Well, maybe the true secret datacenter is built somewhere else. The best way to prevent you from searching for it is when you believe you already know where it is.
1 accident in the range 1985 to 1995 (i.e. an average of about 0.1 incidents per year) 14 accidents in the range 1996 to 2009 (i.e. an average of about 1 incident per year)
That's one order of magnitude higher for the later range. If that's not a spike, what is?
If you know that you tend to forget closing your windows, then yes, that damage should be included in your considerations. For example, while you may generally value windows which can be opened higher than windows which cannot, you might nevertheless decide to put a window which cannot be opened at the room where your computer resides, because then you cannot forget to close it, thus preventing potential damage to your computer.
No doubt future generations will claim that we spent all our time arguing over how many NetBSD VMs could dance on the head of a toaster.
No, because the future generations will know that everyone today knows that BSD is dying (Netcraft comfirmed it). However, they will point out that we did waste our time imagining a Beowulf cluster of NetBSD VMs, and discussing the question if it would run Linux. And we were even making business plans about it, but we never figured out the last step before profit. Which might be because everyone thought that in Soviet Russia business plans make YOU.
Shor's algorithm allows to factorize numbers in polynomial time on quantum computers. Since most of the current encryption infrastructure is built on the inability to factorize large numbers in reasonable time, it will be broken if quantum computers are available.
However there are problems which cannot be efficiently solved even by a quantum computer, therefore it's likely that the current encryption algorithms will just be replaced by quantum-safe encryption.
Well, actually they were not mis-labeled. But when the librarian saw the label "Moon Walk" he just though "Michael Jackson" and put it into the music section of the library..
But there are interesting queries where there are only two possible answers, "yes" or "no". And if you have found all possible encryptions of "yes" and "no" once, you can find out the answer for any computable yes/no question. So the actually interesting question is: How many different representations of the same result exist? Is it feasible to compute all of them once? Or maybe there's even a yet unknown specific weakness which allows to easily distinguish 0 and 1 if you know the encrypted value is one of those.
Also note that repeatedly subtracting 1 is a very inefficient method of determining an integer. A much better algorithm is to repeatedly divide by two and determine the reminders. To determine a 128 bit number this way only needs 128 steps, as opposed to an average of 2^127 for the subtraction method.
Yeah, a one-way ticket to colonise some other place...
We believed you the first time, when you said we were all "Criminals" and needed to be sent to Australia.
We're going to be a bit more suspicious when you start sending us to Mars though for the same reason...
And it won't be for stealing bread this time I bet... Probably for downloading music or similar.
GrpA
This would mean that Mars would get a culture of free information sharing. And as we all know from numerous Science Fiction stories, Martians always try to take over the Earth. The fact that the humans always win won't help that time, because the Martians will be humans as well. And they will have the advantage of more rapid development, because they don't waste their time fighting over copyrights, patents etc.
And when a gravitational wave detector gives us a signal, we also "only" know that whatever mechanism caused that signal is consistent with GR predictions of gravitational waves. And the same is true of every other way we could test them. Note that a scientific fact is never absolutely proven, any scientific "proof" is nothing but sufficient evidence to dismiss all known reasonable alternatives.
So unless there is another reasonable theory correctly predicting the energy loss of the pulsars without gravitational waves, gravity waves are as proven as a scientific fact can be. Do you know such an alternative theory? (And no, "some other mechanism might be in effect" isn't such a theory, because it doesn't explain the rate, while GR predicted gravitational wave loss does).
Well, if MS just pulled all licenses, they wouldn't be sued just by the EU, but by every single company using MS software, for breaking the contract. I'm sure that would kill Microsoft. They can refuse to sell new licenses, but they simply cannot revoke the old ones.
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't that replaced by Firetuna and Thundertuna?
Well, maybe the true secret datacenter is built somewhere else. The best way to prevent you from searching for it is when you believe you already know where it is.
No, my statistics is OK. I just need to read a bit more carefully.
You mean, in 2550 we will be a Borg collective?
Assuming the given numbers are right, it's:
1 accident in the range 1985 to 1995 (i.e. an average of about 0.1 incidents per year)
14 accidents in the range 1996 to 2009 (i.e. an average of about 1 incident per year)
That's one order of magnitude higher for the later range. If that's not a spike, what is?
You mean, posts such as yours? :-)
If you know that you tend to forget closing your windows, then yes, that damage should be included in your considerations. For example, while you may generally value windows which can be opened higher than windows which cannot, you might nevertheless decide to put a window which cannot be opened at the room where your computer resides, because then you cannot forget to close it, thus preventing potential damage to your computer.
Actually the true danger is in white holes. You never know what will come out of them.
No, because the future generations will know that everyone today knows that BSD is dying (Netcraft comfirmed it). However, they will point out that we did waste our time imagining a Beowulf cluster of NetBSD VMs, and discussing the question if it would run Linux. And we were even making business plans about it, but we never figured out the last step before profit. Which might be because everyone thought that in Soviet Russia business plans make YOU.
Shor's algorithm allows to factorize numbers in polynomial time on quantum computers. Since most of the current encryption infrastructure is built on the inability to factorize large numbers in reasonable time, it will be broken if quantum computers are available.
However there are problems which cannot be efficiently solved even by a quantum computer, therefore it's likely that the current encryption algorithms will just be replaced by quantum-safe encryption.
Bacteria.
I guess it should be either "1.66e-14 percent" or "1.66x10^-14 percent"
Well, actually they were not mis-labeled. But when the librarian saw the label "Moon Walk" he just though "Michael Jackson" and put it into the music section of the library..
Vroomfondel, is that you?
But there are interesting queries where there are only two possible answers, "yes" or "no". And if you have found all possible encryptions of "yes" and "no" once, you can find out the answer for any computable yes/no question. So the actually interesting question is: How many different representations of the same result exist? Is it feasible to compute all of them once? Or maybe there's even a yet unknown specific weakness which allows to easily distinguish 0 and 1 if you know the encrypted value is one of those.
Also note that repeatedly subtracting 1 is a very inefficient method of determining an integer. A much better algorithm is to repeatedly divide by two and determine the reminders. To determine a 128 bit number this way only needs 128 steps, as opposed to an average of 2^127 for the subtraction method.
Yeah, a one-way ticket to colonise some other place...
We believed you the first time, when you said we were all "Criminals" and needed to be sent to Australia.
We're going to be a bit more suspicious when you start sending us to Mars though for the same reason...
And it won't be for stealing bread this time I bet... Probably for downloading music or similar.
GrpA
This would mean that Mars would get a culture of free information sharing. And as we all know from numerous Science Fiction stories, Martians always try to take over the Earth. The fact that the humans always win won't help that time, because the Martians will be humans as well. And they will have the advantage of more rapid development, because they don't waste their time fighting over copyrights, patents etc.
Indeed. For example, a rifle tends to be longer than a pistol. :-)
SCNR
And when a gravitational wave detector gives us a signal, we also "only" know that whatever mechanism caused that signal is consistent with GR predictions of gravitational waves. And the same is true of every other way we could test them. Note that a scientific fact is never absolutely proven, any scientific "proof" is nothing but sufficient evidence to dismiss all known reasonable alternatives.
So unless there is another reasonable theory correctly predicting the energy loss of the pulsars without gravitational waves, gravity waves are as proven as a scientific fact can be. Do you know such an alternative theory? (And no, "some other mechanism might be in effect" isn't such a theory, because it doesn't explain the rate, while GR predicted gravitational wave loss does).
SAP
Well, if MS just pulled all licenses, they wouldn't be sued just by the EU, but by every single company using MS software, for breaking the contract. I'm sure that would kill Microsoft.
They can refuse to sell new licenses, but they simply cannot revoke the old ones.
With IE selected by default?
Last I checked, Honda didn't have a monopoly on cars. Not even a near-monopoly.
He wasn't stealing it. He just wanted to check how difficult it is to carry the TV around, in order to make a more informed purchase decision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Encoded_Invisible_Light
Note the second paragraph.
Actually Skynet is already being built.