Sorry, but every time I dig into this, it seems to reduce to a complicated version of trying to get something out of a balanced system which won't budge due to the Laws of Reality.

If you could just get one of those fridge magnets to turn off for half the engine cycle, you could build a truly awesome car! But fridge magnets don't give free lunches.

Similarly, if try to pull a measurement out of your q-bit, it stops being in super position and just becomes another dumb binary switch.

Solving a problem is the same as trying to sneak an observation of particles acting as waves.

If your quantum computer solves a problem, an encryption riddle, for instance, then that proves its q-bits were in superposition, which instantly means they weren't.

I thought the double slit experiment adequately demonstrated this.

I suspect that the only solutions to this reality gridlock can be found by the likes of Douglas Adams. Though, spending billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of research hours on the problem is pretty close to the kind of narrative Douglas Adams enjoyed telling.

It's easy for them to detect the next big Islamist attack.

-After all, they're the ones financing, training and overseeing its coordination through proxies and even directly with fake uniforms and mustaches.

To not recognize that is to not look.

And yet, astonishingly enough, there are more than 130 comments from people involved in this discussion, coming from the tried & true Slashdot user perspective.

Funny, that.

I've been reading this site for over 15 years, and not a week goes by when somebody doesn't make that same general complaint. It's a cliche at this point. A super cliche. A human behavioral bug. Predictable mechanical behavior which has no effect other than to broadcast one's Missing The Point.

That's always been true. It's about the medium, literally.

But if you are in the business of channeling folks into sitting idle while programming floods across their brains, I suppose it helps to have a variety of specific messages tuned to every basic personality type. Helps keep everybody hypnotized and separated from each other.

Back in the days of just a few channels and just a few programs, we had common stories everybody had seen, and from this drew our modern mythology. A good mythology makes for a healthy culture.

Now there are one of two basic conditions in effect; no culture, because the message is so fragmented, resulting in personal isolationism, OR the effort to tune into everything drains people so much that they are useless to the world.

Bread and circuses.

Both are toxic, it seems.

Even the introductory animation was done with the "for Babies" directive in mind.

Remember what it was? Go look.

Only two people pointed out that a logo change is *not* the item worth paying attention to.

It's about changing the company's operating philosophy while shifting public perception so as to make the transition comfortable.

However, several people here *did* pick up on the psychological association, which is almost absolutely deliberate...

It looks like a pre-school, Fischer Price toy store logo.

It's for babies.

Now ponder *that*.

Also, pay attention to the new style of filtering. For instance, a month ago you could search for the word, "Torrent" and get a bunch of results. That doesn't work today.

Google is angling towards DRM friendly; it's going to be a safe, coddling place where you are treated like an infant, (while they mine your data and observe your "growth").

The public perception is being managed in such a way that this insulting approach makes you feel like it's being done with good intentions. Makes you feel all warm and cuddled and taken care of while your brain is monitored and directed.

I know so many people with cool ideas who can't do anything with their lives other than treadmill because they are anchored to debts.

I've got a long list of names of all the people I've met over the course of my life whose debts I'd wipe out with anonymous gifts should I ever come into the money. I'd spend on that project until everybody is in the clear, or until half the money is gone; whichever comes first. I've never thought in terms of billions before, so you could probably lift a whole lot of people out of slavery and still have plenty left over for the next stage...

Start up a foundation, (or a series of them. Why not?). -Maybe the kind with twenty million sitting pat, collecting interest, and you only spend the interest, (except interest bearing projects are sort of the problem which put everybody into debt in the first place. Going all Batman on the banking elite isn't really an option, so I'm not 100% clear on how to proceed with regard to that philosophy. However...)

Foundations. Fixed budget groups with one or two captains heading up each with mandates like, "Seek out cool stage productions and finance them!" "Promote Maker Spaces and the ability to learn, build and fix tech for people of all ages!" "Awesome private schools where earnest disadvantaged kids can afford to be!" "Set up systems your community can use to establish and maintain their own food security!" "Off the grid, one home at a time..!"

Stuff like that.

It'd be fun to imagine new ways to make the world more awesome and less miserable for lots of people; to give people the chance to spread their wings and really use their gifts rather than burn all their energy just treading water.

Fame is not something that bothers me. That's why you hire secretaries.

Why wait until you're rich?

Get started right now. Sounds like the law would be on your side. Maybe decide that you're okay with losing your job and finding a new one, so the fear of want is gone.

He sounds like an evil ass. Smush him. It's easier than you think, because you'll have pretty much everybody on your side, even people you may not know about yet.

The goal of the energy companies is to maximize profit while minimizing expenses. The delivery of energy is just their method of making money, and they're pretty cozy with it. Change requires learning new things, and that takes work. Work frightens people.

The problem is that many elites have their fortunes and power tied up with the current model. When society starts to monkey with that system, powerful people get upset because it means they might not maintain control over their fiefdoms.

Fusion technology is not being developed by the energy companies, which means if it becomes viable, it would allow for young, spirited competing agencies. That could easily result in a big market shake-up and lots of established people feeling threatened.

The power delivery/distribution systems, via the electricity grid, might be willing to adapt as it wouldn't immediately affect their relationship with money, but they're small players by comparison to fossil fuel interests.

Also, there are military and covert agencies tied up in geo-politics. The face of the world, whole national agendas, are driven by oil. I can't even begin to guess how they might react to the sea change Fusion would cause in that regard. Imagine Saudi Arabia's reaction to having its cash cow threatened. Just for starters.

In any case, I don't think it's quite as cut and dried as you suggest. People would bleed and run around and be frightened while everybody plays musical fusion chairs on the world stage.

Hypocrite.

You're spamming right now.

Why would anybody trust your software when you are doing the very thing you claim to be fighting? -Cluttering up the space with self-promotion and hard-sell noise.

One post is sufficient. Dozens are offensive and off-putting.

And seriously: ALL CAPS is the mark of the time-cubed insane. Don't be insane. People avoid the insane.

Good luck.

You might want to dig into the history of Quackwatch before quoting them.

Sleazy. Lowest of the low, etc.

Sounds like quittin' time to me.

What's keeping you there?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but...

Linux can't control https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik... or https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...

Intel has been setting aside secondary CPU power for invisible applications since forever. Linux ain't keeping your stuff safe except from the lowest level of Big Brother types; the Small-to-Medium Brothers, I suppose.

Intel also does fabrication in Israel. That's where the Mossad live.

How tough is it to capture your keyboard strokes through System Management hardware? Not at all. -You gotta type in that encryption key at some point along the chain.

As to your belief that Coca Cola can shift impressions that easily... that's clearly nonsense. Were that the case the Tobacco industries would won.

Actually, tobacco isn't bad for you. It sharpens awareness, calms fear and increases active intelligence without affecting judgement. But we lost that battle because authority figures sold the idea that it was, filled it with toxins and flooded the scientific community with studies based on poisoned tobacco, thus limiting from the population one of the single most useful drugs humanity has ever had.

Marketing works.

You are absolutely wrong, the 'biggest companies' dominate and steal from 'the little guy' today, except today they have the nuclear option in their hands already - government compliance with the wishes of the biggest companies.

Stop it with the "Absolutely" thing. That's animal thinking and you're a human. This isn't simple.

You are quite correct in the second part of your statement; We don't regulate in favor of the people; essentially we lost the war and no longer have a government of the people, (except in name). The Free Market allowed monster corps to reach cancer status, and the government is simply an extension of them. The parasites won.

Happens all the time. Human bodies are Free Market systems, and lots of us get cancer. Good health is hard without knowledge, and even then it takes work.

In principle, regulation both works and is necessary. It's a simple fact of life. You *must* regulate in human society. If you don't, the meanest man with the most guns dominates. So we regulate that situation; we organize groups to post watch at the fence. We could refrain from regulating anything, from organizing; let the Big Man win, perhaps as he ought because he's the biggest. Heck, if we didn't regulate anything, we wouldn't even have guns to worry about, because technology is entirely about regulating reality into the shapes we want.

But we're not monkeys. We're humans.

And we regulated reality into fences and gun shapes. Basic law enforcement is just more regulation of the Free Market. You must understand this, and I think you do. You're just frustrated with the bullshit state of affairs and are grappling with "What Went Wrong??".

What went wrong is that we didn't regulate properly. We didn't do enough of it in the right ways; we didn't have the necessary knowledge to keep pathogens out of our government. Nobody has yet figured out how to screen for psychopaths and greedy, self-serving assholes. Like, ever. So we see empires rise and we see them fall due to this failure. No human establishment has ever throughout history managed to sustain itself.

The Law of the Jungle, (Free Market) works fine in the Jungle, because it doesn't have to worry about abstract thinking and frontal lobe intelligence. It's just muscle and claws. But Humans are more than just muscles and claws, and unless we want to revert to being jungle animals, (no thanks; I like living in a house and having cars and computers and sail boats), we cannot pretend that we don't have intelligence. -Intelligence is ALL about regulating things; making deep choices rather than simply following the four Fs; Fight, Flight, Feed & Fuck impulses.

Maybe one day Life will work out how to use that new power without flying off the rails and destroying itself, but so far it's still working through the upgrade.

What Free Market people are feeling is anxiety about leaving behind a system which worked. The Jungle worked. But the Jungle isn't for humans anymore. We outgrew the old bedroom, grew new brain structures and moved out.