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Comment Re:Too cynical? (Score 1) 537

To understand this, I think we need to make clear the difference between sexuality and pornography. For example, lots of shows show girls in bikinis on the beach, or strippers dancing with a pole - that's pornography.

Your definition of pornography is quite different then my definition. If the girl (or boy, for that matter) is clothed, it is not pornography. As an example for a even stricter definition of pornography, in Germany, for anything to count as pornography, it has at least to show penetration, or depict genitals in a "provoking" manner (e.g. an erect penis, or a slose-up shout of a vagina.)

Comment Re:Hackers, obviously... (Score 1) 1200

Shamelessly copied from the youtube comments:

she's really very smart. She squirted out that stream of technobabble to cover her exit, went back to her cubicle, cat'd a shell script to track the guy's IP address, opened a random VB file to display in case her boss (who happens to be a big VB fan) walked by, whipped up the GUI with Tcl/Tk, and spent the next 15 minutes looking for a better job.

Actually, "VisualBasic" was probably just product placement. I hope it generated lots of support calls to Redmond.

And you say there are no funny comments on YouTube!

Comment Re:Uh, what? Nonsense! (Score 1) 133

Your car will probably have a lot more then just two busses. It will probably even have ECUs that are conected to more then two busses. However, I'd guess that in theroy the network of ECUs and busses will be fully connected, e.g. most systems report data to the dashboard, so that will be a point where many busses will meet. (Not that this would help taking over the bus or safety relevant systems in any relevant way)

Comment Re:Uh, what? (Score 2) 133

That's simply wrong. Lots of safety relevant systems, like ESP, communicate via CAN (or FlexRey in more modern cars). So, in theory, if you hijacked the whole bus you could pretty easily kill everyone inside the car. In praxis, however, it's not quite that simple. e.g. the bus driver of a FlexRay bus will electrically prevent sending any data outside of your designated timeslot, so you can't override data send by other ECUs. (Not to mention that the only place data from the entertainment system and from safety related systems will meet is probably the dashboard, and that's pretty much a dead end).

Comment Re:This will NO break any encryption algorithms... (Score 1) 318

Your definition is the definition of NP, not NP complete. NP is the set of all problems that are in NP and NP hard (i.e. all problems in NP can be reduced in polynomial time to a problem in NP-complete). If P=NP, all problems in NP can be reduced in polynomial time to any other problem in NP (because they can be solved in polynomial time)

Comment Re:This will NOT break all encryption algorithms.. (Score 1) 318

Not to bust anyone's bubble, but the factoring problem is actually not known to be NP completely and evidence points to the fact that it is no, since if it could be shown to be then this would prove that NP=Co-NP. Similarly, the discrete logarithm problem is also not known to be NP-complete. Therefore, public key cryptosystems should be fine.

TL;DR - No encryption schemes will be broken if it is proved that P=NP.

You got that wrong. If P=NP, then NP=Co-NP, so your public key cryptosystems are broken. (Also, if P=NP, all problems in P are NP complete)

Comment Re:didn't it come from the states? (Score 3, Insightful) 69

According to the (slightly out-of-date) article, the whole of Europe sends less spam than the US. I'm quite sure there are more computers in Europe than in the US, as the population is more than 60% larger (only counting EU. The spam level in the article is likely about the whole continent, which has about 130% the population of the US), and the developement level is similar.

Comment Re:Generoators (Score 1) 328

The need of generators depends on where you live. I live in an area that is neither prone to floods, nor earthquakes, nor storms. We have a pretty stable grid*. During my entire life I can remember four blackouts, the longest lasted about two hours. So currently I have no need of a generator.

*This may change if photovoltaic and wind energy increase and the planned extension of the grid is delayed. But for now, it's sufficiently stable

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