neverutterwhen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Wait...WTF, crypto dead? P=NP? (Score 1) 61

by neverutterwhen on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:13AM (#47065049) Attached to: First Browser-Based Quantum Computer Simulator Released

Hold on a minute. If it's possible to simulate qubits using, at the bottom, bits, and, if qubits and quantum computing allow for performing NP calcs in parametric time (and hence breaking crypto), then haven't we already been able to do all of these things for decades?

Oblig xkcd - http://www.xkcd.com/505/

Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? 561

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 15, 2010 @12:46PM from the you-ever-see-the-back-of-a-$20-bill-on-sound? dept.

ehrichweiss writes "The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics is warning parents and teachers of a new threat to our children: sounds. Apparently kids are now discovering binaural beats and using them to get 'physiological effects.' The report goes on with everyone suggesting that such aural experiences will act as a gateway to drug usage and even has one student claiming there are 'demons' involved. Anyone who has used one of those light/sound machines knows all about the effects that these sounds will give and to state that they will lead kids to do drugs is nonsense at best. It seems the trend in scaring the citizens with a made-up problem has gone to the next level."

Nuclear Power Could See a Revival 415

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @03:34AM from the comforting-bremsstrahlung-glow dept.

shmG writes "As the US moves to reduce dependence on oil, the nuclear industry is looking to expand, with new designs making their way through the regulatory process. No less than three new configurations for nuclear power are being considered for licensing by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The first of them could be generating power in Georgia by 2016."

Comment Re:I see the problem (Score 1) 280

by neverutterwhen on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:33PM (#27481567) Attached to: April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site

I don't know how it works in America, but under English law there are defined tracing rules that govern what gets spent where. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_(law)

Comment Re:How Social Software Can Improve Democracy (Score 0, Redundant) 182

by neverutterwhen on Monday November 10, 2008 @01:02AM (#25696901) Attached to: How Social Software Can Improve Democracy

Umm, did you really just say that? First, the UK didn't exist in 1215. Second, there is absolutely no way in which you can argue that England has been a republic since 1215.

Comment Re:How Social Software Can Improve Democracy (Score 2, Informative) 182

by neverutterwhen on Sunday November 09, 2008 @07:20PM (#25698147) Attached to: How Social Software Can Improve Democracy

I didn't say that. I just don't think the Magna Carta had the effect you think it did. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 on the other hand was about when power shifted from the Crown to Parliament, legally anyway. Obviously the Civil War etc had huge practical effects before that. What Magna Carta did was to introduce the concept of the rule of law; it did not arrogate the powers of the monarch to the barons/representatives or whatever it is you're trying to say. I see your point, but you can't keep repeating the phrase 'Magna Carta', especially as we got rid of it just now.

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