When you add and multiply encrypted data, do the different data values have to be encrypted with the same key? Or can this technique combine numbers sourced from different people each with their own encryption key?
When Microsoft patents this tech, the monopoly the patent grants will kill this fundamental technology. No one else will be able to develop it. MS will not grant any license, because MS wants to own the brand of anything successful. MS will not develop it, because it's too esoteric and will take too long to become a profitable brand.
There will be no homomorphic computing. An essential component of the rest of the future of the Internet will be dead. Its corpse will be the poster child for the tyranny of monopolies.
I don't think Apple has quite the amount of assets that Exxon has. That oil and its distribution are extremely valuable, and moreso as it runs out while our energy hunger grows. But Exxon has a vast liability. Apple has practically none. Exxon is extremely hateable, but Apple is cute. The values here are not just the assets, but the assets after the liabilities are deducted.
In what area? Iraq? No jumped-up mullah in Iraq or anywhere else except Afghanistan did anything to us on 9/11/2001. GWB showed the UN and the world that even when the US was hideously attacked, all he cared about was invading a country that had nothing to do with it. So his cronies could make $TRILLIONS and grab as much power for as long as they could, while smashing our obligations to protect us. All of which is precisely Binladen and his fellow assholes wanted.
And so you voted for Bush twice, giving us the endless wars, bottomless debts and worthless governments we suffer with now. You Republicans are incapable of learning even the most obvious lessons. Binladen's jihad couldn't have prayed for better partners in the Terror War than you people.
Well, what's actually more true is that "in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve". Maybe that means we deserve the government we get.
As far as holding public office being the only way to change it, that's clearly not true. Indeed the biggest problem in America's democracy is that our republic, the elected people, are not the ones who make change. They're lackeys to the people who do make the change. And those people are not only the rich. Plenty of not rich (outside their expenses-paid political racket) people fill the ranks of decision makers in the "Social Conservatives" groups that exert such power.
I've actually worked in government, in the NYC City Council (legislature). Change is made by staking out clear and useful positions ahead of the immediate term where the sharks are busy grabbing whatever bleeds. By being persistent, over many years, and playing the social groups to get the access that defines power in politics. And I've also seen some, not many, who get and keep power without being corrupt.
It's pretty broken. But if we just give up and accept the corruption, there's no way out. And we can be much, much worse - look at Argentina, and any of the banana republics we've created in our backyard. Maybe the majority of Americans deserve it - the people who don't even vote, while they see those who do driving us into ditch after ditch. But I deserve better. And I'll do what I can to get it.
Like "why are we invading Iraq when it had nothing to do with the 9/11/2001 attacks"?
Those of us who did ask that question were drowned out by the majority of voters who insisted on re-electing Bush/Cheney instead of impeaching and imprisoning them.
And right there is the interest conflict that these vertical monopolies hold. The corp creates content and so holds an unlimited monopoly on it through copyright. And the same corp distributes content to consumers, and holds an unlimited monopoly on distribution by being the only broadband ISP in that town. Together the absolute exclusion of choice totally controls the market.
The only exception was in places where there might be a second ISP corp which isn't the copyright holder, or where the content comes from a different creator/ISP corp that is supposed to compete with the local creator/ISP corp. But these laws require them to work as a cartel.
The noose is tight around the neck of the Info Age. Free speech/press and privacy lynched by corporate profiteers and the government they bought. Monopoly money in every sense of the words.
Where's the HowTo for Linux for setting a LAN SSL proxy to a remote server, through one's ISP, that encrypts all traffic before dumping it at an Internet server that aggregates many tunnels before routing them to the actual endpoints? Which deletes the temporary lookups to the LANs, anonymizing them. One that requires zero reconfig of any clients on the LAN.
The military/intel is totally protected from our debt crisis, no matter how distantly related to protecting us any of its expenses might be. That's why the majority of our debt is owed for past military/intel budgets - so it costs 50% more in interest than what was appropriated on paper. And now that the debt has gotten our credit rating downgraded, it will cost us even more in interest - along with all our borrowing that it's dragged along with it.
So the smart people will turn all their projects into military/intel projects. Which will gradually turn the US into not just a hopeless debtor, but an exclusively warmongering hopeless debtor.
"Rare Earth" elements aren't really rare. They're rarely mined and refined on a large scale because the industry is filthy, and in the US we have laws to protect us from the really expensive healthcare that ensues from the pollution, to say nothing of protecting us from the pollution itself. China subsidizes its rare earth dominance the way it does everything else: by hiding the costs of the pollution and abuse of its labor.
Every day the news is filled with loaded stories pushing the US to drop our defenses and sink into the filth that China makes its money from, but which we left behind as soon as we realized we had too much dignity and power over our lives to suffer that way.
BTW, US oil is what's rare. And the high costs of extracting what we do have are proven all the time, like Exxon polluting Yellowstone this Summer and BP sleazing the entire Gulf of Mexico last Summer.
And you're nothing but a stupid troll. Who cares? I love telling stupid people they're stupid, and why. This time I got to think through the implications of a "heat capacitor". Just because you jerked off on yourself to my answer says nothing about me, and only really bad things about you. Duh.
Except rooms don't have a large surface area. And electrons all have the same charge, so they're stored on the surface of conductors. A "heat capacitor" like this stores heat throughout its volume, and should thicken walls/ceiling to store enough to keep room temperature constant. Its area:volume ration should be large enough to transfer heat to/from room/storage quickly, but that's all that surface area matters.
And keep your "duh" to yourself, Anonymous Coward. You're wrong, and haven't earned the privilege of being condescending.
Not all matter undergoes phase changes while heated, and not all in the same way. Very rare is matter that can have its phase-change temperature tuned to a required point the way this stuff. Also unusual is the phase change holding such a large amount of heat per mass, especially without deforming the way this stuff doesn't.
This material stores the heat in its phase changing mass' heat capacity. That's nothing like a Dewar jar. How are you so stupid? Easy: you're an Anonymous Coward.
This material is consuming heat energy to perform the work of dis/organizing its molecules without its temperature increasing. That sounds like a (maybe just nearly) perfect nanomachine powered by heat. If the mechanical work can be powered by heat to do useful matter movement, like microfluidics or even nanoassembly, we might have found a device that can use our too-abundant waste energy (heat) for some of our most useful tasks: chemical manufacturing. Maybe even nanocomputing, pushing molecular rods or fluid transistors.
Any way you look at this stuff it's exciting. Revolutionary. If it's cheap and nontoxic, the whole world could pivot on this stuff the way it did on the steam engine.
These Phase Change Materials are different from other matter. They absorb heat without changing their temperature.
So as the heat energy increases in a room - say, when sunlight shines in a window, or hot air circulates in - the energy is absorbed by the PCM instead of heating the regular matter in the room. So the energy increases, but the room's temperature doesn't. Instead, the heat energy changes the phase of the PCM. So work is done by the energy, just not work that increases temperature. Which means a room can "heat up", but doesn't feel like it to people (or other things made of matter) inside.
Later, as heat leaves the rest of the room (outside temperature drops as Sun goes down, cold air enters, etc), the PCM phase changes back, releasing the heat energy into the rest of the room. The temperature of the room stays the same again, though there's less heat - the lower heat content of the PCM merely "relaxes" the phase to the lower energy phase.
It's exactly like the way that ice stays at 32F (0C) in your drink in a 70F room or a 90F beach, even as it absorbs heat from the drink and the surrounding air. So the drink and everything in the glass stays at about 32F (given convection in the drink around the ice), even though the total heat is increasing in there. The ice gradually changes phase, which consumes energy without its temperature rising. Until eventually it's 32F water when the phase change is complete. Then the temperature rises, because there's no phase change consuming energy.
Yes, it's thermodynamics. But unless you can invent a PCM that harnesses thermodynamics, you can't patent it. Unless maybe you're just a patent troll. They're immune to thermodynamics laws, and probably legal laws, too.
XML, SOAP and JSON, depending on when the webservice was written over the past few years.
But what's got to happen first is someone's got to extract the architecture from the current Flash+PHP app. And populate that architecture with features and the APIs that will be retained to support them. Which sounds like a consultant's gig. Any real info architects in Flash in NYC to do it?
I have a Flash/PHP app (with webservices/DB backend) that was written in those frontend languages only because there was no HTML5 yet. But now there is. What's the best way to go about porting it to HTML5? In fact, what's the best way to go about reverse engineering it into a spec for porting to HTML5? The legacy app was written over a few years on demand from a basic PHP app, but there's not a lot of decent specs for the current version. Are there consultancies in NYC that will do this for me?
Hillbillies and white trash aren't kept down by calling them that. They've got the power, and they have for getting close to a millennium.
Yeah Barack Obama fits that description perfectly.
Calling other ethnicities by their slang names does keep them down. That's why it's insulting.
I'd say it's far more insulting to claim that a group can be kept down by mere name calling.
Because words have meaning. That's what insults people. Not the sounds themselves. Though it's hard to convince a Republican of that.
Funny, you try to point how words are insulting and then insult an entire group.
You refuse to listen to how the namecalling refers to the actual power. That's why the words mean what they do.
You also refuse to notice that Obama is half-White, and his Black parent was not an African-American.
You're White, aren't you? And Republican, too. So easy to insist on ignorance when your privilege is all you've ever known. Like fish that don't realize they're in water. So easy to insult you by calling you what you are.
I've met those groups. They're the ones who took over the House last November. After controlling all three elected chambers for 2001-2008. After controlling both chambers of Congress 1995-2000. Look at your TV - they're the ones holding the debt ceiling hostage to get deleting Social Security and Medicare.
Yes, they're dupes of corporations that would eject or kill them on sight - if such an event were possible. But it's through hillbillies and White trash that corporations have exercised their power in the USA for most of its history.
And in person, outside of the halls of power, it's hillbillies who have the social power, especially over Iranians and anyone else either darker, with a non-European accent, or not Christian. That is why those terms don't have real insult power, but other terms do. It's why a Black person can say "nigger" without necessarily insulting, but non-Blacks usually cannot. These words have meaning, referring to social power. White people, even poor White people, have the power.
Hillbillies and white trash aren't kept down by calling them that. They've got the power, and they have for getting close to a millennium.
Calling other ethnicities by their slang names does keep them down. That's why it's insulting. Because words have meaning. That's what insults people. Not the sounds themselves. Though it's hard to convince a Republican of that.
BTW, it's not "Politically Correct" to call anyone any kind of slang name for a group they're in. You Republicans are the most PC people ever. Which is easy to tell, because in standard Republican style you attack everyone else for being what they probably aren't, but you certainly are.
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When you add and multiply encrypted data, do the different data values have to be encrypted with the same key? Or can this technique combine numbers sourced from different people each with their own encryption key?
When Microsoft patents this tech, the monopoly the patent grants will kill this fundamental technology. No one else will be able to develop it. MS will not grant any license, because MS wants to own the brand of anything successful. MS will not develop it, because it's too esoteric and will take too long to become a profitable brand.
There will be no homomorphic computing. An essential component of the rest of the future of the Internet will be dead. Its corpse will be the poster child for the tyranny of monopolies.
Except the scenarios you describe are impossible.
I don't think Apple has quite the amount of assets that Exxon has. That oil and its distribution are extremely valuable, and moreso as it runs out while our energy hunger grows. But Exxon has a vast liability. Apple has practically none. Exxon is extremely hateable, but Apple is cute. The values here are not just the assets, but the assets after the liabilities are deducted.
In what area? Iraq? No jumped-up mullah in Iraq or anywhere else except Afghanistan did anything to us on 9/11/2001. GWB showed the UN and the world that even when the US was hideously attacked, all he cared about was invading a country that had nothing to do with it. So his cronies could make $TRILLIONS and grab as much power for as long as they could, while smashing our obligations to protect us. All of which is precisely Binladen and his fellow assholes wanted.
And so you voted for Bush twice, giving us the endless wars, bottomless debts and worthless governments we suffer with now. You Republicans are incapable of learning even the most obvious lessons. Binladen's jihad couldn't have prayed for better partners in the Terror War than you people.
Well, what's actually more true is that "in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve". Maybe that means we deserve the government we get.
As far as holding public office being the only way to change it, that's clearly not true. Indeed the biggest problem in America's democracy is that our republic, the elected people, are not the ones who make change. They're lackeys to the people who do make the change. And those people are not only the rich. Plenty of not rich (outside their expenses-paid political racket) people fill the ranks of decision makers in the "Social Conservatives" groups that exert such power.
I've actually worked in government, in the NYC City Council (legislature). Change is made by staking out clear and useful positions ahead of the immediate term where the sharks are busy grabbing whatever bleeds. By being persistent, over many years, and playing the social groups to get the access that defines power in politics. And I've also seen some, not many, who get and keep power without being corrupt.
It's pretty broken. But if we just give up and accept the corruption, there's no way out. And we can be much, much worse - look at Argentina, and any of the banana republics we've created in our backyard. Maybe the majority of Americans deserve it - the people who don't even vote, while they see those who do driving us into ditch after ditch. But I deserve better. And I'll do what I can to get it.
Like "why are we invading Iraq when it had nothing to do with the 9/11/2001 attacks"?
Those of us who did ask that question were drowned out by the majority of voters who insisted on re-electing Bush/Cheney instead of impeaching and imprisoning them.
And right there is the interest conflict that these vertical monopolies hold. The corp creates content and so holds an unlimited monopoly on it through copyright. And the same corp distributes content to consumers, and holds an unlimited monopoly on distribution by being the only broadband ISP in that town. Together the absolute exclusion of choice totally controls the market.
The only exception was in places where there might be a second ISP corp which isn't the copyright holder, or where the content comes from a different creator/ISP corp that is supposed to compete with the local creator/ISP corp. But these laws require them to work as a cartel.
The noose is tight around the neck of the Info Age. Free speech/press and privacy lynched by corporate profiteers and the government they bought. Monopoly money in every sense of the words.
Where's the HowTo for Linux for setting a LAN SSL proxy to a remote server, through one's ISP, that encrypts all traffic before dumping it at an Internet server that aggregates many tunnels before routing them to the actual endpoints? Which deletes the temporary lookups to the LANs, anonymizing them. One that requires zero reconfig of any clients on the LAN.
You mean like the Pentagon did in Iraq?
The military/intel is totally protected from our debt crisis, no matter how distantly related to protecting us any of its expenses might be. That's why the majority of our debt is owed for past military/intel budgets - so it costs 50% more in interest than what was appropriated on paper. And now that the debt has gotten our credit rating downgraded, it will cost us even more in interest - along with all our borrowing that it's dragged along with it.
So the smart people will turn all their projects into military/intel projects. Which will gradually turn the US into not just a hopeless debtor, but an exclusively warmongering hopeless debtor.
"Rare Earth" elements aren't really rare. They're rarely mined and refined on a large scale because the industry is filthy, and in the US we have laws to protect us from the really expensive healthcare that ensues from the pollution, to say nothing of protecting us from the pollution itself. China subsidizes its rare earth dominance the way it does everything else: by hiding the costs of the pollution and abuse of its labor.
Every day the news is filled with loaded stories pushing the US to drop our defenses and sink into the filth that China makes its money from, but which we left behind as soon as we realized we had too much dignity and power over our lives to suffer that way.
BTW, US oil is what's rare. And the high costs of extracting what we do have are proven all the time, like Exxon polluting Yellowstone this Summer and BP sleazing the entire Gulf of Mexico last Summer.
And you're nothing but a stupid troll. Who cares? I love telling stupid people they're stupid, and why. This time I got to think through the implications of a "heat capacitor". Just because you jerked off on yourself to my answer says nothing about me, and only really bad things about you. Duh.
Except rooms don't have a large surface area. And electrons all have the same charge, so they're stored on the surface of conductors. A "heat capacitor" like this stores heat throughout its volume, and should thicken walls/ceiling to store enough to keep room temperature constant. Its area:volume ration should be large enough to transfer heat to/from room/storage quickly, but that's all that surface area matters.
And keep your "duh" to yourself, Anonymous Coward. You're wrong, and haven't earned the privilege of being condescending.
Not all matter undergoes phase changes while heated, and not all in the same way. Very rare is matter that can have its phase-change temperature tuned to a required point the way this stuff. Also unusual is the phase change holding such a large amount of heat per mass, especially without deforming the way this stuff doesn't.
This stuff is revolutionary.
This material stores the heat in its phase changing mass' heat capacity. That's nothing like a Dewar jar. How are you so stupid? Easy: you're an Anonymous Coward.
This material is consuming heat energy to perform the work of dis/organizing its molecules without its temperature increasing. That sounds like a (maybe just nearly) perfect nanomachine powered by heat. If the mechanical work can be powered by heat to do useful matter movement, like microfluidics or even nanoassembly, we might have found a device that can use our too-abundant waste energy (heat) for some of our most useful tasks: chemical manufacturing. Maybe even nanocomputing, pushing molecular rods or fluid transistors.
Any way you look at this stuff it's exciting. Revolutionary. If it's cheap and nontoxic, the whole world could pivot on this stuff the way it did on the steam engine.
These Phase Change Materials are different from other matter. They absorb heat without changing their temperature.
So as the heat energy increases in a room - say, when sunlight shines in a window, or hot air circulates in - the energy is absorbed by the PCM instead of heating the regular matter in the room. So the energy increases, but the room's temperature doesn't. Instead, the heat energy changes the phase of the PCM. So work is done by the energy, just not work that increases temperature. Which means a room can "heat up", but doesn't feel like it to people (or other things made of matter) inside.
Later, as heat leaves the rest of the room (outside temperature drops as Sun goes down, cold air enters, etc), the PCM phase changes back, releasing the heat energy into the rest of the room. The temperature of the room stays the same again, though there's less heat - the lower heat content of the PCM merely "relaxes" the phase to the lower energy phase.
It's exactly like the way that ice stays at 32F (0C) in your drink in a 70F room or a 90F beach, even as it absorbs heat from the drink and the surrounding air. So the drink and everything in the glass stays at about 32F (given convection in the drink around the ice), even though the total heat is increasing in there. The ice gradually changes phase, which consumes energy without its temperature rising. Until eventually it's 32F water when the phase change is complete. Then the temperature rises, because there's no phase change consuming energy.
Yes, it's thermodynamics. But unless you can invent a PCM that harnesses thermodynamics, you can't patent it. Unless maybe you're just a patent troll. They're immune to thermodynamics laws, and probably legal laws, too.
Where's a good repository of GPL source code for PIC MCUs? PIC16F, PIC18F, PIC24F?
XML, SOAP and JSON, depending on when the webservice was written over the past few years.
But what's got to happen first is someone's got to extract the architecture from the current Flash+PHP app. And populate that architecture with features and the APIs that will be retained to support them. Which sounds like a consultant's gig. Any real info architects in Flash in NYC to do it?
I have a Flash/PHP app (with webservices/DB backend) that was written in those frontend languages only because there was no HTML5 yet. But now there is. What's the best way to go about porting it to HTML5? In fact, what's the best way to go about reverse engineering it into a spec for porting to HTML5? The legacy app was written over a few years on demand from a basic PHP app, but there's not a lot of decent specs for the current version. Are there consultancies in NYC that will do this for me?
22MB:s or 22Mb:s?
Hillbillies and white trash aren't kept down by calling them that. They've got the power, and they have for getting close to a millennium.
Yeah Barack Obama fits that description perfectly.
Calling other ethnicities by their slang names does keep them down. That's why it's insulting.
I'd say it's far more insulting to claim that a group can be kept down by mere name calling.
Because words have meaning. That's what insults people. Not the sounds themselves. Though it's hard to convince a Republican of that.
Funny, you try to point how words are insulting and then insult an entire group.
You refuse to listen to how the namecalling refers to the actual power. That's why the words mean what they do.
You also refuse to notice that Obama is half-White, and his Black parent was not an African-American.
You're White, aren't you? And Republican, too. So easy to insist on ignorance when your privilege is all you've ever known. Like fish that don't realize they're in water. So easy to insult you by calling you what you are.
I've met those groups. They're the ones who took over the House last November. After controlling all three elected chambers for 2001-2008. After controlling both chambers of Congress 1995-2000. Look at your TV - they're the ones holding the debt ceiling hostage to get deleting Social Security and Medicare.
Yes, they're dupes of corporations that would eject or kill them on sight - if such an event were possible. But it's through hillbillies and White trash that corporations have exercised their power in the USA for most of its history.
And in person, outside of the halls of power, it's hillbillies who have the social power, especially over Iranians and anyone else either darker, with a non-European accent, or not Christian. That is why those terms don't have real insult power, but other terms do. It's why a Black person can say "nigger" without necessarily insulting, but non-Blacks usually cannot. These words have meaning, referring to social power. White people, even poor White people, have the power.
Hillbillies and white trash aren't kept down by calling them that. They've got the power, and they have for getting close to a millennium.
Calling other ethnicities by their slang names does keep them down. That's why it's insulting. Because words have meaning. That's what insults people. Not the sounds themselves. Though it's hard to convince a Republican of that.
BTW, it's not "Politically Correct" to call anyone any kind of slang name for a group they're in. You Republicans are the most PC people ever. Which is easy to tell, because in standard Republican style you attack everyone else for being what they probably aren't, but you certainly are.