The people who are doing this are criminals. They need to be stopped. It's as simple as that. Follow the money and beat the crap out of them until it stops.
A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose to scroll, but found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen
Check the picture in TFA (not the one in the summary). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess what he's scrolling for.
I don't actually believe there are aliens visiting us and so on, but I leave room for doubt. Your logic is based on our technology and our current knowledge (in fact logic can only be based on current knowledge).
All your questions could have some answer that we don't know yet. Traveling countless light years for example could not be necessary with some other kind of technology. Or why our engineers didn't come up with that shape, because there is some other kind of science behind it.
If you run Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer it will take polynomial time as opposed to exponential time on a classical computer for integer factorization. So yes, it is about speed and faster computers.
It won't run any faster, though. The distances in a typical computer chip are so tiny and there are enough choke-points in a typical computer that it really won't run any faster. I think that's what people are forgetting - that this isn't about speed or faster computers but about long-distance communication.
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I just spent the past five years listening to every geek tell me he has Asp
sorry, can't read further... too much brain dude... too much brain.
The people who are doing this are criminals. They need to be stopped. It's as simple as that. Follow the money and beat the crap out of them until it stops.
This is Slashdot. Let me just show to you what is going to happen if we try that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93w0UgfX8jQ
"What the hell is P=NP, LOL."
maybe LOL = OL^2 but im not sure what O and L stand for in this context...
A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose to scroll, but found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen
Check the picture in TFA (not the one in the summary). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess what he's scrolling for.
Rings still around Saturn.
Actually about that...um yeah...
i want what you smoke!
Why would you want it to float away from the wreckage?
So then it can use GPS?
It would require a huge amount of flotation material to get it to float.
How about a balloon that will eject from the inside and inflate automatically with compressed air?
oh you know how these teleportation devices work! sometimes you miss a year or two :-)
uh... this is 2010..maybe you mean Bishop and Dunham.
"si" and "so" are not the same sounds. Try "si" and think how your mouth moves, and then try "so" and see how your mouth moves.
:)
Or they just play a practical joke
huh? wordpress is "cloud" ? From the site: "WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog"
In case you didn't check the link, here how the camera looks like:
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Seriously!
Dude, you are on the wrong thread... and time.
/. has a time portal. When am I?!
I didn't know
Any encounter with actual beings from another planet will 99% of the time, not turn out well
Because it already happened 100 times and only 1 of them turned out to be good right?
The sheer difference in technological development would be the equivalent difference between us, and a common fruit fly.
You make common assumptions that COULD be wrong.
MOD UP!
I don't actually believe there are aliens visiting us and so on, but I leave room for doubt. Your logic is based on our technology and our current knowledge (in fact logic can only be based on current knowledge).
All your questions could have some answer that we don't know yet. Traveling countless light years for example could not be necessary with some other kind of technology. Or why our engineers didn't come up with that shape, because there is some other kind of science behind it.
The gamers never even need to know!
They don't!
Oh here it is! For a moment I got worried I'm on the wrong site!
If you run Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer it will take polynomial time as opposed to exponential time on a classical computer for integer factorization. So yes, it is about speed and faster computers.
It won't run any faster, though. The distances in a typical computer chip are so tiny and there are enough choke-points in a typical computer that it really won't run any faster. I think that's what people are forgetting - that this isn't about speed or faster computers but about long-distance communication.
Two words: Shor's algorithm
this scenario is highly possible when two undergraduates build a robotic arm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-VJLz65QhM
and this is why we should cut all AI funds right now!
The blog writer should have someone tell him that an article written based on knowledge from another article is not plagiarism.
Yep, it's not exactly an AI break through but it's really cool to see a practical application of machine learning in the consumer arena.
I suppose that's what the title "AI Breakthrough" means. Training decision trees in a random forest is not a breakthrough.
I see a lot of activity in Europe right now (it is about 11pm). Many people must be opening their browser for their regular porn...
Just sayin