The source is professor Arthur Herman and other scholars cited in the article, you cretinous imbecile. By the way, I suggest you look up argumentum ad verecundiam and ad hominem.
This guy is a former colleague, and let's just say none of us that know him personally are surprised that he went all the way to the media to satisfy a grudge. The funniest part is that he never even had access on the level implied in this "story".
I'm not shocked at the article, just at your reason for not being shocked (which is the wrong one). This is simply a disgruntled ex-employee dissing his former bosses. Of course, for conspiracy theorists like you, Ockham's razor never applies *rolleyes*
In fact, the cracking of many symmetric encryption algorithms are not significantly helped by quantum computing. It is only specific algorithms that are susceptible.
The problem is not organized religion. I'm an atheist, but over the years I have become convinced of two things:
1) The teachings of moral religions is what keep most people from doing (too much) evil, (and for some it's regrettably simply the fear of hell, but that does not take away from the utility of religion in that respect).
2) Christianity's role in Western civilization, Western values, and the Western way of life is undeniable. And I like Western civilization, I hold Western values, and I feel comfortable with the Western way of life--regardless of my religious beliefs.
As for Islam, anyone making excuses for that religion seems to be not very familiar with the example their prophet Mohammed set. I cannot imagine a more despicable religion.
the *vast majority* of Muslims don't believe that bullshit either.
That is not my experience with Mulsims here in Canada. To various degrees, essentially all support the cause.
you don't see Muslims protesting against suicide terrorists.
This is correct--and it's because the first comment of yours that I quoted is incorrect. Many Muslims not involved in actual violence are involved in supportive roles, especially moral support. Others do things such as run what is known as "soft jihad" (see http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/lawfare-a-tactic-of-the-soft-j.html for one example).
Referring to natural dialectical differences between the English of different regions as "dumbing down" is pure trolling. Unlike French, English is not a fixed, formally managed language. English is defined by its usage.
Your DOE reference is shit, as is clearly demonstrated by a counterexample that took all of five seconds to find: http://www.prolighting.com/sox180.html
30000 / 180 ~= 167
The highest I've seen was 190 a couple of years ago.
Moreover, the lifetime is only 50% higher for HPS.
CFL and HPS do not have a narrow spectrum; they have a spiky spectrum. White LEDs have a two-humped spectrum. The narrow bands of the individual spikes means it's impossible to filter them effectively to try to match sunlight; you can only do this with the blackbody spectrum of an incandescent light (in the case of the white LED, most of the power is in the blue hump so filtering that would reduce efficiency by a large factor).
That's only because you are cheap and buy cheap power supplies. For a little extra money, power supplies are available that have idle consumption in the microwatts.
You cannot store information any more "accurately" in analog form than digital form, in the limit of decreasing size. The maximum information density achievable by either method is the same, and simply specified by the Bekenstein bound (this is analogous to the fact that the ultimate limits of say digital cameras and film-based cameras, in terms of resolution per fixed sensor are, are the same).
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Before you mod me down, I hope you'll consider the references cited in the link I posted. Or maybe that's too much to ask on Slashdot
McCarthy paid dearly for his patriotism and this sacrifice is what makes him a hero. Read Herman's book.
The source is professor Arthur Herman and other scholars cited in the article, you cretinous imbecile. By the way, I suggest you look up argumentum ad verecundiam and ad hominem.
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This guy is a former colleague, and let's just say none of us that know him personally are surprised that he went all the way to the media to satisfy a grudge. The funniest part is that he never even had access on the level implied in this "story".
I'm not shocked at the article, just at your reason for not being shocked (which is the wrong one). This is simply a disgruntled ex-employee dissing his former bosses. Of course, for conspiracy theorists like you, Ockham's razor never applies *rolleyes*
As popular as it is to diss McCarthy, the guy's an American hero, and most of his accusations are now known to have been spot on: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17401
In fact, the cracking of many symmetric encryption algorithms are not significantly helped by quantum computing. It is only specific algorithms that are susceptible.
It also sucks for the people that don't have money to spare at this moment to buy stock.
The problem is not organized religion. I'm an atheist, but over the years I have become convinced of two things:
1) The teachings of moral religions is what keep most people from doing (too much) evil, (and for some it's regrettably simply the fear of hell, but that does not take away from the utility of religion in that respect).
2) Christianity's role in Western civilization, Western values, and the Western way of life is undeniable. And I like Western civilization, I hold Western values, and I feel comfortable with the Western way of life--regardless of my religious beliefs.
As for Islam, anyone making excuses for that religion seems to be not very familiar with the example their prophet Mohammed set. I cannot imagine a more despicable religion.
the *vast majority* of Muslims don't believe that bullshit either.
That is not my experience with Mulsims here in Canada. To various degrees, essentially all support the cause.
you don't see Muslims protesting against suicide terrorists.
This is correct--and it's because the first comment of yours that I quoted is incorrect. Many Muslims not involved in actual violence are involved in supportive roles, especially moral support. Others do things such as run what is known as "soft jihad" (see http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/lawfare-a-tactic-of-the-soft-j.html for one example).
The way your post is worded, it appears that you are hoping for this to happen and/or inciting it. Reported to https://tips.fbi.gov/
Referring to natural dialectical differences between the English of different regions as "dumbing down" is pure trolling. Unlike French, English is not a fixed, formally managed language. English is defined by its usage.
Who cares if they're fugly? The discussion was about efficiency.
Your DOE reference is shit, as is clearly demonstrated by a counterexample that took all of five seconds to find: http://www.prolighting.com/sox180.html
30000 / 180 ~= 167
The highest I've seen was 190 a couple of years ago.
Moreover, the lifetime is only 50% higher for HPS.
LPS is 180+ lumens per Watt and, though ugly, is adequate for street lighting.
The old yellow low pressure sodium lamps have at least twice the efficiency of LEDs.
CFL and HPS do not have a narrow spectrum; they have a spiky spectrum. White LEDs have a two-humped spectrum. The narrow bands of the individual spikes means it's impossible to filter them effectively to try to match sunlight; you can only do this with the blackbody spectrum of an incandescent light (in the case of the white LED, most of the power is in the blue hump so filtering that would reduce efficiency by a large factor).
LPS looks ugly but is sufficient for street lighting, and at 180+ lumens per Watt, LEDs have quite a bit of catching up.
That's only because you are cheap and buy cheap power supplies. For a little extra money, power supplies are available that have idle consumption in the microwatts.
With decent headphones (Etymotic ER-4) I find that the Zune shows a noticeably better sound quality than an iPod.
At the same time, I realize that it's probably unrelated to the reason that Obama is using a Zune, it's just an interesting coincidence.
Huh? Prolog is not at all a functional language.
Hehe, I had the same thought.
How can you kill a van? Watch yer grammar!
You cannot store information any more "accurately" in analog form than digital form, in the limit of decreasing size. The maximum information density achievable by either method is the same, and simply specified by the Bekenstein bound (this is analogous to the fact that the ultimate limits of say digital cameras and film-based cameras, in terms of resolution per fixed sensor are, are the same).