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  1. Re:Or DON'T VOTE! on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 1

    So..... do 5 votes matter? How about 15? 45? At what number do votes start "counting"?

  2. Re:WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surpris on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, you don't seem to understand Americans. While voting for a good president is important, it is not as important as voting for the winner.

  3. Re: why the electoral college can be a good thing on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    With that type of a system the rich and famous always win, and the average American *always* loses.

    And this is different from the current system???

  4. Re:Man does the impossible on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    I don't think simulated anealing provides you with a guarentee you will find the global minimum. If it is only allowed to run for infinite time there is a %chance the extrema will not be found.

    It will if you let it run for infinite time, but who can do that?

  5. Re:Better than that on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    Also: the set of all roots to polynomials with rational coefficents is a countable set. This means there can exist a turning machine to calculate the digits of each possible root. When a specific polynomial is given, say #5123, we can just use the turing machines that generate the roots for that polynomial(#5123). For example turing machine #23404538 might generate the 5th root of polynomial #5123.

    What does this show?

    There exists an algorithm to find the roots of all polynomials with rational coefficients.

    I have trouble believing this algorithm works for all polynomials with real coefficients. I say this because now the number of possible polynomials is an uncountable set so we run out of turing machines before we run out of roots(Cantor's Diagonalization) to be calculated. Hence no algorithm to calculate those root(s).

  6. Re:All encryptions broken! on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    uHM...Last time I checked matrix multiplication was THETA(n*m) or THETA(n^2) in an n*n matrix. No logrithmic solution here....

  7. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 1

    http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm#Happ ened not necessarily the facts, but I found it interesting......

  8. Re:Interesting ideology on Setting Up The Greenpeace Ship w/WiFi · · Score: 1

    Modern history examples: By Canadians putting Japanese in concentration camps, Americans supporting the vietnam war, and the Taliban blowing up the twin towers, amongst many others others.

    I'd still like to some evidence that links the Taliban with the twin towers. From what I understood the US went after them because they were nice to people they thought were resposible for the attacks.

  9. Re:Progressive scan? on Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a resolution thing: 480i(interlaced) = 640x480(regular tv) 720P(progressive) = 1024x720 1080i = 1920x1080 (HDTV) Also: progressive draws all scanlines in order, it draws line 2 after it draws line 1 and so on. Interlaced draws all odd scan lines then all even ones.