'Quantum Encryption is about transmitting keys for use in later encryption. Possibly even to the extent of a 'one time pad' for smaller messages. And it is not about hiding or scrambling the key either: it is sent in the clear, or maybe encrypted with something as a token measure. And can be intercepted, too.
It is about _knowing_ that the key was intercepted. If someone eavesdrops it, the receiving end knows it, and can tell the sender "Nope, that one was snaffled, beam me another."
Well, the interview is with the person himself, so you can expect a bit of bias. He is not going to up and say "I am being totally foolish here, and am in gaol for my own ammusement", which seems like the situation from my angle. The only reason for his refusal (that I can see) is that it may show some illegal or unethical behavour on his part - In which case, he deserves all he gets.
It was a quite reasonable way to get help...
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I'll agree that Office's help system was is quite good: It just didn't need Clippy. Or any of the other... <action type="gags" level="lethal"/>
The lens is cut out of a crystal: What could we do with the piezo-electric effect on that crystal? Would it deform it enough to make the focus adjustable? (The Piezo-electric effect, for those who came in late, is the deforming of a crystal when an electric charge is placed across it. It is used in some earpieces, some tweeters, and most buzzers used in computers. The reverse also occours: stress a crystal and a voltage is created. This is used in 'electret' microphone inserts.
True, but most of the percieved lack of user-friendlyness is based on the lack of support/poor support for desktop-type hardware. For instance, 3D graphics cards. At the moment, we have to jump through hoops to get them to function partially through the supplied, out-of-date binary blobs. And only then if you happen to be using the exact kernel/OS that they do support. Compare that to the OS just slurping in the well built native driver, or even having the driver built in! The same story goes with the other, convienince items around us.
At least, that was the experience of a friend of mine. He gained weight when he moved from a city to a small town. The reason he gave was this: When in the city, he had to walk to the station, and then walk from the city station to the office. Even if he drove his car, it was still a small hike from the car park to the office.
When he moved, he drove to work, and parked mere meters from his office chair, in which he was to remain all day.
There is nothing so simple, is there?
Companies like Dell are in a unique position to break the Windows monopoly. The main problem Open Source developers are having is the near-impossibility of getting hardware documentation. The manufacturers are unwilling (which is something I do _not_ understand!), and we lack the marketing clout to force them. Dell, Hp/et al/ have that clout. A simple decision - only use hardware for which full specs are available - would force the manufacturer's hands. The developers of xorg, linux, BSD etc would use that to produce full support, and everyone would have a real choice. The companies would not have to pay the MS tax, MS would have an incentive to actually make their products useable, DRM would take a heavy thwacking as people can choose not to have it.
No experience, but I do know a little of the chemistry.
When you pass a current backwards through a cell, the chemical reactions reverse, replating the metal back to the walls of the cell, and reforming some of the chemical. In ordinary cells, this plating takes place unevenly, causing dendrites (spikes) that soon short the cell out internally. If this happens when the cell contains a lot of charge, the heat produced could cause an exposion, or certainly leakage.
Most chargers get around this by charging it in a two-steps-forward,one-step-back manner. - putting a little charge in, and then drawing some out. This burns off the dendrites, and makes for an even coating.
As for how good they are (or are not), I'll leave for someone who has used them. They have not become really popular, however, so I expect they do not live up to expectations.
When added to the fact that NiMH cells outperform Alkaline cells, and the extra cost amortized over the life of the cell is negligable, there is really no reason to be bothered with it.
I do not think that basing any part of their operation in the United Kingdom would improve The Pirate Bay's lot. And, like it or not, HM Fort Roughs is in the United Kingdom, and is probably still property of the Crown.
However, it is not (at this time) worth the Governments time to throw them off, especially as they are not doing anything blatently illegal.
If ThePirateBay set up on HM Fort Roughs, the bobbys would be all over it like a rash.
The highways in the outback are among the best roads around. They miss out on the two things that make roads break: Traffic, because they are not heavily used (~A few hundered vehicles a day), and weather, as it almost never rains. So, once built, a road needs little maintanence. The Ideal place for a solar challenge!
Dirt roads are a different matter. Next time I head west of the divide I'll take a new picture for wikipedia's "Corrugated roads" article that actually has some corrugations. 4 to 6 inches deep, and up to half a meter long on high speed roads. People head out at 100Km/h on them in domestic 4WD vehicles, and the coil springs break within the first few days.
In previous years, the cars would have support crews who would head out ahead of the solar car and place plywood over the grid. Then, when the car had passed, pick up the plywood, overtake the solar car, and be in place for the next grid. Kind of defeats the purpose somewhat!
Can you see the synergy? Projects like OLPC deliver computers into the hands of many intelegent young people with no real chance for education. Inovations like MIT Opencourseware provide University level information to them. Of course, some will say, "Do we want millions of kids in third-world slums hacking linux??? To which I will say, "Yes, We Do."
If an algal plant was covered, as I assume it would be, evaporation would be eliminated. I read in a previous article that the current styles grow the algae in plastic tubes. So, while a large ammount of water would be required to fill it, very little water would be required maintaining the water levels. The plant to convert the concentrated algae to biodeisel would probably consume more water.
An increasing amount of hardware is using firmware. To save cents, many of these devices are being sold without flash to store this firmware, and are relying on the OS to load the firware into the device on every boot. This means that the OS must upload the firmware on a restart, or full hibernation. While it is conceivable that a system could be implemented to do this, and leave the device in a conistant state, it sounds like a tedius, error prone setup, that is likely to cause no end of problems. Of course, you could do away with the problem by making us all pay an extra quater-cent for a few k of flash, like a sensible hardware vendor.....
The blurb suggests that 265 miles square is required. 265^2 is 70,225.
I do dislike those who try to minimise the issue by using (distance) square. The fact is that it is Seventy Thousand square miles, and even one square mile of solar collectors is an immense, probably unachievable, certainly impractical, project at this time.
And that figure is assuming that 40% is achievable IRL.
In Australia, the business case for HDTV was all too clear: The networks and other big businesses wanted to tie up the bandwidth. SDTV would have allowed room for many small 'indie' channels, and, even more damaging, widespread wireless broadband at very low cost.
So they argued, and got, HDTV, which no one uses, and we are stuck with the muck that they serve up.
Again, I have not researched it, but it seems to me that a sensor that recieves a dose of light and reads it at its leasure would be a simpler beast than one that has to turn its pixels on and off for an exposure, read the data in full light, rinse and repeat. As any extra circuitry in the sensor must add noise, there would be a loss of quality for this capability. That said, the ability to toss a nice, quality SLR zoom lens onto a video-capable camera would be nice.
Ah. Maths teachers. Mine quoted an argument that he claimed was actually used:
Supply always increases to meet demand. People demand Wilderness areas for recreation. More People will demand more Wilderness. So an increasing population will mean an increase in Wilderness areas.
I think that the conclusion is patently absurd, which just about wraps it up for Supply & Demand.
What do you think will happen when tuna sell for $3M per fish? Will the last couple be left to swim about unmolested? Or will large areas of ocean be quietly poisoned to bring them to the surface?
Your world was so different
From mine don't you see
We just couldn't be close
Though we tried.
We both reached for heavens
But ours weren't the same
That's what happens
When two worlds collide.
Your world was made up
Of things sweet and good
My world could never
Fit in, wish it could.
Two hearts lie in shambles
And oh. how they've cried
That's what happens
When two worlds collide
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'Quantum Encryption is about transmitting keys for use in later encryption. Possibly even to the extent of a 'one time pad' for smaller messages. And it is not about hiding or scrambling the key either: it is sent in the clear, or maybe encrypted with something as a token measure. And can be intercepted, too.
It is about _knowing_ that the key was intercepted. If someone eavesdrops it, the receiving end knows it, and can tell the sender "Nope, that one was snaffled, beam me another."
Well, the interview is with the person himself, so you can expect a bit of bias. He is not going to up and say "I am being totally foolish here, and am in gaol for my own ammusement", which seems like the situation from my angle.
The only reason for his refusal (that I can see) is that it may show some illegal or unethical behavour on his part - In which case, he deserves all he gets.
I'll agree that Office's help system was is quite good: It just didn't need Clippy. Or any of the other... <action type="gags" level="lethal" />
The lens is cut out of a crystal: What could we do with the piezo-electric effect on that crystal? Would it deform it enough to make the focus adjustable?
(The Piezo-electric effect, for those who came in late, is the deforming of a crystal when an electric charge is placed across it. It is used in some earpieces, some tweeters, and most buzzers used in computers. The reverse also occours: stress a crystal and a voltage is created. This is used in 'electret' microphone inserts.
True, but most of the percieved lack of user-friendlyness is based on the lack of support/poor support for desktop-type hardware. For instance, 3D graphics cards. At the moment, we have to jump through hoops to get them to function partially through the supplied, out-of-date binary blobs. And only then if you happen to be using the exact kernel/OS that they do support.
Compare that to the OS just slurping in the well built native driver, or even having the driver built in!
The same story goes with the other, convienince items around us.
At least, that was the experience of a friend of mine. He gained weight when he moved from a city to a small town. The reason he gave was this: When in the city, he had to walk to the station, and then walk from the city station to the office. Even if he drove his car, it was still a small hike from the car park to the office. When he moved, he drove to work, and parked mere meters from his office chair, in which he was to remain all day. There is nothing so simple, is there?
Companies like Dell are in a unique position to break the Windows monopoly. /et al/ have that clout. A simple decision - only use hardware for which full specs are available - would force the manufacturer's hands. The developers of xorg, linux, BSD etc would use that to produce full support, and everyone would have a real choice. The companies would not have to pay the MS tax, MS would have an incentive to actually make their products useable, DRM would take a heavy thwacking as people can choose not to have it.
The main problem Open Source developers are having is the near-impossibility of getting hardware documentation. The manufacturers are unwilling (which is something I do _not_ understand!), and we lack the marketing clout to force them.
Dell, Hp
Ah, a perfect world. Well, I can dream, can't I?
My research is that you are paying $230 _More_
x /dimen_e520?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
See http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.asp
No experience, but I do know a little of the chemistry.
When you pass a current backwards through a cell, the chemical reactions reverse, replating the metal back to the walls of the cell, and reforming some of the chemical. In ordinary cells, this plating takes place unevenly, causing dendrites (spikes) that soon short the cell out internally. If this happens when the cell contains a lot of charge, the heat produced could cause an exposion, or certainly leakage.
Most chargers get around this by charging it in a two-steps-forward,one-step-back manner. - putting a little charge in, and then drawing some out. This burns off the dendrites, and makes for an even coating.
As for how good they are (or are not), I'll leave for someone who has used them. They have not become really popular, however, so I expect they do not live up to expectations.
When added to the fact that NiMH cells outperform Alkaline cells, and the extra cost amortized over the life of the cell is negligable, there is really no reason to be bothered with it.
I do not think that basing any part of their operation in the United Kingdom would improve The Pirate Bay's lot. And, like it or not, HM Fort Roughs is in the United Kingdom, and is probably still property of the Crown. However, it is not (at this time) worth the Governments time to throw them off, especially as they are not doing anything blatently illegal. If ThePirateBay set up on HM Fort Roughs, the bobbys would be all over it like a rash.
The highways in the outback are among the best roads around. They miss out on the two things that make roads break: Traffic, because they are not heavily used (~A few hundered vehicles a day), and weather, as it almost never rains. So, once built, a road needs little maintanence. The Ideal place for a solar challenge!
Dirt roads are a different matter. Next time I head west of the divide I'll take a new picture for wikipedia's "Corrugated roads" article that actually has some corrugations. 4 to 6 inches deep, and up to half a meter long on high speed roads. People head out at 100Km/h on them in domestic 4WD vehicles, and the coil springs break within the first few days.
In previous years, the cars would have support crews who would head out ahead of the solar car and place plywood over the grid. Then, when the car had passed, pick up the plywood, overtake the solar car, and be in place for the next grid. Kind of defeats the purpose somewhat!
Can you see the synergy? Projects like OLPC deliver computers into the hands of many intelegent young people with no real chance for education. Inovations like MIT Opencourseware provide University level information to them.
Of course, some will say, "Do we want millions of kids in third-world slums hacking linux??? To which I will say, "Yes, We Do."
If an algal plant was covered, as I assume it would be, evaporation would be eliminated. I read in a previous article that the current styles grow the algae in plastic tubes.
So, while a large ammount of water would be required to fill it, very little water would be required maintaining the water levels. The plant to convert the concentrated algae to biodeisel would probably consume more water.
Or, you're only one mouse click away from having your hard drive wiped.
An increasing amount of hardware is using firmware. To save cents, many of these devices are being sold without flash to store this firmware, and are relying on the OS to load the firware into the device on every boot.
This means that the OS must upload the firmware on a restart, or full hibernation. While it is conceivable that a system could be implemented to do this, and leave the device in a conistant state, it sounds like a tedius, error prone setup, that is likely to cause no end of problems.
Of course, you could do away with the problem by making us all pay an extra quater-cent for a few k of flash, like a sensible hardware vendor.....
The blurb suggests that 265 miles square is required. 265^2 is 70,225.
I do dislike those who try to minimise the issue by using (distance) square. The fact is that it is Seventy Thousand square miles, and even one square mile of solar collectors is an immense, probably unachievable, certainly impractical, project at this time.
And that figure is assuming that 40% is achievable IRL.
In Australia, the business case for HDTV was all too clear: The networks and other big businesses wanted to tie up the bandwidth. SDTV would have allowed room for many small 'indie' channels, and, even more damaging, widespread wireless broadband at very low cost. So they argued, and got, HDTV, which no one uses, and we are stuck with the muck that they serve up.
Just like the flame-broiled steak can in fact be hot enough to burn you mouth, if simple, effective measures are not followed.
Again, I have not researched it, but it seems to me that a sensor that recieves a dose of light and reads it at its leasure would be a simpler beast than one that has to turn its pixels on and off for an exposure, read the data in full light, rinse and repeat.
As any extra circuitry in the sensor must add noise, there would be a loss of quality for this capability.
That said, the ability to toss a nice, quality SLR zoom lens onto a video-capable camera would be nice.
Ah. Maths teachers. Mine quoted an argument that he claimed was actually used:
Supply always increases to meet demand.
People demand Wilderness areas for recreation.
More People will demand more Wilderness.
So an increasing population will mean an increase in Wilderness areas.
I think that the conclusion is patently absurd, which just about wraps it up for Supply & Demand.
What do you think will happen when tuna sell for $3M per fish? Will the last couple be left to swim about unmolested? Or will large areas of ocean be quietly poisoned to bring them to the surface?
MD5 (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe) = 3f3e6315efda6316ae04640516d060ed
if it is any help. Note that that is the one that I downloaded. Whether I got the right one is a different question entirely!
Microsoft uses atdmt webbugs to keep track of the number and location of downloads. atdmt will simply redirect you.
9 DC1-848C-4BF2-8335-86C573AD86D9/IE7-WindowsXP-x86- enu.exe
Ah. Courtesy of elinks, on the server, which bypassess the rubbish-zapping proxy:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/8/3888
Download to your heart's content, knowing that you won't affect Microsoft's browser count one bit!
Your world was so different From mine don't you see We just couldn't be close Though we tried. We both reached for heavens But ours weren't the same That's what happens When two worlds collide. Your world was made up Of things sweet and good My world could never Fit in, wish it could. Two hearts lie in shambles And oh. how they've cried That's what happens When two worlds collide
Ah, it was a misplaced cap. http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/mis sions/sts-103/hubble/archive/900928.html