesn't make it into the mainstream despite having had under research since the 1970's is that the friction in between the piston ring and the wall of the bore itself result in the wearoff of the ceramic material in the form of a pile up of fine ceramic dust inside the chamber.
Interesting. I appreciate the reason for not having ceramic cylinders bores, but why haven't ceramic cylinder heads and pistons been implemented? Surely a 'semi-ceramic' engine is feasible?
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
