But then, burying a dead person isn't illegal either. And imagine if in the same country it is allowed to take organs from any dead person who didn't disagree in her lifetime!
That's not completely comparable, because the German 5% threshold is for all of Germany. So it doesn't help if the party has more than 50% in a single voting district, if the nation-wide count is still below 5% of all votes. There's an exception if some party gets the absolute majority in at least three voting districts (but the votes used for that are different than the votes used for the 5% threshold).
OTOH, the 5% threshold also means that your vote may have an effect even if the party you voted for doesn't get into the parliament: Since it increases the total number of votes, it decreases the percentage of the other parties. So if a party would be otherwise just above the 5% threshold, additional votes for any other party, including for those with no chance to get into parliament, may put that party below 5%. In other words, you cannot just vote a party into the parliament, you can also vote it out of the parliament.
During the elections on Germany the Pirate Party there could rake in 2% of all the votes: almost a million people voted for them! Kudos, and keep going!.
Actually, 845.904 did, according to the preliminary official result. Note that the relevant votes here are the "Zweitstimmen" ("second vote"), as those determine how many people (if any) a party may send to parliament (well, that's not completely true, but the differences are only relevant if the party has larger support, and will be changed anyway because the current ruling has been declared unconstitutional by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitution court)).
Yet still, this technology would increase the cost of computers in theory, yes?
I'm not sure that the quantum computer would be more expensive than the supercomputer needed otherwise to solve the sort of problems quantum computers are good at.
As far as a know it not yet known if a quantum computer can turn NP complete problems, in polynomial problems at all, or for what problems this is possible.
Of course, as of yet it isn't even known if a classical computer can calculate NP complete problems in polynomial time. P!=NP is still a conjecture.
BTW, the correct arXiv reference is arXiv:quant-ph/0601151. After all, there's also astro-ph/0601151, cond-mat/0601151, hep-ph/0601151, hep-th/0601151, math/0601151 and physics/0601151, none of which are relevant here.
Ok, I just wrote a lengthy reply, and then by accident hit "refresh", and all the text was gone:-(
Therefore here the short version:
The speedup is basically because for quantum systems the dimension of the configuration space grows exponentially rather than linearly with the size of the system (i.e. number of qubits). The fact that we can't simply measure the complete state is actually a limitation, because it means we cannot directly access an arbitrary unknown state.
You can do quantum computing by just doing measurements because every measurement modifies the measured system, and with entangled states, this change is non-local (i.e. you also modify parts of the system where you didn't just destroy any entanglement by your measurement). However you need special entangled states to do universal measurement-based quantum computing (i.e. to allow arbitrary transformations with measurement only); one state which works is the cluster state produced by this "photon machine gun"
They didn't claim that qubits revolutionize storage, but that if emulating the 20 to 30 qubit quantum computer on a classical computer, it would not fit into computer storage. However I doubt that; storing the state of 30 qubits needs about 16 GB, which is large, but perfectly doable in todays computers (and may be actually standard by the time this photon gun is realized). The problem with simulating the quantum computer would not be storage, but time.
Way I look at it is, if they only have remote access, it's possible to make it unhackable. If they have physical access, it's always going to be possible to hack into it. Maybe very very difficult, and possibly very expensive, but never impossible.
What about self destruct mechanisms? Not to expect in reality, but we are speaking about what's possible, not what's reasonable.
The low speed is the reason it's unhackable. No hacker will be able to stand that slowness, so they'll refrain from hacking those netbooks in order to maintain their own sanity.
Actually XMosaic did contain annotation functionality. You could add personal annotations to a web page (which could be seen only by yourself), and you could also add public annotations (but I think the web site would have had to cooperate).
Actually I was sticking with SeaMonkey for a long time (not because of the integrated mail client, but because of the interface). But the fact that many extensions simply won't work on SeaMonkey finally convinced me to change to Firefox. It was also a great help in the decision that some extensions to Firefox help getting back things which were integrated in SeaMonkey, often even with improved functionality.
BTW, Firefox doesn't support a long-term integral part of the HTML standard out of the box: site navigation. It certainly didn't help that in Mozilla, it wasn't switched on by default, and AFAIK IE doesn't support it at all (but then, IE was never exactly famous for standard support). And since the correct functionality was obviously unknown to them, OpenSearch even misused a site navigation link, so that you get served an XML on the menu item which should get you to the search page.
Note that this is one of the things Slashdot did right: You indeed get to a search page there.
Yeah sure, because the Alt key is normally completely without function... Besides, do you really want to hold the Alt key permanently pressed while surfing? Well, maybe some duct tape will help...
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Pretty soon you'll be able to store your entire porn collection on a 1 pedobyte disc.
Pedobytes of porn? Mist be kiddy porn, then.
But then, burying a dead person isn't illegal either. And imagine if in the same country it is allowed to take organs from any dead person who didn't disagree in her lifetime!
"I wish I had a cross made of kryptonite. Because then I could kill Dracula and Supperman."
-Jack Handy
And what do you need to kill Lunchman? :-)
"No, the name is a reference to fighting global warming!"
Partei gegen Idiotische Regelungen und Anderen Total Entsetzlichen Nonsens? :-)
(Party against idiotic rules and other totally terrible nonsense)
That's not completely comparable, because the German 5% threshold is for all of Germany. So it doesn't help if the party has more than 50% in a single voting district, if the nation-wide count is still below 5% of all votes. There's an exception if some party gets the absolute majority in at least three voting districts (but the votes used for that are different than the votes used for the 5% threshold).
OTOH, the 5% threshold also means that your vote may have an effect even if the party you voted for doesn't get into the parliament: Since it increases the total number of votes, it decreases the percentage of the other parties. So if a party would be otherwise just above the 5% threshold, additional votes for any other party, including for those with no chance to get into parliament, may put that party below 5%. In other words, you cannot just vote a party into the parliament, you can also vote it out of the parliament.
During the elections on Germany the Pirate Party there could rake in 2% of all the votes: almost a million people voted for them! Kudos, and keep going!.
Actually, 845.904 did, according to the preliminary official result. Note that the relevant votes here are the "Zweitstimmen" ("second vote"), as those determine how many people (if any) a party may send to parliament (well, that's not completely true, but the differences are only relevant if the party has larger support, and will be changed anyway because the current ruling has been declared unconstitutional by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitution court)).
A Dyson Sphere contest!
Installed it. Works. Thanks!
I'm not sure that the quantum computer would be more expensive than the supercomputer needed otherwise to solve the sort of problems quantum computers are good at.
Of course, as of yet it isn't even known if a classical computer can calculate NP complete problems in polynomial time. P!=NP is still a conjecture.
BTW, the correct arXiv reference is arXiv:quant-ph/0601151. After all, there's also astro-ph/0601151, cond-mat/0601151, hep-ph/0601151, hep-th/0601151, math/0601151 and physics/0601151, none of which are relevant here.
Ok, I just wrote a lengthy reply, and then by accident hit "refresh", and all the text was gone :-(
Therefore here the short version:
What about self destruct mechanisms? Not to expect in reality, but we are speaking about what's possible, not what's reasonable.
The low speed is the reason it's unhackable. No hacker will be able to stand that slowness, so they'll refrain from hacking those netbooks in order to maintain their own sanity.
No, it's 7.5072*10^-5.
I'm of course using atomic units.
For seamen: 319.25 knots
For trekkies: Warp 0.013231
Actually XMosaic did contain annotation functionality. You could add personal annotations to a web page (which could be seen only by yourself), and you could also add public annotations (but I think the web site would have had to cooperate).
Actually I was sticking with SeaMonkey for a long time (not because of the integrated mail client, but because of the interface). But the fact that many extensions simply won't work on SeaMonkey finally convinced me to change to Firefox. It was also a great help in the decision that some extensions to Firefox help getting back things which were integrated in SeaMonkey, often even with improved functionality.
BTW, Firefox doesn't support a long-term integral part of the HTML standard out of the box: site navigation. It certainly didn't help that in Mozilla, it wasn't switched on by default, and AFAIK IE doesn't support it at all (but then, IE was never exactly famous for standard support). And since the correct functionality was obviously unknown to them, OpenSearch even misused a site navigation link, so that you get served an XML on the menu item which should get you to the search page.
Note that this is one of the things Slashdot did right: You indeed get to a search page there.
Yes. But the reason always was that the functionality didn't exist, and I had to install an extension to get it.
Maybe Apple fanboys would.
What would MS fanboys say about ribbons if they had been invented for some Open Source application on Linux?
Yeah sure, because the Alt key is normally completely without function ... ...
Besides, do you really want to hold the Alt key permanently pressed while surfing? Well, maybe some duct tape will help
Sou if you like the old interface, you'll have to browse with the Alt key permanently pressed?
My Page-Up key works fine on Slashdot.
BTW, CSS cannot break a key's functionality. Only JavaScript can.
If they force that upon me, I'll switch browsers. Or at least not upgrade.
Maybe they should make a FPS where you have to shoot Nazis. Of course it's for educational reasons: You shall learn that Nazis are your enemy.