Well, the 'other' part that I've heard about entanglement is that once they're entangled, any change to the spin (I think its the spin) in one object is also seen instantaneously in the other object. And I mean instantaneously, the quantum state doesn't seem to travel the intermittant distance.
Here's a reference, its just an abstract of a 2001 seminar, but it outlines the kinds of things we're talking about:
http://www.physics.umass.edu/seminars/abstract$gro up=2001a&key=s00000035
What about a man in the middle attack? You buy your entangled photon pair from my SneakyFactory. What I really sell you is two unrelated photons, while keeping their "actual" twins in my factory. Long before I delivered you your pair, I've set up my end of things to immediately record whatever comes in, and communicate it to the other photon.
Is there anything that stops this sort of attack? The only thing I can imagine is some sort of timing measurement..
I think what they're trying to do here is set up a system with which the easiest way to get new applications is to get new Java applications through JWS.
If you haven't used JWS, go and install the plugin and try it out. A friend of mine wrote a class diagram / UML tool called The Virtual Bar Napkin. If you have JWS installed, you can hit the link on his webpage and the application is running in a few seconds.
He didn't have to write an installer, or deal with a page saying "for this version, click here, for that version, click there".
And to clarify, It is not an applet. It's an application, running in its own window, etc. Furthermore, it is actually installed on your system, and you can access it later through the regular menu system (on windows) without having to be connected to the net. Upgrading to new versions is just as trivial.
JWS is a great example of the promise of Java. Write your client application, distribute it seamlessly, update it in near real time, and avoid all the nonsense with servlets and sessions and HTML + javascript web interface nightmare.
So long as this gets us closer to that, I'm interested.
Two years ago, (almost three), Java performance on Solaris wasn't very good. Why? Because it didn't need to be. As this article points out, Sun had better things to do two years ago than tune the JVM on a platform that it wasn't being used for.
If anything, this memo is an example of how things are working properly. Engineers complained, and things changed. If you look at some of the modern benchmarking linked from the provided site rather than ancient gossip, you'll see that the Solaris JVM is on par with the Windows JVM. Granted, they both need improvement in memory footprint and startup time, but the point still stands, the Solaris JVM is not lagging behind the Windows implementation.
I got an email the other day saying that they're upgrading my upstream for free, permanently. Considering that I have a contract, that's an extremely nice gesture...
If the system were set up so that you could contribute to a 'bounty', then the system would scale even better.
Some central board on a project, like the gnome project, would administer the bounties. If its bothering you, add to the bounty. Eventually its enough money to be a proper incentive.
Like the gnome bounties, the board itself would have to choose the best solution, so as a bounty contributor (the person sending the money) you'd give up that control. A minor giveaway, and something you probably don't have time to do anyway.
The problem is, most people aren't serious about cycle commuting.:)
Right. There's a difference between being "too lazy" and "not serious about it".
I'm saying that just because you refuse to bike in -13 degrees through sleet and snow on your separate winter bike in your special cold-biking suit with your work clothes on your back across salt-covered roads, you do not fit the definition of "a lazy person".
That's what I was saying originally, that its not that people are "too lazy", its that the barriers to commuting by bike are higher than just pedaling your fat ass all the way to work.
I recommend voting for mass transit construction funded by car and gasoline taxes.
So lack of bike routes, combined with the fact that most people live too far away from their jobs to make biking practicable (again a subjective observation based on experience in DC, Baltimore and Memphis), means that you won't be seeing a massive shift to bikes any time soon. Plus people are lazy.
Plus people don't want to experience the Memphis summer and the DC winter on a bicycle.
Biking isn't a real, full-time option. Biking's nice, and it certainly should be possible, but the real answer is public transportation. Without it, you have to own and drive a car anyway.
Not wanting to bike to work when its 105 or -10 and sleeting isn't lazy, its self preservation.
Our plants are safe, no significant problem has been reported since the beginning of the program (like 50 years ago).
Hey, that's great! You've only got 149,950 more years to go!
I barely trust our governments and society to properly dispose of yesterday's newspaper, let alone radioactive waste that will be dangerous for millenia.
-Zipwow
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Last I heard they would let you do it, but you had to handle the billing. It's still nice, most places don't want you to do that at all.
Why do we honor the president who illegally deported thousands of native americans, stealing their land, and causing their deaths, with a place on our money?
Its not like he didn't know it was wrong, either. The Cherokee were a highly "integrated" group of people, and got legal representation. The Supreme Court granted them the victory in their case, Worcester vs. Georgia, 1832. Did this matter to Jackson? Not in the least. In defiance of the ruling and the constitution's separation of powers, he deported them anyway.
Why do we honor this guy? I know there aren't many saints among our presidents, but can't we pick somebody else who at least didn't kill people and steal their land?
Even more, why should you have to pay them again to people who don't own the lines?
If VoIP is the way to go, leave it unregulated, and let the phone companies do it instead of their regular phone service. They can become providers of general connectivity instead of sound in a can.
What's standing in the way of that? Isn't that a better solution anyway?
I have to disagree, I've seen two people using Segways recently that made a lot of sense.
The first was a utilities worker, who has to check gauges around downtown here in Seattle. I walked past him when the segway was stopped, and he was crouching down looking into the little door on the sidewalk. Moments later, he steppd onto the segway and whipped past me to the next point where he got off and did his job again. He used the handles of the segway like a belt, and had the tools of his trade hanging from it.
The second was the sanitation crew at the Pike Place Market, a sort of outdoor grocery, craft store, and food court. Two people, both on segways with their equipment hanging from the 'handlebars', this time pulling a little trailer holding trash. They looked very efficient, since 'cleanup opportunities' were somewhat spread apart among the different little niches where tables are found.
Makes a lot of sense for letter carriers as well, I would think.
I'll grant that $1000 is too much for personal use, but what happens when a segway costs the same as a bicycle? I'd ride one to work if I couldn't bike.
I applaud the faith in humanity that the proponents of nuclear power have, but to believe that we'll be able to safely handle the waste for the next 200,000 years is just going too far.
Furthermore, you mention using breeder reactors, in order to make the most usage of the fuel as possible. No doubt you're aware, but fail to mention, that the final product (beyond electricity) of a breeder reactor is Plutonium.
I don't think it is ethically responsible to advocate the creation of a power source that will create thousands of tons(*) of plutonium each year, and expect that all that plutonium will remain unused, contained, and out of the "wrong" hands for the next two hundred millenia.
There are options apart from nuclear (fission) that we can explore (wind, waves, sun, conservation).
To be pithy, I'd rather risk global warming than nuclear winter.
-Zipwow
* tons of plutonium: Taking the Gipper at his word that all the waste from a reactor in a year will fit under his desk, lets say that's a cubic meter of plutonium. We'll round down the number of plants in your estimate to 500 for easy calculations. That's 500 cubic meters of plutonium, per year. Webelements says that plutonium weighs 19816kg per cubic meter. 500 * 19816 = 9908000kg. Google says that 1ton = 907.18474 kg, so we're talking about 10,921 TONS of waste, per year. For the united states.
Gore said in an interview with CNN (and published by Wired), in response to a question about what makes his experiences as a legislator unique:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
He never said the word "invented". The question he responds to is about his leadership in congress, so its equally obvious that he's not claiming to have created it technically. Also, he's referring to the public 'Internet', not hoary old Arpanet back in the 60's.
His specific actions begin with the NSF and the NSFNet in the late 1980s. Many of the speeches he made from that time (when Apple II's were big) use "data highway", and argue for additional research into computer networking. Particularly interesting is this quote in 1986:
"But I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network and the broader installation of lower capacity fiber optic cables to all parts of this country, will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses with access to supercomputing capability being very, very widespread. [...] Once that network for supercomputing is in place, you're going to have a lot more people gaining access to the capability, developing an interest in it."
During that time, he argued for more research into networking technologies, and was a member of the committe that oversaw the National Science Foundation when they created the NSFNet. He brought this early involvement into legislative action in 1991 with the High Performance Computing Act.
But don't take my word for it. Vint Cerf, the actual inventor of IP (as in TCP/IP), has gone on record saying:
"He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be"
Most of this information comes from this website: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_ 10/wiggins/
How many times does this hoax have to be debunked? -Zipwow
Vulcanization was patented in 1838 by Nathaniel Manley Hayward (US Patent 1090 with was granted in 1839) and immedietly assigned to Goodyear. There is evidence of prior art (Leuchs and Ludersdorf, both in Germany) and even a competing patent (BP9952/1843)for a similar process.
What about your 'counter-example' shows either situation to be an acceptable and reasonable way to run a patent system?
If, on the other hand, your intention was to show that the patent office has probably never understood anything, then point granted.
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Well, the 'other' part that I've heard about entanglement is that once they're entangled, any change to the spin (I think its the spin) in one object is also seen instantaneously in the other object. And I mean instantaneously, the quantum state doesn't seem to travel the intermittant distance.
o up=2001a&key=s00000035
Here's a reference, its just an abstract of a 2001 seminar, but it outlines the kinds of things we're talking about:
http://www.physics.umass.edu/seminars/abstract$gr
What about a man in the middle attack? You buy your entangled photon pair from my SneakyFactory. What I really sell you is two unrelated photons, while keeping their "actual" twins in my factory. Long before I delivered you your pair, I've set up my end of things to immediately record whatever comes in, and communicate it to the other photon.
Is there anything that stops this sort of attack? The only thing I can imagine is some sort of timing measurement..
-Zipwow
I think what they're trying to do here is set up a system with which the easiest way to get new applications is to get new Java applications through JWS.
If you haven't used JWS, go and install the plugin and try it out. A friend of mine wrote a class diagram / UML tool called The Virtual Bar Napkin. If you have JWS installed, you can hit the link on his webpage and the application is running in a few seconds.
He didn't have to write an installer, or deal with a page saying "for this version, click here, for that version, click there".
And to clarify, It is not an applet. It's an application, running in its own window, etc. Furthermore, it is actually installed on your system, and you can access it later through the regular menu system (on windows) without having to be connected to the net. Upgrading to new versions is just as trivial.
JWS is a great example of the promise of Java. Write your client application, distribute it seamlessly, update it in near real time, and avoid all the nonsense with servlets and sessions and HTML + javascript web interface nightmare.
So long as this gets us closer to that, I'm interested.
-Zipwow
Will this thing ever die?
Two years ago, (almost three), Java performance on Solaris wasn't very good. Why? Because it didn't need to be. As this article points out, Sun had better things to do two years ago than tune the JVM on a platform that it wasn't being used for.
If anything, this memo is an example of how things are working properly. Engineers complained, and things changed. If you look at some of the modern benchmarking linked from the provided site rather than ancient gossip, you'll see that the Solaris JVM is on par with the Windows JVM. Granted, they both need improvement in memory footprint and startup time, but the point still stands, the Solaris JVM is not lagging behind the Windows implementation.
Its time we put this one to bed.
-Zipwow
I got an email the other day saying that they're upgrading my upstream for free, permanently. Considering that I have a contract, that's an extremely nice gesture...
-Zipwow
I thought maybe this was incentives for programmers living in Amsterdam...
-Zipwow
If the system were set up so that you could contribute to a 'bounty', then the system would scale even better.
Some central board on a project, like the gnome project, would administer the bounties. If its bothering you, add to the bounty. Eventually its enough money to be a proper incentive.
Like the gnome bounties, the board itself would have to choose the best solution, so as a bounty contributor (the person sending the money) you'd give up that control. A minor giveaway, and something you probably don't have time to do anyway.
Sounds good to me.
-Zipwow
You know, something like this as a "spare tire" is really a heck of an idea. Keep talking, it sounds good to me.
-Zipwow
And is anybody else trying?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, I'm just wondering if its the state department and NOAA's fault.
Right. There's a difference between being "too lazy" and "not serious about it".
I'm saying that just because you refuse to bike in -13 degrees through sleet and snow on your separate winter bike in your special cold-biking suit with your work clothes on your back across salt-covered roads, you do not fit the definition of "a lazy person".
That's what I was saying originally, that its not that people are "too lazy", its that the barriers to commuting by bike are higher than just pedaling your fat ass all the way to work.
I recommend voting for mass transit construction funded by car and gasoline taxes.
-Zipwow
Plus people don't want to experience the Memphis summer and the DC winter on a bicycle.
Biking isn't a real, full-time option. Biking's nice, and it certainly should be possible, but the real answer is public transportation. Without it, you have to own and drive a car anyway.
Not wanting to bike to work when its 105 or -10 and sleeting isn't lazy, its self preservation.
-Zipwow
Our plants are safe, no significant problem has been reported since the beginning of the program (like 50 years ago).
Hey, that's great! You've only got 149,950 more years to go!
I barely trust our governments and society to properly dispose of yesterday's newspaper, let alone radioactive waste that will be dangerous for millenia.
-Zipwow
Last I heard they would let you do it, but you had to handle the billing. It's still nice, most places don't want you to do that at all.
Have they changed their service or somesuch?
-Zipwow
Why do we honor the president who illegally deported thousands of native americans, stealing their land, and causing their deaths, with a place on our money?
Its not like he didn't know it was wrong, either. The Cherokee were a highly "integrated" group of people, and got legal representation. The Supreme Court granted them the victory in their case, Worcester vs. Georgia, 1832. Did this matter to Jackson? Not in the least. In defiance of the ruling and the constitution's separation of powers, he deported them anyway.
Why do we honor this guy? I know there aren't many saints among our presidents, but can't we pick somebody else who at least didn't kill people and steal their land?
-Zipwow
Even more, why should you have to pay them again to people who don't own the lines?
If VoIP is the way to go, leave it unregulated, and let the phone companies do it instead of their regular phone service. They can become providers of general connectivity instead of sound in a can.
What's standing in the way of that? Isn't that a better solution anyway?
-Zipwow
I'm a Kansas native, and I can tell you for sure that the sun shines there just like everywhere else. What's this comment about?
-Zipwow
This just in: EFF doesn't trust RIAA!
Details at 11.
-Zipwow
This is interesting, but can we all say:
"Correlation does not imply causation"?
Kevin
I have to disagree, I've seen two people using Segways recently that made a lot of sense.
The first was a utilities worker, who has to check gauges around downtown here in Seattle. I walked past him when the segway was stopped, and he was crouching down looking into the little door on the sidewalk. Moments later, he steppd onto the segway and whipped past me to the next point where he got off and did his job again. He used the handles of the segway like a belt, and had the tools of his trade hanging from it.
The second was the sanitation crew at the Pike Place Market, a sort of outdoor grocery, craft store, and food court. Two people, both on segways with their equipment hanging from the 'handlebars', this time pulling a little trailer holding trash. They looked very efficient, since 'cleanup opportunities' were somewhat spread apart among the different little niches where tables are found.
Makes a lot of sense for letter carriers as well, I would think.
I'll grant that $1000 is too much for personal use, but what happens when a segway costs the same as a bicycle? I'd ride one to work if I couldn't bike.
-Zipwow
> The Kyoto treaty is both ineffectual and irrelevant.
Far better that we do nothing, instead, and thumb our noses at international politics in the process.
Wait, that's not right...
-Zipwow
I applaud the faith in humanity that the proponents of nuclear power have, but to believe that we'll be able to safely handle the waste for the next 200,000 years is just going too far.
Furthermore, you mention using breeder reactors, in order to make the most usage of the fuel as possible. No doubt you're aware, but fail to mention, that the final product (beyond electricity) of a breeder reactor is Plutonium.
I don't think it is ethically responsible to advocate the creation of a power source that will create thousands of tons(*) of plutonium each year, and expect that all that plutonium will remain unused, contained, and out of the "wrong" hands for the next two hundred millenia.
There are options apart from nuclear (fission) that we can explore (wind, waves, sun, conservation).
To be pithy, I'd rather risk global warming than nuclear winter.
-Zipwow
* tons of plutonium: Taking the Gipper at his word that all the waste from a reactor in a year will fit under his desk, lets say that's a cubic meter of plutonium. We'll round down the number of plants in your estimate to 500 for easy calculations. That's 500 cubic meters of plutonium, per year. Webelements says that plutonium weighs 19816kg per cubic meter. 500 * 19816 = 9908000kg. Google says that 1ton = 907.18474 kg, so we're talking about 10,921 TONS of waste, per year. For the united states.
This is the funniest part of your post. Nevermind the lowercase "i", its the misuse of "there" that cracks me up.*
-Zipwow
* For the English impaired, "they're" is the contraction for "they are", which should've been used in this case.
The facts in the case:
_ 10/wiggins /
Gore said in an interview with CNN (and published by Wired), in response to a question about what makes his experiences as a legislator unique:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
He never said the word "invented". The question he responds to is about his leadership in congress, so its equally obvious that he's not claiming to have created it technically. Also, he's referring to the public 'Internet', not hoary old Arpanet back in the 60's.
His specific actions begin with the NSF and the NSFNet in the late 1980s. Many of the speeches he made from that time (when Apple II's were big) use "data highway", and argue for additional research into computer networking. Particularly interesting is this quote in 1986:
"But I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network and the broader installation of lower capacity fiber optic cables to all parts of this country, will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses with access to supercomputing capability being very, very widespread. [...] Once that network for supercomputing is in place, you're going to have a lot more people gaining access to the capability, developing an interest in it."
During that time, he argued for more research into networking technologies, and was a member of the committe that oversaw the National Science Foundation when they created the NSFNet. He brought this early involvement into legislative action in 1991 with the High Performance Computing Act.
But don't take my word for it. Vint Cerf, the actual inventor of IP (as in TCP/IP), has gone on record saying:
"He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be"
Most of this information comes from this website:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5
How many times does this hoax have to be debunked?
-Zipwow
What about your 'counter-example' shows either situation to be an acceptable and reasonable way to run a patent system?
If, on the other hand, your intention was to show that the patent office has probably never understood anything, then point granted.
-Zipwow
Oh, just speculation. I don't know what all can be done with the Java phones, etc.