Bryan Packer - Slashdot User

Comment Re:dat justice (Score 1) 297

by Bryan Packer on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:24PM (#43953645) Attached to: Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists

From the article it appears that he is being charged with hacking the school website in order to upload the video, not being charged for preserving the content for authorities.

That being said, I still think the relative sentences are really out of whack, and that rapists (even juveniles) should absolutely be more harshly punished than hackers who do not hack in a way that causes significant harm.

The funny part, if you actually read the article, is that HE didn't even hack the website. The person who did contacted him and admitted it. The FBI seized his computers to get that evidence and are charging him as an accessory.

Submission + - Scientists question whether quantum computer really is quantum (npr.org) 1

Submitted by gbrumfiel on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @08:09AM

gbrumfiel writes: Last week, Google and NASA announced a partnership to buy a new quantum computer from Canadian firm D-Wave Systems. But NPR news reports that many scientists are still questioning whether new machine really is quantum. Long-time critic and computer scientist Scott Aaronson has a long post detailing the current state of affairs. At issue is whether the 512 quantum bits at the processor's core are "entangled" together. Measuring that entanglement directly destroys it, so D-Wave has had a hard time convincing skeptics. As with all things quantum mechanical, the devil is in the details.

Still it may not matter: D-Wave's machine appears to be far faster at solving certain kinds of problems, regardless of how it works.

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