I've been programming for years. So have the people around me. Most have never written a line of Java (I've written about 20 and one of my colleagues has written a Java VM - that's about it.). Certainly none have written a line of C# or VB.NET. If I ask anyone here what.NET is they give me blank stares.
What language is the Java VM written in? What about the C# compiler? What about the network drivers that.NET require (does it require network drivers? I'm not sure what it is.)? What about the languages used to write the OS these things run on? What about the 2D drivers that display the GUIs they undoubtedly use. What about the file systems they use?
Maybe weenies will be using Visual JavaBaby#.NET in years to come but the people who write the 90% of the iceberg journalists don't see will be using real programming languages.
Well it could be decrypted and converted to an analog signal inside your TV in an ASIC that's highly secure and tamper-proof. I'm not sure that's easy but it gives better protection that a pure software solution.
...it's not clear this has any impact on crypto security today. There are lots of O(1)'s and nobody can be sure just how big they are for the real keys that are used today. Still, it can't do any harm to keep on your toes and make your keylength as long as your hardware will allow.
That square root thing is only for the most naive type of search using Grover's algorithm. It doesn't apply to many other kinds of searches. For example integer factorisation is much faster that sqrt time using Shor's algorithm. It may be there's also a sub-sqrt time algorithm for AES if someone actually looks for it - and AFAIK nobody has.
It might be possible to send audio recordings around losslessly these days. But why send the masses of random noise around that mp3 encoders strip out? I'd rather save my bandwidth for downloading compressed video.
There's a reason why water is significant in this case. If there is life on Mars then chances are it shares a heritage with life on Earth and AFAIK all life on Earth requires H_2O
When you're born a midwife should be standing there with a card held up in front of you in big letters
BY BEING BORN YOU ENTER INTO AN IMPLICIT CONTRACT THAT YOU AGREE TO READ ALL THE SMALL PRNT THAT'S GOING TO GET THROWN AT YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. AND BY THE WAY THIS IS THE LAST TIME THE SMALL PRINT IS GOING TO BE THIS BIG.
BTW Ignore this text down here. I had to write it to make/.'s lame lameness filter accept my post. By padding your post out with lower case text you can get away with writing more upper case text. Simple attempts to hack a free market often fail and in this case the next effect is that I have to pad my posts out causing clutter which is far worse than inadvertent yelling.
the thrust of MY post is that "hiding" the body is quite clearly not a concept that originated in the dark ages
Quite right. It's close to being a cultural invariant with almost everyone in the world being subject to at least one taboo about revealing certain body parts. And it's all a lot more interesting than transparent alumin(i)um even if it's off topic.
Read the original post and then come back and discuss. He says quite specifically hiding as opposed to simply wearing. Hiding is completely different to wearing clothes for warmth, or protection or status.
Your argument is to quote from Genesis. Amazing! You may have shown the date was wrong but you've done nothing to show that shame from nakedness wasn't invented by religious nuts.
Where did you get that business about entanglement from? I can't find it on the website. The thing is...on paper at least I think you could put together a pretty cool quantum authentication protocol - but I very much doubt that it would work in practice. The word 'entanglement' doesn't appear on their web site according to google. I can only think that you've made this up and have stumbled upon a cool idea by accident!
...as defined by the US Constitution was intended to protect citizens from the government. Isn't NY suing McAfee therefure something of a reversal of what it's intended to be for.
Good luck to 'em though - though I shan't say why I wish 'em good luck because then I might be violating the terms of my contract with McAfee.
Imagine if this was a drug, and the company line was, "You can't post critical comments about our drug, even if it almost kills you"?
This is pretty close to how it is anyway. Many of these disputes are settled out of court and the victims who receive compensation often do so on condition they won't blab. I have signed such a contract in my life (not about fatal drugs however) and I presume it goes on all around me - we just don't know about it.
No, all the numbers in all the pages. Like if you find a list of prices on a web page you scan the first digits of all those prices. If you find a book you scan all the chapter numbers. Basically you look at everything that matches the regexp [^0-9][0-9] It's a little known fact that you expect a logarithmic distribution for the second digit in the two character strings that match this regexp.
If you take a bit pile of random numbers off the web and look at the first digits the distribution should be such that the proportion whose first digit is =n is log_10(n+1), eg. the proportion=9 is log_10(9+1)=1 (of course). WIth enough web pages you can calculate log(n) really accurately.
You're in for a surprise. Many of the pictures in the world around you are processed significantly - whether it's for advertising purposes or in a scientific journal. You can tell very little about how bright something is by looking at a photograph. In order to bring an astronomical picture to the public it goes through many operations. Typical processes include:
False colour. A photograph may in fact be in the infrared or ultraviolet spectrum in which case these wavelengths are replaced by visible light so that we can see them.
Compositing. Often astronomical pictures are formed by compositing together different images - for example images taken with different coloured filters or even completely different sensors.
Filtering. For example the raw output from a CCD might be sharpened using a suitable digital filter (which can introduce other artifacts such as 'ringing').
Normalisation. The overall brightness of the image may be adjusted so that important features are neither too bright or too dark.
Cleanup. An image might be cleaned up to remove effects like lens flare or even dirt on the sensor.
Artistic modifications. If an image is on display to the general public it might be modified in a package like photoshop to give the best looking press release.
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Hell, you won't even be allowed to speak the words 'one' and 'zero' because if you did you might be transmitted unencrypted digital data.
What language is the Java VM written in? What about the C# compiler? What about the network drivers that
Maybe weenies will be using Visual JavaBaby#.NET in years to come but the people who write the 90% of the iceberg journalists don't see will be using real programming languages.
Someone seems to misunderstand the point of a reductio at absurdum demonstration. That's exactly the point the lawyers are making silly!
Well it could be decrypted and converted to an analog signal inside your TV in an ASIC that's highly secure and tamper-proof. I'm not sure that's easy but it gives better protection that a pure software solution.
...it's not clear this has any impact on crypto security today. There are lots of O(1)'s and nobody can be sure just how big they are for the real keys that are used today. Still, it can't do any harm to keep on your toes and make your keylength as long as your hardware will allow.
That square root thing is only for the most naive type of search using Grover's algorithm. It doesn't apply to many other kinds of searches. For example integer factorisation is much faster that sqrt time using Shor's algorithm. It may be there's also a sub-sqrt time algorithm for AES if someone actually looks for it - and AFAIK nobody has.
It might be possible to send audio recordings around losslessly these days. But why send the masses of random noise around that mp3 encoders strip out? I'd rather save my bandwidth for downloading compressed video.
There's a reason why water is significant in this case. If there is life on Mars then chances are it shares a heritage with life on Earth and AFAIK all life on Earth requires H_2O
Every decent visual effects house is already doing better stuff than that - and with physics too.
BTW Ignore this text down here. I had to write it to make
Quite right. It's close to being a cultural invariant with almost everyone in the world being subject to at least one taboo about revealing certain body parts. And it's all a lot more interesting than transparent alumin(i)um even if it's off topic.
Read the original post and then come back and discuss. He says quite specifically hiding as opposed to simply wearing. Hiding is completely different to wearing clothes for warmth, or protection or status.
Your argument is to quote from Genesis. Amazing! You may have shown the date was wrong but you've done nothing to show that shame from nakedness wasn't invented by religious nuts.
You'll enjoy reading this then!
Where did you get that business about entanglement from? I can't find it on the website. The thing is...on paper at least I think you could put together a pretty cool quantum authentication protocol - but I very much doubt that it would work in practice. The word 'entanglement' doesn't appear on their web site according to google. I can only think that you've made this up and have stumbled upon a cool idea by accident!
If someone else doesn't provide the programming you want then write your own and open source it.
A mutation in an intron isn't going to do much? Or ar they talking about people with extra fingers?
Interesting book BTW.
Good luck to 'em though - though I shan't say why I wish 'em good luck because then I might be violating the terms of my contract with McAfee.
This is pretty close to how it is anyway. Many of these disputes are settled out of court and the victims who receive compensation often do so on condition they won't blab. I have signed such a contract in my life (not about fatal drugs however) and I presume it goes on all around me - we just don't know about it.
No, all the numbers in all the pages. Like if you find a list of prices on a web page you scan the first digits of all those prices. If you find a book you scan all the chapter numbers. Basically you look at everything that matches the regexp [^0-9][0-9] It's a little known fact that you expect a logarithmic distribution for the second digit in the two character strings that match this regexp.
Do I really have to wait two minutes to submit this?
If you take a bit pile of random numbers off the web and look at the first digits the distribution should be such that the proportion whose first digit is =n is log_10(n+1), eg. the proportion=9 is log_10(9+1)=1 (of course). WIth enough web pages you can calculate log(n) really accurately.
...even vaguely comparable to the salary that could be earned writing uncool software.