If anything even sees the transmission, as in any external force that in some way, shape, or form can affect the photons polarization (just about anything will do this), the entire tranmission is made void, at that point you can only verify that the line has been tampered with.
Does this include stimulated emission of radiation? IIRC, when a photon encounters an atom whose electron(s) is/are in a high energy state compatible with its wavelength, the atom emits a second photon that has all of the properties of the first. (This is called "stimulated emission of radiation" (the "SER" in "LASER").) Do those properties include the quantum uncertainty of the original photon? When that uncertainty collapses, does it also collapse in an identical way in the emitted photon? If so, then it seems to me that "photon-tapping" could be possible.
Since I've never seen this discussed anywhere, I assume that photon-tapping won't work. Perhaps the collapses aren't identical, or maybe the emitted photon does not share properties other than wavelength and phase, or perhaps that act of stimulating emission causes some sort of "disconnect" in the original photon pair. Could some knowledgeable person please enlighten me? Thanks.
Those exploding bolts... touchy little buggers, always going off at the drop of a pin.
The only other time that I have heard of explosive bolts going off by themselves was during Virgil "Gus" Grissom's Mercury flight, when the capsule hatch blew after splashdown. It is such an uncommon occurance that some engineers suspected that Grissom paniced and blew the hatch himself.
I'd like to see a system where the candidate gets each elector based on which congressional districts they win the popular vote for.
The problem with that is that it would make it more likely that Congress and the Presidency would be under the control of the same party. That's always a bad thing.
I think [that] deleting the entire user's directory is a little harsh.
Instead of screwing up the user's computer, the app phones home. It sends lots of information about the user's machine to a server somewhere. (Put in the EULA that the user gives permission for the software to do this if it detects a cracked key.) The server also records the IP of the sending machine. The author of the pirated program gives this info to the appropriate authorities (e.g., the FBI in the USA), and the appropriate authorities take appropriate action.
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I am going to buy Doom 3, once the linux client debuts.
Same here. If there is a Doom3 purchasing spike when the Linux client is released, it may be a further incentive to game companies to release Linux versions of their games.
What would happen if we didn't have a school system that cranks out obedient workers? Who would serve the roles that we presently need such people to serve?
For example, the concept "freedom of religion" is derived from Christianity. Other religious traditions have no such belief.
The Roman Empire did, for the most part. The only thing that they required was that people also worship the Roman Gods, as well (and, sometimes, the Emperor). This was no problem with most religions of the time (as most of them were pantheistic), but it came up square against followers of the Jewish and Christian religions, whose beliefs forbade them from worshiping any god other than Yahweh. Even taking the Jewish/Christian problem into account, though, Rome was more tolerant of religious freedom than Christianity was and is through most of its (Christianity's) history.
And, for some reason that upset people... go figure.
Many people have the wrong idea (or a limited idea) of what "mythology" means. The primary definition of "mythology" is "a body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes." (ref). The primary definition of myth is "A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society". By those definitions, almost any religion, dead or alive, is mythology, since almost any religion refers to myths. Since mythology can also be "the field of scholarship dealing with the systematic collection and study of myths", then, in a real sense, Biblical scholars are mythologists.
Just like in the real world, people on the Internet detect the difference between a well thought out point and a bunch of mindless rambling based on the coherence of the argument. If your argument is well spelled out, understandable and flows organically from point to point, you'll get more links, more mod points, etc.
Other real-world counter-examples (pseudonyms used to protect the innocent): Rush Limburger, Chris Atchoos, Charles Wrangler, Bill O'RiledUp, many (most? all?) Rap "artists" and televangelists, Nichole Width, Mons and Fleshman, George W. Shrub, Tony Blare, Paris Marriot, the "can you hear me now?" guy, Yessir Aeroflot, Commander Trekko, Jessica Flanders (and her husband), Carson Weekly, and Wil Oaton/Wenchly Cruncher (aka ClobberNickname). These are all people who are known for (frequently or usually) spouting inane and/or mindless gibberish, and yet many people continue to pay attention to them.
OTOH, how many ordinary people pay any attention whatsoever to people such as Al Greenspan, Steve Hawking, Sam Carter, etc.?
RSX-11 for the PDP-11 also had versioning (the;1;2 etc. that another respondent mentioned). It was a DEC thing; they had file versioning on many of their OSes. Every time that I saved a file, say, from a text editor, the system created a new version. Multiple versions got annoying after a while, because there'd be so many of them. Fortunately, what passed for their shell supported wildcards (e.g., "DEL FILE.FOR;[10-21]" (or something similar)).
Versioning would be nice, as long as it is not "in your face". For example, right-click on a file to pop up a menu that, among other things, accesses earlier versions, or (in a hierarchical filesystem) have a special directory ("..."? "..ver.."?) that contains earlier versions.
But what is it when one *chooses* not to worship the gods
A person who does not worship his/her god is a chauvah (sp?). So the practice of not worshipping a god is chauvahnism. And if the god is male, it's male chauvahnism.
(Yes, I know that it's spelled "chauvinism"; it's a joke.)
(*) - I can't find the source now... maybe it was a/. post.
I first proposed this (burying radioactive waste in the Earth's magma) over 20 years ago (at the end of the post). (It may have been proposed before then by others, although I am not aware of any such proposals.) It was shot down (by Larry Wall, no less) because geological events may cause the magma to be recycled to the surface through eruptions. (Complete thread is here.) My guess is that by then, the waste would be sufficiently diluted that the radioactive hazards from it would be low.
You're running Windows 98 with no virus software. I'm surprised you can use the machine at all.
I run MS Windows 95 with no anitvirus or firewall, and don't have any problem at all with viruses, etc. All I did was turn off everything that can be used to compromise my machine (e.g., closed port 135, turned off NetBIOS over TCP/IP, etc.). I also have disabled scripting, plugins, etc., in my browser (Mozilla) and in my mail and news readers (Outlook Express, Mozilla and Forte Free Agent). (I do have a proxy server running (JunkBuster), but that's mainly to block cookies, banner ads, and annoying sig pics on some forums (not to mention goatse.cx and tubgirl).) I'd like to surf the net using Linux, but I can't get the modem working under Slackware.
The point was that according to the movie they don't interfere.
According to a movie that I watched, there are aliens that lay an egg in your stomach through a tube that goes down your throat, and later the egg hatches and the alien pops out through your chest. The aliens are dangerous to anything that lives except for lithe, curly-haired brunettes.
I still have to visit my grandfather every time he needs to install RAM.
Yeah, man, I feel your pain. I know that my grandfather needs to install RAM two or three times a month; what a bore. If only I didn't have to visit my grandfather every time he needed to install RAM, I'd never have to visit him at all.
A tilt switch usually means either a switch with a weight meaning you need two of them to make it work to cover two axes, or a mercury switch which has the same problem plus the drawback that the contents can be toxic if they escape the switch in exchange for being more reliable than a mechanical tilt switch.
Mercury switches exist that can detect tilt over two axes. They work by having the electrical contacts at the bottom of a depression shaped like a very shallow bowl. A tilt in any direction causes the mercury to flow away from the contacts, breaking the circuit.
The main problem that I can see with using any kind of acceleration-detecting device on a mouse is that it would be triggered by sudden mouse movements.
Also, the toxicity of mercury is somewhat exaggerated. Mercury vapor can cause problems over an extended period of time, but it is unlikely that the small amount from a tilt switch will cause problems (unless it is used in a sealed room that has no ventilation, but radon would probably be of greater concern in such an environment).
That theory is usually true, but more often than not it doesn't hold water
Uh, if "more often than not it doesn't hold water", then it can't be "usually true", because "more often than not it doesn't hold water" means that it's true less than 50% of the time, whereas "usually true" means that it's true more then 50% of the time.
An ethical code for robots would have to include something that many humans do not have, a respect for the life and property of (other) people.
Not necessarily. Many humans do not have an ethical code that includes respect for the life and property of non-human animals. (Most humans eat animals for food and chop down trees (that may be home to birds, squirrels, etc.) to put up their own houses or for wood/paper.) There is no reason to expect that robots/AIs, once they have evolved to a higher form of life/intelligence than unaugmented humans, should treat humans any differently. Humans may try to program in such respect, but life adapts.
"notepad" does give you a little better clue as to what the program is and does
Makes sure that water is never at approx. room temperature? ("no tepad", get it? HAHAHAHA ... OK, so "tepad" is not "tepid", but you get the idea. ... OK, so you don't get the idea, or you get the idea, but you think it's stupid. Well, hey, they can't all be winners, folks.)
BTW, it's obvious what "vi" means. It means "6". It was based on an earlier editor called "ex", which means "the person who got the house when we divorced".
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IIRC, when a photon encounters an atom whose electron(s) is/are in a high energy state compatible with its wavelength, the atom emits a second photon that has all of the properties of the first.
(This is called "stimulated emission of radiation" (the "SER" in "LASER").)
Do those properties include the quantum uncertainty of the original photon?
When that uncertainty collapses, does it also collapse in an identical way in the emitted photon?
If so, then it seems to me that "photon-tapping" could be possible.
Since I've never seen this discussed anywhere, I assume that photon-tapping won't work.
Perhaps the collapses aren't identical, or maybe the emitted photon does not share properties other than wavelength and phase, or perhaps that act of stimulating emission causes some sort of "disconnect" in the original photon pair.
Could some knowledgeable person please enlighten me?
Thanks.
It is such an uncommon occurance that some engineers suspected that Grissom paniced and blew the hatch himself.
That's always a bad thing.
It sends lots of information about the user's machine to a server somewhere.
(Put in the EULA that the user gives permission for the software to do this if it detects a cracked key.)
The server also records the IP of the sending machine.
The author of the pirated program gives this info to the appropriate authorities (e.g., the FBI in the USA), and the appropriate authorities take appropriate action.
If there is a Doom3 purchasing spike when the Linux client is released, it may be a further incentive to game companies to release Linux versions of their games.
Flies have just as much right to be here as humans or robots.
The robot should try munching on plants, instead.
I WANT MY VEGAN ROBOT!!!!
The only thing that they required was that people also worship the Roman Gods, as well (and, sometimes, the Emperor).
This was no problem with most religions of the time (as most of them were pantheistic), but it came up square against followers of the Jewish and Christian religions, whose beliefs forbade them from worshiping any god other than Yahweh.
Even taking the Jewish/Christian problem into account, though, Rome was more tolerant of religious freedom than Christianity was and is through most of its (Christianity's) history.
The primary definition of "mythology" is "a body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes." (ref).
The primary definition of myth is "A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society".
By those definitions, almost any religion, dead or alive, is mythology, since almost any religion refers to myths.
Since mythology can also be "the field of scholarship dealing with the systematic collection and study of myths", then, in a real sense, Biblical scholars are mythologists.
Other real-world counter-examples (pseudonyms used to protect the innocent): Rush Limburger, Chris Atchoos, Charles Wrangler, Bill O'RiledUp, many (most? all?) Rap "artists" and televangelists, Nichole Width, Mons and Fleshman, George W. Shrub, Tony Blare, Paris Marriot, the "can you hear me now?" guy, Yessir Aeroflot, Commander Trekko, Jessica Flanders (and her husband), Carson Weekly, and Wil Oaton/Wenchly Cruncher (aka ClobberNickname).
These are all people who are known for (frequently or usually) spouting inane and/or mindless gibberish, and yet many people continue to pay attention to them.
OTOH, how many ordinary people pay any attention whatsoever to people such as Al Greenspan, Steve Hawking, Sam Carter, etc.?
A more accurate statement would be "WinFS will do all that and more when Duke Nukem Forever is released.".
RSX-11 for the PDP-11 also had versioning (the ;1 ;2 etc. that another respondent mentioned).
It was a DEC thing; they had file versioning on many of their OSes.
Every time that I saved a file, say, from a text editor, the system created a new version.
Multiple versions got annoying after a while, because there'd be so many of them.
Fortunately, what passed for their shell supported wildcards (e.g., "DEL FILE.FOR;[10-21]" (or something similar)).
Versioning would be nice, as long as it is not "in your face".
For example, right-click on a file to pop up a menu that, among other things, accesses earlier versions, or (in a hierarchical filesystem) have a special directory ("..."? "..ver.."?) that contains earlier versions.
How odd.
The homepage says that it has been in use since 1981.
That's more than 20 years.
So the practice of not worshipping a god is chauvahnism.
And if the god is male, it's male chauvahnism.
(Yes, I know that it's spelled "chauvinism"; it's a joke.)
(It may have been proposed before then by others, although I am not aware of any such proposals.)
It was shot down (by Larry Wall, no less) because geological events may cause the magma to be recycled to the surface through eruptions.
(Complete thread is here.)
My guess is that by then, the waste would be sufficiently diluted that the radioactive hazards from it would be low.
All I did was turn off everything that can be used to compromise my machine (e.g., closed port 135, turned off NetBIOS over TCP/IP, etc.).
I also have disabled scripting, plugins, etc., in my browser (Mozilla) and in my mail and news readers (Outlook Express, Mozilla and Forte Free Agent).
(I do have a proxy server running (JunkBuster), but that's mainly to block cookies, banner ads, and annoying sig pics on some forums (not to mention goatse.cx and tubgirl).)
I'd like to surf the net using Linux, but I can't get the modem working under Slackware.
The aliens are dangerous to anything that lives except for lithe, curly-haired brunettes.
According to the movie.
I know that my grandfather needs to install RAM two or three times a month; what a bore.
If only I didn't have to visit my grandfather every time he needed to install RAM, I'd never have to visit him at all.
They work by having the electrical contacts at the bottom of a depression shaped like a very shallow bowl.
A tilt in any direction causes the mercury to flow away from the contacts, breaking the circuit.
The main problem that I can see with using any kind of acceleration-detecting device on a mouse is that it would be triggered by sudden mouse movements.
Also, the toxicity of mercury is somewhat exaggerated.
Mercury vapor can cause problems over an extended period of time, but it is unlikely that the small amount from a tilt switch will cause problems (unless it is used in a sealed room that has no ventilation, but radon would probably be of greater concern in such an environment).
Many humans do not have an ethical code that includes respect for the life and property of non-human animals.
(Most humans eat animals for food and chop down trees (that may be home to birds, squirrels, etc.) to put up their own houses or for wood/paper.)
There is no reason to expect that robots/AIs, once they have evolved to a higher form of life/intelligence than unaugmented humans, should treat humans any differently.
Humans may try to program in such respect, but life adapts.
("no tepad", get it? HAHAHAHA
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OK, so "tepad" is not "tepid", but you get the idea.
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OK, so you don't get the idea, or you get the idea, but you think it's stupid.
Well, hey, they can't all be winners, folks.)
BTW, it's obvious what "vi" means.
It means "6".
It was based on an earlier editor called "ex", which means "the person who got the house when we divorced".