If you actually read TFA, you'd realize that the "author" knows fuck-all about science, and precious little about writing.
I mean, the actual title of TFA is "Ottawa physicist uses science to generate truly random numbers."
As soon as I got to the fourth word my teeth started hurting. Just skimming the article made my medulla oblongata implode. I'm now floating in a jar of formaldehyde hoping to be reincarnated in a universe where clueless gits like that are used for kindling.
Doesn't work. Vacuum-point fluctuation is not tunable unless you eliminate it entirely by removing the diamond or replacing it with something that absorbs the original beam and emits a new beam with no fluctuation applied; I don't know what that something is, but it's no diamond.
All the startup money is already going to India and China.
If you really have to get it in the US, you should show them how cheap it is to keep the employees in India and China.
Oh wait, that business model was worked out in 2000 and destroyed the western world's economy by sucking all the jobs to India and China and cratering the average wage in the world's fastest-growing industry, so you should have known that by now.
So should these guys. Their "put a bunch of workers on a boat offshore" might have held some water in, say, 1997. Now it's about as smart as "put a bunch of whale-oil hunters in a boat in the middle of the ocean".
Hey, dumbass. We have this thing called The Internet now. You can videoconference over it, and share text and pictures you create on your computer. Actually being in the same room with someone is less productive, overall, since you end up catching their diseases and have to spend the next week on the ship hanging over the rail. And then the pirates take all your shit and kidnap your IT department and the US Navy bills you 18 times your 5-year-plan to get them back for you.
Fucking seriously. Why are airlines still in business? Oh wait, they're dropping like flies. Clue.
Get a computer. Get a wi-fi router and a broadband modem and an ISP. Get Skype and a bluetooth headset and a $5 webcam. Then go the fuck away, stay the fuck away, and show up on time for your meetings.
Immediately made me think of the story that came up during the First Gulf War of American cyberwarriors doing this to Saddam's printers, putatively with the result that they could read everything his commanders were printing out.
No telling if it was true (and likely it was apocryphal because this is the sort of hack that stays top secret for as long as it works; see the story of the WW1 invisible ink recipe that remained classified for nearly a century), but it was certainly plausible.
you don't need to inspect every location on the disk before you can start reconstructing it. the MBR is in a known location. its content is less random than you'd think. and the rest is hierarchical from there.
you also don't need an MFM. just a sensitive head that tells you actual field strength instead of high-bit/low-bit values.
in any case, overwriting disks is a start-and-walk-away process. you can always start enough of them that the first is done before the last begins. even better if you have a meeting to go to or you're in the wing with that hot forensic accountant you've been meaning to impress with your knowledge of Venture Brothers episodes.
1. There are carefully controlled labs, and your competitor/enemy has them.
2. Depending on his situation, it may not be legal to reuse the disks without doing all the writes. If you're involved in defense work and these guys find out you've got one known improperly securitized system and may have more, every box in your company can be carted off, generally to be returned to you with hard drives and flash memory (including any soldered to the motherboard) removed.
Why sell one unit of something for $100,000 that costs me $1.50 to make a copy of, and then walk away, when I can then send out a body that I can charge $190K/year for who cost me $20k to train and who I pay $93k/year, and they'll stay there for 3 years until the next upgrade?
In your scenario, I make $33k/year over the 3-year upgrade cycle. In mine, I make $33k + $90K = $123k/year.
And then because the user has acquired no personal skill with the tool, I can sell the upgrade and the servant to them again.
never once did it take the first time, and never once did I not have to refer to another machine to get information on how to hack around something to get it to complete. and if i didn't already know as much as i know about software, OSes, Linux, and ubuntu itself, I doubt I'd have even known what things to google for.
as for your conclusion, i could write such an OS from scratch, given the time.
1. "what's sudo?" 2. "how do i get permission to do that?" 3. "how did you learn to do that?" 4. "why the hell does that take two commands? why does it take even one? doesn't this thing update automatically?" 5. "what does it mean it needs these 18 dependencies and can't work with these 12 others installed?" 6. "why can't I just install windows on this laptop?"
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Not sooper-secret-leaky enough. How about "Figbog" or "Cloudsnark" or "Wirefark"?
How many digits of random number at 100 GHz, and with what sort of distribution?
If you actually read TFA, you'd realize that the "author" knows fuck-all about science, and precious little about writing.
I mean, the actual title of TFA is "Ottawa physicist uses science to generate truly random numbers."
As soon as I got to the fourth word my teeth started hurting. Just skimming the article made my medulla oblongata implode. I'm now floating in a jar of formaldehyde hoping to be reincarnated in a universe where clueless gits like that are used for kindling.
you're going to have to give an example, because Excel does filters, and can process whole columns
Doesn't work. Vacuum-point fluctuation is not tunable unless you eliminate it entirely by removing the diamond or replacing it with something that absorbs the original beam and emits a new beam with no fluctuation applied; I don't know what that something is, but it's no diamond.
Socially inept people are the only ones who ever had to buy diamonds.
Think about it.
If they're suing you for slandering them, sue them for slandering you by saying you're slandering them.
They'll have to prove their quackery is valid medicine in order to win both cases, and when they can't, you take away everything they own.
They punched that tar-baby all them ownselfs.
All the startup money is already going to India and China.
If you really have to get it in the US, you should show them how cheap it is to keep the employees in India and China.
Oh wait, that business model was worked out in 2000 and destroyed the western world's economy by sucking all the jobs to India and China and cratering the average wage in the world's fastest-growing industry, so you should have known that by now.
So should these guys. Their "put a bunch of workers on a boat offshore" might have held some water in, say, 1997. Now it's about as smart as "put a bunch of whale-oil hunters in a boat in the middle of the ocean".
"the best tiny magnetometers we can produce* are already in HDD read heads"
* - for a nickel apiece.
I'm not sure I want to know all there is to know about their experimental setup.
Hey, dumbass. We have this thing called The Internet now. You can videoconference over it, and share text and pictures you create on your computer. Actually being in the same room with someone is less productive, overall, since you end up catching their diseases and have to spend the next week on the ship hanging over the rail. And then the pirates take all your shit and kidnap your IT department and the US Navy bills you 18 times your 5-year-plan to get them back for you.
Fucking seriously. Why are airlines still in business? Oh wait, they're dropping like flies. Clue.
Get a computer. Get a wi-fi router and a broadband modem and an ISP. Get Skype and a bluetooth headset and a $5 webcam. Then go the fuck away, stay the fuck away, and show up on time for your meetings.
Immediately made me think of the story that came up during the First Gulf War of American cyberwarriors doing this to Saddam's printers, putatively with the result that they could read everything his commanders were printing out.
No telling if it was true (and likely it was apocryphal because this is the sort of hack that stays top secret for as long as it works; see the story of the WW1 invisible ink recipe that remained classified for nearly a century), but it was certainly plausible.
Not very useful if your plan is to donate the obsolete computers to local schools and take a big tax break and get a lot of cred with the kids.
you don't need to inspect every location on the disk before you can start reconstructing it. the MBR is in a known location. its content is less random than you'd think. and the rest is hierarchical from there.
you also don't need an MFM. just a sensitive head that tells you actual field strength instead of high-bit/low-bit values.
in any case, overwriting disks is a start-and-walk-away process. you can always start enough of them that the first is done before the last begins. even better if you have a meeting to go to or you're in the wing with that hot forensic accountant you've been meaning to impress with your knowledge of Venture Brothers episodes.
1. There are carefully controlled labs, and your competitor/enemy has them.
2. Depending on his situation, it may not be legal to reuse the disks without doing all the writes. If you're involved in defense work and these guys find out you've got one known improperly securitized system and may have more, every box in your company can be carted off, generally to be returned to you with hard drives and flash memory (including any soldered to the motherboard) removed.
But it's why he can have nice things.
I'm no expert, but you should probably not be watching so much Fox News. It's left you with no connection to reality.
But they have to spend it all on tires and alignment because there's no money to fix the potholes.
This productivity creates wealth which is then used to pay for new services, which creates new jobs.
O rly?
Trickle-down is bullshit. Always was, always will be.
Since the overall wealth of the economy increases, the number of jobs increases.
Okay, now I'm 94 1/3% certain you're being facetious.
On Windows, you don't even have to know the sysadmin.
Or you could get each search server to solve a small np-hard problem in real-time before serving its results.
You could call it "shitcoinfo" or "botsnot" or "captchayerknows" or "altacocker" or something.
Java is OS-agnostic.
Or rather it's supposed to be.
Or rather it was sold as supposed to be.
You're mistaking margin for profit.
Why sell one unit of something for $100,000 that costs me $1.50 to make a copy of, and then walk away, when I can then send out a body that I can charge $190K/year for who cost me $20k to train and who I pay $93k/year, and they'll stay there for 3 years until the next upgrade?
In your scenario, I make $33k/year over the 3-year upgrade cycle. In mine, I make $33k + $90K = $123k/year.
And then because the user has acquired no personal skill with the tool, I can sell the upgrade and the servant to them again.
I've installed ubuntu on a few machines.
never once did it take the first time, and never once did I not have to refer to another machine to get information on how to hack around something to get it to complete. and if i didn't already know as much as i know about software, OSes, Linux, and ubuntu itself, I doubt I'd have even known what things to google for.
as for your conclusion, i could write such an OS from scratch, given the time.
1. "what's sudo?"
2. "how do i get permission to do that?"
3. "how did you learn to do that?"
4. "why the hell does that take two commands? why does it take even one? doesn't this thing update automatically?"
5. "what does it mean it needs these 18 dependencies and can't work with these 12 others installed?"
6. "why can't I just install windows on this laptop?"