The photographer did not need to enlarge the British soldier to paste the one weapon position into the child-holding picture. Neither edit is appropriate. The two events that were pasted together did apparently happen within a few seconds of each other, but in no reality was the soldier a giant.
or use telephoto to change the size-distance ratio of objects.
Well in this photograph the computer was used to make the U.S. soldier look insanely larger than the mouse-sized Iraqis. While I understand the symbolism of shepard and sheep that the photographer was aiming for, it's extremely unethical to alter a photograph in this way, imposing artificial symbolism, and then presenting it to the public as factual news.
In the actual photograph, the soldier looks the same size as the citizens, human to human. In news, truth is infinitely better than someone's fantasy wish for what the image should be.
but $10 says he didn't see it was already duped several other times
Good point, maybe that's why he linked to the other 4 copies in his post.
The key is to deceive, in a comical way.
Or to prank, or mock. April Fools is a rather flexible holiday.
There are two cases. One, your day was horribly ruined by Slashdot's annual April Fools celebration. (That would just be sad.) Or two, you like to whine and moan.
Once a year Slashdot gets to play with its users, and be completely pointless. That's entirely the point of the ritual, they do it just fine, and most of us enjoy it.:)
SMH in Australia (which also has a small number of forces deployed) is running an article titled Dead Bodies are Everywhere. For now, that's probably the best a news outlet can do, since that's all that's known for certain.
The majority of the populace of bahgdad(sp) Has left for the countryside. \ There were still cars driving around Baghdad yesterday on the live news feeds.
Firstly, the population of Iraq is approximately 22 million, and there are 400,000 people in the Iraqi military. That means that on average, each Iraqi citizen personally knows about 15 times more soldiers in this conflict than each American citizen knows. Do you honestly think you can treat the Iraqi military and citizenry as such distinctly separate entities?
And secondly, the "Shock and Awe" campaign must feel pretty real to the citizens crouching in their homes near the exploding bombs. "Oh that one didn't hit me, I'm still alive," is a pretty shitty way to spend your day. Don't expect that experience to be followed by flowing sympathy.
Waiting months on end for the rest of the world to be even slightly honest
In almost any situation, the line of reasoning "The rest of the world is wrong and I'm the only one who can see the truth," is probably wrong. Give the world some credit, much of humanity does a good job of thinking.
Sure, except that we aren't shooting anyone's homes.
There has never EVER been a war where civilians haven't died in significant numbers.
Are their any anti-war zealots that aren't totally misinformed?
Have you ever studied history?
If you want to support any war, then fine, I hope you have your reasons for wanting that war and I hope you realize the significance of it. But don't ever expect it to be without horrifying casualties, that would be completely naive.
But the tradition of exclusivity goes back many thousands of years before the tradition of collectivism.
Actually, the tradition of collectivism by definition MUST predate exclusivity. All intellectual property exclusivity revolves around exclusive rights to subsets of a collectively agreed upon communication method. The communication method itself must be collective to at all be communication. Collectivism, cooperative development, and sharing of ideas are the only thing that make sense for a tribe trying to survive. Primitively, exclusivity is only useful for identification and artistic distinguishment of the self (which would include things as simple as a name, and could also include things like the aboriginal songs that you mentioned).
Quantum Cryptography works because measurinng one component of a particles spin alters the other components. This also has the added effect of alerting you to any listeners if the amount of particles with the wrong spin is statistically too high to be due to environmental effects
It does not alert you to any listeners, only to passive observers. An active man-in-the-middle can still sit between if there is no authentication.
And in addition, what do you think is the general applicability of quantum cryptography given that it does not support authentication protocols? Can it be effectively merged with classical authentication protocols, and can any of these still remain effective during the quantum computing era?
"Where will it end?" wailed Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, 54, who designs needlepoint patterns. "I just don't understand how these [people] can stitch a stolen angel and still live with themselves."
Hearing insightful statements like this being made anywhere in the world makes me wish I could go back to the first invention of the word copyright, and whisper inside the head of the person who thought it up, "No, saleright would be a much better name." The natural feeling way of things is that, if you want to grant exclusivity for anything, grant it so that only one company has the right to sell something for profit. This would even mean only the saleright holder would be allowed to sell for radio play, since radio stations make money on commercials.
But due to the unfortunate coincidence that the government granted exclusivity was labelled "copyright", it became clustered with the idea that duplicating something is evil, and thus friends sharing with each other are being evil. Behold the power of a word.
If you swapped every existence of the word copyright in modern times with the word saleright, the world would be a much more sensible place.
If you can entangle 5 qubits, you can encode a single qubit worth of information with quantum error correction (such that if any 3 of 5 qubits maintain coherence, the state is preserved), provided you can maintain coherence long enough to perform a quantum error correction cycle. So all you need is 5 times as many qubits as you need to perform your calculation, and you can perform arbitrarilly long calculations.
It's theorized that solid state QC's have a very good chance of scaling to large numbers of qubits, enabling such quantum error correction algorithms to be used and thus solving the decoherence problem.
A few hundred here, a few hundred there, sooner or later you're talking about real money. On the order of the purchase price of several desktop machines...
Yes, those are exactly the commitments it DOES take to find new and better ways to do things. And don't kid yourself into thinking designing a space ferry is easy. NASA exists to find out how to do these things well so that eventually, someday, every highschooler will know the "obvious" way to design an efficient craft to get to space and back. Progressing through these generations of designs will cost lives, will take many decades, and will costs many billions. The rewards are immeasurable, and unavoidable. The frontier-seeking spirit of humanity can't be suppressed.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's not forget QCL (Quantum Computing Language) developed by Bernhard Oemer (a slashdotter) in 1998.
The photographer did not need to enlarge the British soldier to paste the one weapon position into the child-holding picture. Neither edit is appropriate. The two events that were pasted together did apparently happen within a few seconds of each other, but in no reality was the soldier a giant.
or use telephoto to change the size-distance ratio of objects.
Well in this photograph the computer was used to make the U.S. soldier look insanely larger than the mouse-sized Iraqis. While I understand the symbolism of shepard and sheep that the photographer was aiming for, it's extremely unethical to alter a photograph in this way, imposing artificial symbolism, and then presenting it to the public as factual news.
In the actual photograph, the soldier looks the same size as the citizens, human to human. In news, truth is infinitely better than someone's fantasy wish for what the image should be.
but $10 says he didn't see it was already duped several other times
:)
Good point, maybe that's why he linked to the other 4 copies in his post.
The key is to deceive, in a comical way.
Or to prank, or mock. April Fools is a rather flexible holiday.
There are two cases. One, your day was horribly ruined by Slashdot's annual April Fools celebration. (That would just be sad.) Or two, you like to whine and moan.
Once a year Slashdot gets to play with its users, and be completely pointless. That's entirely the point of the ritual, they do it just fine, and most of us enjoy it.
SMH in Australia (which also has a small number of forces deployed) is running an article titled Dead Bodies are Everywhere. For now, that's probably the best a news outlet can do, since that's all that's known for certain.
The majority of the populace of bahgdad(sp) Has left for the countryside.
\
There were still cars driving around Baghdad yesterday on the live news feeds.
Firstly, the population of Iraq is approximately 22 million, and there are 400,000 people in the Iraqi military. That means that on average, each Iraqi citizen personally knows about 15 times more soldiers in this conflict than each American citizen knows. Do you honestly think you can treat the Iraqi military and citizenry as such distinctly separate entities?
And secondly, the "Shock and Awe" campaign must feel pretty real to the citizens crouching in their homes near the exploding bombs. "Oh that one didn't hit me, I'm still alive," is a pretty shitty way to spend your day. Don't expect that experience to be followed by flowing sympathy.
Waiting months on end for the rest of the world to be even slightly honest
In almost any situation, the line of reasoning "The rest of the world is wrong and I'm the only one who can see the truth," is probably wrong. Give the world some credit, much of humanity does a good job of thinking.
Sure, except that we aren't shooting anyone's homes.
There has never EVER been a war where civilians haven't died in significant numbers.
Are their any anti-war zealots that aren't totally misinformed?
Have you ever studied history?
If you want to support any war, then fine, I hope you have your reasons for wanting that war and I hope you realize the significance of it. But don't ever expect it to be without horrifying casualties, that would be completely naive.
Oh, but "Shock and Awe" is the best strategy to use to win friends in a country you're trying to liberate.
"I am shocked and in awe of the bombs exploding around me, I think I will like them now."
Boy, it's a good thing Galileo, Magellan, and Columbus all had their trusty GPS systems available back then, isn't it?
Columbus thought he landed in India.
Which sane person would rely on GPS data for something even as trivial as navigation?
Have you tried navigating by the stars during the day lately? The blue room can be a big scary place.
But the tradition of exclusivity goes back many thousands of years before the tradition of collectivism.
Actually, the tradition of collectivism by definition MUST predate exclusivity. All intellectual property exclusivity revolves around exclusive rights to subsets of a collectively agreed upon communication method. The communication method itself must be collective to at all be communication. Collectivism, cooperative development, and sharing of ideas are the only thing that make sense for a tribe trying to survive. Primitively, exclusivity is only useful for identification and artistic distinguishment of the self (which would include things as simple as a name, and could also include things like the aboriginal songs that you mentioned).
Well, it's about 11.803 pico-seconds per light year.
That's approximately three quintillion (3x10^18) times the speed of light. That would certainly be some genuine innovation on the part of Microsoft.
And Rob Malda has a Natalie Portman number of 3 as well.
Counterexample : Mathematics
Why choose a particular set of axioms? Why does that set of axioms yield meaningful results that apply to the real world?
is there any way I can be sure my system hasn't been rootkitted without doing a clean install?
No. Absolutely not.
You could check for specific rootkits which leave traces behind, but there is no way to find arbitrary rootkits.
Without authentication, Alice securely communicating with Eve and Eve securely communicating with Bob is in no way discernable by Alice and Bob.
Quantum Cryptography works because measurinng one component of a particles spin alters the other components. This also has the added effect of alerting you to any listeners if the amount of particles with the wrong spin is statistically too high to be due to environmental effects
It does not alert you to any listeners, only to passive observers. An active man-in-the-middle can still sit between if there is no authentication.
And in addition, what do you think is the general applicability of quantum cryptography given that it does not support authentication protocols? Can it be effectively merged with classical authentication protocols, and can any of these still remain effective during the quantum computing era?
Its a fact its needed large fields to plant sugar cane
The question is, does this produce a better or worse energy-output / land-mass ratio when compared to artificially processed solar energy?
"Where will it end?" wailed Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, 54, who designs needlepoint patterns. "I just don't understand how these [people] can stitch a stolen angel and still live with themselves."
Hearing insightful statements like this being made anywhere in the world makes me wish I could go back to the first invention of the word copyright, and whisper inside the head of the person who thought it up, "No, saleright would be a much better name." The natural feeling way of things is that, if you want to grant exclusivity for anything, grant it so that only one company has the right to sell something for profit. This would even mean only the saleright holder would be allowed to sell for radio play, since radio stations make money on commercials.
But due to the unfortunate coincidence that the government granted exclusivity was labelled "copyright", it became clustered with the idea that duplicating something is evil, and thus friends sharing with each other are being evil. Behold the power of a word.
If you swapped every existence of the word copyright in modern times with the word saleright, the world would be a much more sensible place.
If you can entangle 5 qubits, you can encode a single qubit worth of information with quantum error correction (such that if any 3 of 5 qubits maintain coherence, the state is preserved), provided you can maintain coherence long enough to perform a quantum error correction cycle. So all you need is 5 times as many qubits as you need to perform your calculation, and you can perform arbitrarilly long calculations.
It's theorized that solid state QC's have a very good chance of scaling to large numbers of qubits, enabling such quantum error correction algorithms to be used and thus solving the decoherence problem.
A few hundred here, a few hundred there, sooner or later you're talking about real money. On the order of the purchase price of several desktop machines...
*removes parent poster from horse*
Yes, those are exactly the commitments it DOES take to find new and better ways to do things. And don't kid yourself into thinking designing a space ferry is easy. NASA exists to find out how to do these things well so that eventually, someday, every highschooler will know the "obvious" way to design an efficient craft to get to space and back. Progressing through these generations of designs will cost lives, will take many decades, and will costs many billions. The rewards are immeasurable, and unavoidable. The frontier-seeking spirit of humanity can't be suppressed.