Why the fuck is Slashdot trying to load a Flash plugin on here?
So it can present the video it wants to present. Why the fuck shouldn't it? Get over yourself. You've got plenty of options (including using flashblock, uninstalling Flash, or not clicking on links that have "(video)" on the end) if you don't wish to be assaulted by this non-auto-playing video, oh the horror.
I don't expect embedded movies and shit ON SLASHDOT...
Oh, so sites must never change or try new things so as never to upset your expectations? Is everyone making note of this?
The guy seems to be mic'd up, but it sounds like all we're hearing is some very muddy audio from the camera's very un-directional mic. I can barely hear him over the background chatter.
Next time, take five minutes to check you've got everything set up right first, eh?
I seem to remember Hawking saying something of the sort recently, but I don't recall it being decided one way or the other.
If the black hole is big enough (around 150 billion solar masses), you could even stand more or less comfortably on its surface
If you can stand comfortably, couldn't you also easily escape. What do you mean by "surface"? Do you mean the event horizon, or the surface of the hypothetical 150 billion solar mass object inside the event horizon?
You can survive crossing the event horizon of a sufficiently large black hole because the tidal forces are low, but I thought you'd need approaching infinite force to remain stationary at the horizon.
What if I took a forigner who didn't speak English and was generally unfamiliar with the American legal system and dumped him in the middle of the contry? If you couldn't find a translator, should all of his human rights be denied too?
I say Tommy can have human rights when he files for them, not his self-appointed human protectors. Did they even ask him whether he wanted human rights? Oh, right, he can't answer, like a human could.
Whether or not he deserves bodily liberty should be an entirely separate issue, anyway. Just because it's a human right doesn't mean it can only be bestowed in the context of human rights.
I thought it was an odd thing to say, so I wonder if it was meant to say "...would see an ambiguous error message about prompting them to perform a factory reset."
After all, why even mention factory resetting at all if there was no prompt to do so? They could have been equally factual by writing "...would see an ambiguous error message without prompting them to ride a giraffe."
Or was it supposed to be something along the lines, "...would see ambiguous error message, without prompting them, to perform a factory reset." Still doesn't make sense...
No, she only knows what Bob has agreed to do, because she agreed it with him while they were in causal contact. This is not the same as knowledge of what Bob will do. For all Alice knows, Bob could have had a heart attack last night, or his equipment could be faulty, or he might just decide to be contrary and not do what's been agreed just to prove to Alice that no information has actually exceeded the speed of light.
You're confusing the common-place meaning of "know" (as in, "I know my husband is working late at the office") with the very strict information theory version. I "know" that Alpha Centauri hasn't exploded up to this moment, but I won't know it until the light gets here in four years' time.
The work that Dattani and Bryans have done is to show that exactly the same calculation works for much bigger numbers as well.
I don't quite get how "the same algorithm works for some larger numbers of this kind" leads to "therefore the Chinese also did this calculation without realising it."
Think of that trick where you add the digits of a number, then keep adding the answer's digits until you're left with one digit. If that digit is a 9, then the original number was a 9. Neat trick, and you can use it to work out that 12393 is a multiple of 9. But that doesn't mean that you've also just calculated that 9578394 is also a multiple of 9.
And in any case, because this trick works using only 4 qubits, it can easily be reproduced on any classical computer. So it’s not so useful after all.
That's not why it's not useful - I thought any quantum algorithm could be emulated on a classical computer, just not very efficiently.
Coincidentally, the following was at the top of this story when I loaded it:
Slashdot stories can be listened to in audio form via an RSS feed, as read by our own robotic overlord.
I gave it a go, and the results are not exactly brilliant. For example, 'sujan.sun writes "Like clockwork, the first...' was read out as 'sujan dot sun writes like clockwork. The first...'
Even my Kindle Keyboard, which has pretty decent TTS otherwise, has terrible timing when it comes to punctuation.
http://www.ivona.com/ do the best I've heard so far. British Amy can give me turn-by-turn navigation any day.
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GP asked for this:
Can't anybody just post the damn direct link to the fucking advisory or source articles anymore.
Disabling Javascript isn't going to help with that.
What's to understand? Does flying a drone inside restricted airspace increase the probability of an incident of any kind?
This is really a non-issue.
Just because X is less of an issue than Y (for now), that doesn't make X a non-issue.
How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon
Seems to me like the salmon did all the hard work.
Or just I, Pod.
The second plaintiff's iPod was manufactured in July 2009 but claims purchasing another iPod in 2008.
An iPod bought an iPod?
So you only read newspapers and never watch TV news, then?
It sucks.
That's your opinion. Slashdot differs, and it's their website.
Why the fuck is Slashdot trying to load a Flash plugin on here?
So it can present the video it wants to present. Why the fuck shouldn't it? Get over yourself. You've got plenty of options (including using flashblock, uninstalling Flash, or not clicking on links that have "(video)" on the end) if you don't wish to be assaulted by this non-auto-playing video, oh the horror.
I don't expect embedded movies and shit ON SLASHDOT...
Oh, so sites must never change or try new things so as never to upset your expectations? Is everyone making note of this?
The guy seems to be mic'd up, but it sounds like all we're hearing is some very muddy audio from the camera's very un-directional mic. I can barely hear him over the background chatter.
Next time, take five minutes to check you've got everything set up right first, eh?
Except....that a black home has a bottom.
I seem to remember Hawking saying something of the sort recently, but I don't recall it being decided one way or the other.
If the black hole is big enough (around 150 billion solar masses), you could even stand more or less comfortably on its surface
If you can stand comfortably, couldn't you also easily escape. What do you mean by "surface"? Do you mean the event horizon, or the surface of the hypothetical 150 billion solar mass object inside the event horizon?
You can survive crossing the event horizon of a sufficiently large black hole because the tidal forces are low, but I thought you'd need approaching infinite force to remain stationary at the horizon.
What if I took a forigner who didn't speak English and was generally unfamiliar with the American legal system and dumped him in the middle of the contry? If you couldn't find a translator, should all of his human rights be denied too?
See mark-t's reply.
Electric Eel Shocks Like a Taser
Looks like a fish*. Moves like a fish. Stings like a motherfucker.
*well, kinda.
By focussing complex patterns of ultrasound, the air disturbances can be seen as floating 3D shapes.
I think someone's taken the special effect in the YouTube video too literally. I don't think ultrasound can make visible shapes in air.
See it, touch it, feel it
No, actually, just "touch it, feel it." And those are the same thing really.
I say Tommy can have human rights when he files for them, not his self-appointed human protectors. Did they even ask him whether he wanted human rights? Oh, right, he can't answer, like a human could.
Whether or not he deserves bodily liberty should be an entirely separate issue, anyway. Just because it's a human right doesn't mean it can only be bestowed in the context of human rights.
I thought it was an odd thing to say, so I wonder if it was meant to say "...would see an ambiguous error message about prompting them to perform a factory reset."
After all, why even mention factory resetting at all if there was no prompt to do so? They could have been equally factual by writing "...would see an ambiguous error message without prompting them to ride a giraffe."
Or was it supposed to be something along the lines, "...would see ambiguous error message, without prompting them, to perform a factory reset." Still doesn't make sense...
I've tried, but I can't actually work out what you're disputing in Uecker's comments.
It's real. It's tangible. It's measurable.
What is? What's measurable about whatever it is?
Pantry Pests Harbor Plastic-Chomping Bacteria
Okay, admit it. Who else misread the first word?
It wasn't 1 trillion in the same second. They had to image the action multiple times to get all the little slices of time to make up the animation.
This one, apparently, can image a single event in it's entirety.
That gets you 345,600 pixels. I think you meant 20*20 (22*22 gets you even closer to 4k).
Alice now knows what Bob will do.
No, she only knows what Bob has agreed to do, because she agreed it with him while they were in causal contact. This is not the same as knowledge of what Bob will do. For all Alice knows, Bob could have had a heart attack last night, or his equipment could be faulty, or he might just decide to be contrary and not do what's been agreed just to prove to Alice that no information has actually exceeded the speed of light.
You're confusing the common-place meaning of "know" (as in, "I know my husband is working late at the office") with the very strict information theory version. I "know" that Alpha Centauri hasn't exploded up to this moment, but I won't know it until the light gets here in four years' time.
Isn't what? Can't what? Won't what?
The work that Dattani and Bryans have done is to show that exactly the same calculation works for much bigger numbers as well.
I don't quite get how "the same algorithm works for some larger numbers of this kind" leads to "therefore the Chinese also did this calculation without realising it."
Think of that trick where you add the digits of a number, then keep adding the answer's digits until you're left with one digit. If that digit is a 9, then the original number was a 9. Neat trick, and you can use it to work out that 12393 is a multiple of 9. But that doesn't mean that you've also just calculated that 9578394 is also a multiple of 9.
And in any case, because this trick works using only 4 qubits, it can easily be reproduced on any classical computer. So it’s not so useful after all.
That's not why it's not useful - I thought any quantum algorithm could be emulated on a classical computer, just not very efficiently.
So the guy's rich enough to fly himself to a different country every day, and the only downside is he can't go back to Russia?
Where do I sign up?
A system that moves the panels shouldn't add that much to the cost
Just a guess, but I think you might be wrong about that. Going from no moving parts to some moving parts probably costs a lot.
Coincidentally, the following was at the top of this story when I loaded it:
Slashdot stories can be listened to in audio form via an RSS feed, as read by our own robotic overlord.
I gave it a go, and the results are not exactly brilliant. For example, 'sujan.sun writes "Like clockwork, the first...' was read out as 'sujan dot sun writes like clockwork. The first...'
Even my Kindle Keyboard, which has pretty decent TTS otherwise, has terrible timing when it comes to punctuation.
http://www.ivona.com/ do the best I've heard so far. British Amy can give me turn-by-turn navigation any day.