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Comment: Re:Depends... (Score 1) 128

by moteyalpha (#39356661) Attached to: The Average Consumer Thinks Data Privacy Is Worth Around 65 Cents
That explains the DARPA contract for $0.65 that was let to secure the federal data bases and diplomatic cables. As far as privacy goes for any data including SSN, I think that boat sailed long ago. It depends on who is collecting the data and how much processing power they have. I would imagine that various governments have massive exclusionary data bases on people in their country as well as others. If every body else but me is in the data base, it isn't too difficult to figure out the missing data.

Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 387

by moteyalpha (#35060434) Attached to: <em>The Hidden Reality</em> Draws Ire From Physicists
I agree it is not science since there is no observable, but as the GP says, it doesn't hurt to consider things that might spark imagination. I can think of conjoined multiverses that act in the same way as something like a DNA with a SNP that happens 1 in 4 billion and the reverse SNP that happens 1:16 billon billion creating the same universe with two paths to the same point. I think the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_the_Imperium among others considered the subject long ago.
This multiverse is so pedantic.

Comment: Re:Anyone else have this idea? (Score 1) 225

by moteyalpha (#35024022) Attached to: Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border

So I suppose next we might find a tunnel that is one mile down and 40 miles under the border to breach the "castle walls" of the united states?

I was thinking more along the lines of a pack rat with a stomach full of packages as a drug mule. Wow, that is an odd combination of analogies once written. Of course the droppings might rat them out.

Comment: Re:Infinite loop (Score 0) 142

by moteyalpha (#34968382) Attached to: Is Retaliation the Answer To Cyber Attacks?
It is worse than that. One of 500,000,000 threads on the Intertubes.
void CyberAttackInit(char *Target){
bool Attacked;
if (httpTraffic>1000){Attacked=TRUE;}
if (Attacked==TRUE){attackAllAttackers();}
}
I would guess that it would go from one attack or mistake to a deadlock in nanoseconds. It wouldn't end until somebody burned up or hit a bandwidth limit. One person could set off the entire internet in a single prompt critical. We should really create more situations like this that can be memorialized like the Morris worm.
damn, it won't compile with -Wall -Werror

Comment: The machines will be happy (Score 1) 386

by moteyalpha (#34966466) Attached to: Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria
This makes me wonder about an economy that takes biological material and uses it to fuel inanimate extension and use.
It seems a little like the Matrix, where people are just biofuel for the machines. Since we have IBM Watson , bot nets, robots that kill, and drones that can operate independently, the Terminators need a continuous fuel supply to eradicate the last of those pests that infect their energy chain.
-- John Connor

Comment: Re:Energy requirements? (Score 1) 348

by moteyalpha (#34918524) Attached to: The Prospects For Lunar Mining
There is an open source project to go to the moon as well as Google funded x-prize and it seems reasonable that if one was to land a robot on the moon that having a power source that could support two way communication and a means to reload a robot's microcode via that link, that it would be more effective and if properly designed could support self manufacturing similar to some RepRap like circular process or the fact that a lathe can be used to create a lathe. I will probably look into the liquid-gas phase relationships of some common gases and the effectiveness of a permanent magnet inside a magnetic enclosure that functioned as a reverse rail gun to produce energy. It sounds like a fun thing to do as an exercise in mechanics.
I would think that having little robots driven by a TCP/IP link and with their own IPV6 addresses that it would be a great VR game that people would pay to play and might even make a profit mining for He3. It would seem that many people will mine imaginary materials in games.

Comment: Re:Energy requirements? (Score 1) 348

by moteyalpha (#34917554) Attached to: The Prospects For Lunar Mining

hahahahaahhahaahhaha no.

<humor> I am assuming that the "h and a" somehow represent an genetic sequence in the form GCAT in a binary form where ha=10 ah=01 and that this is the microcode implementation vector whose phenotype calculates the navier-stokes, the energy transfer of a spherical permanent magnet, the temperature difference and energy transfer using Fourier as well as the analysis of a Carnot engine cycle. I must also assume that the no. represents the number output, which if I read correctly is 10101010011010011010 and is 698010. </humor>
Perhaps I am mistaken.

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