Out of curiosity, how do trackerless torrents work? That is to say, if I download a.torrent file and run it sans tracker, how do I get connected to peers in the first place?
The whole point of "clean coal" is that the CO2 is stored underground where it won't go into the atmosphere and fuel global warming. The question is how long it will stay there.
This sort of thing would work, though. I navigate quite ably without binocular vision- I was born with eyes that, for some reason, are slightly out of whack and so I can't fuse the images.
As someone else mentioned, stereographic vision gets less accurate at further distances (assuming you don't up the resolution). Combining the two could be very useful.
Tell that to the guys at Blackwater. 100% private army? No thank you. I've heard all sorts of stories where private soldiers in Iraq murder someone, then are quickly spirited out of the country and never prosecuted. The Army may screw up but at least (in theory...) the president can ultimately be held accountable.
I've only read pop versions of quantum mechanics but the basic idea requires information to be transmitted from the sending location to the destination classically, slower than the speed of light. This rather large caveat tends to be left out of articles like this. The point of teleportation is not that it is instantaneous, its that it allows you to transmit quantum states without physically transporting the particles in the special state from one place to another.
In a relativistic sense, FTL communication would actually end up sending information back in time rather than in "real time" and cause all hell to break loose with causality; see this "tachyon pistols" thought-experiment
I'm not sure why you would want to use teleportation to transmit information: you have to send a particle classically anyway at speeds quantum information without physically sending the particle from one place to another (and potentially destroying the delicate quantum state). It'll end up being useful in quantum cryptography, probably.
George W. didn't receive a majority (or even a plurality) of the popular vote. Are you honestly saying that the people in the twin towers deserved their fate because "they voted" for him?
You could probably do it with a high-res webcam, a couple of really bright LEDs with an easily trackable color, and some math. Heck, they could be IR LEDs if you pull the IR filter out of the webcam. I tried it a while ago, but I couldn't figure out the math I needed to convert the perceived distance between the LEDs into distance away from the camera.
Swish (a sort of dumbed down version of the real flash dev program) used to be able to get flash to execute Javascript by pointing links to "javascript:". Not terribly exploitable, but not exactly expected behavior. The newer versions of the flash player stopped it though.
Yeah, and how many on facebook have heard of Privoxy? 5%? 2%? Not that it's not a good suggestion, just that it's not exactly going to be used by many. The most I'll do is run NoScript, which (I assume) would block this, but I don't know. How are the external sites getting the info and sending it back to Facebook, anyway?
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Out of curiosity, how do trackerless torrents work? That is to say, if I download a .torrent file and run it sans tracker, how do I get connected to peers in the first place?
I'm partial to base i myself.
The whole point of "clean coal" is that the CO2 is stored underground where it won't go into the atmosphere and fuel global warming. The question is how long it will stay there.
This sort of thing would work, though. I navigate quite ably without binocular vision- I was born with eyes that, for some reason, are slightly out of whack and so I can't fuse the images. As someone else mentioned, stereographic vision gets less accurate at further distances (assuming you don't up the resolution). Combining the two could be very useful.
Hey, with the writer's strike on, I could totally see that being made into a movie. Except with humans, guns, and helicopters.
I read about an "AI" that would appear to learn in a game against a human, gradually becoming harder and harder to beat. The trick was that the AI was just a bunch of matchboxes. Oh, this is it (Google-cached pdf):
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:nNcKxyHirgUJ:www.teachers.ash.org.au/kenprice/documents/martgame.doc+matchbox+artificial+intelligence+martin+gardner&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Tell that to the guys at Blackwater. 100% private army? No thank you. I've heard all sorts of stories where private soldiers in Iraq murder someone, then are quickly spirited out of the country and never prosecuted. The Army may screw up but at least (in theory...) the president can ultimately be held accountable.
I've only read pop versions of quantum mechanics but the basic idea requires information to be transmitted from the sending location to the destination classically, slower than the speed of light. This rather large caveat tends to be left out of articles like this. The point of teleportation is not that it is instantaneous, its that it allows you to transmit quantum states without physically transporting the particles in the special state from one place to another.
In a relativistic sense, FTL communication would actually end up sending information back in time rather than in "real time" and cause all hell to break loose with causality; see this "tachyon pistols" thought-experiment
I meant to say "... speeds less than or equal to the speed of light. It does let you transmit quantum information..."
I'm not sure why you would want to use teleportation to transmit information: you have to send a particle classically anyway at speeds quantum information without physically sending the particle from one place to another (and potentially destroying the delicate quantum state). It'll end up being useful in quantum cryptography, probably.
George W. didn't receive a majority (or even a plurality) of the popular vote. Are you honestly saying that the people in the twin towers deserved their fate because "they voted" for him?
Maybe add a chip to each battery so the station and you would both know how old it is?
Pirate 1: Arr, those be a nice pegleg and hook ye got thar.
Pirate 2:Yarr, they cost me an arm and a leg.
I got Planet Earth on DVD for Christmas: First DVD that really made me want a hidef TV. Absolutely stunning cinematography.
Aka oldschool geeks. As a sidenote, do they honestly call them "railfans" in the US? Never heard it.
"In layman's terms, 'Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out'."
Oh, freetrack does all that and more. Very cool indeed.
You could probably do it with a high-res webcam, a couple of really bright LEDs with an easily trackable color, and some math. Heck, they could be IR LEDs if you pull the IR filter out of the webcam. I tried it a while ago, but I couldn't figure out the math I needed to convert the perceived distance between the LEDs into distance away from the camera.
Swish (a sort of dumbed down version of the real flash dev program) used to be able to get flash to execute Javascript by pointing links to "javascript:". Not terribly exploitable, but not exactly expected behavior. The newer versions of the flash player stopped it though.
Yeah, they seem to have them around still. I even saw an old-fashionedred telephone booth in a little village.
Well, if I get 1/5th as many spams as I would otherwise, "five times better" makes sense.
Gahhhh my eyes!
Yeah, and how many on facebook have heard of Privoxy? 5%? 2%? Not that it's not a good suggestion, just that it's not exactly going to be used by many. The most I'll do is run NoScript, which (I assume) would block this, but I don't know. How are the external sites getting the info and sending it back to Facebook, anyway?
Zombie Jesus has nothing on Cheezus.
Has anyone else noticed spam using I'm Feeling Lucky links? One got past GMail's filters into my inbox the other day.