* Posts by Alex 49

2 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2012

Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Alex 49

Re: No-one will ever... need more than 64TB on a 2.5inch SSD

I learnt that early in Uni. An assignment asked us to brute force RSA ciphertext with increasing key sizes. Top marks went to the student who got furthest through the assignment (on like for like hardware). The winner was a guy who used a slightly out of date JDK, but his javac version compiled significantly faster code (c.20%).

GCSE, A-level science exams ARE dumbed down - watchdog

Alex 49

Re: Grade Inflation

These days? I think they call that a MSc.