Almost 12% of internet users are accessing Google over IPv6, and that figure is growing exponentially[0]. The users are already there, and our apps need to start using IPv6 more.
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The minimum free energy that must be expended to operate a computer is theoretically very close to zero, since it is not strictly necessary to use irreversible primitives[0], such as NAND gates, which is something that we do in traditional computers. For irreversible elements the theoretical requirement is about kT*ln(2) at temperature T. DNA uses about 100 kT per bit copied.
I really recommend that you take a look at Feynman's introduction to quantum computing[1].
[0] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/pa...
[1] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall05/frs119/pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...
I can tell you that they don't do it in most European countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did it in a few places (like the UK).
The big difference between analog and digital is that with analog, you can simply stuff it in a box and it will stay there. With digital, you have to take the time every now and then to make sure that you don't lose that stuff. And do you really think that you (or someone else, when you are gone) will be doing that properly? I mean, you will most likely have forgotten why that stuff was even "important" in a few years.
There's so much great stuff our generation is going to lose, simply because we'll forget to migrate our backups.
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...
What they are talking about is a pretty big deal, it's a huge deal. What we're going through now is a quiet redefinition of the concept of ownership of property, and that is quite frankly something that we should be having a public and very open debate about. And we need to have it now; in a few years it will be too late.
Imho one thing that the Signal project suffers from -- and that a lot of open-source projects suffer from -- is poor documentation. They need document their protocol better, to make it easier for third parties to integrate with their system.
Signal still lacks a working desktop client (no, the one that you can use if you're running Chrome doesn't count), and I'm sure tons of people would be eager to do stuff like provide integration for Pidgin if only there was better documentation.
You know, there is a reason people went to the press -- it's because when they followed the official route they were ignored, threatened and had the full force of the US government turned against them. I suggest you read up on people like William Binney and Thomas Drake, before you so lightly dismiss people who have lost their careers and more, fighting for your freedom.
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/22/333741495/before-snowden-the-w...
> Binney says he and two other NSA colleagues who also quit tried sounding the alarm with congressional committees. But because they did not have documents to prove their charges, nobody believed them. Snowden, he says, did not repeat that mistake.
> "He recognized right away, it was very clear to me, that if he wanted anybody to believe him, he'd have to take a lot of documentation with him — which is what he did," Binney says.
To be fair, a lot of the progress in recent years has been due to taking a different approach to solving the problem, and not just due to pure computing power. Due to the way go works, you can't do what we do with chess and try all combinations, no matter how powerful of a computer you have. Using deep learning, we have recently helped computers develop what you might call intuition -- they're now much better at figuring out when they should stop going deeper into the tree (of all possible combinations).
That is arguable. Austria certainly wanted war with Serbia, but a world war? Absolutely not. Germany certainly didn't want a war, but in the event that war was coming, they were more or less forced to mobilize.
In fact, if you read the writings of the day, there were a lot of people saying that globalization (they didn't call it that) made a world war was impossible, because it was in no one's economic interest. Basically, all of the arguments that people use today to explain why war between the United States and China is impossible -- people used back back then.
> A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars.
http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...
It's the politics of fear. I wish there was something we could do about it.
Sadly, the best way to do this is to make it less profitable for them to employ these business practices. And there are only two ways for you to do that: don't buy their products and force them to spend more money per sale (i.e. waste their time).
> At the Soviet Aviation Day demonstrations at the Tushino Airfield, ten Bison bombers were flown past the reviewing stand, then flew out of sight, quickly turned around, and flew past the stands again with eight more, presenting the illusion that there were 28 aircraft in the flyby. Western analysts extrapolated from the illusionary 28 aircraft, judging that by 1960 the Soviets would have 800.
To be fair, he does have a black swan event in the form of the Mule.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...
This has largely been offset by the fact that we're sending more and more data over the wire. The average web site is now 2.1MB in size.[0]
[0] http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/16/technology/web-slow-big/
I understand that they got a warrant for the server, but can it really be so broad so that it gives them the legal right to hack into any computer that visits the site?