I'm not sure we can really assume many of the things you listed. For example, 2 and 3 would seem to be contradictory.
We still don't know what caused inflation to happen, and there's nothing to say it isn't still active (albeit, a little less active than earlier) in moving these galaxies.
And if space is allowed to travel faster than light then, unless I'm misunderstanding something, surely light taking a roundabout route could go through a fast-moving patch of space and arrive here sooner than light taking a geodesic... right?
That's not what I meant. Competition for malware on Windows will be greater, driving the price down. There is less (if any) commercial malware on the mac and so competition will be less intense and prices higher. Mac malware writers would earn more money.
That's not true. There will be only a small market for trojans/spambots/viruses for Macs, but so far this market is largely uncatered to (or at least that's the impression I get). There would be a larger incentive for malware-writers to target OS X than Windows (where it'd be "just another" piece of malware with a tiny market share) because of this.
I think the point of TFA was to show that these things aren't theoretical and "implausible". Security isn't just about viruses: even if your so-called "troublemaker" virus-writers mostly target Windows machines, if there is a bounty on your Mac, it would be easy for someone to root it (in fact, some parts of the hack would be easier than on windows!).
Yeah I've noticed the same thing recently... What about the employees exposing Fox which was on digg yesterday (yeah I visit digg occasionally. Mod me down).
Seriously, I think this is ridiculous for two main reasons, I think.
How can the Universe suddenly change like that? Change requires time. It's a logical paradox. You say that in the future, that time will become a fourth spacial dimension, but try writing up a timeline of the events:
Time 0: Universe has time and is normal.
Time 1: Universe suddenly flips and now has 0 time, 4 space.
Time ??: No time, but now where did the past go?
OK, I'm no good at explaining this, but it clearly doesn't mix at all well with general/special relativity's block time. Not only for that timeline problem above, but also because the difference between space and time is made up by humans: Special relativity can be derived from the starting assumption that there are four dimensions (3 with real displacements, 1 with imaginary displacements) and a whole bunch of spaghetti (particles and stuff moving around). When you rotate the spaghetti through the fourth, imaginary dimension, you get a velocity, and it just so happens, that the rotation becomes hyperbolic, and you get the speed of light as a limit.
It's not as simple as that. I'm working on a website that will use OpenID when it's done, and trying to work out how to avoid getting spam is giving me a headache. With OpenID being decentralised, any spammer can set up an identity server to authorise the spammer as (for example) http://spam.example.com/00000 through http://spam.example.com/99999. If they log in once with each 'identity' (perhaps automatically) that's 100 000 rows added to my database, although that's slightly off-topic. The point is anyone can make up any number of OpenID accounts and automate the use of OpenID. There's no way you can be sure you're dealing with a human user without using some kind of captcha. Forcing confirmation of every e-mail address and ensuring it's unique can also help, but that's the kind of problem OpenID was created to solve.
How about if you have the width of the tunnel nearly equal to the wavelength of the light going through it? It would diffract as it left the tunnel and "scatter" outwards. Of course, that depends on all the light having pretty much the same wavelength, so perhaps it could be displayed as a composition of separate RGB pixels like TV screens, monitors etc.
Metal rings? I wasn't able to RTFA (I did try!)
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Haha nice, I'll have to remember that next time I nick a Lenovo...
The killswitch is implemented in the BIOS. Reflashing that is somewhat more difficult than just wiping the disk and installing an OS.
You could always mod your laptop to generate a spark when the kill signal is received. Then all you need to do is pack it with C4.
Things a thief can still do:
Honestly, this is completely useless against even a moderately sophisticated thief.
Many of the volunteers may be neanderthals too.
Immunities are inherited from the mother while in the womb.
No, it's just word filtered...
Kind of glad I saved my $10.8b and got my OS off bittorrent.
yeah we should put a cap on that price
RTFA. It said $1.4b for the kernel alone.
I'm not sure we can really assume many of the things you listed. For example, 2 and 3 would seem to be contradictory.
We still don't know what caused inflation to happen, and there's nothing to say it isn't still active (albeit, a little less active than earlier) in moving these galaxies.
And if space is allowed to travel faster than light then, unless I'm misunderstanding something, surely light taking a roundabout route could go through a fast-moving patch of space and arrive here sooner than light taking a geodesic... right?
That's not what I meant. Competition for malware on Windows will be greater, driving the price down. There is less (if any) commercial malware on the mac and so competition will be less intense and prices higher. Mac malware writers would earn more money.
That's not true. There will be only a small market for trojans/spambots/viruses for Macs, but so far this market is largely uncatered to (or at least that's the impression I get). There would be a larger incentive for malware-writers to target OS X than Windows (where it'd be "just another" piece of malware with a tiny market share) because of this.
I think the point of TFA was to show that these things aren't theoretical and "implausible". Security isn't just about viruses: even if your so-called "troublemaker" virus-writers mostly target Windows machines, if there is a bounty on your Mac, it would be easy for someone to root it (in fact, some parts of the hack would be easier than on windows!).
Yeah I've noticed the same thing recently... What about the employees exposing Fox which was on digg yesterday (yeah I visit digg occasionally. Mod me down).
I was thinking along the same lines. 160 000 years is a long time considering modern civilisation is only a few thousand years old...
Actually, I'm quite surprised it was modded insightful. Especially since I was drunk when I wrote it.
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Seriously, I think this is ridiculous for two main reasons, I think.
How can the Universe suddenly change like that? Change requires time. It's a logical paradox. You say that in the future, that time will become a fourth spacial dimension, but try writing up a timeline of the events:
OK, I'm no good at explaining this, but it clearly doesn't mix at all well with general/special relativity's block time. Not only for that timeline problem above, but also because the difference between space and time is made up by humans: Special relativity can be derived from the starting assumption that there are four dimensions (3 with real displacements, 1 with imaginary displacements) and a whole bunch of spaghetti (particles and stuff moving around). When you rotate the spaghetti through the fourth, imaginary dimension, you get a velocity, and it just so happens, that the rotation becomes hyperbolic, and you get the speed of light as a limit.
It's not as simple as that. I'm working on a website that will use OpenID when it's done, and trying to work out how to avoid getting spam is giving me a headache. With OpenID being decentralised, any spammer can set up an identity server to authorise the spammer as (for example) http://spam.example.com/00000 through http://spam.example.com/99999. If they log in once with each 'identity' (perhaps automatically) that's 100 000 rows added to my database, although that's slightly off-topic. The point is anyone can make up any number of OpenID accounts and automate the use of OpenID. There's no way you can be sure you're dealing with a human user without using some kind of captcha. Forcing confirmation of every e-mail address and ensuring it's unique can also help, but that's the kind of problem OpenID was created to solve.
No. It'd be more like "We own anything online."
Indeed. This is the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I joined the MPAA.
How about if you have the width of the tunnel nearly equal to the wavelength of the light going through it? It would diffract as it left the tunnel and "scatter" outwards. Of course, that depends on all the light having pretty much the same wavelength, so perhaps it could be displayed as a composition of separate RGB pixels like TV screens, monitors etc.
Metal rings? I wasn't able to RTFA (I did try!)
Or what if you fed it pronographic images?
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