As best as I can infer from brushing up from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation, what this allows you to do is verify the validity of a message. So I send you a message that says "blah blah blah, and the photon should be in this state", and you check your entangled photon and see that it's in that state exactly so you know you received the message properly from me. It's a reliable signature with superior encryption (since it is provably unforgeable)
Can someone else correct me or elaborate further on what quantum teleportation is good for?
You have no say in where it goes, so why do you assume 'your' money only goes to fund things you don't like?
If only we could all individually choose where our tax monies are spent. I certainly (as an American) wouldn't have funded the Iraq war, and I would continue to not fund farm subsidies paid out to corporations or the so-called drug war (which is basically corporate subsidies of a different nature). I would probably pay most of it to NASA and the (now-defunct) Superconducting Super Collider because they're cool. <sigh>
As the parent said, "When you pay taxes, it becomes 'our' money." Democratic government operates on the concept of shared sacrifice - you pay into the coffers and trust that your leaders spend it wisely. You don't get to choose the definition of "wisely" by yourself.
So don't assume anything about me when you don't know.
Where did I assume anything about you? I made no assertions about your own shopping or driving habits.
Because those bucks are not "saved" - they are the payment that you get for sharing your data with the supermarket company.
Why is non-anonymized data worth more? Read the small print where it details what you allow them to do with your data.
I understand that, as you can see if you finish reading my post. I simply don't see why allowing a peek into my shopping profile should automatically lead to a dossier about me, a particular shopper, rather than an anonymous profile of a class of shopper.
I also don't own a car. I rent one when I need one. It's cheaper for me because I only need one every few weeks (I live in a big city).
Good for you. I assume that you feel you don't need to worry about your privacy right now because of your particular situation, so you don't care about other's privacy or what will happen when your own particular circumstances change.
I don't own or use any of those coupo/discount cards. I'd rather pay the 2% or whatever more and keep my shopping habbits, thank you.
So you're already modifying your behavior instead of pushing back. You've already given up. Now it's just a matter of seeing how contorted you'll make your life to keep off the radar as big brother encroaches ever closer.
You may not realize how many other ways you are tracked and measured every day. If you live in London, New York, or many other large cities you may not be aware of the cameras that capture your image all day long, but you really may be on camera for your entire day. Automatic facial recognition is up to the task today of knitting your movements together already. Don't think that just because the cameras are owned by different private entities, that they won't share for "marketing purposes" or outsource the recording to a common third party in return for low-cost/free security surveillance.
Do you use a credit or debit card? You may not need a shopper's card to create a dossier of your shopping habits. Your supermarket may already link your data to the card, or upload your grocery list with the transaction.
You should worry because it's not just the issue of a car that tracks you, or just a shopper's card, but a pervasive tendency to watch your every move through data gathering and mining. It's the principal of the matter, whether it's private or government tracking it's not right (and it's spooky to boot).
You've already given up and rolled over. Why should i have to choose between reasonable convenience and reasonable privacy? In the case of your supermarket savings card scenario, why should i have to choose between privacy and saving a couple of bucks? Collecting the marketing data should pay for the savings, the opportunity to investigate my non-anonymized shopping habits is the problem.
With 8 hour workdays it seems I'm always getting ready to leave just when I'm most productive.
Maybe it's because your mental or physical peak occurs late in the day (or late in your shift, whatever the case may be). If you concentrated your work-time around your peak time, you might be amazed by how much you get done during the peak compared to the day before and after it.
We are talking about the society that has a whole bunch of different rules for different classes of people, which IS a liberal point of view.
Oh, you mean like different rules like "you don't have to go to court because daddy is rich-and-connected" or "the rich kids get drug treatment while the poor kids go to jail when they're caught with pot"? Those kinds of different rules for different classes?
Different rules for different classes is NOT a liberal point of view. Liberals tend to prefer a level playing field for all.
Choosing a starting point is the most crucial business decision you'll ever make. Be sure to check the financial history of every parental candidate BEFORE you are born.
Maybe cheekyjohnson didn't miss the point, but is providing an alternative effective argument against tracking. It's not just an affront to liberty, it's an unjustified financial burden. Sometimes money talks louder than liberties.
Oddly enough, more and more online retailers are selling through Amazon. And many businesses, including online retail, are running their infrastructure in clouds, often serviced by (you guessed it) Amazon. If you thought Wal-Mart had a wide grip, you ain't seen nothing yet.
That's what 12+ years of education is about, paring you down to the least common denominator, until you match a wine-drinker's normal model.
too bad you didn't stick to your education until the magic happens and you realize that it's teaching you how to think. You aren't born with much idea of how to use your brain. Education is the distillation of thousands of years of experience reverse-engineering the brain.
(Also they use on-road reflectors a lot more than the US - driving at night or in the rain in Australia, it's much easier to see where the lane markings are compared to the US).
Embedded reflectors aren't as common in the northern areas because, I believe, snow plows tend to chew them up and gouge them out. They probably get worked loose by the freeze-thaw cycle. Around where I live (New England) you'll occasionally find them on the interstates, but many go missing after a couple of years.
I think he meant that people should step on it when they're merging into freeway traffic. I take my time accelerating too (I like my car and want to keep it of a while; I don't like paying for more gas than I must) but there is a time and place for heavy acceleration.
Given that 10% of the population would be vulnerable
10% of the population is homosexual? That's a bit high. More like 1%-5%, depending on who did the research and how loose your definition of "homosexual" is. While wikipedia mentions rates as high as 20% I don't think the higher estimates are considered reliable.
Building a large structure using superconducting magnetic connections sounds interesting... Until you have a hot fire and the entire structure collapses.
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So we can expect the first shipment of spice in how many years?
As best as I can infer from brushing up from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation, what this allows you to do is verify the validity of a message. So I send you a message that says "blah blah blah, and the photon should be in this state", and you check your entangled photon and see that it's in that state exactly so you know you received the message properly from me. It's a reliable signature with superior encryption (since it is provably unforgeable)
Can someone else correct me or elaborate further on what quantum teleportation is good for?
You have no say in where it goes, so why do you assume 'your' money only goes to fund things you don't like?
If only we could all individually choose where our tax monies are spent. I certainly (as an American) wouldn't have funded the Iraq war, and I would continue to not fund farm subsidies paid out to corporations or the so-called drug war (which is basically corporate subsidies of a different nature). I would probably pay most of it to NASA and the (now-defunct) Superconducting Super Collider because they're cool. <sigh>
As the parent said, "When you pay taxes, it becomes 'our' money." Democratic government operates on the concept of shared sacrifice - you pay into the coffers and trust that your leaders spend it wisely. You don't get to choose the definition of "wisely" by yourself.
So don't assume anything about me when you don't know.
Where did I assume anything about you? I made no assertions about your own shopping or driving habits.
Because those bucks are not "saved" - they are the payment that you get for sharing your data with the supermarket company.
Why is non-anonymized data worth more? Read the small print where it details what you allow them to do with your data.
I understand that, as you can see if you finish reading my post. I simply don't see why allowing a peek into my shopping profile should automatically lead to a dossier about me, a particular shopper, rather than an anonymous profile of a class of shopper.
I also don't own a car. I rent one when I need one. It's cheaper for me because I only need one every few weeks (I live in a big city).
Good for you. I assume that you feel you don't need to worry about your privacy right now because of your particular situation, so you don't care about other's privacy or what will happen when your own particular circumstances change.
I don't own or use any of those coupo/discount cards. I'd rather pay the 2% or whatever more and keep my shopping habbits, thank you.
So you're already modifying your behavior instead of pushing back. You've already given up. Now it's just a matter of seeing how contorted you'll make your life to keep off the radar as big brother encroaches ever closer.
You may not realize how many other ways you are tracked and measured every day. If you live in London, New York, or many other large cities you may not be aware of the cameras that capture your image all day long, but you really may be on camera for your entire day. Automatic facial recognition is up to the task today of knitting your movements together already. Don't think that just because the cameras are owned by different private entities, that they won't share for "marketing purposes" or outsource the recording to a common third party in return for low-cost/free security surveillance.
Do you use a credit or debit card? You may not need a shopper's card to create a dossier of your shopping habits. Your supermarket may already link your data to the card, or upload your grocery list with the transaction.
You should worry because it's not just the issue of a car that tracks you, or just a shopper's card, but a pervasive tendency to watch your every move through data gathering and mining. It's the principal of the matter, whether it's private or government tracking it's not right (and it's spooky to boot).
You've already given up and rolled over. Why should i have to choose between reasonable convenience and reasonable privacy? In the case of your supermarket savings card scenario, why should i have to choose between privacy and saving a couple of bucks? Collecting the marketing data should pay for the savings, the opportunity to investigate my non-anonymized shopping habits is the problem.
After reading your post, I realized that slashdot needs a 'bitter' mod point.
With 8 hour workdays it seems I'm always getting ready to leave just when I'm most productive.
Maybe it's because your mental or physical peak occurs late in the day (or late in your shift, whatever the case may be). If you concentrated your work-time around your peak time, you might be amazed by how much you get done during the peak compared to the day before and after it.
We are talking about the society that has a whole bunch of different rules for different classes of people, which IS a liberal point of view.
Oh, you mean like different rules like "you don't have to go to court because daddy is rich-and-connected" or "the rich kids get drug treatment while the poor kids go to jail when they're caught with pot"? Those kinds of different rules for different classes?
Different rules for different classes is NOT a liberal point of view. Liberals tend to prefer a level playing field for all.
Choosing a starting point is the most crucial business decision you'll ever make. Be sure to check the financial history of every parental candidate BEFORE you are born.
Maybe cheekyjohnson didn't miss the point, but is providing an alternative effective argument against tracking. It's not just an affront to liberty, it's an unjustified financial burden. Sometimes money talks louder than liberties.
Oddly enough, more and more online retailers are selling through Amazon. And many businesses, including online retail, are running their infrastructure in clouds, often serviced by (you guessed it) Amazon. If you thought Wal-Mart had a wide grip, you ain't seen nothing yet.
I said education teaches you how to think, not what to think. There is a big difference.
That's what 12+ years of education is about, paring you down to the least common denominator, until you match a wine-drinker's normal model.
too bad you didn't stick to your education until the magic happens and you realize that it's teaching you how to think. You aren't born with much idea of how to use your brain. Education is the distillation of thousands of years of experience reverse-engineering the brain.
(Also they use on-road reflectors a lot more than the US - driving at night or in the rain in Australia, it's much easier to see where the lane markings are compared to the US).
Embedded reflectors aren't as common in the northern areas because, I believe, snow plows tend to chew them up and gouge them out. They probably get worked loose by the freeze-thaw cycle. Around where I live (New England) you'll occasionally find them on the interstates, but many go missing after a couple of years.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- A. Einstein
well, if there's no Internet, then sticks and stones it shall be!
I think he meant that people should step on it when they're merging into freeway traffic. I take my time accelerating too (I like my car and want to keep it of a while; I don't like paying for more gas than I must) but there is a time and place for heavy acceleration.
... largely kill off the early popularity of VW's TDI technology.
I think VW killed off the popularity of their TDI by having an uneven reputation for quality and reliability.
We use Password Safe in Windows and pwsafe in Linux - they can access the same file if it's on a cifs share.
The "bulb" shape is frequently important because so many lampshades are designed to fit over them.
Bah. A pair of magnetized needles and a steady hand is all you need.
First programming language: Rangoon
Given that 10% of the population would be vulnerable
10% of the population is homosexual? That's a bit high. More like 1%-5%, depending on who did the research and how loose your definition of "homosexual" is. While wikipedia mentions rates as high as 20% I don't think the higher estimates are considered reliable.
Building a large structure using superconducting magnetic connections sounds interesting... Until you have a hot fire and the entire structure collapses.
Links from other sources (like /. and nytimes emails) are 'soft' counts against your monthly quota. If you're under your allotment then reading the linked-to article increases your count, but if you're over you're still allowed to read it.