Real security improvements. There is no proof that there is not a trivial way to factorise multiples of large prime numbers, which is the basis of most current encryption standards. There are alternatives, but again there is no proof that these cannot be cracked quickly.
Even though it is unlikely that someone will have a mathematical breakthrough that would allow your PDA to break 2kb keys, we know that a lot (maybe all) of these algorithms could be cracked with a quantum computer. It is possible that the US NSA already has such a computer, maybe together with Russia, China and Bill Gates;-)
Quantum encryption is proven to be uncrackable without showing that someone is listening. With a preamble of two-way communications you can have a connection that is proven to be absolutely secure, and no breakthrough in mathematics or technology will break it.
The laser would make a great assassination weapon. Though I find the idea of assassinating enemy leaders remotely somewhat distasteful it would be better if they could just take them out, and not them together with their family and next-door neighbours as seems to happen sometimes with the drone missiles.
In the UK strorage heaters are popular for the same reason, at least where houses are not connected to the mains gas supply. You can get a meter that charges a lower rate for off-peak energy, which makes these reasonably economical forms of heating.
The USA regards oral disclosures as prior art only if they were made in the USA (35 US Code section 102(a): "known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or another country"). A therapeutic technique orally handed down from one generation to another by a tribe in South America can thus still be patented in the USA, despite it being publicly known (but not from a printed publication) for many years.
I would imagine there are printed descriptions (service manuals, sales brochures, etc.) for arcade games, if so I think this would count.
Who modded this down? This is a genuine aid to small short-term variations. See beacon power. I am not sure that such technologies could cope with day/night fluctuations though, for these long period variations probably pump storage hydroelectric may be better. They are probably complementary technologies, as it takes a pump-storage plant about a minute to reach full load from stand-still, or 15 seconds from "hot standby", where the turbines are kept spinning under zero load.
Of course a superconducting world grid could solve the problem of darkness at night-time. I would imagine that we are half a century off this technically and who knows how far off politically though.
Once costs are the same as that of power from the grid then people will use this. It will help the environment and energy security. The only worry is that peak power production will still have to deal with night-time demand. We need to look at efficient, cheap energy storage.
All new pacemakers are to be fitted with government escrow keys to the control interface. After all, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about, have you......
1,800 exabytes of raw data. Anyone like to guess how much of this will be useful data! Judging by some system specifications I have read 5% is being generous. A twenty page specification can be condensed to a single page of useful information, and over half is "boilerplate" disclaimers, etc. which are the same in all the company's specifications.
The address bar behaviour seems odd, but it might be OK when I'm used to it. There should definitely be a way of switching back to the normal behaviour though.
OCaml bytecode and native code programs can be written in a multithreaded style, with preemptive context switching. However, because the garbage collector is not designed for concurrency, symmetric multiprocessing is not supported
Impossible might be too strong. I don't think anyone has proved that you can't take a program written in a normal procedural language and somehow transform it to run on multiple processors. Its just that nobody has any idea of how it could be done. The fact that a skilled programmer may be able to look at a process and identify isolated components that can run in parallel means that some day a computer may be able to do the same.
Yes panic is strong, but the issue is not with multi-tasking operating systems assigning processes to different processors for execution. That works very well. The problem is when you have a single CPU-intensive task, and you want to split that over multiple processors. That, in general, is a difficult problem. Various solutions, such as functional programming, threads with spawns and waits, etc. have been proposed, but none are as easy as just using a simple procedural language.
What he is saying is that the PCs are no longer a common platform. There are games for low-end PCs and games for high-end PCs, but not ones that scale to both. From TFA:
...we would just have to design two completely different games. One for low-end and one for high-end.
That is actually happening on PCs: You have really low-end games with little hardware requirements, like Maple Story. That is a $100 million-a-year business. Kids are addicted to those games, they pay real money to buy [virtual] items within the game and the game.
In other words, PCs are good for games, but you need to know what your PC will run!
This is especially true about "life style" indicators. People owning cats are likely to have other life-style factors in common, some of which will affect health.
I think the key point is that the passengers would not just let it happen. They would have nothing to lose by acting en-mass to overpower the attackers, and the pilots would know this. Before 911 passengers probably thought that if they didn't get involved they would probably be allright - the situation is now reversed.
I think they may match if you take into account a slightly different camera angle. It is not easy to tell. In any case I would be surprised if anyone would "risk" faking a picture like this, it is so easy for potential purchasers to ask for a demo.
The "naught bits" might not be very clear, but a lot of people would be unhappy with security guards looking at images of you like the one shown in this article. Would you be happy with some guy looking at a picture of your teenage daughter like this?
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Real security improvements. There is no proof that there is not a trivial way to factorise multiples of large prime numbers, which is the basis of most current encryption standards. There are alternatives, but again there is no proof that these cannot be cracked quickly.
;-)
Even though it is unlikely that someone will have a mathematical breakthrough that would allow your PDA to break 2kb keys, we know that a lot (maybe all) of these algorithms could be cracked with a quantum computer. It is possible that the US NSA already has such a computer, maybe together with Russia, China and Bill Gates
Quantum encryption is proven to be uncrackable without showing that someone is listening. With a preamble of two-way communications you can have a connection that is proven to be absolutely secure, and no breakthrough in mathematics or technology will break it.
>I agree, lets start with Your President.
I don't have a president, but I think our prime minister should be second.
The laser would make a great assassination weapon. Though I find the idea of assassinating enemy leaders remotely somewhat distasteful it would be better if they could just take them out, and not them together with their family and next-door neighbours as seems to happen sometimes with the drone missiles.
Where is the cowboy neal entry?
In the UK strorage heaters are popular for the same reason, at least where houses are not connected to the mains gas supply. You can get a meter that charges a lower rate for off-peak energy, which makes these reasonably economical forms of heating.
Does prior art still count if it's in another country?
In the USA it counts only if it is printed:>
The USA regards oral disclosures as prior art only if they were made in the USA (35 US Code section 102(a): "known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or another country"). A therapeutic technique orally handed down from one generation to another by a tribe in South America can thus still be patented in the USA, despite it being publicly known (but not from a printed publication) for many years.
I would imagine there are printed descriptions (service manuals, sales brochures, etc.) for arcade games, if so I think this would count.
Who modded this down? This is a genuine aid to small short-term variations. See beacon power. I am not sure that such technologies could cope with day/night fluctuations though, for these long period variations probably pump storage hydroelectric may be better. They are probably complementary technologies, as it takes a pump-storage plant about a minute to reach full load from stand-still, or 15 seconds from "hot standby", where the turbines are kept spinning under zero load.
Of course a superconducting world grid could solve the problem of darkness at night-time. I would imagine that we are half a century off this technically and who knows how far off politically though.
"Read my lips, no more taxes Sub-verbal:(I'll just increase the old ones).
Once costs are the same as that of power from the grid then people will use this. It will help the environment and energy security. The only worry is that peak power production will still have to deal with night-time demand. We need to look at efficient, cheap energy storage.
All new pacemakers are to be fitted with government escrow keys to the control interface. After all, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about, have you......
1,800 exabytes of raw data. Anyone like to guess how much of this will be useful data! Judging by some system specifications I have read 5% is being generous. A twenty page specification can be condensed to a single page of useful information, and over half is "boilerplate" disclaimers, etc. which are the same in all the company's specifications.
The address bar behaviour seems odd, but it might be OK when I'm used to it. There should definitely be a way of switching back to the normal behaviour though.
From Wikipedia OCaml
OCaml bytecode and native code programs can be written in a multithreaded style, with preemptive context switching. However, because the garbage collector is not designed for concurrency, symmetric multiprocessing is not supported
Impossible might be too strong. I don't think anyone has proved that you can't take a program written in a normal procedural language and somehow transform it to run on multiple processors. Its just that nobody has any idea of how it could be done. The fact that a skilled programmer may be able to look at a process and identify isolated components that can run in parallel means that some day a computer may be able to do the same.
Yes panic is strong, but the issue is not with multi-tasking operating systems assigning processes to different processors for execution. That works very well. The problem is when you have a single CPU-intensive task, and you want to split that over multiple processors. That, in general, is a difficult problem. Various solutions, such as functional programming, threads with spawns and waits, etc. have been proposed, but none are as easy as just using a simple procedural language.
Company that sells expensive mobile phone equipment says that this will kill off free competition.....
your starsigns are compatible
What he is saying is that the PCs are no longer a common platform. There are games for low-end PCs and games for high-end PCs, but not ones that scale to both. From TFA:
...we would just have to design two completely different games. One for low-end and one for high-end.
That is actually happening on PCs: You have really low-end games with little hardware requirements, like Maple Story. That is a $100 million-a-year business. Kids are addicted to those games, they pay real money to buy [virtual] items within the game and the game.
In other words, PCs are good for games, but you need to know what your PC will run!
This is especially true about "life style" indicators. People owning cats are likely to have other life-style factors in common, some of which will affect health.
I think the key point is that the passengers would not just let it happen. They would have nothing to lose by acting en-mass to overpower the attackers, and the pilots would know this. Before 911 passengers probably thought that if they didn't get involved they would probably be allright - the situation is now reversed.
Or prove me wrong, provide links
You are just asking for some porn site spam!
Also, it doesn't help google searches. You will find plenty of sites selling trays if you search for t-ray!
I think they may match if you take into account a slightly different camera angle. It is not easy to tell. In any case I would be surprised if anyone would "risk" faking a picture like this, it is so easy for potential purchasers to ask for a demo.
The "naught bits" might not be very clear, but a lot of people would be unhappy with security guards looking at images of you like the one shown in this article. Would you be happy with some guy looking at a picture of your teenage daughter like this?