This could turn into the Thought Police from 1984. Also, if people decide to use this to eliminate the problem of 'voter intent', what happens if people see an elephant right before they vote? They might wind up voting Republican, especially if they see an image of a red elephant.
I'm a teenager below 16, and I have another HD that I could boot off of, in an emergency. And besides: I could always just password-protect the computer from the BIOS.
If I'm doing a paper on such-and-such technical topic, and Microsoft sees that, when I submit it, the reviewers could see that Microsoft has already published this and reject it.
Actually, it wouldn't be the whole set of C x C. It resides in S^3, i.e. the set of all points (a,b,c,d) so that a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=1, a,b,c,d in R.
Proof: The probability amplitudes for 0 and 1 must sum to 1. Now, the probability amplitude is the square of the norm of the (complex) probability. This means that if the complex numbers are a+bi and c+di, then |a+bi|^2+|c+di|^2=1, or a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=1, exactly the equation for S^3.
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True... or if you add kill -9 to their startup commands (forget what it's called).
This could turn into the Thought Police from 1984. Also, if people decide to use this to eliminate the problem of 'voter intent', what happens if people see an elephant right before they vote? They might wind up voting Republican, especially if they see an image of a red elephant.
If you know that someone is running *nix, tell them 'Do a kill -9 for secret Unix hacking tips!'
I'm a teenager below 16, and I have another HD that I could boot off of, in an emergency. And besides: I could always just password-protect the computer from the BIOS.
If I'm doing a paper on such-and-such technical topic, and Microsoft sees that, when I submit it, the reviewers could see that Microsoft has already published this and reject it.
Actually, it wouldn't be the whole set of C x C. It resides in S^3, i.e. the set of all points (a,b,c,d) so that a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=1, a,b,c,d in R.
Proof: The probability amplitudes for 0 and 1 must sum to 1. Now, the probability amplitude is the square of the norm of the (complex) probability. This means that if the complex numbers are a+bi and c+di, then |a+bi|^2+|c+di|^2=1, or a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2=1, exactly the equation for S^3.
I know, I know... I'm such a geek.