It's an MS plugin. Sandboxing is Microsoft's responsibility, since they've chosen to link it with core OS functionality. That's the difference between plugins and extensions. It's reasonable to expect extensions to be sandboxed. Plugins are on level with userspace code.
I think the visualization is fairly unimportant. New and exciting physics, on the other hand, with more realistic explosions and health effects will be interesting (though of course, never better than their old-school counterparts, only different.)
Why the fuck would that be? Now we don't have to wait a few months to cool down before sending off an asinine reply to whatever stupid shit the Martians throw at us next. Now we can insult them with only a 11 minutes of lag. That can in no way be good for diplomatic relations.
The point of having a different company run the physical layer is that anyone can build a new line, and rent it out to any ISP at a fair rate. As it is, we have mutually exclusive lines, owned by only one or two companies in most towns. So they're happy to add more bandwidth, but they don't have to because you don't have the option of using someone else's cable. The value behind this is that it doesn't matter who runs the physical layer, anyone can build new lines and sell them to multiple providers. As it is, if you build a new line, you can only sell to the company that runs the physical layer (which is also the company that runs the upper layer.)
The thing is, they can't price gouge on text with net neutrality legislation in place.
Furthermore, they want to make sure that they encourage the Republican party to draw the line in the sand and say that anything the FCC wants to do to encourage competition will cause the Internet to meltdown, so that the FCC has a partisan minefield to wade through if they want to get anything done.
Sure, but when you consider how often primes must be generated in this sort of algorithm, optimizations are very useful. (That's why most algorithms actually in use use parabolas in place of primes, generating random primes is too computationally intensive.) But research is always worthwhile to see if new approaches can be found (and often the research leads us down paths that most people would say "What can you do with that? Why the fascination with..."
If we knew it wouldn't be called research, it would be called engineering.
Today, yes. It remains to be seen if, in 15 years time, we will be able to trivially decrypt your decent encryption. Finding good ways of generating larger primes is very important until Moore's law is proven dead.
Mersennes are useful for this as someone noted above.
What can you do with plutonium? I mean, I've heard, oh it's useful in nuclear bombs, but never WHY it's useful in nuclear bombs.
You haven't heard why because you're not a fucking cryptoanalyst.
Now, if you really want a primer on primes and cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA is a good place to start. But anyone with a CS degree at least should understand the basics of why big primes make good private keys
In some states a driver's license is the only valid form of identification to purchase alcohol. So those incapable of obtaining a driver's license due to disabilities cannot drink.
(Though this may actually primarily apply to out-of-staters, as this anecdote comes to me via a friend who could not use her state ID card to purchase alcohol in Utah. Or maybe Nevada, I don't remember.)
Yeah, when I saw the headline I was prepared for a trainwreck, but this actually sounds like a really good government project. The ultimate Beowulf cluster, at the disposal of all scientists in the nation.
For quotidian stuff like purchase orders and meetings, sure, but for the sort of thing that grandkids are going to want to see, it's really hard to sort through all the junk for the personal stuff. Facebook only has personal communications.
The main shortcoming of Facebook is archival. Other than that, it's far superior for personal communication that I might otherwise do over email.
But archival is not worth the danger. My grandchildren, if they care about my correspondence, will have my email folders to look through to learn a bit about those that came before them.
I'm not necessarily saying that it's the best thing in the world in a life-and-death situation. Just that it's a good thing to have, and that in those places where wireless is good enough to ensure your phone has unfettered Wikipedia access (and you are ensured power) you probably have a computer close at hand anyway with a wired line.
There's something to be said for something that doesn't make any sound, doesn't add any light, and will run for days when you're out in the woods trying to prove P=NP over a nice campfire with marshmallows.
You're only thinking in three dimensions. The concept is that the universe doesn't end when the Higgs boson is created, it's that the universe cannot take on a structure such that an event affects one that precedes it.
It's like a corridor that proceeds in a straight line, yet is a closed circuit. It's a physical impossibility. Does that seem less anthropic of an example? I think if you extend that to four dimensions, you sort of get this outcome: anything that causes a particle to move backwards through time is impossible. Therefore, the universe will not take on such a shape.
I think the real issue here is that people would like to see us as distinct from the universe - that somehow our actions are elective, not the result of natural processes.
I don't really buy the many worlds theory, or at least, if there are many worlds, it follows that there are in fact worlds that cannot exist. Not worlds that stop existing when they violate natural laws, impossible worlds that do not exist because their existence would violate natural laws. Structural laws about arrangement of objects in space-time.
yeah, there's no use for an encyclopedia with detailed information on all edible plants out in the middle of nowhere where there's no cell access.
and you couldn't possibly find yourself in a situation where you need information but can't access your wireless, despite being in a 'covered' area, cell phone coverage is, practically, perfect.
Oh, also, power outages. Infrastructure is all well and good, but having all the knowledge you need about the world around you at your fingertips regardless of the state of the outside world is great.
I'd say the places that matter the most are precisely the places that don't have cell access.
The actual quote was something about it being possible to know the answer to life, the universe, and everything, or the question, but not both, because in the event that we knew both the universe would end and be replaced by something even more incomprehensible.
There are some who suggest this has already happened, perhaps several times.
Well, that's precisely it. The statement doesn't make a lot of sense.
The Higgs boson, if it were created, would destroy the universe. But it wouldn't just destroy the universe in the future - it would also destroy the past. The creation of a Higgs boson is therefore a physical impossibility, not because it can't be done, but because its creation is undone once it is done. (A universe cannot contain such a temporal paradox.)
Reducing the amount of tax dollars at their disposal just increases the number of dollars at the disposal of Wall Street. Basically you trade an imperfect democracy for a veiled oligarchy.
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It's an MS plugin. Sandboxing is Microsoft's responsibility, since they've chosen to link it with core OS functionality. That's the difference between plugins and extensions. It's reasonable to expect extensions to be sandboxed. Plugins are on level with userspace code.
I think the visualization is fairly unimportant. New and exciting physics, on the other hand, with more realistic explosions and health effects will be interesting (though of course, never better than their old-school counterparts, only different.)
This is a .NET vulnerability, on MS Windows. Firefox being the vehicle is entirely Microsoft's fault as the maintainer of the .NET plugin.
No, it was Windows 3.11.
Well, ok, technically AOL was making it possible, but they still couldn't have done it without Microsoft.
Why the fuck would that be? Now we don't have to wait a few months to cool down before sending off an asinine reply to whatever stupid shit the Martians throw at us next. Now we can insult them with only a 11 minutes of lag. That can in no way be good for diplomatic relations.
You're a dumbass.
The point of having a different company run the physical layer is that anyone can build a new line, and rent it out to any ISP at a fair rate. As it is, we have mutually exclusive lines, owned by only one or two companies in most towns. So they're happy to add more bandwidth, but they don't have to because you don't have the option of using someone else's cable. The value behind this is that it doesn't matter who runs the physical layer, anyone can build new lines and sell them to multiple providers. As it is, if you build a new line, you can only sell to the company that runs the physical layer (which is also the company that runs the upper layer.)
The thing is, they can't price gouge on text with net neutrality legislation in place.
Furthermore, they want to make sure that they encourage the Republican party to draw the line in the sand and say that anything the FCC wants to do to encourage competition will cause the Internet to meltdown, so that the FCC has a partisan minefield to wade through if they want to get anything done.
Given a throttle to adjust how fast the view moved as you walked, it would be anything but mundane.
Not that much more impressive than seeing streetview on a large screen, but still not mundane.
Sure, but when you consider how often primes must be generated in this sort of algorithm, optimizations are very useful. (That's why most algorithms actually in use use parabolas in place of primes, generating random primes is too computationally intensive.) But research is always worthwhile to see if new approaches can be found (and often the research leads us down paths that most people would say "What can you do with that? Why the fascination with..."
If we knew it wouldn't be called research, it would be called engineering.
Today, yes. It remains to be seen if, in 15 years time, we will be able to trivially decrypt your decent encryption. Finding good ways of generating larger primes is very important until Moore's law is proven dead.
Mersennes are useful for this as someone noted above.
What can you do with plutonium? I mean, I've heard, oh it's useful in nuclear bombs, but never WHY it's useful in nuclear bombs.
You haven't heard why because you're not a fucking cryptoanalyst.
Now, if you really want a primer on primes and cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA is a good place to start. But anyone with a CS degree at least should understand the basics of why big primes make good private keys
In some states a driver's license is the only valid form of identification to purchase alcohol. So those incapable of obtaining a driver's license due to disabilities cannot drink.
(Though this may actually primarily apply to out-of-staters, as this anecdote comes to me via a friend who could not use her state ID card to purchase alcohol in Utah. Or maybe Nevada, I don't remember.)
I just got a Core 2 duo with a full machine, total cost came out to about $650, I installed the Ubuntu Karmic Alpha on it, and I love my PC again.
Well, it says thousands of Nehalems, and 1-2000 will easily cost 1,000,000 for the processors alone, so the hardware could easily be 5 million.
Yeah, when I saw the headline I was prepared for a trainwreck, but this actually sounds like a really good government project. The ultimate Beowulf cluster, at the disposal of all scientists in the nation.
The closed source parts of Safari are just chrome, there's not any real reason to release them.
Nvidia's getting out of the chipset market so fast they're actually releasing new products already.
For quotidian stuff like purchase orders and meetings, sure, but for the sort of thing that grandkids are going to want to see, it's really hard to sort through all the junk for the personal stuff. Facebook only has personal communications.
The main shortcoming of Facebook is archival. Other than that, it's far superior for personal communication that I might otherwise do over email.
But archival is not worth the danger. My grandchildren, if they care about my correspondence, will have my email folders to look through to learn a bit about those that came before them.
I'm not necessarily saying that it's the best thing in the world in a life-and-death situation. Just that it's a good thing to have, and that in those places where wireless is good enough to ensure your phone has unfettered Wikipedia access (and you are ensured power) you probably have a computer close at hand anyway with a wired line.
There's something to be said for something that doesn't make any sound, doesn't add any light, and will run for days when you're out in the woods trying to prove P=NP over a nice campfire with marshmallows.
You're only thinking in three dimensions. The concept is that the universe doesn't end when the Higgs boson is created, it's that the universe cannot take on a structure such that an event affects one that precedes it.
It's like a corridor that proceeds in a straight line, yet is a closed circuit. It's a physical impossibility. Does that seem less anthropic of an example? I think if you extend that to four dimensions, you sort of get this outcome: anything that causes a particle to move backwards through time is impossible. Therefore, the universe will not take on such a shape.
I think the real issue here is that people would like to see us as distinct from the universe - that somehow our actions are elective, not the result of natural processes.
I don't really buy the many worlds theory, or at least, if there are many worlds, it follows that there are in fact worlds that cannot exist. Not worlds that stop existing when they violate natural laws, impossible worlds that do not exist because their existence would violate natural laws. Structural laws about arrangement of objects in space-time.
yeah, there's no use for an encyclopedia with detailed information on all edible plants out in the middle of nowhere where there's no cell access.
and you couldn't possibly find yourself in a situation where you need information but can't access your wireless, despite being in a 'covered' area, cell phone coverage is, practically, perfect.
Oh, also, power outages. Infrastructure is all well and good, but having all the knowledge you need about the world around you at your fingertips regardless of the state of the outside world is great.
I'd say the places that matter the most are precisely the places that don't have cell access.
The actual quote was something about it being possible to know the answer to life, the universe, and everything, or the question, but not both, because in the event that we knew both the universe would end and be replaced by something even more incomprehensible.
There are some who suggest this has already happened, perhaps several times.
(But I too am pleased to paraphrase.)
Well, that's precisely it. The statement doesn't make a lot of sense.
The Higgs boson, if it were created, would destroy the universe. But it wouldn't just destroy the universe in the future - it would also destroy the past. The creation of a Higgs boson is therefore a physical impossibility, not because it can't be done, but because its creation is undone once it is done. (A universe cannot contain such a temporal paradox.)
Reducing the amount of tax dollars at their disposal just increases the number of dollars at the disposal of Wall Street. Basically you trade an imperfect democracy for a veiled oligarchy.