That's actually Slashdot fault. With a natural language compiler (programmed by a duct tape programmer of course) this would have never happened.

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Where exactly in my comment do I suggest a wide scale copying or mass surveillance?

I'm telling you why having everything for free and waiting for people to realize that they really want to pay for something doesn't work.

Communism have been tried a lot of times. A society where people take what they need and give what they don't, where goods and wealth are equally distributed. In theory a perfect government system, in practice a system that doesn't work because personal interest ends up overuling every effort put in another direction.

With that said, I think no one should have to pay for second hand games or second hand whatever. The fact is, when they sold you the game they sold you a physical thing, something that if you resell you stop having (as opposed to copying a CD) so nothing new is being created, is just the same thing which has been already paid! It just doesn't make sense to pay it again.

Wrong, not everything can be reselled or rented and I belive it to be a good thing. You CAN'T resell medicines, you can't project a dvd movie, you can't resell weapons, even if you legally own one and there's a long list like that.

That's a really stupid thing to say, your should take a look to the Prisoner's dilemma. Humans doesn't follow the most logical rules so if we have to wait for the people to "realize (all by themselves, with no censorship and mass punishment laws needed) that they really really really have to pay you to get it" we will be waiting a really, really, really long time.

You are right, the number of primes lower than a given number is fixed... the thing is, even being fixed, there are still A LOT of prime numbers for the numbers we're taling about.

If we use a 1024 RSA Key we are talking about 2^1024 and that's ... well, a lot, so let's say (and this is just a guess, could be more or less, I have no idea), that one every 16 million consecutive number is a prime, and let's say 16 million is 2^24... then you have to test with 2^1000 primes ... which is the hell of a loop...

So, yeah, the number of primes below a given number is fixed but fixed doesn't mean few...

Isn't there a command in emacs that definetly answer that question? C-x C-m vimvsemacs