coke from Turkey... tastes better - I think it just has less sugar.
It may be that coke from Turkey has been in the can longer since it had to be shipped from a long distance. More time in the can means less whole sugar molecules. Not better by design, just older.
The quantum algorithm for factoring does not just divide repeatedly "in parallel." Shor's algorithm really describes a specially built machine for factoring (which converts factoring to period finding, and a fourier analysis is forced and sampled).
In fact, I first studied Shor's algorithm in order to understand why good programmers weren't looking at it, generalizing it, and writing a million more algorithms. I was disappointed to learn that we are not far enough along to describe a universal quantum computer and are still in the mode of building special-purpose machines. Like the early bomb dropping "computers" of WW2, results are still being generated but without a concept of universality.
We don't have the math for universal quantum computation since it is still unknown what they are capable of (what their universe consists of). Until the math arrives, we're stuck with this scatter-shot approach.
But my DSLR doesn't expose its CCD to the outside world until I release the shutter. Let's say I set the shutter speed to 1/2000 second. Are you saying this system can detect the CCD, aim the laser and fire a big enough pulse to destroy the image within 500 microseconds? Sounds VERY unlikely.
And if the glass (the optical lens) itself is being detected (although TFA says it's the CCD being detected), then ALL optics would trigger it, including everyone's eyeglasses. And what about all the taillights (taillights include retroreflectors) of every car in the port's nearby parking lot? Epic fail!
Bottom line: Being rich doesn't mean you are necessarily smart enough to escape being scammed.
Does it run 24 hours/day (as the high availability options would suggest)? How much power does it consume? Why are you burning all that power all day?
I'm hoping for an answer like: "I'm modeling a quantum electrodynamic system at 100 hours of processing per microsecond." Or maybe "I'm trying to find a zero of the Zeta function off the critical line." Or even "I'm trying to factor a big number." Please don't tell me "It sits idle 23.9 hours a day and then I play Spacewar on it once in a while."
Although we all know the likelihood of each of these answers.
With costs distributed to both advertisers AND readers, the paper has to satisfy both. When only advertisers pay, the paper no longer serves YOU, it serves a corporation only. Looking at papers where this already occurs reveals they suck.
If I like a piece of content (article, podcast, interactive graphic, whatever), I click the "Tip the Author(s)" button, and a chunk of my $50, maybe 10 cents, gets redirected
Genius! Someone mod this up.
And the lazy or unconcerned will get default disbursement. The people who care most will have a reasonable capability to decide.
1. Place child's entire forearm into a bucket of water.
2. Forcibly remove watch underwater. Leave in bucket.
3. Sell kid to family with better tracking capability.
"OMG they want to know how far I drove last year. They can use calculus to find out that I went to the 7/11!"
Yes, paranoia runs high. It runs high because we know what you apparently don't know: LAWS CHANGE.
Let's say it turns out that the 7/11 corporation has been funnelling profits to a terrorist group. And they've found that agents posing as customers have been pushing money into the tills to finance plots. Now pass a law that 7/11 must provide security camera footage or whatever to allow a search for those terrorists.
Suddenly, your having been at the 7/11 at any time in the last year MAKES YOU A SUSPECT. Not a problem in a world where once you leave, no one knows you were there. But if that data is kept?
Next time you're on a surveillance camera doing nothing illegal, think to yourself "What if what I'm doing were MADE illegal in the future?" They will have insta-evidence against you.
Caffeine is a tranquilizer until the changes that occur during puberty. Only then does it become a stimulant. When people notice little Johnny bouncing off the walls after drinking a Coke, it's because of the sugar, not the caffeine.
A sip of coffee will help your pre-pubescent to sleep.
But, then again, 8th graders are post-pubescent, aren't they?
The article links to the insurance companies plan that not only yells at you for driving like a dumbass, but the driver will be "Praised for good driving."
But it says:
It captures the view out the front, and into the interior, of the vehicle but never saves any data UNLESS activated by an erratic vehicle movement--extreme braking, cornering, and acceleration or if there is a collision. When the device is activated, it saves an EVENT comprised of the previous ten seconds and the following ten seconds showing not only WHAT happened but WHY it happened.
So how the hell are you going to be PRAISED FOR GOOD DRIVING? "I like the way you got up on 2 wheels there junior. Nice job!"
So not only will they use this information against you for the rest of your life and beyond, it will record ONLY THE BAD STUFF and none of the good.
Having this system in place will make sellers willing to provide more music. Because there is lots of popular music that HASN'T been ripped into downloadable form. FInally, the long song drought is OVER!
I send hundreds of patient records OUTSIDE our hospital every day. These records INCLUDE admission time and date, patient's town, state, zipcode, and birthDATE (with year).
How do I get around all those pesky HIPAA laws? I don't--I'm pretty sure this system is illegal. It is however REQUIRED by our state's government.
Oh, you thought laws to limit government power are actually followed? Now I see your confusion....
What are all these people claiming "Early detection of cancer will help" basing this statement on?
If everyone who had cancer detected early NEVER DIED, this might make some sort of sense. Since they WILL DIE, we have to change the way to tell if we've helped from "Didn't die" to "Didn't die in the next X years." Of course early detection helps THAT situation.
Let's take the case of someone getting cancer at age 50 and dying of it at age 65. Without detection, they'd wouldn't know til near the end, say age 63. They'd only live 2 more years. If they got early detection at say age 53, they'd live 12 more years, EVEN IF NOTHING WERE DONE! Looking at our "Didn't die in the next X years" definition of 'good' it seems we've helped this person immensely. EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T DO A GODDAMNED THING.
C'mon, convince me that early detection helps. And your anecdote ain't gonna cut it.
you could be tracked via GPS, watched via satellite, recorded by video cameras, and then have information retained on what books you checked out
I can't be tracked via GPS (I have an ANONYMOUS tracfone).
There are no video cameras near the Public Library.
They retain minimal info and purge when you return books.
I CAN be watched via satellite, but the timing would be critical (and unlikely because of the tiny amounts of traffic and low visibility due to dense forest and typical weather).
So for me, the same does NOT go for the web. There is a LARGE difference between the amount of tracking possible.
These are probably the same folks who put all their lives on Facebook, 250 million strong to date.
Puh-leez. There are 250 million "members" because when I have a free minute, I troll through the pictures of hot 19 year old girls. Of course, you have to "join" to do so. Since I always forget the temporary accounts I use to do this, I make a new one each time. Multiply by the other 10 million lurkers and you'll soon have 250 million members, and more than a dozen may be actual customers.
Oh, but you will, you will. Every service starts out without commercials, then a few, then they're crawling out of the screen like locusts. So eventually you will download your hulu into another program, then use that program to skip the inevitable commercial hoarde that is unleashed.
If that program is sold by TiVo, that'll be fine with me.
The fact that a consumer OS is being used... where people's lives may hang in the balance is frankly staggering
And your alternative is...? A specially built OS from Joe's basement? Yes, that will be much safer because we all know Joe is a pretty good programmer. And I can't see any problem with hiring people to work with, maintain, and extend Joe's system, because everyone will be so familiar with it. Yes, they'll be producing useful code in no time.
Most of the medical systems I work with (where lives hang in the balance) are plain ol' WinXP. It actually works out pretty well because finding someone who knows how to fix these systems is pretty easy. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff for the security problems since 99.999% of all service interruptions are not evil hackers, but a misconfigured system. Making it easier to do the rare stuff by making it harder to do normal stuff is a poor bargain.
This gravity thing is turning out to be a pain in the ass. There's no end of constructions required to keep everything from falling down. I'm sick of it. I'M SUING GRAVITY.
I assume after a judge rules in my favor, I'll be free to float around all day long. Objective reality? That's for people without lawyers. See you in orbit, suckers!
When I tried to stage a protest in the street, others were unwilling to participate because of the cameras. When I explained that they weren't important enough, that they should "stop being so self-important," they were strangely unconvinced.
I guess the government DID stop unwanted behavior. It just turns out crime AIN'T the behavior they were trying to prevent.
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coke from Turkey ... tastes better - I think it just has less sugar.
It may be that coke from Turkey has been in the can longer since it had to be shipped from a long distance. More time in the can means less whole sugar molecules. Not better by design, just older.
Everyone knows that |IT> = ((1/SQRT(2))|attractive> - (1/SQRT(2))|unattractive>)
That is, those who work in IT are incompatible with attractiveness. You cannot be simultaneously employed in IT and attractive to women.
The quantum algorithm for factoring does not just divide repeatedly "in parallel." Shor's algorithm really describes a specially built machine for factoring (which converts factoring to period finding, and a fourier analysis is forced and sampled).
In fact, I first studied Shor's algorithm in order to understand why good programmers weren't looking at it, generalizing it, and writing a million more algorithms. I was disappointed to learn that we are not far enough along to describe a universal quantum computer and are still in the mode of building special-purpose machines. Like the early bomb dropping "computers" of WW2, results are still being generated but without a concept of universality.
We don't have the math for universal quantum computation since it is still unknown what they are capable of (what their universe consists of). Until the math arrives, we're stuck with this scatter-shot approach.
But my DSLR doesn't expose its CCD to the outside world until I release the shutter. Let's say I set the shutter speed to 1/2000 second. Are you saying this system can detect the CCD, aim the laser and fire a big enough pulse to destroy the image within 500 microseconds? Sounds VERY unlikely.
And if the glass (the optical lens) itself is being detected (although TFA says it's the CCD being detected), then ALL optics would trigger it, including everyone's eyeglasses. And what about all the taillights (taillights include retroreflectors) of every car in the port's nearby parking lot? Epic fail!
Bottom line: Being rich doesn't mean you are necessarily smart enough to escape being scammed.
verilog simulation (for cpu design). Finite element analysis.... 3d rendering
Thank you! You've restored my faith in humanity. I was frightened, but these uses actually require massive compute power. Rock on!
whole Sun Enterprise 5500 rack in his room
Does it run 24 hours/day (as the high availability options would suggest)? How much power does it consume? Why are you burning all that power all day?
I'm hoping for an answer like: "I'm modeling a quantum electrodynamic system at 100 hours of processing per microsecond." Or maybe "I'm trying to find a zero of the Zeta function off the critical line." Or even "I'm trying to factor a big number." Please don't tell me "It sits idle 23.9 hours a day and then I play Spacewar on it once in a while."
Although we all know the likelihood of each of these answers.
With costs distributed to both advertisers AND readers, the paper has to satisfy both. When only advertisers pay, the paper no longer serves YOU, it serves a corporation only. Looking at papers where this already occurs reveals they suck.
If I like a piece of content (article, podcast, interactive graphic, whatever), I click the "Tip the Author(s)" button, and a chunk of my $50, maybe 10 cents, gets redirected
Genius! Someone mod this up.
And the lazy or unconcerned will get default disbursement. The people who care most will have a reasonable capability to decide.
Develop internal control and be a good person for life.
Have external control forced upon you, and you will never grow to be a good person.
To remove these without detection:
1. Place child's entire forearm into a bucket of water.
2. Forcibly remove watch underwater. Leave in bucket.
3. Sell kid to family with better tracking capability.
Simple enough?
Wait, you just read about it on a website, but you've been using one for 10 years?
I've been reading websites for at least 15 years. I've been reading internet posts for 25 years. Did you just wake up from a long nap?
"OMG they want to know how far I drove last year. They can use calculus to find out that I went to the 7/11!"
Yes, paranoia runs high. It runs high because we know what you apparently don't know: LAWS CHANGE.
Let's say it turns out that the 7/11 corporation has been funnelling profits to a terrorist group. And they've found that agents posing as customers have been pushing money into the tills to finance plots. Now pass a law that 7/11 must provide security camera footage or whatever to allow a search for those terrorists.
Suddenly, your having been at the 7/11 at any time in the last year MAKES YOU A SUSPECT. Not a problem in a world where once you leave, no one knows you were there. But if that data is kept?
Next time you're on a surveillance camera doing nothing illegal, think to yourself "What if what I'm doing were MADE illegal in the future?" They will have insta-evidence against you.
Caffeine is a tranquilizer until the changes that occur during puberty. Only then does it become a stimulant. When people notice little Johnny bouncing off the walls after drinking a Coke, it's because of the sugar, not the caffeine.
A sip of coffee will help your pre-pubescent to sleep.
But, then again, 8th graders are post-pubescent, aren't they?
But it says:
It captures the view out the front, and into the interior, of the vehicle but never saves any data UNLESS activated by an erratic vehicle movement--extreme braking, cornering, and acceleration or if there is a collision. When the device is activated, it saves an EVENT comprised of the previous ten seconds and the following ten seconds showing not only WHAT happened but WHY it happened.
So how the hell are you going to be PRAISED FOR GOOD DRIVING? "I like the way you got up on 2 wheels there junior. Nice job!"
So not only will they use this information against you for the rest of your life and beyond, it will record ONLY THE BAD STUFF and none of the good.
Having this system in place will make sellers willing to provide more music. Because there is lots of popular music that HASN'T been ripped into downloadable form. FInally, the long song drought is OVER!
I send hundreds of patient records OUTSIDE our hospital every day. These records INCLUDE admission time and date, patient's town, state, zipcode, and birthDATE (with year).
How do I get around all those pesky HIPAA laws? I don't--I'm pretty sure this system is illegal. It is however REQUIRED by our state's government.
Oh, you thought laws to limit government power are actually followed? Now I see your confusion....
What are all these people claiming "Early detection of cancer will help" basing this statement on?
If everyone who had cancer detected early NEVER DIED, this might make some sort of sense. Since they WILL DIE, we have to change the way to tell if we've helped from "Didn't die" to "Didn't die in the next X years." Of course early detection helps THAT situation.
Let's take the case of someone getting cancer at age 50 and dying of it at age 65. Without detection, they'd wouldn't know til near the end, say age 63. They'd only live 2 more years. If they got early detection at say age 53, they'd live 12 more years, EVEN IF NOTHING WERE DONE! Looking at our "Didn't die in the next X years" definition of 'good' it seems we've helped this person immensely. EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T DO A GODDAMNED THING.
C'mon, convince me that early detection helps. And your anecdote ain't gonna cut it.
you could be tracked via GPS, watched via satellite, recorded by video cameras, and then have information retained on what books you checked out
I can't be tracked via GPS (I have an ANONYMOUS tracfone).
There are no video cameras near the Public Library.
They retain minimal info and purge when you return books.
I CAN be watched via satellite, but the timing would be critical (and unlikely because of the tiny amounts of traffic and low visibility due to dense forest and typical weather).
So for me, the same does NOT go for the web. There is a LARGE difference between the amount of tracking possible.
These are probably the same folks who put all their lives on Facebook, 250 million strong to date.
Puh-leez. There are 250 million "members" because when I have a free minute, I troll through the pictures of hot 19 year old girls. Of course, you have to "join" to do so. Since I always forget the temporary accounts I use to do this, I make a new one each time. Multiply by the other 10 million lurkers and you'll soon have 250 million members, and more than a dozen may be actual customers.
You don't need a DVR to watch on demand shows
Oh, but you will, you will. Every service starts out without commercials, then a few, then they're crawling out of the screen like locusts. So eventually you will download your hulu into another program, then use that program to skip the inevitable commercial hoarde that is unleashed.
If that program is sold by TiVo, that'll be fine with me.
The fact that a consumer OS is being used ... where people's lives may hang in the balance is frankly staggering
And your alternative is...? A specially built OS from Joe's basement? Yes, that will be much safer because we all know Joe is a pretty good programmer. And I can't see any problem with hiring people to work with, maintain, and extend Joe's system, because everyone will be so familiar with it. Yes, they'll be producing useful code in no time.
Most of the medical systems I work with (where lives hang in the balance) are plain ol' WinXP. It actually works out pretty well because finding someone who knows how to fix these systems is pretty easy. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff for the security problems since 99.999% of all service interruptions are not evil hackers, but a misconfigured system. Making it easier to do the rare stuff by making it harder to do normal stuff is a poor bargain.
This gravity thing is turning out to be a pain in the ass. There's no end of constructions required to keep everything from falling down. I'm sick of it. I'M SUING GRAVITY.
I assume after a judge rules in my favor, I'll be free to float around all day long. Objective reality? That's for people without lawyers. See you in orbit, suckers!
Stop being so self-important, nobody gives a damn
When I tried to stage a protest in the street, others were unwilling to participate because of the cameras. When I explained that they weren't important enough, that they should "stop being so self-important," they were strangely unconvinced.
I guess the government DID stop unwanted behavior. It just turns out crime AIN'T the behavior they were trying to prevent.
Routine comparison of police vs cameras is counterproductive
I read that as "Turns out police don't like it when they can be caught in a lie."
My first post to the internet was in July of 1984. Look up how many hosts comprised the internet then.
My first post to slashdot was in 1999, but I always posted AC until a few years ago.