I don't but I bet almost everyone in his home town does, now...
Exactly, and that is the point: How is this different from posting notes on poles in his hometown? The difference is, posting notes on poles just doesn't happen, for practical reasons. Different forms of Internet bullying are becoming more and more common, and this thing is a very concrete example of how it is different from normal bullying. Nobody goes posting notes or distributing a batch of leaflets to make their victims life miserable, but doing the equivalent using the Internet is trivially easy, as well as more powerful 'cos it can use video and be seen by more people both locally and worldwide, and it can be much more extreme 'cos it can be done practically anonymously.
However, I agree with your point that becoming "the laughing stock of everyone on the planet" is not a real issue. The real issue is becoming the laughing stock of everyone in the school, the neighborhood, the town, in a way that was never possible before the internet.
Do you know what Star Wars Kid looks like? I mean, really know? In the way that you'd recognize him on the street? I wouldn't. Sure, I've seen the video, I thought it's hilarious, yet still, I don't know him well enough to remember his face. I don't but I bet almost everyone in his home town does, now... And they are the people that matter.
Some victims might enjoy the fame and even benefit from it, but not everybody is like that, so this doesn't make it ok. I mean, with this logic, a bully could drop a bunch of weenies in the wilderness or in a high-crime slum, and if some of 'em make it back in one piece and benefit from the experience, then that would make it ok... Not.
This isn't about your little guy getting beaten up by bullies at school (that's still pretty much legal, at least this law doesn't address it at all). It's about being called names on the internet. No, I believe this is about a bit more than just "name calling". It is about activities like the bully posting fake obscene pictures of you on the Internet. Of course you could do this with paper leaflets, but AFAIK that doesn't really happen, unlike the Internet version...
This is also about the bully spreading semi-plausible rumours in the Internet to relative strangers. Now again the bully could go to the street and yell the same rumours to everybody who passes by, but that would actually make the bully look like a lunatic. But again, using the Internet, the bully suddenly can do this successfully, and anonymously too.
Even "growing a pair" doesn't really help against Internet bullying, since you might not even know who the real culprit is, if the bully doesn't want you to.
I don't know if this law is any kind of solution, but at least it tries to address a real problem.
Well, I disagree. I very much think NAVSTAR GPS is on topic in this site, and therefore Diego Garcia is also very much on topic, and every real nerd worth their salt should know why. And still I think any article summary mentioning Diego Garcia should either explain or link to an explanation of what and where it is, for the slightly less nerdy readers.
Bullshit. If a website has a story about France they don't explain that it's that vaguely hexagonal country to the left of Germany. Yeah, but if there's a story about, say, Diego Garcia, then it'd be nice to provide a map link or at least say it's an island in the Indian Ocean, since it may well be that not everybody knows that piece of essential trivia. I'd say Jack Thomson is more a "Diego Garcia" than a "France", and therefore you're wrong.
If you could directly simulate a human brain on a computer, it would mean immortality, the end of history, the transformation of the human race into something completely different. Nope. Well, not necessarily anyway. I could definitely be considered the next step in human evolution, but it's the classic "if apes evoleved into humans, why are there still apes" case. Even with computerized trans-human-AI minds, there would still be regular, biological humans. Billions and billions of them.
Unless, of course, the human-AI overlords would decide to get rid of the biological humans...
Looking into the future, I see a time for x86, where there will be no practical performance difference between some memory accesses (most importantly local variables in the stack) and accessing registers. At that point, stack will essentially become a huge register bank, and any register disadvantage of x86 should be mostly history.
Perhaps that time is already here? I don't know the current state of the art.
And yeah, LEA was a cool instruction, I still remember learning it's existence, and how it was so nice for optimizing multiplicatons compactly (IIRC, this was in 386, which still had rather slow MUL instruction).
What may have been a limitation some time ago might start to be an advantage. I'm under the impression that there's already more than enough transistors to go around per processor, and there's nothing *special* that can be done with them, so it's just cramming more cores and more cache into a single chip. So parsing, splitting and parallelizing complex instructions at the processor may not be very costly after all. OTOH I bet it does reduce the memory bandwidth needed, which definitely is an advantage.
Sure, but if/. pretends to be a news site, then the article summary should provide at least a one-sentence introduction to the person it is about, and/or a Wikipedia or a Google search link, like you just provided.
Who is Jack Thompson? Why is he so famous that everybody all around the World reading/. should know who he is?
I mean, the article summary doesn't say who or what he is, so apparently it is assumed everybody knows... Well, I don't, sorry for being so ignorant, please educate me...
Maybe some other heavenly body was sucking the life out of it.. No, the problem is heat. A white dwarf has an awful lot of heat. And only known way for a white dwarf to lose heat and cool down is thermal radiation, which is very very slow compared to the amount of heat in a white dwarf. The heat can't be "sucked out" of a white dwarf, so even if a white dwarf was created almost immediately after the big bang, it'd still be very hot.
Well, I guess you could imagine building a huge cooling pipe system out of some sort of neutronium matter, drill the pipes into the degenerate matter of the white dwarf, and then pump some kind of nucleon fluid through the pipes and into a huge neutronium heat sink you somehow built on the incredibly hot surface of the white dwarf... Now that would be a feat of stellar engineering:-)
Ok, thanks for clarification. So if this experiment shows that anti-hydrogen behaves differently, then the concept of "mass" needs to be expanded somehow, so that even if matter and antimatter have same mass (in kilograms), their mass is somehow different.
Show me. Sorry, way over my head. It's just that I do trust even the article summary, not to mention the real research proposal the article is about, more than an AC post saying it ain't so.
Antimatter *could* be different because the mathematics of GR allow it, and we haven't actually done the experiment before. I wouldn't put much faith in human intuition in these matters, considering how counter-intuitive entire GR is...
I mean, we see water falling off edges of waterfalls etc. Why should the edge of the world be any different?;-)
This is how I understand it: In normal cryptography, you have to worry about "the man in the middle" intercepting the message and then cracking it at their leisure. In quantum crypto, "the man in the middle" can't do this. They need the keys beforehand to even record the message. And another thing is, they can't just eavesdrop passively, they must do actual "man in the middle", ie. intercept the message and re-send it in real time.
Somebody correct me if I'm badly mistaken...
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The thing that matters is, what can they do with the things they see with the cameras. If they can come and take you with impunity because you smiled the wrong way, then it's a big deal if they can track your smiles with automatic camera system.
Welcome to big brother state, one wrong move and your history, literally. No, literally you will be the exact opposite of "being history", you will be "erased", no historical record of your existence will remain...
That's a noble sacrifice, but suppose that they develop a cure within five years, and you're stuck up there on a frozen dustball with no way to come back and recover? Well, in that case, it might be smart to not tell the doomed guy on Mars that if he didn't go, he could be cured...:-)
Personally, I wish they would make the Red Crystal standard and get rid of the two other symbols; retaining religious symbols in aid organizations perpetuates the misconception that religions have something to do with altruism. Since when has Red Cross had anything to do with altruism? As far as I can see, it's about helping others in extreme situations, such as war or natural disasters. And religions quite often have a lot to do with helping people in those situations.
Simplified: A cult is what we think is a cult. Or would be, if there weren't those other criteria... But there are, so just labeling something a cult does not make it a cult.
Its still hurting us collectively. If there were no "Abrahamic" religions in the so called Western World, what do you think we would have instead? Would be be better of or worse of? IOW, are these religions hurting us or helping us collectively?
I sure hope you don't live under the delusion that people would simply not have religious-type beliefs in absense of current religions... Without religion-type beliefs, there would be no human society. And there's no religious-type belief that can't be turned into hate and attrocities. I'd say religion isn't hurting us any more than, say, oxygen is. But then again, oxygen really does hurt us a lot, essentially burning our bodies from inside, until the body is too degraded to be able to repair itself...
As far as I understand (and that may well be all wrong, IANAQP...), Planck units aren't just limits of observation, but the uncertainity is "real", ie. the universe itself doesn't have anything more accurate information, no so called "hidden variables".
But if you just meant that HD movie images are pixellated, and universe really isn't... well, I don't know about that. But if there are no hidden variables, then to me it seems that you could store all the information there is available at Planck length/time resolution. Ie increasing storage resolution would not allow adding any more information, since there isn't any more information or accuracy in our universe.
Shh! I'm trying to incite panic to get us of this rock!
The real threats (asteroids and comets) don't seem do the trick, so it's time for much more improbable, but also oh so much more terrifying, painful and poetic threat of the Earth being devoured from under our feet by tiny black holes of our own making.
what do they mean not a continuum? Now we're gonna run out of time? No, they mean that time is not like a solid line, it is more like a dotted line, each dot being a moment in time.
Or better analogy, time runs like a movie, but instead of 24 frames per second of an actual movie, real time runs about 18550000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frames per second (1/Planck Time).
And same goes for space. A HD movie on a nice TV might have 2000 pixels per meter. The space has something like 62500000000000000000000000000000000 "pixels" per meter (1/Planck Length).
(Note to viewers: Things may appear distorted if viewed from great distance or if viewed from a very fast moving car. This is due to the effects of general relativity, and does not reflect the real quality of our production. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope you will enjoy the show, no matter where you are watching this.)
Oh, I don't know. I think it'll take a very long time for tiny black holes to devour Earth. It may be centuries before humanity notices that something no-so-funny is happening inside earth... Though things may just develop so fast after the critical point, that time between noticing something no-so-funny is happening, and the time Earth collapses, may be very short.
So start colonizing space now, while we still have time!
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Exactly, and that is the point: How is this different from posting notes on poles in his hometown? The difference is, posting notes on poles just doesn't happen, for practical reasons. Different forms of Internet bullying are becoming more and more common, and this thing is a very concrete example of how it is different from normal bullying. Nobody goes posting notes or distributing a batch of leaflets to make their victims life miserable, but doing the equivalent using the Internet is trivially easy, as well as more powerful 'cos it can use video and be seen by more people both locally and worldwide, and it can be much more extreme 'cos it can be done practically anonymously.
However, I agree with your point that becoming "the laughing stock of everyone on the planet" is not a real issue. The real issue is becoming the laughing stock of everyone in the school, the neighborhood, the town, in a way that was never possible before the internet.
Some victims might enjoy the fame and even benefit from it, but not everybody is like that, so this doesn't make it ok. I mean, with this logic, a bully could drop a bunch of weenies in the wilderness or in a high-crime slum, and if some of 'em make it back in one piece and benefit from the experience, then that would make it ok... Not.
This is also about the bully spreading semi-plausible rumours in the Internet to relative strangers. Now again the bully could go to the street and yell the same rumours to everybody who passes by, but that would actually make the bully look like a lunatic. But again, using the Internet, the bully suddenly can do this successfully, and anonymously too.
Even "growing a pair" doesn't really help against Internet bullying, since you might not even know who the real culprit is, if the bully doesn't want you to.
I don't know if this law is any kind of solution, but at least it tries to address a real problem.
Well, I disagree. I very much think NAVSTAR GPS is on topic in this site, and therefore Diego Garcia is also very much on topic, and every real nerd worth their salt should know why. And still I think any article summary mentioning Diego Garcia should either explain or link to an explanation of what and where it is, for the slightly less nerdy readers.
Unless, of course, the human-AI overlords would decide to get rid of the biological humans...
Looking into the future, I see a time for x86, where there will be no practical performance difference between some memory accesses (most importantly local variables in the stack) and accessing registers. At that point, stack will essentially become a huge register bank, and any register disadvantage of x86 should be mostly history.
Perhaps that time is already here? I don't know the current state of the art.
And yeah, LEA was a cool instruction, I still remember learning it's existence, and how it was so nice for optimizing multiplicatons compactly (IIRC, this was in 386, which still had rather slow MUL instruction).
What may have been a limitation some time ago might start to be an advantage. I'm under the impression that there's already more than enough transistors to go around per processor, and there's nothing *special* that can be done with them, so it's just cramming more cores and more cache into a single chip. So parsing, splitting and parallelizing complex instructions at the processor may not be very costly after all. OTOH I bet it does reduce the memory bandwidth needed, which definitely is an advantage.
Sure, but if /. pretends to be a news site, then the article summary should provide at least a one-sentence introduction to the person it is about, and/or a Wikipedia or a Google search link, like you just provided.
:-)
Oh, and thanks for the link
Who is Jack Thompson? Why is he so famous that everybody all around the World reading /. should know who he is?
I mean, the article summary doesn't say who or what he is, so apparently it is assumed everybody knows... Well, I don't, sorry for being so ignorant, please educate me...
Well, I guess you could imagine building a huge cooling pipe system out of some sort of neutronium matter, drill the pipes into the degenerate matter of the white dwarf, and then pump some kind of nucleon fluid through the pipes and into a huge neutronium heat sink you somehow built on the incredibly hot surface of the white dwarf... Now that would be a feat of stellar engineering
Ok, thanks for clarification. So if this experiment shows that anti-hydrogen behaves differently, then the concept of "mass" needs to be expanded somehow, so that even if matter and antimatter have same mass (in kilograms), their mass is somehow different.
Antimatter *could* be different because the mathematics of GR allow it, and we haven't actually done the experiment before. I wouldn't put much faith in human intuition in these matters, considering how counter-intuitive entire GR is...
;-)
I mean, we see water falling off edges of waterfalls etc. Why should the edge of the world be any different?
This is how I understand it: In normal cryptography, you have to worry about "the man in the middle" intercepting the message and then cracking it at their leisure. In quantum crypto, "the man in the middle" can't do this. They need the keys beforehand to even record the message. And another thing is, they can't just eavesdrop passively, they must do actual "man in the middle", ie. intercept the message and re-send it in real time.
Somebody correct me if I'm badly mistaken...
The thing that matters is, what can they do with the things they see with the cameras. If they can come and take you with impunity because you smiled the wrong way, then it's a big deal if they can track your smiles with automatic camera system.
I sure hope you don't live under the delusion that people would simply not have religious-type beliefs in absense of current religions... Without religion-type beliefs, there would be no human society. And there's no religious-type belief that can't be turned into hate and attrocities. I'd say religion isn't hurting us any more than, say, oxygen is. But then again, oxygen really does hurt us a lot, essentially burning our bodies from inside, until the body is too degraded to be able to repair itself...
As far as I understand (and that may well be all wrong, IANAQP...), Planck units aren't just limits of observation, but the uncertainity is "real", ie. the universe itself doesn't have anything more accurate information, no so called "hidden variables".
But if you just meant that HD movie images are pixellated, and universe really isn't... well, I don't know about that. But if there are no hidden variables, then to me it seems that you could store all the information there is available at Planck length/time resolution. Ie increasing storage resolution would not allow adding any more information, since there isn't any more information or accuracy in our universe.
But that's just my intuition speaking...
Shh! I'm trying to incite panic to get us of this rock!
The real threats (asteroids and comets) don't seem do the trick, so it's time for much more improbable, but also oh so much more terrifying, painful and poetic threat of the Earth being devoured from under our feet by tiny black holes of our own making.
Or better analogy, time runs like a movie, but instead of 24 frames per second of an actual movie, real time runs about
18550000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frames per second (1/Planck Time).
And same goes for space. A HD movie on a nice TV might have 2000 pixels per meter. The space has something like 62500000000000000000000000000000000 "pixels" per meter (1/Planck Length).
(Note to viewers: Things may appear distorted if viewed from great distance or if viewed from a very fast moving car. This is due to the effects of general relativity, and does not reflect the real quality of our production. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope you will enjoy the show, no matter where you are watching this.)
Oh, I don't know. I think it'll take a very long time for tiny black holes to devour Earth. It may be centuries before humanity notices that something no-so-funny is happening inside earth... Though things may just develop so fast after the critical point, that time between noticing something no-so-funny is happening, and the time Earth collapses, may be very short.
So start colonizing space now, while we still have time!