I would like to nominate the release version of any product made by Google
Isn't Gmail still in Beta? And didn't it come out 4 years ago? They should be ashamed of the way they announce, release a Beta of, and then ignore and let stagnate every product that they make.
Truth: That website was leaking company information, that's illegal.
Could someone who knows fill me in on whether this statement is true? If so, that is the portion of this whole thing that offends me the most.
Why would I or anyone else have any obligation to keep secret any information related to a corporation with which I had signed no agreements or contracts? Does some random company's desire to make money trump my freedom of speech?
And here are some numbers that I find also help to put the whole terrorism thing in perspective:
Deaths in the U.S. in 2001 due to
heart disease - 700,000
cancer - 553,800
stroke - 164,000
accidents - 102,000 (Car accidents - 42,000)
influenza - 36,000
terrorism - 3,000
Where is the war on cancer, or the war on drunk driving? You're more likely to die driving to the airport than on the plane.
[the study provided] evidence that the relation between birth order and IQ score is dependent on the social rank in the family and not birth order as such
They specifically concluded that being the firstborn is not the deciding factor, but that being the eldest is.
We can already transport data through space without using quantum entanglement at all -- it's called radio.
The key difference is that quantum teleportation can transmit data at speeds faster than the speed of light.
I think a lot of the verbiage used to talk about quantum physics/quantum computation is misleading and was poorly chosen. There is no reason to call it "teleportation" when they're only sending data and not matter. And there's certainly no reason to keep quoting Einstein's "spooky" for any of these summaries. It's all just BS that detracts from the actual science, which is pretty interesting as long as you don't come into the study of it expecting to find Star Trek-type teleporters.
All companies have no conscience. By definition. And things would be much nicer in this country if people would realize that and legislate/demand legislation accordingly.
If you were a government contractor doing classified work in another country, and you had to listen to the security briefing before you left (in which the security personnel, who love this stuff, try to make you suspicious of everyone who asks how you're doing today) you might think this funky-looking coin which mysteriously showed up in your rental car's cup holder seemed a bit odd, too.
I certainly think the contractors did the right thing be reporting it to the government. How it got handled after that is another story.
Just because everyone here thinks Intelligent Swarm or some other Sci-Fi thing when they hear nanotechnology doesn't mean that everyone does.
I've heard it argued that modern micro-processors should be called nanotechnology since they're made with transistors on sub-100nm scales. Note that the processors themselves are quite visible with the naked eye.
I think it's important to point out that there are multiple "they"s here.
The contractors maybe think that way. From the article, it sounded like the DoD didn't necessarily think that way but somehow the unsubstantiated report by the contractors got onto the "real concerns" pile for a while.
At the company where I work, they just did a similar full-disk encryption mandate. Some highlights follow:
1) It doesn't work with Mac, Linux, or anything other than Windows
1a) For now, that means any dual-boot computer is exempt
1b) Later, that might mean and dual-boot computer is re-formatted
1c) A whole lot of computers became dual-boot after the encryption announcement was made
2) Because Windows is encrypted, if any single file becomes corrupt, you are completely screwed
2a) The data cannot be recovered by putting a working HD with a hosed Windows install in another computer, nor by re-installing Windows
2b) Daily backups are more important now
2c) Nobody does daily backups
2d) Most people who do backups do them by copying their files to an external (unencrypted) USB HD.
2e) Those external, portable, USB HDs are easier to steal than any laptop or desktop computer.
3) There has been a huge expense to implement this, a minor slow-down in performance due to it, an increased chance of data loss due to computer problems, and no real increase in the security of any of the data.
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I would like to nominate the release version of any product made by Google
Isn't Gmail still in Beta? And didn't it come out 4 years ago? They should be ashamed of the way they announce, release a Beta of, and then ignore and let stagnate every product that they make.
Truth: That website was leaking company information, that's illegal.
Could someone who knows fill me in on whether this statement is true? If so, that is the portion of this whole thing that offends me the most.
Why would I or anyone else have any obligation to keep secret any information related to a corporation with which I had signed no agreements or contracts? Does some random company's desire to make money trump my freedom of speech?
And here are some numbers that I find also help to put the whole terrorism thing in perspective:
Deaths in the U.S. in 2001 due to
heart disease - 700,000
cancer - 553,800
stroke - 164,000
accidents - 102,000 (Car accidents - 42,000)
influenza - 36,000
terrorism - 3,000
Where is the war on cancer, or the war on drunk driving? You're more likely to die driving to the airport than on the plane.
From TFA:
[the study provided] evidence that the relation between birth order and IQ score is dependent on the social rank in the family and not birth order as such
They specifically concluded that being the firstborn is not the deciding factor, but that being the eldest is.
We can already transport data through space without using quantum entanglement at all -- it's called radio.
The key difference is that quantum teleportation can transmit data at speeds faster than the speed of light.
I think a lot of the verbiage used to talk about quantum physics/quantum computation is misleading and was poorly chosen. There is no reason to call it "teleportation" when they're only sending data and not matter. And there's certainly no reason to keep quoting Einstein's "spooky" for any of these summaries. It's all just BS that detracts from the actual science, which is pretty interesting as long as you don't come into the study of it expecting to find Star Trek-type teleporters.
Some companies really have no conscience.
All companies have no conscience. By definition. And things would be much nicer in this country if people would realize that and legislate/demand legislation accordingly.
Superposition is sort of its own state in that a qubit can be taken out of superposition and put into 0 or 1 by measuring it.
But you're right that there are an infinite number of superposition states.
If you were a government contractor doing classified work in another country, and you had to listen to the security briefing before you left (in which the security personnel, who love this stuff, try to make you suspicious of everyone who asks how you're doing today) you might think this funky-looking coin which mysteriously showed up in your rental car's cup holder seemed a bit odd, too.
I certainly think the contractors did the right thing be reporting it to the government. How it got handled after that is another story.
Just because everyone here thinks Intelligent Swarm or some other Sci-Fi thing when they hear nanotechnology doesn't mean that everyone does.
I've heard it argued that modern micro-processors should be called nanotechnology since they're made with transistors on sub-100nm scales. Note that the processors themselves are quite visible with the naked eye.
I think it's important to point out that there are multiple "they"s here.
The contractors maybe think that way. From the article, it sounded like the DoD didn't necessarily think that way but somehow the unsubstantiated report by the contractors got onto the "real concerns" pile for a while.
At the company where I work, they just did a similar full-disk encryption mandate. Some highlights follow: 1) It doesn't work with Mac, Linux, or anything other than Windows 1a) For now, that means any dual-boot computer is exempt 1b) Later, that might mean and dual-boot computer is re-formatted 1c) A whole lot of computers became dual-boot after the encryption announcement was made 2) Because Windows is encrypted, if any single file becomes corrupt, you are completely screwed 2a) The data cannot be recovered by putting a working HD with a hosed Windows install in another computer, nor by re-installing Windows 2b) Daily backups are more important now 2c) Nobody does daily backups 2d) Most people who do backups do them by copying their files to an external (unencrypted) USB HD. 2e) Those external, portable, USB HDs are easier to steal than any laptop or desktop computer. 3) There has been a huge expense to implement this, a minor slow-down in performance due to it, an increased chance of data loss due to computer problems, and no real increase in the security of any of the data.