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Comment Quantum Airlines (Score 1) 112

The goal of being able to solve NP-hard or NP-Complete problems with quantum computers is similar to being able to travel to the moon, mars or deeper into space with rockets.

I thought it just functionally added massive parallelism, and didn't really solve this, by offloading the calculations into the quantum path space.

Comment Complex signal analysis (Score 1) 61

That's mechanical use of keyboard, but you're also gonna need a phrase anyzer and commonizer. Grammar and phrases used by writers should be unique enough to identify the same anonymous writers on different sites, at least over the long run.

If you can tie a controversial anon to a known account like facebook, you can then go all SJW on him, outing them to their employer and getting them fired.

I am less concerned about racist assholes than more general political opinions and so on.

Comment Re:And when she reneges (Score 1) 574

This forum, in spite of the leftward shift in recent years ("What in god's name does this or that story have to do witb News for Nerds???") is somewhat balanced.

On another I read, the vast majority are walking around with EFB, Erections For Bernie, so long lasting and firm they're well past the point they "should seek medical care".

Comment Futile (Score 2) 313

This tech exists already and only needs polishing. Auto-tracking and aiming. That will continue to be developed regardless. Slap it on a mobile Google car bought at the dealer, give it a route, and let 'er go!

Having humans decide who gets killed by the robot, as opposed to the robot deciding, is an added feature, and thus disposable to core dancing bear functionality.

For it to work it has to be banned by international law so rogue states can be punished. But it is trivial with soon-to-exist pieces.

Comment Re:Under what authority? (Score 5, Insightful) 298

Yes. They could arrest him immediately on the warrants, which is separate. But as he did not physically appear, it amounts to needing pre-clearance from government, on content, to speak in a public forum, which a park is.

And that is an easy win for the First Amendment. They should get nailed in a lawsuit.

Comment Re:Why do browsers allow websites to do this? (Score 1) 365

> Many websites don't allow copy or paste, or even selecting/highlighting text.

It is silly not to allow copy out of a password field while allowing paste in, as hack code that copied it out would be taking advantage of it being in the paste buffer, which is exactly what copying to paste it in leaves you with. So, too the "Oops, I walked away mid-login" manual breach issue.

I guess it comes down to which way is more likely to lead to more breaches -- brute cracks of simpler passwords or copy buffer hacks.

Given a hack would have many tools and dangers besides spying on passwords, that leaves just manual walk up to a (perhaps temporarily) abandoned terminal mid-login as the differentiator, and that is very weak to me.

Just the other day I had a crazy reset-your-password password mailed to me, and the system forbid paste, an it jusrt made me rage. You're damned right I would go back to a simpler pw as soon as possible.

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