What exactly would be the point of that? That's doesn't seem like anything wrong with BitCoin specifically vs other electronic currency systems. That's just you and your buddy lying to people that you're going to pay them and letting chance determine who you end up not paying.
I made a mistake. This article might not have anything to do with quantum entanglement. Everything else applies about how entanglement is supposed to work and how it's not "faster than light."
You are simply misunderstanding it. It's not that it works so long as no one is watching. It's that there's no way to harness it to have faster-than-light communication.
You can read entangled bits and they will have the same value on each end. HOWEVER, interacting with the bits in any way, including reading them, will break the entanglement, so you cannot flip a bit on one end and have it flip faster-than-light on the other end.
What you CAN do with this weird property is to use it for secret key exchange securely. You can generate a bunch of random bits and both ends will have the same bits on each end.
This article is about doing that key exchange from a moving platform with a stationary platform, so it's about really accurate laser targeting.
And I agree with other commenter: a little humility on your part would be in order. This is hard science at work, not voodoo.
Hey, I played Tomb Raider, and I can definitely tell you the ancient Egyptians had automatic waist-height axes. Slap some doors on them, and you have automatic doors!
The point is that most of the time, the Arctic is still impassible without icebreakers, and oftentimes even with icebreakers. With global warming, more and more of the Arctic is traversable by ship for more and more of the year, and these massive icebreakers are going to give whoever owns them and a bunch of Arctic ports a leg up on shipping in the area.
You can't go around trademarking terms already widely in use. It doesn't matter that it's not a copyright. It just means this guy should have his trademark challenged.
I'm can't say with 100% certainty that this Jazan Wild is filing frivolous lawsuits in hopes of getting some easy money, but I find the idea that he truly believes that he invented the macabre carnival idea, or that he coined the term "Carnival of Souls" hard to swallow. In addition, this guy be be completely nuts to think he can sue reviewers for copyright infringement. I say he's just fishing.
[sarcasm]I'm glad that before you commented, you read any of the summary, or article, instead of just skimming the title and leaving a couple of snide comments.[/sarcasm]
This is StarCraft, the RTS game from 1998, not StarCraft II, the very modern game with a giant game engine. Games and code tended to be a bit more skeletal.
"How Not to Do Stuff 101"? Don't do memory management by hand, use functions to factor out common operations? Honestly, I'm surprised that something written in this way made its way out the software shop doors in a working state.
How about "why not to do this," or "trade-offs of doing it like this," or "pitfalls of hacky solutions in big projects."
There is a lot more to teaching how to avoid mistakes than just a checklist of what not to do; you have to give students and understanding of why not to do things, and how to think through all the possible pitfalls that their design decisions will make. I'd would've definitely enjoyed learning good coding practices from one lecture based on real life-lessons learned.
California and Texas have almost no money spent on them despite their huge number of electoral votes. If you live in those states, your vote REALLY doesn't matter.
That is precisely what they are doing. Why is this vote +5 Insightful? Everything about the TFA and TFS basically portray this as a hostage situation; innocents are harmed to protect fellow criminals.
Amazing. Not only have you completely ignored GP's point about sympathy that "it doesn't take a personal experience to understand that a car running into you is going to hurt" and turned it into some rant about who is at fault, you've also exposed your own prejudices and managed to be so oblivious to it that you are going to be smug about it.
I even vaguely agree that it's better to be at the mercy of benevolent hackers than at the mercy of lazy business practices that is hurting the common man, but your arguments are completely invalid.
I think the argument boils down to the fact that we are all harmed by not having our information protected, even if we don't know it is happening to us.
Am I misreading you or are you just engaging in hyperbole? As far as I know, there has been nothing that blocks citizens from joining class action lawsuits.
GUIs may be slower than keyboards for power users, but they are far less intuitive and useable for the majority of the computing world, and honestly, if you're designing a GUI these days, you should be able to jump in without a manual and just start using it. Something that Windows 8 has failed at.
There should still always be a way to use the mouse to do something as basic as open an application.
So you're suggesting we turn more to Twitter and Facebook, Buzz and Youtube, Redditt and Digg?:P If I could, I'd get all my news from gizmodo and my TV from youtube/hulu or the like, but I can't do that and still expect to be even relatively well-informed, and I can't spend all my time vetting a failed system.
If what you say is true, then the fault lies with the government for allowing entities that control both the public media and massive amounts of other industries to exist. We cannot ignore the fact that turning to mass media is supposed to be a convenient and reliable source of information, and even if you can't rely on your local news anchor to do all the research for you, you should be able to rely on them to provide you with a reasonably unbaised subset of the news.
I'm saying that you should have your own system similar to ours, and that the reason you (and your companies) are so vulnerable to identity theft is because you don't.
My point is that this statement is completely untrue; implementing your country's system might be good for many reasons, but it won't really help most forms of identity theft. Where on earth do you see an opportunity to use your system to make the situation better for companies from any nation, much less for multi-national companies like Apple, Google, and Twitter that much authenticate users from countries all over the world.
Your idea stops scaling as soon as you realize you're dealing with 200+ nations' worth of databases and tens of thousands of major legitimate companies that need to authenticate people.
The reason credit cards are used is because it is an existing system of authentication that spans nations.
How exactly do you propose to implement any of this in Mat Honan's situation? Give Apple, Google, and Twitter access to Iceland's national database with contact information for everyone in the country? Make the database public? Have Apple, Google, and Twitter send you keyfobs?
How is any of this scalable in way that doesn't lead to a single point of weakness where a compromise there will compromise all your accounts at once?
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What exactly would be the point of that? That's doesn't seem like anything wrong with BitCoin specifically vs other electronic currency systems. That's just you and your buddy lying to people that you're going to pay them and letting chance determine who you end up not paying.
I made a mistake. This article might not have anything to do with quantum entanglement. Everything else applies about how entanglement is supposed to work and how it's not "faster than light."
You are simply misunderstanding it. It's not that it works so long as no one is watching. It's that there's no way to harness it to have faster-than-light communication.
You can read entangled bits and they will have the same value on each end. HOWEVER, interacting with the bits in any way, including reading them, will break the entanglement, so you cannot flip a bit on one end and have it flip faster-than-light on the other end.
What you CAN do with this weird property is to use it for secret key exchange securely. You can generate a bunch of random bits and both ends will have the same bits on each end.
This article is about doing that key exchange from a moving platform with a stationary platform, so it's about really accurate laser targeting.
And I agree with other commenter: a little humility on your part would be in order. This is hard science at work, not voodoo.
Hey, I played Tomb Raider, and I can definitely tell you the ancient Egyptians had automatic waist-height axes. Slap some doors on them, and you have automatic doors!
Sounds more like they are ebook readers in the book.
And anyway, you shouldn't assume all tablets are iPads. They could very well have been Samsung tablets.
I stand corrected. You can't go around trademarking terms widely in use and have your trademark hold up in court.
The point is that most of the time, the Arctic is still impassible without icebreakers, and oftentimes even with icebreakers. With global warming, more and more of the Arctic is traversable by ship for more and more of the year, and these massive icebreakers are going to give whoever owns them and a bunch of Arctic ports a leg up on shipping in the area.
You can't go around trademarking terms already widely in use. It doesn't matter that it's not a copyright. It just means this guy should have his trademark challenged.
This guy seems to have a history of suing people for generic, carnival-themed horror. Here he is suing NBC for Heroes' having a carnival scene.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/see-carnival-of-souls-comparisons-from-60-million-heroes-lawsuit/
I'm can't say with 100% certainty that this Jazan Wild is filing frivolous lawsuits in hopes of getting some easy money, but I find the idea that he truly believes that he invented the macabre carnival idea, or that he coined the term "Carnival of Souls" hard to swallow. In addition, this guy be be completely nuts to think he can sue reviewers for copyright infringement. I say he's just fishing.
[sarcasm]I'm glad that before you commented, you read any of the summary, or article, instead of just skimming the title and leaving a couple of snide comments.[/sarcasm]
This is StarCraft, the RTS game from 1998, not StarCraft II, the very modern game with a giant game engine. Games and code tended to be a bit more skeletal.
"How Not to Do Stuff 101"? Don't do memory management by hand, use functions to factor out common operations? Honestly, I'm surprised that something written in this way made its way out the software shop doors in a working state.
How about "why not to do this," or "trade-offs of doing it like this," or "pitfalls of hacky solutions in big projects."
There is a lot more to teaching how to avoid mistakes than just a checklist of what not to do; you have to give students and understanding of why not to do things, and how to think through all the possible pitfalls that their design decisions will make. I'd would've definitely enjoyed learning good coding practices from one lecture based on real life-lessons learned.
False. There are only 2 states that divide up the vote (Nebraska and Maine), and neither of them matter much due to low population. Source: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/faq.html#wtapv
Every other state is winner-takes-all, which is why voting in any state that is not a swing state basically doesn't matter. Politicians know this. Check out spending per state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)#Focus_on_large_swing_states
California and Texas have almost no money spent on them despite their huge number of electoral votes. If you live in those states, your vote REALLY doesn't matter.
If it's not economical, you're not pirating enough. Not enough cars, and not expensive enough cars.
Maybe they're protesting against the bankers and politicians who have been captured by LEA too.
That is precisely what they are doing. Why is this vote +5 Insightful? Everything about the TFA and TFS basically portray this as a hostage situation; innocents are harmed to protect fellow criminals.
My favorite piece of advice I've ever heard about riding: "Ride as though you are invisible and everyone else is drunk."
(Also applies when trying to drive a vehicle of any sort in the DC area.)
Amazing. Not only have you completely ignored GP's point about sympathy that "it doesn't take a personal experience to understand that a car running into you is going to hurt" and turned it into some rant about who is at fault, you've also exposed your own prejudices and managed to be so oblivious to it that you are going to be smug about it.
I even vaguely agree that it's better to be at the mercy of benevolent hackers than at the mercy of lazy business practices that is hurting the common man, but your arguments are completely invalid.
I think the argument boils down to the fact that we are all harmed by not having our information protected, even if we don't know it is happening to us.
Am I misreading you or are you just engaging in hyperbole? As far as I know, there has been nothing that blocks citizens from joining class action lawsuits.
GUIs may be slower than keyboards for power users, but they are far less intuitive and useable for the majority of the computing world, and honestly, if you're designing a GUI these days, you should be able to jump in without a manual and just start using it. Something that Windows 8 has failed at.
There should still always be a way to use the mouse to do something as basic as open an application.
So you're suggesting we turn more to Twitter and Facebook, Buzz and Youtube, Redditt and Digg? :P If I could, I'd get all my news from gizmodo and my TV from youtube/hulu or the like, but I can't do that and still expect to be even relatively well-informed, and I can't spend all my time vetting a failed system.
If what you say is true, then the fault lies with the government for allowing entities that control both the public media and massive amounts of other industries to exist. We cannot ignore the fact that turning to mass media is supposed to be a convenient and reliable source of information, and even if you can't rely on your local news anchor to do all the research for you, you should be able to rely on them to provide you with a reasonably unbaised subset of the news.
I'm saying that you should have your own system similar to ours, and that the reason you (and your companies) are so vulnerable to identity theft is because you don't.
My point is that this statement is completely untrue; implementing your country's system might be good for many reasons, but it won't really help most forms of identity theft. Where on earth do you see an opportunity to use your system to make the situation better for companies from any nation, much less for multi-national companies like Apple, Google, and Twitter that much authenticate users from countries all over the world.
Your idea stops scaling as soon as you realize you're dealing with 200+ nations' worth of databases and tens of thousands of major legitimate companies that need to authenticate people.
The reason credit cards are used is because it is an existing system of authentication that spans nations.
How about using those security questions everybody is talking so much about?
How exactly do you propose to implement any of this in Mat Honan's situation? Give Apple, Google, and Twitter access to Iceland's national database with contact information for everyone in the country? Make the database public? Have Apple, Google, and Twitter send you keyfobs?
How is any of this scalable in way that doesn't lead to a single point of weakness where a compromise there will compromise all your accounts at once?
It's never the single player. D3 is going to last longer than D2 if they know how to milk it thanks to the built-in marketplace and economy.
I'll discount golf as a sport all day long. :D