Good point. Other's who are interested should study the history of this prison industry. A key turning point earlier in this century, Timothy Leary, a well established and respected Professor at Harvard had discovered a new area of human consciousness with the drugs Psilocybin and LSD. Those drugs were new then, no one had done any research on it, and almost no one in America had ever heard of them. He discovered in experiments with prisoners in controlled environments mixed with therapy and drug sessions they could successfully rehabilitate the prisoners. They reduced the recitivism rate significantly, but this created a conflict with the then blossoming prison industry.
The US Governments response?
He got fired from Harvard, they banned the program, started policies of illegalizing and stigmatizing the use of those drugs in any setting for the next 5 decades. Now if you possess those drugs you can get mandatory minimums of 10 years in prisons with Abu-Ghurab like conditions. Only the State doesn't do the torturing, raping, and beating. The inmates do it while the state looks the other way.
Result: U.S. Prisons = Lifetime Criminal Factories
I can just see a new black market for stickers to put over the originals that link to the info. This could lead to gorilla combat advertising. You go to a Pepsi poster, and the Coke Rep puts a different sticker over the original to link you to some Coke website coupon or something stupidly capitalist like that. You could wear a dorky T-shirt with some circular logo on it that chicks can snap a picture of and it links her to your account on some dating website or something stupidly desperate like that.
It'll never work.
Good point, another thing I've wondered about, is that with hydrogen cars, instead of releasing the water into the atmosphere from the exhaust, the vehicle should hold it in a tank, and with a sophisticated hose/socket, while filling up with hydrogen, the water get's sucked out of the car and deposited at the station to be recycled, afterall, it's JUST water.
Dead reckoning tells me this would require a tremendous source of fresh water to replace 10,000km^2 of evaporating water. It would work only if the population shifted out of the desert so that all the water sources could be dedicated to the project.
I'm glad you explained this. I just learned about this concept in Brian Green's The Fabric of the Cosmos. Highly recommended if anyone wants to expand on the above post in laymens terms.
Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired.
Funny, when you go to the website, you tell them when you sleep, when you are tired, when you feel awake, and then they graph your answers out. Ummmmm....that is truly amaaaaazing.
"...(it would be against the laws of physics assuming the cryptography is implemented correctly)..."
Yeah, but, the "laws of physics" can be broken in a paradigm shift (ask Copernicus). So what the guy was saying is that in the future, today's laws may be yesterdays parametric theories. Heck we even know that the laws of physics break down in extreme environments, such as approaching singularity. So, since these laws are not infallible or completely Universal, it follows that Quantum Cryptography could possibly have a fault. Heck, that probability is even demanded by Quantum Theory itself.
I agree with you 100%. That's been my question concerning the Patriot Act and it's various relatives. The problem with 911 was NOT that they didn't have enough information. The problem was they didn't know how to LINK it together. Your point as well as mine, is if they were unable to CONNECT the dots before 911, what good is it going to do them to have more dots? I smell something fishy....
In short, this race is pathetic, and deserves to extinguish itself. The sooner the better.
I understand your disgust. I try to remain positive, but one simple argument makes it a challenge. That logic is this: A beautiful painting can take days, weeks, or months to create. But it can be destroyed in a second. Meaningful relationships/friendships can take months to years to develop. But can be destroyed in one act of betrayal.
Nanobots, if designed perfectly, could destroy many things, many people, much life in a short period of time. Our only hope is that every human, every corporation, every government doesn't achieve that insane objective, ever. Hence, we are screwed!!(?)
Almost all forms of life have something called an "immune system" that is very effective at getting rid of unwanted microorganisms.
Got some news for you. The immune system is inside of you. What good is your immune system going to do for you when nanobots you can't see come floating into your lungs and in concert slice them up so you die drowning in your own blood?
What good is your immune system going to do when you are covered in a swarm of dermal disassemblers that sample your DNA and determine as coldly as a logic gate, that your skin is the wrong color so the next command is to disassemble skin molecules down to the muscle?
Just use your imagination, because people that want to destroy populations are.
If you look at the lights and compare the VR to the real light display, there are about 3-4 lights that look totally off. A lot of good it does if the lights aren't properly calibrated...
It seems to me Technological Abilities of the future will expose the flaws of what is considered Legal today. If the host that has an MP3 in a shared folder on a P2P network is the one committing the illegal act when a downloader copies it, then the future seems to me a scary place.
Consider this:
For sake of argument only, let's say there were one day a technology to copy or duplicate any physical object within, let's say 10 minutes. The machine that does this is portable, say, the size of a backpack. You take this machine into a library that is sharing books (duh). You take a book off the shelf that looks interesting. You place the book in your duplicating machine, and 10 minutes later, you have a perfect copy. You leave.
Who committed the crime? The Library, or You? Be careful what you answer, because this is exactly what goes on P2P networks all the time.
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Good point.
Other's who are interested should study the history of this prison industry. A key turning point earlier in this century, Timothy Leary, a well established and respected Professor at Harvard had discovered a new area of human consciousness with the drugs Psilocybin and LSD. Those drugs were new then, no one had done any research on it, and almost no one in America had ever heard of them. He discovered in experiments with prisoners in controlled environments mixed with therapy and drug sessions they could successfully rehabilitate the prisoners. They reduced the recitivism rate significantly, but this created a conflict with the then blossoming prison industry.
The US Governments response?
He got fired from Harvard, they banned the program, started policies of illegalizing and stigmatizing the use of those drugs in any setting for the next 5 decades. Now if you possess those drugs you can get mandatory minimums of 10 years in prisons with Abu-Ghurab like conditions. Only the State doesn't do the torturing, raping, and beating. The inmates do it while the state looks the other way.
Result: U.S. Prisons = Lifetime Criminal Factories
I can just see a new black market for stickers to put over the originals that link to the info. This could lead to gorilla combat advertising. You go to a Pepsi poster, and the Coke Rep puts a different sticker over the original to link you to some Coke website coupon or something stupidly capitalist like that.
You could wear a dorky T-shirt with some circular logo on it that chicks can snap a picture of and it links her to your account on some dating website or something stupidly desperate like that.
It'll never work.
Cellphone + CueCat = wow.
Wish I would've thought of that.
Good point, another thing I've wondered about, is that with hydrogen cars, instead of releasing the water into the atmosphere from the exhaust, the vehicle should hold it in a tank, and with a sophisticated hose/socket, while filling up with hydrogen, the water get's sucked out of the car and deposited at the station to be recycled, afterall, it's JUST water.
Dead reckoning tells me this would require a tremendous source of fresh water to replace 10,000km^2 of evaporating water. It would work only if the population shifted out of the desert so that all the water sources could be dedicated to the project.
- Zombie computers arise when spammers seize on bugs in Microsoft Windows
Here's an idea on how to stop spam. Stop using Microsoft? Nah, we love our spam too much.Rumor has it these pranksters have high-jacked White Knight and SpaceShipOne and are now enroute to Mars.
I'm glad you explained this. I just learned about this concept in Brian Green's The Fabric of the Cosmos. Highly recommended if anyone wants to expand on the above post in laymens terms.
Scientists have devised a formula that works out what times of the day you are most tired.
Funny, when you go to the website, you tell them when you sleep, when you are tired, when you feel awake, and then they graph your answers out. Ummmmm....that is truly amaaaaazing.
"KnuckleFactor"
Perfect Game = Pitcher strikes all batters out.
A Perfect Game means 27 batters struck out and non got a hit or walked.
No Hitter = No one makes it on to base (ie. other players catch fly balls or throw runners out).
And I hate baseball.
You should also avoid thinking at the pump, as a great idea which causes that light bulb to appear over your head can ignite the gas vapors.
Google will officially change their name to 10^100. Happy now!? Quit suing us!!!!!!
I heard they are suing for $10^100.
What good is undecipherable messages? The can read our minds anyway!! They're peeeeople....!!!
"...(it would be against the laws of physics assuming the cryptography is implemented correctly)..."
Yeah, but, the "laws of physics" can be broken in a paradigm shift (ask Copernicus). So what the guy was saying is that in the future, today's laws may be yesterdays parametric theories. Heck we even know that the laws of physics break down in extreme environments, such as approaching singularity. So, since these laws are not infallible or completely Universal, it follows that Quantum Cryptography could possibly have a fault. Heck, that probability is even demanded by Quantum Theory itself.
I agree with you 100%. That's been my question concerning the Patriot Act and it's various relatives. The problem with 911 was NOT that they didn't have enough information. The problem was they didn't know how to LINK it together. Your point as well as mine, is if they were unable to CONNECT the dots before 911, what good is it going to do them to have more dots? I smell something fishy....
Pssst. Hey, goldspider.
*whispers...*
(you're at slashdot dude)
In short, this race is pathetic, and deserves to extinguish itself. The sooner the better.
I understand your disgust. I try to remain positive, but one simple argument makes it a challenge. That logic is this: A beautiful painting can take days, weeks, or months to create. But it can be destroyed in a second. Meaningful relationships/friendships can take months to years to develop. But can be destroyed in one act of betrayal.
Nanobots, if designed perfectly, could destroy many things, many people, much life in a short period of time. Our only hope is that every human, every corporation, every government doesn't achieve that insane objective, ever. Hence, we are screwed!!(?)
Almost all forms of life have something called an "immune system" that is very effective at getting rid of unwanted microorganisms.
Got some news for you. The immune system is inside of you. What good is your immune system going to do for you when nanobots you can't see come floating into your lungs and in concert slice them up so you die drowning in your own blood?
What good is your immune system going to do when you are covered in a swarm of dermal disassemblers that sample your DNA and determine as coldly as a logic gate, that your skin is the wrong color so the next command is to disassemble skin molecules down to the muscle?
Just use your imagination, because people that want to destroy populations are.
Sumimassen. Toeire wa, doko desu ka?
Gotta love the survival Japanese!
If you look at the lights and compare the VR to the real light display, there are about 3-4 lights that look totally off. A lot of good it does if the lights aren't properly calibrated...
but then again, it's a government job, right?
"Couldn't we just reverse the shield polarity? That's been a die-hard reliable solution in the past."
That only works if an inverse phase of quantum array symmetry is acceptable, which is obviously not the case! Were you even thinking?
It seems to me Technological Abilities of the future will expose the flaws of what is considered Legal today.
If the host that has an MP3 in a shared folder on a P2P network is the one committing the illegal act when a downloader copies it, then the future seems to me a scary place.
Consider this:
For sake of argument only, let's say there were one day a technology to copy or duplicate any physical object within, let's say 10 minutes. The machine that does this is portable, say, the size of a backpack. You take this machine into a library that is sharing books (duh). You take a book off the shelf that looks interesting. You place the book in your duplicating machine, and 10 minutes later, you have a perfect copy. You leave.
Who committed the crime? The Library, or You? Be careful what you answer, because this is exactly what goes on P2P networks all the time.
That is the funniest signature I've ever seen here. Thanks for the belly ache.