Well, if you are right and they did mean 105 mm**2, then the chip is 1.25 cm x 1.25 cm (10.25mm) That's a wee bit smaller than anything I've heard of, so I'd have to guess that the chip really is 4in*4in (so is a P4 8"x8"??)
Bah. Large governments/corps and other high profile organizaitions will need an alternative to
PKC (public key crypto) -- if/when quantum computers are made. A quantum computer using Shor's factoring algorithm would be able to
crack PKC easily (by factoring large integers,
allwing the private key to be made from the public key). This would obviously suck for anyone who
faces an opponent with enough money for a quantum
computer, so naturally governemts and the like need a better system, and quantum crypto is the best (ie. unbreakable -- IF DONE RIGHT).
if you need to speed for some reason? If you need
to get to a hospital or evade another vehicle? This has potential to cause harm as well as give protection...
This seems true at first, but with closer examination this arguement falls apart. One thing that you must realize is that IP is fundamentally different from normal property (physical things). What makes IP IP is the fact that it can be copied for no charge. When you buy a CD, you are not paying $15 for the disc itself, but for the artist. In the comment I am replying to, the author said, "..and we'll keep doing this until the price is just barely above the cost to actually make the CD." The flaw with this idea is that the marginal cost must in some way include revenue for the artist. Without a copyright the CD's would be produced without paying money to the artist. This would make singing a very bad business to be in, resulting in no more songs (and don't get started on people doing it for free; we all know how much free music there is). The CD market would be better if there was no RIAA and producing companies, which would make the market monopolisticaly competitive (many firms with somewhat different products) instead of what is an oligopoly (the major producers). Although a more competitive market is better, forcing one will destroy the industry.
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The reason for which we aren't as worried about nuclear war is simple -- it can't happen on a scale as large as it could have between the US and USSR. If the US and USSR started launching nuclear weapons, it was effectively the end of the world. But if a terrorist uses a nuclear weapon, it will be devastating, but will cause much less damage than a full scale nuclear war.
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Well, if you are right and they did mean 105 mm**2, then the chip is 1.25 cm x 1.25 cm (10.25mm) That's a wee bit smaller than anything I've heard of, so I'd have to guess that the chip really is 4in*4in (so is a P4 8"x8"??)
Bah. Large governments/corps and other high profile organizaitions will need an alternative to PKC (public key crypto) -- if/when quantum computers are made. A quantum computer using Shor's factoring algorithm would be able to crack PKC easily (by factoring large integers, allwing the private key to be made from the public key). This would obviously suck for anyone who faces an opponent with enough money for a quantum computer, so naturally governemts and the like need a better system, and quantum crypto is the best (ie. unbreakable -- IF DONE RIGHT).
if you need to speed for some reason? If you need to get to a hospital or evade another vehicle? This has potential to cause harm as well as give protection...
This seems true at first, but with closer examination this arguement falls apart. One thing that you must realize is that IP is fundamentally different from normal property (physical things). What makes IP IP is the fact that it can be copied for no charge. When you buy a CD, you are not paying $15 for the disc itself, but for the artist. In the comment I am replying to, the author said, "..and we'll keep doing this until the price is just barely above the cost to actually make the CD." The flaw with this idea is that the marginal cost must in some way include revenue for the artist. Without a copyright the CD's would be produced without paying money to the artist. This would make singing a very bad business to be in, resulting in no more songs (and don't get started on people doing it for free; we all know how much free music there is). The CD market would be better if there was no RIAA and producing companies, which would make the market monopolisticaly competitive (many firms with somewhat different products) instead of what is an oligopoly (the major producers). Although a more competitive market is better, forcing one will destroy the industry.
The reason for which we aren't as worried about nuclear war is simple -- it can't happen on a scale as large as it could have between the US and USSR. If the US and USSR started launching nuclear weapons, it was effectively the end of the world. But if a terrorist uses a nuclear weapon, it will be devastating, but will cause much less damage than a full scale nuclear war.