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  1. Re: Does this really lead to useful quantum comput on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    How many moons do you need to make an effective cluster?

  2. Re:Information on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is the 5GHz radar is considered pretty stupid and shouldn't have been deployed due to the interference concerns. Most deployments are on other frequencies. The 5GHz deployments are limited and generally in the US. I don't remember the details, but I remember when this was a thing when I was working on WiFi standards. I may have remembered it completely incorrectly.

  3. Re:One of a number of critical comments on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who?

    Dave Taht

    Best known for what?

    Bufferbloat

  4. Re:I don't think it will mean much on Volvo Will Accept Liability For Self-Driving Car Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Sit in the back seat. Or don't buy one.

    Honestly, until they get the issues of liability sorted out, the self driving car is a complete non-starter .. precisely because of crap like this.

    This is for governments to make laws just as they have for vaccines. It's the same deal. Over a population it will save many lives. In some specific instances it make kill someone. The government gets to make laws that protect the vendors from the specific cases so the general case can be realized,

  5. Re:Seriously? on IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    >Would I be stupid enough to leave my home address near the murder weapon?!

    Isn't is the murder weapon that can be left somewhere and the home address that is pretty permanently fixed in one place?

  6. Re:Try searching for Chris Lamberts IP address on IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Accessing Github is crime?

  7. Re:how pathetic on Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument · · Score: 1

    Because 30 years after I used if in my O-level exams (UK exams) it's still working fine, it does what's required and it's not huge like a TI.
    HPs are good too but I couldn't afford one when I was at school and after 30+ years with a Casio, I'm not about to change.

  8. Re:how pathetic on Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument · · Score: 1

    Casio FTW!

  9. Re:I'm from Qualcomm - AMA on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yes. I know the rules. I was a member of the 802.11 and 802.16 working groups and Bluetooth sig that developed these unlicensed band protocols and I've developed WiFi, WiMax and Bluetooth products. Having a protocol that bangs out a base station frame structure like LTE which splats on the band and has no backoff for other users of the band isn't part 15 compliant without being at a power that isn't useful for high speed data communications.
     

  10. Re:I'm from Qualcomm - AMA on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So you're saying it's an ITU/3GPP/esqu spec for a protocol and I'm not allowed to deploy it in an unlicensed band, but carriers who already have exclusive access to licensed spectrum are?

    Could you explain how the LTE frame structure is compatible with part 15? I don't quite see it.

  11. Re:Does this really lead to useful quantum compute on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a refrigeration problem.
    You need to get stuff very cold to dampen down the noise (other things entangling with your qbits).

    Making things cold takes energy. The lower the entropy in the qbits, the higher the energy that you blow in the refrigeration. Overall entropy will increase. So you might be able to equate the energy in the heat of serial computation of an O(2^n) problem to the energy spent cooling a circuit cold enough to solve an O(2^n) problem in parallel with magic quantum behaviors. Unfortunately in the parallel case you have to blow that energy all at the same time. If the serial case looks like it would need enough energy to boil all the oceans (about O(2^128)) then the parallel case might boil them all at once. You might want to get inland.

  12. Re:Well there goes the cipherhood on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    What's an asymmetric hash? Do you mean a signature?

  13. Re:Well there goes the cipherhood on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Say goodbye to asymmetric encryption.
    Symmetric like AES can still survive quantum attacks with a doubling of key length. But all the current asymmetric algorithms are in peril once quantum computers exist.

    Say hello to quantum encryption to replace some uses of asymmetric algorithms (which are often only used to exchange keys for symmetric algorithms).

    The real danger is to public-private key signature algorithms (such as those used to sign certificates). At some point these may need to change to use proof-of-work (e.g., bitcoin) style authentication or other cost prohibitive measures...

    No, there are quantum secure public key algorithms. They are around 2X less efficient on key size than ECC. So it's not a huge problem.

  14. Re:Well there goes the cipherhood on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Say goodbye to asymmetric encryption.
    Symmetric like AES can still survive quantum attacks with a doubling of key length. But all the current asymmetric algorithms are in peril once quantum computers exist.

    The selling point of things like lattice crypto (e.g. NTRU) is that it is quantum attack secure.

    But don't worry. They aren't going to build a working quantum computer that can factor large numbers or solve the DLP over elliptic curves. They can't make things that cold.
     

  15. Re:I'm from Qualcomm - AMA on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    How the hell do I deploy this in my home without breaking wifi and without issuing my own SIM?

  16. Re:How? on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    > it'll provide additional capacity boost that improves the UX for all users

    No. For the ones who aren't having their WiFi shat upon. This is pure evil.

  17. Be in no doubt.. on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    that this is an attempt to kill wifi and have LTE take over so you must use carrier moderated sessions for all you communications along with crap crypto.

  18. Re:So Quantum Computing is real now? on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Measurement, collapse and entanglement are the same thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. So we can try and factor 0,1,2 and 3?

  20. What I hate.. on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What I hate about the Big Bang Theory is the temporal asymmetry of a low entropy point just choosing to pop into existence with no understood process for getting that low entropy situation out of an earlier higher entropy situation. Either it did, or it didn't. Either way, it's asymmetric.

  21. Re:The IT Crowd on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    Yes, the IT Crowd has even cheaper stereotypes: women can't cope with computers; management does nothing; IT workers are either slovenly men with poor social skills or OCD men with poor social skills.

    But it's exceedingly funny.

  22. Re:If the black cabs have a legal monopoly... on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    It's about a livery company whose legally questionable practices and claims have drivers that are picking up hailed fares.

    That's the black cab drivers' side of the story. The reality is that they are operating as a minicab business taking passengers on pre-arranged rides, which is perfectly legal, only they have replaced a phone call with a smartphone app / webpage. As long as Uber drivers are not picking up random people they spot trying to hail a cab on the side of the road, they are not infringing on the black cab legal monopoly.

    Of course it look identical from the outside. No one sees the person using their app, but they see them standing outside waving at a car which them picks them up.

  23. Re:Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 2

    All men? Are we all toxic brogrammers or are you willing to accept that some of them know how to communicate effectively?

  24. Re:No it isn't on Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine · · Score: 1

    Another behavior that would confound the inference that is being asserted.

  25. Re:No it isn't on Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Modded down for pointing out basic statistics. Perhaps people want reality to line up with their received wisdom.