It is certainly a very impressive forgery. The attention to detail is quite something - region-appropriate materials and such. But it does have a few flaws that give it away.
As well as the carbon date, the Jesus is wrong. The shroud image shows someone of very European features, just like it seen in every depiction of Jesus from Europe from the days of the roman empire up to the present day. A very white Jesus, which is wrong: Jesus was from Judea, and of purely Jewish ancestry. Different ethnicity entirely.
You'll never convince the believers though. I've seen them argue that the carbon date is wrong because the holy light of the resurrection was able to resurrect the individual carbon atoms too and make the shroud appear younger!
I don't need to argue about that, I can remember from the period: When WMP first introduced ripping capability it could only rip to WMA. Support for MP3 was added later.
I should have been a bit clearer. I didn't mean to say the codec itsself is dead, but the codec business. By essentially giving away their codec they are making it clear that they no longer intend to use it as a direct profit-making product, and relegate it to a support role. They can no longer sell their media technology as the best around, as they could for a time.
You can't send classical information via entanglement. The entanglement does indeed collapse for each bit - but before the bit is transmitted.
Think of it like this: You can take your entangled particle pair, split it up, and send one halfway across the universe. Now you and your remote counterpart poke your magic science instruments your particles, and extract information: A long string of bits, which you can be sure is identical to both ends. But you can't determine what those bits shall be - they will be the same, but they will also be random. So you can't send information. You can't even detect if the entanglement is broken. It can, however, be used to generate a very random and non-interceptable one-time pad. This is not how current quantum cryptography works though, as maintaining entanglements for any significant duration is impossible without some very large and very expensive laboratory equipment. It needs the types of temperatures you open up the liquid helium bottle for.
There is a way to use entanglement to boost the capacity of a conventional link, though.
More specifically they all support that the fabric originated from around the right geographic area. Whoever made the fake was very good - clearly an expert forger, they even knew to use fabric from the right region. They had no way of knowing that carbon dating would one day be invented though, so they didn't think to use fabric of a suitable age too. Relic forgery was a thriving field in the middle ages, and they were good at it. We still have five different churches claiming to house the Spear of Longinus.
How would blood type support any claim of authenticity? No-one knows Jesus's blood type, and it isn't even clear if the stains are blood at all - they test positive for traces of various proteins found in blood, but are so degraded that it's impossible to be certain, so finding the type isn't going to be possible with any reliability.
How much has the basic UI changed since Windows 95? It hasn't, because 95 got it just about perfect for comfortable productive. There are minor variations in the size of component and placement, but almost every OS since has used the same basic concept: A 'launch programs' button, a task bar with a tab for each open window along one edge of the screen, and a notification area. Almost all major linux distros use that, Ubuntu with Unity being an exception. Microsoft tried to change to something new in Windows 8, but it was met with such hatred by the users that MS was forced to revert back to the classic layout in Windows 10. The only alternative to achieve any measure of success is OSX and the dock in place of the task bar. The most useful innovation MS has made to their UI after Windows 95 was taskbar item consolidation.
RAID cards often use a semi-functional token to enable write caching. To cache safely requires the controller incorporate a battery, which is commonly sold separately. No battery, no caching - it's a technical problem, can't be overcome. The non-technical limitation is that the batteries (In Adaptec, anyway) have a cryptographic chip in them that authenticates to the controller, so you can't just stick in any li-ion cell in - and those batteries are sold at a ridiculous price.
What kind of horrible person would sell a game second-hand and keep the key?... ok, I did. But that was back in the days of dialup when online gaming was a rare thing. I didn't think it would matter.
If you happen to be the one who brought a bundle of old game CDs on eBay that included Half Life and Opposing Force, sorry about that.
1. Put the money in some nice, safe savings and investments, dispersed among a few banks. Or even currencies. It's not the highest return, but it is lowest risk. 2. Quit job. 3. Buy small house. Not a mansion. Just somewhere with spare bedroom I could turn into a workshop. 4. Tell no-one of my obscene wealth. 5. Enjoy a life of doing just about anything I wish with all that free time. 6. Commission huge amounts of furry art, buy myself lots of cool tech-toys to play with, hire professional programmers to work the bugs out of a few open-source projects that are pretty good but could use some refinement. All the little things you wish you could do, but can't afford.
Now, if I have a truly crazy amount of wealth: 7. Commission the construction of the world's largest needle, and rent a camel for a day.
Cold Fjord has attacked me! I declare him an enemy combatant. Can I murder him legally now?
This is why I made the comment about the uniform. Your view worked very well in conventional wars of the past, when you knew who you were fighting. Modern wars are messy. Insurgent groups do not wear uniforms - they dress as civilians and disappear into the population. Even entire armies can be denied - look at Russia's recent invasion of Crimea, spearheaded by troops who wore uniforms without insignia and which Russia denies even exist.
It's one thing to declare on the battlefield that anyone pointing a gun at you is probably the enemy and should be immediately shot. There isn't really any other option then. But it's another matter entirely to systematically disappear people into a secret prison and declare that they have no legal rights. If you resort to that, you'll be sure to catch a lot of innocent civilians who just had the misfortune to get caught up events.
If he dies now, he becomes a martyr. Even his critics do not want that. They'd much rather see him discredited. A rape conviction would be ideal for that.
Sometimes even in the real world, things happen that look like they belong in a comic book. The Litvinenko assassination comes to mind - Russia openly carrying out an assassination on foreign soil as recently as 2006.
While I'm sure the US has the capability to make difficult figures vanish in the night if extreme circumstances require it, that wouldn't work on Assange. He has too high a profile - an obvious murder or simple disappearance would raise immediate suspicion. They don't want him dead - they want him either discredited, or made into an example to deter any others who might otherwise be tempted into leaking some embarrassing documents.
He is paranoid, no doubt. But it may be justifiable paranoia.
Forces in the US government would certainly like to see him imprisoned, but they may also be afraid of making a martyr of him. He may also be afraid that the US is applying pressure to Sweden to convict him of rape an imprison him for a long, long time for that. Most societies regard rapists as among the most vile of criminals. An prison sentence for contributing to the leaks might take him out of play, but a prison sentence for some form of sex offense will take his reputation too.
They are in prison. They have not been imprisoned by order of a criminal court.
They may well be guilty, but the term 'extra-judicial imprisonment' still applies. Things get a bit difficult in a war where the enemy doesn't wear uniforms or maintain a formal army - it's not always clear who is an actual combatant and who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The US political system thrives on attention. If a politician doesn't occasionally say some seriously over-the-top and outragious things, they are at a great disadvantage.
Look at the current republican primaries. Trump has stated his intention to ignore the constitution and declare children of immigrants non-citizens so he can deport them, Santorum has stated he believes possession of any contraceptive should be a criminal offense and Huckabee has expressed a desire to amend the constitution so that the government many prohibit citizens from following any religion other than Christianity. Do they have any hope of achieving these aims? Of course not, and they know it. But their careers demand a constant spotlight to build name recognition, and keeping that spotlight focused means endorsing a stream of extremist positions and goals - always trying to be more attention-worthy then their rivals.
Language is a subtle thing. The two women involved were 26 and 31 years old - but calling them 'girls' automatically makes them seem young and innocent, and in need of protection.
So what is your alternative? Let them continue to speak a language that is hardly spoken by any outsiders, not only maintaining their isolation but also the isolation of their next generation? Able to access only that news and knowledge of the world that limited and possibly manipulative translators allow? Their opportunities for economic advancement severely limited?
A self-imposed ghetto is a ghetto nonetheless. It it still a ghetto even if the residents take pride in living there.
The real issue with those idographic languages isn't character count, it's staying current. New characters are introduced over time, which means the unicode standard needs constant revision to add them, and fonts need regular updates to add the new characters too.
If I was in charge of the world, unicode and my world government would support the top fifteen languages, or thereabouts. All lower-popularity languages would be documented and designated for systematic eradication via the educational system and mass-media, thus bringing us a little closer to a utopia where anyone can communicate with anyone else and access all the accumulated knowledge of civilization without being segregated by the linguistic barrier. It'd help avert wars too - hard for a country to declare war on another when many citizens have friends among the enemy.
The choice of symbol can even be a signature of subculture affiliation. It's not uncommon in the furry community for those playing birds to use the:>,:>- or/:> symbols. They correspond to the standard smiley, 'silly' and 'questioning' respectively.
But only 46 Hiragana characters. You can write anything in Japanese using only hiragana if you wish, with the exception of loanwords, though native speakers may look down on you as semi-literate if you do so.
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It is certainly a very impressive forgery. The attention to detail is quite something - region-appropriate materials and such. But it does have a few flaws that give it away.
As well as the carbon date, the Jesus is wrong. The shroud image shows someone of very European features, just like it seen in every depiction of Jesus from Europe from the days of the roman empire up to the present day. A very white Jesus, which is wrong: Jesus was from Judea, and of purely Jewish ancestry. Different ethnicity entirely.
You'll never convince the believers though. I've seen them argue that the carbon date is wrong because the holy light of the resurrection was able to resurrect the individual carbon atoms too and make the shroud appear younger!
I don't need to argue about that, I can remember from the period: When WMP first introduced ripping capability it could only rip to WMA. Support for MP3 was added later.
I should have been a bit clearer. I didn't mean to say the codec itsself is dead, but the codec business. By essentially giving away their codec they are making it clear that they no longer intend to use it as a direct profit-making product, and relegate it to a support role. They can no longer sell their media technology as the best around, as they could for a time.
So does Microsoft. This project is an admission that they consider their own codecs to be effectively dead now anyway.
You can't send classical information via entanglement. The entanglement does indeed collapse for each bit - but before the bit is transmitted.
Think of it like this: You can take your entangled particle pair, split it up, and send one halfway across the universe. Now you and your remote counterpart poke your magic science instruments your particles, and extract information: A long string of bits, which you can be sure is identical to both ends. But you can't determine what those bits shall be - they will be the same, but they will also be random. So you can't send information. You can't even detect if the entanglement is broken. It can, however, be used to generate a very random and non-interceptable one-time pad. This is not how current quantum cryptography works though, as maintaining entanglements for any significant duration is impossible without some very large and very expensive laboratory equipment. It needs the types of temperatures you open up the liquid helium bottle for.
There is a way to use entanglement to boost the capacity of a conventional link, though.
More specifically they all support that the fabric originated from around the right geographic area. Whoever made the fake was very good - clearly an expert forger, they even knew to use fabric from the right region. They had no way of knowing that carbon dating would one day be invented though, so they didn't think to use fabric of a suitable age too. Relic forgery was a thriving field in the middle ages, and they were good at it. We still have five different churches claiming to house the Spear of Longinus.
How would blood type support any claim of authenticity? No-one knows Jesus's blood type, and it isn't even clear if the stains are blood at all - they test positive for traces of various proteins found in blood, but are so degraded that it's impossible to be certain, so finding the type isn't going to be possible with any reliability.
I could really condense your post down to one argument: "Our enemies are really nasty people, so no-one in their country deserves legal rights."
How much has the basic UI changed since Windows 95? It hasn't, because 95 got it just about perfect for comfortable productive. There are minor variations in the size of component and placement, but almost every OS since has used the same basic concept: A 'launch programs' button, a task bar with a tab for each open window along one edge of the screen, and a notification area. Almost all major linux distros use that, Ubuntu with Unity being an exception. Microsoft tried to change to something new in Windows 8, but it was met with such hatred by the users that MS was forced to revert back to the classic layout in Windows 10. The only alternative to achieve any measure of success is OSX and the dock in place of the task bar. The most useful innovation MS has made to their UI after Windows 95 was taskbar item consolidation.
Perfect compression is also noncomputable.
Have you tried a Hilbert curve rather than a spiral? It might mean fewer edge transitions, better prediction.
RAID cards often use a semi-functional token to enable write caching. To cache safely requires the controller incorporate a battery, which is commonly sold separately. No battery, no caching - it's a technical problem, can't be overcome. The non-technical limitation is that the batteries (In Adaptec, anyway) have a cryptographic chip in them that authenticates to the controller, so you can't just stick in any li-ion cell in - and those batteries are sold at a ridiculous price.
http://www.ebuyer.com/702930-l...
It's a fee to unlock the write cache feature, disguised as a functional component.
What kind of horrible person would sell a game second-hand and keep the key? ... ok, I did. But that was back in the days of dialup when online gaming was a rare thing. I didn't think it would matter.
If you happen to be the one who brought a bundle of old game CDs on eBay that included Half Life and Opposing Force, sorry about that.
1. Put the money in some nice, safe savings and investments, dispersed among a few banks. Or even currencies. It's not the highest return, but it is lowest risk.
2. Quit job.
3. Buy small house. Not a mansion. Just somewhere with spare bedroom I could turn into a workshop.
4. Tell no-one of my obscene wealth.
5. Enjoy a life of doing just about anything I wish with all that free time.
6. Commission huge amounts of furry art, buy myself lots of cool tech-toys to play with, hire professional programmers to work the bugs out of a few open-source projects that are pretty good but could use some refinement. All the little things you wish you could do, but can't afford.
Now, if I have a truly crazy amount of wealth:
7. Commission the construction of the world's largest needle, and rent a camel for a day.
Cold Fjord has attacked me! I declare him an enemy combatant. Can I murder him legally now?
This is why I made the comment about the uniform. Your view worked very well in conventional wars of the past, when you knew who you were fighting. Modern wars are messy. Insurgent groups do not wear uniforms - they dress as civilians and disappear into the population. Even entire armies can be denied - look at Russia's recent invasion of Crimea, spearheaded by troops who wore uniforms without insignia and which Russia denies even exist.
It's one thing to declare on the battlefield that anyone pointing a gun at you is probably the enemy and should be immediately shot. There isn't really any other option then. But it's another matter entirely to systematically disappear people into a secret prison and declare that they have no legal rights. If you resort to that, you'll be sure to catch a lot of innocent civilians who just had the misfortune to get caught up events.
If he dies now, he becomes a martyr. Even his critics do not want that. They'd much rather see him discredited. A rape conviction would be ideal for that.
Sometimes even in the real world, things happen that look like they belong in a comic book. The Litvinenko assassination comes to mind - Russia openly carrying out an assassination on foreign soil as recently as 2006.
While I'm sure the US has the capability to make difficult figures vanish in the night if extreme circumstances require it, that wouldn't work on Assange. He has too high a profile - an obvious murder or simple disappearance would raise immediate suspicion. They don't want him dead - they want him either discredited, or made into an example to deter any others who might otherwise be tempted into leaking some embarrassing documents.
He is paranoid, no doubt. But it may be justifiable paranoia.
Forces in the US government would certainly like to see him imprisoned, but they may also be afraid of making a martyr of him. He may also be afraid that the US is applying pressure to Sweden to convict him of rape an imprison him for a long, long time for that. Most societies regard rapists as among the most vile of criminals. An prison sentence for contributing to the leaks might take him out of play, but a prison sentence for some form of sex offense will take his reputation too.
They are in prison.
They have not been imprisoned by order of a criminal court.
They may well be guilty, but the term 'extra-judicial imprisonment' still applies. Things get a bit difficult in a war where the enemy doesn't wear uniforms or maintain a formal army - it's not always clear who is an actual combatant and who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The US political system thrives on attention. If a politician doesn't occasionally say some seriously over-the-top and outragious things, they are at a great disadvantage.
Look at the current republican primaries. Trump has stated his intention to ignore the constitution and declare children of immigrants non-citizens so he can deport them, Santorum has stated he believes possession of any contraceptive should be a criminal offense and Huckabee has expressed a desire to amend the constitution so that the government many prohibit citizens from following any religion other than Christianity. Do they have any hope of achieving these aims? Of course not, and they know it. But their careers demand a constant spotlight to build name recognition, and keeping that spotlight focused means endorsing a stream of extremist positions and goals - always trying to be more attention-worthy then their rivals.
Language is a subtle thing. The two women involved were 26 and 31 years old - but calling them 'girls' automatically makes them seem young and innocent, and in need of protection.
So what is your alternative? Let them continue to speak a language that is hardly spoken by any outsiders, not only maintaining their isolation but also the isolation of their next generation? Able to access only that news and knowledge of the world that limited and possibly manipulative translators allow? Their opportunities for economic advancement severely limited?
A self-imposed ghetto is a ghetto nonetheless. It it still a ghetto even if the residents take pride in living there.
The real issue with those idographic languages isn't character count, it's staying current. New characters are introduced over time, which means the unicode standard needs constant revision to add them, and fonts need regular updates to add the new characters too.
If I was in charge of the world, unicode and my world government would support the top fifteen languages, or thereabouts. All lower-popularity languages would be documented and designated for systematic eradication via the educational system and mass-media, thus bringing us a little closer to a utopia where anyone can communicate with anyone else and access all the accumulated knowledge of civilization without being segregated by the linguistic barrier. It'd help avert wars too - hard for a country to declare war on another when many citizens have friends among the enemy.
The choice of symbol can even be a signature of subculture affiliation. It's not uncommon in the furry community for those playing birds to use the :>, :>- or /:> symbols. They correspond to the standard smiley, 'silly' and 'questioning' respectively.
But only 46 Hiragana characters. You can write anything in Japanese using only hiragana if you wish, with the exception of loanwords, though native speakers may look down on you as semi-literate if you do so.
It's politics. You have to cheat at least as much as your opponent just to keep the game fair.