I do not believe that this is the case. The fact is when the money is tight, the admins and accountants don't recommend downsizing their own department. I have seen Engineering companies with less than half the staff are engineers. At one university i worked at, half of the *total* travel budget was getting 1st and 2nd class tickets for the admin staff to fly around the country. By the way the country is NZ, where no flight is longer than 1 hour.
Vast doesn't even begin to describe it. Even as far away as NZ, a entire container load cost little more than the shipping--or less than 1 dollar a rifle. Ammo was also stupid cheap. If that is what we got 25000km away, i can only imagine how much got to Africa, about 1 week of shipping away (guessing).
I don't know about the rifles, but i know that disposing of the tons of ammo was expensive, so if you wanted it, it was free. You just paid the shipping.
Handful? I don't know what it is like in the US. But I don't know a single iPhone user that doesn't have their phone jail broken same will all my Daughters friends with iPhones. There are not high tech folk, they are mostly biologists or high school kids that don't know the difference between wav files and a MP3s.
The radiation you get from a several hour flight is more than what you get from a backscatter device..
We don't know that. You don't know that. What we do know that it is physically possible to build such a device that does give such a small dose. We also know that this is much more expensive than using cheaper detectors and xray sources and just upping the dose significantly. We also know that they have refused to test/certify the machines properly as all other medical xray equipment is.
We just don't know what the dose is. We also don't even know if the machines get any kind of proper calibration and testing like this type of equipment typically needs.
Badly calibrated medical equipment has killed people. It does not follow that machines that don't have proper 3rd party review and testing is safe.
No we don't. Last time I went via China and still didn't get a pat down, just a metal detector. I fly out in 1 week to japan via China again next week. I would bet dollars and cents that i won't get pat down. And even *if* you manage to set the metal detectors off, the pat down is a dignified shadow of what the TSA calls a pat down.
Habitat removal is a *far* bigger problem for most species. If you want to care for the environment, you would do less AGW debating and more conservation. Its like worrying about ocean acidification, there aren't going to be any fish left by then.
Believe it or not, we have bigger fish to fry that CO2 and some snow in a desert.
Younger generations? Like my 59 year old mum and 65 year old step dad? I am the only one without a facebook account in my entire extended family. Facebook beat myspace because it has better general appeal. Not just the younger folks.
Only thing is that complexity of a quantum computer is *not* linear with qbits, its quadratic or far worse (exponential). We are currently only seeing linear growth of qbits, and even that is a stretch since the number of logic operations is very very limited.
Of course there could be a breakthrough. But even then things like the factoring of numbers still needs a massive amount of qbit operations in addition to classical operations. On top of all that we have only a handful of useful algorithms on these things.
At any rate if experts in the field are so pessimistic, then i think its a good bet. After all these are the experts.
This is really not true at all. Not only do they need at least a 1024 qbit computer at least, it still needs a massive amount of operations (both classical logic and quantum operations). Current optimistic estimates for a quantum computer still put it in the slower than classical or still so slow that it doesn't matter. And all you need to do is add a single bit to your key, since you cannot emulate a larger register than what you have in quantum computing.
I have a lot of friends in the field. Not one of them believes that quantum computing will ever be a viable way of cracking ECC and RSA. There is a very small minority who thinks it can. But most won't say it can't work too loudly lest their funding agency's get wind of it.
I would take it further. Independent invention should not only be a defense, but also proof of "obviousness". Hence the original patent is then nullified.
The universe is not required to work they way you want it too. There really may be 17 or more "constants" without explanation. There is no reason to expect otherwise. We may hope otherwise, but that is not the same thing.
The universe has no obligation to reducible/explained to/by some "elegant model".
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I do not believe that this is the case. The fact is when the money is tight, the admins and accountants don't recommend downsizing their own department. I have seen Engineering companies with less than half the staff are engineers. At one university i worked at, half of the *total* travel budget was getting 1st and 2nd class tickets for the admin staff to fly around the country. By the way the country is NZ, where no flight is longer than 1 hour.
There have been a number of successful attacks on TOR. Sure it is more anonymous, but not completely so.
for some reason the html link on mobile phones didn't work! Raw link: http://xkcd.com/925/
I think its caused by Mobile Phones.
Vast doesn't even begin to describe it. Even as far away as NZ, a entire container load cost little more than the shipping--or less than 1 dollar a rifle. Ammo was also stupid cheap. If that is what we got 25000km away, i can only imagine how much got to Africa, about 1 week of shipping away (guessing).
I don't know about the rifles, but i know that disposing of the tons of ammo was expensive, so if you wanted it, it was free. You just paid the shipping.
And railroads. Don't forget the railroads.
Handful? I don't know what it is like in the US. But I don't know a single iPhone user that doesn't have their phone jail broken same will all my Daughters friends with iPhones. There are not high tech folk, they are mostly biologists or high school kids that don't know the difference between wav files and a MP3s.
The radiation you get from a several hour flight is more than what you get from a backscatter device..
We don't know that. You don't know that. What we do know that it is physically possible to build such a device that does give such a small dose. We also know that this is much more expensive than using cheaper detectors and xray sources and just upping the dose significantly. We also know that they have refused to test/certify the machines properly as all other medical xray equipment is.
We just don't know what the dose is. We also don't even know if the machines get any kind of proper calibration and testing like this type of equipment typically needs.
Badly calibrated medical equipment has killed people. It does not follow that machines that don't have proper 3rd party review and testing is safe.
No we don't. Last time I went via China and still didn't get a pat down, just a metal detector. I fly out in 1 week to japan via China again next week. I would bet dollars and cents that i won't get pat down. And even *if* you manage to set the metal detectors off, the pat down is a dignified shadow of what the TSA calls a pat down.
I no longer get connecting flights in the US. I know that most of my colleges are the same now too. We only fly to US if we absolutely need to.
Its a shame really, once past the airports its a nice place to visit (yea pretty much all of it).
Habitat removal is a *far* bigger problem for most species. If you want to care for the environment, you would do less AGW debating and more conservation. Its like worrying about ocean acidification, there aren't going to be any fish left by then.
Believe it or not, we have bigger fish to fry that CO2 and some snow in a desert.
What if there is only one ISP in your area?
Younger generations? Like my 59 year old mum and 65 year old step dad? I am the only one without a facebook account in my entire extended family. Facebook beat myspace because it has better general appeal. Not just the younger folks.
Only thing is that complexity of a quantum computer is *not* linear with qbits, its quadratic or far worse (exponential). We are currently only seeing linear growth of qbits, and even that is a stretch since the number of logic operations is very very limited.
Of course there could be a breakthrough. But even then things like the factoring of numbers still needs a massive amount of qbit operations in addition to classical operations. On top of all that we have only a handful of useful algorithms on these things.
At any rate if experts in the field are so pessimistic, then i think its a good bet. After all these are the experts.
This is really not true at all. Not only do they need at least a 1024 qbit computer at least, it still needs a massive amount of operations (both classical logic and quantum operations). Current optimistic estimates for a quantum computer still put it in the slower than classical or still so slow that it doesn't matter. And all you need to do is add a single bit to your key, since you cannot emulate a larger register than what you have in quantum computing.
I have a lot of friends in the field. Not one of them believes that quantum computing will ever be a viable way of cracking ECC and RSA. There is a very small minority who thinks it can. But most won't say it can't work too loudly lest their funding agency's get wind of it.
Many of us don't view based on mods.
Also at least in Germany, the teams get fines IIRC for rioting fans.
I would take it further. Independent invention should not only be a defense, but also proof of "obviousness". Hence the original patent is then nullified.
EU cops wouldn't ever do that.EU cops wouldn't ever do that.
It not common here. But it does happen. EU cops are thugs sometimes too.
The universe is not required to work they way you want it too. There really may be 17 or more "constants" without explanation. There is no reason to expect otherwise. We may hope otherwise, but that is not the same thing.
The universe has no obligation to reducible/explained to/by some "elegant model".
They want their cake, and they want to sell you the cake and then they want to eat *both* cakes!
Common knowledge is not correct knowledge. You have the burden of proof truthiness guy.
Citation required.
The last few DVD i got didn't play on any of my 3 computers or the DVD player. They refused to give me a refund.
Solar and wind already power some German cities.
No it doesn't. At best is supplements other sources.