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  1. Re:Illegals voting on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    States also joined with the arrangement at the time that they could keep slavery. Things change.

    Even so, it was always possible for the populous states to have a popular-vote covenant. So the small states should have known that when they ratified the constitution.

  2. Re:Illegals voting on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. There is very little evidence of illegals voting.
    2. How is this stealing if it's done by the states?
    3. Enfranchising citizens is bad?

  3. Re:Yes on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    NoScript has an auto-reload on changes to permissions setting, so you don't need the reload button.

  4. Re:not quite right on Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    s/There/They

  5. Re:IRC is still free I think on Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up!

  6. IRC is still free I think on Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4

    That's cheaper than slack

  7. They haven't been proven to be NP-complete. There are certainly in NP.

  8. Only for NP-complete problems. on Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong (arxiv.org) · · Score: 2

    Only for NP-complete problems.

  9. What about Android? on AccuWeather Updates Its iOS App To Address Privacy Outcry (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they fix the Android app too?

  10. some of us are trying on It's Time For Academics To Take Back Control Of Research Journals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    See the quantum journal http://quantum-journal.org/ for an example.

  11. Citation needed

  12. If you care about what you say on the internet not being changed, use a digital signature.

  13. Thunder on Cloud Boom Drives Sales Boom For Physical Servers · · Score: 1

    A cloud boom is called "thunder."

  14. very clever on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 1

    "protect their privacy and, by extension, determine his or her own internet experience. "

    I see what they did there!

  15. Re:First amendment? on Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    Of course the first amendment applies here. The government can't abridge the freedom of the press, it doesn't say anything about only criminal prosecution. So the government (in theory) shouldn't be able to compel the press to pay damages to Sony.

    What Sony does have the power to do is to stop advertising in said press, or complain about it loudly. Legal action, I'm picking the press to win this one.

  16. Re:Related paper: Oversimplifying quantum factorin on Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization · · Score: 1

    Very interesting to see this idea has some history to it. I'm not surprised that other people thought of it too!

    Like you, I had noticed that the number of qubits used (7) was smaller than the number needed to implement Shor's algorithm. I actually asked Shor about this and he said, "15 is special, because it is 4 to an integer power minus 1." I asked him what that meant and it said "it means it's divisible by 3."! This told me that there are special classes of numbers that are easy to "factor" (by which I mean "to run Shor's algorithm on") if only you know you are in the class.

    What really stimulated us to write the paper was the observation that 21 had been factored on only a qutrit. The numbers being factored were growing, but the size of the quantum computer was shrinking. Surely something fishy was going on.

  17. Re:Related paper: Oversimplifying quantum factorin on Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization · · Score: 1

    Dear AC,

    I'm glad you liked our paper and it stimulated your research. I had not actually read your paper when I posted the link to mine and I'm still thinking it over. I think you would agree that your approach is not a general factoring method, but rather depends on the factors having some structure, even if you don't need to know the factors entirely.

  18. Related paper: Oversimplifying quantum factoring on Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization · · Score: 1

    Here are links to my paper in Nature and to the arXiv version which explains why all such results are very silly.

    http://www.nature.com/nature/j...
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7007

  19. A sad thing on Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page · · Score: 1

    What saddens me is that most users won't notice or care. Clearly the Mozilla people need revenue somehow. But software should be on the user's side. Worry about the "open web" all you want, but if your own computer is out to get you then what's the point?

  20. Re:Not as bad as the reviews made it seem on IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too · · Score: 1

    I bought one soon after the new keyboard was issued. You didn't have to send back the old keyboard as a trade, you could just keep it or throw it away.

  21. Buy a key and then post it? on Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution · · Score: 1

    So what's to prevent RedHat, or anyone else, from paying the $99 for a key, and then publishing it? This would let anyone sign their own distributions. If it can work, I'd happily post an oldmacdonald key.

  22. Re:Uglier than Firefox 3. on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    >> "Block images from this site" has disappeared as a right-click option.

    This annoys me too. However, you can do right-click "view image info" and that leads to a "block images from this site" checkbox. So the functionality is there, just harder to get to.

  23. Azureus is not a made up word on Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in · · Score: 1

    It's not made up, it's a kind of frog:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobates_azureus

    The frog happens to be azure in color and is the azureus/vuze logo.

  24. Re:Wii, lightsabre game? on LucasArts Layoffs Spark Many Rumors, Including KOTOR 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the name LIGHT sabre is what confused me. That just means it doesn't weigh very much!
  25. Bedfellows on Germany Makes Arrests In Global Phishing Scam · · Score: 1

    Are you _sure_ they were from eBay?