You are equating the singularity with a moment that technological progress occurs at an infinite rate.
The singularity referred to by Vinge happens well before that: when "they" outstrip "us". This is a singluarity from our current perspective because the events beyond that point will be driven by beings homo sapiens would not understand.
"Apparantly the flow only affects webmail and not banking or credit card payments"
The article didn't make that claim, and in fact says:
TLS/SSL are used in other secure Internet applications such as e-banking and e-commerce meaning that an attacker could potentially intercept banking transactions, credit card numbers, etc.
This project was demonstrated at the World SF Convention (ConJose) at the end of August. They had a live connection to their lab in Almaden.
Placing three CO molecules in a chevron formation caused the middle CO to jump out after ~30 seconds. We saw that live. Actually, I think they said that they deliberately chose such a slow-acting process so they could see the "before" and "after" states clearly considering the time the STM takes to scan the whole surface (which seemed to be ~10 seconds).
The complex computation that they performed was a giant web of these chevrons (AND gates) and other patterns. With 30 seconds per transition, the whole thing took hours. They just showed us some snapshots of a previous run for this part.
The best part was after the talk, when they let us come up and remotely control the STM, moving CO molecules around! For the show, they had formed a big rocket image, and we moved stars around it.
That was breathtaking.
Electronics in the DRM era
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* Transistors? Add a DRM input to each. * Electrons? Sorry, do you have permission to enter this energy level? * The laws of nature? Ooops, we forgot about rich guys in LA when we put those together, let's revise them.
An IDE is more than a build tool, it's a development tool. For example, in VC++ you can easily visit all defintions/references of an identifier. You can approximate this functionality with grep, but it's not as convenient. Personally, I don't use VC++ to manage builds of multiple projects; for that I use make. The idea is to use the most convenient tool for the job.
This is great news. It reminds me of the big fat book of PGP source code in the book store, printed only to demonstrate the inconsistency of these laws. Now *that* was comedy.
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Slashdot Mirror
Oddly, the first post to this slashdot story
was submitted 1000 years ago.
We all know the real valuable stuff is in error.h.
So, what does it say?
You are equating the singularity with a moment that technological progress occurs at an infinite rate.
The singularity referred to by Vinge happens well before that: when "they" outstrip "us". This is a singluarity from our current perspective because the events beyond that point will be driven by beings homo sapiens would not understand.
The article didn't make that claim, and in fact says:
This project was demonstrated at the World SF Convention (ConJose) at the end of August. They had a live connection to their lab in Almaden.
Placing three CO molecules in a chevron formation caused the middle CO to jump out after ~30 seconds. We saw that live. Actually, I think they said that they deliberately chose such a slow-acting process so they could see the "before" and "after" states clearly considering the time the STM takes to scan the whole surface (which seemed to be ~10 seconds).
The complex computation that they performed was a giant web of these chevrons (AND gates) and other patterns. With 30 seconds per transition, the whole thing took hours. They just showed us some snapshots of a previous run for this part.
The best part was after the talk, when they let us come up and remotely control the STM, moving CO molecules around! For the show, they had formed a big rocket image, and we moved stars around it.
That was breathtaking.
* Transistors? Add a DRM input to each.
* Electrons? Sorry, do you have permission to enter this energy level?
* The laws of nature? Ooops, we forgot about rich guys in LA when we put those together, let's revise them.
Kawa has been killed off by Macromedia.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/kawa/
It's a shame, I haven't found a decent replacement yet.
Steve
I believe that new artificial heart has wireless connections, hence is networked.
Tell me, *how* do you distinguish between an artificial heart and a Dell PC? They're both
turing machines, right?
An IDE is more than a build tool, it's a development tool. For example, in VC++ you can
easily visit all defintions/references of an identifier. You can approximate this functionality with grep, but it's not as convenient.
Personally, I don't use VC++ to manage builds of multiple projects; for that I use make. The idea is to use the most convenient tool for the job.
This is great news. It reminds me of the big fat book of PGP source code in the book store, printed only to demonstrate the inconsistency of these laws. Now *that* was comedy.
I will not believe it until I see it.