Yeah, except that the French government outright told the US that while the two are allies, France has an active scientific/technical espionage program.
Actually, the datarate isn't fast enough for it to be used as a Vernam Cipher (a one time pad is so named because it is a pad of paper--while you can use this term, it is less applicable for a computer).
Your right that I attributed to him an argument that he explicitly didn't support. That said, attacking him was not my primary interest.
I was more interested in pointing our relevant research in the area of the article. And while his original assertion may be correct (concicely stated by you as 'it couldn't be dismissed out of hand without analysis') I was trying to provide reference to informative analysis that could be used to dismiss it.
I'll admit that I got a bit over the top with the 'nice try' opener.
Let me clarify. Your conflating earth's magnetic shielding with shielding using matter. In the case of earth (the one example I was using), a smaller magnetic field than present will always be worse--and that's what we are talking about here, earth and its magnetic field.
You are right that matter can increase the dose equivalent rate, and even the air kerma rate, for certain high energy particles.
High energy particles (neutrons or protons with more than 100 MeV of kinetic energy, for example) will interact with lead to make perhaps more than 100 secondary particles, each of which would be "more dangerous" [deliver a higher dose equivalent]. However, low Z material does not have this problem (It's hard to get more than a single proton out of a hydrogen-1 nucleus). There are solar flares that, if they reached astronauts on transit from earth to mars would kill the crew outright if they had zero or minimal shielding. However, were they behind about a meter or so of water, they would be fine (water is about as dense in hydrogen as you can get, and you need it anyway for the trip).
Uh, the one time pad was invented right after WW I by Gilbert Vernam, and is more appropriately called a Vernam cipher when reffering to a times before pads.
Besides anachronism, the problem with this interpritation is that one would also have to store the key somewhere, and it would have to be worth it to put this cipher text in this obvious location.
...note that shielding can sometimes cause a net increase in dangerous radiation, as high-energy cosmic rays that would just pass through a person impact the shielding and bombard the shielded thing (like a person) with a series of lower energy radiations, which may total a lower energy overall then the cosmic ray but have a much greater effect on the person.
Nice try, but according the the United Nation's report on the sources and effects of radiation, the dose rate is higher for pilots who fly over regions of lower magnetic field strength (look at the section on ocupational exposure). Lower magnetic field strength occurs near the magnetic poles, and is where lower energy particles can penetrate the magnetic field (areas of lower geomagnetic cutoff).
Also, according to a paper in materials science research titled, Cosmic-Ray Neutrons on the Ground and in the Atmosphere And a number of other papers by the same author, the measurements show that the cosmic contribution to background dose rate increases as the strength of the magnetic field decreases.
The error in logic with your argument is that the magnetic field deflects particles before they reach the atmosphere and interact. Once they reach the atmosphere, they interact with the atmosphere (not the magnetic field) to generate the
"more dangerous radiation." as you call it. That said, I'm not entirely sure that this radiation is any more or less dangerous. While it is true that the quality factor is lower (what you multiply the energy deposion by to get the increased quantity that is proportional to increased probability of cancer), the energy deposition can be higher (this is true for photons, but not electrons, and I just don't know for protons and higher Z charged particles with kinetic energies in the GeV range).
I don't care if Apple doesn't like virtual desktops, the seperation of context they provide pretty much makes them the best thing ever for a GUI as far as I'm concerned. I can keep multiple different portions of a project I'm working on open and seperate with ease. In a single mode of thought like writing a paper they may not be necessary, but I've found them useful time and time again.
You know what is suprising, when I used GNOME (RH 6.0 through 7.0) I loved multiple desktops to no end, it was why I moved from Win2k to linux. When OS X came out, I installed a multiple desktop utility very quickly and used it for a while. But as I became more familiar with the dock and OS X's brilliant maxamize that doesn't fill the whole frigging screen. The dock doesn't mix metaphors, when I close the last open window, the application stays loaded and in the dock--this is HUGE for ease of use. I stopped using the virtual desktop system extension entirely. Now I would say that both are very nice GUI tools, but I have a moderate preference for the OS X components.
Oh, and about the mouse, here is what I like about Apple's OS design over windows: my 5 button trackball (plus 2 scroll clicks) just works, the driver is already in the OS. I don't see the problem with that. But I have to tell you that once a tech support person came to my office and couldn't figure out why it was working as she moved the trackball as if it was a mouse...
That's got to be the weakest and most obscure analogy I've heard in a long time.
You made it! After Condi made her testimony, we see "magic bullet" everywhere, and your exactly right, it is a week and obscure analogy.
BTW, does CP/M have negative wild worms and viruses? How can it have less than zero? And don't show me that trojan... because that's a trojan, not a worm or virus.
FDA does have an accelerated approval process for drugs that are intended for terminally ill patients. This is largely a result of the AIDS activist community's efforts, using arguments similar to yours.
Also, as he points out in some other responses to his post, this result is simply, not important. There have been a million things that kill AIDS in a petrie dish, none of them have panned out.
I suggest you make this your sig, it sure applies to the parent post:
Hey... yet another slashweenie mouthing off about something out of their area of expertise!
The point is that only about 1 in a thousand drugs that work in petri dishes end up being drugs that work in the body. So talking about if it works is almost pointless
In general, I don't think this is news and I'm affraid that it could get people thinking something stupid like "heh, now I don't have to worry about HIV, in a few years, I'll just go pop a pill and it will be all beter." And the other STDs you mentioned are scary, but not as scary as HIV.
Whoa guy, don't get ahead of yourself. Before this, there have been a million and one "cures" for AIDS. For example, HART was suposed to have killed AIDS for a long time (they actualy thought that it had worked completely). And any of a number of other things kill it in a test tube... this will most likely fail too.
Sorry, the point is that there is a special way of reffering to the 2^10 type powers, and it isn't peta or tera. NIST spells this out at the linked pages.
If you expect a hard drive to fail after three years (I'm guessing) but these occurances are randomly distributed (an assumption that will be true after running this thing for a year or two) you can then expect that the 4000 hard drives in this array would have about 3 failures per day. This thing would never be at full speed! it would be constantly restructuring its RAID. Also, it would cost about $300 just in hard drives (not to mention controllers, power supplies, et cetera).
Using a program that calculates fractals and tells you exactly how many flops it gets I'm about to get about 3.8 flops/Hz (realized) all my G4 computers (I don't own a G5). Other non demonstrative programs exist, but do not tell you exactly what speed they are going at.
Hi, it's called an SGI. the 320 was from the days of AGP 2x and ran at approximately AGP 12x. A coworker tried to get rid of one of these and I took a look inside. There was no seperate graphics coprocessor that I could find.
Wait, wait... let me guess. you also think that you don't have to pay income taxes, right?
Read the Register article that is linked from the musketeer article (it says that it is not legal in western countries), and yes, this is forbiden in the us 17 USC 106 may be an informative read for you.
Man, and I thought the Post would have an excelent business section
</sarcasm>
One question for anybody who took this seriously. In a town that has the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, who is reading the business section of the Post seriously?
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Yeah, except that the French government outright told the US that while the two are allies, France has an active scientific/technical espionage program.
Actually, the datarate isn't fast enough for it to be used as a Vernam Cipher (a one time pad is so named because it is a pad of paper--while you can use this term, it is less applicable for a computer).
I was more interested in pointing our relevant research in the area of the article. And while his original assertion may be correct (concicely stated by you as 'it couldn't be dismissed out of hand without analysis') I was trying to provide reference to informative analysis that could be used to dismiss it.
I'll admit that I got a bit over the top with the 'nice try' opener.
"First of all, war on Iraq != war on terror." Wait, did your cable go out, haven't you been receiving your daily brain washing at fox news?
Why then is the number one complaint from Hummer owners the milage?
You are right that matter can increase the dose equivalent rate, and even the air kerma rate, for certain high energy particles.
High energy particles (neutrons or protons with more than 100 MeV of kinetic energy, for example) will interact with lead to make perhaps more than 100 secondary particles, each of which would be "more dangerous" [deliver a higher dose equivalent]. However, low Z material does not have this problem (It's hard to get more than a single proton out of a hydrogen-1 nucleus). There are solar flares that, if they reached astronauts on transit from earth to mars would kill the crew outright if they had zero or minimal shielding. However, were they behind about a meter or so of water, they would be fine (water is about as dense in hydrogen as you can get, and you need it anyway for the trip).
- Not all good GUI ideas came from Apple
- Not all GUI ideas from Apple are good
Hardly a contentious argument.Besides anachronism, the problem with this interpritation is that one would also have to store the key somewhere, and it would have to be worth it to put this cipher text in this obvious location.
Yeah, and why would your compas work? If there is not magnetic field on the surface, the compas just won't work.
Also, according to a paper in materials science research titled, Cosmic-Ray Neutrons on the Ground and in the Atmosphere And a number of other papers by the same author, the measurements show that the cosmic contribution to background dose rate increases as the strength of the magnetic field decreases.
The error in logic with your argument is that the magnetic field deflects particles before they reach the atmosphere and interact. Once they reach the atmosphere, they interact with the atmosphere (not the magnetic field) to generate the "more dangerous radiation." as you call it. That said, I'm not entirely sure that this radiation is any more or less dangerous. While it is true that the quality factor is lower (what you multiply the energy deposion by to get the increased quantity that is proportional to increased probability of cancer), the energy deposition can be higher (this is true for photons, but not electrons, and I just don't know for protons and higher Z charged particles with kinetic energies in the GeV range).
Oh, and about the mouse, here is what I like about Apple's OS design over windows: my 5 button trackball (plus 2 scroll clicks) just works, the driver is already in the OS. I don't see the problem with that. But I have to tell you that once a tech support person came to my office and couldn't figure out why it was working as she moved the trackball as if it was a mouse...
BTW, does CP/M have negative wild worms and viruses? How can it have less than zero? And don't show me that trojan... because that's a trojan, not a worm or virus.
Also, as he points out in some other responses to his post, this result is simply, not important. There have been a million things that kill AIDS in a petrie dish, none of them have panned out.
I suggest you make this your sig, it sure applies to the parent post:
In general, I don't think this is news and I'm affraid that it could get people thinking something stupid like "heh, now I don't have to worry about HIV, in a few years, I'll just go pop a pill and it will be all beter." And the other STDs you mentioned are scary, but not as scary as HIV.
Whoa guy, don't get ahead of yourself. Before this, there have been a million and one "cures" for AIDS. For example, HART was suposed to have killed AIDS for a long time (they actualy thought that it had worked completely). And any of a number of other things kill it in a test tube... this will most likely fail too.
Sorry, the point is that there is a special way of reffering to the 2^10 type powers, and it isn't peta or tera. NIST spells this out at the linked pages.
If you expect a hard drive to fail after three years (I'm guessing) but these occurances are randomly distributed (an assumption that will be true after running this thing for a year or two) you can then expect that the 4000 hard drives in this array would have about 3 failures per day. This thing would never be at full speed! it would be constantly restructuring its RAID. Also, it would cost about $300 just in hard drives (not to mention controllers, power supplies, et cetera).
Actually a Petabyte is 1x10^15 bytes, but it is only 909 Tebibytes.
Using a program that calculates fractals and tells you exactly how many flops it gets I'm about to get about 3.8 flops/Hz (realized) all my G4 computers (I don't own a G5). Other non demonstrative programs exist, but do not tell you exactly what speed they are going at.
Hi, it's called an SGI. the 320 was from the days of AGP 2x and ran at approximately AGP 12x. A coworker tried to get rid of one of these and I took a look inside. There was no seperate graphics coprocessor that I could find.
Read the Register article that is linked from the musketeer article (it says that it is not legal in western countries), and yes, this is forbiden in the us 17 USC 106 may be an informative read for you.
One question for anybody who took this seriously. In a town that has the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, who is reading the business section of the Post seriously?
This is clearly just a glorified gossip column.
How did you get their addresses?