It's possible, moreover it's already 'implemented' in many countries.
For example, I live in Russia. Stolen databases of passport data are freely sold on black market. But it's impossible to do anything with them, because _every_ business where identity is important requires your physical presence with your passport. And it's a common practice to attach photocopied passport pages to documents (in banks, etc.).
Of course, there's a downside to this: you need national ID system AND you are going to lose a lot of time standing in queues because you can't do things by mail/phone.
My uncle has lost his hand in traffic accident and had phantom pains. He used such trick: he stood before the mirror, closed one eye and slowly unclenched fist of his other hand. That was enough to trick brain, but this technique stopped working after some time (so he had to take painkillers for some time).
VR imitation might help when simple techniques don't work.
That's right, if you write in C++ then Bjarne Stroustrup (or to be more precise, C++ Standards Comittee) has indirect control over your code. But I trust them much more than I trust MS.
Back in 90's resident anti virus programs were quite common. There WERE ideas to create a virus which will throw everything into virtual 8086 machine, but it was unfeasible because almost all programs used direct access hardware and it was impossible to virtualise it correctly.
You are very wrong. There IS sound in space, it's just VERY quiet but it's definitely measureable, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock for an example.
Actually, space sound is so quiet that you won't be able to measure it using common microphones because of very low matter density and very large wave lengths.
Laser radiation is coherent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_%28physics %29), i.e. it can be thought as packets of very large continuos waves. As far as I remember, the average length of coherent wave in red laser is about 100 meters (to compare to few micrometers in sunlight).
Anti-laser coating uses this property to create a destructive interference which nullifies laser light: laser ray enters coating film, the opposite side of film reflects half of ray's photons back and then they are again reflected by the 'front' side of film and then it destructively interferes with the original light ray.
It won't work on 'normal' light because by the time the reflected rays returns from the front side of coating the original wave has already passed the coating and the next part of wave is NOT coherent with the original one.
Of course, anti-laser coatings are not 100% effective and they can work only in fairly narrow frequence band (i.e. only for red lasers or only for green/blue lasers).
There's a joke in Russian cryptographers community: "The speed of password cracking is exponentially proportional to the temperature of soldering iron [crammed in someone's ass]".
Well, that just means that reproduction technology is not ideal. So mass-production statement of parent does not apply - you have REAL scarcity, not an artificial one.
BTW, it may be possible tomorrow to laser-scan David sculpture and recreate it using plastic printers down to smallest details.
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MSSQL also has a LOT of problems. For example, its pessimistic blocking system very often gets in the way.
PLSQL is also somewhat nicer than TSQL.
It's impossible to build a 'small-scale' fusion reactor which can break-even. That's why the costly ITER project is necessary.
But you can't. Mac OS X license explicitly prohibits this
Office 97 doesn't support Unicode natively (it's important if your language uses Cyrillic or Arabic script). So Office 2000 is minimum.
It's possible, moreover it's already 'implemented' in many countries.
For example, I live in Russia. Stolen databases of passport data are freely sold on black market. But it's impossible to do anything with them, because _every_ business where identity is important requires your physical presence with your passport. And it's a common practice to attach photocopied passport pages to documents (in banks, etc.).
Of course, there's a downside to this: you need national ID system AND you are going to lose a lot of time standing in queues because you can't do things by mail/phone.
VR imitation may be more convincing.
My uncle has lost his hand in traffic accident and had phantom pains. He used such trick: he stood before the mirror, closed one eye and slowly unclenched fist of his other hand. That was enough to trick brain, but this technique stopped working after some time (so he had to take painkillers for some time).
VR imitation might help when simple techniques don't work.
Sure, Herb Sutter works for Microsoft, but he's just one of the committee members and issues in committee are generally solved by voting.
Java is NOT strictly interpreted language. HotSpot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot) mechanism dynamically compiles bytecode into machine code.
In theory, Python has Psyco that can do JIT-compiling, but in practice dynamic nature of Python prevents most of optimizations.
That's right, if you write in C++ then Bjarne Stroustrup (or to be more precise, C++ Standards Comittee) has indirect control over your code. But I trust them much more than I trust MS.
GPL is NOT an EULA!
You are not required to agree to GPL terms if you are just using a GPL-licensed program.
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." -- Vernon Schryver.
Nope. Electron-volt is a measure of energy.
Volts have dimension of: m^2*s^-3*kg*A^-1
Electron-volts have dimension: kg*m^2*S^-2
Back in 90's resident anti virus programs were quite common. There WERE ideas to create a virus which will throw everything into virtual 8086 machine, but it was unfeasible because almost all programs used direct access hardware and it was impossible to virtualise it correctly.
You are very wrong. There IS sound in space, it's just VERY quiet but it's definitely measureable, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock for an example.
Actually, space sound is so quiet that you won't be able to measure it using common microphones because of very low matter density and very large wave lengths.
Let's imagine another situation: this mass-copied Jane's software is (illegally) used by a scientist to create AIDS cure. What now?
Java worked on 64-bit systems from the day one. And it supports massively parallel (32 cores!) Sun Niagara CPUs.
That kind of security is incredibly easy to circumvent. Just install SUID root program which allows you to enter without tripping security alarms.
Laser radiation is coherent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_%28physics %29), i.e. it can be thought as packets of very large continuos waves. As far as I remember, the average length of coherent wave in red laser is about 100 meters (to compare to few micrometers in sunlight).
Anti-laser coating uses this property to create a destructive interference which nullifies laser light: laser ray enters coating film, the opposite side of film reflects half of ray's photons back and then they are again reflected by the 'front' side of film and then it destructively interferes with the original light ray.
It won't work on 'normal' light because by the time the reflected rays returns from the front side of coating the original wave has already passed the coating and the next part of wave is NOT coherent with the original one.
Of course, anti-laser coatings are not 100% effective and they can work only in fairly narrow frequence band (i.e. only for red lasers or only for green/blue lasers).
There's a joke in Russian cryptographers community: "The speed of password cracking is exponentially proportional to the temperature of soldering iron [crammed in someone's ass]".
Hm... "apt-cache search debian dvd video" returns no results...
Actually, detecting TV receivers is simple. Your TV uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_heterodine _receiver to filter TV signals. Heterodine frequency is fixed, so it's pretty easy to pick it up.
Actually, there's even ITU standard for it, but I may be wrong. There's definetely a GOST (State Standard) for it in Russia (I'm Russian).
Actually, you CAN decrypt it if you know your password and can access the system keystore. Just use this program: http://www.crackpassword.com/products/prs/mswin/ef s/?r1=rus_eng&r2=aefsdr
Palladium is EXPENSIVE because it's supply is very limited. It's produced mostly in Russia, BTW :)
Actually, Palladium is so rare that it's viable to purify nuclear waste to get it (palladium is one of the fission products).
Well, that just means that reproduction technology is not ideal. So mass-production statement of parent does not apply - you have REAL scarcity, not an artificial one.
BTW, it may be possible tomorrow to laser-scan David sculpture and recreate it using plastic printers down to smallest details.
Microsoft 'helping' FireFox developers. Recent disagreements between Debian and FF.
Hm...