At the PhD level, hard scientists know how to program. We don't always use whatever's hot these days (you see a LOT of quickbasic, and a lot of what you do is programmed in mathematica or mathcad), but I reject the premise of the question.
Enzymes are problematic because they're picky; the reason your body keeps its temperature so closely regulated (and a 5-10F/3-6C rise or fall in body temperature is so hugely significant) is because most enzymes care. A lot. Some, obviously, don't care so much if you bang on em a bit - plants', reptiles', and probably your termites. They still require reasonably controlled conditions pH-wise, because if that changes too much, your enzyme will fold up and crumple into something else entirely, and it won't work anymore. I am not personally that familiar with amylases, but just about any chemical reaction works much better in a solution, or in the gas-phase. Chewing away at a clump of fiber is tough.
As for sulfuric acid, well, that's pretty rough too. First of all, it's nasty stuff, and I don't think just anyone should be handling it on a daily basis. I know when I use it, I never slip on that gloves-and-goggles rule. Second, it's got some healthy energy requirements to manufacture - the process involves pressures of 2atm and temperatures of about 400C. Not to say it's impossible though, it's just got its own problems.
Ok, say you have your sugar monomer or dimer (sucrose, fructose, or glucose). We need to make it into alcohol. The easiest, and cheapest way, is yeast. You can probably get up to 15% with fancy osmotolerant yeasts. You probably won't do too much better with enzymes. Ain't gonna burn. So we're looking at distillation, which has its own substantial energy requirements. Not to say we can't do it, but it's trickier than just turning our garbage into ethanol- doing it with corn and sugarcane is hard enough.
Particles that are treated best by quantum theory (such as photons, here) exhibit quantum states. Just think of them as metainformation about the particle, which is accurate to a first approximation and appropriate for this explanation. In this case, the light is polarized, which dictates some of its quantum metainformation.
The Heisenberg principle, which you've probably heard about, says that you cannot know the position and momentum of a particle exactly, simultaneously. You can know one or the other exactly, you can know both with noninfinitesimal error, but you can't know both. For big, heavy things, like macroscopic objects, the uncertainty is so small as to be irrelevant.
The quantum weirdness which results is as follows: an unobserved object simultaneously exists in a linear combination of multiple quantum states. That is, it exists as
(x*A+y*B+z*C)/(x+y+z)
Where A,B,C are quantum states and x,y,z are relative probabilities. If they add to 1, the x+y+z term falls out.
This is where schrodinger's cat. If you wait exactly long enough that the probability of the cat dying is 50%, the cat is exactly equal parts dead and alive. It's accurate, but I think it's confusing because it confuses the fact that quantum states really only apply to very small things, except in isolated cases like this.
Where the unbreakability of quantum encryption comes in is the observer. If you open the box, the cat is no longer both, it's just dead or alive. If you look at the photon, it's A,B, or C. You have destroyed the metainformation contained in the photon, because up until when you observed it, it was x parts A, y parts B, and z parts C.
This is unavoidable and fundamental to quantum mechanics.
For quantum encryption/communication not to work this way, we have to be wrong about quantum mechanics, and the fact that it's just so WEIRD is part of the reason I suspect it will work. It's so counterintuitive people have verified this many times.
Don't know if it's viable, but how about cooling water for A/C, etc purposes? This requires substantial infrastructure investment, but lots of large concerns do it to take advantage of off-peak rates.
Nobody's stopping you. I've lived on wage slave money before without a degree and might do so again. $400/mo rent, $400/mo food adds up to 9600/yr. Do it right and you don't need a car. That's plenty of money for wahtever tyler durden shit you have in mind, no slam intended. If you'd rather not change the world, work your 40 hours/wk at $10/hr, make your 20k/yr pretax, and enjoy the remaining 128 hrs/week. It's your call.
That people have this attitude that "it's a waste of time," "he thinks its my only class!," "it's just too much work!," etc. My best experiences in undergrad were when I had a huge workload, knocked everything out, even the bullshit work, in incnredible fashion, and reveled in it sleeplessly the next day.
Word to the wise: this is how the real world works. No, it shouldn't be the way it goes, but it is. In upper division hard sciences and math, I pissed away more time googling for examples online that were like problems I was doing than really learning them sometimes. I paid for these times. Bide your time, do your work, but most importantly, carve out at least 5-10 hours a week for side projects you really enjoy. In an 18 credit semester where I was taking PChem, researching 20 hours a week, taking a 2 credit lab (read: 6 hours in lab, 4 hours writing lab reports, and I work quickly), I still had time to work on a software project, do sculpture, AND go out with my slacker buddies like it was my job. You. will. always. have. bullshit. work. Learn to live with it and quit bitching about the system; it's not some nebulous entity that's out to get you.
Calcium carbonate burns to calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
Repeat after me: everything has a vapor pressure. Yes, even Al2O3.
Concrete is mostly calcium silicates, NOT hydrocarbons. We are likely seeing these "mythical" plumes of metal oxide smoke again. You're thinking of asphalt.
Why ya gotta hate on him just 'cause he got a bigger lens than you, hm?
Ammonia? N2 + H2 over a rust catalyst at 500 deg C, remove the NH3, recycle. No oil is involved. There isnt a whole lot of heteroatoms in crude. Asphalt is about 5% as i recall..
Telnet into your router. If this is disabled, plug in the management interface, use hyperterminal/terminal software/direct serial port access/however you do this. log in. enable.
set web port 81
set web disabled
write
reboot
....
exit
This is the only effective way I know of. As far as I know all CBOS are vulnerable. Don't expect to get pre-CR2 performance, though, as you are still receiving a decent chunk of extraneous traffic, and qwest's (or whomever your provider is) lines are fairly bogged, as is everyone elses.
amex charges extra because they don't make money on interest. it's also illegal for businesses to charge extra for credit card transactions; cash discounts, however, are legal.
you want localhost alone...only localhost/127.1 match up with the loopback device. localhost.tld is fine. eg:
Registrant: Wraith Interprises (LOCALHOST-DOM) 1034 Grant St. Longmont, CO 80501 US
Domain Name: LOCALHOST.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Seidl, Matthew (MS434) seidl@LOCALHOST.COM 1034 Grant St Longmont, CO 80501 (303) 682-5848
Record last updated on 28-Apr-2000. Record expires on 15-May-2001. Record created on 14-May-1995. Database last updated on 8-Jul-2000 18:43:43 EDT.
you're applying an old push media metaphor. think of hte problems. dead links all over the place. hypermedia, for the most part (that bowtie shit aside), relys on a complete, active information base. dont just mutter "corporations will take care of it". there's going to be branding, and definitely user fees -- for now. but even the logistic problem of selecting pages makes it infeasible.
under US law, you're required to protect your copyright, or you lose it. napster's hands are kind of tied here. if offspring ran this by their lawyers, they would have found this out, too.
Billy boy, you'd best be glad I'm not the judge, 'cause I'd be a-reamin' you.
this is why you're not a damn judge. judges are meant to be impartial arbiters of the law. they don't write law or make value judgements beyond the intent of the law.
the judge's job is to decide if microsoft broke the law, and if so, to initiate action against microsoft that will fix whatever their breaking the law did - within the means of the laws.
if . is in your path, that means that an arbitrary binary or script can be placed in say, your home directory. an example:
your path is :/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
if theres a shell script in ~root named "ls" to rm -rf/* and you type "ls" from your home directory, no harm done,/bin/ls is what's in your path. but if . is in there and you type ls, it will run the malicious code.
fear of nuclear war fear of international terrorism fear that the computers that do all this making-life-easier stuff will crash and die on January 1st (gone now, but valid) fear of hep b, aids, ebola, anthrax fear of another stock market crash (our economy looks a lot like 1919 -- granted, this is unlikely, its looked this way for a few years) fear that trends will continue, and antibiotics will get less and less effective potential humanitarian wars w/US involvement (clinton doctrine) in chechnya, iraq, kosovo, etc..
there's plenty to be worried about. one nobody mentioned was the fact that progressing generations seem to experience more and more transient, material happiness, and less and less genuine, internal happiness.
"generations" don't have problems, people do. lets use the bitching back and forth energy to fix them.
bill gates wasn't being sued, microsoft was. bill gates isn't microsoft. microsoft wasn't the subject of a criminal trial, these were civil proceedings.
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At the PhD level, hard scientists know how to program. We don't always use whatever's hot these days (you see a LOT of quickbasic, and a lot of what you do is programmed in mathematica or mathcad), but I reject the premise of the question.
PCR is 20 years old and ubiquitous in industry.
It happens to be big business because of settlement $. See here, I've blogged it.
Enzymes are problematic because they're picky; the reason your body keeps its temperature so closely regulated (and a 5-10F/3-6C rise or fall in body temperature is so hugely significant) is because most enzymes care. A lot. Some, obviously, don't care so much if you bang on em a bit - plants', reptiles', and probably your termites. They still require reasonably controlled conditions pH-wise, because if that changes too much, your enzyme will fold up and crumple into something else entirely, and it won't work anymore. I am not personally that familiar with amylases, but just about any chemical reaction works much better in a solution, or in the gas-phase. Chewing away at a clump of fiber is tough.
As for sulfuric acid, well, that's pretty rough too. First of all, it's nasty stuff, and I don't think just anyone should be handling it on a daily basis. I know when I use it, I never slip on that gloves-and-goggles rule. Second, it's got some healthy energy requirements to manufacture - the process involves pressures of 2atm and temperatures of about 400C. Not to say it's impossible though, it's just got its own problems.
Ok, say you have your sugar monomer or dimer (sucrose, fructose, or glucose). We need to make it into alcohol. The easiest, and cheapest way, is yeast. You can probably get up to 15% with fancy osmotolerant yeasts. You probably won't do too much better with enzymes. Ain't gonna burn. So we're looking at distillation, which has its own substantial energy requirements. Not to say we can't do it, but it's trickier than just turning our garbage into ethanol- doing it with corn and sugarcane is hard enough.
I can return my ancient reagents that are sold in bottles containing "one mole" since the mole changed?
give it a shot.
Particles that are treated best by quantum theory (such as photons, here) exhibit quantum states. Just think of them as metainformation about the particle, which is accurate to a first approximation and appropriate for this explanation. In this case, the light is polarized, which dictates some of its quantum metainformation.
The Heisenberg principle, which you've probably heard about, says that you cannot know the position and momentum of a particle exactly, simultaneously. You can know one or the other exactly, you can know both with noninfinitesimal error, but you can't know both. For big, heavy things, like macroscopic objects, the uncertainty is so small as to be irrelevant.
The quantum weirdness which results is as follows: an unobserved object simultaneously exists in a linear combination of multiple quantum states. That is, it exists as
(x*A+y*B+z*C)/(x+y+z)
Where A,B,C are quantum states and x,y,z are relative probabilities. If they add to 1, the x+y+z term falls out.
This is where schrodinger's cat. If you wait exactly long enough that the probability of the cat dying is 50%, the cat is exactly equal parts dead and alive. It's accurate, but I think it's confusing because it confuses the fact that quantum states really only apply to very small things, except in isolated cases like this.
Where the unbreakability of quantum encryption comes in is the observer. If you open the box, the cat is no longer both, it's just dead or alive. If you look at the photon, it's A,B, or C. You have destroyed the metainformation contained in the photon, because up until when you observed it, it was x parts A, y parts B, and z parts C.
This is unavoidable and fundamental to quantum mechanics.
For quantum encryption/communication not to work this way, we have to be wrong about quantum mechanics, and the fact that it's just so WEIRD is part of the reason I suspect it will work. It's so counterintuitive people have verified this many times.
Don't know if it's viable, but how about cooling water for A/C, etc purposes? This requires substantial infrastructure investment, but lots of large concerns do it to take advantage of off-peak rates.
individual magnetic domains are macroscopic, on the order of mm or tenths of mm. dust is too small, you'd lose magnetic-ness.
Nobody's stopping you. I've lived on wage slave money before without a degree and might do so again. $400/mo rent, $400/mo food adds up to 9600/yr. Do it right and you don't need a car. That's plenty of money for wahtever tyler durden shit you have in mind, no slam intended. If you'd rather not change the world, work your 40 hours/wk at $10/hr, make your 20k/yr pretax, and enjoy the remaining 128 hrs/week. It's your call.
That people have this attitude that "it's a waste of time," "he thinks its my only class!," "it's just too much work!," etc. My best experiences in undergrad were when I had a huge workload, knocked everything out, even the bullshit work, in incnredible fashion, and reveled in it sleeplessly the next day.
Word to the wise: this is how the real world works. No, it shouldn't be the way it goes, but it is. In upper division hard sciences and math, I pissed away more time googling for examples online that were like problems I was doing than really learning them sometimes. I paid for these times. Bide your time, do your work, but most importantly, carve out at least 5-10 hours a week for side projects you really enjoy. In an 18 credit semester where I was taking PChem, researching 20 hours a week, taking a 2 credit lab (read: 6 hours in lab, 4 hours writing lab reports, and I work quickly), I still had time to work on a software project, do sculpture, AND go out with my slacker buddies like it was my job. You. will. always. have. bullshit. work. Learn to live with it and quit bitching about the system; it's not some nebulous entity that's out to get you.
Calcium carbonate burns to calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
Repeat after me: everything has a vapor pressure. Yes, even Al2O3.
Concrete is mostly calcium silicates, NOT hydrocarbons. We are likely seeing these "mythical" plumes of metal oxide smoke again. You're thinking of asphalt.
Why ya gotta hate on him just 'cause he got a bigger lens than you, hm?
Ammonia? N2 + H2 over a rust catalyst at 500 deg C, remove the NH3, recycle. No oil is involved. There isnt a whole lot of heteroatoms in crude. Asphalt is about 5% as i recall..
Telnet into your router. If this is disabled, plug in the management interface, use hyperterminal/terminal software/direct serial port access/however you do this. log in. enable.
set web port 81
set web disabled
write
reboot
....
exit
This is the only effective way I know of. As far as I know all CBOS are vulnerable. Don't expect to get pre-CR2 performance, though, as you are still receiving a decent chunk of extraneous traffic, and qwest's (or whomever your provider is) lines are fairly bogged, as is everyone elses.
-aaron
amex charges extra because they don't make money on interest. it's also illegal for businesses to charge extra for credit card transactions; cash discounts, however, are legal.
each piece of mail is required by law to cover its own cost.
he set a reserve. it would never sell for $500.
HOLY SHIT PHONE BOOKES ARE ONLIEN!# I HAEV MAED A MAJER PRIVACEY DISCOVARY!!11!!
you want localhost alone...only localhost/127.1 match up with the loopback device. localhost.tld is fine. eg:
Registrant:
Wraith Interprises (LOCALHOST-DOM)
1034 Grant St.
Longmont, CO 80501
US
Domain Name: LOCALHOST.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
Seidl, Matthew (MS434) seidl@LOCALHOST.COM
1034 Grant St
Longmont, CO 80501
(303) 682-5848
Record last updated on 28-Apr-2000.
Record expires on 15-May-2001.
Record created on 14-May-1995.
Database last updated on 8-Jul-2000 18:43:43 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
PALLAS.WALLIS.COM 209.81.49.2
you're applying an old push media metaphor. think of hte problems. dead links all over the place. hypermedia, for the most part (that bowtie shit aside), relys on a complete, active information base. dont just mutter "corporations will take care of it". there's going to be branding, and definitely user fees -- for now. but even the logistic problem of selecting pages makes it infeasible.
think about this for a second, guys...
under US law, you're required to protect your copyright, or you lose it. napster's hands are kind of tied here. if offspring ran this by their lawyers, they would have found this out, too.
Billy boy, you'd best be glad I'm not the judge, 'cause I'd be a-reamin' you.
this is why you're not a damn judge. judges are meant to be impartial arbiters of the law. they don't write law or make value judgements beyond the intent of the law.
the judge's job is to decide if microsoft broke the law, and if so, to initiate action against microsoft that will fix whatever their breaking the law did - within the means of the laws.
you don't just get to kick their ass.
adderall isn't an antidepressant - by any means. it is mixed amphetamine salts, and amphetamines arent for chronic use - they're way too addictive.
if . is in your path, that means that an arbitrary binary or script can be placed in say, your home directory. an example:
/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
/* and you type "ls" from your home directory, no harm done, /bin/ls is what's in your path. but if . is in there and you type ls, it will run the malicious code.
your path is :
if theres a shell script in ~root named "ls" to rm -rf
fear of nuclear war
fear of international terrorism
fear that the computers that do all this making-life-easier stuff will crash and die on January 1st (gone now, but valid)
fear of hep b, aids, ebola, anthrax
fear of another stock market crash (our economy looks a lot like 1919 -- granted, this is unlikely, its looked this way for a few years)
fear that trends will continue, and antibiotics will get less and less effective
potential humanitarian wars w/US involvement (clinton doctrine) in chechnya, iraq, kosovo, etc..
there's plenty to be worried about. one nobody mentioned was the fact that progressing generations seem to experience more and more transient, material happiness, and less and less genuine, internal happiness.
"generations" don't have problems, people do. lets use the bitching back and forth energy to fix them.
bill gates wasn't being sued, microsoft was.
bill gates isn't microsoft.
microsoft wasn't the subject of a criminal trial, these were civil proceedings.