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But don't we already have laws/processes that allow that sort of sentence scaling?

My understanding is the quantum cryptography assures you that the person you are communicating with is connected to the receiver side of the "quantum connection". Whether the person sitting there is Alice or Eve depends on how many men with guns you've hired to guard the receiver side of the communication.

If you're satisfied with the security of the receiver side then the quantum connection means you never have to hand-deliver another one-time pad in briefcase.

If anyone is jailed for this, it would be for fraud or illegal gambling not "Starcraft".

http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/seam-video.asp

The reddit blog discussed the issue recently.

They claim it is not an EC2 issue, but simply the site getting bigger than it was designed to.

Their lastest entry discusses why they switched to cassandra. I guess we'll wait for next week to see if the expected performance benefits materialize.

The Chinese are more likely to take herbal medicines even when not sick. It's more of a prevention philosophy versus the reaction philosophy of treating symptoms. There are also many illnesses that are essentially only in the mind which can be sufficiently treated with placebos.

(I realize this is somewhat an "Ignorance is bliss" type argument, but I'm just pointing out that sometimes you can't tell people that it's just in their head since they won't believe you (that too is in their head).)

The next digit is 4.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=find+substring+in+digits+of+p

http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery

I feel like the Chinese are doing it right. Chinese traditional medicine is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture, but they have no hesitation in adopting western medicine when necessary.

Traditional medicine for prevention and getting people to regularly pay attention to their health and see doctors.

Modern medicine for those times where there is no herbal treatment.

Best of both worlds.

I was in a course with a similar requirement. While it was free of "cuz," "iz," and other texting abbreviation practices, it was *full* of chat room or forum commonalities, such as "lol" and emoticons. This was master's level work, and it horrified me. On a tangent thought, how about the cryptography skills of these kids? Encoding and decoding messages is part of their everyday skill set.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.world.watching/index.html

The balloon boy story was pretty much fluff anyway, but they quoted twitterers and redditors.

Why do something manually when you can do it automatically?

I agree that the approach isn't useful for something like pill schedules. I think the intent is for general events. Something more along the lines of "Went to the park with grandchildren in the afternoon", "Saw old friend today", "Celebrated 87th birthday at favourite restaurant", and "Witnessed beautiful sunset last night".

I thought that's what slashdot comments were for?

And if you did have a braindead tripwire like that, it would have jumped on the fact that fuck is in the url in the summary.

Neither me nor aedes work for reddit. We were simply reporting what was known at the time to prevent further spreading and panicking users (people were thinking they were going to get banned for spamming, worrying about loss of karma, et cetera).

The admins acted within an hour. KeyserSosa is an admin, his username is highlighted in red and has a [A] next to it.