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  1. What a load! on Light-Based Computers Using Quantum Principles · · Score: 1
    So you wait for the acoustic wave to get in just the right position and you take a picture. What's so f***ing fast about that?!!!

    My seventh grade social studies teacher showed us punched cards with the holes along the edges. You ran a long metal pin through the holes and lifted, and the cards where the edge was punched away stayed in the tray. Repeat for multiple WHERE clauses. At least that could handle multiple cards with the same value.

  2. Do they get embarassed when they write this stuff? on Computers That Solve Problems Without Being On · · Score: 1

    "Michison and Jozsa describe a scheme for probing all the possible states of a quantum computer, including that in which all the 'switches' are 'off' -- that is, in which the computer is not turned on." Just because your register is zeroed doesn't mean the chip is off. Not only that, but they essentially say the chip is off if one of its possible states is all zero.

  3. Senate Revokes 1st Amendment on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 1

    As we discuss this, the US Senate is trying to restrict political free speech back to the level of 18th century type where you are free to stand on the streetcorner and give a speech (except you have to stay clear of abortion clinics and national party conventions). This is being done largely by Democrats plus the Manchurian Candidate.

  4. Self Assembly, Nanotech on Transparent Transistors? · · Score: 1
    Forget the funny eyeglasses. Think T2.

    Imagine small blocks that use the magnetic field to move around. They use the semiconductive aspect to perform logic and to route power from one block to the next. They communicate with their neighbors to assemble into larger structures.

  5. Medical record can be used for fundraising on The Tightening Net: Part Two · · Score: 1
    Here are some quotes from a Washington Post article.

    New federal medical privacy regulations, touted by the Clinton administration as a landmark of patient protection, will for the first time explicitly permit doctors, hospitals, other health services and some of their business associates to use personal health records for marketing and fundraising.

    A pregnant woman, for instance, could receive pitches about vitamins or infant health-care products. A patient who has been treated for sexually transmitted diseases could receive telemarketing calls offering condoms or new medicines.

    The exemptions also give foundations affiliated with hospitals continued access to patient names, ages, addresses and telephone numbers for fundraising initiatives. Such foundations raise billions of dollars annually by soliciting patients and their families at medical facilities and at their homes.

  6. Why are there so few blacks in high tech? on Racism At Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I would be interested in the opinions of blacks and members other underrepresented groups - ie, anyone other than a white, chinese, or indian male. I'd ask someone where I work but there's only one, and I don't feel like making him answer for his entire race.

  7. Selling your vote from home on Analysis: Reforming Political Technology · · Score: 1
    The big problem with online voting is that the parties will have a convenient way to know if you are voting the way you were paid to vote. Up till the 1890's votes were cast on large brightly colored ballets provided by the parties so everyone knew who you were voting for. If you vote from your desktop, any who is monitoring your computer can check your vote the same way.

    The polling location is public place where you go to cast a secret ballot.

  8. They can order you to give them your password on 'Hacking' To Be Declared Illegal · · Score: 1

    As if this friggin Maginot line of computer defense wasn't bad enough, in the treaty in Section 2, article 14, paragraph 5 the signatory countries must pass laws to force you to give up your password on any system they want to access for any criminal investigation.

  9. US Debt looks like $3,383,456,837,260.04 to me. on Ask the Presidential Candidates · · Score: 2
    According to this the part that is owed outside the government itself is smaller and going down. The rest ($2,271,235,035,036.24 ) is your social security money and other investments held by the government.

    Until the debt goes away and the feds start buying stocks bonds the social security system is just another income transfer program. But then it gets really scarey because the gov will start voting its shares!

  10. What's unsolicited on CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database · · Score: 1

    If you have a subscription from Forbes or Wired, then you've solicted whatever they decide to send you haven't you?

  11. This is good news for Open Music on FCC to Require Anti-Piracy Features in Digital TVs · · Score: 1
    Napster tried to argue that they couldn't tell which music was copyrighted and which was freely distributable.

    Since all machines will have the capability to recognize the copy protection, then it will be easy to have legitimate Napster-like sites.

  12. why doesn't this apply to spam? on Metabrowsing Controversy Continues · · Score: 1
    If EBay can get the courts to protect them from spiders, why can't the rest of us get protection from spammers and telemarketers?

    I can't think of a reason why Whyte's ruling is bad. Let the market decide if it wants open or closed auctions.