Keep in mind this is not really a freely moving particle being measured, and is actually a bound electron(s) being measured multiple times as it orbits the same atom. And yes, the act of measuring the electron can make it jump to its neighbouring atom's nucleolus, but that would leave a positive void which some other electron would quickly find because of zero resistance of the substrate.
That Porsche may have 600 hp, but in the hand of an excellent driver, it would be still a very safe car.
Unfortunately, the average person that can afford one is not 'an excellent driver' by any stretch of the imagination, just a very rich one, and likely used to doing what they want in life. Now that isn't saying that a wealthy driver can't afford to get the kind of training required to learn how to control a machine like that, its just that way too many of them don't even get the car home much less to the track to get that required instruction.
There is a kind of psychology that takes hold when you feel that kind of raw uncontrollable power at the mere tap of your foot. To someone who spent the last few days dreaming about the experience and just signed the papers is not about to let the mere lack of training keep them from their god like machinery. The urge to 'push it' is just overwhelming, and the traffic statistics agree. Anyone trying to take one of these bullets off the showroom lot should have special training before ever turning the key.
One out of 632,000 unnamed officers (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes333051.htm) says he won't arrest Julian Assange, leaving only 631,999 left to independently decide if they will choose to do it. Now what are the odds of that happening? Funny, my calculator must be broke, is says (631,999 / 632,000) = 1.0 Hmmm, maybe a slide rule will do better...
While I would agree with your statement about the constrained environment in general, there have been a lot of security flaws in javascript across all current day browsers.
The above search at CERT.org has 814 hits for "javascript & exploit" alone.
What more, the remote site would have access to your browser environment until you change to another HTML page, unless they first take advantage of little tricks to stay persistent. The longer they have to poke around your javascript environment the sooner they find the next big bug to hack into the system. All software has bugs, it just a matter of time to find one.
Ok, supposing that instead of presenting a command line to the browser user the websocket/javascript instead installed a reverse command line back to the server, essentially giving a remote user access to the internal commands within the browser via the javascript kernel. All the remote user needs is a bug. plugin, or other feature that allows the browser to perform operations on the websurfer's host, like a fly-by install of malware or scraping the user environment of all information available. What prevents this scenario? How would the user even know other than the browser got reaaaalllly slooooowwwww.....
Yes, it describes a test of the nature of entanglement.
It is not a physical description or even a theory of how entanglement happens in the physical world. It provides no physical explinations, but rathet excluding some,and adding to the current mystery.
Looks to me like a simple Yagi antenna inside of a waveguide. Inside a waveguide, and for an optimum tuned Yagi, the signal would have to be directionally pointed at this setup. Its not like you are going to snag some arbitrary signal that isn't pointed in your general direction. Perhaps if you are eating lunch on a picnic table while standing in front of a microwave repeater, you might be able to charge your cell phone. But then you needed to carry this rig with you while the extra battery option would clearly take less space. Maybe if it cam in an inflatable bubble with mylar deflectors it could be small enough to be practice? If you are not mobile then what is the use case for this?
It means they accomplished a completely new demonstration of what that they can not even begin to explain, except mathematically of course.
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The mathematics is merely a statistical description of the observations, not details on the mechanism for the underlying process. Please wake me when they describe the actual underlying process.
It simply forces the Bots, like everyone else who is turning off tracking, to accept cookies so that they can be tracked across the Internet. Sounds like a _real_ solution to me .
The original idea is way too obtuse and subjective for anyone to get the singular answer correct. How many people will describe the same pattern in a Rorschach test, when everybody visually sees the pattern in them just a little different, and then uses a different vocabulary of experience to describe them. This would be much a better technology for generating personal encryption keys that nobody else can guess.
Wait what.. A whole ten seconds to download the book? I could buy 100 books in the time you would need to drive to your local book store. And that includes reading what the book is about and deciding if I'd like it or not.
The question I would bring up is whether Kindle has the book in its inventory. I buy lots of science and technical books, but not all are released for the Kindle. For those I can click a link to request the publisher to convert it for the kindle, but more likely, at least for the short term, I am just SOL.
I've had my Kindle 2 since Feb 2009, so four+ years and counting, of using it daily.
Every day, to work and back it reads to me via text-to-speach while I am driving. Its the best text-to-speech I have come across. I don't think the newer ones (aka fire) can do what I want, so I'm not trading it in. The bubble membrane keyboard, with a few snips of tape for tactile location of the proper keys, allows me to operate it without having to be distracted. I never need to look at it. The touch interface kindles could never do that, and I don't think the Android version even has text-to-speech, or at least all my kindle devices have text-to-speech that totally sucks in comparison.
I guess its time to trade in my Prius for a car costing twice as much, but can't go as far? But just think about how cool I'll be not getting there!
Actually, I do want one. Disregard all my snide cynicism above. I'm sure its one nice vehicle, but I had to point out the minor speed difference. I can certainly attest to how fast the Prius can go, just don't ask me how I know.;)
Mine your own Big Data repository, identifying those making a profit by corrupting your data, and suing them into the ground in order to finance the clean-up process. Don't just delete the accounts! Follow the money and put them out of business instead.
Where is the EFF when you need them? This _is_ a really big deal.
No, What they confirmed is that the meteorites found on Mars surface are the same as the ones that fell to earth. Why oh why would one think that different rocks will only fall on certain planets? And what makes them think for a minute that argon does not exist elsewhere in the Universe? Where do they think Mars got its Argon from?
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Argon is a heavy gas, and yes it is more likely to settle on a planet that has lost atmosphere, but Mars is not the only place that it can happen, its just that they want to believe they have rocks from Mars so they will tailor the data to make their facts fit even when other possibilities exist.
When supernovae occur, different elements are going to be created at different compression levels within the expanding ring around the epicentre. Different regions blown off from it will be naturally higher in certain elements, and those elements will then be distributed in different density patterns around that region. Some formations will be naturally higher in Argon than others, and therefore certain rocks/asteroids formed from those materials will have different distributions of those elements. All these rocks are flying around up there haphazardly with nothing but angular velocity and gravitation to direct their decent to different planetary systems. To think that the same rocks that landed to 'form' nearby Mars could not ever wind up on Earth is complete nonsense. Until volcanic and tectonic forces assimilate that fallen material there is no telling them apart. Shergottites, Nakhlites, and Chassigny? Show me an igneous rock with these same Argon characteristics and then I might listen to these claims.
Its nice that they have such confidence in their design. Think about it. They will be switching on enough power to be equivalent to the gravitational pull of a star, and they expect no problems? Even the LHC had problems with cooling their magnets, and we _know_ how to make magnets. That was just scaling up what we already knew how to do.
Confining that kind of containment energy in an enclosed space has got to present problems unforeseen by any mathematical formulas. Its not like we have actually sent space probes deep inside stars just to see how to best contain their fusion plasma. We are after all talking about millions of degrees, where anything we could come up with, composite, alloy, or otherwise, will surely melt on contact.
My mistake. One cup of 'vaporized' gasoline is what I meant. A pool of liquid as you said would not do much to push a several thousand pound vehicle down the road, so that is what the fuel injectors/carborator are for. Vaporize, mix, and ignite in an enclosed space. Too much fuel and compression of even by a small amount vapor turns a cast iron block into shrapnel quite easily.
One cup of gasoline in an enclosed space with the optimum oxygen mixture equals 15 sticks of dynamite. Makes for some good fireworks if you are standing far enough away. Lithium on the other hand makes lots of toxic smoke. Somehow I don't think Hollywood is going to feature much in the way of electric cars until new battery technology can catch up with flux capacitors in power content per cubic cm.
I have known about the ability to work out problems in your sleep for many years. In my younger life I would write entire programs in my sleep that solved intractable problems, and all I had to do was drive into work and type them in. When I went to sleep all I had to do was to keep going over the issues in my head to keep the ideas available for when my mind started being more creative, and let it work out the design issues with timing interrupts, multi-threading issues, etc. The technique worked out a lot of the complexity and tended to find solutions to very difficult problems. I have even logically debugged real-time issues in my sleep just by thinking thing over in my sleep.
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Fast forward, I'm a lot older now and have moved on to other problems, in a more scientific environment. For the last 13 years I applied this same technique to all the unanswered logical paradox in physics and have worked through all these issues as well. The answer is rather simple physical model that naturally gives rise to gravity through quantum processes, describes entanglement, double-slit, etc, but now I am left with the hard core mathematics of trying to actually prove the resulting theory. Unfortunately, I have found that this sleep/problem-solving technique apparently hits a proverbial brick wall when you get into an area where you are not properly schooled to work things out completely in your head.
Are there any physics oriented mathematicians out there who love GR, SR, QM, and thermodynamics and could do this kind of stuff in their head? Thought not, but I had to ask! Tried to hire one last week, but couldn't find one who knew this stuff _and_ was willing to be associated with a non-mainstream theory. So I guess I just need to retire, go back to school, and to learn all the math that I need. If I'm lucky enough to even live that long. Writing scientific papers doesn't work in my sleep either. Boring... My sleeping hours are so much more fun these days, if I can remember what I was doing. I'm now spending way to many hours up at night trying to pick up the math I need instead of 'sleeping on it'.
I think they should extend this study to evaluate the level of superstitious and religious beliefs with regards to the attachment of the robot and any grief felt after its demise. I think it is more probable that a person whom assigns humanistic qualities to a machine is likely also one who would believe in the supernatural. Any reluctance to deploy the machine as intended is probably highly correlated with their belief system. It would take a valid scientific study to determine if this is the case, and what to do about it if it is will only become clear after fully understanding these relationships. Battlefield psychology has many aspects that need to be understood in order to keep the human population as safe as possible.
The above study should probably be contrasted with the family of drones where the operator may have affection for the craft but lacks the personal hands on with the machine.
That because the threat has changed. Now it's about botnets and making a long term profit, not just scaring people senseless. If the botnet is not completely stealth then it is not successful, and dies an early death. The current set of botnets are almost military grade software, out there waiting for the highest bidders line of work. The problem has not gone away, its just gone underground where only the most talented admins can even find or track them.
true, but that doesn't matter much. I'd pay for it anyway, and in fact my employer does just that.
Fast: Windows is plenty fast enough, and has been for quite some time.
That depends on what you are doing. I have run large scale simulations with rooms full of computers. We reduced the number of computers necessary by a factor of three when we ditched Windows in favour of Linux running on the exact same hardware.
Open: who cares? Being open source doesn't matter for the vast majority of people, even power users.
I care. If I have a problem I can patch it and be back up and running in a few minutes of diagnosis. With windows it could take weeks to get even a simple patch pushed out to us, and that assumes that we can even debug the issue using the kernel debugger using assembly language. The kind of person who can do this will cost you plenty, and without him you will wait for Microsoft, and wait, and wait.
Reliable: Windows is also plenty reliable enough. We aren't on Win95 any more.
Hardly. I have systems that I have never rebooted, only when we have a planned power outage do they go down. I've never seen a windows system go more than a month without problems requiring a reboot. I'm sure others here may have been more lucky, but we are talking about orders of magnitude, not statistical percentage points.
Not back-doored by the NSA: for all 99% of people know, Linux is back-doored by the NSA to high heaven. The ability to inspect the source code means nothing when you aren't qualified, nor in possession of a trusted contact who is qualified, to find vulnerabilities in the source code. Linux's lack of back doors is taken by most people on faith... the same as Windows.
I used to work on a project doing source code analysis looking for embedded malware (aka. stuff you don't want in your code). I have developed software specificly designed to detect certain patterns of code usage, for things such as back doors. Needless to say you can't do this from source code on a non-open system, so you only need to worry when you can't even read the source. I could tell you if it was even theoretically possible to haver a backdoor in your software, but using Windows you would have to actually catch it in the act of doing so. That is a lot harder problem and requires instrumenting the hell out of your runtime system, that of course, you don't have source code for.
Saying one is inherently better than the other is asinine.
From the way I see it, saying that they are equal is equally asinine. Yes, they cater to different user bases, but from every metric that matters to me I would always choose Linux, hands down.
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Keep in mind this is not really a freely moving particle being measured, and is actually a bound electron(s) being measured multiple times as it orbits the same atom. And yes, the act of measuring the electron can make it jump to its neighbouring atom's nucleolus, but that would leave a positive void which some other electron would quickly find because of zero resistance of the substrate.
Seen leaving the scene of the crime here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bI0WbLHBXyY/Tix4ZFMCZ_I/AAAAAAABoSM/1YqK064jHsY/s640/back+to+the+future+whitewalls.jpg
and I think they need to get their engine checked.
That Porsche may have 600 hp, but in the hand of an excellent driver, it would be still a very safe car.
Unfortunately, the average person that can afford one is not 'an excellent driver' by any stretch of the imagination, just a very rich one, and likely used to doing what they want in life. Now that isn't saying that a wealthy driver can't afford to get the kind of training required to learn how to control a machine like that, its just that way too many of them don't even get the car home much less to the track to get that required instruction.
There is a kind of psychology that takes hold when you feel that kind of raw uncontrollable power at the mere tap of your foot. To someone who spent the last few days dreaming about the experience and just signed the papers is not about to let the mere lack of training keep them from their god like machinery. The urge to 'push it' is just overwhelming, and the traffic statistics agree. Anyone trying to take one of these bullets off the showroom lot should have special training before ever turning the key.
https://tails.boum.org/
One out of 632,000 unnamed officers (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes333051.htm) says he won't arrest Julian Assange, leaving only 631,999 left to independently decide if they will choose to do it. Now what are the odds of that happening? Funny, my calculator must be broke, is says (631,999 / 632,000) = 1.0 Hmmm, maybe a slide rule will do better...
http://search.cert.org/search?client=default_frontend&site=default_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_q=javascript+&num=10&btnG=Search&as_epq=&as_oq=exploit&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&sort=&as_lq=
The above search at CERT.org has 814 hits for "javascript & exploit" alone.
What more, the remote site would have access to your browser environment until you change to another HTML page, unless they first take advantage of little tricks to stay persistent. The longer they have to poke around your javascript environment the sooner they find the next big bug to hack into the system. All software has bugs, it just a matter of time to find one.
Ok, supposing that instead of presenting a command line to the browser user the websocket/javascript instead installed a reverse command line back to the server, essentially giving a remote user access to the internal commands within the browser via the javascript kernel. All the remote user needs is a bug. plugin, or other feature that allows the browser to perform operations on the websurfer's host, like a fly-by install of malware or scraping the user environment of all information available. What prevents this scenario? How would the user even know other than the browser got reaaaalllly slooooowwwww.....
Yes, it describes a test of the nature of entanglement. It is not a physical description or even a theory of how entanglement happens in the physical world. It provides no physical explinations, but rathet excluding some,and adding to the current mystery.
Looks to me like a simple Yagi antenna inside of a waveguide. Inside a waveguide, and for an optimum tuned Yagi, the signal would have to be directionally pointed at this setup. Its not like you are going to snag some arbitrary signal that isn't pointed in your general direction. Perhaps if you are eating lunch on a picnic table while standing in front of a microwave repeater, you might be able to charge your cell phone. But then you needed to carry this rig with you while the extra battery option would clearly take less space. Maybe if it cam in an inflatable bubble with mylar deflectors it could be small enough to be practice? If you are not mobile then what is the use case for this?
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The mathematics is merely a statistical description of the observations, not details on the mechanism for the underlying process. Please wake me when they describe the actual underlying process.
The original idea is way too obtuse and subjective for anyone to get the singular answer correct. How many people will describe the same pattern in a Rorschach test, when everybody visually sees the pattern in them just a little different, and then uses a different vocabulary of experience to describe them. This would be much a better technology for generating personal encryption keys that nobody else can guess.
so they don't have to wait for Amazon to deliver.
Wait what.. A whole ten seconds to download the book? I could buy 100 books in the time you would need to drive to your local book store. And that includes reading what the book is about and deciding if I'd like it or not.
The question I would bring up is whether Kindle has the book in its inventory. I buy lots of science and technical books, but not all are released for the Kindle. For those I can click a link to request the publisher to convert it for the kindle, but more likely, at least for the short term, I am just SOL.
What's the typical lifespan of a kindle?
I've had my Kindle 2 since Feb 2009, so four+ years and counting, of using it daily.
Every day, to work and back it reads to me via text-to-speach while I am driving. Its the best text-to-speech I have come across. I don't think the newer ones (aka fire) can do what I want, so I'm not trading it in. The bubble membrane keyboard, with a few snips of tape for tactile location of the proper keys, allows me to operate it without having to be distracted. I never need to look at it. The touch interface kindles could never do that, and I don't think the Android version even has text-to-speech, or at least all my kindle devices have text-to-speech that totally sucks in comparison.
http://www.auto123.com/en/news/toyota-prius-sets-land-speed-record-for-hybrid-vehicles?artid=33860&pg=3
I guess its time to trade in my Prius for a car costing twice as much, but can't go as far? But just think about how cool I'll be not getting there!
Actually, I do want one. Disregard all my snide cynicism above. I'm sure its one nice vehicle, but I had to point out the minor speed difference. I can certainly attest to how fast the Prius can go, just don't ask me how I know. ;)
Sound travels in a medium not empty space.
In some theories empty space _is_ a medium, so does this mean that some theories are just a little more sound?
First time I've seen no comments show up a few minutes into a Slashdot story going up.
Are most other people, like me, scratching their heads and trying to wrap their minds around this? :)
That time delay is due to the resultant Gravitational Time Dilation, caused by the gravity of the scientific implications.
Where is the EFF when you need them? This _is_ a really big deal.
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Argon is a heavy gas, and yes it is more likely to settle on a planet that has lost atmosphere, but Mars is not the only place that it can happen, its just that they want to believe they have rocks from Mars so they will tailor the data to make their facts fit even when other possibilities exist.
When supernovae occur, different elements are going to be created at different compression levels within the expanding ring around the epicentre. Different regions blown off from it will be naturally higher in certain elements, and those elements will then be distributed in different density patterns around that region. Some formations will be naturally higher in Argon than others, and therefore certain rocks/asteroids formed from those materials will have different distributions of those elements. All these rocks are flying around up there haphazardly with nothing but angular velocity and gravitation to direct their decent to different planetary systems. To think that the same rocks that landed to 'form' nearby Mars could not ever wind up on Earth is complete nonsense. Until volcanic and tectonic forces assimilate that fallen material there is no telling them apart. Shergottites, Nakhlites, and Chassigny? Show me an igneous rock with these same Argon characteristics and then I might listen to these claims.
Confining that kind of containment energy in an enclosed space has got to present problems unforeseen by any mathematical formulas. Its not like we have actually sent space probes deep inside stars just to see how to best contain their fusion plasma. We are after all talking about millions of degrees, where anything we could come up with, composite, alloy, or otherwise, will surely melt on contact.
My mistake. One cup of 'vaporized' gasoline is what I meant. A pool of liquid as you said would not do much to push a several thousand pound vehicle down the road, so that is what the fuel injectors/carborator are for. Vaporize, mix, and ignite in an enclosed space. Too much fuel and compression of even by a small amount vapor turns a cast iron block into shrapnel quite easily.
One cup of gasoline in an enclosed space with the optimum oxygen mixture equals 15 sticks of dynamite. Makes for some good fireworks if you are standing far enough away. Lithium on the other hand makes lots of toxic smoke. Somehow I don't think Hollywood is going to feature much in the way of electric cars until new battery technology can catch up with flux capacitors in power content per cubic cm.
Fast forward, I'm a lot older now and have moved on to other problems, in a more scientific environment. For the last 13 years I applied this same technique to all the unanswered logical paradox in physics and have worked through all these issues as well. The answer is rather simple physical model that naturally gives rise to gravity through quantum processes, describes entanglement, double-slit, etc, but now I am left with the hard core mathematics of trying to actually prove the resulting theory. Unfortunately, I have found that this sleep/problem-solving technique apparently hits a proverbial brick wall when you get into an area where you are not properly schooled to work things out completely in your head.
Are there any physics oriented mathematicians out there who love GR, SR, QM, and thermodynamics and could do this kind of stuff in their head? Thought not, but I had to ask! Tried to hire one last week, but couldn't find one who knew this stuff _and_ was willing to be associated with a non-mainstream theory. So I guess I just need to retire, go back to school, and to learn all the math that I need. If I'm lucky enough to even live that long. Writing scientific papers doesn't work in my sleep either. Boring... My sleeping hours are so much more fun these days, if I can remember what I was doing. I'm now spending way to many hours up at night trying to pick up the math I need instead of 'sleeping on it'.
The above study should probably be contrasted with the family of drones where the operator may have affection for the craft but lacks the personal hands on with the machine.
Botnet Command and Control map:
https://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Stats/BotnetMaps#botnet
Let's address those point-by-point.
Yes, Lets do that...
true, but that doesn't matter much. I'd pay for it anyway, and in fact my employer does just that.
Fast: Windows is plenty fast enough, and has been for quite some time.
That depends on what you are doing. I have run large scale simulations with rooms full of computers. We reduced the number of computers necessary by a factor of three when we ditched Windows in favour of Linux running on the exact same hardware.
Open: who cares? Being open source doesn't matter for the vast majority of people, even power users.
I care. If I have a problem I can patch it and be back up and running in a few minutes of diagnosis. With windows it could take weeks to get even a simple patch pushed out to us, and that assumes that we can even debug the issue using the kernel debugger using assembly language. The kind of person who can do this will cost you plenty, and without him you will wait for Microsoft, and wait, and wait.
Reliable: Windows is also plenty reliable enough. We aren't on Win95 any more.
Hardly. I have systems that I have never rebooted, only when we have a planned power outage do they go down. I've never seen a windows system go more than a month without problems requiring a reboot. I'm sure others here may have been more lucky, but we are talking about orders of magnitude, not statistical percentage points.
Not back-doored by the NSA: for all 99% of people know, Linux is back-doored by the NSA to high heaven. The ability to inspect the source code means nothing when you aren't qualified, nor in possession of a trusted contact who is qualified, to find vulnerabilities in the source code. Linux's lack of back doors is taken by most people on faith... the same as Windows.
I used to work on a project doing source code analysis looking for embedded malware (aka. stuff you don't want in your code). I have developed software specificly designed to detect certain patterns of code usage, for things such as back doors. Needless to say you can't do this from source code on a non-open system, so you only need to worry when you can't even read the source. I could tell you if it was even theoretically possible to haver a backdoor in your software, but using Windows you would have to actually catch it in the act of doing so. That is a lot harder problem and requires instrumenting the hell out of your runtime system, that of course, you don't have source code for.
Saying one is inherently better than the other is asinine.
From the way I see it, saying that they are equal is equally asinine. Yes, they cater to different user bases, but from every metric that matters to me I would always choose Linux, hands down.