Pretty cool...
I'm feeling like I'm in the early 90's again, watching tech demonstrations of that kind of stuff.
Patentable it is not.
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It's funny how these two types are correlated. Guess it's something to do with "what must not be true cannot be true". If the edge of the free-market playground comes into sight, how are we gonna play "I buy, you buy, we all buy together - and resources are free and plentiful"
Not that I have anything against freemarketeers, on the contrary.
"If one takes a closer look at such capabilities one realizes that they often require the solution of what mathematicians call hard combinatorial optimization problems. It turns out that solving the hardest of such problems requires server farms so large that they can never be built. A new type of machine, a so-called quantum computer, can help here."
Okaaayyy... if these are the NP-hard problems, it is very unlikely that the a Quantum Algorithm will help. Very, very unlikely.
See also: http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Petting_Zoo#BQP
"The computer geek surrounded by such things as computer games, science fiction memorabilia and junk food," says Sapna Cheryan, a junior trick-cyclist at the university of Washington, America.
"That stereotype doesn't appeal to many women who don't like the portrait of masculinity that it evokes."
Only in the 21st:
1) "Trick-cyclicism" is now a university course.
2) There is a need to specify the landmass in which "Washington" resides
3) An important trait of "masculinity" is being surroundes by games, Sci-Fi memorabilia and junk food
...the good news is I'm sure they have thought about it. That's what they do: putting out papers.
...the bad news is that, unless you have the toolset (mathematics of QM and possibly QFT, be at home in the Standard Model, know how to deal with experimental statistics, have a good intuition about what to look for, have colleagues in astrophysics to query about what they see or do not see happing in the universe at large etc.) you do not even have the wherewithal to ask the correct question.
The real world is not like Star Trek where anything can happen and any question that a writer got from the hole in his wall makes sense. Worrying about Stable Black Holes in the LHC is like worrying about mutant ooze coming out of your fridge at night and strangling you. Rather unlikely to happen.
So. Hurry along now.
"Tell-tale signs they've been installed include the presence of strange rdump files and perl scripts on a hard drive, sudden changes in free disk space and the monitoring of registries and system processes."
That this is even possible in POS systems says a lot about the current practices in this "industry", Are these things put together by flight-by-night basement operations in Somalia? Are the hired engineers more able to play WoW than design a technical system? Is there not enough money left to actually set up a good infrastructure because managers are enjoying prolonged stays on Carribean "conferences"? What is this?
"It's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities"
He's right. And Google can't tell you if they get an invitation by FBI to do so.
Obama and Schmidt --- same powergrab.
"The MOD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life. However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom."
Talk about a non-denial denial. Get Fox Mulder on the horn!
That rushing sound you hear are Alpha-Level sentient von Neumann machines visiting through GCHQ's "donut" blueside portal. Prepare to be rightsized.
...but of course the Higgs being its own antiparticle, this idea falls flat.
I also see that Mr. Gorelik, is a hollow-earth proponent. I would probably pay for a movie in case he had scripted a good part of it and added some String Scientists of Renown. Should be more entertaining than Dan Brown stuff.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Read number of characters to output from command line
$num = $ARGV[0]*1;
@chars = qw(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z);
# We select chars from "@chars", thus one selection corresponds to:
{
my $bits = log(@chars)/log(2)*$num;
my $byte = $bits/8;
print "Outputting $num chars, which corresponds to $byte byte\n";
}
# Open /dev/random and read stuff
open(RAND,"</dev/random") or die "Could not open /dev/random for reading: $!";
$max = @chars;
{
use bytes;
for ($i=0;$i<$num;) {
my $read = sysread(RAND,$raw,1);
if ($read != 1) {
die "Got stop\n"
}
else {
$x = ord($raw);
if (0<=$x && $x<$max) {
print "$chars[$x]";
$i++;
}
}
}
}
print "\n";
A cake so appealing that few lawmakers have the mental ability to resist. I doubt whether any consequences will come out of really shite and sinfully expensive official rorschach blobs for chest-beating "panis et circenses" programs that a nearly bankrupt government can ill afford. Laws apply to YOU.
Now excuse me while I fap to anime porn while I still can.
That hand logo should do.
Don't be a spoilsport and accept extradition to a country that is kind enough to maybe offer free tours [even if your underage!] of Syrian basements with some electric fun play, luxurious 8-year-long stays in cuban isolation cells complete with daily beatings, interrogation by american prison goons with full-fat Nazi attitudes like in the movies, persistent legal limbo and to top it all off, a show trial in front of an indoctrinated jury that would make Stalin smile.
It's only for your politicians' good. You wouldn't want to make them feel HURT, now, would you?
With various people evidently fully in accord with the hallowed principles of "nanograms of RDX means we have to protect the children", "if it's the law, there must be a good reason for it" and "all suspects are guilty otherwise they wouldn't be suspects", I do wonder whether State Spin Control has managed to detect this forum.
"The anti-smoking types are a bunch of overly smug, self satisfied, pompous, sad little fucktards with their heads so far up their arses that they can see their own teeth and absolutely no life whatsoever."
Wheezing troll detected.
....i.e. it goes through your skin. That is why nicotine patches exist.
In other words, if you repair a smoker's machine, ffs. wear gloves and don't cut yourself on the heat sink. Apple can refuse to touch this crud in the same way as it can refuse a machine liberally sprinkled with arsenic, americium or dioxine. Even the most libertarian customer should be able to agree with THAT.
>>Err, excuse me, but aren't hard drives hermeticaclly sealed? How could a hard drive clog up due to cigarette smoke?
No they are not. There is a breathing hole in the cover. Now, we need some photos, if need be, using a microsope...
Check these out, searching for "smoke":
http://www.thecomputerwizard.biz/photos.htm
"I don't pretend to know the physics, but regarding this question about direct collisions in space happening and us not getting big bangs."
Yes, but consider: we know that White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars exist. These balls of compressed matter absorb cosmic rays; if anything untoward would happen with reasonable probability, these stellar objects would quickly transform into Strange Stars or Black Holes, the more so as a microscopic Black Hole would have a hard time _not_ finding material in its immediate vicinity to hoover up; it could not traverse the star like a bird traverses a cloud. This is not being observed.
"This could end up opening a portal to a new dimension, allowing beings through that mortals were not meant to meet. Yog Soggoth, Cthulu, formless Tsathoggua and the worse than formless star spawn associated with that semientity."
Sorry, these entities are already in Parliaments, Senates, ministerial pigpens and Prime Minister Control Seats. It's too late.
"Just like stuff in the LHC cosmic rays are particles that travel close to the speed of light. But cosmic ray head to head collisions are extremely rare. I question the reassurances."
You might then want to peruse this: http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3381 No, I don't understand the math either.
Note that cosmic rays may have far more energy than particles found in the LHC beam pipe and that "black holes in LHC" (N.B: non-stable ones; to all intent and purposes, it's just short-lived particles at that point) comes from people looking for extra dimensions to stuff stringy branes into, which sounds just slightly more plausible than purple cotton elephants dancing on your front porch when your are not looking.
But it's fun speculating: http://www-atlas.lbl.gov/physics/Sven_Black_Holes_with_ATLAS.ppt
"And whats all this about getting no radiation from a black hole when there are many beautiful pictures of great arcs of colour that are explained as X-rays from a black hole causing fluorescence"
That's not Hawking Radiation. That is radiation and accelerated stuff coming from the black hole's accretion disk, i.e. matter being seriously compressed until it squeaks. Only black holes of very small mass (primordial Black Holes evaporating to nothing in front of the camera right about now) yield a detectable gamma-ray burst of known signature. None seen so far.
But it's PUB CONTINUATION TIME now!
"Fermi was launched to detect radiating black holes in the cosmos, but it failed to find any. "
FRACK NO!
Hawking Radiation cannot be detected from here.
"manufacturing superfluid condensates, similar to those CERN will make with quark"
HOLY FRACK NO! FAIL FAIL FAIL!
Where do people _get_ those things? Drawing all day long on a hookah filled with heavy Afghan Resin while listening to Half Life's Professor Kleiner's explanations about bouncing people off Xen while watching BBC Science Program just CANNOT BE sufficient.
...about the constitution being used as toilet paper but have no problem cracking one off about newfangled COIN insurgency toolups.
To make my position 100% clear: These things won't only be used to blow Ahmed's and his Panzerfaust donkey's ass to smithereens. They will be used to plaster your innards against the living room ceiling and open your kid's braincases.
Enjoy your regime change.
DON'T TELL THE POLICE TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY PROBLEMS! They are not there for that and you might well get recycled Iraq veterans in blue for visitors.
Daughter/Granny/Gramps might well end up with a couple of caps in the arse / in custody in the same room with Bubba Violent / in excited delirium and coroner material after a light tasering.
Apart from the fact that we all know where those "cat brains" are gonna end up (Pretador E drones and the "Schrödinger" mimetic ground-based killbots), the full simulation of a cat brain _is_ fully equivalent to a real cat brain (behind-the-curve weirdos clutching at Descartian straws like Searle, Penrose and Dreyfus notwithstanding). A cat brain in a vat that is. That simulated cat brain must not be too happy to be a disembodied piece of neural activity; that's worse than buried alive. I predict protests by irate animal liberation outfits any moment now.
...as this is the most analog computer possible - there are no possible discontinuities and everything is smooth, linear transformations.
"a qubit can be 1, 0 or some of both just as a metaphorical cat in a box may be dead, alive or in a mysterious semi-undead waveform zombie condition."
You are looking for the word "Bloch Sphere": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloch_sphere