In fact, I think the whole patent system should be gone, and replaced by something completely new.
Reason? Patents were designed to ENCOURAGE INNOVATION, due to the possible money income for the inventor. The Wright brothers patented their flying machine (nobody paid them sh*t, but anyway), Edison patented the light bulb, etc.
Patents were a good thing.
Were. Now they've become only another mean to enrich megacorporations in spite of the poor. Current software research is based on OTHER researchs. And designing programs isn't a big deal. Software today couldn't be made without the contribution of the thousands of people who made the tools for it. i.e. who would have come to the idea of having Object Oriented Programming if it wasn't for procedural languages?
Did the people who designed them agree on people getting rich via patents using THEIR inventions?
A qubit is not to be confused with a cubit, which is an ancient measure of length.
A qubit (quantum + bit; pronounced/kyoobit/ ) is a unit of quantum information. That information is described by state in a 2-level quantum mechanical system, whose two basic states are conventionally labeled |0> and |1>(pronounced: ket 0 and ket 1). A pure qubit state is a linear quantum superposition of those two states. This is significantly different from the state of a classical bit, which can only take the value 0 or 1.
A qubit's most important distinction from a classical bit, however, is not the continuous nature of the state (which can be replicated by any analog quantity), but the fact that multiple qubits can exhibit quantum entanglement. Entanglement is a nonlocal property that allows a set of qubits to express superpositions of different binary strings (01010 and 11111, for example) simultaneously. Such "quantum parallelism" is one of the keys to the potential power of quantum computation.
Quantum cryptography currently has two aspects. The first is quantum key exchange, a method for securing communications based on quantum mechanics. The second is the conjectured effect of quantum computing on cryptanalysis, although it is currently, like quantum computing itself, only a theoretical concept.
The basic idea in quantum key exchange is to use the "noisy" properties of light to render incoherent an image that acts to complement a secret key. This image can be represented in a number of ways, but the ability to decode that image rests upon an understanding of how it was made. No way to intercept the transmission without changing it is possible, so key information can be exchanged with great confidence it has been transmitted secretly.
Using quantum superposition as a part of the computation, quantum computing will considerably extend the reach of cryptanalysis, making brute force key space searches much more effective -- if such computers ever become possible in actual practice.
----------- end quote ---------- NOTE: Please read the actual wikipedia articles. They have TONS of hyperlinks with full explanations!
Hmmmm.... *thinks* I wonder what happens when a slashdot story cites whitehouse.gov? Will the whitehouse get slashdotted? Will they blame terrorist attacks? Dunno...
Start selling the CD's from $3 to $10 at most. People'll buy them for hundreds.
Then, and ONLY then, they can start persecuting P2P file sharers.
I told it before. The recording industries are NO LONGER NEEDED. They're history, and belong back in the days when making expensive vinyl records was the only way to distribute music. We've come to a time where new small distributors are wanting to emerge. Give up. Pass the flag.
I remember going to a science museum when child. And I've studied a bit of holography.
Holography stores some kind of interference pattern obtained from hitting an object with normal light and with a laser beam. The "difference" of these light patterns can be stored in 2D surfaces. All you need to display the holograph, is a light source hitting those surfaces, and voila.
Now the *INTERESTING* thing about holographic displays, is that they replace the interference pattern imprinting process, with COMPUTER CALCULATIONS. The computer reproduces the calculated interference pattern.
So if these interference patterns can be changed, we have not only holography, but holovideo.
Here's what i found: a holovideo link showing the process.
Firefox has already won. It's just matter of time until the enemy's resources run out.
In any case... this will only encourage Microsoft to do actually the *RIGHT* thing: Incorporating the latest W3 standards into their browser (i.e. CSS 3).
This would be the _ONLY_ thing that could save them.
Nanotubes are CRYSTALS. Their molecular structure does NOT let them be oxidized. FYI, carbon nanotubes are graffite sheets rolled up. There's no open atoms that are chemically reactive.
And I'm speaking about NORMAL nanotubes, not this new flavor harder than diamond.
The toxicity was reported on Fullerenes (i.e. buckyballs), not carbon nanotubes.
This is because nanoparticles are much more probable to intoxicate you (mad cow disease anyone?) than common particles made of new alloys.
But you got a point there. We have to make sure that current nano-materials are produced so that no particles are spread to the open air. Because they're obviously non-biodegradable.
Luckily, "common" nanotubes are used to be only in electronics or organized structures (flexible solar cells, etc).
I can stand that they try to make hardware developers criminals (Induce Act vs. PS2-chip makers)... I can stand that they want to ban Kazaa (piracying is illegal)...
but MAKING something that we already do ILLEGAL? Who do they think they are, The Sheriff of Nottingham?
They're bringing doom upon themselves. Soon many (WAY MANY) Robin Hoods from outside the US will crush them and take from them whatever they love the most: Money.
Just to inform you, in this article some guy applied the subband coefficient encoding algorithm used in wavelet image compression, to simple DCT coefficients (JPEG). The results: 16pixel-block DCT transform outperformed the wavelet image coding.
I'm sure that with a little research, much could be done with BBC's codec.
How curious. This is exactly how i stealth my forbidden directories in my PHP apps, by using the.htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule.* [R=404]
The hacker will never know when he's found a forbidden dir.
I could as well use a prepend.php and put a 404 redirect in there.
Still, the difference is that with this I *enhance* the security in my site. Very different thing is letting people access pw-protected directories with a simple url rewrite.
Hey. You forgot something. Scalability is about "nothing shared". You can rewrite PHP's session functions to use files on a remote server. Wanna scale MySQL? Just change the MySQL server's address. Yeah it involves rewriting some stuff, but it CAN be done.
Now, talk about bandwidth usage? Use a compiling/caching template engine. <--- this is usually the most troublesome thing in web servers.
Oh, and remember PHP 5 is ALREADY out if you're concerned about performance issues.
Exactly what's that supposed to mean?
No circuits TAMPERED?
No blown fuses?
No burnt chips?
What do they mean with no "anomaly"?
I'd like to check that the car's circuits are functioning completely well.
Also, i'd like to check out if the interface electronics are sensitive to EMR.
You know, whether this guy was making it up or not, there should be a rule in motor engines stating that the acceleration pedal should be PHYSICALLY, and not ELECTRONICALLY connected to the engine. Just like old cars.
Think about it. If the metal wire in old cars breaks, no problem. The car doesn't start. However, if the electronic system breaks in new cars... there we go. Innocent people killed.
What's wrong with engineers these days?
Slashdot Mirror
In fact, I think the whole patent system should be gone, and replaced by something completely new. Reason? Patents were designed to ENCOURAGE INNOVATION, due to the possible money income for the inventor. The Wright brothers patented their flying machine (nobody paid them sh*t, but anyway), Edison patented the light bulb, etc. Patents were a good thing. Were. Now they've become only another mean to enrich megacorporations in spite of the poor. Current software research is based on OTHER researchs. And designing programs isn't a big deal. Software today couldn't be made without the contribution of the thousands of people who made the tools for it. i.e. who would have come to the idea of having Object Oriented Programming if it wasn't for procedural languages? Did the people who designed them agree on people getting rich via patents using THEIR inventions?
Qubit.
/kyoobit/ ) is a unit of quantum information. That information is described by state in a 2-level quantum mechanical system, whose two basic states are conventionally labeled |0> and |1>(pronounced: ket 0 and ket 1). A pure qubit state is a linear quantum superposition of those two states. This is significantly different from the state of a classical bit, which can only take the value 0 or 1.
A qubit is not to be confused with a cubit, which is an ancient measure of length.
A qubit (quantum + bit; pronounced
A qubit's most important distinction from a classical bit, however, is not the continuous nature of the state (which can be replicated by any analog quantity), but the fact that multiple qubits can exhibit quantum entanglement. Entanglement is a nonlocal property that allows a set of qubits to express superpositions of different binary strings (01010 and 11111, for example) simultaneously. Such "quantum parallelism" is one of the keys to the potential power of quantum computation.
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Quantum cryptography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Quantum cryptography currently has two aspects. The first is quantum key exchange, a method for securing communications based on quantum mechanics. The second is the conjectured effect of quantum computing on cryptanalysis, although it is currently, like quantum computing itself, only a theoretical concept.
The basic idea in quantum key exchange is to use the "noisy" properties of light to render incoherent an image that acts to complement a secret key. This image can be represented in a number of ways, but the ability to decode that image rests upon an understanding of how it was made. No way to intercept the transmission without changing it is possible, so key information can be exchanged with great confidence it has been transmitted secretly.
Using quantum superposition as a part of the computation, quantum computing will considerably extend the reach of cryptanalysis, making brute force key space searches much more effective -- if such computers ever become possible in actual practice.
----------- end quote ----------
NOTE: Please read the actual wikipedia articles. They have TONS of hyperlinks with full explanations!
If there are modem ISPs on other countries, or places etc where you can dial to using voIP...
what do you get? anonymous proxies! Sorta...
It's just a thought, but I'm sure a hax0r would figure out how to use VoIP to transmit data packets undetected.
It redirects to this anti-bush site.
Hmmmm.... *thinks* I wonder what happens when a slashdot story cites whitehouse.gov? Will the whitehouse get slashdotted? Will they blame terrorist attacks?
Dunno...
Start selling the CD's from $3 to $10 at most.
People'll buy them for hundreds.
Then, and ONLY then, they can start persecuting P2P file sharers.
I told it before. The recording industries are NO LONGER NEEDED. They're history, and belong back in the days when making expensive vinyl records was the only way to distribute music.
We've come to a time where new small distributors are wanting to emerge.
Give up. Pass the flag.
I remember going to a science museum when child. And I've studied a bit of holography.
Holography stores some kind of interference pattern obtained from hitting an object with normal light and with a laser beam. The "difference" of these light patterns can be stored in 2D surfaces. All you need to display the holograph, is a light source hitting those surfaces, and voila.
Now the *INTERESTING* thing about holographic displays, is that they replace the interference pattern imprinting process, with COMPUTER CALCULATIONS. The computer reproduces the calculated interference pattern.
So if these interference patterns can be changed, we have not only holography, but holovideo.
Here's what i found: a holovideo link showing the process.
"Help me Obi Wan kenobi. You're my only hope"
Bumper sticker for me!
((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))
Yeah, usually those bumper stickers are read as:
"Nerd loser on board"
Firefox has already won. It's just matter of time until the enemy's resources run out.
In any case... this will only encourage Microsoft to do actually the *RIGHT* thing: Incorporating the latest W3 standards into their browser (i.e. CSS 3).
This would be the _ONLY_ thing that could save them.
Have you ever tried to program a 32-bit multiplication using 8-bit registers?
Believe me, you DON'T want to do it. I already had enough trying to do 16-bit operations for my microcontroller course. *shudders*
Oxidation applies to NORMAL carbon.
Nanotubes are CRYSTALS. Their molecular structure does NOT let them be oxidized. FYI, carbon nanotubes are graffite sheets rolled up. There's no open atoms that are chemically reactive.
And I'm speaking about NORMAL nanotubes, not this new flavor harder than diamond.
The toxicity was reported on Fullerenes (i.e. buckyballs), not carbon nanotubes.
This is because nanoparticles are much more probable to intoxicate you (mad cow disease anyone?) than common particles made of new alloys.
But you got a point there. We have to make sure that current nano-materials are produced so that no particles are spread to the open air. Because they're obviously non-biodegradable.
Luckily, "common" nanotubes are used to be only in electronics or organized structures (flexible solar cells, etc).
Let's see what happens over time.
I can stand that they try to make hardware developers criminals (Induce Act vs. PS2-chip makers)... I can stand that they want to ban Kazaa (piracying is illegal)...
but MAKING something that we already do ILLEGAL? Who do they think they are, The Sheriff of Nottingham?
They're bringing doom upon themselves. Soon many (WAY MANY) Robin Hoods from outside the US will crush them and take from them whatever they love the most: Money.
Just to inform you, in this article some guy applied the subband coefficient encoding algorithm used in wavelet image compression, to simple DCT coefficients (JPEG). The results: 16pixel-block DCT transform outperformed the wavelet image coding.
I'm sure that with a little research, much could be done with BBC's codec.
The figures in this "Sun and Hydrogen to fuel the future" article seem much more realistic to me.
Oh, and don't forget about the newest flexible solar cells!
How curious. This is exactly how i stealth my forbidden directories in my PHP apps, by using the .htaccess file.
.* [R=404]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule
The hacker will never know when he's found a forbidden dir.
I could as well use a prepend.php and put a 404 redirect in there.
Still, the difference is that with this I *enhance* the security in my site. Very different thing is letting people access pw-protected directories with a simple url rewrite.
Hey. You forgot something. Scalability is about "nothing shared". You can rewrite PHP's session functions to use files on a remote server. Wanna scale MySQL? Just change the MySQL server's address. Yeah it involves rewriting some stuff, but it CAN be done.
Now, talk about bandwidth usage? Use a compiling/caching template engine. <--- this is usually the most troublesome thing in web servers.
Oh, and remember PHP 5 is ALREADY out if you're concerned about performance issues.
It doesn't matter if your framework / server is the MOST VULNERABLE SOFTWARE EVER WRITTEN ON EARTH.
As long as you have money, you can make companies buy your product!
I think not :)
Well fellas, that's another reason to move away from the MS Goliath. He's been falling TOO often!
*falls on floor laughing*
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
hacking by query string! Every year gets better!!
*cleans teardrop* (sighs)
Who do they think we are? Little red riding hood?
Hey, grandma... why are your teeth SO big?
Exactly what's that supposed to mean? No circuits TAMPERED? No blown fuses? No burnt chips? What do they mean with no "anomaly"? I'd like to check that the car's circuits are functioning completely well. Also, i'd like to check out if the interface electronics are sensitive to EMR. You know, whether this guy was making it up or not, there should be a rule in motor engines stating that the acceleration pedal should be PHYSICALLY, and not ELECTRONICALLY connected to the engine. Just like old cars. Think about it. If the metal wire in old cars breaks, no problem. The car doesn't start. However, if the electronic system breaks in new cars... there we go. Innocent people killed. What's wrong with engineers these days?
Konnichiwa, FLOSS, FLee Open Soulce Software... it's sperred light, i think? ^_^
Gomen na sai, my sperring not vely good. ^^;;;
why didn't i think of that? whoever thought of this, got to be a genius. We're all accustomed to use _ONE_ screen!
Anyway, finally, i'll be able to play Metroid without having that annoying map covering my action screen.
You could say the same of Frank Sinatra or Bobby Derren. Why does their music have impact and BS doesn't?
To begin with, they do have a brain.