There's a whole world out there, most of which is made up of neither blue nor red states and has no constitutional right to bear arms.
It seems like quite a few people from the USA automatically assume everyone else on the Internet is from the USA, and do things like make comments about what state or what part of the country a person's from without first having any idea which country the person's from. Nobody outside the USA seems to ever do this.
It just helps perpetuate the stereotype of Americans being relatively ignorant of the rest of the world and believing the USA is the only truly powerful/developed/free nation at the center of everything.
It's not so much that it relies on a classical transmission line as that it relies on authentication.
Obviously, no maths or physics can tell you which human is at the other end of the line. This is inherently true of any cryptosystem, no matter how strong or how quantum. To prevent man-in-the-middle attacks you'll always need to ultimately rely on someone giving you a key through some external channel.
The advantage with quantum cryptography is that, once you have this authenticated external channel (e.g someone giving you data in person) then eavesdropping in the middle of the line becomes physically impossible. Whereas with classical cryptography someone might be able to sniff the bits on the line and crack the cipher and eavesdrop.
So now they're actively leaving rootkits online and fucking over the rest of the world for the good of the guy who can't maintain his machine properly? You could argue that they don't have that mandate either.
Don't conflate sexual abuse and child pornography. The Wikimedia foundation obviously isn't involved in sexual abuse and doesn't tolerate or encourage it, and a lot of the images in question (perhaps all of them, I haven't checked) have nothing to do with the actual abuse of children. And if you're going to make claims about the destroying the "moral fabric of society" you should probably provide some evidence that something's actually changed.
Our Minister for communications etc. might be an idiot, but we're still a developed Western democracy in which the majority of the population have internet access and Google has most of the search engine market share. Blocking Google would be the end of this government and the internet filter; not a single voter would support it.
I lose the time required to save my work, shut down my current OS, insert the CD, boot Ubuntu, shut down Ubuntu, start my other OS, and load my applications again. That's a lot more than 30s.
If you read the contest rules, you'll see that the judges may increase the time limits for interpreted languages at their discretion. It's intended that, as much as possible, no particular language has an advantage over another.
The problem is that very few people, if any, have the time and expertise to verify every part of an e-voting system, and it's impossible for a person to see exactly what a chip is doing in real time to make sure the production system is behaving the same way the source says it should.
With paper-based voting, someone can look in the ballot box at the start of the day and see that it's empty. They can then watch each person put one ballot paper in, and they can watch them get taken out and counted. It is, and always will be, much more easily verifiable than any form of electronic voting.
"802.11" can refer to the entire set of standards, not just the obsolete first one. And they use CSMA, not CDMA. Did you even bother to check Wikipedia?
The "Katrina" metaphor is comparing the impact of the disasters on our society. A big solar storm could be much more widespread and damaging than previous blackouts, and end up killing quite a few people. Nobody's suggesting that it will literally cause floods and random physical destruction.
Solar storms will have a big effect on long wires (e.g power grids, or telegraph in the 1859 storm) and radio communications, but not so much on individual pieces of equipment. Your computer and HDDs will still keep working, assuming you can get power for them.
> up to 96 percent of incident sunlight at a single wavelength and 85 percent of total collectible sunlight.
It says "up to". Which means that the worst case could actually be zero and the numbers are actually meaningless. Read more carefully before welcoming your new overlords.
> Electromagnetic radiation in any amount has effects on human biology.
There's no evidence to suggest that all electromagnetic radiation has biological effects. Radiation of appropriate energy could theoretically be scattered, or absorbed and re-emitted, or just pass straight through a person, and leave them in a state no different to if they hadn't been exposed at all. Some radiation has effects, but there's also some that almost certainly doesn't.
> Many not well understood.
You can't meaningfully count "effects" and separate them into "well understood" vs "not well understood" and compare the sizes of those sets. At least, not without a lot of context describing how you categorize types of effects and quantify our understanding of them. Without that, this sentence is meaningless flamebait.
> As every coin has two sides it seems likely that these effects cause both positive and negative effects.
Again you make a claim with no evidence. I hope you don't actually make choices based on irrelevant coin analogies.
Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not. And if it's powered on it maintains its contents, no matter whether the OS has actually written anything useful to it.
Please don't claim to speak for Australia. I'm Australian, it's a controversial issue here, and to claim that Australians asked for censorship and expect it is misleading, if not an outright lie.
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That's trivial. Run it on all cores at once. Alternatively, your operating system probably lets you select which core something runs on.
There's a whole world out there, most of which is made up of neither blue nor red states and has no constitutional right to bear arms.
It seems like quite a few people from the USA automatically assume everyone else on the Internet is from the USA, and do things like make comments about what state or what part of the country a person's from without first having any idea which country the person's from. Nobody outside the USA seems to ever do this.
It just helps perpetuate the stereotype of Americans being relatively ignorant of the rest of the world and believing the USA is the only truly powerful/developed/free nation at the center of everything.
It's not so much that it relies on a classical transmission line as that it relies on authentication. Obviously, no maths or physics can tell you which human is at the other end of the line. This is inherently true of any cryptosystem, no matter how strong or how quantum. To prevent man-in-the-middle attacks you'll always need to ultimately rely on someone giving you a key through some external channel. The advantage with quantum cryptography is that, once you have this authenticated external channel (e.g someone giving you data in person) then eavesdropping in the middle of the line becomes physically impossible. Whereas with classical cryptography someone might be able to sniff the bits on the line and crack the cipher and eavesdrop.
So now they're actively leaving rootkits online and fucking over the rest of the world for the good of the guy who can't maintain his machine properly? You could argue that they don't have that mandate either.
gov.au. is controlled by the Australian Government Information Management Office; registration is only open to government entities. See http://www.domainname.gov.au/Eligibility_and_Allocation_Policy .
I expect many countries have laws prohibiting leaving a vehicle unattended in the middle of the road, though.
Don't conflate sexual abuse and child pornography. The Wikimedia foundation obviously isn't involved in sexual abuse and doesn't tolerate or encourage it, and a lot of the images in question (perhaps all of them, I haven't checked) have nothing to do with the actual abuse of children. And if you're going to make claims about the destroying the "moral fabric of society" you should probably provide some evidence that something's actually changed.
Also because the USA can shut Google down if they want.
Our Minister for communications etc. might be an idiot, but we're still a developed Western democracy in which the majority of the population have internet access and Google has most of the search engine market share. Blocking Google would be the end of this government and the internet filter; not a single voter would support it.
I lose the time required to save my work, shut down my current OS, insert the CD, boot Ubuntu, shut down Ubuntu, start my other OS, and load my applications again. That's a lot more than 30s.
If you read the contest rules, you'll see that the judges may increase the time limits for interpreted languages at their discretion. It's intended that, as much as possible, no particular language has an advantage over another.
Just for persistent cache, not for their main database.
With paper-based voting, someone can look in the ballot box at the start of the day and see that it's empty. They can then watch each person put one ballot paper in, and they can watch them get taken out and counted. It is, and always will be, much more easily verifiable than any form of electronic voting.
"802.11" can refer to the entire set of standards, not just the obsolete first one. And they use CSMA, not CDMA. Did you even bother to check Wikipedia?
Yeah, if common sense were a bit more common you'd realise that people actually do try that and it doesn't work on the models in question.
An explanation I've heard is that some cars won't let you turn off the engine or shift into neutral at high speed.
The "Katrina" metaphor is comparing the impact of the disasters on our society. A big solar storm could be much more widespread and damaging than previous blackouts, and end up killing quite a few people. Nobody's suggesting that it will literally cause floods and random physical destruction.
Solar storms will have a big effect on long wires (e.g power grids, or telegraph in the 1859 storm) and radio communications, but not so much on individual pieces of equipment. Your computer and HDDs will still keep working, assuming you can get power for them.
Cell towers (panel antennas, as described in the summary) are not dipole antennas.
> up to 96 percent of incident sunlight at a single wavelength and 85 percent of total collectible sunlight. It says "up to". Which means that the worst case could actually be zero and the numbers are actually meaningless. Read more carefully before welcoming your new overlords.
The one on my own server that looks suspiciously similar to a major bank's website.
Anyone who cracks your WPA already has the technical knowledge and sniffed packets needed to spoof a MAC address and connect without the SSID.
> Electromagnetic radiation in any amount has effects on human biology.
There's no evidence to suggest that all electromagnetic radiation has biological effects. Radiation of appropriate energy could theoretically be scattered, or absorbed and re-emitted, or just pass straight through a person, and leave them in a state no different to if they hadn't been exposed at all. Some radiation has effects, but there's also some that almost certainly doesn't.
> Many not well understood.
You can't meaningfully count "effects" and separate them into "well understood" vs "not well understood" and compare the sizes of those sets. At least, not without a lot of context describing how you categorize types of effects and quantify our understanding of them. Without that, this sentence is meaningless flamebait.
> As every coin has two sides it seems likely that these effects cause both positive and negative effects.
Again you make a claim with no evidence. I hope you don't actually make choices based on irrelevant coin analogies.
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Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not. And if it's powered on it maintains its contents, no matter whether the OS has actually written anything useful to it.
Please don't claim to speak for Australia. I'm Australian, it's a controversial issue here, and to claim that Australians asked for censorship and expect it is misleading, if not an outright lie.