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  1. Re:Interesting, but risky on Making Quantum Crypto Actually Work · · Score: 1

    And the only problem will be if they have a quantum bit reader hanging off the transmittion line (because quantum events can affect nearby quantum events) similar to a radio wave receiver.

    Seriously, this is one of the problems of quantum-cryptography and was only mentioned about 2 years ago.

  2. Re:entangled photons on Making Quantum Crypto Actually Work · · Score: 1

    And programming them will be a breeze. Considering that quantum bits can't understand "IF.. THEN" and other basic program functions, the best one could expect is all possible permutations all at once.

    Sounds "real" useful to me too until it hits the packet router. Ah heck, who ever said all science has to have a payoff.

  3. Re:*sigh* Here's why. on How I Completed The $5000 Compression Challenge · · Score: 1

    The problem is in the average.

    Higher levels of randomness above 50% (as ordered files are much below the 10% random mark) along the area of 90% random should be easily compressable. The trick is in find something SIMILAR to the original random generation function. Any pseudo-random intersection SQRT(prime number) and Pi should be close enough to get a space-saving gain on location bit-strings(otherwise we couldn't have irrational numbers - think about it). The big problem is TIME. These functions waste huge amounts of time & computation for something with no practical worth (except the $5000).

    The implications of the counting theory being absolute extend to physics, quantum theory, pointlessly delving into Pi, and the structure of the universe. Try not to overlook the big picture for small-scale pigeon holes.

  4. Re:Petty on How I Completed The $5000 Compression Challenge · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem is not that the counting theory denies compression of ALL files, it is that the counting theory means that many files can be compressed. So it is only a matter of time before a pure random file is easily compressed (but a 50% to 60% random file will never be compressed).

    The challange has a huge obvious weakness to probability. The fellow just used a weakness in the counting theory when it comes to file systems and already allocated space (something I mentioned quite a while back). A fine jest I think.

  5. Re:"Junk Science" on Fission in a Box · · Score: 1

    I read that JunkScience.com has an awful lot of "news" from FOXNEWS.com. Might as well call this "JunkScience - By JunkFOXNEWS - Illiterate Sensationalism at its Finest" FOXNEWS - Where the morons get their news fed to them with a heaping helping of Rupert Murdoch Right-Wing propaganda.

  6. Re:Bias on Slashdot yet again . . . on Internet Drug Game Could Save Lives and Money · · Score: 1

    After all these years I think I have the conspiracy backwords. I used to think the CIA and George H.W. Bush used cocaine smuggled into America and money laundered by B.C.C.I. to fund the Contras and other Ronald Reagan Third-World Genocide projects.

    Given all the evidence available on the internet today I now think the Third-World Genocide & the Contras were a useful cover so George H.W. Bush could rake in the money by having cocaine smuggled into America and sold to American children. This money has funded almost all of the Far Right causes for the past 25 years. Knowing that George H.W. Bush's father made money selling steel to the Nazis in World War I & II, and George H.W. Bush being a persistent bigot this seems to make the most obvious sense now.

    It explains the "War on Drugs" and how many DEA agents were betrayed and murdered from a insane treasonous duo of Presidents.

    It also explains why cocaine traffic increased constantly during the Reagan/Bush treason years and why Far Right causes suddenly had billions in money to burn.

  7. Re:Does anyone remember... on Talking 'Bout Game AIs · · Score: 1

    And yet Galapagos had the WORST 3D camera work I've seen yet. The AI consisted of dumb-bug "walk around until I die" concepts.

    To duplicate this "AI" all one would have to do is make random path vectors of random lengths, prune the failed ones, and wander around once reaching the end of the last path (the bug dying)or interacted with.

    Then whip the camera around rapidly to preset vectors and locations to obscure the world as much as possible.

    The dang bug didn't even learn to time itself or learn from exploration or jump to avoid lasers. The game was an anti-game. Its sole purpose was to frustrate and enrage the player without any reward other than more frustration in the immediate future. Just like EVERQUEST (or NeverFun as I call it). It pretended to be a neural net and just was a vector tuner. It would be nice to see AI opponents with paged memory compares and squirrel learning (along the lines of "can I do this and survive?" "okay, that failed. Let me try it again or completely different.") which gives it weighted regonition of many viable patterns for its immediate and future needs.

  8. Re:YHBT? on Calling Out TiVo · · Score: 1

    Hey! They could do an entire episode of FRIENDS on Tampon product placement with hilarious results.

    Monica: "Joey, what are you doing with my -ALWAYS- tampon?"
    Joey: (Does spit take) "Tampon?!? I thought it was a novelty suppository!"

    (Laugh track mindlessly chortles on)

  9. Re:Let's just hope on Napster Goes Before US Congress · · Score: 1

    In fact, she'll thank you for touching her naked body while she's standing out in the middle of a busy street. And she'll thank India too.

    No wait, that was just a music video.

    Then what the heck was I thinking about her 3 other duplicate sisters while she's driving on a snowy morning singing about how ironic life is?

    No... that was a music video too.

    Perhaps... ah, forget it.

  10. Re:It doesn't matter. Team Xerox is going belly up on Printed Embedded Data GUIs · · Score: 1

    Or a person could create a font that is all micro-glyphs. Encode "A" into the ASCII or UNICODE binary and the spaces also. Cut the linefeeds to a pixel and the typespace to a pixel. Take your document and display in the glyph-font before printing. Or you could just display the entire binary document in glyph-font before printing (advantage is no unwanted carriage returns).

    Ta-da! Instant encoding (without error correction), but the problem lies in OCR reading off the printed page. I think with quality printing, a good quality scanner and a conversion program, you could easily store lots of data in a super-cheap manner.

    I figure a standard 8.5" x 11" (about 8" x 10.5" with margins) and a printer putting out 1200 DPI.

    My figures are using 3 pixels per glyph bit in an 8-bit byte gives 50 bytes per inch and 400 bytes/line or with 2 pixels/glyph-bit = 75 bytes/inch or 600 bytes/line. That gives for 3 pixels/glyph-bit a page storage of 4200 bytes/page or for 2 pixels/glyph-bit 6300 bytes/page. Thats a whole 4 K to 6 K per page! I'm going to write a BASIC program and back up my 40 GB harddrive right away (if we tack on a full 4-color range we get 7 times the storage - whoa. I'm throwing out my floppies this instant!)

  11. Re:Bullying doesn't cause killer kids on Are Kids Turning Your Kids Into Killers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, how dare people eat too much red meat and get heart disease! How dare people smoke and then whine about their cancer to the government! How dare hetrosexual people have sex and catch AIDS then demand government money to find a cure! How dare people expect any cause for their ills from a government that has an vested interest in helping its taxpayers!

    I submit to you another uneducated Republican asshole.

    It sure as heck is easy to parrot rhetoric, but to actually THINK beyond it no longer a Republican value. The last I knew diseases were a matter of social interest to cure. However, sometime around the first plague years in the church-lobotomized Dark Ages, people began to wake up that prayer was pretty damn useless against Bubonic infection. The church accused the sinners and did nothing else. When the people woke up and noticed the chuch was useless and deceitful and exploiting their terror, people abandoned them.

    http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeT im es/Plague.html

    Blaming the victim is always the favorite game of the Republicans (next to always pretending to be the victim). They're as useless as the church in that time. They don't want people to be well, but always cursing themselves for weakness. They did this for EVERY disease that has come and gone in history. Then when the disease is no longer a threat, the Republicans come in and claim they were the true saviours.

  12. Re:If you felt that way about black people... on Are Kids Turning Your Kids Into Killers? · · Score: 1

    And yet in many areas of the United States, it is illegal to purchase or sell booze on Sunday. This is religion forcing the rest of society to fit within its desires. The last I knew sodomy was illegal in many states. And there are other more obvious laws that Christianity has forced upon the voting public.

    Please note that this is blatently illegal under the Constitution.

    And yet the laws persist. Christianity just likes to be more equal than others.

  13. Re:Bullying doesn't cause killer kids on Are Kids Turning Your Kids Into Killers? · · Score: 1

    I'm a gay man and my childhood experience was to be taunted because I was perceived to be gay (but I wouldn't admit it to myself at that time). Bullies are the worst blight on America. They affect all apsects of society from childhood to when they become asshole Republicans which thrive on blaming the victims.

    One of the biggest social pressures for children to have sex revolves SOLELY in the Evangelical church's laps. They put the big requirement that children "prove" themselves not to be homosexual, causing kids to taunt other virgin children, and then applauding them for having sex in their teenage years. Then these asshole Republicans blame sex education for these preteen pregnancies. That leads to the asshole Republicans to demand more control of the schools so they can further screw our nation's children in the heads.

    Then the Republicans gut the educational standards, censor the textbooks, and push the kids out even if they've learned nothing. All of this gives rise to more angry asshole Republicans who are as dumb as bricks for another generation to endure. Check on your bullies, they're all solid Republicans now. Inbreeding idiocy for screwing the next generation.

  14. Re:It goes against reason, check your bible ! on New Human Ancestor? · · Score: 1

    "If you'd ever actually met a scientologist, you'd realize that this is unrealistic. No scientologist is that clever. No, I am not just saying this. They seriously aren't that clever. The auditing saps it right out of them - the ability to recognize subtelty is one of the first things to go."

    You're being supressive. Now I'll have to audit you for using higher tech. When was the last time you felt not clever? Are you in a state of clear? I will have to use TONE-40 if you do not comply.

    Oh hell, this Scientologist bullshit is fun in an innate evil manner.

    Remember, if you meet a Scientologist, break one of their bones. Let them "audit" that away. How stupid can a human get? These Scientologists are most certainly a very gullible sub-section of the human race. If we allow them to beat the thinking members of our species by use of lawsuits, threats, blackmail, harassment, and phony legal defenses we are worse then the feeble-minded slaves of the Scientology scam. How sad are we to allow this? More cowardly than a moron-attack force? Very sad.

  15. Re:Not neccesarily! on New Human Ancestor? · · Score: 1

    Hey Rocky!

    Let me pull a flying squirrel out of my hat.
    I think you've got it backwards. Just like the concept of fully-formed & functional eyeballs popping into existence is silly; the formation of light-sensitive cells slowly inflating over generations to create optical surfaces isn't. Birds would have started as tree-gliders or running flapping land-gliders.

    If your predator cannot catch you because you just glided to a branch they cannot reach, your freakishly useful genes can be passed on to another generation. If something is chasing you in a swamp and you can glide over the marsh plants while they sink into the muck, you survive to pass those freaky genes on. If enough freaky genes survive the predators, you've got a new species. It's that simple.

    The big questions lie in WHY some species undergo a rapid parallel evolution and other members of that species can survive without evolving upward also. But then one can ponder a predator/prey rapid co-evolution situation which other members of that species in another area may not suffer with whatsoever. If the predator loses this genetic gambit, they may die out completely leaving little evidence they existed at all. And the prey could have gained some oddball advantage which persists. If the earlier non-evolved prey (without any threat of a motivational predator now) mates with the evolved prey, there could be throwbacks which leave scientists scratching their noggins today.

    And no, I cannot explain the platypus unless it was a duck that hid out in thorny shrubs that grew on the lake surface before the glider/flying ducks popped up. Normal ducks would be too big for hiding in the bushes, but the smaller & flatter platypus might be safe. That is, of course, a guess. I suspect the predator (the Australian dingo) for the platypus got a predator of its own to deal with (sheep farmer's dogs) and the platypus got an easy break when it no longer had something ready to eat it.

    If you want real flying squirrels, you've got to get another quick carnivorous tree predator for them to escape from. Snakes are too slow, but something that eats squirrels, is about the same size & weight as a squirrel and can glide like some squirrels, then they might start to become flappers instead of gliders & jumpers. In fact, the flying squirrel might have had carnivorous monkeys as predators until the monkeys also adopted the easier fruit, bug, & nut diet. One doesn't have to look far to figure what might have pushed the genetic warfare button.

  16. Re:Not an HTTP header on Earthlink's Extra HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    Let us all not forget that EARTHLINK is a SCIENTOLOGY-owned front operation.

    http://www.google.com/search?Earthlink+Scientolo gy

    I wouldn't put a page up on Earthlink if you paid me.

  17. Re:Bush did what Slashdot would have done on Bush Won't Be "The Online President" · · Score: 1

    http://www.bartcop.com/pickles.htm Actually it was her boyfriend. What an impossible coincidence you ask? http://kgwn.cbsnow.com/now/story/0,1597,219711-362 ,00.shtml Good thing she had the sense to tie up with the son of a worthless President who was responsible for cocaine smuggling, illegal arms deals, and corruption (and most of this happened before while George H.W. Bush was only running the CIA). A good search key for Google is [ "Laura Bush" boyfriend ]. Or [ "Laura Bush" killed ].

  18. Re:The article.. on Too Much Tech Makes End Users Blink · · Score: 1

    I sure as hell wouldn't drive the car that explodes on ANY impact.

    You'd have some gangs of asshole kids along the roadside throwing rocks as the cars pass by to see which ones go BOOM! Either that or they'd just take BB-guns with metal pellets and shoot the bumpers as the cars pass by. After all, on a busy highway or freeway who'd SURVIVE to tattle on the murdering kids?

    Or better yet, they'd shoot at car bumpers in a parking lot. One decent shot and "BOOOM!" the entire parking lot goes up in flames. Does this spike the point home into your chest with hypothetical reason. Another choice would be the lethal spike in the steering wheel or instant-electrocution at the first fender-bender. How about cyanide gas being released through the air-conditioning vents? Just what is your point? To kill bad drivers (which SEEMS like a nice idea somedays) or to increase safety? I'd think exploding cars would screw up the following driver rather well and cause them to also crash then explode which would cause the next driver to crash then BOOM. And so on.

  19. Re:Scientology: Weasels and Cowards on Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Has anyone thought of doing the same to the Church of Scientology?

    I've wondered how well the CO$ would stand up to a mass-suing of each of its members for harassment of us Slashdot users? We could go after a small fee to be paid to every Slashdot member ($5) which would tie them up in small-claims court for a century. Another attack would be to request information about the "church" and then throw it away. Enough requests and they'll burn their free-cash out on dead-end mass-mailings. As the saying goes, they can bully when they have a gang, but what happens when the community stops being afraid?

  20. Re:Benefits of Andover on Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I think it's time we do use the SLASHDOT EFFECT for bully purposes. Do you dislike the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY? Go to their homepages (set your browser to always "check for newer versions of the page") and hit "reload", "reload", and "reload" until you're bored (at least 5 minutes). Multiply this by a few million page hits and we'll wipe them off the net.

    Here's your target. FIRE!
    http://www.scientology.org/home.html

  21. Re:History of Strongarm Tactics on Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot · · Score: 1

    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM Music and lyrics by L. Ron Hubbard http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/p_jpg/listen.htm Cult Favorites? Sheesh! Indoctrinate the Jam! Subliminal Music? Send your money now... or we'll kill you. $cientology. For our first number; Cult Doctor: "Your problems are only in your mind" Patient/Cult Member: "But doctor, my leg is broken!" Doctor: "You just need to have your doubts audited." Patient: "THIS IS A SCAM!!!" Doctor: "You're becoming suppressive. I will have to report this." --- Something I posted to the rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc newsgroup a while ago. (Remember when you next meet a Scientologist, break some of their bones. Then let them "audit" the situation away. The most certain way to ruin a cult is to prevent them from denying the real world.)

  22. Re:One positive view... on Congress Reconsiders Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    In Michigan on our tax returns require you fill out a 12% tax on all of your out-of-state purchases (a Useage Tax - which our corrupt Supreme Court ruled only a year or so ago was ILLEGAL!) Aside from John Engler's bullshit about reducing tax burdens our state taxes have been raised and new taxes created yearly.

    And another notable thing to mention is our state Sales Tax is 6%. This mail-order & internet-purchase tax is TWICE the sales tax. The common people should just start shooting or poisoning these Republican liars. I certainly will never vote Republican again in my life. So now they'll just keep stealing the elections as usual. By the way, note that these ILLEGAL TAXES are in states controlled by Republican Governers.

  23. Re:Good idea on Document-Destroying Copy Protection System · · Score: 1

    MICROSOFT - Join the suicide cult. From what I get, you cannot make backups (copies) of the file. First backup and all of the "protected" files go *BOOM*. In a sad way I'm rooting for this to happen. Finally no more idiots will rule the world because they upgraded to WINDOWS XP, tried to backup their files, *BOOM* the hard drive is erased. All of the peons that ignored MICROSOFT's death wish or used LINUX survive, rule the world. AOL dies instantly and TIME/WARNER/MEGAOPOLY/SATAN self-combusts in a cloud of their own idiocy. This also means the end of the MS-moron-server-ran internet except for the stable UNIX servers.

  24. Re:Whoa. on NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs · · Score: 1

    Why? It's true. Name me a more corrupt politician of any party.

    Nixon, Harding... check back in four years and "Bush, G.W." will be added to this list.
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    Add to that Taft, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Robert Byrd, Bob Barr, Trent Lott, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, Strom Thurmond, & Jesse Helms. There's plenty more, but you get the point.

  25. Re:Bear in mind both sets of consequences. on Blizzard Sues Over Diablo Movie Title · · Score: 1

    And what a boon for www.pets.com ! Oh yeah, going after Triumph - The Insult Comic Dog puppet sure helped them to an early grave. When companies fling lawyers, only the lawyers walk away unscratched.