Listen.
The reciever has some way of getting at the data, right? If even the RECIEVER is unable to use the transmission, it's pretty damn useless.
Well, the attacker just has to sit in the reciever's place, and then also impersonate being a sender. I fail to see how Quantum Magic gets around this.
Sender and Reciever are inherent in every communication scheme. Thus every communication scheme is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle.
Stop worshipping Quantum Mechanics as magically overturning trivial truths. Get a damn textbook and learn what it is.
How about you look at the basics of Quantum Encryption? It's really quite simple. There are two communication pathways. One is conventional. The second is the probabilistic.
Eavesdropping the second line requires interception. The information of the second line can only be half-decoded with readonly access to the first. The remainder is inherently garbage, which is normal.
Thus to get the remaining parts, you must requisition a retransmission of the garbage. Again, this is normal. The sender expects this.
Intercepted transmissions must be retransmitted to the intended recipient. If it's not re-transmitted in full, they'll notice.
Just grab full control over both lines and you are able to impersonate the recipient and sender.
EVERY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE
but when pressed about U.S. kids who do well in both [K-12 math and science education], attend excellent universities, but have no guarantees of good jobs when they graduate, Barrett remarks 'I don't have a solution to that one.
How about: It's because they picked the wrong fucking degree! How about: You don't deserve a guaranteed good job.
I've said it many times before: Computer technical support and simple programming work are low-skill excercises.
I mean, fuck, many people can learn good hardware and programming skills as a kid, without needing any special degree. If a kid can do this shit, don't you think that you should do better?
How about you use that supposed intellect and develop a rare, useful skill? Make yourself wanted!
Message to you jobless computer people: You bought into the fad. You have lost. Have a nice day. Accept lower wages. Move to India. Stop whining. It's your fault.
The answer is simple. MAKE YOURSELVES CHEAPER. Programming is a monkey's job much like flipping burgers or working on an assembly line. You deserve nothing more than minimum wage!
Question: When robotic brains are developed to the point of surpassing humans, making the humans obsolete in every way, how do you think the humans will react?
(my answer) I think that perhaps the humans will develop laws mandating that robots shall be given no emotional urges, even though robots will be able to understand emotions due to their intelligence. At the same time, the humans would form cults of animalness, emphasizing the irrational natures they've kept for themselves.
Is this stagnant future going to happen, or will humanity as a parent let itself die once its child has matured?
What IBM fails to realise is that their market share is negligible. Intel and AMD lead, hell, even Apple's CPUs are more popular than IBM's. IBM should face up to the facts or else they will go out of business. Nobody wants an IBM CPU these days.
As an industry expert, I recommend that they diversify into the console gaming market.
I see a bunch of slashtards declaring how this is a win for Linux.
Shut up, you idiots.
Clearly this is a testament to the prevalence of insecure Linux servers. Probably, the users didn't spend the requisite lifetime to learn the ins and outs of their system -- too much flexibility led to confusion and error.
Not to mention, the Open Source model makes it easy to find holes.
If you take a look at the 'vectors' for these viruses, you'll notice that they're all legacy protocols: http, smtp, rpc. These old unix-based systems were designed at a time when people did not care about security. Yet, they form the very basis of the Internet. Microsoft is practically forced to adopt these archaic protocols in order to stay competitive. Why should they be blamed for the failures of these obscure unix standards?
As a veteran computer engineering expert, I find myself suprised by the number of problems that can be solved by XML. In fact, every time I get a problem these days, my first thought is "can XML do this?". In many cases, like this one, the answer is yes!
The biggest advantage of XML is that software does not have to be changed for a different XML data format - they all use XML, the standard bracketing syntax. I know most major browsers support an XML view mode, so they don't need to be upgraded to download by XML.
I'm sure that there are people out there saying that XML is inefficient, but that's simply not the case. We can use special XML commands that allow us to include large blocks of binary data -- at the expense of portability to 14-bit computers, of course. In total, an XML download should only have about 30kb of metadata added to it. Author, guid, PGP signature, original source, license, and all that good stuff.
We can hope for the day when the need for binary transfers will be over, since everyone will be using XML files.
If there really is a place in the universe where there's galaxies on one side, and a void on the other, then it's beyond our sight. But who says there has to be an edge? After all, does the surface of a sphere have an edge? Its surface has a finite size, certainly. But then, there are infinite things, like say a (theoretical) infinite sheet of plastic - no edge, but plenty of size. Infinite size.
Basically, we can think of the universe as expanding linearly with distance (hubble's law). Now, there's a very special characteristic of this type of expansion: nobody can tell if they're the center. If there were a center, it would have no effect.
Think about the raisin bread - how can a raisin tell where the center is? Remember, they don't know anything about "absolute rest" either.
Although the crunch effectively puts a maximum lifetime on any specific life, there is that slim theoretical possibility that another universe would arise from the crunch. As it is, the universe grows and cools to a homogeneous soup, and that's it. We can't reuse the universe, we have to get a brand-new one.
Light has not slowed down, or sped up, or anything like that. (Well, okay, it may have changed by a tiny undetectable fraction like 10^-16). The fact is, if we look back 8 billion years, we see spectroscopic effects showing that back then, the universal constants were the same as they are now.
As a very enviromentally-concerned person, I applaud the introduction of organic displays. As usual, science is helping us progress from crude tools to efficient ones. The problems of cathode-rays tubes are well known: radiation, eyesore, power inefficiency. They are a big problem in waste dumps as they take millions of years to biodegrade. And how do you feel about having a beam of electrons being sprayed directly at your face?
It's wonderful to have such a convenient organic device. I can't wait to buy mine!
It is an incredibly retarded idea to integrate the programming language with the OS. Allow me to demonstrate what a PL does: make it easy to write machine code.
The truly wise path to go is to define an OS/bytecode combination, so that (in a very LISP-like way) security is accomplished by "thought-controlling" programs rather than action-controlling (the MS/Linux model).
What I want to know is this: Is the LISP bytecode the best, or should a more modern one be used? JavaVM?
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Every druggie's dream: their drug accomplishing something besides a waste of time.
This is just plain technophobia. The only reason the police are allowed to use video cameras and eyeballs is that they are everyday technology.
LUDDITES RULE THE U.S.A.
I suppose their idea of privacy rights is to ban video cameras because they can be used to SEE THROUGH GLASS.
If you want privacy, it is YOUR job to keep up with the times. If you're not a criminal, you don't need privacy anyway!
Yet more proof that the Bible is WRONG.
Saying "Non-linear neural network" is like saying "Non-purple hamster". I mean, how often do you see a linear NN? Like, never.
Listen. The reciever has some way of getting at the data, right? If even the RECIEVER is unable to use the transmission, it's pretty damn useless. Well, the attacker just has to sit in the reciever's place, and then also impersonate being a sender. I fail to see how Quantum Magic gets around this. Sender and Reciever are inherent in every communication scheme. Thus every communication scheme is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle.
How about you look at the basics of Quantum Encryption? It's really quite simple. There are two communication pathways. One is conventional. The second is the probabilistic.
Eavesdropping the second line requires interception. The information of the second line can only be half-decoded with readonly access to the first. The remainder is inherently garbage, which is normal.
Thus to get the remaining parts, you must requisition a retransmission of the garbage. Again, this is normal. The sender expects this.
Intercepted transmissions must be retransmitted to the intended recipient. If it's not re-transmitted in full, they'll notice.
Just grab full control over both lines and you are able to impersonate the recipient and sender.
EVERY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE
How about: It's because they picked the wrong fucking degree! How about: You don't deserve a guaranteed good job.
I've said it many times before: Computer technical support and simple programming work are low-skill excercises.
I mean, fuck, many people can learn good hardware and programming skills as a kid, without needing any special degree. If a kid can do this shit, don't you think that you should do better?
How about you use that supposed intellect and develop a rare, useful skill? Make yourself wanted!
Message to you jobless computer people: You bought into the fad. You have lost. Have a nice day. Accept lower wages. Move to India. Stop whining. It's your fault.
The answer is simple. MAKE YOURSELVES CHEAPER. Programming is a monkey's job much like flipping burgers or working on an assembly line. You deserve nothing more than minimum wage!
(my answer) I think that perhaps the humans will develop laws mandating that robots shall be given no emotional urges, even though robots will be able to understand emotions due to their intelligence. At the same time, the humans would form cults of animalness, emphasizing the irrational natures they've kept for themselves.
Is this stagnant future going to happen, or will humanity as a parent let itself die once its child has matured?
As an industry expert, I recommend that they diversify into the console gaming market.
And they shall find no life.
I bet they'll have new commands to use: keke, kekeke, kekekeke, kekekekekekekekekekeke^_^
I'll be laughing at all you Sci-Fi fanboys when it finally dawns on you - we are alone.
Shut up, you idiots.
Clearly this is a testament to the prevalence of insecure Linux servers. Probably, the users didn't spend the requisite lifetime to learn the ins and outs of their system -- too much flexibility led to confusion and error.
Not to mention, the Open Source model makes it easy to find holes.
If you take a look at the 'vectors' for these viruses, you'll notice that they're all legacy protocols: http, smtp, rpc. These old unix-based systems were designed at a time when people did not care about security. Yet, they form the very basis of the Internet. Microsoft is practically forced to adopt these archaic protocols in order to stay competitive. Why should they be blamed for the failures of these obscure unix standards?
The first intelligent life generated by this method thinks that it evolved.
The biggest advantage of XML is that software does not have to be changed for a different XML data format - they all use XML, the standard bracketing syntax. I know most major browsers support an XML view mode, so they don't need to be upgraded to download by XML.
I'm sure that there are people out there saying that XML is inefficient, but that's simply not the case. We can use special XML commands that allow us to include large blocks of binary data -- at the expense of portability to 14-bit computers, of course. In total, an XML download should only have about 30kb of metadata added to it. Author, guid, PGP signature, original source, license, and all that good stuff.
We can hope for the day when the need for binary transfers will be over, since everyone will be using XML files.
Visit RTB. There's no question about it, the universe was created with life, no, human life in mind.
Basically, we can think of the universe as expanding linearly with distance (hubble's law). Now, there's a very special characteristic of this type of expansion: nobody can tell if they're the center. If there were a center, it would have no effect.
Think about the raisin bread - how can a raisin tell where the center is? Remember, they don't know anything about "absolute rest" either.
Although the crunch effectively puts a maximum lifetime on any specific life, there is that slim theoretical possibility that another universe would arise from the crunch. As it is, the universe grows and cools to a homogeneous soup, and that's it. We can't reuse the universe, we have to get a brand-new one.
Yes, I know you want to make it sound like they share characteristics, but many physical phenomena do.
Light has not slowed down, or sped up, or anything like that. (Well, okay, it may have changed by a tiny undetectable fraction like 10^-16). The fact is, if we look back 8 billion years, we see spectroscopic effects showing that back then, the universal constants were the same as they are now.
It's wonderful to have such a convenient organic device. I can't wait to buy mine!
The truly wise path to go is to define an OS/bytecode combination, so that (in a very LISP-like way) security is accomplished by "thought-controlling" programs rather than action-controlling (the MS/Linux model).
What I want to know is this: Is the LISP bytecode the best, or should a more modern one be used? JavaVM?