Yeah, highschool girls at work. Thats a Summer camp I want to be a part of. *in my dreams*
But really, having read the article, I wouldn't rule out what we already know. Women are smarter. Computer Science just isn't as lucrative as many, if not all other booming tech industries. So there are less women studying CS, and still many studying other technical course. What of it? If I knew what I know now (all of it could have been known without my degree : ( ) I would have done something else and just taken CS along as a side order....if I was a woman, alas..!!
it would really comfort me not to pump several hundred dollars per machine into a monopolist's coffers for an OS we're just going to debilitate anyway.
Yep, I wouldn't use any non-free OS for it, especially since your requirements are quite simple. Any decent *nix distro would be fine.
would you still prefer them to full-fledged PCs? In a library. Yes. But try not to destroy too much of the flavour of the OS. If customers use the system they may become exposed to Unix/Linux in a favourable way. In other words, lock it down in terms of security but I would try not to lock down the functionality
as Slashdotters go, I'm pretty much a luser If you were a 'luser', your submission post would have been rejected ; )
And then there's that lifelong 5cr1pt k1dd13 title. of course
No 5cr1pt k1dd135 don't even know how to modify virii. They just download them and send them on somewhere else
Im gonna go back to school and study to be a solicitor. I reckon by the time my studies are finished, I will be able to participate in sueing people for breathing air, which is only fair. Its no like they have any legal entitlement to air as such.
Yeah, interesting. How could you look for something if you don't know its possible properties though. Gravity waves have potential too in my opinion -if they even exist. As far as I know the latest interferometry experiment to look for them failed...
you need to understanding what exactly it is they are doing, how they are doing it, the tools they are employing, and their objectives.
Many hackers will buy this book. They will analyse the structure of the honeypot and honey net used to detect them. The will alter their strategy so as to counter this. They will use new tools so as to minimize detection and make it harder for analysts to profile. Though their objectives will not change there methods will, and many will mask their behaviour so as not to appear to have the objectives you think they have.
Finally, this book is in the public domain, and many analysts will generally stick with the guidelines of books like these, whereas the hackers, generally being more creative, will not stick to guidelines. The best ones will always be one step ahead of this. Many can even now detect when they are penetrating a honey net or honey pot and will no doubt continue to do so.
Yes, I'll put my post here, why not. You probably won't read anyway.
In true/. fashion, you all went off on a tangent to discuss causality paradoxes etc.
You attempted to discredit the very concept of quantum communication by invoking your knowledge of relativity. Eianstein himself, if he were here, would be the first to admit that Relativity is not set in stone and that there are still many 'holes' that are unaccounted for.
I think you have a bit of physics but no grasp of Quantun Entanglement. It has nothing to do with the type of causality you describe. If it even exists at all!, it is an unusual phenomenon. Have a look at the Math(s) of it. It is not classical mechanics thats for sure!.
Yes, but their experiment was/is the foundation. Further QE experiments have progressed since then. Its probably a matter of _when_ the technology is available so that we can measure and accuately remeasure (without destroying - the hard part) what you are measuring. Expreiments by ENS in Paris are the most interesting I've seen regarding this.
It seems as though the basic components are there. Its just we are not advnced enough to use it yet. Bu, the "ET's" might be. If we can even conceive/imagine how it could work in the future, then maybe we can start looking now.
Suppoe beings out there have this technology and can already use it for communication. It is not that far fetched that they would. No more far fetched than SETI itself. Why not look for entangled pairs of photons flying through space? if (we dont find them) { Try something else } else if (we do find them) {develop technology to understand them! }
Experiment by ENS in Paris showed that it is possible to measure the phase shift of certain materials that can be fired through the photon without absrbing light. It is this phase shift that could take measurements.
Ope up google and search for Quantim ENS paris etc. etc.
I think we put too much emphasis on detection rather than transmission. Earth sends dribble out into space every day. Whay dont we start sending meaningfull signals out in all directions.
I think there should be a collaborative effort to generated our own highly amplified lazer signals etc into space. If quantum mechanics can deliver, whats to stop us from using entangled pairs to deliver laser signals. If we incorporated one of each of these pairs to our emitted laser beam and fire it off into space, by the time it is detected, we may instantly be able to know what exactly has detected it. If you are confused when reading this, then look up the famous Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen experiments on Quantum weirdnes.....
With the promise of quantum communication, it is conceivable that (if Quantum communication is indeed feasible) we should be focussing our optical light search on specific photons of light.
Anyone know about beam splitting entangled pairs etc. Many moons ago, Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen carried out there unusual experiment whereby the they observed what is now known as quantun weirdness. A photon in an entangled state could be split using a sophisticated 50:50 beam splitter. Each split photon could travel off in opposite directions and appear to be twins, in the sense that any change in behaviour of one would instantly (exactly synchronized regardless of distance!!!) be felt by the other, its twin. Evidence that this was no fluke is gathering thanks to continuing experiments, yet it is still not in stone.
My reasoning is that if this phenomenan is genuine, it could be one way extraterrestrials would chose to contact us. Why not. They send a conventional optical signal, only this time encased in a surrounding cylindar of light, thus allowing for the entangled photons charateristic properties to be influenced only by this cylinder of light. Allot can till go wrong so conceivably, the 'ET's' would send a large stream of such light cylinders- the centre of which is a stream of entangled photons. That way any measurement of the entangled photon would cause an immediate change to its twin (The twin photon - of entangled pair)would presumably be archived on the alien world bouncing back and forth in a cavity (not unlike the cavities we use today - only presumably far more advanced.) So, once change is observed, an immeditae alarm bell is triggered. The ET's can know instantly someone/something has comeinto contact with their signal. Just like Earth SETI, the ET SETI would categorise all their findings and have mant false positives. They would probably already have chartered the area of space to which they send a signal. They may know the only objects (meteorites, stars, planets, commets...) that are likely influences over the transmitted light signal. Hence, if we Earthlings intercept the light in a very manufactured manner (i.e fire a encoded light signal of our own into theres, they are likely to get some unusual data back at there end - instantly.
Anyway, lets face you can't have an interest in SETI without being imaginative.
All Im tring to say is.
1) If I were a highly advanced ET, I would use Quantum entaglement (if it is indeed feasible) to transmit photons of light.
2)I believe we should start sending entangled photons of light, encased in our own manufactured cylinders of background light, out into space.
Exactly, This talk of programming factories is strange. My vision is for well programmed robots to do all our remedial tasks. Of course unemployment would be high, but eventually people might learn that capitalism just DOESN'T work.
biometric scanners on every keyboard and or mouse and or monitor
Yep, i think something like this is possible. But:
A far easier solution would be to use a users 1st password as ONLY a seed to a 192 bit AES cipher. A 3rd. party program dumps the cipher (or maybe a hash of the cipher)in as the password when you type in your regular crappy password in. Of course, its not perfect but better than what we have. Im just glad I often use 24 char passwords.
All of these issues are interconnected and go *WAY* beyond the technical.
Not really, I use Linux and for me it is the logical choice for my only OS ahead of WinX. I am very glad that Linux can now do all it did before plus haswhat XP etc have -i.e GUI (for the typical user)...
My bone is with Mandrake and other Distros, effectivel ripping people off for club membership etc. This is bs. I support Linux and will help out in what way I can but I won't go down this root.
The only one of the main distros that is truly free is Fedora. If I had to pay, I'd pay for SuSE rathwer than Mandrake. Mandrake is too expensive. It really annoys me as I wanted to keep using Mandrake now I am beginning to loathe it. I have just got a brand new machine and I am putting Slackware on it. I may change to Fedora, but I will not use Mandrake anymore.
Anyway, my point is that we need to be critical of Linux too. No Os is beyond the technical, because thats what they're meant to be - technical. You are right to deffend against the other post though. He probably IS working for Microsoft!!! ; )
No offence ( your typing skill is impressive ) but maybe you should pay more attention to thinking than typing. We all know neurons in the brain fire allot faster than you can hit a key on your keyboard. Templates are usefull. You know what a template is? Not c++ templates or anything like that but just plain templates. Whether you are programming or just writing. The more templates you have the better. If you find yourself reusing certain blocks of code or text over and over, its useful.
Also, those who use T9 type text on mobile phones will know its use. The predictive text program calculates what you are going to type and then finishes the word for you based on how often you have used words matching part of the string before etc. I think it can even be modified to learn slang and slang acronyms. These I feel are the ways to typing in the future. Import a template and then modify it with T9.
Of couse you will still need to do plain typing like I'm doing here right now, but you still can...
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Also, on the bottom left the 'ANY KEY' key,
and 'EJECT CUP HOLDER' key.
Yeah, highschool girls at work. Thats a Summer camp I want to be a part of. *in my dreams*
..!!
But really, having read the article, I wouldn't rule out what we already know. Women are smarter. Computer Science just isn't as lucrative as many, if not all other booming tech industries. So there are less women studying CS, and still many studying other technical course. What of it?
If I knew what I know now (all of it could have been known without my degree : ( ) I would have done something else and just taken CS along as a side order....if I was a woman, alas
it would really comfort me not to pump several hundred dollars per machine into a monopolist's coffers for an OS we're just going to debilitate anyway.
Yep, I wouldn't use any non-free OS for it, especially since your requirements are quite simple. Any decent *nix distro would be fine.
would you still prefer them to full-fledged PCs?
In a library. Yes. But try not to destroy too much of the flavour of the OS. If customers use the system they may become exposed to Unix/Linux in a favourable way. In other words, lock it down in terms of security but I would try not to lock down the functionality
as Slashdotters go, I'm pretty much a luser
If you were a 'luser', your submission post would have been rejected ; )
And then there's that lifelong 5cr1pt k1dd13 title. of course
No 5cr1pt k1dd135 don't even know how to modify virii. They just download them and send them on somewhere else
Im gonna go back to school and study to be a solicitor.
I reckon by the time my studies are finished, I will be able to participate in sueing people for breathing air, which is only fair. Its no like they have any legal entitlement to air as such.
He is not full of it you *#@£
Yeah, interesting. How could you look for something if you don't know its possible properties though. Gravity waves have potential too in my opinion -if they even exist. As far as I know the latest interferometry experiment to look for them failed...
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you need to understanding what exactly it is they are doing, how they are doing it, the tools they are employing, and their objectives.
Many hackers will buy this book. They will analyse the structure of the honeypot and honey net used to detect them. The will alter their strategy so as to counter this. They will use new tools so as to minimize detection and make it harder for analysts to profile. Though their objectives will not change there methods will, and many will mask their behaviour so as not to appear to have the objectives you think they have. Finally, this book is in the public domain, and many analysts will generally stick with the guidelines of books like these, whereas the hackers, generally being more creative, will not stick to guidelines. The best ones will always be one step ahead of this. Many can even now detect when they are penetrating a honey net or honey pot and will no doubt continue to do so.
Yes, I'll put my post here, why not. You probably won't read anyway.
/. fashion, you all went off on a tangent to discuss causality paradoxes etc.
In true
You attempted to discredit the very concept of quantum communication by invoking your knowledge of relativity. Eianstein himself, if he were here, would be the first to admit that Relativity is not set in stone and that there are still many 'holes' that are unaccounted for.
I think you have a bit of physics but no grasp of Quantun Entanglement. It has nothing to do with the type of causality you describe. If it even exists at all!, it is an unusual phenomenon. Have a look at the Math(s) of it. It is not classical mechanics thats for sure!.
Yes, but their experiment was/is the foundation. Further QE experiments have progressed since then. Its probably a matter of _when_ the technology is available so that we can measure and accuately remeasure (without destroying - the hard part) what you are measuring. Expreiments by ENS in Paris are the most interesting I've seen regarding this.
It seems as though the basic components are there. Its just we are not advnced enough to use it yet. Bu, the "ET's" might be. If we can even conceive/imagine how it could work in the future, then maybe we can start looking now.
Suppoe beings out there have this technology and can already use it for communication. It is not that far fetched that they would. No more far fetched than SETI itself. Why not look for entangled pairs of photons flying through space?
if (we dont find them) { Try something else }
else if (we do find them) {develop technology to understand them! }
--
Experiment by ENS in Paris showed that it is possible to measure the phase shift of certain materials that can be fired through the photon without absrbing light. It is this phase shift that could take measurements.
Ope up google and search for Quantim ENS paris etc. etc.
Of course its all experimental stuff.
The above was al least informative. What an insult that it was modded zero at my time of reading.
I think we put too much emphasis on detection rather than transmission. Earth sends dribble out into space every day. Whay dont we start sending meaningfull signals out in all directions.
I think there should be a collaborative effort to generated our own highly amplified lazer signals etc into space. If quantum mechanics can deliver, whats to stop us from using entangled pairs to deliver laser signals. If we incorporated one of each of these pairs to our emitted laser beam and fire it off into space, by the time it is detected, we may instantly be able to know what exactly has detected it. If you are confused when reading this, then look up the famous Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen experiments on Quantum weirdnes.....
Yeah, you or I might have no problem with that. But just try getting schmo A to do that:
"2 passwords....bah"
I think he/she was trying to imply that the acceleration would not be infinite if its gathering solar wind from only one star...
"Haha. pwned. We own your world now"
With the promise of quantum communication, it is conceivable that (if Quantum communication is indeed feasible) we should be focussing our optical light search on specific photons of light.
Anyone know about beam splitting entangled pairs etc. Many moons ago, Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen carried out there unusual experiment whereby the they observed what is now known as quantun weirdness. A photon in an entangled state could be split using a sophisticated 50:50 beam splitter. Each split photon could travel off in opposite directions and appear to be twins, in the sense that any change in behaviour of one would instantly (exactly synchronized regardless of distance!!!) be felt by the other, its twin.
Evidence that this was no fluke is gathering thanks to continuing experiments, yet it is still not in stone.
My reasoning is that if this phenomenan is genuine, it could be one way extraterrestrials would chose to contact us. Why not. They send a conventional optical signal, only this time encased in a surrounding cylindar of light, thus allowing for the entangled photons charateristic properties to be influenced only by this cylinder of light. Allot can till go wrong so conceivably, the 'ET's' would send a large stream of such light cylinders- the centre of which is a stream of entangled photons. That way any measurement of the entangled photon would cause an immediate change to its twin (The twin photon - of entangled pair)would presumably be archived on the alien world bouncing back and forth in a cavity (not unlike the cavities we use today - only presumably far more advanced.) So, once change is observed, an immeditae alarm bell is triggered. The ET's can know instantly someone/something has comeinto contact with their signal. Just like Earth SETI, the ET SETI would categorise all their findings and have mant false positives. They would probably already have chartered the area of space to which they send a signal. They may know the only objects (meteorites, stars, planets, commets...) that are likely influences over the transmitted light signal. Hence, if we Earthlings intercept the light in a very manufactured manner (i.e fire a encoded light signal of our own into theres, they are likely to get some unusual data back at there end - instantly.
Anyway, lets face you can't have an interest in SETI without being imaginative.
All Im tring to say is.
1) If I were a highly advanced ET, I would use Quantum entaglement (if it is indeed feasible) to transmit photons of light.
2)I believe we should start sending entangled photons of light, encased in our own manufactured cylinders of background light, out into space.
3)I hope SETI read this.
Exactly, This talk of programming factories is strange. My vision is for well programmed robots to do all our remedial tasks. Of course unemployment would be high, but eventually people might learn that capitalism just DOESN'T work.
biometric scanners on every keyboard and or mouse and or monitor
Yep, i think something like this is possible. But:
A far easier solution would be to use a users 1st password as ONLY a seed to a 192 bit AES cipher. A 3rd. party program dumps the cipher (or maybe a hash of the cipher)in as the password when you type in your regular crappy password in. Of course, its not perfect but better than what we have. Im just glad I often use 24 char passwords.
I've got my Athlon64 on Cool'n'Quiet in the bios and so far it is exactly that. I still have tio push it to the max though..
www.the-gadgeteer.com/t9-review.html
All of these issues are interconnected and go *WAY* beyond the technical.
Not really, I use Linux and for me it is the logical choice for my only OS ahead of WinX. I am very glad that Linux can now do all it did before plus haswhat XP etc have -i.e GUI (for the typical user)... My bone is with Mandrake and other Distros, effectivel ripping people off for club membership etc. This is bs. I support Linux and will help out in what way I can but I won't go down this root. The only one of the main distros that is truly free is Fedora. If I had to pay, I'd pay for SuSE rathwer than Mandrake. Mandrake is too expensive. It really annoys me as I wanted to keep using Mandrake now I am beginning to loathe it. I have just got a brand new machine and I am putting Slackware on it. I may change to Fedora, but I will not use Mandrake anymore.
Anyway, my point is that we need to be critical of Linux too. No Os is beyond the technical, because thats what they're meant to be - technical. You are right to deffend against the other post though. He probably IS working for Microsoft!!! ; )
How the f*** is the above post flamebait. where are you mod monkeys. I'll hunt you..
No offence ( your typing skill is impressive ) but maybe you should pay more attention to thinking than typing. We all know neurons in the brain fire allot faster than you can hit a key on your keyboard. Templates are usefull.
You know what a template is? Not c++ templates or anything like that but just plain templates. Whether you are programming or just writing. The more templates you have the better. If you find yourself reusing certain blocks of code or text over and over, its useful.
Also, those who use T9 type text on mobile phones will know its use. The predictive text program calculates what you are going to type and then finishes the word for you based on how often you have used words matching part of the string before etc. I think it can even be modified to learn slang and slang acronyms.
These I feel are the ways to typing in the future.
Import a template and then modify it with T9.
Of couse you will still need to do plain typing like I'm doing here right now, but you still can...