What if it is not the aliens who change us, but we who change the aliens? It would be much more credible for us to go to them, in that case. It's difference of perspective between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
The numbers in that article can't be right. 240000 flops/watt*1.5 Megawatts = 360 gigaflops, not 360 teraflops. It looks like it should really be 240000000 flops/watt (or 240 teraflops/megawatt), which is relatively consistent with their explanation of 5.6 gigaflops per 12 watts per chip (that number is slightly higher, but it doesn't consider RAM and other components). This is therefore better than the PS3's 65 teraflops/megawatt.
Science Fiction doesn't have to occur in space. For example, novels where it doesn't: Brainwave, The Caves of Steel, Blood Music, Queen of Angels, The Demolished Man, Fahrenheit 451, Childhood's End, Camp Concentration, Permutation City, Beggars in Spain, and a thousand other novels. There are some relatively legitimate reasons why you would want to set it in space, though: you want to depict a possible future, and you believe that having people in space will be an important part of that future, or you believe that, for things like first contact, colonization, or isolation stories, that space is the best place to depict those ideas.
Oh, sorry. I didn't think that anyone thought that the sun was causing increased carbon buildup (at least on the Earth, which doesn't have a convenient carbon dioxide ice cap). At least, the article says that Abdussamatov says that the greenhouse effect has almost no significance, and doesn't posit any link between solar output and carbon dioxode.
First you modify the OS so it can't be subverted in that way, and then you read the keys. It's a bit like trying to solve the halting problem: the hardware detector tries to check if there's any possible rootkit there, which is impossible (although this is because of the way the computer is manufactured, not because of logic). In cracking AACS, you can make a specific solution which will only detect (and prevent) a certain rootkit, but it will work.
Yeah, but if this theory somehow was correct and solar cycles were causing all of global warming, doing something like reducing carbon emissions wouldn't be particularly helpful. So we wouldn't have to do anything about it, but the fact that we couldn't do anything about it might not be so great.
Perhaps, but assuming that Earth is a blackbody with an average temperature of 286 K (a bad assumption, but what's an order of magnitude or two), from that extra raise in energy use of.007%, I get an increase in temperature of.005 K, which seems, to me, to be relatively insignificant on the grand scheme of things. Looking at the graphs on Wikipedia, it seems that our climate has been changing by more than that amount each year.
And if Ford saw business benefit to requiring Ford Gasoline in their engines, they would want to do so as well. Or if they wanted to create the Ford Expressway, allowing only Fords to be driven upon it.
It's seems unlikely that anyone would want to buy Ford cars, if they did that.
I don't know. According to my calculations, the earth gets over 10^17 watts of solar energy. According to http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/EnergyUsag e.html, people use slightly over 10^13 watts. So, we're increasing the earth's energy use by.007%, which doesn't seem too terrible to me.
Perhaps, but what percentage of their populations live in northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Canada? It could be that the population density of those countries varies enough that the few very rural people without broadband can't bring down percentage, compared with the very large number of people in places with high population density and broadband.
You see, that's not really a problem for pirates (and legitimate users) who would use (the HD equivalent to) DeCSS or libdvdcss. That's who I assume the antipiracy protection is targeted against.
That system has a huge flaw: you could make your own player that ignores that list. What actually happens is that the disk is encrypted in such a way that only non-revoked keys can decrypt it. Of course, that has the problem that if you take the key of a legitimate player, then they have to revoke the key of a legitimate player (one which, perhaps, cannot be updated to a new key), but that's not quite as bad a problem.
It could be that if one had a higher price, then it would go out of business. As you can see from the demand curve there is a good incentive to keep the prices all at the same level, even without collusion. No collusion=no price fixing.
Luckily, none of my legitimate mail has captchas in it... I hope someone can determine a way to distinguish these noisy images from the few images I care about.
Aside from confusing hashing with real encryption, and saying that MD5 is part of SHA-1, isn't this article just repeating what was covered in thesetwo slashdot stories?
As a counterpoint, the central office that we get phone service from is operated by D&E. Most of the ones surrounding us are operated by Verizon. We pay $45 a month for 512Kbps down, 256 kbps up DSL, while you can get 768 Kbps down DSL from Verizon for $20/month. I suspect that it'll be quite a while until we get FTTP. One advantage of larger companies like Verizon is that they have enough capital to do these big projects, which smaller phone companies, like ours, can't match.
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What if it is not the aliens who change us, but we who change the aliens? It would be much more credible for us to go to them, in that case. It's difference of perspective between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
The numbers in that article can't be right. 240000 flops/watt*1.5 Megawatts = 360 gigaflops, not 360 teraflops. It looks like it should really be 240000000 flops/watt (or 240 teraflops/megawatt), which is relatively consistent with their explanation of 5.6 gigaflops per 12 watts per chip (that number is slightly higher, but it doesn't consider RAM and other components). This is therefore better than the PS3's 65 teraflops/megawatt.
Science Fiction doesn't have to occur in space. For example, novels where it doesn't:
Brainwave, The Caves of Steel, Blood Music, Queen of Angels, The Demolished Man, Fahrenheit 451, Childhood's End, Camp Concentration, Permutation City, Beggars in Spain, and a thousand other novels. There are some relatively legitimate reasons why you would want to set it in space, though: you want to depict a possible future, and you believe that having people in space will be an important part of that future, or you believe that, for things like first contact, colonization, or isolation stories, that space is the best place to depict those ideas.
Yes, those could be very useful when HAL goes on a rampage and you need to turn him off.
Oh, sorry. I didn't think that anyone thought that the sun was causing increased carbon buildup (at least on the Earth, which doesn't have a convenient carbon dioxide ice cap). At least, the article says that Abdussamatov says that the greenhouse effect has almost no significance, and doesn't posit any link between solar output and carbon dioxode.
First you modify the OS so it can't be subverted in that way, and then you read the keys. It's a bit like trying to solve the halting problem: the hardware detector tries to check if there's any possible rootkit there, which is impossible (although this is because of the way the computer is manufactured, not because of logic). In cracking AACS, you can make a specific solution which will only detect (and prevent) a certain rootkit, but it will work.
Yeah, but if this theory somehow was correct and solar cycles were causing all of global warming, doing something like reducing carbon emissions wouldn't be particularly helpful. So we wouldn't have to do anything about it, but the fact that we couldn't do anything about it might not be so great.
I believe that in my high school, the Trig class also dealt with probability and pre-calculus (mostly just limits).
Perhaps, but assuming that Earth is a blackbody with an average temperature of 286 K (a bad assumption, but what's an order of magnitude or two), from that extra raise in energy use of .007%, I get an increase in temperature of .005 K, which seems, to me, to be relatively insignificant on the grand scheme of things. Looking at the graphs on Wikipedia, it seems that our climate has been changing by more than that amount each year.
And if Ford saw business benefit to requiring Ford Gasoline in their engines, they would want to do so as well. Or if they wanted to create the Ford Expressway, allowing only Fords to be driven upon it.
It's seems unlikely that anyone would want to buy Ford cars, if they did that.
I don't know. According to my calculations, the earth gets over 10^17 watts of solar energy. According to http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/EnergyUsag e.html, people use slightly over 10^13 watts. So, we're increasing the earth's energy use by .007%, which doesn't seem too terrible to me.
Heh, who needs a 64 bit processor to try that? Python works fine
:)
>>> 1000000000000000+1000000000000000
2000000000000000L
>>>
1 quadrillion + 1 quadrillion = 2 quadrillion. Have a nice day.
Perhaps, but what percentage of their populations live in northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Canada? It could be that the population density of those countries varies enough that the few very rural people without broadband can't bring down percentage, compared with the very large number of people in places with high population density and broadband.
Well, you're right when you don't account for relativity. When you're going at .99c and you double your energy, you don't start going at 1.4c.
You see, that's not really a problem for pirates (and legitimate users) who would use (the HD equivalent to) DeCSS or libdvdcss. That's who I assume the antipiracy protection is targeted against.
That system has a huge flaw: you could make your own player that ignores that list. What actually happens is that the disk is encrypted in such a way that only non-revoked keys can decrypt it. Of course, that has the problem that if you take the key of a legitimate player, then they have to revoke the key of a legitimate player (one which, perhaps, cannot be updated to a new key), but that's not quite as bad a problem.
The "Good Math, Bad Math" blog has had a few articles about PEAR.
It could be that if one had a higher price, then it would go out of business. As you can see from the demand curve there is a good incentive to keep the prices all at the same level, even without collusion. No collusion=no price fixing.
Doesn't outer space (where SS1 went) count as dark and extreme cold?
Luckily, none of my legitimate mail has captchas in it... I hope someone can determine a way to distinguish these noisy images from the few images I care about.
Aside from confusing hashing with real encryption, and saying that MD5 is part of SHA-1, isn't this article just repeating what was covered in these two slashdot stories?
Consider that it is called the pirate bay.
As a counterpoint, the central office that we get phone service from is operated by D&E. Most of the ones surrounding us are operated by Verizon. We pay $45 a month for 512Kbps down, 256 kbps up DSL, while you can get 768 Kbps down DSL from Verizon for $20/month. I suspect that it'll be quite a while until we get FTTP. One advantage of larger companies like Verizon is that they have enough capital to do these big projects, which smaller phone companies, like ours, can't match.
Remember, it's PHP we're talking about here.
Luckily, there are windows in those doors.