The dilemma involved in balancing "security vs. freedoms". Its a very non-linear problem, and at this point it looks like freedoms are on the downward slope.
And yet I do not feel any more secure. I wonder why that is....
All right then. When you outlaw space weapons, you'll be welcoming asteroids, aliens and AxisOfEvil(tm) as your new overlords, not necessarily in that order.
The problem is not the hardware, it's the software. Who's going to write the initial algorithm?
Ok, given enough processing power you could do a genetic algorithm for processor design that actually provides useful solutions within a reasonable amount of time, but I have a feeling we're far from that point.
Which QM predicts does not happen, if you do the quantum mechanics right.
In which case the uncertainty principle is proven false if you set up the experiment right. The actual experimental set up is in Brian Greene's Fabric of Cosmos showing that you can't get around the uncertainty principle, and just one step short of being used for entanglement-communication. IRC it was something like a double-split, with the beam entangler/splitter placed just after one of the slits. If you could measure one beam without collapsing the interference pattern of the other, you would know which slit any specific photon went through while still having it behave as a wave.
Long story short, "measuring" a photon/electron/whatnot can cause it and it's entangled partner to start behaving as a particle instead of a wave. So you have two entangled streams going in different directions, start interfering with one, and whoever is observing the other will notice it.
The old shareware days were great. Nowadays, pretty much the only demos representative of the full game are the time-limited trial versions of casual games.
Forget prison. They really just want to avoid more events like the BART shooting videos leaking out, when they should instead concentrate on ways to avoid more events like the BART shooting itself.
If lie detectors *really* worked, we wouldn't have to torture so many people, would we? We'd just hook them up to the lie detector, and ask them questions, like, "Will the LHC discover the Higgs boson?", and then we would know if they were guilty or not.
Even if lie detectors worked, that wouldn't force the suspect to actually say anything.
And the Higgs boson will be swallowed by a micro black hole before the LHC has the chance to detect anything:)
The problem is that once in a while you'll have a real victim trying to get libelous or whatnot information removed, and they'll be SOL. This isn't the case here of course.
Yeah it is voodoo. If I calculate that there is a 1:10^20 chance an asteroid will destroy the earth this month, and someone else figures there is a 1:50 chance I am wrong, that does not make the odds of an asteroid destroying the earth 1:50. As wrong as the person calculating the odds are, the odds are still going to be incredibly small.
I'm pretty sure the chance of an asteroid destroying the earth is at least 1:50 if you don't put a time limit on the wait. I guess it'd be a race between than and being swallowed up by the sun going all red giant or something.
Personally, I believe that humanity is an insignificant speck on the cosmological scale. They only way we could make our presence felt is by destroying said scale. So lets do it.
If you know from experience that the firing squad graduated from the Stormtrooper Academy of Aiming, but have no idea whether or not the chihuahua is rabid, you have cause for concern.
Hey when I was in pre-school I fell on my head plenty of times while learning to ice skate and I'm none the worse for wear now who are you and how did you get in my tv?
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And yet we have people claiming that any utilization of FTL travel (including wormholes, hyperspace, etc. which aren't technically "faster than light") automatically means the novel is not "hard" sci-fi.
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Another problem is that "people with actual understanding of the matter" fail to understand that maybe, just maybe, the current state of science is wrong.
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I don't think the act of merely having the database is the same as rifling through your stuff when you walk out the door
You're right, it's more like them giving you a cavity search.
The dilemma involved in balancing "security vs. freedoms". Its a very non-linear problem, and at this point it looks like freedoms are on the downward slope.
And yet I do not feel any more secure. I wonder why that is....
All right then. When you outlaw space weapons, you'll be welcoming asteroids, aliens and AxisOfEvil(tm) as your new overlords, not necessarily in that order.
Note to self: the preview button is not just decoration.
Not too long ago, the cheapest $1GB USB flash drives were $10....
When you outlaw space weapons, only outlaws will have space weapons.
Well, whatever the case, once such a computer is built, someone had better ask it whether or not entropy can be reversed.
The problem is not the hardware, it's the software. Who's going to write the initial algorithm?
Ok, given enough processing power you could do a genetic algorithm for processor design that actually provides useful solutions within a reasonable amount of time, but I have a feeling we're far from that point.
Really? You have some weird tastes.
Which QM predicts does not happen, if you do the quantum mechanics right.
In which case the uncertainty principle is proven false if you set up the experiment right. The actual experimental set up is in Brian Greene's Fabric of Cosmos showing that you can't get around the uncertainty principle, and just one step short of being used for entanglement-communication. IRC it was something like a double-split, with the beam entangler/splitter placed just after one of the slits. If you could measure one beam without collapsing the interference pattern of the other, you would know which slit any specific photon went through while still having it behave as a wave.
It's possible in theory.
Long story short, "measuring" a photon/electron/whatnot can cause it and it's entangled partner to start behaving as a particle instead of a wave. So you have two entangled streams going in different directions, start interfering with one, and whoever is observing the other will notice it.
Obviously E.T.s were never saved, and are going to Hell?
The old shareware days were great. Nowadays, pretty much the only demos representative of the full game are the time-limited trial versions of casual games.
Large screen? For $10? Maybe if it's black and white....
Forget prison. They really just want to avoid more events like the BART shooting videos leaking out, when they should instead concentrate on ways to avoid more events like the BART shooting itself.
If lie detectors *really* worked, we wouldn't have to torture so many people, would we? We'd just hook them up to the lie detector, and ask them questions, like, "Will the LHC discover the Higgs boson?", and then we would know if they were guilty or not.
Even if lie detectors worked, that wouldn't force the suspect to actually say anything.
And the Higgs boson will be swallowed by a micro black hole before the LHC has the chance to detect anything :)
The problem is that once in a while you'll have a real victim trying to get libelous or whatnot information removed, and they'll be SOL. This isn't the case here of course.
Yeah it is voodoo. If I calculate that there is a 1:10^20 chance an asteroid will destroy the earth this month, and someone else figures there is a 1:50 chance I am wrong, that does not make the odds of an asteroid destroying the earth 1:50. As wrong as the person calculating the odds are, the odds are still going to be incredibly small.
I'm pretty sure the chance of an asteroid destroying the earth is at least 1:50 if you don't put a time limit on the wait. I guess it'd be a race between than and being swallowed up by the sun going all red giant or something.
Personally, I believe that humanity is an insignificant speck on the cosmological scale. They only way we could make our presence felt is by destroying said scale. So lets do it.
Did you even read the article?
If you know from experience that the firing squad graduated from the Stormtrooper Academy of Aiming, but have no idea whether or not the chihuahua is rabid, you have cause for concern.
Careful, if you ask for Heinlein you'll just get The Puppet Masters starring Tom Cruise.
They're obviously going for the ultimate cyberpunk by merging it with a Neuromancer sequel.
Hey when I was in pre-school I fell on my head plenty of times while learning to ice skate and I'm none the worse for wear now who are you and how did you get in my tv?
And yet we have people claiming that any utilization of FTL travel (including wormholes, hyperspace, etc. which aren't technically "faster than light") automatically means the novel is not "hard" sci-fi.
Another problem is that "people with actual understanding of the matter" fail to understand that maybe, just maybe, the current state of science is wrong.