No. You can't send any information that way without a classical channel. In the future, try to avoid talking about physics without having actually studied it.
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
You know what's obscene? Pompous little would-be tyrants such as yourself proclaiming that anything a bit different from what gets you off is 'a wholesale degradation of human sexuality' or 'expresses the worst of humanity.' What's the matter? Afraid you might like it if you let yourself look too long?
If you want to know why art like that is popular, it's because inside that crowd of hipsters chasing the trend of the moment, there's a core of people who have been told all their lives, by self-righteous assholes just like you channeling the voice of conventional morality, that *they* and those they love and their entire lives are 'obscene' for being who and what they are, and for whom being portrayed honestly and even positively for once comes as a ray of light in the darkness.
Dear totalitarian fuckwad,
Lay a finger on my *nix boxes, which are running private mail/web/DNS servers and a tor exit, and I'll cut it off. No, I won't do it the fun, kinky way.
*sigh*
Is it that difficult to notice the big 'False Etymologies' header right above that bit? Or even to insist on basic plausibility? Seriously, acronyms were virtually nonexistent before the 20th century.
How would you know if it's listening? It doesn't have to be software tampering. All it would take is a counterfeit ethernet chip that recognizes some magic number in a packet, maybe sends out some really innocuous-looking packet once in a while as a location beacon (make some known DNS query or something), and then does DMA into the host's memory on command. Nothing unusual at all in the traffic except some ordinary-looking location signal, until its owner starts using it as a hardware rootkit.
The rubber sheet model is just plain wrong for giving people that image, though. General relativity only has intrinsic curvature, and never makes reference to embedding space-time in a larger space.
No, there are exact gravitational radiation solutions, and you can also predict gravitational radiation from weak-field situations where the linearized approximation is very, very accurano te (the h^2 term would be less than 10^-15 for the sun's gravitational field at Earth's orbit, for example). The decay of orbits due to gravitational radiation has been observed indirectly in PSR B1913+16, and matches the theoretical prediction. If no gravitational radiation is observed at the expected amplitudes for things like that, it will throw a lot more than just string theory into question, and would raise the obvious conservation of energy question about that pulsar.
(are you going to be able to review the votes of 1,000 plus voters in a useful timescale)
No, but the if the results are public, only one person has to be paying attention to point out a problem to everyone else.
and where there is no penalty to having decisions an actors decisions being public knowledge.
That isn't how the voting protocols in question work, though. They preserve ballot secrecy. The main problems with them are making sure the tabulating authority doesn't add any extra fake voters to the election and vote their keys itself (which is why the complete list of who voted gets released, but not their votes), and that it makes it much easier for people to sell their votes.
1.) The human eye can detect a low count of *absorbed* photons; the number of photons that will enter the eye from any given vantage point is much lower than the total number of visible thermal photons a human body might *emit*.
2.) That 10 photon figure is meaningless without a time frame.
See Planck's law. The power density at a given wavelength is inversely proportional to an exponential function of the photon energy, for wavelengths short compared to the peak. For humans (37 celsius), the peak lies at about 9.3 microns. If this were thermal radiation from a blackbody spectrum, the exponent for the longest visible wavelengths would be about 66.3, corresponding to about 1.9 * 10^-20 W/m^2 of radiated power in the visible spectrum, assuming perfect emissivity. If a typical human has a surface area of 2 m^2, that's around one thermal photon every ten seconds in the visible spectrum. This is many more than 1,000 times too dim to see. The photons referred to in the article come from chemical reactions, not thermal radiation.
Deducting it as a business expense is only free to a self-employed end user if said user is paying a 100% marginal tax rate. This is unlikely to be the case.
I had unrestricted internet access from about age 11 (which would have been around 1994), with my own computer in my bedroom, and I even (*shock* *horror*) saw porn now and then. It somehow failed to turn me into a serial killer, neo-nazi, sex addict, communist, pedophile or whatever other boogeyman we're all supposed to fear. Mostly, it led to me discovering an early version of Slackware and turning into a huge nerd. I can barely even imagine growing up with the kind of control-freak lockdown people have been advocating here, and I'm sure the kids who do grow up like that are going to hate their parents and drop Mom and Dad from their lives as soon as they stop needing their money.
Bear in mind that the Constitution ONLY applies to the US Government. The people running the security at airports are all contractors, outside corporations, and therefore not Government.
Wow, someone sure wasn't paying attention when the TSA was created by nationalizing the formerly private airport security screeners, and rapidly became far more of a pain in the ass than the old ones ever were.
Well, imposing unanticipated social interactions on me before my caffeine has kicked in *is* kinda evil, but Mussolini seems excessive. It's Franco-level evil at most.
Now email addresses on online forms are a different story, they're just trying to make sure you did it correctly by making sure the addresses match.
This is just stupid. You make sure you did it correctly by double-checking it before you push submit, and if you still got it wrong you go back and fix it later. This particular UI idiom once was restricted to changing passwords in obscured fields, where, without the double entry, it would be possible to enter a different string than you had intended *without realizing it* and set the password to something you don't know. It seems to have been adopted for e-mail addresses by clueless web UI designers around the same time as using Javascript to 'validate' e-mail addresses in ways that exclude RFC 822 compliant addresses, such as those with + in the username.
Clearly, the meteor strike is evidence that this kid is a reverse Teela Brown, so he can look forward to a lifetime of car accidents, lightning strikes, zombie infestations and the occasional glyptodont attack.
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No. You can't send any information that way without a classical channel. In the future, try to avoid talking about physics without having actually studied it.
In the majority of human civilization, such pictures (the ones of mutilation) would not be regarded as artistic, but rather as obscene. In modern times, we've turned freedom of speech into a license to do wholesale degradation to beauty, truth, human sexuality, etc. to such a degree that even the most perverse things as tolerable.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
You know what's obscene? Pompous little would-be tyrants such as yourself proclaiming that anything a bit different from what gets you off is 'a wholesale degradation of human sexuality' or 'expresses the worst of humanity.' What's the matter? Afraid you might like it if you let yourself look too long?
If you want to know why art like that is popular, it's because inside that crowd of hipsters chasing the trend of the moment, there's a core of people who have been told all their lives, by self-righteous assholes just like you channeling the voice of conventional morality, that *they* and those they love and their entire lives are 'obscene' for being who and what they are, and for whom being portrayed honestly and even positively for once comes as a ray of light in the darkness.
Wow, AC on Slashdot is a big step down from dictator. Fidel must not be holding up too well in retirement.
Dear totalitarian fuckwad,
Lay a finger on my *nix boxes, which are running private mail/web/DNS servers and a tor exit, and I'll cut it off. No, I won't do it the fun, kinky way.
*sigh* Is it that difficult to notice the big 'False Etymologies' header right above that bit? Or even to insist on basic plausibility? Seriously, acronyms were virtually nonexistent before the 20th century.
How would you know if it's listening? It doesn't have to be software tampering. All it would take is a counterfeit ethernet chip that recognizes some magic number in a packet, maybe sends out some really innocuous-looking packet once in a while as a location beacon (make some known DNS query or something), and then does DMA into the host's memory on command. Nothing unusual at all in the traffic except some ordinary-looking location signal, until its owner starts using it as a hardware rootkit.
The rubber sheet model is just plain wrong for giving people that image, though. General relativity only has intrinsic curvature, and never makes reference to embedding space-time in a larger space.
No, there are exact gravitational radiation solutions, and you can also predict gravitational radiation from weak-field situations where the linearized approximation is very, very accurano te (the h^2 term would be less than 10^-15 for the sun's gravitational field at Earth's orbit, for example). The decay of orbits due to gravitational radiation has been observed indirectly in PSR B1913+16, and matches the theoretical prediction. If no gravitational radiation is observed at the expected amplitudes for things like that, it will throw a lot more than just string theory into question, and would raise the obvious conservation of energy question about that pulsar.
What happens if it goes to plaid, though?
(are you going to be able to review the votes of 1,000 plus voters in a useful timescale)
No, but the if the results are public, only one person has to be paying attention to point out a problem to everyone else.
and where there is no penalty to having decisions an actors decisions being public knowledge.
That isn't how the voting protocols in question work, though. They preserve ballot secrecy. The main problems with them are making sure the tabulating authority doesn't add any extra fake voters to the election and vote their keys itself (which is why the complete list of who voted gets released, but not their votes), and that it makes it much easier for people to sell their votes.
1.) The human eye can detect a low count of *absorbed* photons; the number of photons that will enter the eye from any given vantage point is much lower than the total number of visible thermal photons a human body might *emit*. 2.) That 10 photon figure is meaningless without a time frame.
Physics may force me to shine, but I refuse to be happy.
See Planck's law. The power density at a given wavelength is inversely proportional to an exponential function of the photon energy, for wavelengths short compared to the peak. For humans (37 celsius), the peak lies at about 9.3 microns. If this were thermal radiation from a blackbody spectrum, the exponent for the longest visible wavelengths would be about 66.3, corresponding to about 1.9 * 10^-20 W/m^2 of radiated power in the visible spectrum, assuming perfect emissivity. If a typical human has a surface area of 2 m^2, that's around one thermal photon every ten seconds in the visible spectrum. This is many more than 1,000 times too dim to see. The photons referred to in the article come from chemical reactions, not thermal radiation.
This. Can we add a special addendum specifying the use of chainsaw instead of a crowbar for fixed-size buffers without checking for overflow?
Well, maybe you can compromise on chocolate-covered bacon?
Deducting it as a business expense is only free to a self-employed end user if said user is paying a 100% marginal tax rate. This is unlikely to be the case.
This.
I had unrestricted internet access from about age 11 (which would have been around 1994), with my own computer in my bedroom, and I even (*shock* *horror*) saw porn now and then. It somehow failed to turn me into a serial killer, neo-nazi, sex addict, communist, pedophile or whatever other boogeyman we're all supposed to fear. Mostly, it led to me discovering an early version of Slackware and turning into a huge nerd. I can barely even imagine growing up with the kind of control-freak lockdown people have been advocating here, and I'm sure the kids who do grow up like that are going to hate their parents and drop Mom and Dad from their lives as soon as they stop needing their money.
Clearly, Microsoft used worcestershire sauce as an embalming fluid.
Bear in mind that the Constitution ONLY applies to the US Government. The people running the security at airports are all contractors, outside corporations, and therefore not Government.
Wow, someone sure wasn't paying attention when the TSA was created by nationalizing the formerly private airport security screeners, and rapidly became far more of a pain in the ass than the old ones ever were.
Well, imposing unanticipated social interactions on me before my caffeine has kicked in *is* kinda evil, but Mussolini seems excessive. It's Franco-level evil at most.
Now email addresses on online forms are a different story, they're just trying to make sure you did it correctly by making sure the addresses match.
This is just stupid. You make sure you did it correctly by double-checking it before you push submit, and if you still got it wrong you go back and fix it later. This particular UI idiom once was restricted to changing passwords in obscured fields, where, without the double entry, it would be possible to enter a different string than you had intended *without realizing it* and set the password to something you don't know. It seems to have been adopted for e-mail addresses by clueless web UI designers around the same time as using Javascript to 'validate' e-mail addresses in ways that exclude RFC 822 compliant addresses, such as those with + in the username.
Why are there never any comments like this when I have mod points?
Clearly, the meteor strike is evidence that this kid is a reverse Teela Brown, so he can look forward to a lifetime of car accidents, lightning strikes, zombie infestations and the occasional glyptodont attack.
Yes, and the two go very well together. :)
Just you wait until you get sued for personality infringement. :)