quibbling over the name of a body of water
It is a deliberate strategy by the administration. Creating public debate, flooding it even, over divisive but ultimately trivial issues, distracting from the more serious ones. We should be talking about trade policy, and the blatant outrageous financial corruption from Trumps crypto coin. But we are so easily distracted by inflammatory comments over culture wars topics.
The thing is, FOSS is not free.
[sigh] "Free as in speech, not free as in beer" is the common saying.
If you're going to mandate honest pricing, it should absolutely include every government fee and tax as well.
Well, obviously! That is what every civilised country does (OK, except the US). If the price says $10, you pay $10. And the receipt will tell you how much of that went to tax.
I remember in the US, the only places that told you the actual price were liquor stores and gas stations. Which seemed odd. Why don't they advertise ex-tax prices like everyone else there?
Or they could... Perhaps... Read the code?! After all, it's Open Source. It's kinda the point.
Let's not get cocky. Yes, being able to read the code is good. But the threat is still real, and we need a systematic way to make sure every update is adequately "read".
Supply chain attacks can bite you when you least expect it. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Given how much Trump cares about the UN, it is definitely a demotion. But enough to keep him quiet.
They don’t want to use approved government systems with all those pesky records laws.
It is right there in TFS! They are using TM SGNL because of the data retention rules . Signal is open source , or at least the protocol is, allowing people to make compatible apps. And because the law requires all government communications to be archived, they need to use a version that does this. The official signal app does not. Signal show be seen as a replacement for email, not for classified discussion.
Waltz probably should not be taking the fall for Signalgate. It was Hegseth who chose to post classified information on it.
Dallas to Houston is only 3 hours. Even airlines consider long haul to mean at least 6 hours.
But Texas is small. If it were in Australia, it would be our third smallest state.
> The cats life-status is rendered classical by decoherence
I don't know. I have observed cats interfering with themselves. They are very flexible. But stll clearly |alive> .
In 1687, Newton unveiled his universal gravitation model, proposing every atom in your body is pulled by every other atom in the universe. Mind-boggling! Yet, its math was spot-on, accurately predicting cosmic and earthly motion, so it gained acceptance. Two centuries later, Einstein's theory refined gravity, ditching Newton's "action at a distance" oddity.
Quantum mechanics, just a century old, is a stellar model but not reality itself. I’m not betting on a better explanation soon. The universe might be even stranger!
the ability to show two sets of subtitles at once,
There are many media players that can do this. e.g. SMPlayer. VLC introduced it in version 4.0 .
Just download your favourite show with subtitles included, or use automated tools to access the online.
That movie is 27 years old now - would people still get the reference? And Cameron Diaz is 52.
Sorry my friend, but nobody here has the slightest idea how entanglement works, let alone quantum physics.
Well, I have a *slight* idea. Entanglement is a property of QM, which is a model. Mathematically we know exactly how it works. And it makes predictions that match observations. It's only confusing (very!) if you start asking what is happening under the hood with reality.
Nevertheless, the idea is that, traditionally, even the best encryption does not guarantee that the message hasn’t been intercepted. By using quantum entanglement, the recipient of the message is guaranteed that it has not been intercepted (or, conversely, that it has been).
You can get the same result by using a one-time pad. Anybody intercepting just sees random noise. And you can embed it in continuous random noise so they don't even know when you are communicating. QKD seems a whole lot more effort. Distributing a terabyte pad (say a TF card) is just as easy as distributing a single token for authentication.
... with a concrete example.
So you are talking to a remote person. All you need is a pre-shared key in order to exchange session keys.
If you don't have any pre-shared key, then how on earth can you authenticate? How do you know you are doing Quantum key distribution with the right person?
Surely it is only resistant to MitM attacks if you trust the endpoint. And by what method can you trust the authentication, which does not also provided easier session key exchange than Quantum Buzzwords?
What is the purpose of the tech, aside from raising more funding for research?
Sometimes you have to answer the phone to strange calls,
Three words: "Google call screening".
or if you are unfortunate enough to have a iphone ( I replaced mine because it was impossible to spam-filter SMS properly ) , you have voicemail to text services.
"Numberplate Address Translation"
Most cars rarely leave their home town. So allocate number plates to each city. Then cities issue their own internal number plates, and any cars leaving the city just borrow a city-owned plate for the trip. The city keeps a registrar of which local plate corresponds to which state plate at any given time.
This of course is just a temporary measure, until the new national 16-letter number-plate system is launched. It will take a few years for everyone to update their forms to accommodate that.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
