Comment Clipperz (Score 1) 1007
I like Clipperz. You don't need to have anything installed, which is nice. They host your passwords in encrypted form.
I like Clipperz. You don't need to have anything installed, which is nice. They host your passwords in encrypted form.
First, this is pretty cool. Enough said about that.
Unfortunately, I don't think this will be useful for solving NP-complete problems. For those of you who don't know much about algorithms, NP-complete problems are hard to solve because they become much harder as you make the problem "bigger". It is perfectly possible for problems to be solvable in a reasonable amount of time for small problem sizes, like n=3 that the authors of this article solved.
The paper explains that because bacteria can multiply exponentially, they can multiply until they have enough nodes to solve the problem. Well, there's a problem with that thinking. Bacteria, like computers, need resources. Presumably, if you double the bacteria's food/resources, you will not find an exponential growth in the number of bacteria that can be sustained. If this is true, then there is certainly a problem size that will make using bacteria intractable, which negates the benefits of using bacteria.
The people that wrote the article in the story you mention had no idea what they are talking about.
Peter Gutmann, one of the experts in this area, specifically responded to that article (see further epilogue).
What stops someone from recording a human looking at the page, and then replaying that behavior from a bot?
Also, will humans actually want to send the information needed for this to remote websites? I don't really want a website to know what part of the page I'm looking at.
I am growing increasingly annoyed with people not knowing how to moderate. Likewise, appearently a number of people can't meta-moderate either, because the stupid moderators are still being allowed to moderate. And thus, I present definitions of the "big words" that stupid moderators appearently don't understand.
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