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  1. Re: This makes me want to run out and get a Blackb on Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 2

    The annoying thing is I was actually considering the priv for my next phone. Because they actually went through the effort of getting it fips 140 acredited. This stance just makes me want them to die.

  2. Re:Weasel Words on Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely the person writing the report is annoyed at having to lie. And this is their way of making it obvious.

  3. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    So maybe we consider "superconductivity" differently.

    Your text says:
    3.1. The free particle
    Now we consider a free, spin-1/2 particle. The Hamiltonian consists only of translational kinetic energy

    Are you saying that is achievable in a material with resistance?

  4. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that fermions , bosons and helium-4 aren't conductors.

    As I understand the Stern-Gerlach it shows you entanglement exists, it doesn't give a set of entangled things you can experiment on that we have been discussing so far. Even your link to the "original test" says nothing about the photon source.

    Further more, I don't see any of this actually explaining anything, other than reinforcing what I said ealier, in that the "CHSH inequality" IS a set experiment, testing set theory (and crudely at that).

  5. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    ->No, this is not true at all as only certain materials will transition in to superconductivity.

    At absolute zero all conductors are super conductors.

    some materials transition at higher temperatures.

    The "useful" super conductors are the ones that transition above the boiling point on liquid nitrogen.

    ->Experiments involving electrons or photons travelling

    But they are "entangled" in a super conductor first.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    "As I understand it"

    ->Stern-Gerlach experiment
    Does that have Quantum entanglement?
    Don't think it does.

  6. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    What link would that be?
    Stack exchange linking to Wikipedia doesn't count for much with this stuff imo.

    And that's the only link I see in this thread.

    Any experiment running close to absolute zero is using superconductivity. All these experiments, photons or electrons are currently using super cooled materials as far as I've seen.

  7. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure all this requires interactions with super conductors at some point.

    That's how dwave is doing it anyway.

  8. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    ->but the second thing he suggested, with state superposition, were non-set-theory.
    Why.

    We're mostly talking about electrons in a superconductor as far as I can tell.

    And the "infinities" that produces is ALL set theory.

  9. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    what else is
    -> you can set it up such that the spins are vertical and opposite

    Other than
    "two objects from a single set with predetermined values"

    So yes, If it means something different I don't understand the example. which is why I started with "and this is where you lose me everytime".

  10. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    But this is just set theory.

    Why is it a "miracle" that if you throw one element of a set into a black hole, that doesn't affect the other elements of the set.

  11. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    Don't see how that answers anything.

    what is so special about having some set
    [A,B]

    dividing them.

    then measuring one of them, determining it is say A
    And implying the other is B.

    And, why, when the most interesting bit of all this is the superconductors.
    Are we not discussing them.

  12. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    If bob or Alice leave for the shop.

    When you measure if it was bob or Alice that left for the shop.

    You know if Alice or bob didn't leave for the shop.

    There is nothing magical or even that interesting happening here.

  13. Re: So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    And this is where you always lose me.

    Nothing here proves it wasn't -1 the whole time.

  14. Re: Very conveniently situated... on Microsoft Putting Servers In Germany To Keep User Data Away From US Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Well spotted.

    So to summerise

    There is now to much data to spy on by sending it all over the Atlantic.

    So the are moving the spy center to Germany. ..

    And telling us its to keep our data safe from the nsa.

    Sorry Microsoft, google and friends. Still not going to put anything of value on your hardware. Your cloud business model is still broken.

  15. Re: Who measured in pre-industrial times? on Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels (metoffice.gov.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's not actually what I said.

    What I actually said was.

    We could be 5'C hotter than preindustrial times

    We could be 5'C colder.

    We just have no way of comparing, because the real climate scientists mostly gave up measuring the temperature.

    Probably because the only people who really care about it is the politicos that want j6p to pay more tax... sorry I mean buy carbon credits.

    A plan that was originally designed to attack Chinas economy.

    A plan that backfired massively when china didn't fall for it and catapulted their economy to be the biggest in the world. (Soon if not already).

  16. Re:Who measured in pre-industrial times? on Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels (metoffice.gov.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    actually, in pre industrial times, from the analytics I did on the data were somewhat better than now.

    Back then there were thousands of stations all over the world (although missing in the poles)

    now there is only a few hundred.

    But since we are talking about the "global" temperature, which is highly varied, 1'C is insignificant - i.e. even back when we had 1000s of measurements a day, there still wasn't enough to get a measure of the "average" temperature of the earth with 1'C of accuracy.

    For example
    you still can't estimate the average temperature of mount Everest of the course of 1 year with that accuracy.

    "The whole world" - No frickin chance.

  17. Re: No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 0

    Also

    We paid about 4c or 5c a GB iirc.

    Which is no more than $16,000 for 320TB.

    Configured in raid 5 where we need fall over protection

    And "raw" where we don't.

    Have roughly 1TB of throughput a day in peak usage. So most of the data gets thrown away. Everything we can cache reduces the time for a job to complete.

  18. Re: No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 0

    Bleh bit sleepy.

    4 more batches for 5 in total.

    Some other things we found.
    Internally we are on a mix of 10gb and 1gb ether net.

    On aws save performance was abysmal. Some jobs that would take about an hour on what we had were still running a day later when we tested aws.

    Debugging was also a nightmare. Because watching the events in real time on our kit slowed everything to an absolute crawl trying to watch them over the Internet.

    That was a few years ago. I'm sure they have improved and got cheaper since then.

    But trying to do that securely over the Internet on hardware in an unknown location with access by who knows who and monitored by god knows what nsa abomination...

    Actually.
    That was the other thing.
    I was mostly against going aws because I was convinced the nsa were doing.
    What Snowden leaks proved they were doing.

    Got a lot of criticism for that. Apparently I was overly paranoid. I'd of gone with our own kit even if it was more expensive. If it wasn't we'd of been on aws and had to leave afterwards. The level of vindication I felt when news of those leaks broke can't be over exaggerated.

  19. Re: No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 0

    Only slight less in cpu.
    I'm getting he 150k from
    testing before we bought new hardware.

    We spent about $15,000 in 2 weeks.
    For the equivalent of the hardware we were already running.

    Which we then bought 5 more batches of.

  20. Re:what more can you expect from genocidal UK on Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    You forgot to mention most of the elite are also either paedophiles or their facilitators.

    I here the next king has a rock on for small welsh boys. That will certainly improve things......

  21. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    We're on a large group of X5680's with about 2 times that in storage (SAS), less in CPU.

    And the hardware was 2 orders of magnitude less than $4million.

    There was a big cost overrun on cooling (was much harder than expected), but as one off costs the whole kit paid for itself in the first month, that's been good for a while now:
    http://i67.tinypic.com/mr8v3o....

    Personell - virtually nothing - especially given the personell they replace, everything is pretty much fully automated.

    So should probably get something more than "rough figures" for how much it would cost. because they are way out.

    Dell gives significant discounts for bulk orders.

  22. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    But she goes on to predict the fall of the cloud service providers.

    She says
    "we will be out of business if your data is not secure".

    Ooops. Probably should of thought of that before you invested all those billions.

    As an aside.
    Amazon Web Services would cost $150,000 a MONTH for the computing power we bought about two years ago - with nowhere near that in initial investment.
    So talking "cost effectiveness" is bullshit to.

    This video smacks of desperation, they've finally caught on that the entire cloud business model is flawed.
    That "big money" wont just hand over all their secrets to some unknown computer run by unknown people in some unknown country.

    And "lots of small money" really can't be paying the bills.

    For example:
    Dropbox
    Great while it was free
    now less usefull than btsync
    which is free to average joe.
    And very cheap (and secure) for "big money".

    I see the storm clouds of another impending dotcom crash.

  23. Re:Does the real name policy curb trolling? on EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    But they dont have a "real date of birth or location" policy.

    The two or three facebook accounts I use both now have me over a hundred years old and living in various conflict zones.

    That must waste all sorts of time for said bullies.

  24. Re: Professional Engineers have the power to say on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised more people aren't making the point of the implications of this for german us relations.

  25. Re: It is highly possible that "no one" at all did on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    Best explanation I've seen yet. Although I'd add it's probably a mix of both.

    That the emissions team only trained it for the emisions test environment. Not bothering to train "real world" emissions.

    This is reinforced by the "up to 40x" I've seen elsewhere. I wonder if they brought in new testing standards recently...