That at least makes 2 of us. I was hoping someone could chime in and explain things so that my understanding would be expanded.

While not the original poster I figured that it would be applicable in the EU but I got lost at the USA and India parts. The article is pretty thin on details and only mentions that it was an EU National court ruling so I fail to see how that makes it applicable in the US or outside of the EU. I am not well versed in EU law so even there I just assume that this ruling would be applicable EU wide but don't know if that is actually the case.

Coffee cans rust. For stable hiding money from the govenment I would suggest getting some mason jars and using stainless steel lids with the silicon gaskets. If worried that metal detectors will find it then get some PVC pipe, cap one end with a fixed cap and the other with a screw on cap. Put in some of those air activated hand warmers to scavenge air and other off gassings and bury that.

Heavy graphics processing usually involving stacking and or stitching very large 16bpc images will. I've been doing that on a box with 32GB of ram with a SSD with 128GB allocated for swap space. A great example is stacking astro images. I don't have an equatorial mount but my camera has some tracking built in. So instead of taking 60x180s images like most would do I will take 200x30s images or even before I was able to enable the tracking, didn't have the camera add on at first, 2000x1s and then stack them. The raw images were 24megapixel images at 14bpc. Now go align and stack 2000 of them and see how much memory it consumes.

I think the solution to that is just have a bunch of people driving around in old British Leyland vehicles with original Lucas generators, points, coils, and plugs. The amount of EM interference from those would likely damage all of the modern sensitive spy equipment.

They would probably be classed as a destructive device.

Since symmetric key ones are resistant, just increase the key length which is why there is a required 256 bit option for all AES entrants, you want to look at asymmetric key crypto. Here there are 2 main options available. The first is Lattice-based crypto and the other is Multivariate crypto. Both defeat Shor's algorithm which is the one to be worried about with asymmetric key crypto.

Quantum computers are not non-deterministic Turing machines that can magically solve and verify a NP problem in P time. However they do offer a substantial speed improvement. Looking at symmetric key encryption schemes a quantum computer can use Grover's Algorithm to speed up key cracking and the speed up is impressive but no where near going from NP to P. So instead of taking 2^N attempts it will take 2^(N/2) attempts. Because the algorithm was known when AES was being designed the competition specified that there be a 256 bit key length option because cracking a 256 bit key on a quantum computer is as difficult as cracking a 128 bit key is on classical computers, and that would take a sizeable portion of the total US annual energy output to accomplish on an ideal computer which we are very far from.

For most asymmetric key crypto schemes there is Shor's Algorithm which basically makes RSA and EC symmetric key encryption pointless but there are schemes like Lattice-based crypto or Multivariate crypto that resist Shor's Algorithm and other known attacks from quantum and classical computers. EC crypto is really weak against quantum computers, much worse than RSA, so should not be looked to as a solution.

It is mostly the mythology around a very good very old version of something. A great modern violin will sound much the same as a Stradivarius but is also made of the same materials, has the same dimensions, and was also created by a master violin maker. The cheap ones like my oldest is learning on sound terrible but my wife's one or my kid's teacher's one sound great. It isn't just the player either as his cheap one sounds like crap when one of them plays it too.

Given their location I'm thinking Rainier, with St. Helens and Hood being other viable alternatives. Although the only one showing any life is St. Helens so I guess it is going to have to be a drop height sort of thing.

Even if they used a cheap old DSLR it would still stomp on phone camera+zoom attachment. I picked up a cheap long discontinued consumer super zoom lens (tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3) as a beater lens and went and decided to play with it on my old DLSR this past weekend and image quality wise it is much closer to the high end camera shot than to the iPhone+zoom attachment shot. That camera was an entry level DSLR 10 years ago and I paid about $100 for the body last year and paid $60 for the cheap consumer super zoom lens last week. While a bit on the soft side it isn't anywhere as out of focus as the cell phone+zoom attachment. It also doesn't have the chromatic aberrations that abound in that cellphone shot.

For schools like these it basically means you are dirt poor. I'm actually surprised Rice didn't already have a program like this as so many other schools like them do.

Rice is a private institution so not socialist because it isn't the government. If you are dirt poor they are using their money to cover your tuition. Lots of elite schools do this, hell one of my cousins got into to Brandeis University's economics program and didn't pay a dime for tuition with his parents being a teacher and a physical therapist. What you fail to understand is that elite schools want the best and brightest to graduate from their school even if they are poor. This means that the degrees for the rich fucks who can't find their ass with both hands who also graduate from there are respected.

And those suck but they are better than nothing. While this is a bit absurd, they didn't have to take a flagship pro camera for the test, it does show the difference in quality and should properly set expectations of those add on lenses for cellphones. My advice is to view them like most pro photographers view telephoto converters, most are crap, a few aren't bad, but they are all better than nothing when you really need the extra reach.