Having people pledge alliegence to the Country they belong to is a bad thing? That's brainwashing?
Yes, it is a bad thing. You can see it on CNN, you can see it in the attitudes of American tourists overseas. They think that, just because random chance led them to being born in the USA, they are somehow a higher form of life than everyone else. Pride in your country should come from the actions of the people themselves striving to better themselves and their country, not from some dogmatic pledge injected into every childs brain.
Australia is not the USA. I doubt the CSIRO has much influence on purchasing descisions throughout other agencies or departments of the Australian government.
Once a work hits the public domain, it's okay to circumvent with regards to it.
If only that were true. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent access controls protecting a copyrighted work, and forbids the distribution of tools to do so. So, even if a Mickey Mouse DVD one day falls into the public domain, all Disney need to do is release a new movie with the same 'access controls' and no one can traffic in the circumvention tool that would let them play the public domain DVD either.
Working by yourself, you would be entitled to crack the encryption on the public domain DVD, but as soon as you tried to distribute the decrption method to someone else you would be guilty of trafficking in circumvention tools.
So yes, the DMCA does effectively give perpetual copyrights.
LOL if someone lets the FBI know that a neutrino fired from the middle east is quite capable of penetrating the earth and reaching the White House, there would be all hell to pay!
Yeah when I heard him give a talk a couple of years ago, he made the point that there is a huge effort devoted to theories of high energy physics that make essentially no predictions that are testable experimentally in the forseeable future. On the other hand, there are plenty of experimental results that are not explained (or the maths is too hard to calculate using these theories). The generation problem, quark masses, etc etc.
I saw him give a presentation a couple of years ago, it was pretty well organized, although his hand-drawn slides were a bit messy. But considering his age, even LaTeX slides is probably asking too much:)
Of course. But this story is about a US Government report, and they are within their rights to impose whatever regulations they like on what consumers can use for electronic communication.
As for citizens of other countries, they are subject to various degrees of US influence....
If there is no documentation, then it is almost certainly snake oil.
Anyway, it is hard to imagine the FBI allowing ordinary consumers to have encryption they cannot break on their telephone calls. Moderately easy to break, but obscure, encryption is exactly what they would be looking for. 99% of criminals will be too dumb to break it, and the other 1% are needed to justify the homeland security budget.
Yeah the reason why it is so hard to get optimal braking is that it depends so strongly on the surface you are driving on. Without ABS the best braking you can realistically hope to achieve is 'threshold braking' - as soon as you notice the car skidding then ease off on the brake and then apply again slowly until it skids again, ad infinitum. ie. what ABS does anyway. It would take a helluva lot of practice to improve on it.
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Sorry mate, from what you describe if you DIDN'T have ABS in that situation you would have spun out for sure, unless the ABS was somehow not functioning properly.
If you are familiar enough with the braking system to be able to achieve optimal braking then the ABS will never activate (unlikely, would require lots of practice on a skid pan). If it does activate, then it stopped you from skidding.
I tried to reply to this at the time, but there seemed to be a problem with/. and I could not post it.
Yeah it seems that there are at least 3 distinct regimes for one-dimensional conductors. The result I quoted was for the Tomonaga-Luttinger regime which is the canonical model for 1D gapless (metallic paramagnet) systems. But nanotubes are in a different regime - that of ballistic conduction, so yes you are right there is a potential barrier to overcome to inject a quasiparticle into the tube, once it is in it propogates without resistance.
I collected a bunch of arxiv.org papers on this that I was originally going to post, but I cannot be bothered finding them again now, sorry. If you search for one-dimensional, wire, conductance, nanotube etc you will find them though. The classic work on 1D conduction is Kane and Fisher, around 1995 IIRC.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
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Not a full log, but it does require you to state which files have changed and when.
Yes, you should go to the pub. Nothing beats alcohol for a quick escape from reality!
PS: 1894 was a typo. I am sure you understood that I intended to type 1894, but just in case I spell it out. (It was a book by George Orwell, just in case you never heard of him. It is public domain in Australia, you should download it from project guttenberg before it becomes illegal. The FTA came close to making it so.)
The only problem is that the attackers will always be one step ahead of the defenders. The defenders will need time to analyze the bacteria, develop the program and distribute it. If the attacker is clever enough then the population of North America would already have hit zero by the time that is done.
They wanted to see your identity card. If you are not a citizen of an EU country that has identity cards, then (and only then) you must show your passport.
Her title was 'queen', but she clearly stated in Ep1 that she was elected to that position. There is no reason why a queen could not be elected, although I don't know of any cases in history where one was.
The other way around. If you took a 1D wire, cut it in half, and spliced the ends together with a non-quantum join of negligable resistance (eg with a small piece of an ordinary conductor), the overall resistance (and resistivity) would be greater than the original.
1-dimensional quantum systems have special properties. The charge carriers in 1D wires are not holes or electrons but instead are collective modes that have quasi-long-range order and carry the spin and charge of the original electrons as separate modes. This is kinda bizarre and has no analogy that I know of outside of quantum mechanics, but it gives 1D conductors rather unual properties.
One of these properties is that the resistance scales logarithmically with the length (not constant, the GP is incorrect). It is still remarkable though, because all other conductors have a resistance that scales linearly with the length (which seems intuitively obvious - but is wrong!).
No, quantum wires have a resistance that increases logarithmically with the length, rather than linearly for normal (ohmic) wires.
Exactly zero resistance would be an ideal conductor. I don't think there are any examples of ideal conductors that are not also superconductors, which implies low temperature.
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Yes, it is a bad thing. You can see it on CNN, you can see it in the attitudes of American tourists overseas. They think that, just because random chance led them to being born in the USA, they are somehow a higher form of life than everyone else. Pride in your country should come from the actions of the people themselves striving to better themselves and their country, not from some dogmatic pledge injected into every childs brain.
Australia is not the USA. I doubt the CSIRO has much influence on purchasing descisions throughout other agencies or departments of the Australian government.
If only that were true. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent access controls protecting a copyrighted work, and forbids the distribution of tools to do so. So, even if a Mickey Mouse DVD one day falls into the public domain, all Disney need to do is release a new movie with the same 'access controls' and no one can traffic in the circumvention tool that would let them play the public domain DVD either.
Working by yourself, you would be entitled to crack the encryption on the public domain DVD, but as soon as you tried to distribute the decrption method to someone else you would be guilty of trafficking in circumvention tools.
So yes, the DMCA does effectively give perpetual copyrights.
LOL if someone lets the FBI know that a neutrino fired from the middle east is quite capable of penetrating the earth and reaching the White House, there would be all hell to pay!
Yeah when I heard him give a talk a couple of years ago, he made the point that there is a huge effort devoted to theories of high energy physics that make essentially no predictions that are testable experimentally in the forseeable future. On the other hand, there are plenty of experimental results that are not explained (or the maths is too hard to calculate using these theories). The generation problem, quark masses, etc etc.
As for citizens of other countries, they are subject to various degrees of US influence....
I dunno... it is the basic survival tactic used by all herd animals, and it works for them.
Anyway, it is hard to imagine the FBI allowing ordinary consumers to have encryption they cannot break on their telephone calls. Moderately easy to break, but obscure, encryption is exactly what they would be looking for. 99% of criminals will be too dumb to break it, and the other 1% are needed to justify the homeland security budget.
The unemployment rate is high enough in Australia that all of these can be satisfied at the same time.
Yeah the reason why it is so hard to get optimal braking is that it depends so strongly on the surface you are driving on. Without ABS the best braking you can realistically hope to achieve is 'threshold braking' - as soon as you notice the car skidding then ease off on the brake and then apply again slowly until it skids again, ad infinitum. ie. what ABS does anyway. It would take a helluva lot of practice to improve on it.
If you are familiar enough with the braking system to be able to achieve optimal braking then the ABS will never activate (unlikely, would require lots of practice on a skid pan). If it does activate, then it stopped you from skidding.
Wow, that would be interesting. But does Terry actually like HHGTTG? I would imagine definitely YES, but it is hard to be sure about these things.
Yeah it seems that there are at least 3 distinct regimes for one-dimensional conductors. The result I quoted was for the Tomonaga-Luttinger regime which is the canonical model for 1D gapless (metallic paramagnet) systems. But nanotubes are in a different regime - that of ballistic conduction, so yes you are right there is a potential barrier to overcome to inject a quasiparticle into the tube, once it is in it propogates without resistance.
I collected a bunch of arxiv.org papers on this that I was originally going to post, but I cannot be bothered finding them again now, sorry. If you search for one-dimensional, wire, conductance, nanotube etc you will find them though. The classic work on 1D conduction is Kane and Fisher, around 1995 IIRC.
Quantum cryptography most definitely is a form of cryptography. But this article has nothing to do with quantum cryptography.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
Not a full log, but it does require you to state which files have changed and when.
PS: 1894 was a typo. I am sure you understood that I intended to type 1894, but just in case I spell it out. (It was a book by George Orwell, just in case you never heard of him. It is public domain in Australia, you should download it from project guttenberg before it becomes illegal. The FTA came close to making it so.)
The only problem is that the attackers will always be one step ahead of the defenders. The defenders will need time to analyze the bacteria, develop the program and distribute it. If the attacker is clever enough then the population of North America would already have hit zero by the time that is done.
God save us.
They wanted to see your identity card. If you are not a citizen of an EU country that has identity cards, then (and only then) you must show your passport.
Her title was 'queen', but she clearly stated in Ep1 that she was elected to that position. There is no reason why a queen could not be elected, although I don't know of any cases in history where one was.
The other way around. If you took a 1D wire, cut it in half, and spliced the ends together with a non-quantum join of negligable resistance (eg with a small piece of an ordinary conductor), the overall resistance (and resistivity) would be greater than the original.
One of these properties is that the resistance scales logarithmically with the length (not constant, the GP is incorrect). It is still remarkable though, because all other conductors have a resistance that scales linearly with the length (which seems intuitively obvious - but is wrong!).
Exactly zero resistance would be an ideal conductor. I don't think there are any examples of ideal conductors that are not also superconductors, which implies low temperature.
And where would the universities get the upfront funding to hire students and researchers to do the work?