"accessing a computer without authorization", where the term means "using a pseudonym" As you said, this is a bad, bad precident. Anonymity is a necessary part of freedom. As someone else said, when you are restricting freedoms you don't arrest the white 30 year old mother of three, you go after the scary mexican guy first to set a precident. This is a terrible ruling and I pray to His Great and Noble Noodliness that it will be overturned posthaste.
+1 uncomfortable truth. "that can't happen" is looking less and less appealing as an excuse: the science fiction of yesterday is becoming today's reality. The chances of human-like behaviour emerging from something we have never need to look at as human increases by the year. If its not AI, it will be geneticaly manipulated dogs. Or neanderthals. Or a head in a vat. Or someone who was once cryonically frozen.
The law moves slowly and now is the time to define personhood. Now, before a computer asks for its rights, or a GM monkey gives a speech. As a society we must look deep into a mirror and decide whether and why each of us should have special rights.
Medicine, 3-D rescue mission/fire control mission planning, biology, CAD, art, anything with complex data sets, physics, movie editing, and 3-D movie creation come to mind. The intuitive 3-D control will allow whole new interfaces.
The first link was intended to convey Switzerland's status as a very nice place to live. I thought the fact that Switzerland is a direct democracy is common knowledge. And it is, in fact, a direct democracy.
A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would require about 3*10^51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.(Wikipedia)
A round can now be done with 16 table lookups and 12 32-bit exclusive-or operations, followed by four 32-bit exclusive-or operations in the AddRoundKey step.
Assuming 14 rounds for your 256 bit encryption thats 42 operations per round. At a trillion operations/second you get 1*10^12/42(love that number)=23,809,523,809, call it 24 billion rounds per second. Divide by a billion billion to try to match Wikipedia's number: 1/24,000,000,000= 41*10^-10. We can add those nine zeros straight over to get 41/3*10^61 years.
You sir, are a dispicable human being, and a poor excuse for a sentient life form. Your mother cried when you were born because she thought you were an abortion. She cried "baaaaaaaa." Your father spent his life on a farm, until he was neutered and sent to the grand canyon to carry tourists on his back. When he saw the pretty colors he jumped off the cliff. There was no mourning. The crow that started to eat his carcass threw up, and the remainder of it killed three colonies of ants. His poisonous and filthy bearing has been passed on to you by the combined curses of every woman you have caddishly attempted to speak to.
Your family is a running joke in three countries and your sadly mutilated face has been the subject of scientific speculation among the more strong-stomached set who can bear to look at you. The people you call friends only let you think that because they know no one will believe you and out of morbid curiosity about what bizarre and miserable failure you will commit next.
Your attempts at humor themselves are mildly amusing to the more purile set, but the methods with which you carry them out fail to amuse even the lice you carry aout with you like a cloak. Your crowning achievement was, after three decades of hard work, getting promoted to "special assistant manager" at the local Mcdonalds. The man who promoted you was fired on the spot ant the grade immediately removed but no one could stomach talking to you long enough to inform you about the change. Your manners are deplorable, your breath offends llamas, your stench is overwelming, your mind is sub-infantile, and you have something stuck in your teeth. When you take your place among the dammed you will make their damnation a thousand times greater. May that event happen immediately.
Yes, because translating problems from English to Programming languages is a really small part of solving problems with computers. Lady Lovelace wasted a good deal of time on something like that. Too bad she didn't realize what a waste of time it is.
Here you imply that the topic is too difficult to understand for the person to whom you are speaking. What was the utility of that implication? Do you feel that implication strengthens your argument or was it a blatent ad-honiem attack?
As long as expectations between men and women are equal, comparisons like this are meaningless.
So you do not, in fact, want equality. Did I understand you right?
You're just using sexist logic here -- men work, women stay at home, and that's why women make less.
I fail to understand how less work, less pay, whether the worker is male or female is sexist. Are you saying that failure to treat women differently (better) than men is sexist?
Well, men should take as much time off as women do. Women should work outside the home as much as men do. But even when you adjust for this by looking at families where this is true -- women still make less because of those aren't the prevalent attitudes.
You are claiming that, on the average, a woman working x hours at x position will make less money than a man working the same hours at the same position, OR that a woman who devotes the same amount of time to her career will fail to achieve x position. I think you can't prove that. I think it is factualy incorrect.
Women would likely be making the same as men if these attitudes didn't exist.
You believe that "prevalent attitudes" are keeping women from making as much money, given the same labor, as men. Again I attack your premise. Do you have proof of these claims?
You won't want to hear this but is, statistically, women make less it is indeed because, statistically, they tend to work less. It is more likely that a woman will be the one in a two parent family to: Take time off to care for a sick child, take time off to give birth/have a safe pregnency, take years out of a career to become a housewife, or to stop working after they marry. When you factor in all that time off, career-hour for career-hour, women do as well as men. I haven't studied the black people and old people thing.
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"accessing a computer without authorization"
"accessing a computer without authorization", where the term means "using a pseudonym" As you said, this is a bad, bad precident. Anonymity is a necessary part of freedom. As someone else said, when you are restricting freedoms you don't arrest the white 30 year old mother of three, you go after the scary mexican guy first to set a precident. This is a terrible ruling and I pray to His Great and Noble Noodliness that it will be overturned posthaste.
I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
+1 uncomfortable truth. "that can't happen" is looking less and less appealing as an excuse: the science fiction of yesterday is becoming today's reality. The chances of human-like behaviour emerging from something we have never need to look at as human increases by the year. If its not AI, it will be geneticaly manipulated dogs. Or neanderthals. Or a head in a vat. Or someone who was once cryonically frozen.
The law moves slowly and now is the time to define personhood. Now, before a computer asks for its rights, or a GM monkey gives a speech. As a society we must look deep into a mirror and decide whether and why each of us should have special rights.
Medicine, 3-D rescue mission/fire control mission planning, biology, CAD, art, anything with complex data sets, physics, movie editing, and 3-D movie creation come to mind. The intuitive 3-D control will allow whole new interfaces.
CO2 ice...
why would aliens have their orgies in your home town
I am intriegued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
And why not? If they can be bred in captivity what would be wrong with mammoth farms, mammoth steaks, and other tasty, tasty murder?
And anyway, those trojans are a tricky bunch. One can never be too careful.
...because protection is important with all the wierd stuff floating around.
The possibility of humanity being able to stop a killer asteroid rises with more study on such bodies.
I'm blocked at work you insensitive clod!
The first link was intended to convey Switzerland's status as a very nice place to live. I thought the fact that Switzerland is a direct democracy is common knowledge. And it is, in fact, a direct democracy.
I am a manager you insensitive clod!
oh? Well how about this one?
Some kind of rant generator. Please don't feed the trolls.
Thats right! Direct democracy can never work. Which is what made Switzerland such a hellhole
If you didn't pay any taxes your tax cut has become a welfare check.
These puns are pissing me off. You blokes don't have a pot to piss in for humor. Urinalot of trouble if I have anything to say about it.
Anti-matter particle beam... AMPB..nah.. Beam of Antimatter Particles! thats it! BAP
Dont mind him, he's just takin' the piss.
A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would require about 3*10^51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.(Wikipedia)
A round can now be done with 16 table lookups and 12 32-bit exclusive-or operations, followed by four 32-bit exclusive-or operations in the AddRoundKey step.
(Wikipedia)
Assuming 14 rounds for your 256 bit encryption thats 42 operations per round. At a trillion operations/second you get 1*10^12/42(love that number)=23,809,523,809, call it 24 billion rounds per second. Divide by a billion billion to try to match Wikipedia's number: 1/24,000,000,000= 41*10^-10. We can add those nine zeros straight over to get 41/3*10^61 years.
Did I do that right?
You sir, are a dispicable human being, and a poor excuse for a sentient life form. Your mother cried when you were born because she thought you were an abortion. She cried "baaaaaaaa." Your father spent his life on a farm, until he was neutered and sent to the grand canyon to carry tourists on his back. When he saw the pretty colors he jumped off the cliff. There was no mourning. The crow that started to eat his carcass threw up, and the remainder of it killed three colonies of ants. His poisonous and filthy bearing has been passed on to you by the combined curses of every woman you have caddishly attempted to speak to.
Your family is a running joke in three countries and your sadly mutilated face has been the subject of scientific speculation among the more strong-stomached set who can bear to look at you. The people you call friends only let you think that because they know no one will believe you and out of morbid curiosity about what bizarre and miserable failure you will commit next.
Your attempts at humor themselves are mildly amusing to the more purile set, but the methods with which you carry them out fail to amuse even the lice you carry aout with you like a cloak. Your crowning achievement was, after three decades of hard work, getting promoted to "special assistant manager" at the local Mcdonalds. The man who promoted you was fired on the spot ant the grade immediately removed but no one could stomach talking to you long enough to inform you about the change. Your manners are deplorable, your breath offends llamas, your stench is overwelming, your mind is sub-infantile, and you have something stuck in your teeth. When you take your place among the dammed you will make their damnation a thousand times greater. May that event happen immediately.
Yes, because translating problems from English to Programming languages is a really small part of solving problems with computers. Lady Lovelace wasted a good deal of time on something like that. Too bad she didn't realize what a waste of time it is.
Okay, I'll make it simpler for you:
Here you imply that the topic is too difficult to understand for the person to whom you are speaking. What was the utility of that implication? Do you feel that implication strengthens your argument or was it a blatent ad-honiem attack?
As long as expectations between men and women are equal, comparisons like this are meaningless.
So you do not, in fact, want equality. Did I understand you right?
You're just using sexist logic here -- men work, women stay at home, and that's why women make less.
I fail to understand how less work, less pay, whether the worker is male or female is sexist. Are you saying that failure to treat women differently (better) than men is sexist?
Well, men should take as much time off as women do. Women should work outside the home as much as men do. But even when you adjust for this by looking at families where this is true -- women still make less because of those aren't the prevalent attitudes.
You are claiming that, on the average, a woman working x hours at x position will make less money than a man working the same hours at the same position, OR that a woman who devotes the same amount of time to her career will fail to achieve x position. I think you can't prove that. I think it is factualy incorrect.
Women would likely be making the same as men if these attitudes didn't exist.
You believe that "prevalent attitudes" are keeping women from making as much money, given the same labor, as men. Again I attack your premise. Do you have proof of these claims?
You won't want to hear this but is, statistically, women make less it is indeed because, statistically, they tend to work less. It is more likely that a woman will be the one in a two parent family to: Take time off to care for a sick child, take time off to give birth/have a safe pregnency, take years out of a career to become a housewife, or to stop working after they marry. When you factor in all that time off, career-hour for career-hour, women do as well as men. I haven't studied the black people and old people thing.
Coming soon to a used car dealer near you: Firmware updates for your used car! This special piece of software will allow reconfiguration of the seats beyond the first 100 times the position is set, recognition of the 8th-16th set of tires, trouble-free oil changes past 200,000 miles, and you can even wipe the GPS reporting settings! only $3000 plus tax, consult your nearest dealer for details.