Does anybody actually know where you can get information on what is and is not a crime, and what the consequences are? Even if someone sniffs a network that isnt broadcasting its ssid, you crack the key, and break through the authentication, is that so wrong? You still are causing no damage or monetary loss to anyone, and as long as you are using the connection for legal activities, I see no reason why it could be illegal.
I already know what is right and wrong, but thats not what law is. You can use these analogies to prove anything, but in the end, if it is against the law, you get in trouble. I have considered talking with a lawyer about this, but I dont really have the money. If there is a good resource out there, I would love to see it:-/
if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
I totally disagree. The internet is a big place. If one person starts charging, then its easy enough to find someone which doesnt charge. I dont have a job right now, and same with alot of other students, who make up a large part of people who use the internet. If slashdot starts charging, Ill switch to the register, if AIM starts charging, Ill use yahoo.
Advertising is a plague to the economy, because it produces nothing. I stopped buying mad magizine when they riddled their magizine with ads, and I dont read news papers that dont have a clearly defined ads section. I never listen to the radio, and I dont listen to live streams that have ads in them. People have the right to advertise, but they just have to realize that they run the risk of offending their readers.
Yes, the pressing desire to read the mail of those people who haven't switched algorithms. Obviously this is worth spending billions on.
Or how about being able to solve the hardest math problems we have ever been able to think up as a species in mere seconds?
Shor's algorithm is great because we have been working on trying to understand the primes since the dawn of mathematics. You also dont seem to understand that once this takes hold, there will be no more public key algorithms. PKE is based on the idea that some math problems are harder to solve than to verify. Given a large enough quantum computer, that really is no longer the case.
It is my opinion that being able to harness the computational power of the universe as our own personal calculators is well worth the billions being invested.
Well, first off, dwave already has solid state quantum computers, they are just freaking expensive, and for the number of qubits, it just isnt worth it at the moment.
Second, we all know that we are pretty far away from shors factorization algorithm, but at least with the technology that dwave is using (cooper pairs in superconductors), there is a chance of hitting that point sometime in the future.
NMR computers are fun to play with, and are pretty cheap for the number of qubits you can use, but will not likely ever get past 15 or so qubits, because it relies (from what I understand) on each qubit needing to be in the same molecule, and they need to be different atoms, which is rough to do. It seems that alot of people think "most quantum computers are NMR"+"NMR will never work for shors algorithm with large numbers"="quantum computers will never work with shors algorithm", which is just dumb.
Dwave is far more interested in molecular simulation, which could be useful anywhere from creating new medicines, to designing new polymers for the superpants of the future.
Third, no one is stupid enough to try to build a state machine with a quantum computer:-) The end result will be more like a graphics card, where the computer sends the data to the card, and the card replies with the results. Of course, I highly doubt anything like this will be small enough to fit into a PCI slot anytime soon. Maybe a REALLY big USB device or something.
I think the point was that working with black and white film is fun. A more extreme case would be a pogo stick company not selling pogo sticks any more. There arent alot of people these days that go to work on a pogo stick, although many people do enjoy the occational pogo now and then, just for old times sake.
so, in theory, someone could blow up earth, and then go back in time and change whatever they wanted, and it would all be fine so long as earth blows up in the end?
Then the past is only what we have recorded, so if we erase all records, there is no past right?
I wonder if that also means that there is something that got recorded wrong, it would be impossible to go back in time and change it?
The thing that im more worried about is waning support for linux ppc. When I got my ibook, I assumed that the increasing population of ppc machines would mean that over time, support for linux on ppc would increase. It seems to me that if all of apples new machines are going to be built on x86, then linux ppc will once again become more of a niche hobbyist thing, as opposed to a serious architecture.
All the labs at the school I go to have open office on all but the OSX machines. Before I realized this, I would also often be annoyed at the incomaptibilities. These days I just write it at home on my linux machine, and then I just grab it via ssh from any given windows machine on campus and work on it there. Also, more and more of my professors have started using open office, and even if they dont, pdf is always a good option:-)
Does anyone know how to enter this contest? Is registration closed yet? Do they have a website? It all sounds very interesting, but the article itself provides no helpful links:-/
Call me crazy, but I'd rather make a friend than kill an enemy.
Unfortunately, not every enemy feels the same way.
So lets kill them before they kill us!..
You realize how many conflicts could have been avoided if someone had stopped and realized that the other side is human too? Very few people actually want to kill, and even less people want to be killed. People kill out of fear, and killing people because you dont want them to kill you is the worst abuse of logic around.
Im willing to bet that every enemy really does feel like they would rather make the friend. Don't get me wrong, I dont mind people running out and killing eachother, I just dont buy their justifications.
Now that weve gone completely off topic (as the original article wasnt even about guns), heres a bash.org quote!
Eventually someone is going to just have a public database with all this crap in it. The worst part about all this is how much money people are making by selling off stolen databases to the highest bidder.
In the perfect world, anyone would be able to get my information, and I would be informed exactly when it happened, and if I wanted to, I could get their information.
As fun as the notion of privacy is, it is highly impractical and inappropriate in a modern, information driven society like the one we live in.
What is up with all the "something is going to happen soon!" stories? I suppose it is alright so long as another story doesnt get posted when the event occurs, but if recent history is any indication, that will not be the case.
I like to think of quantum computers as binary on the outside, analog on the inside. You can only read and write in binary, but the operators in the middle can be real valued (complex valued even).
Nielson and Chuang's book is neat (I have it sitting on my floor 3 feet from me ATM). It's mainly written for the physicist to learn quantum circuits and algorithms. It takes a year to read, but by the time you are done, you should be able to read and understand most of the papers in the field.
A much lighter book on the subject is "Explortions in Quantum Computing" by Williams and Clearwater. It gives a basic overview without much assumed knowledge.
Also "Problems & Solutions in Quantum Computing & Quantum Information" by Willi-Hans Steeb and Yorick Hardy has alot of fun problems in it. It's the kind of book thats good to read on a bus, or an airplane.
I, for one, can't quite imagine how are they going to stop neutrinos from entering that space...
First off, photons need to be able to get in or there really is no point:-) Also with quantum computing, decoherence and stray particles really arent as much of a problem as they seem.
Sure, in classical computing, one strange bit flip or whatever will mess up your entire data set. Quantum computers really are for single shot calculations though. If you build a quantum computer that is going to factor a large number, but it only works a millionth of the time, it really isnt a problem to just run it a million times. You still get the answer far faster than you would on a classical computer.
there ain't no way the Bush White House is paying for this
Think of who you are talking about. Can you think of anyone with a 5 year old mentality who wouldnt get excited about getting a nukeuler spaceship?
Especially when he can be the first kid on his block with one. I dont know who comes up with these names, but a nuclear space initiative called Prometheus (the greek god who brought fire to earth) just seems a bit creepy.
I was wondering about that. I saw that there was a review for the linux cookbook on my news ticker and became confused. Ive had my linux cookbook (Stutz) for years, and Ive learned a ton from it. Why is it that multiple books are able to have the same name, when you can get sued if you have a website that even rhymes with a company name?
What would really be fun is a show about the timeship relativity. They could cruise the timeline solving mysteries and the like! Also, with the inclusion of a dog looking alien, it could be like scoobie-doo in a spaceship!
Shor's factoring algorithm has two registers, which are pretty much seperate parts of the algorithm. One register you hit with a hadamard to put n bits in a superposition of all possible states, and the other is what you run through an algoritm to do all the exponents and mods etc, then you do the quantum FFT at the end and get the period.
Also I think DWave has been doing doing this thing with superconductors for quite a while now. NMR quantum computers have never really been proposed as practical implimentations, its just really cheap to build smaller ones.
Oke, so in chess we have how many possible positions per square? blank, pawn, castle, horsey, bishop, queen, and king for each color. This would be 13 ways for any given square on the board. Just for the fun of it, lets add three more garbage spots to take us up to 16. This means we can represent each square on the board with a 4 level atom (2^4=16). So we gather up 64 of these 4 level atoms, and hit them all with a funky-do haddamard. They all assume an even superposition, and we now have an entire chess board with 64 qudits, a proposition well within my lifetime.
Ofcourse the rough part is still going to be how the heck you find an algorithm to get a good move, but the point is you have all possible chess board positions (not to mention the three magic pieces) represented with 64 atoms. I might be wrong, ive only been looking at this stuff for a few months, but you can see how nicely quantum computers scale:-)
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Does anybody actually know where you can get information on what is and is not a crime, and what the consequences are? Even if someone sniffs a network that isnt broadcasting its ssid, you crack the key, and break through the authentication, is that so wrong? You still are causing no damage or monetary loss to anyone, and as long as you are using the connection for legal activities, I see no reason why it could be illegal.
:-/
I already know what is right and wrong, but thats not what law is. You can use these analogies to prove anything, but in the end, if it is against the law, you get in trouble. I have considered talking with a lawyer about this, but I dont really have the money. If there is a good resource out there, I would love to see it
if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
I totally disagree. The internet is a big place. If one person starts charging, then its easy enough to find someone which doesnt charge. I dont have a job right now, and same with alot of other students, who make up a large part of people who use the internet. If slashdot starts charging, Ill switch to the register, if AIM starts charging, Ill use yahoo.
Advertising is a plague to the economy, because it produces nothing. I stopped buying mad magizine when they riddled their magizine with ads, and I dont read news papers that dont have a clearly defined ads section. I never listen to the radio, and I dont listen to live streams that have ads in them. People have the right to advertise, but they just have to realize that they run the risk of offending their readers.
Yes, the pressing desire to read the mail of those people who haven't switched algorithms. Obviously this is worth spending billions on.
Or how about being able to solve the hardest math problems we have ever been able to think up as a species in mere seconds?
Shor's algorithm is great because we have been working on trying to understand the primes since the dawn of mathematics. You also dont seem to understand that once this takes hold, there will be no more public key algorithms. PKE is based on the idea that some math problems are harder to solve than to verify. Given a large enough quantum computer, that really is no longer the case.
It is my opinion that being able to harness the computational power of the universe as our own personal calculators is well worth the billions being invested.
Well, first off, dwave already has solid state quantum computers, they are just freaking expensive, and for the number of qubits, it just isnt worth it at the moment.
:-) The end result will be more like a graphics card, where the computer sends the data to the card, and the card replies with the results. Of course, I highly doubt anything like this will be small enough to fit into a PCI slot anytime soon. Maybe a REALLY big USB device or something.
Second, we all know that we are pretty far away from shors factorization algorithm, but at least with the technology that dwave is using (cooper pairs in superconductors), there is a chance of hitting that point sometime in the future.
NMR computers are fun to play with, and are pretty cheap for the number of qubits you can use, but will not likely ever get past 15 or so qubits, because it relies (from what I understand) on each qubit needing to be in the same molecule, and they need to be different atoms, which is rough to do. It seems that alot of people think "most quantum computers are NMR"+"NMR will never work for shors algorithm with large numbers"="quantum computers will never work with shors algorithm", which is just dumb.
Dwave is far more interested in molecular simulation, which could be useful anywhere from creating new medicines, to designing new polymers for the superpants of the future.
Third, no one is stupid enough to try to build a state machine with a quantum computer
I think the point was that working with black and white film is fun. A more extreme case would be a pogo stick company not selling pogo sticks any more. There arent alot of people these days that go to work on a pogo stick, although many people do enjoy the occational pogo now and then, just for old times sake.
so, in theory, someone could blow up earth, and then go back in time and change whatever they wanted, and it would all be fine so long as earth blows up in the end?
Then the past is only what we have recorded, so if we erase all records, there is no past right?
I wonder if that also means that there is something that got recorded wrong, it would be impossible to go back in time and change it?
GooglZon!
The thing that im more worried about is waning support for linux ppc. When I got my ibook, I assumed that the increasing population of ppc machines would mean that over time, support for linux on ppc would increase. It seems to me that if all of apples new machines are going to be built on x86, then linux ppc will once again become more of a niche hobbyist thing, as opposed to a serious architecture.
All the labs at the school I go to have open office on all but the OSX machines. Before I realized this, I would also often be annoyed at the incomaptibilities. These days I just write it at home on my linux machine, and then I just grab it via ssh from any given windows machine on campus and work on it there. Also, more and more of my professors have started using open office, and even if they dont, pdf is always a good option :-)
Does anyone know how to enter this contest? Is registration closed yet? Do they have a website? It all sounds very interesting, but the article itself provides no helpful links :-/
Call me crazy, but I'd rather make a friend than kill an enemy.
Unfortunately, not every enemy feels the same way.
So lets kill them before they kill us!..
You realize how many conflicts could have been avoided if someone had stopped and realized that the other side is human too? Very few people actually want to kill, and even less people want to be killed. People kill out of fear, and killing people because you dont want them to kill you is the worst abuse of logic around.
Im willing to bet that every enemy really does feel like they would rather make the friend. Don't get me wrong, I dont mind people running out and killing eachother, I just dont buy their justifications.
Now that weve gone completely off topic (as the original article wasnt even about guns), heres a bash.org quote!
Eventually someone is going to just have a public database with all this crap in it. The worst part about all this is how much money people are making by selling off stolen databases to the highest bidder.
In the perfect world, anyone would be able to get my information, and I would be informed exactly when it happened, and if I wanted to, I could get their information.
As fun as the notion of privacy is, it is highly impractical and inappropriate in a modern, information driven society like the one we live in.
Just for a twist of fun, Id like to point out that the guys running the naruto fansub group are the same people that run the GNAA :-)
The thing with these DOS extortionist is that unlike the mafia or other groups they do not protect you from other extortinist
:-p
If they were to do that, I think it would be called "consulting"
What is up with all the "something is going to happen soon!" stories? I suppose it is alright so long as another story doesnt get posted when the event occurs, but if recent history is any indication, that will not be the case.
I like to think of quantum computers as binary on the outside, analog on the inside. You can only read and write in binary, but the operators in the middle can be real valued (complex valued even).
Nielson and Chuang's book is neat (I have it sitting on my floor 3 feet from me ATM). It's mainly written for the physicist to learn quantum circuits and algorithms. It takes a year to read, but by the time you are done, you should be able to read and understand most of the papers in the field.
A much lighter book on the subject is "Explortions in Quantum Computing" by Williams and Clearwater. It gives a basic overview without much assumed knowledge.
Also "Problems & Solutions in Quantum Computing & Quantum Information" by Willi-Hans Steeb and Yorick Hardy has alot of fun problems in it. It's the kind of book thats good to read on a bus, or an airplane.
I, for one, can't quite imagine how are they going to stop neutrinos from entering that space...
:-) Also with quantum computing, decoherence and stray particles really arent as much of a problem as they seem.
First off, photons need to be able to get in or there really is no point
Sure, in classical computing, one strange bit flip or whatever will mess up your entire data set. Quantum computers really are for single shot calculations though. If you build a quantum computer that is going to factor a large number, but it only works a millionth of the time, it really isnt a problem to just run it a million times. You still get the answer far faster than you would on a classical computer.
there ain't no way the Bush White House is paying for this
Think of who you are talking about. Can you think of anyone with a 5 year old mentality who wouldnt get excited about getting a nukeuler spaceship?
Especially when he can be the first kid on his block with one. I dont know who comes up with these names, but a nuclear space initiative called Prometheus (the greek god who brought fire to earth) just seems a bit creepy.
I was wondering about that. I saw that there was a review for the linux cookbook on my news ticker and became confused. Ive had my linux cookbook (Stutz) for years, and Ive learned a ton from it. Why is it that multiple books are able to have the same name, when you can get sued if you have a website that even rhymes with a company name?
What would really be fun is a show about the timeship relativity. They could cruise the timeline solving mysteries and the like! Also, with the inclusion of a dog looking alien, it could be like scoobie-doo in a spaceship!
As hot as she was in fight club, I dont know if I can think about her the same way after this...
written on what appears to be a napkin...
Shor's factoring algorithm has two registers, which are pretty much seperate parts of the algorithm. One register you hit with a hadamard to put n bits in a superposition of all possible states, and the other is what you run through an algoritm to do all the exponents and mods etc, then you do the quantum FFT at the end and get the period.
Also I think DWave has been doing doing this thing with superconductors for quite a while now. NMR quantum computers have never really been proposed as practical implimentations, its just really cheap to build smaller ones.
wasnt tardigrades a couple weeks ago or something?
Oke, so in chess we have how many possible positions per square? blank, pawn, castle, horsey, bishop, queen, and king for each color. This would be 13 ways for any given square on the board. Just for the fun of it, lets add three more garbage spots to take us up to 16. This means we can represent each square on the board with a 4 level atom (2^4=16). So we gather up 64 of these 4 level atoms, and hit them all with a funky-do haddamard. They all assume an even superposition, and we now have an entire chess board with 64 qudits, a proposition well within my lifetime.
:-)
Ofcourse the rough part is still going to be how the heck you find an algorithm to get a good move, but the point is you have all possible chess board positions (not to mention the three magic pieces) represented with 64 atoms. I might be wrong, ive only been looking at this stuff for a few months, but you can see how nicely quantum computers scale