What happens if a felony stops being one due to a change in law?
Say, someone is convicted due to some law, and say some future government removes that law. Will those who are felons due to that law get back their right to vote?
What if the law is removed because it was found to be unconstitutional? I'd really hope that at least in that case you get your voting right back.
Well, actually there is a connection: If you hand in a suitcase, and don't enter the plane in person, then this increases the probablity that there's a bomb in the suitcase and you just don't want to be blown up. In that case, the suitcase should better not be transported (besides the fact that if you really failed to reach the plane after having handed in your suitcase, you'll probably prefer if your suitcase is not at some other airport than you are).
Now I don't work at an airport (and also never yet missed a plain), so I don't know how this case would be handled in reality. However in principle it could be done this way, and that would for sure have a positive effect on security.
Yes, terrorists may find a way around that (and the islamistic ones would enter the plain anyway), but then, you also don't give up password authorization just because someone may find another way to get into a machine, or might use social engineering to get someones password.
And given that E=mc^2 (and c obviously didn't change in the same time), this means that the total Energy in the universe has increased. Now we have disproven Energy conservation!
Sure, you can have kilobytes and megabytes, but a millibyte?
Well, with bits it would make sense, if you speak about bits as a measure of information (-sum p ld p), not as a count of digits (as in "a byte has 8 bits").
Dont generalize. Only the Northern Germans are drinking beer in such small measures. In Bavaria, the 0.3l size is known as "Preußenhalbe" ("Prussian halve"), as in Bavaria, the smallest size served is usually the "Halbe" (Halbe Mass = 0.5l). Of course, a real Bavarian will drink a Mass = 1l.:-)
That's just because you don't know that the extraterrestrials know the cure for cancer, but will not tell us unless we tell them a large enough prime...
It's certainly the 42nd Mersenne number which has been found to be prime (i,e, if sorting the Mersenne primes for the date when they have been found to be prime, then this one is at position 42). Note that future discoveries won't change that (except if any "known" Mersenne primes turn out not to be prime, i.e. if there was an error in the testing), the next Mersenne prime to be identified will be the 43rd, even if it's smaller.
Well, there's also always the reference way: "According to E. Xample,..." Even if E. Xample is totally wrong, the entry is still correct (because it just says that E. Xample tells this); it's up to the reader if he trusts E. Xample or not.
Thode PDFs don't speak about quantum computers. They speak about using quantum devices to build more efficient classical computers (the fact that they call it quantum cellular automata doesn't mean that it is a quantum computer, it just uses quantum dots for operation). Indeed, they depend on inelastic processes, exactly those processes which actually pose the biggest problem in quantum computing.
Not every computing which uses quantum mechanics is quantum computing (indeed, otherwise our current computers would have to be quantum computers since semiconductor physics just cannot be done classically).
Quantum computers are computers which specifically work with quantum information (i.e. superpositions and entanglement). The papers you cited use quamtum dots to more efficiently process classical information.
Now that doesn't mean that the QCA work is less important (indeed, I think it's far more probable that you'll at some time work with computers based on QCAs than that you'll ever see a real quantum computer in your life). It's just that QCAs are not QCs.
And yes, I am a quantum physicist (although I don't work on quantum computing).
Easy: You get certain DVDs you put into the DVD-ROM drive. One of them is e.g. for "back". That's Apples new simplification of interface: Since you have to know how to insert DVDs anyway, why should you in addition learn how to use a keyboard and a mouse? Preliminary tests have shown that almost no user had problems with inserting DVDs (and those few who had generally had problems with the mouse as well).
Think about the wonderful implications of that interface! Now when writing your next email, you can feel like a disk jockey: First, insert "start email" DVD, then insert the DVDs for the letters of the email address (several common address part like.com,.net, and even common complete domain names like hotmail.com have their own DVDs for convenience; of course you can create your own DVD-Rs for complete email addresses you use more often, or even for more complete actions like "start email to mybestfriend@somewhere.org, add Dear Mybestfriend to the beginning and CU, MyName at the end"). Then insert DVDs for the letters of your mail (again, for common words, and even phrases, there are pre-made DVDs), and finally insert the "Send" DVD. That's all, and you really don't need any skill other than inserting DVDs.
Of course it has a slight drawback: Since you get a few hundred DVDs for the interface, you need some space to store them. But then, you can impress everyone with your big DVD collection!
I guess it does search all those pages. It just doesn't return the hits.
I cannot imagine they go through the hassle to build a separate seach index for Germany. Most probably they first generate the complete list, and then run a filter on it to remove the ones not to serve.
That's nothing compared from what is does with standard slashdot phrases:
Original English Text: Have you Meta Moderated recently? Regular Meta Moderators are more likely to get mod points.
Translated to Japanese:
Translated back to English: Meta it eased recently? Rule, the meta regulator seems obtaining the
family point, truth.
Translated to Chinese: ? , ??? ,
Translated back to English: It recently relaxed step? The rule, the step superintendent obtains as if? ? ? Family spot, truth.
Translated to Korean:
?,
? ? ?, .
Translated back to English: It relaxed a phase recently? The rule gets like the phased factory market? ? ? Family spot, truth.
Translated to French: Il a détendu une phase récemment ? La règle obtient comme le marché échelonné d'usine ? ? ? Tache de famille, vérité.
Translated back to English: It slackened a phase recently? Does the rule obtain like the spread out market of factory? ? ? Stain of family, truth.
Translated to German: Es ließ eine Phase vor kurzem nach? Erreicht die Richtlinie wie die Verbreitung aus Markt der Fabrik? ? ? Fleck der Familie, Wahrheit.
Translated back to English: It left a phase recently? Does the guideline reach like the spreading from market of the factory? ? ? Mark of the family, truth.
Translated to Italian: Ha lasciato recentemente una fase? l'estensione della guida di riferimento come la diffusione dal mercato della fabbrica? ? ? Contrassegno della famiglia, verità.
Translated back to English: It has left recently one phase? the extension of the guide of reference like the spread from the market of the factory? Mark of the family, truth.
Translated to Portuguese: Deixou recentemente uma fase? a extensão da guia da referência como a propagação do mercado da fábrica? Marca da família, verdade.
Translated back to English: Left recently a phase? the extension of the guide of the reference as the propagation of the market of the plant? Mark of the family, truth.
Translated to Spanish: Izquierda recientemente una fase? la extensión de la guía de la referencia como la propagación del mercado de la planta? Marca de la familia, verdad.
Translated back to English: Left recently a phase? the extension of the guide of the reference as the propagation of the market of the plant? Mark of the family, truth.
(The eating of the asian languages is actually done by slashdot, all the rest, including the question marks, is done by babelfish)
Bah, one language to other and back is too little. You have to do the complete thing, of course. As you can do here. I've done it to your text for you (of course including the east asian languages):
If it is possible and cuz of the translation of the software of the wealth (until the necessity to the danger) this person whom it causes, this member of the quality of the well-educated way and, in me who I consult that it examines it, of its type of the search of the thing the truth that the lheo requests to necessary desire of the excess near this person, I include. That the translation of the dictionary, of that the extensions he is situation. The consideration is relative is possible he and this result, with the smile, much hour actively in the duration. The person and the comparison and the slang and the contraction and the Synopse and the metaphor of the idea, of that always say it. Our cat (until a machine of the language of the measured value! ) it is meow. It is this exactitude of him, but and affinchè that reads gives and to the computers and this, truth within the fines of the dictionary, that is to say, is used, flagstone of the halting of the language the materials with the artificial enemy... It was distinguished has the payment in advance. If the language, that one that disowned, uses tractions the cat and with the autumn of the rain of the dog, this it them chronometers, he will have a basic beginning of the data of the use of the percentage of fines of history of him. He was presented/displayed in the ascent, he is, but of Cheerio and or of the calculation to the interior of the good way he examined this to the interior or ' mornin'.
Can black holes really be considered baryonic? After all, according to the no-hair theorem a black hole formed out of dark matter shouldn't be in any way different from a black hole formed out of normal (baryonic) matter.
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What happens if a felony stops being one due to a change in law?
Say, someone is convicted due to some law, and say some future government removes that law. Will those who are felons due to that law get back their right to vote?
What if the law is removed because it was found to be unconstitutional? I'd really hope that at least in that case you get your voting right back.
Well, actually there is a connection: If you hand in a suitcase, and don't enter the plane in person, then this increases the probablity that there's a bomb in the suitcase and you just don't want to be blown up. In that case, the suitcase should better not be transported (besides the fact that if you really failed to reach the plane after having handed in your suitcase, you'll probably prefer if your suitcase is not at some other airport than you are).
Now I don't work at an airport (and also never yet missed a plain), so I don't know how this case would be handled in reality. However in principle it could be done this way, and that would for sure have a positive effect on security.
Yes, terrorists may find a way around that (and the islamistic ones would enter the plain anyway), but then, you also don't give up password authorization just because someone may find another way to get into a machine, or might use social engineering to get someones password.
And given that E=mc^2 (and c obviously didn't change in the same time), this means that the total Energy in the universe has increased. Now we have disproven Energy conservation!
Well, with bits it would make sense, if you speak about bits as a measure of information (-sum p ld p), not as a count of digits (as in "a byte has 8 bits").
Dont generalize. Only the Northern Germans are drinking beer in such small measures. In Bavaria, the 0.3l size is known as "Preußenhalbe" ("Prussian halve"), as in Bavaria, the smallest size served is usually the "Halbe" (Halbe Mass = 0.5l). Of course, a real Bavarian will drink a Mass = 1l. :-)
The Bavarian Mass is written with two s (before the spelling reform, it was one ß, of course).
That's just because you don't know that the extraterrestrials know the cure for cancer, but will not tell us unless we tell them a large enough prime ...
I think it was something along the line of "What is the product of the sixth and the nineth Mersenne Prime?"
It's certainly the 42nd Mersenne number which has been found to be prime (i,e, if sorting the Mersenne primes for the date when they have been found to be prime, then this one is at position 42). Note that future discoveries won't change that (except if any "known" Mersenne primes turn out not to be prime, i.e. if there was an error in the testing), the next Mersenne prime to be identified will be the 43rd, even if it's smaller.
Looking at the binary representation, I conclude: Life, the universe and everything are all one, just repeated many times.
No problem. I just asked the C compiler, and it told me the result is 25964948.
Well, there's also always the reference way: "According to E. Xample, ..."
Even if E. Xample is totally wrong, the entry is still correct (because it just says that E. Xample tells this); it's up to the reader if he trusts E. Xample or not.
Funny that you give a link to fastcompany.com, then!
Thode PDFs don't speak about quantum computers. They speak about using quantum devices to build more efficient classical computers (the fact that they call it quantum cellular automata doesn't mean that it is a quantum computer, it just uses quantum dots for operation). Indeed, they depend on inelastic processes, exactly those processes which actually pose the biggest problem in quantum computing.
Not every computing which uses quantum mechanics is quantum computing (indeed, otherwise our current computers would have to be quantum computers since semiconductor physics just cannot be done classically).
Quantum computers are computers which specifically work with quantum information (i.e. superpositions and entanglement). The papers you cited use quamtum dots to more efficiently process classical information.
Now that doesn't mean that the QCA work is less important (indeed, I think it's far more probable that you'll at some time work with computers based on QCAs than that you'll ever see a real quantum computer in your life). It's just that QCAs are not QCs.
And yes, I am a quantum physicist (although I don't work on quantum computing).
Maybe his device contains a time machine as integral part. :-)
Actually, I never heared anyone saying: "hey, I've got a good idea in 5-10 years."
Maybe a terminal could just ask which card to use?
Given that your posting was moderated as informative, I guess you passed the turing test :-)
Easy: You get certain DVDs you put into the DVD-ROM drive. One of them is e.g. for "back". That's Apples new simplification of interface: Since you have to know how to insert DVDs anyway, why should you in addition learn how to use a keyboard and a mouse? Preliminary tests have shown that almost no user had problems with inserting DVDs (and those few who had generally had problems with the mouse as well).
.com, .net, and even common complete domain names like hotmail.com have their own DVDs for convenience; of course you can create your own DVD-Rs for complete email addresses you use more often, or even for more complete actions like "start email to mybestfriend@somewhere.org, add Dear Mybestfriend to the beginning and CU, MyName at the end"). Then insert DVDs for the letters of your mail (again, for common words, and even phrases, there are pre-made DVDs), and finally insert the "Send" DVD. That's all, and you really don't need any skill other than inserting DVDs.
Think about the wonderful implications of that interface! Now when writing your next email, you can feel like a disk jockey: First, insert "start email" DVD, then insert the DVDs for the letters of the email address (several common address part like
Of course it has a slight drawback: Since you get a few hundred DVDs for the interface, you need some space to store them. But then, you can impress everyone with your big DVD collection!
I guess it does search all those pages. It just doesn't return the hits.
I cannot imagine they go through the hassle to build a separate seach index for Germany. Most probably they first generate the complete list, and then run a filter on it to remove the ones not to serve.
Hmmm ... now I have a problem: Should I run Emacs under Mozilla, or Mozilla under Emacs?
Maybe merge them to Emozillacs? Or would that be Emacszilla?
That's nothing compared from what is does with standard slashdot phrases:
, ,
Original English Text:
Have you Meta Moderated recently? Regular Meta Moderators are more likely to get mod points.
Translated to Japanese:
Translated back to English:
Meta it eased recently? Rule, the meta regulator seems obtaining the
family point, truth.
Translated to Chinese:
? , ??? ,
Translated back to English:
It recently relaxed step? The rule, the step superintendent obtains as
if? ? ? Family spot, truth.
Translated to Korean:
?
? ? ?
.
Translated back to English:
It relaxed a phase recently? The rule gets like the phased factory
market? ? ? Family spot, truth.
Translated to French:
Il a détendu une phase récemment ? La règle obtient comme le
marché échelonné d'usine ? ? ? Tache de famille, vérité.
Translated back to English:
It slackened a phase recently? Does the rule obtain like the spread
out market of factory? ? ? Stain of family, truth.
Translated to German:
Es ließ eine Phase vor kurzem nach? Erreicht die Richtlinie wie die
Verbreitung aus Markt der Fabrik? ? ? Fleck der Familie, Wahrheit.
Translated back to English:
It left a phase recently? Does the guideline reach like the spreading
from market of the factory? ? ? Mark of the family, truth.
Translated to Italian:
Ha lasciato recentemente una fase? l'estensione della guida di
riferimento come la diffusione dal mercato della fabbrica? ? ?
Contrassegno della famiglia, verità.
Translated back to English:
It has left recently one phase? the extension of the guide of
reference like the spread from the market of the factory? Mark of
the family, truth.
Translated to Portuguese:
Deixou recentemente uma fase? a extensão da guia da referência como
a propagação do mercado da fábrica? Marca da família, verdade.
Translated back to English:
Left recently a phase? the extension of the guide of the reference as
the propagation of the market of the plant? Mark of the family, truth.
Translated to Spanish:
Izquierda recientemente una fase? la extensión de la guía de la
referencia como la propagación del mercado de la planta? Marca de la
familia, verdad.
Translated back to English:
Left recently a phase? the extension of the guide of the reference as
the propagation of the market of the plant? Mark of the family, truth.
(The eating of the asian languages is actually done by slashdot, all the rest, including the question marks, is done by babelfish)
Bah, one language to other and back is too little. You have to do the complete thing, of course. As you can do here. I've done it to your text for you (of course including the east asian languages):
If it is possible and cuz of the translation of the software of the
wealth (until the necessity to the danger) this person whom it causes,
this member of the quality of the well-educated way and, in me who I
consult that it examines it, of its type of the search of the thing
the truth that the lheo requests to necessary desire of the excess
near this person, I include. That the translation of the dictionary,
of that the extensions he is situation. The consideration is relative
is possible he and this result, with the smile, much hour actively in
the duration. The person and the comparison and the slang and the
contraction and the Synopse and the metaphor of the idea, of that
always say it. Our cat (until a machine of the language of the
measured value! ) it is meow. It is this exactitude of him, but and
affinchè that reads gives and to the computers and this, truth within
the fines of the dictionary, that is to say, is used, flagstone of the
halting of the language the materials with the artificial enemy... It
was distinguished has the payment in advance. If the language, that
one that disowned, uses tractions the cat and with the autumn of the
rain of the dog, this it them chronometers, he will have a basic
beginning of the data of the use of the percentage of fines of history
of him. He was presented/displayed in the ascent, he is, but of
Cheerio and or of the calculation to the interior of the good way he
examined this to the interior or ' mornin'.
Can black holes really be considered baryonic? After all, according to the no-hair theorem a black hole formed out of dark matter shouldn't be in any way different from a black hole formed out of normal (baryonic) matter.