Some birds have the vocal capability for human style speed, I would argue that they too are incapable of supporting this mutation, simply because they are flying creatures. Brains are energy expensive, and heavy. If you've got a bird that can support the energy budget and weight of a brain capable running the thought processes behind speech (rather than simply mimicry), you've also suddenly got a bird that isn't going to be flying much. Which is also generally known as lunch. There are flightless birds of course, penguins and ostriches among others, but I don't know of any flightless ones with speech capability.
Anytime the laws are not reflecting the moral values of the society they're serving, it isn't healthy; it breeds a contempt for the law, the courts, and the government as a whole. Stupid laws need to be ignored, protested, and fought until they are brought back in line with social values as a whole, since after all it's society as a whole that laws are supposed to serve. The cases you pointed out serve to point this out actually; blacks were not being treated fairly with by the laws, and as a result still to this day don't particularly trust the legal system. The point is that when ever laws and society clash, the laws are usually the ones that need changing, the quicker the better.
My understanding is that the virtual vacuum particles for an instant, act like any other particle, annihilate each other, and vanish. So this would essentially be "pushing" against the particles during the instant they exist, but as they then proceed to pop out of existence the next moment it's essentially as if the engine is pushing against nothing.
I would suspect you could sell the formerly street-legal car as scrap metal to a wrecking company, or rotten apples as mulch to a farmer, simply because entire industries would shut down otherwise.
There's a problem with this as being the only real solution. There are many sites I would like to support, and even by shear chance an ad sometimes that looks interesting. Both are times I'd like to be able to see that ad and be able to click on it. However, between ad based malware, tracking, and privacy concerns, NOT blocking them is annoying at best, a serious security concern at worst.
Wow, who fired their marketing department. They could have billed it as "download all the music you want for 5 dollars a month". Instead, they're running it as "we're forcing college students to give us 5 dollars a month and we won't sue you". Except for the mandatory part, which sounds like it could be dropped, it's basically what people have been telling the RIAA to do since the Napster fight.
You can lucid dream about studying, but it's still a dream (and somewhat of a waste of lucidity in my opinion). Once you actually try to write down what you learned, you'll discover that either you're wrong, the details were passed over, or you're wrong AND the details were passed over. Had this happen to me once or twice; turns out my subconscious mind can't do calculus. It's a pity.
I thought it sounded like an interesting idea. I mean, think about how boring city zoning can be, then look at what SimCity made out of it. Sadly, from watching the video on the site it appears the "game" is little more than a replacement for a meeting room. Rather than actually get a group of students in a single room and explore the issues, you get students to move their avatar into a single room and explore the issues via headset. Essentially, it's a completely useless bit of technology that sets out to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Didn't mean to imply antimatter was just theoretical, just that there are other theoretical matter types out there and antimatter trumps 'em in terms of energy storage.
You can't generate a net positive energy source with antimatter. Best you can hope for is to use the antimatter as a form of energy storage (think battery, fuel, etc). Of course, storage problems make it impractical for nearly every use, so don't expect anti-matter cars... ever. Space travel, however, would greatly benefit from a decent means of generating antimatter, since fuel mass trumps most other concerns in that field and anti-matter provides the most thrust/mass of any theoretical substance.
Security is easy. Look at ATM's. Anonymity is easy. Look at all the surveys done. Secure anonymity like voting machines need is actually a really damn hard problem
Camera phones and the like don't allow proof of ones vote, as it is a simple matter to get a voting card, fill it out like they say to fill it out, take a picture, then get a new voting card and fill it out like you want to vote and turn it in. You give the picture of the false card to whoever was buying your vote, and it means diddly.
No. The problem is that in order to correctly observe the exchange, you need to know which observation method to use; pick the wrong one, you get bad info. This doesn't matter for the legit users, as they can drop the bad data by simply saying over plain chat which method they used to observe it, after the fact, drop the errors, and use the result to create a one-time pad. Because the man in the middle doesn't get this option of dropping the bits they got wrong, they can't see the key. Even worse, the act of them getting wrong messes up the data at the other end, so once Alice and Bob attempt to use their one-time-key they'll get gibberish, clear evidence of an interception.
No, I'm not sure about the 10-20 years thing, that's just me pulling numbers out. That said, factoring 15 and tic-tac-toe is a lot farther than they were even 5 years ago, so given the pace of progress I don't think 10-20 years is unreasonable in the government/large corporation area is unreasonable.
Quantum cryptography is actually quite a major change to the encryption, in what it is essentially providing is a un-interceptable channel (thanks to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle) channel for the two parties to create a one-time pad to use for their encrypted conversation. One-time pads have been proven mathematically to be, assuming you generate them properly, unbreakable (which is a major change to all other encrypted methods, which rely on it being really really hard to break). The problem historically with one-time pads is the key distribution problem. Because of this, even quantum computers will be unable to break quantum encryption.
The problem is that in the next 10-20 years there will be a extrordinary advance in commercial computers. Quantum computers, which are fantastic at breaking present day encryption, have made some major advances in the lab recently, and it wouldn't surprise me to see them operating at the government/corporate level within 20 years or so. Once these are in place, normal security will be very weak and something such as quantum security schemes will be required for most applications. So yes, quantum security is useless now, but hopefully research into it will provide with a practial model about the same time quantum computers make it necessary.
Yes, it is, and that's why I will never be doing it for any consoles I own. It's all down to step 1) Opening the 360. Doing so voids all warrantees on the system, so if the system breaks down later for whatever reason, even unrelated to the mod, you'll still get a nice big bugger off from the company. When it comes to hardware, this is a big deal for me, and even more so to the population at large. PC pirating, even though more complex, does not suffer from this type of problem, which is a large part of why is it so much more popular.
Makes me wish for the Gay Nigger and that Shit Eating trolls. As sad/disturbing/disgusting as they were, at least they used proper punctuation and grammar so I knew what they were trying to say. I can't even follow your logic for a complete sentence.
I assume you mean to use this method to determine which slit the photon passes through, which works. Sorta. Determining which slit the photon passes through can be done (not sure if by this method, but it's been done in the past), but when done all of a sudden the interference pattern vanishes. This is the source of the quantum observation effect you may have heard about.
Wrong, by classical double slit experiment. Single photons are fired at two slits, yet still create the double interference pattern that can only be explained by it going to through both slits as a wave would.
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Some birds have the vocal capability for human style speed, I would argue that they too are incapable of supporting this mutation, simply because they are flying creatures. Brains are energy expensive, and heavy. If you've got a bird that can support the energy budget and weight of a brain capable running the thought processes behind speech (rather than simply mimicry), you've also suddenly got a bird that isn't going to be flying much. Which is also generally known as lunch. There are flightless birds of course, penguins and ostriches among others, but I don't know of any flightless ones with speech capability.
Anytime the laws are not reflecting the moral values of the society they're serving, it isn't healthy; it breeds a contempt for the law, the courts, and the government as a whole. Stupid laws need to be ignored, protested, and fought until they are brought back in line with social values as a whole, since after all it's society as a whole that laws are supposed to serve. The cases you pointed out serve to point this out actually; blacks were not being treated fairly with by the laws, and as a result still to this day don't particularly trust the legal system. The point is that when ever laws and society clash, the laws are usually the ones that need changing, the quicker the better.
My understanding is that the virtual vacuum particles for an instant, act like any other particle, annihilate each other, and vanish. So this would essentially be "pushing" against the particles during the instant they exist, but as they then proceed to pop out of existence the next moment it's essentially as if the engine is pushing against nothing.
Texas is right wing crazy. California is just bat shit crazy.
Why stop there? For the ultimate in stealth technology, make a missile that the missile operator doesn't know about till it hits the target!
I would suspect you could sell the formerly street-legal car as scrap metal to a wrecking company, or rotten apples as mulch to a farmer, simply because entire industries would shut down otherwise.
There's a problem with this as being the only real solution. There are many sites I would like to support, and even by shear chance an ad sometimes that looks interesting. Both are times I'd like to be able to see that ad and be able to click on it. However, between ad based malware, tracking, and privacy concerns, NOT blocking them is annoying at best, a serious security concern at worst.
The problem is, there are far more "unreasonable" passwords in use than reasonably good ones.
You both educated me and allowed me to fit you in one of those categories, all in one go. Nice!
Wow, who fired their marketing department. They could have billed it as "download all the music you want for 5 dollars a month". Instead, they're running it as "we're forcing college students to give us 5 dollars a month and we won't sue you". Except for the mandatory part, which sounds like it could be dropped, it's basically what people have been telling the RIAA to do since the Napster fight.
You can lucid dream about studying, but it's still a dream (and somewhat of a waste of lucidity in my opinion). Once you actually try to write down what you learned, you'll discover that either you're wrong, the details were passed over, or you're wrong AND the details were passed over. Had this happen to me once or twice; turns out my subconscious mind can't do calculus. It's a pity.
I thought it sounded like an interesting idea. I mean, think about how boring city zoning can be, then look at what SimCity made out of it. Sadly, from watching the video on the site it appears the "game" is little more than a replacement for a meeting room. Rather than actually get a group of students in a single room and explore the issues, you get students to move their avatar into a single room and explore the issues via headset. Essentially, it's a completely useless bit of technology that sets out to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Didn't mean to imply antimatter was just theoretical, just that there are other theoretical matter types out there and antimatter trumps 'em in terms of energy storage.
You can't generate a net positive energy source with antimatter. Best you can hope for is to use the antimatter as a form of energy storage (think battery, fuel, etc). Of course, storage problems make it impractical for nearly every use, so don't expect anti-matter cars... ever. Space travel, however, would greatly benefit from a decent means of generating antimatter, since fuel mass trumps most other concerns in that field and anti-matter provides the most thrust/mass of any theoretical substance.
Security is easy. Look at ATM's. Anonymity is easy. Look at all the surveys done. Secure anonymity like voting machines need is actually a really damn hard problem
Camera phones and the like don't allow proof of ones vote, as it is a simple matter to get a voting card, fill it out like they say to fill it out, take a picture, then get a new voting card and fill it out like you want to vote and turn it in. You give the picture of the false card to whoever was buying your vote, and it means diddly.
No. The problem is that in order to correctly observe the exchange, you need to know which observation method to use; pick the wrong one, you get bad info. This doesn't matter for the legit users, as they can drop the bad data by simply saying over plain chat which method they used to observe it, after the fact, drop the errors, and use the result to create a one-time pad. Because the man in the middle doesn't get this option of dropping the bits they got wrong, they can't see the key. Even worse, the act of them getting wrong messes up the data at the other end, so once Alice and Bob attempt to use their one-time-key they'll get gibberish, clear evidence of an interception.
No, I'm not sure about the 10-20 years thing, that's just me pulling numbers out. That said, factoring 15 and tic-tac-toe is a lot farther than they were even 5 years ago, so given the pace of progress I don't think 10-20 years is unreasonable in the government/large corporation area is unreasonable.
Quantum cryptography is actually quite a major change to the encryption, in what it is essentially providing is a un-interceptable channel (thanks to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle) channel for the two parties to create a one-time pad to use for their encrypted conversation. One-time pads have been proven mathematically to be, assuming you generate them properly, unbreakable (which is a major change to all other encrypted methods, which rely on it being really really hard to break). The problem historically with one-time pads is the key distribution problem. Because of this, even quantum computers will be unable to break quantum encryption.
The problem is that in the next 10-20 years there will be a extrordinary advance in commercial computers. Quantum computers, which are fantastic at breaking present day encryption, have made some major advances in the lab recently, and it wouldn't surprise me to see them operating at the government/corporate level within 20 years or so. Once these are in place, normal security will be very weak and something such as quantum security schemes will be required for most applications. So yes, quantum security is useless now, but hopefully research into it will provide with a practial model about the same time quantum computers make it necessary.
Yes, it is, and that's why I will never be doing it for any consoles I own. It's all down to step 1) Opening the 360. Doing so voids all warrantees on the system, so if the system breaks down later for whatever reason, even unrelated to the mod, you'll still get a nice big bugger off from the company. When it comes to hardware, this is a big deal for me, and even more so to the population at large. PC pirating, even though more complex, does not suffer from this type of problem, which is a large part of why is it so much more popular.
Well I'd say the ability to jumpstart fusion in Jupiter is a pretty good sign that the object isn't natural.
Makes me wish for the Gay Nigger and that Shit Eating trolls. As sad/disturbing/disgusting as they were, at least they used proper punctuation and grammar so I knew what they were trying to say. I can't even follow your logic for a complete sentence.
I assume you mean to use this method to determine which slit the photon passes through, which works. Sorta. Determining which slit the photon passes through can be done (not sure if by this method, but it's been done in the past), but when done all of a sudden the interference pattern vanishes. This is the source of the quantum observation effect you may have heard about.
Wrong, by classical double slit experiment. Single photons are fired at two slits, yet still create the double interference pattern that can only be explained by it going to through both slits as a wave would.