"Unless I sold it to you" or unless I clicked through a EULA that effectively waived all my privacy rights just so I could play SomeVille and see cat photos posted by my friends for 'free'.
For Alice and Bob to send the results of their measurements to Victor before Victor made his decision to entangle or not, they'd have to find a way to send that information faster than the photons can travel, regardless of the length of the cable.
On the other hand—they could instead slow down the photons considerably (down to 9.7km/s last I heard). Not sure, though, if slowing down the photons affects the entanglement.
If something denser, like a star were to fall in, I doubt that the radiation pressure would push it away.
IANAAP either, but while we're speculating from our armchairs -- unless that star were dense enough on its own wouldn't it break apart (into its component gases) as it reached the black hole's Roche limit?
In fact, the article itself states:
Their quasar-pumping conversion of matter to outward-beamed energy as they consume gas, dust and the occasional unlucky star...
Maybe a neutron star would fit the bill, or another black hole -- but the article doesn't take either into account.
What's even more disturbing is if this trend (for companies to impose EULAs/DRM over hardware that you've purchased or the software running on them) continues as we move more toward ubiquitous, embedded computing.
What's next?! I buy an sweater but can only wear it with 'approved' shirts? I buy pants but can only wash them in 'approved' washing machines? I change the buttons on my coat and that opens me up to liability/prosecution for 'hacking'?
Slashdot Mirror
I think this qualifies as a pointed argument.
"Unless I sold it to you" or unless I clicked through a EULA that effectively waived all my privacy rights just so I could play SomeVille and see cat photos posted by my friends for 'free'.
Honest question (IANAL): if APIs can't be copyrighted, then does that mean glibc or the Linux kernel can't be protected under the GPL?
For Alice and Bob to send the results of their measurements to Victor before Victor made his decision to entangle or not, they'd have to find a way to send that information faster than the photons can travel, regardless of the length of the cable.
On the other hand—they could instead slow down the photons considerably (down to 9.7km/s last I heard). Not sure, though, if slowing down the photons affects the entanglement.
Add some piezo-electric thingie and harvest energy every time the user presses a key.
Since we know that question is coming...
I thought the question was:
Yes, but does it run Linux?
If all life ceased, the universe would carry on and not care.
If a singularity exploded without an observer, would it make a universe?
If something denser, like a star were to fall in, I doubt that the radiation pressure would push it away.
IANAAP either, but while we're speculating from our armchairs -- unless that star were dense enough on its own wouldn't it break apart (into its component gases) as it reached the black hole's Roche limit?
In fact, the article itself states:
Their quasar-pumping conversion of matter to outward-beamed energy as they consume gas, dust and the occasional unlucky star...
Maybe a neutron star would fit the bill, or another black hole -- but the article doesn't take either into account.
your code will put anything not java into perl
And Perl will probably run it anyway...
What's even more disturbing is if this trend (for companies to impose EULAs/DRM over hardware that you've purchased or the software running on them) continues as we move more toward ubiquitous, embedded computing.
What's next?! I buy an sweater but can only wear it with 'approved' shirts? I buy pants but can only wash them in 'approved' washing machines? I change the buttons on my coat and that opens me up to liability/prosecution for 'hacking'?