or maybe when we switch over to unencryptable-uninterceptable quantum cryptography for all communications...and cable tv for our tv signals...and wired phones. it is possible with current technology for us to use means of communication that are undetectable now.
random noise from machinery would likely appear the same as random noise from a star.
there is a reason that red tape is there. that red tape was originally put there in the constitution in the form of requiring them to get a warrant so that the police, fbi, cia couldn't just harass their citizens like the british could do at the time.
it is likely the artists aren't getting anything...because the record labels just don't know where they are anymore...wish i could do that with my debts/bills!
yes and current theories are always correct now aren't they? sure your statement is plenty precise, but that doesn't mean it is correct. instead of just attacking me it would have been better/nicer if you could provide some proof to back up your claim and prove me wrong, such as a primer on qc that shows that it is unbreakable. sure i would like to believe, but i don't like taking things on blind faith alone.
and my point was that, if qc were proved breakable in some way, it certainly would not be the first time that some basic scientific assumption has been proven to be inaccurate. always and never are extremely strong words to use.
just like we once thought that the sun revolved around the earth? or that the earth was flat?
always is a very strong word if your basic assumptions are wrong from the beginning. i have not seen the proof that qc is so safe as they say it is...though i would like to.
isn't something that is "obvious" not patentable? seems to me i can name a lot of items with buttons that do different things depending on how you press it. and one of the posts above this appeared to have a good list of them.
to me this just seems and obvious application of something that has been used in many different devices with buttons, i guess i just don't see why it is patentable, but then again i don't see why the patent office lets quite a few of the patents through...
maybe an even better example that shows a button doing multiple functions
is that i have had watches that if you hold the light button down for like 3 seconds it will toggle the light so every time you hit another button the light turns on for a few seconds
or sometimes the set button is a mode button on the watch that change modes to a timer and such if you just press and release it.
every single watch i have ever owned has done this! you have to hold the set button for a number of seconds before it lets you set it...this by far predates microsoft's empire!
i was looking for the link, but i don't see it right now.
what happened is the researchers had the monkeys guide something on a computer screen using a joystick...which was also connected to a robotic arm in another room. they mapped the signals coming from the monkeys brain and eventually they switched off the joystick. later the monkeys learned on their own that they no longer needed to use the joystick to move the objects on the screen, and so they stopped.
things start getting really messy here, but kids are quite resourceful. i was in school once, i seem to remember that some of use knew more about the security systems on the computers (including the admin passwords) than a number of the people running them.
so what if it grabs the text from the window i am working in...there are ways around this so i can still dl www.naughtypictures.com or run a certain command and not get caught.
for example i just have to write a little program or script that will dl it for me through a proxy and then save it to hd or homearea as prettyflowers.jpg then open file and no one was caught.
i guess my point is that whatever you do is not enough for someone sufficiently motivated to do something they shouldn't be
i never said that microchips were invented by nasa for spaceflight, i know they weren't.
but none the less that doesn't mean that nasa couldn't have been a driving force in their development. apollo spent a lot of money on purchasing microchips, and according to some sources could have had as much as 2/3's of the worlds processing power at the time. it is throwing money like this into the industry that helps develop new and even old technologies.
And if they have the initial handshake, it'll take 0 time since they have the keys. Encryption is worthless if keys aren't traded securely.
this is not true if you are using some sort of public key encryption. i will admit my knowledge of ssl is not very great, so i don't really know how it works, but by trading only public keys, it means you can impersonate someone else, but it doesn't mean you can decrypt what they are saying
F*ck the water. 240kg of fossil fuels is alot of damned energy.
not really, that is 240kg for a device that will last approx. 3+ years. how much fossil fuels do you use in your car over 3 years just driving to and from work?
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or maybe when we switch over to unencryptable-uninterceptable quantum cryptography for all communications...and cable tv for our tv signals...and wired phones. it is possible with current technology for us to use means of communication that are undetectable now.
random noise from machinery would likely appear the same as random noise from a star.
there is a reason that red tape is there. that red tape was originally put there in the constitution in the form of requiring them to get a warrant so that the police, fbi, cia couldn't just harass their citizens like the british could do at the time.
ok, i skimmed the article at least, but i still do not see how this is in any way related to free speach.
can someone please explain to me how they can claim this is breaking their first ammendment rights?
you are probably right, it appears at least their webserver is IIS on windows
well, that is because they certainly do welcome feedback...they just don't tell you they are just sending it to /dev/null
`get_feedback >/dev/null`
cockroaches(the equivelant of)
luckily for us, at that time they were called mammals!
oh how quickly we forget about this...
yes, i do beliegve that people would give away their password in exchange for almost anything!
did you forget about this?
it is likely the artists aren't getting anything...because the record labels just don't know where they are anymore...wish i could do that with my debts/bills!
yes and current theories are always correct now aren't they? sure your statement is plenty precise, but that doesn't mean it is correct. instead of just attacking me it would have been better/nicer if you could provide some proof to back up your claim and prove me wrong, such as a primer on qc that shows that it is unbreakable. sure i would like to believe, but i don't like taking things on blind faith alone.
and my point was that, if qc were proved breakable in some way, it certainly would not be the first time that some basic scientific assumption has been proven to be inaccurate. always and never are extremely strong words to use.
Some people just have to be asses...
apparently you are one of them...
just like we once thought that the sun revolved around the earth? or that the earth was flat?
always is a very strong word if your basic assumptions are wrong from the beginning. i have not seen the proof that qc is so safe as they say it is...though i would like to.
what can nanotech do weapon-wise that can't be done with a malicious lab grown virus or biological weapons today?
such as anthrax? polio? sars? the common cold?
DeBeers is a monoploy that artificially inflates prices and creates an artifical scarcity.
so you are saying it is like OPEC
isn't something that is "obvious" not patentable?
seems to me i can name a lot of items with buttons that do different things depending on how you press it. and one of the posts above this appeared to have a good list of them.
to me this just seems and obvious application of something that has been used in many different devices with buttons, i guess i just don't see why it is patentable, but then again i don't see why the patent office lets quite a few of the patents through...
maybe an even better example that shows a button doing multiple functions
is that i have had watches that if you hold the light button down for like 3 seconds it will toggle the light so every time you hit another button the light turns on for a few seconds
or sometimes the set button is a mode button on the watch that change modes to a timer and such if you just press and release it.
every single watch i have ever owned has done this! you have to hold the set button for a number of seconds before it lets you set it...this by far predates microsoft's empire!
you mean microvision? the company mentioned in the article???
from microvision's website somewhere
"Headquarters for both Microvision and Lumera are in Bothell, Washington, a Seattle suburb."
i was looking for the link, but i don't see it right now.
what happened is the researchers had the monkeys guide something on a computer screen using a joystick...which was also connected to a robotic arm in another room. they mapped the signals coming from the monkeys brain and eventually they switched off the joystick. later the monkeys learned on their own that they no longer needed to use the joystick to move the objects on the screen, and so they stopped.
None of that was done "externally".
if i remember correctly this was determined by sunlight shining in holes in the ground...none of it was done on the surface...hehe
there are still ways to obfuscate this.
things start getting really messy here, but kids are quite resourceful. i was in school once, i seem to remember that some of use knew more about the security systems on the computers (including the admin passwords) than a number of the people running them.
so what if it grabs the text from the window i am working in...there are ways around this so i can still dl www.naughtypictures.com or run a certain command and not get caught.
for example i just have to write a little program or script that will dl it for me through a proxy and then save it to hd or homearea as prettyflowers.jpg then open file and no one was caught.
i guess my point is that whatever you do is not enough for someone sufficiently motivated to do something they shouldn't be
i never said that microchips were invented by nasa for spaceflight, i know they weren't.
but none the less that doesn't mean that nasa couldn't have been a driving force in their development. apollo spent a lot of money on purchasing microchips, and according to some sources could have had as much as 2/3's of the worlds processing power at the time. it is throwing money like this into the industry that helps develop new and even old technologies.
oh i don't know....microchips? like the kind in your computer...
without the space race you might not be posting on slashdot today
And if they have the initial handshake, it'll take 0 time since they have the keys. Encryption is worthless if keys aren't traded securely.
this is not true if you are using some sort of public key encryption. i will admit my knowledge of ssl is not very great, so i don't really know how it works, but by trading only public keys, it means you can impersonate someone else, but it doesn't mean you can decrypt what they are saying
so over the lifetime of your computer you will have used up 12 computers worth of fossil fuels.
240kg per computer doesn't seem too bad of a number to me.
F*ck the water. 240kg of fossil fuels is alot of damned energy.
not really, that is 240kg for a device that will last approx. 3+ years. how much fossil fuels do you use in your car over 3 years just driving to and from work?
a space elevator on the moon also wouldn't have to worry about the added stresses from the atmosphere, such as jet streams and such.