The bankers responsible for the financial crisis used shitty models. Engineers designing power plants don't.
Suggesting their is an equivalence between the two is akin to throwing out all modeling because some bankers let their greed get ahead of their prudence. That's just retarded.
I'm rooting for panspermia. There's something kind of cool at looking at Mars and thinking: that's where we came from, and the rovers are just us coming home.
Removing bulk material is comparatively easy, when needed. Washing to decontaminate, as is required frequently in hospitals, is a much more arduous task.
Personally, I hope for destructive interference from the future preventing the test from ever happening. But mostly because I want to see a progression of less and less probable occurrences delaying the event, until at the last moment when the lead scientist reaches over to press the 'on' button, he spontaneously turns into a giant codfish, as all the particles in his body tunnel into a different configuration.
The Home Office received 95 extradition requests from the US between 1 January 2004 and 31 July 2009; 47 of these have taken place, with 36 ongoing, five withdrawn by the US and seven refused by UK authorities. The UK has made 42 extradition requests to the US during the same period; 27 of these have taken place, with 12 ongoing, three withdrawn by the UK and none refused. The numbers of requests made between the UK and its extradition partners are often unequal – Spain extradited 104 people to us between 2004 and 2008 and received 27 – but this signifies no imbalance in the governing arrangements.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but that one data point makes me question what orifice that extradition 'fact' came from, no matter how truthy it sounds.
And the Russian collaboration allowed the Nazi's to establish their stronghold over Europe in the first place. Had Hitler not decided he wanted Stalin's head on a pike, there's no indication they would have lifted a finger.
No. See, there's something important you need to understand about engineering, which apparently the submitter doesn't understand either:
The plants were designed back in the days of tables and slide rules. They were designed with large safety margins, because the understanding of the science and the engineering was imperfect. Today our understanding is much greater, and we have very advanced computer models to help the design process. Ever wondered why modern bridges and buildings are much more 'delicate' than older behemoths? Because we can compute the actual behavior of the structures to much higher precision and accuracy, so the needed safety margin is less. It's the same with nuclear plants.
The plants were built to a certain design that had large safety margins... not because they were needed per se, but because the designers couldn't prove they weren't. Today, we can model all the behavior of the plants to a high degree, so we don't need the same safety margins to keep these plants safe. You don't need a cooling system with 50% excess design capacity, since we can prove that 25% is sufficient. We know now that the containment wall is twice as big as it needs to be, for the original design load. So, we can use the safety margins to run the plants longer and to higher capacity than the original design.
In the engineering world, this is done all the time. The only 'news' here is that it's being done with nuclear power plants. But still, that's no big deal. This is just the new anti-nuclear luddite rallying cry.
Not quite, no. Psystar had legally owned copies, purchased from Apple. Claims that their copies are illegal because they run afowl of the Apple-branded computer clause in the EULA are only relevant if the EULA applies, which is what the GP was calling into question. As such, your statement is purely circular: Psystar's use was illegal because it wasn't covered by the exception because it was illegal.
The actual reason is that the law has simply been ignored since its conception. A bad precedent was set, and judges have followed it ever since.
You're right, there is an explicit exemption in copyright law that SHOULD render EULAs worthless. Unfortunately, judges have been ignoring that part of the law for years, and in a common-law legal system, precedent is king.
I'm curious how they could possibly know that it operated correctly 79% of the time, since the underlying quantum state isn't observable. You could say it produced the 'correct' results 79% of the time, but that's not the same as saying it operated correctly 79% of the time; it's very possible for a quantum computer to operate incorrectly and still produce the right result, through sheer random chance.
That's the third comment to point that out, even though I said in the very example that it was flawed!
I am well aware of Bell's theorem, and it has absolutely no impact on the given example (especially not the second). The same fundamental mechanism applies, just with superposition rather than a hidden variable. But superposition is inconsequential for understanding why the problem requires no communication, hence why the example is still illustrative.
Jesus. I even gave a hidden-variable-free example immediately afterward for the pedants...
Given that you're infamous on the internet for your less than unbiased view of middle east politics, I don't think your claims about bias in Wikipedia's Hezbollah article carry any wait.
Yes, that's why it's a flawed example. But even though it's wrong, it's still close enough to what's happening to help people understand why 'spooky action at a distance' doesn't involve communication, without requiring an understanding of entanglement or superposition.
I think you'll find that if the situation qualifies as a 'public emergency' cops can order you to do a lot of things. Lack of central authority in crises and emergencies is how things get out of hand. The law recognizes that, when the shit hits the fan, sometimes somebody just needs to be in charge.
However, police serve multiple roles, only one of which is law enforcement. When there is a real threat to life or limb (such as during a riot or an emergency), they take on additional 'community caretaker' roles and the scope of 'lawful order' increases dramatically.
Police powers are circumstantial; if they weren't we wouldn't have concepts such as 'abuse of power.' And that's the reasons we have a court system and judicial oversight.
Spooky action at a distance doesn't need any finagling to get around lightspeed, because spooky action at a distance doesn't involve any communication. It's already compatible with general relativity (at least, insofar as any quantum theory is compatible with relativity).
A flawed, but illustrative example that should explain why this is so: imagine you have a friend who is flipping a coin... if it comes up heads, he writes an X on two sheets of paper, if it comes up tails, he writes a checkmark on both instead. Both are immediately sealed inside envelopes and mailed to opposites sides of the planet. If you open one letter and see an X, you instantly know the other has an X also. That doesn't require any communication.
A slightly less flawed, and still illustrative extension: Now instead of a coin flip, you have a machine do it based on the decay of a mass of cesium, and you have a perfect envelope which protects against quantum decoherence. The same situation applies, as soon as you open one envelope you know what is contained in the other. The only difference this time is that the letters were entangled and in a superposition of states. However, it's the same mechanism, and no communication is required.
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The bankers responsible for the financial crisis used shitty models. Engineers designing power plants don't.
Suggesting their is an equivalence between the two is akin to throwing out all modeling because some bankers let their greed get ahead of their prudence. That's just retarded.
It'd be funnier if they find a fossil of an ancient rover on earth. :)
I'm rooting for panspermia. There's something kind of cool at looking at Mars and thinking: that's where we came from, and the rovers are just us coming home.
Removing bulk material is comparatively easy, when needed. Washing to decontaminate, as is required frequently in hospitals, is a much more arduous task.
Personally, I hope for destructive interference from the future preventing the test from ever happening. But mostly because I want to see a progression of less and less probable occurrences delaying the event, until at the last moment when the lead scientist reaches over to press the 'on' button, he spontaneously turns into a giant codfish, as all the particles in his body tunnel into a different configuration.
Because that would be AWESOME!
Oh really?
The Home Office received 95 extradition requests from the US between 1 January 2004 and 31 July 2009; 47 of these have taken place, with 36 ongoing, five withdrawn by the US and seven refused by UK authorities. The UK has made 42 extradition requests to the US during the same period; 27 of these have taken place, with 12 ongoing, three withdrawn by the UK and none refused. The numbers of requests made between the UK and its extradition partners are often unequal – Spain extradited 104 people to us between 2004 and 2008 and received 27 – but this signifies no imbalance in the governing arrangements.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but that one data point makes me question what orifice that extradition 'fact' came from, no matter how truthy it sounds.
And the Russian collaboration allowed the Nazi's to establish their stronghold over Europe in the first place. Had Hitler not decided he wanted Stalin's head on a pike, there's no indication they would have lifted a finger.
No. See, there's something important you need to understand about engineering, which apparently the submitter doesn't understand either:
The plants were designed back in the days of tables and slide rules. They were designed with large safety margins, because the understanding of the science and the engineering was imperfect. Today our understanding is much greater, and we have very advanced computer models to help the design process. Ever wondered why modern bridges and buildings are much more 'delicate' than older behemoths? Because we can compute the actual behavior of the structures to much higher precision and accuracy, so the needed safety margin is less. It's the same with nuclear plants.
The plants were built to a certain design that had large safety margins... not because they were needed per se, but because the designers couldn't prove they weren't. Today, we can model all the behavior of the plants to a high degree, so we don't need the same safety margins to keep these plants safe. You don't need a cooling system with 50% excess design capacity, since we can prove that 25% is sufficient. We know now that the containment wall is twice as big as it needs to be, for the original design load. So, we can use the safety margins to run the plants longer and to higher capacity than the original design.
In the engineering world, this is done all the time. The only 'news' here is that it's being done with nuclear power plants. But still, that's no big deal. This is just the new anti-nuclear luddite rallying cry.
Yes, but the keen observer will note that Italy and the UK are different countries.
The US-UK extradition treaty is bilateral, and the UK has refused more extradition requests than the US since it has been in place. So no, it's not a one way street.
As long as you stayed clear of trademark problems, you wouldn't see any lawyers. At worst, Ferrari might stop selling engines to you.
There is a large industry full of companies that do basically what you're suggesting (although perhaps not creating quite such a ridiculous product).
Wait a minute, I thought the accepted truth at /. was that companies aren't entitled to their business models, and should adapt and innovate.
Or does that only apply to the record/film industry?
Not quite, no. Psystar had legally owned copies, purchased from Apple. Claims that their copies are illegal because they run afowl of the Apple-branded computer clause in the EULA are only relevant if the EULA applies, which is what the GP was calling into question. As such, your statement is purely circular: Psystar's use was illegal because it wasn't covered by the exception because it was illegal.
The actual reason is that the law has simply been ignored since its conception. A bad precedent was set, and judges have followed it ever since.
You're right, there is an explicit exemption in copyright law that SHOULD render EULAs worthless. Unfortunately, judges have been ignoring that part of the law for years, and in a common-law legal system, precedent is king.
And as we all know, no technology that was slightly inconvenient in a lab has ever had any value or practical use.
I'm curious how they could possibly know that it operated correctly 79% of the time, since the underlying quantum state isn't observable. You could say it produced the 'correct' results 79% of the time, but that's not the same as saying it operated correctly 79% of the time; it's very possible for a quantum computer to operate incorrectly and still produce the right result, through sheer random chance.
I suppose I could read the paper.
That's the third comment to point that out, even though I said in the very example that it was flawed!
I am well aware of Bell's theorem, and it has absolutely no impact on the given example (especially not the second). The same fundamental mechanism applies, just with superposition rather than a hidden variable. But superposition is inconsequential for understanding why the problem requires no communication, hence why the example is still illustrative.
Jesus. I even gave a hidden-variable-free example immediately afterward for the pedants...
Exactly. And Europe, Asia and Africa are the same continent too.
Given that you're infamous on the internet for your less than unbiased view of middle east politics, I don't think your claims about bias in Wikipedia's Hezbollah article carry any wait.
Yes, that's why it's a flawed example. But even though it's wrong, it's still close enough to what's happening to help people understand why 'spooky action at a distance' doesn't involve communication, without requiring an understanding of entanglement or superposition.
That sounds like a good way to start a stampede and get people trampled, to me.
There's always a solution which is simple, elegant, and wrong.
I think you'll find that if the situation qualifies as a 'public emergency' cops can order you to do a lot of things. Lack of central authority in crises and emergencies is how things get out of hand. The law recognizes that, when the shit hits the fan, sometimes somebody just needs to be in charge.
However, police serve multiple roles, only one of which is law enforcement. When there is a real threat to life or limb (such as during a riot or an emergency), they take on additional 'community caretaker' roles and the scope of 'lawful order' increases dramatically.
Police powers are circumstantial; if they weren't we wouldn't have concepts such as 'abuse of power.' And that's the reasons we have a court system and judicial oversight.
Spooky action at a distance doesn't need any finagling to get around lightspeed, because spooky action at a distance doesn't involve any communication. It's already compatible with general relativity (at least, insofar as any quantum theory is compatible with relativity).
A flawed, but illustrative example that should explain why this is so: imagine you have a friend who is flipping a coin... if it comes up heads, he writes an X on two sheets of paper, if it comes up tails, he writes a checkmark on both instead. Both are immediately sealed inside envelopes and mailed to opposites sides of the planet. If you open one letter and see an X, you instantly know the other has an X also. That doesn't require any communication.
A slightly less flawed, and still illustrative extension: Now instead of a coin flip, you have a machine do it based on the decay of a mass of cesium, and you have a perfect envelope which protects against quantum decoherence. The same situation applies, as soon as you open one envelope you know what is contained in the other. The only difference this time is that the letters were entangled and in a superposition of states. However, it's the same mechanism, and no communication is required.
It's funnier with the interesting mod. Mods have a sense of humor too.
Models don't show anything until you have validated that they are accurate.