Japan GDP per capita is $33000 (2006 est.) Japan's GINI index is 38.1 . GINI is a measure of inequality of income distribution or inequality of wealth distribution. The lower, the more equally GDP is distributed.
In Japan 127,433,494 people are packed in 374,744 sq km. Compare that to the US, in which 301,139,947 people are spread over 9,161,923 sq km. Housing in Japan costs 3-5 times more than it costs in US. Japanese compensate by living in tiny apartments.
US's GDP per capita is GDP $43,800 (2006 est.) US's GINI is 45, which is not that bad when compared to Japan's, especially if one considers Norway's or Sweden's GINI (25-26).
I would not call the Japanese the wealthiest people in the world. Wanna find out which nation has the wealthiest population? Start looking towards the direction of UAE and Norway.
First, these are laptops we are talking about. Students can take them home. As long as the more powerfull Windows machines don't have anything more to offer than the OLPC, students would prefer to work on them. The truth is that powerful Vista machines have nothing more to offer with respect to web browsing and editor capabilities, children would stick with the same machine they use at school just because of the convenience of not having to copy their work from the OLPC to the windows machine and vice versa.
Second, a large portion of the market for OLPC consists of low income families. They don't have the means to buy extra home computing devices with better specs.
Step 1: The attacker an SSL session with a web server
Step 2: Generate the "poisoned" SSL session shared key K1, and encrypt it with the server's public RSA key
Step 3: The server decrypts the poisoned SSL session shared key K1 with its private key and obtains a value K2, which is different than the original poisoned shared key K1. If the shared key K1 was not poisoned, K2 would be equal to K1, but the attacker is exploiting an error in the CPU implementation that causes K2 != K1.
Step 4: All the AES-encrypted messages from the server will now be transformed with the poisoned K2, which the attacker does not know yet.
Step 6: Carefully select the messages that you send to the server, so that when you get the AES-encrypted with K2 replies to these messages, you can use them to infer K2.
Step 7: Use K2 to infer the server's private RSA key
And that's the way you do it...
This is a chosen ciphertext attack, which does not exploits weaknesses of the RSA scheme, but instead exploits the faulty hardware.
"Back onto the radio front, we have Voyager 1 which is 15 billion miles away, proven with radio, that would seem good enough for me"
The issue is not whether you get data at all, but whether you can transmit at broadband speeds. I am pretty sure that at this point of its flight Voyager does nothing else but send a few byte pings every once in a while.
The problems laser links would solve would be in the order of streaming HD video from Mars to Earth.
Water injection. Crower's engine not new.
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This article dates back to 1979 and is one of the first google results for "water injection"
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Home-Building/1979-09-01/Water-Injection-Wizardry.aspx
"During the second World War, fighter pilots could push a button and inject a stream of water into the turbochargers of their monstrous powerplants . . . to get extra thrust on takeoff."
Similarly, Crower's engine "harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine's power output and also to control its temperature"
This Crower guy must have a lot of nerve to claim as his own an invention that has been around for more than half a century. He may know how to build engines, but apparently he does not know how to search the internet... His difference with Pat Goodman that did the same
thing back in 1979 is that Goodman did not lie (or chose to ignore) about the novelty of his idea.
And btw, unlike Crower, Goodman had his engines tested on actual vehicles:
"Pat Goodman installed his first water injection system (on a Porsche racing car) in 1964, and the racing organization responded by banning his device . . . it made the vehicle too fast! Undaunted, Pat decided that--even if the racing establishment wasn't interested in "improving the breed", he was. Today, several near-bankruptcies later, the innovative mechanic owns a vehicle that only the government could argue with: a 1978 Ford Fiesta . . . that gets 50 MPG in normal around-town driving. (This impressive figure has been verified by a MOTHER staffer, who accompanied Goodman on a 48mile jaunt around Winchester, Virginia. During the drive--which Pat accomplished with, if anything, more speed than normal--the small four-cylinder sipped only.95 gallon of unleaded gas.) "
"Smith's proof will be published in the journal Complex Systems. Meaning it had not yet been peer reviewed. "
If it was decided that it will be published, his proof had been peer-reviewed. First you get reviewed, then published.
"Had I pushed my luck my second question would have been, who has verified this proof that has taught an automata theory course at a suitably accredited institution?"
Something else that strikes me as weird is how come although they were so confident about their result they did not submit to a more reputable journal than Complex Systems (e.g Computational Complexity and several others of the kind). It seems that the authors themselves knew that their proof would pass a rigorous peer review.
Notice missions 22-26, from 2003 to 2005? Notice that Soyuz made more than half the flights to ISS? Now please, so some respect for the noble efforts of the seriously underfunded Russian space program...
"The station has been delayed for more than a decade (and cost NASA around $50 billion so far) due to redesign and indecision, reliance on a single launch vehicle for key components (the Shuttle), and the inclusion of the Russians."
This is one of the most self-contradictory sentences I've read for quite some time. Because of the inclusion of the Russians, the ISS does not rely on a single launch vehicle! Which craft was sending astronauts and supplies when all the shuttles for grounded for years after the Columbia disaster. Dude get a clue!
The show was a success for two reasons: a) KITT b) The Hoff
If they manage to find both a car and a dude that would be able to have the same impact on popular culture as those 2 did in the 80's, they will have a success. Otherwise, it will be lame.
I hate to admit it, but Hasselhoff was brilliant in that show and it would be difficult to find someone up to par (by today's, not 80's standards of course)
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Was I the only one thinking that?
to purchase a little Temporary Security in MMORPGS, deserve neither Liberty nor Security
Japan GDP per capita is $33000 (2006 est.)
Japan's GINI index is 38.1 .
GINI is a measure of inequality of income distribution or inequality of wealth distribution. The lower, the more equally GDP is distributed.
In Japan 127,433,494 people are packed in 374,744 sq km. Compare that to the US, in which 301,139,947 people are spread over 9,161,923 sq km.
Housing in Japan costs 3-5 times more than it costs in US. Japanese compensate by living in tiny apartments.
US's GDP per capita is GDP $43,800 (2006 est.)
US's GINI is 45, which is not that bad when compared to Japan's, especially if one considers Norway's or Sweden's GINI (25-26).
I would not call the Japanese the wealthiest people in the world.
Wanna find out which nation has the wealthiest population? Start looking towards the direction of UAE and Norway.
References:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
First, these are laptops we are talking about. Students can take them home. As long as the more powerfull Windows machines
don't have anything more to offer than the OLPC, students would prefer to work on them. The truth is that powerful Vista machines have nothing more to offer with respect to web browsing and editor capabilities, children would stick with the same machine they use at school just because of the convenience of not having to copy their work from the OLPC to the windows machine and vice versa.
Second, a large portion of the market for OLPC consists of low income families. They don't have the means to buy extra home computing devices
with better specs.
The only proper punishment, is to put the scammers' avatars in virtual second life jails and confiscate their second life properties.
"Something much more akin to the fundamentalist Muslim countries or Mussolini's government" Nicely dodged Godwining there ...
What if they only "see fit" to use DNA manipulation for penis enlargement and hair loss prevention?
I would not be surprised if Microsoft and Intel buy loyalties of the said "patent" from Mr Oyegbola .
Step 1: The attacker an SSL session with a web server
...
Step 2: Generate the "poisoned" SSL session shared key K1, and encrypt it with the server's public RSA key
Step 3: The server decrypts the poisoned SSL session shared key K1 with its private key and obtains a value K2, which is
different than the original poisoned shared key K1. If the shared key K1 was not poisoned, K2 would be equal to K1,
but the attacker is exploiting an error in the CPU implementation that causes K2 != K1.
Step 4: All the AES-encrypted messages from the server will now be transformed with the poisoned K2, which the attacker does not know yet.
Step 6: Carefully select the messages that you send to the server, so that when you get the AES-encrypted with K2 replies to these messages, you
can use them to infer K2.
Step 7: Use K2 to infer the server's private RSA key
And that's the way you do it
This is a chosen ciphertext attack, which does not exploits weaknesses of the RSA scheme, but instead exploits the faulty
hardware.
It is not that unlikely that a few thousand locust-like robots would be able to change the direction of huge locust swarms.
"Politics for geeks. Your vote matters."
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"News for geeks. Stuff that matters"
Politics matters, so zip it
Why not use GRB's, I heard they are pretty focused too and can "transmit" as far as 12.3 billion light years.
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My guess is that generation and modulation can prove challenging, but once we set our minds nothing is impossible
"Back onto the radio front, we have Voyager 1 which is 15 billion miles away, proven with radio, that would seem good enough for me"
The issue is not whether you get data at all, but whether you can transmit at broadband speeds. I am pretty sure that at this point of
its flight Voyager does nothing else but send a few byte pings every once in a while.
The problems laser links would solve would be in the order of streaming HD video from Mars to Earth.
This article dates back to 1979 and is one of the first google results for "water injection" http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Home-Building/1979-09-01/Water-Injection-Wizardry.aspx "During the second World War, fighter pilots could push a button and inject a stream of water into the turbochargers of their monstrous powerplants . . . to get extra thrust on takeoff." Similarly, Crower's engine "harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine's power output and also to control its temperature" This Crower guy must have a lot of nerve to claim as his own an invention that has been around for more than half a century. He may know how to build engines, but apparently he does not know how to search the internet ... His difference with Pat Goodman that did the same
thing back in 1979 is that Goodman did not lie (or chose to ignore) about the novelty of his idea.
And btw, unlike Crower, Goodman had his engines tested on actual vehicles:
"Pat Goodman installed his first water injection system (on a Porsche racing car) in 1964, and the racing organization responded by banning his device . . . it made the vehicle too fast! Undaunted, Pat decided that--even if the racing establishment wasn't interested in "improving the breed", he was. Today, several near-bankruptcies later, the innovative mechanic owns a vehicle that only the government could argue with: a 1978 Ford Fiesta . . . that gets 50 MPG in normal around-town driving. (This impressive figure has been verified by a MOTHER staffer, who accompanied Goodman on a 48mile jaunt around Winchester, Virginia. During the drive--which Pat accomplished with, if anything, more speed than normal--the small four-cylinder sipped only .95 gallon of unleaded gas.) "
"Smith's proof will be published in the journal Complex Systems.
Meaning it had not yet been peer reviewed. "
If it was decided that it will be published, his proof had been peer-reviewed. First you get reviewed, then published.
"Had I pushed my luck my second question would have been, who has verified this proof that has taught an automata theory course at a suitably accredited institution?"
Something else that strikes me as weird is how come although they were so confident about their result they did
not submit to a more reputable journal than Complex Systems (e.g Computational Complexity and several others of the kind).
It seems that the authors themselves knew that their proof would pass a rigorous peer review.
"If you can drop a millisecond [of latency] off, you're a Hero."
Does this mean that a next step in human evolution is being able to measure time with microsecond accuracy?
It may actually be the case that that slashdot has been 419ed by this guy ...
Apparently. at Eureka High School
http://www.scifi.com/eureka/
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manned_spaceflights_to_the_ISS"
Notice missions 22-26, from 2003 to 2005? Notice that Soyuz made more than half the flights to ISS?
Now please, so some respect for the noble efforts of the seriously underfunded Russian space program...
"The station has been delayed for more than a decade (and cost NASA around $50 billion so far) due to redesign and indecision, reliance on a single launch vehicle for key components (the Shuttle), and the inclusion of the Russians."
This is one of the most self-contradictory sentences I've read for quite some time. Because of the inclusion of the Russians, the ISS
does not rely on a single launch vehicle! Which craft was sending astronauts and supplies when all the shuttles for grounded for years after
the Columbia disaster. Dude get a clue!
"Duke Nukem Forever Causing Network Issues"
"I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into medicine or the law and that is why there are so few Americans in engineering. Is this true?"
:)
Yes!
I would give the long answer, but I have to get back to preparing a computer networking paper with my chinese advisor and my 3 chinese colleagues
Oh, how could I forget to mention the 3rd and equally importnat element: Glen A. Larson's music theme
The show was a success for two reasons:
a) KITT
b) The Hoff
If they manage to find both a car and a dude that would be able to have the same impact on popular culture as
those 2 did in the 80's, they will have a success. Otherwise, it will be lame.
I hate to admit it, but Hasselhoff was brilliant in that show and it would be difficult to find someone up to par (by today's, not 80's standards of course)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Knight_Rider