I find very surprising that they could find&decrypt the steganography: AFAIK, the first step is to encrypt the document and compress it, making the document "look like" a random number. Then you mix the document with the movie..
So either the terrorists were lazy/stupid or there's something strange here: how did they find the hidden countent?
The key part is that Victor is entangling *already existing* photons. In a classical world, Victor would look at both photons and if their spin are opposites, he would say that they are entangled, if not he'd say that the entanglement has failed: no causality issue here but when Victor has successfully "entangled" photons, Alice and Bob's photons are "entangled"..
Yep, religions have some benefits otherwise people wouldn't *be* religious.
But there also non-religious organisations which do the same as religious organisations (charity, clubs for leisure, etc), maybe you don't see them because you live in a very religious country..
> Wayland is targeted at modern hardware, and aims to be simpler to use and perform better.
Sorry, but that's false: Wayland aim to be simpler to *develop for*, being a smaller codebase, that's all. As both are low level layers below GUI, there should be very little difference in usage, except that Wayland isn't currently network transparent.
And in performance Wayland should be very similar to X given that X has a DRI2 extension which is very similar to Wayland..
Modifying the low bit of images/movies seems much more safe to me, of course the issue is that this is only possible with a computer and the program. Having a steganography program on your computer isn't very stealthy when you go through the customs.
In the article posted, the book for learning programming has GUI programs only in the last part of the book, at the beginning everything is text I think.
So, I think that starting with an interactive GUI is too ambitious..
> Wayland does reduce the latency for compositing windowmanagers by removing a number of program->xorg->WM->xorg messages
Only with the current implementation: nothing in X protocol prevents from having an X server with a compositor and a window manager in the same process, if the performance cost of X.org's modular design is really an issue.. Also with client-side decoration, I think that Wayland *increases* the number of messages between the client and server when you move a window.
Above all, what's very funny is that, in my understanding, with DRI2 on X11(*) there should very little performance difference locally between X and Wayland: in both cases the application uses a buffer in the GPU's memory to send data to the compositor..
*: on which Kristian Hogsberg the main developer of Wayland worked.
> even had women fawning over him AFTER they had learned he was a serial killer
That's not an indication of charm, as the "there's no bad publicity" goes, it 's quite likely that some guys have more success with woman after it is revealed that they are serial killers..
> On the other hand only Firefox is checked with static analysis tools before released, meaning that there are very, very few actual flaws in the browser
ROFL: given that FF "strength" is extensions your claim is very, very funny.
> None of these religions have ANY use other than to keep certain people in power and rich at the expense of others.
I'm an atheist too but this is false: -studies have shown that those who attend church tend to live longer than those who don't -my personal opinion is that confession could help people (the ancestor of talking with a psy). -less fear of the death etc
So all the religions have use, now this doesn't mean that I'm an advocate of religions quite the contrary in fact: their many drawbacks far outweigh their benefits IMHO.
D is not what the GP asked: he asked a sane syntax for variable declaration and D reuse C's not very good syntax. D has local-type inference though which helps a little.. And while D doesn't truly need a GC, its standard library is made with the supposition that you have a GC, which is not very coherent IMHO.
> Do I have permission to treat it as a 2002 desktop, which for 99% of the population is exactly the same as a 2012 desktop?
The desktop yes: contrary to what Gnome or KDE developpers seems to think it's only a means to an end. But the webbrowser? When I see the CPU & memory used by Firefox or Chrome..
>> Many modern atheists have bad theology. They think: How does an all powerful and good God let bad things happen? > > No, generally not.
Well, I know one atheist who told me that she used to be a Christian but then *something bad happen* then she thought that the "good God" must not exist..
I find this a bit ridiculous (and I'm an atheist), but I wish we had stats to know what percentage of atheists are like this.
> people are around 60% more likely to have measurable healing compared to those that receive nothing.
Bah, that's hardly science: you forget to compare with people receiving a 'placebo' treatment, Freud's cures may be *only* a placebo..
Also one essential difference is that today's physicist and chemist don't especially hold in high regards alchemist whereas the psychology scientist still haven't disregarded Freud..
> In the case of code written by others, run it through a pretty-printer. Problem solved.
Ever tried to run code through a pretty-printer? It doesn't works well: when the initial code has some parts which are aligned for better readability, the pretty-printer destroy the alignment.
Usually famous people are judged by what they did, not by their personal life: Einstein probably treated poorly his first wife, but this doesn't make him less a genius.
Even though chiropractors only fix some back pains but claim to cure many more thing, lumping them with all the other 100% ineffective quacks (short of placebo effect) is misleading..
PS: chiropracy (like normal medecine), do have risks so be cautious.
> because of all that ugliness x86 code is freakishly dense, which means the same size I-cache holds a lot more useful code
Because of the ugliness? No: some RISCs have (quite ironically) become variable instruction length CPUs using 16&32 bit instructions (ARM Thumb/Thumb2, MIPS16) which makes them competitive with x86 in code density, yet they still have a much cleaner ISA than x86.
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I find very surprising that they could find&decrypt the steganography: AFAIK, the first step is to encrypt the document and compress it, making the document "look like" a random number.
Then you mix the document with the movie..
So either the terrorists were lazy/stupid or there's something strange here: how did they find the hidden countent?
The key part is that Victor is entangling *already existing* photons.
In a classical world, Victor would look at both photons and if their spin are opposites, he would say that they are entangled, if not he'd say that the entanglement has failed: no causality issue here but when Victor has successfully "entangled" photons, Alice and Bob's photons are "entangled"..
Yep, religions have some benefits otherwise people wouldn't *be* religious.
But there also non-religious organisations which do the same as religious organisations (charity, clubs for leisure, etc), maybe you don't see them because you live in a very religious country..
> Wayland is targeted at modern hardware, and aims to be simpler to use and perform better.
Sorry, but that's false: Wayland aim to be simpler to *develop for*, being a smaller codebase, that's all.
As both are low level layers below GUI, there should be very little difference in usage, except that Wayland isn't currently network transparent.
And in performance Wayland should be very similar to X given that X has a DRI2 extension which is very similar to Wayland..
Really, really poor steganography.
Modifying the low bit of images/movies seems much more safe to me, of course the issue is that this is only possible with a computer and the program.
Having a steganography program on your computer isn't very stealthy when you go through the customs.
> When a baby is born, blood continues to flow through the cord for a while giving the baby much needed nutrients.
The same he got just before being born?
Well he got (most, all?) of his weapons through burglary apparently, so of course this is difficult to detect..
In the article posted, the book for learning programming has GUI programs only in the last part of the book, at the beginning everything is text I think.
So, I think that starting with an interactive GUI is too ambitious..
> 3) tax gas like any other sale.
*That's* a funny one!
In France, the tax over gas is much, much higher than the tax on other goods.
> Wayland does reduce the latency for compositing windowmanagers by removing a number of program->xorg->WM->xorg messages
Only with the current implementation: nothing in X protocol prevents from having an X server with a compositor and a window manager in the same process, if the performance cost of X.org's modular design is really an issue..
Also with client-side decoration, I think that Wayland *increases* the number of messages between the client and server when you move a window.
Above all, what's very funny is that, in my understanding, with DRI2 on X11(*) there should very little performance difference locally between X and Wayland: in both cases the application uses a buffer in the GPU's memory to send data to the compositor..
*: on which Kristian Hogsberg the main developer of Wayland worked.
Git is a userspace application, Tanenbaum and Torvalds disagree about the best way to design a kernel, that's a totally different topic..
> I can't decide if that's incredibly ironic, or a wonderfully beautiful illustration of Open Source.
Neither, just a pragmatic decision very similar to MINIX's reuse of NetBSD's userland.
Well, you did it wrong: passphrase are much easier to remember than (secure) password.
http://xkcd.com/936/
> even had women fawning over him AFTER they had learned he was a serial killer
That's not an indication of charm, as the "there's no bad publicity" goes, it 's quite likely that some guys have more success with woman after it is revealed that they are serial killers..
> They're consuming 2,000 empty calories in a single sitting. A 2-liter of Coke is $1.29. A gallon of orange juice is $6. See the problem?
No:
1) diet coke won't give you 'empty calories'
2) in France you can ask for (tap) water in any restaurant and it is usually *free*.
> On the other hand only Firefox is checked with static analysis tools before released, meaning that there are very, very few actual flaws in the browser
ROFL: given that FF "strength" is extensions your claim is very, very funny.
> None of these religions have ANY use other than to keep certain people in power and rich at the expense of others.
I'm an atheist too but this is false:
-studies have shown that those who attend church tend to live longer than those who don't
-my personal opinion is that confession could help people (the ancestor of talking with a psy).
-less fear of the death etc
So all the religions have use, now this doesn't mean that I'm an advocate of religions quite the contrary in fact: their many drawbacks far outweigh their benefits IMHO.
D is not what the GP asked: he asked a sane syntax for variable declaration and D reuse C's not very good syntax.
D has local-type inference though which helps a little..
And while D doesn't truly need a GC, its standard library is made with the supposition that you have a GC, which is not very coherent IMHO.
> Do I have permission to treat it as a 2002 desktop, which for 99% of the population is exactly the same as a 2012 desktop?
The desktop yes: contrary to what Gnome or KDE developpers seems to think it's only a means to an end.
But the webbrowser?
When I see the CPU & memory used by Firefox or Chrome..
>> Many modern atheists have bad theology. They think: How does an all powerful and good God let bad things happen?
>
> No, generally not.
Well, I know one atheist who told me that she used to be a Christian but then *something bad happen* then she thought that the "good God" must not exist..
I find this a bit ridiculous (and I'm an atheist), but I wish we had stats to know what percentage of atheists are like this.
> people are around 60% more likely to have measurable healing compared to those that receive nothing.
Bah, that's hardly science: you forget to compare with people receiving a 'placebo' treatment, Freud's cures may be *only* a placebo..
Also one essential difference is that today's physicist and chemist don't especially hold in high regards alchemist whereas the psychology scientist still haven't disregarded Freud..
> In the case of code written by others, run it through a pretty-printer. Problem solved.
Ever tried to run code through a pretty-printer?
It doesn't works well: when the initial code has some parts which are aligned for better readability, the pretty-printer destroy the alignment.
Whatever you may say language with significant indentation helps novice, that's a fact (re)discovered several times.
Here's one: http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-praise-of-mandatory-indentation-for.html
Usually famous people are judged by what they did, not by their personal life: Einstein probably treated poorly his first wife, but this doesn't make him less a genius.
That's the same with Jobs..
> All of the science was done openly with all the cards on the table. Published papers are, well, published.
Sorry, but this is false: in many case the scientists don't give the raw data from which they made their paper.
Even though chiropractors only fix some back pains but claim to cure many more thing, lumping them with all the other 100% ineffective quacks (short of placebo effect) is misleading..
PS: chiropracy (like normal medecine), do have risks so be cautious.
> because of all that ugliness x86 code is freakishly dense, which means the same size I-cache holds a lot more useful code
Because of the ugliness?
No: some RISCs have (quite ironically) become variable instruction length CPUs using 16&32 bit instructions (ARM Thumb/Thumb2, MIPS16) which makes them competitive with x86 in code density, yet they still have a much cleaner ISA than x86.