It's a metaphor. The watermark is the highest level to which the water has risen (or in this case, the highest level to which the water can possibly rise).
While quantum entanglement can be used to achieve a sort of faster than light communication, you can't control what you "send" and once you've used one pair of photons you'll need another pair if you want to "send" anything else. Basically all this technique is good for is providing a means for ensuring that two parties have the same random string of bits. This is perfect for generating one time pads which provide an unbreakable form of encryption if they are only used once.
Entangled particles can be used for other interesting forms of communication, but in every case a classical communication channel must also be used.
No one seriously thinks that Linus is always right. He's just good at getting people to cooperate with him even when he is wrong. And that is something of a virtue in itself.
As others say it provides a baseline. But it's also a means of promoting research related to cryptography. Some of the prizes cannot be won without a) a tremendous breakthrough in factoring algorithms, b) a tremendous breakthrough in computer hardware, c) a working quantum computer, or d) some combination of the above.
An elliptic curve is the set of solutions to a cubic equation in two variables on some field (a field is a set on which two operations which behave like multiplication and division are defined). The solutions form a cyclic group. A group is a set on which an operation is defined such that there is an identity element, every element has an inverse, and the associative property holds. In a cyclic group, if you "multiply" any element by itself enough times, you'll get the original element.
What makes all of this junk more interesting to computer people is that if you use a field with finitely many elements, you end up with some tools that can be used for things like factoring and other problems in number theory.
Elliptic curve cryptography is based around the discrete log problem. That is, you are given two elements of the group, a and b, you want to find what value of k makes a^k=b. This problem can be solved in polynomial time in some cyclic groups, but elliptic curve groups lack certain niceties that make solving the problem for them tough.
It is believed that elliptic curve cryptography will allow one to use significantly smaller keys than those needed by RSA without a loss of security.
I haven't been able to read the article yet, but I'm very suspicious. If I understand it right this guy is saying that his motor can do the same amount of work using 80% less energy than a typical electric motor. Electric motors are already have such high efficiency that this can't be explained by an improvement in efficiency. So there must be some energy that isn't provided electrically. So this energy is going to have to come from the magnetic field. But due to conservation of energy, the magnetic field can only provide a finite amount of energy. At best this means he's found a way to use a magnet as a sort of battery.
Actually there is a Japanese law saying that you can't show pictures of pubic hair. However, in the early 90s a magazine published pictures which included pubic hair and said that it was art and should not be censored. The authorities never took action against them and since then others have also broken this law without being prosecuted. So basically it's only technically illegal.
It's worth noting that the terminal velocity of a baseball is about 95 mph. This means that at these velocities air resistance is about as strong as gravity. So in order for the ball to cross the plate at 90+ mph, the ball must be going even faster than that when the pitcher releases it.
Looking at it a bit closer it seems to have some use in specifying a wide variety of weapon types from a small set of traits, but using an XML parser to accomplish this seems like overkill to me.
BulletML doesn't seem to be a game but rather a language for describing the weapons in shoot-'em-ups (I'm not using that fucking abbreviation). This has to be one of the most bizarre ideas I've ever seen.
It's just in bad taste for someone who is seeking the role of impartial arbitor to campaign for any party. In this case it's not inexcusable, but it makes it much more important that they prove that they are committed to being impartial in their duties.
I don't think there is any conspiracy here, but if Diebold's president were wiser he would avoid drawing attention to his political affiliations at all cost.
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Adding Elmer's glue to a solution of sodium borate (borax) will yield a substance very much like what was once sold as Nickelodeon Gak.
So what does it mean if he doesn't see his shadow?
I deem it a glorified chatroom.
Your sig is absolutely beautiful.
Attack of the Clones
Feh. That was a weak episode.
It's a metaphor. The watermark is the highest level to which the water has risen (or in this case, the highest level to which the water can possibly rise).
While quantum entanglement can be used to achieve a sort of faster than light communication, you can't control what you "send" and once you've used one pair of photons you'll need another pair if you want to "send" anything else. Basically all this technique is good for is providing a means for ensuring that two parties have the same random string of bits. This is perfect for generating one time pads which provide an unbreakable form of encryption if they are only used once.
Entangled particles can be used for other interesting forms of communication, but in every case a classical communication channel must also be used.
Pfft! He's got nothing on Doctor Who.
No one seriously thinks that Linus is always right. He's just good at getting people to cooperate with him even when he is wrong. And that is something of a virtue in itself.
Does the pope crap in the woods?
Wait, that's not it.
Is a bear Catholic?
It's the rocket launcher from Quake III.
Gah, I meant to say multiplication and addition. I was a little bit tired when I posted that.
As others say it provides a baseline. But it's also a means of promoting research related to cryptography. Some of the prizes cannot be won without a) a tremendous breakthrough in factoring algorithms, b) a tremendous breakthrough in computer hardware, c) a working quantum computer, or d) some combination of the above.
An elliptic curve is the set of solutions to a cubic equation in two variables on some field (a field is a set on which two operations which behave like multiplication and division are defined). The solutions form a cyclic group. A group is a set on which an operation is defined such that there is an identity element, every element has an inverse, and the associative property holds. In a cyclic group, if you "multiply" any element by itself enough times, you'll get the original element.
What makes all of this junk more interesting to computer people is that if you use a field with finitely many elements, you end up with some tools that can be used for things like factoring and other problems in number theory.
Elliptic curve cryptography is based around the discrete log problem. That is, you are given two elements of the group, a and b, you want to find what value of k makes a^k=b. This problem can be solved in polynomial time in some cyclic groups, but elliptic curve groups lack certain niceties that make solving the problem for them tough.
It is believed that elliptic curve cryptography will allow one to use significantly smaller keys than those needed by RSA without a loss of security.
I haven't been able to read the article yet, but I'm very suspicious. If I understand it right this guy is saying that his motor can do the same amount of work using 80% less energy than a typical electric motor. Electric motors are already have such high efficiency that this can't be explained by an improvement in efficiency. So there must be some energy that isn't provided electrically. So this energy is going to have to come from the magnetic field. But due to conservation of energy, the magnetic field can only provide a finite amount of energy. At best this means he's found a way to use a magnet as a sort of battery.
Actually there is a Japanese law saying that you can't show pictures of pubic hair. However, in the early 90s a magazine published pictures which included pubic hair and said that it was art and should not be censored. The authorities never took action against them and since then others have also broken this law without being prosecuted. So basically it's only technically illegal.
It's worth noting that the terminal velocity of a baseball is about 95 mph. This means that at these velocities air resistance is about as strong as gravity. So in order for the ball to cross the plate at 90+ mph, the ball must be going even faster than that when the pitcher releases it.
Only if you transliterate his name into Japanese and then back again.
Looking at it a bit closer it seems to have some use in specifying a wide variety of weapon types from a small set of traits, but using an XML parser to accomplish this seems like overkill to me.
Death before Techno!
BulletML doesn't seem to be a game but rather a language for describing the weapons in shoot-'em-ups (I'm not using that fucking abbreviation). This has to be one of the most bizarre ideas I've ever seen.
No point in making it a loss leader until they can get more games for the system.
It's just in bad taste for someone who is seeking the role of impartial arbitor to campaign for any party. In this case it's not inexcusable, but it makes it much more important that they prove that they are committed to being impartial in their duties.
I don't think there is any conspiracy here, but if Diebold's president were wiser he would avoid drawing attention to his political affiliations at all cost.
Actually it's an ellipsis.