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by beloch 15y ago
The old Canadian bills already had a braille-like pattern of raised dots that allow blind people to identify denominations without assistance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_currency_tactile_featu... Hopefully the new bills will re
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by beloch 15y ago
Also worth noting: The more effort the ISP's put into this initiative the more it costs them in terms of labor and upset customers. It therefore seems pretty obvious that the optimal solution for an ISP is to join the program but put in th
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by beloch 15y ago
The biggest problems preventing Linux from gaining mainstream market share have nothing do with the actual software. 1. MS and Apple are both fantastic marketers (although Apple has been doing better than MS as of late) and throw massive am
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by beloch 15y ago
D-Wave has been operating under heavy-duty NDA's for a long time. I know of at least two published authors in quantum physics who have signed an NDA and been given the grand tour. I know one well enough to have asked him what he thought w
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by beloch 16y ago
"Groups such as the Business Software Alliance have acknowledged that Canada is a low-piracy country" This statement is in stark contrast to the story the U.S. government tells. They claim Canada is one of the five worst countries for pira
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by beloch 16y ago
I like mathematica for stream-of-consciousness type stuff. Personal notes rather than something I'd publish. I can code up some functions, try a few things, show the important results, and talk about it with typeset equations all in the sa
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by beloch 16y ago
There are some that dabble in a limited fashion. e.g. D-Wave, which has attracted the business of companies like google. However, private companies typically do not engage in long-term research that isn't likely to lead to directly commerc
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by beloch 16y ago
Quantum crypto and classical crypto are both susceptible to faults in implementation. Big freakin' deal. Here's why Quantum crypto is the future: If you encode something via any classical crypto system (e.g. RSA) it's usually based on som
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by beloch 16y ago
I work in cryptography. This field has taught me something rather applicable here: It is far better to know your secrets are in the hands of your enemy than it is to not know when they are in the hands of your enemy. If your secret stuff i
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by beloch 16y ago
High frequency trading is under pretty high powered scrutiny at present. I fully expect legislation implementing trade reforms that will render the practice worthless in the very near future, whether it's frequency limits or per-transactio
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by beloch 16y ago
After you show her the retina display, show her the HTC Evo display. "OOooo... I can actually read some of the text on that one!" she'll say. Pixel density is nice and all, but a lot of people would rather have a bigger screen. This illust
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by beloch 16y ago
A university CS program that only teaches you how to code is nothing more than a technical degree. Some universities do this. Many, besides MIT, do not. They should teach everything from hardware architecture to compiler design to basic
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by beloch 16y ago
My point was that you don't need Quantum computing to break all existing crypto algorithms within a couple decades. QC just makes matters that much worse. (Downplaying Quantum Computing ostrich-style is very popular in classical crypto circ
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by beloch 16y ago
One point I think crypto-people need to hammer home to non-crypto audiences is that they should not encrypt and transmit anything that will remain sensitive for more than 5-10 years via any form of encryption relying on factoring, one-way h
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by beloch 17y ago
Problem: 1 in 9 black men are in jail, 1 in 3 will wind up an ex-con. What's a black lady to do? Solution: Stop being a friggin' racist and try dating men who aren't black.
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by beloch 17y ago
Authentication is hard. It's not a new problem at all. You can go to a great deal of trouble performing secure key distribution, but if you don't have a way of knowing you're doing it with who you think you're doing it with, you're basica
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by beloch 17y ago
If a teacher of either gender feels "math anxiety" when reading a receipt or teaching elementary school math, they probably shouldn't be a teacher. I honestly don't care about what gender stereotypes girls are picking up. The fact that te