I'm am American who is proud of our technological superiority over the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, every electronic or mechanical device with three or more parts that I own is made in China.
He said that the raw data from all ballots would be public along with the software. Any third party can verify the totals. And each voter can check that his/her vote is in the data. But I don't know how ballot stuffing is detected.
Miniaturized relays are interesting, but an inverter which operates at 0.0005 Ghz is less interesting. Somehow I don't think...
This is an incorrect and unfair assertion -- unfair by stating the switching rate in GHz.
In the real world, DC-DC inverters run below 1 MHz. From Wikipedia:
"Unlike a linear power supply, the pass transistor of a switching mode supply switches very quickly (typically between 50 kHz and 1 MHz) between full-on and full-off states, which minimizes wasted energy."
The LCD screen I'm looking at is made in China. It's a safe bet yours is too.
My laptop is made in China.
My cellphone is made in China.
My MP3 players are made in China.
My CS, DVD and Blu-Ray players are made in China.
My Roku box is made in China.
My media-center electronic equipment is made in China.
My Samsung HDTV is made in Korea.
My new refrigerator is made in China.
My Canon camcorder is made in Japan.
My cordless phone is made in China.
My USB hard drives are assembled in China.
My CFL replacement light bulbs are made in China.
My new kitchen appliances and serving ware are made in China.
My electric toothbrush is made in China.
And the list goes on...
Super Principia Mathematica
The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics
This book is dedicated with sincere gratitude and admonishing [sic] to the all wise (Omniscience)[sic], Omnipotent, and Omnipresent God the Father of us all; God the Son (Jesus) the Christ, and God the Holy Spirit for providing the wisdom, strength, and insight, and for being the author and finisher of my faith, making this work possible. ...
The problem with Truecrypt is that the volume is portable and they can run a dictionary attack against the passphrase at their leisure.
Then don't use a dictionary word or combination thereof.
TC uses a unique salt that is generated when you initially create the encryption key. The salt hashed with your password and the result is hashed again 1,000 times. Use of a salt prevents the use of a rainbow table. Hashing it 1,000 times grievously slows down any kind of brute-force attack.
The term "at their leisure" does not compare to even the most optimistic attack time frame.
There's a bit of a cheat in the directly downwind assertion.
While it true that the vehicle is going directly downwind, its propeller is rotating in the wind. This causes to blade to experience the wind at an angle, just like a sailboat tacking into the wind. And in addition to the "lift" force perpendicular to the blade forcing the car forward, its rotation is used to drive the wheels.
"Spinning faster = more velocity perpendicular to slope on the leading edge of the loop. It makes sense that it would flatten out."
Very good point. The back edge of the loop is being accelerated perpendicularly upward. IOW, the small length of rubber that's breaking contact with the table is yanked -- accelerated -- upward to a high vertical velocity. Therefore, it will rise higher that it does at a slower rolling speed. Like throwing a ball upward with a high velocity against gravity, it reaches a higher distance. In the case of the rubber loop the restoring force is tension in the rubber just ahead of the peak.
But there's that difficult-to-model problem of elasticity. I imagine the fast-rising rubber is pulled downward by tension in the bit of rubber just ahead of the highest point. Most of its upward momentum is opposed by the force of that stretched bit. And the kinetic energy, which is proportional to the square of the velocity, is transferred to mechanical energy (force X distance) stored in the stretched bit. Since KE is non-linear (square of velocity) you often get unexpected behavior. Here we get into differential equations!
Regarding the role of elasticity in the transfer of momentum and kinetic energy in the shaping of the rolling loop, it would be interesting to do an experiment using a non-elastic loop. An example would be a metallic chain. I expect the shape would be different.
"...use 10 parallel 10Gbps lasers running at different wavelengths, but they are amazingly expensive.."
From TFA
And by encoding data at 12.5Gbits/sec across four laser beams of differing wavelengths, the connector yields a total bandwidth of 50Gbits/sec, five times that offered by Light Peak.
There's a free app that recognizes similar content in MP3 and other audio files.
Similarity is a useful program that helps you to find and remove similar, duplicate musical files (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV, MPC) with the same or similar sound content, music tags (ID3,WMF,Vorbis). This is the best program where similarity of a sound part is checked, not just music tags or file content (byte to byte comparision). In addition the program analyzes the artist, title, album information from the music tags contained in the audio files and compare these with the appropriate entries in other files.
You can adjust sensivity of searching criteria to find exact or similar files. In this way it is possible to identify similarly titles with smaller differences. Duplicate files can be deleted or browsed. The list of duplicate files can be sorted, exported to playlist, and acted upon.
BTW, the assertion of a potential harm being caused by "...explaining how he did it because it 'may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world'" is certified bullshit.
All patents are public documents -- they must be public in order to inform the world just exactly what it is that the patent owner actually owns. It's detailed in the Claims section. "If you don't claim it, you don't own it."
Furthermore, a patent must "teach the invention," meaning that anyone "familiar with the art" shall be able to implement the invention with only the descriptions provided. If there actually is a patent for this technology, the cat is out of the bag.
Patent courts in the US are very favorably disposed to inventors -- assuming the technology is actually protected. It sounds like maybe not, and so the bluster and shrill threats.
I use FF almost exclusively, especially for the convenience and security provided by its rich set of addons. Not a web designer to any small degree, I don't understand why FF cannot render many sites, like Netflix, correctly. In the case of Netflix I wonder if this is a Netflix problem or Firefox fail. (FF cannot display the delete icon on the Netflix Queue page when the DVD/Bluray drop-down box appears on the same line.)
Certainly Netflix should make their site compatible with FF; but this problem has persisted for more than a year and they show no indication of giving a damn. OTOH, if Netflix conforms to coding "standards," whatever these might be, FF should work. Furthermore, FF renders lots of commerce sites so poorly that text is unreadable.
So I use the IE Tab Plus addon which renders the page with IE. A solution in the "extremely mediocre" category.
Actually, the example I mentioned above does not apply to an Arduino itself, but to an add-on piece of hardware that uses a similar processor. The Arduino language has its own I/O pin functions.
I've been playing with the Arduino and ran into these examples last night. The objective of the macro below is to set (1) or reset (0) a single bit in an 8-bit register. Register PORTH is mapped to 8 pins I/O pins on the Arduino and we want to control one of them: pin 12. This is the code I found. It's very helpful in that it shows register-to-pin mapping. (Pin 12 has previously been set as an output pin.)
Then usage would simply be like the following: SET_PIN12(1);//writes a 1 to PIN12 SET_PIN12(0);//writes a 0 to PIN12
There are some problems with this. ((z)>0) will not do what the programmer intended if z, an int, is negative. And there's no need to test for Z being non-zero. The expression should be replaced with z alone.
The first statement of the conditional if, (1 << 3) : PORTH, works fine as it sets the desired bit to 1 while leaving the other bits as-is. But PORTH &= (0 << 3) resets ALL 8 bits to zero. I suspect he was thinking that (0<<3) is 11110111. In any case, PORTH &= 0b11110111 functions properly. (The Arduino language is a subset of C++ with a few additions.) A simpler version is
Another example. This is their code to read an input on pin 13. (Pin 13 has been set as an input pin.)
#define READ_PIN13(z) ((PINL & 0x08) > 0) ? (z) = 1 : (z) = 0 Usage would be READ_PIN13(temp);//reads 1 or 0 into temp depending on PIN13's state
So we have (z) = 0; // or (z) = 1; being executed. I didn't realize this would compile.
The macro functions correctly but I simplified it and changed its usage from a conditional if to to a simple assignment #define READ_PIN13 ((PINL & 0x08) > 0) //... temp = READ_PIN13;//reads 1 or 0 into temp depending on PIN13's state
I was tempted to simply further to
#define READ_PIN13 (PINL & 0x08) // returns 0 or 0x08
But since there was a lot of this kind of (proper) code I didn't go that far.
#define HIGH 1 //..... temp = READ_PIN13; if (temp == HIGH) {... // tests temp == 1, versus "true" (non-zero)
After looking through lots of code on the web sites it got me thinking about how easy it is produce C code with unintended consequences.
From your references, the AVC/H.264Patent List is a 49 page pdf file. Each page shows about 10 to 20 patent numbers, or around 700 by a quick calculation.
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I'm am American who is proud of our technological superiority over the rest of the world. Meanwhile, every electronic or mechanical device with three or more parts that I own is made in China.
"It's an eclectic cornucopia of all things cryptological."
Actually, it's a misdirection of all thing obsolete.
...the term BBC (which is unpronounceable)
I thought that within its province it's pronounced Beeb.
He said that the raw data from all ballots would be public along with the software. Any third party can verify the totals. And each voter can check that his/her vote is in the data. But I don't know how ballot stuffing is detected.
"...to cross-check whether the user authorized the computer to open, run or store the file on the hard drive."
I run Windows in admin mode, which of course permits these activities. Thus it seems BLADE would do nothing for me and my ilk.
Miniaturized relays are interesting, but an inverter which operates at 0.0005 Ghz is less interesting. Somehow I don't think...
This is an incorrect and unfair assertion -- unfair by stating the switching rate in GHz.
In the real world, DC-DC inverters run below 1 MHz. From Wikipedia:
"Unlike a linear power supply, the pass transistor of a switching mode supply switches very quickly (typically between 50 kHz and 1 MHz) between full-on and full-off states, which minimizes wasted energy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply/
Go USA! Five year in the sky totally kicks ass.
The LCD screen I'm looking at is made in China. It's a safe bet yours is too.
My laptop is made in China.
My cellphone is made in China.
My MP3 players are made in China.
My CS, DVD and Blu-Ray players are made in China.
My Roku box is made in China.
My media-center electronic equipment is made in China.
My Samsung HDTV is made in Korea.
My new refrigerator is made in China.
My Canon camcorder is made in Japan.
My cordless phone is made in China.
My USB hard drives are assembled in China.
My CFL replacement light bulbs are made in China.
My new kitchen appliances and serving ware are made in China.
My electric toothbrush is made in China.
And the list goes on...
This paragraph is from the Acknowledgment.
http://www.superprincipia.com/First_Law_Of_Motion.htm/ Click Look inside, on page v.
Firefox lagged chrome mostly because firefox cares a LOT more about compatibility, ...
I wish Firefox could display my Netflix queue properly. It's impossible to delete an item that shows the DVD/Bluray listbox: the delete icon is lost.
I was forced to use IE but now there's the IE Tab Plus addon that invokes the embedded IE engine in a FF tab. Mediocre solution.
Seriously, can we stop with the French throwbacks, and say things the English way? What's wrong with General Attourneys?
Yes, that would make the singular and plural possessive cases easier.
For example, an AG and her staff are having lunch and the waiter arrives with sandwiches.
Should you tell him "that's the attorney's general ham and cheese"? Or should you say "that's the attorney general's sandwich"?
In TFA, should it be "the 33 attorneys' general lying venality"? Or "the 33 attorneys general's mendacity?"
Man visits his doctor.
... spinal fluid indicates ... Alzheimers."
Man: "What's the news, Doc."
Doc: "Not so good. Test results show cancer, and
Man: "... Well, at least I don't have cancer."
Then don't use a dictionary word or combination thereof.
TC uses a unique salt that is generated when you initially create the encryption key. The salt hashed with your password and the result is hashed again 1,000 times. Use of a salt prevents the use of a rainbow table. Hashing it 1,000 times grievously slows down any kind of brute-force attack.
The term "at their leisure" does not compare to even the most optimistic attack time frame.
"...an excellent Firefox plugin to render this page's color scheme more bearable."
Yep. Color Toggle
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9408/
I have it set so Ctl-Shift-Z set light yellow background, black text, and blue links.
"...faster than the wind, DIRECTLY DOWNWIND."
There's a bit of a cheat in the directly downwind assertion.
While it true that the vehicle is going directly downwind, its propeller is rotating in the wind. This causes to blade to experience the wind at an angle, just like a sailboat tacking into the wind. And in addition to the "lift" force perpendicular to the blade forcing the car forward, its rotation is used to drive the wheels.
Very clever nonetheless.
"Spinning faster = more velocity perpendicular to slope on the leading edge of the loop. It makes sense that it would flatten out."
Very good point. The back edge of the loop is being accelerated perpendicularly upward. IOW, the small length of rubber that's breaking contact with the table is yanked -- accelerated -- upward to a high vertical velocity. Therefore, it will rise higher that it does at a slower rolling speed. Like throwing a ball upward with a high velocity against gravity, it reaches a higher distance. In the case of the rubber loop the restoring force is tension in the rubber just ahead of the peak.
But there's that difficult-to-model problem of elasticity. I imagine the fast-rising rubber is pulled downward by tension in the bit of rubber just ahead of the highest point. Most of its upward momentum is opposed by the force of that stretched bit. And the kinetic energy, which is proportional to the square of the velocity, is transferred to mechanical energy (force X distance) stored in the stretched bit. Since KE is non-linear (square of velocity) you often get unexpected behavior. Here we get into differential equations!
Regarding the role of elasticity in the transfer of momentum and kinetic energy in the shaping of the rolling loop, it would be interesting to do an experiment using a non-elastic loop. An example would be a metallic chain. I expect the shape would be different.
From TFA
More at http://www.music-similarity.com/ I wonder if it uses the purported patented technology.
BTW, the assertion of a potential harm being caused by "...explaining how he did it because it 'may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world'" is certified bullshit.
All patents are public documents -- they must be public in order to inform the world just exactly what it is that the patent owner actually owns. It's detailed in the Claims section. "If you don't claim it, you don't own it."
Furthermore, a patent must "teach the invention," meaning that anyone "familiar with the art" shall be able to implement the invention with only the descriptions provided. If there actually is a patent for this technology, the cat is out of the bag.
Patent courts in the US are very favorably disposed to inventors -- assuming the technology is actually protected. It sounds like maybe not, and so the bluster and shrill threats.
Wall-E, not just science fiction.
I use FF almost exclusively, especially for the convenience and security provided by its rich set of addons. Not a web designer to any small degree, I don't understand why FF cannot render many sites, like Netflix, correctly. In the case of Netflix I wonder if this is a Netflix problem or Firefox fail. (FF cannot display the delete icon on the Netflix Queue page when the DVD/Bluray drop-down box appears on the same line.)
Certainly Netflix should make their site compatible with FF; but this problem has persisted for more than a year and they show no indication of giving a damn. OTOH, if Netflix conforms to coding "standards," whatever these might be, FF should work. Furthermore, FF renders lots of commerce sites so poorly that text is unreadable.
So I use the IE Tab Plus addon which renders the page with IE. A solution in the "extremely mediocre" category.
Actually, the example I mentioned above does not apply to an Arduino itself, but to an add-on piece of hardware that uses a similar processor. The Arduino language has its own I/O pin functions.
I've been playing with the Arduino and ran into these examples last night. The objective of the macro below is to set (1) or reset (0) a single bit in an 8-bit register. Register PORTH is mapped to 8 pins I/O pins on the Arduino and we want to control one of them: pin 12. This is the code I found. It's very helpful in that it shows register-to-pin mapping. (Pin 12 has previously been set as an output pin.)
//writes a 1 to PIN12 //writes a 0 to PIN12
/</< 3) : PORTH &= 0b11110111
//reads 1 or 0 into temp depending on PIN13's state
// or
... //reads 1 or 0 into temp depending on PIN13's state
// returns 0 or 0x08
.....
#define SET_PIN12(z) ((z)>0)? PORTH |= (1 << 3) : PORTH &= (0 << 3)
Then usage would simply be like the following:
SET_PIN12(1);
SET_PIN12(0);
There are some problems with this. ((z)>0) will not do what the programmer intended if z, an int, is negative. And there's no need to test for Z being non-zero. The expression should be replaced with z alone.
The first statement of the conditional if, (1 << 3) : PORTH, works fine as it sets the desired bit to 1 while leaving the other bits as-is. But PORTH &= (0 << 3) resets ALL 8 bits to zero. I suspect he was thinking that (0<<3) is 11110111.
In any case, PORTH &= 0b11110111 functions properly. (The Arduino language is a subset of C++ with a few additions.) A simpler version is
#define SET_PIN12(z) (z ? PORTH |= (1
Another example. This is their code to read an input on pin 13. (Pin 13 has been set as an input pin.)
#define READ_PIN13(z) ((PINL & 0x08) > 0) ? (z) = 1 : (z) = 0
Usage would be
READ_PIN13(temp);
So we have
(z) = 0;
(z) = 1;
being executed. I didn't realize this would compile.
The macro functions correctly but I simplified it and changed its usage from a conditional if to to a simple assignment
#define READ_PIN13 ((PINL & 0x08) > 0)
//
temp = READ_PIN13;
I was tempted to simply further to
#define READ_PIN13 (PINL & 0x08)
But since there was a lot of this kind of (proper) code I didn't go that far.
#define HIGH 1
//
temp = READ_PIN13;
if (temp == HIGH) {... // tests temp == 1, versus "true" (non-zero)
After looking through lots of code on the web sites it got me thinking about how easy it is produce C code with unintended consequences.
...for an appropriate term for this condition
Collateralized Debt Obligation
From your references, the AVC/H.264 Patent List is a 49 page pdf file. Each page shows about 10 to 20 patent numbers, or around 700 by a quick calculation.
Interestingly, Apple has only one patent.
TFA pertains to high-capacity copiers -- not printers. The word "printer" doesn't even appear in it.
Finally, a comprehensible explanation.