I agree with the parent that QC certainly provides incentive for researchers to get that big fat check, but would like to mention the IMO the main benefit of QC is not security but speed. "Spooky action at a distance" is also instantaneous action at a distance. If we can get an entangled pair (or eventually an entangled set) of photons, electrons, or whatever particle to exist such that one exists at NASA HQ and one in the space station then the communication delay is effectively zero. NASA can pick up the phone, so to speak, and talk to astronauts in real time with zero delay as if they were standing in the same room. Also since the delay is zero the only bottleneck in the processing time to decode the state change to determine the next bit or qubit or whatever they decided to call it in quantum computers. In theory, this is also zero in a fully quantum computer, that is to say the change is 'noticed' by the receiving quantum computer instantly so the bottleneck becomes displaying this change for the user to see which is equivalent to the minimum of the bandwidth of the GPU and the refresh rate of the display. If these can ever be made into quantum electronics (which if the quantum computer ever exists, surely they can) then the only limitation is our eye (for a graphical display of the communication) which means we will perceive instant communication for any distance and further that a single entangled pair has effectively infinite bandwidth since data is computed/displayed as a quantum process which is so fast we as humans will never see any delay.
Yeah i agree with the parent. its kind of like the good samaratin(sp) act from the last Seinfeld episode. If you know of someone breaking the law, it becomes your duty as a citizen (or other governed entity) to report it. If you don't you get a fine. Its kind of like driving the getaway car for a bank heist or supplying a gun knowing that the dude is going to murder someone with it. it makes you an accessory to the crime. all that said, it is still pretty nearly impossible for any provider to become aware of such things without actively trying to. I can sit at a starbuks and trade whatever section 2 encompasses, namely child porn I am guessing, with a (extremely demented) friend of mine using filenames like supercutekitty_001.png and unless you
1. monitor traffic including image processing
2. monitor destination addresses and compare to some list of known kiddie porn offenders (like gary glitter, da na na na na na, HEY!)
3. put it on your employees to snoop on what people are doing and squeal if its bad
4. some other possible solution
But in any case the legislation does not call for this measure. just that if it is found out, it must be reported. So [sadly | thankfully] this wont really affect to many of [those | us] kiddie porn traders.
non antibacterial soaps are not meant to kill bacteria. I don't know for sure, but I suspect it never was. It was made to remove dirt, oil and other stains from things of all nature. When doctors discovered that they could greatly reduce infections in hospitals simply by washing their hands, they wondered why. Enter the microscope and microbiology. Scientists realized that the infection rate was reduced because that tiny organisms called bacteria that caused the infections were either killed or washed free when doctor's, nurses, etc. washed their hands and tools. Later it was realized that the bacteria could be almost completely killed by new chemicals. Still later chemical manufacturing companies that were currently making soap for the homes decided it would be good to make this available to the masses and started making antibacterial soaps. The problem is that hospitals are ridden with infectious bacteria due to the obvious nature of a hospital. Homes on the other hand, while they certainly do contain these types of bacteria, harbor mostly beneficial bacteria. Since the antibacterial agents are not usually selective they kill all the good bacteria too. then the good and the bad bacteria begin to regrow. In most cases, depending on the types present, the bad bacteria will grow quicker and larger and 'swallow' the good bacteria. This is because of the way it has already evolved to work: attack everything. So, we get more bad bacteria that is already better at killing us and less of the good bacteria that we require for normal biological processes. Its not that it facilitates the expedited evolution of infectious bacteria, but that it just allows it to propagate more than the bacteria we have already formed immunities to.
First of all its supply and demand.
Second of all, the first post is correct. Americans are more willing to pay higher prices for techy gadgets, or anything for that matter, as long as they believe it will make other people jealous. WHAT? yes, Americans are so materialistic that once something catches buzz as being the next cool thing, being better that the current cool thing, or being something "totally new I haven't even heard about yet" (Old School) they will want it. Not because it will actually improve the quality of their life, but because it will make them seem 'cool' (or kewl if you prefer) by association. When people who have money want shit, they buy it, no matter how ridiculously expensive it is (the iPhone, PS3, gaming consoles in general, your next totally F'ing badass super quad-core 2GB 1000MHZ video card).
Enter the advertising/marketing geniuses who, with the help of psychiatrists, psychologists and more recently neuro-biological scientists who understand precisely how to make people feel inferior and at the same time offer them the option of superiority so long as you spend $XXX on my new thing.
Enter greedy capitalism where when given the choice of making a product that costs $5 to make and can sell for $20 or a empirically superior product (gauged in most tech devices not by actual specifications, but by how many new buzzwords you can attach to the damn thing) that cost $9 to make and sells for $22, most people would sell you the shit to make a quicker, and bigger dollar. (At least thats the way it seems to go in the particular case of cell phones)
So like the dude said in the first post, it is supply and demand. except in this case people seem to demand, by way of marketing and advertising, to be served up 'the cool new shit' on a silver platter so they can show it off to their [co -worker | friend | enemy] who still has last years model (Ha, laffable, get with the times buddy), and businesses serve it up in the most literal form: cool looking phones, with high price-tags, that don't do half of what you need it to and only do it half the time because of horrible netorks.
peace, I'm out
its quite similar, but google uses the information stored on their servers, not on my hard drive. although they store everything i ever type in any form on a google served page, scan the text in my personal emails, look at my 'private' google docs, etc, they do not get in my hard drive.
anyway this is the precursor to minority report style targeted advertising. cant wait till the realID is issued and we get even less privacy.
-- I may be stupid, but I'm not blind
there is a distinct possibility that every planet orbits in the same plane as its sun...
and every star in the same plane as our sun...
and every solar system, and every galaxy and everything...ever...orbits or otherwise travels in the same plane.
IF any of this is actually true -- if you have not yet, bleep you!
If it is implemented, It will have to be a tax collected by the ISP's and paid back to the state/fed governments to prevent peoples with no internet from being taxed. On the other side of that coin, seems unlikely anyone will continue to provide free wireless access, so say goodbye to all those starbacks squatters (YES!).
While this tech might help to capture evidence that can be used to convict criminals, it comes in the wake of the deployment of over 4 Million CCTV cameras and unmanned surveillance drones in London in recent years http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsi d=041060120070524144658/ and is really conducive to on Orwellian police-state. Even if you are not committing any crime, its creepy to know that someone else knows everything you have done, are doing, and due to the relative predictability of people, what you will do. Hardly a technology that is needed anywhere, let alone state-side where persons of any authority already abuse their power to the fullest extent.
There is an interesting article that offers an explanation into this idea at physicswebhereas well as offers ideas into the investigation of dark matter via some 'fifth force'
Slashdot Mirror
and racier too. Times article
I agree with the parent that QC certainly provides incentive for researchers to get that big fat check, but would like to mention the IMO the main benefit of QC is not security but speed. "Spooky action at a distance" is also instantaneous action at a distance. If we can get an entangled pair (or eventually an entangled set) of photons, electrons, or whatever particle to exist such that one exists at NASA HQ and one in the space station then the communication delay is effectively zero. NASA can pick up the phone, so to speak, and talk to astronauts in real time with zero delay as if they were standing in the same room. Also since the delay is zero the only bottleneck in the processing time to decode the state change to determine the next bit or qubit or whatever they decided to call it in quantum computers. In theory, this is also zero in a fully quantum computer, that is to say the change is 'noticed' by the receiving quantum computer instantly so the bottleneck becomes displaying this change for the user to see which is equivalent to the minimum of the bandwidth of the GPU and the refresh rate of the display. If these can ever be made into quantum electronics (which if the quantum computer ever exists, surely they can) then the only limitation is our eye (for a graphical display of the communication) which means we will perceive instant communication for any distance and further that a single entangled pair has effectively infinite bandwidth since data is computed/displayed as a quantum process which is so fast we as humans will never see any delay.
I quit smoking, thus I have no sig.
Even our own media...
Always a reliable source of information pertaining to military operations.
Yeah i agree with the parent. its kind of like the good samaratin(sp) act from the last Seinfeld episode. If you know of someone breaking the law, it becomes your duty as a citizen (or other governed entity) to report it. If you don't you get a fine. Its kind of like driving the getaway car for a bank heist or supplying a gun knowing that the dude is going to murder someone with it. it makes you an accessory to the crime. all that said, it is still pretty nearly impossible for any provider to become aware of such things without actively trying to. I can sit at a starbuks and trade whatever section 2 encompasses, namely child porn I am guessing, with a (extremely demented) friend of mine using filenames like supercutekitty_001.png and unless you
1. monitor traffic including image processing
2. monitor destination addresses and compare to some list of known kiddie porn offenders (like gary glitter, da na na na na na, HEY!)
3. put it on your employees to snoop on what people are doing and squeal if its bad
4. some other possible solution
But in any case the legislation does not call for this measure. just that if it is found out, it must be reported. So [sadly | thankfully] this wont really affect to many of [those | us] kiddie porn traders.
non antibacterial soaps are not meant to kill bacteria. I don't know for sure, but I suspect it never was. It was made to remove dirt, oil and other stains from things of all nature. When doctors discovered that they could greatly reduce infections in hospitals simply by washing their hands, they wondered why. Enter the microscope and microbiology. Scientists realized that the infection rate was reduced because that tiny organisms called bacteria that caused the infections were either killed or washed free when doctor's, nurses, etc. washed their hands and tools. Later it was realized that the bacteria could be almost completely killed by new chemicals. Still later chemical manufacturing companies that were currently making soap for the homes decided it would be good to make this available to the masses and started making antibacterial soaps. The problem is that hospitals are ridden with infectious bacteria due to the obvious nature of a hospital. Homes on the other hand, while they certainly do contain these types of bacteria, harbor mostly beneficial bacteria. Since the antibacterial agents are not usually selective they kill all the good bacteria too. then the good and the bad bacteria begin to regrow. In most cases, depending on the types present, the bad bacteria will grow quicker and larger and 'swallow' the good bacteria. This is because of the way it has already evolved to work: attack everything. So, we get more bad bacteria that is already better at killing us and less of the good bacteria that we require for normal biological processes. Its not that it facilitates the expedited evolution of infectious bacteria, but that it just allows it to propagate more than the bacteria we have already formed immunities to.
First of all its supply and demand. Second of all, the first post is correct. Americans are more willing to pay higher prices for techy gadgets, or anything for that matter, as long as they believe it will make other people jealous. WHAT? yes, Americans are so materialistic that once something catches buzz as being the next cool thing, being better that the current cool thing, or being something "totally new I haven't even heard about yet" (Old School) they will want it. Not because it will actually improve the quality of their life, but because it will make them seem 'cool' (or kewl if you prefer) by association. When people who have money want shit, they buy it, no matter how ridiculously expensive it is (the iPhone, PS3, gaming consoles in general, your next totally F'ing badass super quad-core 2GB 1000MHZ video card). Enter the advertising/marketing geniuses who, with the help of psychiatrists, psychologists and more recently neuro-biological scientists who understand precisely how to make people feel inferior and at the same time offer them the option of superiority so long as you spend $XXX on my new thing. Enter greedy capitalism where when given the choice of making a product that costs $5 to make and can sell for $20 or a empirically superior product (gauged in most tech devices not by actual specifications, but by how many new buzzwords you can attach to the damn thing) that cost $9 to make and sells for $22, most people would sell you the shit to make a quicker, and bigger dollar. (At least thats the way it seems to go in the particular case of cell phones) So like the dude said in the first post, it is supply and demand. except in this case people seem to demand, by way of marketing and advertising, to be served up 'the cool new shit' on a silver platter so they can show it off to their [co -worker | friend | enemy] who still has last years model (Ha, laffable, get with the times buddy), and businesses serve it up in the most literal form: cool looking phones, with high price-tags, that don't do half of what you need it to and only do it half the time because of horrible netorks.
peace, I'm out
its quite similar, but google uses the information stored on their servers, not on my hard drive. although they store everything i ever type in any form on a google served page, scan the text in my personal emails, look at my 'private' google docs, etc, they do not get in my hard drive.
anyway this is the precursor to minority report style targeted advertising. cant wait till the realID is issued and we get even less privacy.
-- I may be stupid, but I'm not blind
there is a distinct possibility that every planet orbits in the same plane as its sun... and every star in the same plane as our sun... and every solar system, and every galaxy and everything...ever...orbits or otherwise travels in the same plane. IF any of this is actually true
--
if you have not yet, bleep you!
If it is implemented, It will have to be a tax collected by the ISP's and paid back to the state/fed governments to prevent peoples with no internet from being taxed. On the other side of that coin, seems unlikely anyone will continue to provide free wireless access, so say goodbye to all those starbacks squatters (YES!).
While this tech might help to capture evidence that can be used to convict criminals, it comes in the wake of the deployment of over 4 Million CCTV cameras and unmanned surveillance drones in London in recent years http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?news
There is an interesting article that offers an explanation into this idea at physicswebhereas well as offers ideas into the investigation of dark matter via some 'fifth force'