Most analogies are wrong (at least here in slashdot), and yours is no exception. This is very different from a waiter forgetting to charge for something. A more accurate analogy would be you going to a restaurant, and the menu contains wrong prices. You order, eat, and in the end the waiter says "oops, some promotions were calculated wrongly" and charging extra money on your credit card without giving you any other option. Yes, you read me right, without giving you any other option. I say that because "they're giving you the option of returning the articles" is not a valid objection. Imagine that I was going on vacation and didn't even have the ability of returning the articles since I don't have them with me? What is my choice in that case?
And "the customers should have noticed the 0.00 price" is not a valid objection either, since it's possible that some customers mixed other articles in their order, which made the total order price nonzero. Who's then to blame a customer who didn't notice that?
Crack authors, as soon as you get different keys (for different players), include them all in the software. This way, if they want to revoke keys to solve the problem, they'll have to piss off a lot of people by breaking their players, which they won't...
Yes, that's another reason why I may never (or at least not soon) buy a car. Maybe I'd rather ride a train for an hour and read than drive for 40 or 50 minutes and not being able to read AND having to drive carefully if I want to get to work at all...
You don't have to make things illegal, some taxation goes a long way. Why don't people just admit that gas is not as cheap as it used to be? Lately, it required for example going to Iraq for a very expensive war. Many countries rebuilt themselves in a way which makes it more attractive to use public transports, which are usually safer and often faster than going by car anyway!
I don't agree, not necessarily at least. It might be that from a certain level of intelligence, all intelligences are capable of doing the same things, just not necessarily as fast. The "General Intelligence" level so to speak.
Besides, we can (and do) augment our intelligence by using computers and etc... I think some day we'll be able to understand our own brains.
Soldier: General, Sir! We have an incoming attack, which has been traced back to the address 127.0.0.1!
(General calls the president)
General: Commander in Chief, I require your authorization for launching a DOS attack on 127.0.0.1 immediately. We are detecting a massive packet bombing originating from that address! President: Do you even need to ask? Ping the hell out of those bastards!
(General confidently hangs up the phone and, from the comfort of his armchair, pushes the "DOS attack order" button)
Soldier: Sir, the power of the attack has increased tenfold in the last few minutes!
(General presses the redial button on his telephone)
General: Sir, the attack is increasing. We have positive confirmation of the the attacker's geographical coordinates! Requesting permission for an airstrike. President: Sure, and please use those shiny new bombers we bought last week! (General immediately presses "Airstrike" button) General: Orders tak$#"#"!F%!%#"$"#4A$"#$"# NO CARRIER
But think about the alternative - if you make a website for a customer and it only works in IE, your name will be associated with IE only website designing. Do you want that to happen?
Correction: it will not run out, but at some point we would spend more energy extracting it than we would gain from it. Which is as bad as oil running out...
If I were you, I would look at the context of my original message for justification of why I (and many others) don't consider quantum computers a big threat for asymmetric ciphers. Quadratic speedup is very different from exponential speedup (which is the case with RSA).
As I said here, a quadratic speedup is easily countered in the context of symmetric ciphers. You can also conclude that by reading the link that YOU provided...
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Most analogies are wrong (at least here in slashdot), and yours is no exception. This is very different from a waiter forgetting to charge for something. A more accurate analogy would be you going to a restaurant, and the menu contains wrong prices. You order, eat, and in the end the waiter says "oops, some promotions were calculated wrongly" and charging extra money on your credit card without giving you any other option. Yes, you read me right, without giving you any other option. I say that because "they're giving you the option of returning the articles" is not a valid objection. Imagine that I was going on vacation and didn't even have the ability of returning the articles since I don't have them with me? What is my choice in that case?
And "the customers should have noticed the 0.00 price" is not a valid objection either, since it's possible that some customers mixed other articles in their order, which made the total order price nonzero. Who's then to blame a customer who didn't notice that?
Crack authors, as soon as you get different keys (for different players), include them all in the software. This way, if they want to revoke keys to solve the problem, they'll have to piss off a lot of people by breaking their players, which they won't...
Which cities and how hot are they?
Yes they will, because if a moose bit your sister, you're Swedish, not Norwegian!
He wasn't talking about hi-def signals with DRM, he was talking about games outputting images...
Your post was actually sounding *a bit plausible* until this part. A Mac for games?
No we don't, but the majority of pollution comes from cities, no?
Sorry, I obviously meant "Base 1010 sucks"...
please ue a power of two for the number of cores. Base 10 sucks.
/. nerds
Sincerely,
Yes, that's another reason why I may never (or at least not soon) buy a car. Maybe I'd rather ride a train for an hour and read than drive for 40 or 50 minutes and not being able to read AND having to drive carefully if I want to get to work at all...
Another example:
Caulerpa Algae spreading wildly in the Mediterranean sea.
And according to some analysis I've seen, not finding a solution will certainly also add up to big negative amount of money.
You don't have to make things illegal, some taxation goes a long way. Why don't people just admit that gas is not as cheap as it used to be? Lately, it required for example going to Iraq for a very expensive war. Many countries rebuilt themselves in a way which makes it more attractive to use public transports, which are usually safer and often faster than going by car anyway!
Linux progressing faster than windows? By what measure?
I don't agree, not necessarily at least. It might be that from a certain level of intelligence, all intelligences are capable of doing the same things, just not necessarily as fast. The "General Intelligence" level so to speak.
Besides, we can (and do) augment our intelligence by using computers and etc... I think some day we'll be able to understand our own brains.
Soldier: General, Sir! We have an incoming attack, which has been traced back to the address 127.0.0.1!
(General calls the president)
General: Commander in Chief, I require your authorization for launching a DOS attack on 127.0.0.1 immediately. We are detecting a massive packet bombing originating from that address!
President: Do you even need to ask? Ping the hell out of those bastards!
(General confidently hangs up the phone and, from the comfort of his armchair, pushes the "DOS attack order" button)
Soldier: Sir, the power of the attack has increased tenfold in the last few minutes!
(General presses the redial button on his telephone)
General: Sir, the attack is increasing. We have positive confirmation of the the attacker's geographical coordinates! Requesting permission for an airstrike.
President: Sure, and please use those shiny new bombers we bought last week!
(General immediately presses "Airstrike" button)
General: Orders tak$#"#"!F%!%#"$"#4A$"#$"# NO CARRIER
But think about the alternative - if you make a website for a customer and it only works in IE, your name will be associated with IE only website designing. Do you want that to happen?
Note to mods: the parent post was supposed to be funny, not insightful...
Actually I was thinking more about benchmarking/coding flaws than lying from your part.
As far as I remember reading, outputting answers adds a bit of heat output to the equation, but doesn't prevent you from using reversible circuits.
Well, until you show us your source code those numbers are as believable as anything else one might randomly type here...
Correction: it will not run out, but at some point we would spend more energy extracting it than we would gain from it. Which is as bad as oil running out...
If I were you, I would look at the context of my original message for justification of why I (and many others) don't consider quantum computers a big threat for asymmetric ciphers. Quadratic speedup is very different from exponential speedup (which is the case with RSA).
As I said here, a quadratic speedup is easily countered in the context of symmetric ciphers. You can also conclude that by reading the link that YOU provided...
What about quantum computers in parallel? :)