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From: Ostap Bender on 5 Jul 2010 04:34 On Jul 3, 5:00 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 3, 4:44 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > > "JSH" <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > >news:a4d6f81d-3fff-43a2-bfc4-69b77e6d47c7(a)x18g2000pro.googlegroups.com.... > > On Jul 2, 8:12 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > "Mark Murray" <w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote in message > > > >news:4c2e3ddb$0$28006$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > > > > > On 02/07/2010 04:44, MichaelW wrote: > > > >> To the governments of the world. > > > > >> I have got sufficient details from the posting of one James Harris to > > > >> allow me to write code that breaks any and all encryption currently in > > > >> use. I have successfully hacked into the systems that control the US > > > >> nuclear arsenal. Please send one hundred billion dollars in small > > > >> unmarked bills to James Harris (currently residing in LA, California) > > > >> or I will start destroying your cities. > > > > >> Have a nice day. Michael W. > > > > > Michael, > > > > > Before the evidence is lost forever, it must be noted the formidable > > > > nature of your correspondent: > > > > >http://twitter.com/jstevhhas: > > > > > <quote> > > > > the world has never seen a major discoverer like me. my job quite > > > > simply, > > > > is to push the entire human species--forward. > > > > </quote> > > > >> > You saw it here first. Be very afraid. > > > >> ckout more on his blog => this guy is out to lunch > > >> Who would spend the time to type in little messages like that and send it > > >> off into no-where land? > > >Yeah, wild. What possibly could such a person think they're doing? > > > >Thanks for the observation! You're very observant. > > > >James Harris > > > at least in sci.math, sci.crypt it is posted in public and anyody can read > > it, Twitter ? it only goes to your fiends. > > Twitter is more powerful than Usenet. Search on ANY search engine: > jstevh Why would anybody search for "jstevh" and not, say, for"asdfghs"? > Now re-think that position about only my friends. You are right: you have no friends. Only jerks like myself who laugh at you. > My tweets pop up in the weirdest places. Do you take your iPad to weird places? >It's a MUCH BIGGER effect > than Usenet ever achieved. > > I can just think something, tweet it, and start seeing things move > immediately. They say that bran and prune juice are also good for that. > It's freaking bizarre. Twitter is actually kind of scary powerful. > > It is the most powerful leverage tool on planet earth. Amazing, man! Like totally! > No one yet knows the full limits of Twitter. It is the most powerful > thing out there right now. Don't be modest: YOU are the most powerful thing out there right now. Way out!
From: Ostap Bender on 5 Jul 2010 04:35 On Jul 2, 5:30 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 1, 8:19 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > My concern has been that fundamental equations in modular arithmetic > > could be exploited rather quickly and it appears with my latest > > efforts that that concern may be correct. > > > With the approach to discrete logarithms I've found it appears you CAN > > optimize the approach, and even though that involves looking for > > factors q^2 mod N, near N^2, it appears that it's easy to come up with > > a method that would allow factoring numbers on that scale as it's NOT > > a factorization where you don't have more tools from the idea itself. > > > Some of you may think this situation is a game. I assure you it is > > not. > > > My own hope had been that the research was far away from a trivial > > optimization but it appears that it is closer than I realized. > > And maybe not. I felt a bit of panic yesterday but wonder today if I > overreacted. > > Which is how it usually goes...as time goes by you start wondering, > and especially figure, if this thing were really important, wouldn't > somebody important notice? Having frequent bi-polar swings? > > I would assume that there are people who are aware of that now as > > well. > > > It's not clear to me what to do, but my own hope is that some clear > > heads will realize the need to notify the US Government. > > Still not a bad idea. I do have a novel approach. It relies on > rather basic equations. > > Questions of how well it *may* work should not be left up in the air. > > > Unfortunately there may be enough in postings for a clever person to > > work out the details, which was not my wish, but things worked out > > faster than I realized until after postings. I often get my best > > ideas after posting. > > And that brings me right back to trying to work through ideas. > > I DO try to clobber my own ideas. And in this case finding that this > approach is fatally flawed does not end much. > > The general modular arithmetic result is definitely proven to be > correct, as it derives from simple congruence relations. It has an > early application in finding k, when k^m = q mod N, and I've got a lot > of results with the m=2 case, the quadratic residue case, that show > that it is not brute force as some posters have claimed--notably > without bothering to give mathematical arguments to even attempt to > support their position. > > And there is a paper I've submitted to the Annals of Mathematics on > THAT result, about a month ago. They acknowledged receipt and said I > should wait to hear back further (usually later I get a rejection). > > Arguing with "Mark Murray" on THAT result got me to wondering about > discrete logs when he brought them up, and I realized a novel > approach, which intrigued me enough to start pondering it. > > It is highly clever, as it is a way where all but a few of m factors > are canceled out, which is why it also kind of scares me, as what if > it's TOO good? There is no other idea out there I think that has a > cancellation component against discrete logs. > > The cancellation component is real. But there are still enough > mathematical things not tied down that I wonder, where the biggest is > the correlation issue: > > I use two constraining equations, on control variables I call a's: > > a_1+...+a_m = m mod N > > and > > a_1*...*a_m = q mod N > > The first was needed to pull m into position for the cancellation. > The second was an arbitrary choice which seemed safe enough but > included q for what I call correlation. > > The math needs to know that you want it to give you answers for your > q. If you do clever things with that second constraint though, it > should leave the door too wide open for the mathematics to know what > you want. One other option is: > > a_1*...*a_m = 1 mod N > > And I've considered a_1*...*a_m = q^j mod N, where j is a natural > number to be an option, all in the name of correlation. As what if? > > a_1*...*a_m = rq mod N? > > Where r is a residue of your choice? Then you have discorrelated that > constraint, so the equations should behave randomly as the math can't > figure out what you're doing, as at that point, the actual q you want, > could be anything. > > Oh, some may notice that I talk about "the math" like it's a person, > but in actuality I'm talking about it as an intelligence. With a LOT > of my research, the math needs to understand what you want it to do, > so that it can give you the numbers you want. It is like a genie. It > has infinite powers, but if you leave too many doors open, it will > just answer all of them. > > So the math thinks. Your job is to tell it exactly what you want, so > it can give it to you. > > Here using a_1*...*a_m = q mod N, seems to work in tests so far, so it > appears correlated, so that the math knows what you want. > > The math is smarter than you are. It has all the answers, and will > tell you anything. > > You just have to know the right questions to ask. > > So still brainstorming. I'm looking to quash these ideas if > possible. But posting helps me to think and figure things out. I > figure out a lot of things AFTER I make a post, often when that post > is way wrong. Somehow typing things down and putting them out there, > helps me to figure things out more rapidly. > > Some people hate me for it. But their hate is their choice. > > I explain what I do, and have done so for years. And Usenet is a free > speech zone. > > James Harris
From: JSH on 5 Jul 2010 09:46 On Jul 5, 1:34 am, Ostap Bender <ostap_bender_1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 3, 5:00 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 3, 4:44 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > "JSH" <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > > >news:a4d6f81d-3fff-43a2-bfc4-69b77e6d47c7(a)x18g2000pro.googlegroups.com.... > > > On Jul 2, 8:12 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > > "Mark Murray" <w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote in message > > > > >news:4c2e3ddb$0$28006$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > > > > > > On 02/07/2010 04:44, MichaelW wrote: > > > > >> To the governments of the world. > > > > > >> I have got sufficient details from the posting of one James Harris to > > > > >> allow me to write code that breaks any and all encryption currently in > > > > >> use. I have successfully hacked into the systems that control the US > > > > >> nuclear arsenal. Please send one hundred billion dollars in small > > > > >> unmarked bills to James Harris (currently residing in LA, California) > > > > >> or I will start destroying your cities. > > > > > >> Have a nice day. Michael W. > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > Before the evidence is lost forever, it must be noted the formidable > > > > > nature of your correspondent: > > > > > >http://twitter.com/jstevhhas: > > > > > > <quote> > > > > > the world has never seen a major discoverer like me. my job quite > > > > > simply, > > > > > is to push the entire human species--forward. > > > > > </quote> > > > > >> > You saw it here first. Be very afraid. > > > > >> ckout more on his blog => this guy is out to lunch > > > >> Who would spend the time to type in little messages like that and send it > > > >> off into no-where land? > > > >Yeah, wild. What possibly could such a person think they're doing? > > > > >Thanks for the observation! You're very observant. > > > > >James Harris > > > > at least in sci.math, sci.crypt it is posted in public and anyody can read > > > it, Twitter ? it only goes to your fiends. > > > Twitter is more powerful than Usenet. Search on ANY search engine: > > jstevh > > Why would anybody search for "jstevh" and not, say, for"asdfghs"? To see where the tweets are ranging. The poster to whom I was replying seemed to think that Twitter was only about a small group, when public tweets can bounce around the planet. The way to see where some of my tweets end up is to search: jstevh And you can do that in ANY search engine, not just Google. Twitter is for some reason one of the best ways to put your ideas on the world stage. If you can put your ideas into 140 characters or less, you can have your tweets popping up on webpages that can surprise you. I see my tweets all over the place. It is a MUCH bigger effect than Usenet, which is also, yup, a way to push your ideas around the world, because these newsgroups get echoed around the planet. All the world is not a stage--Usenet and Twitter are. If you wish to talk to the world, when you're not already famous, Usenet and Twitter are the way to do it. And Twitter is the best way to do it. James Harris
From: JSH on 5 Jul 2010 11:12 On Jul 5, 7:05 am, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote: > JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes: > > To see where the tweets are ranging. The poster to whom I was > > replying seemed to think that Twitter was only about a small group, > > when public tweets can bounce around the planet. > > > The way to see where some of my tweets end up is to search: jstevh > > > And you can do that in ANY search engine, not just Google. > > I honestly am not sure what you think indicates your tweets are widely > reproduced. I didn't see anyone reproducing your tweets, except for > indexing sites likehttp://feeltiptop.com/from:jstevh. Oh, I'm almost never re-tweeted. I don't consider that to be of interest. > But I did findhttp://twitalyzer.com/search.asp?q=jstevh. That's pretty > enlightening. It lists all your tweets as follows: > > 0.1% > Impact > > 0.0% > Engagement > > 0.0% > Influence > > On the plus side, the site says: > > A ranking in the 5th percentile means that @jstevh's Twitalyzer Impact > score is higher than 5 percent of the 133,673 active Twitter accounts > we are tracking. > > So, you're more influential than one in twenty accounts! Yeah I've seen that site. It started popping up in my searches a few weeks ago? I'd guess it goes by Followers and re-tweets as big indicators. Obviously I didn't like their low ranking so checked it out once and am not a promoter of it. I think maybe they missed some other possible indicators, but hey, a lot of people are trying things with Twitter. > Also, you might like their description (Influencer Type) of you. They > call you a "source", rather than a "spider" or "sun": > > Sources have smaller networks but often originate ideas Well yeah, I have a small network. I have 59 followers which could change quickly, where it's been at 58 for quite a while. Do you have a Twitter account? If so, why not give your Twitter handle so readers can comparison search? Or anyone who publicly tweets can do so in reply. It really helps here to comparison search. Do a search on: jstevh And then do a search on someone else's handle. If you don't have one handy just go to Twitter and you can find plenty. Search on whomever you wish, in comparison. It's a search issue, not a count of Followers or re-tweets or other measures that are popular. Just one on searching in search engines and comparing what they give you for jstevh, versus what you get for others. James Harris
From: Richard Henry on 5 Jul 2010 11:21
On Jul 5, 6:46 am, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 1:34 am, Ostap Bender <ostap_bender_1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 3, 5:00 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 3, 4:44 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > > "JSH" <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > > > >news:a4d6f81d-3fff-43a2-bfc4-69b77e6d47c7(a)x18g2000pro.googlegroups.com... > > > > On Jul 2, 8:12 pm, "Sue San" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > > > > > "Mark Murray" <w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote in message > > > > > >news:4c2e3ddb$0$28006$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > > > > > > > On 02/07/2010 04:44, MichaelW wrote: > > > > > >> To the governments of the world. > > > > > > >> I have got sufficient details from the posting of one James Harris to > > > > > >> allow me to write code that breaks any and all encryption currently in > > > > > >> use. I have successfully hacked into the systems that control the US > > > > > >> nuclear arsenal. Please send one hundred billion dollars in small > > > > > >> unmarked bills to James Harris (currently residing in LA, California) > > > > > >> or I will start destroying your cities. > > > > > > >> Have a nice day. Michael W. > > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > > Before the evidence is lost forever, it must be noted the formidable > > > > > > nature of your correspondent: > > > > > > >http://twitter.com/jstevhhas: > > > > > > > <quote> > > > > > > the world has never seen a major discoverer like me. my job quite > > > > > > simply, > > > > > > is to push the entire human species--forward. > > > > > > </quote> > > > > > >> > You saw it here first. Be very afraid. > > > > > >> ckout more on his blog => this guy is out to lunch > > > > >> Who would spend the time to type in little messages like that and send it > > > > >> off into no-where land? > > > > >Yeah, wild. What possibly could such a person think they're doing? > > > > > >Thanks for the observation! You're very observant. > > > > > >James Harris > > > > > at least in sci.math, sci.crypt it is posted in public and anyody can read > > > > it, Twitter ? it only goes to your fiends. > > > > Twitter is more powerful than Usenet. Search on ANY search engine: > > > jstevh > > > Why would anybody search for "jstevh" and not, say, for"asdfghs"? > > To see where the tweets are ranging. The poster to whom I was > replying seemed to think that Twitter was only about a small group, > when public tweets can bounce around the planet. > > The way to see where some of my tweets end up is to search: jstevh > > And you can do that in ANY search engine, not just Google. > > Twitter is for some reason one of the best ways to put your ideas on > the world stage. If you can put your ideas into 140 characters or > less, you can have your tweets popping up on webpages that can > surprise you. > > I see my tweets all over the place. It is a MUCH bigger effect than > Usenet, which is also, yup, a way to push your ideas around the world, > because these newsgroups get echoed around the planet. > > All the world is not a stage--Usenet and Twitter are. > > If you wish to talk to the world, when you're not already famous, > Usenet and Twitter are the way to do it. > > And Twitter is the best way to do it. > > James Harris Do you have any ideas that are worth more than 140 characters? |