FriendlyHacker

Yes, I follow, that's the first thing that came to mind since I've been reading about quantum mechanics almost every day. It's Newton Based, but also works as a wave.

You will find you don't need much hardware to run a Linux based system, even though Ubuntu is one of the slowest. So if you have a good GPU that should be enough. Am building a Distro myself and one of the versions of it will be called "ultimate gaming", where you have the option to play Windows, Android, Wii, Xbox, Playstation and Linux/GNU games or apps. Should take me a few more weeks to get a release out and will need people to test the thing.

Depends, what is it going to be used for? Best tip you can have on building your pc from scratch: Build the entire thing on top of a cardboard box or something, only after it's working fine you move inside the case. Make sure you have your Hard drives already inside the case before adding the motherboard and GPU, and that the memory/processor are already connected to the motherboard, saves you the trouble of adding that later inside the case.

Gravity happens all the time, I don't understand what you mean by tidal forces being non-constant. Maybe you are referring to tidal waves from the Moon, and the reason it's not constant is because the Moon is in an elliptical orbit and not a perfect circle, so sometimes it will be closer/stronger, we are in an elliptical orbit around the Sun too. If both the Sun and the Moon are positioned in the same direction, tidal waves will be stronger as the gravity for both add up, this happens every full moon and new moon. It's not that small objects don't have variation, it's just that we don't have engineering precise enough to measure it.

"The best place to deal with this is law, this is the only actual solution we have." Sounds like a bad joke to me. It is possible to build privacy into systems, people like me are working on it, and even though is not profitable, people are starting to care enough about it that will become profitable. There is a war going on between hackers who work on privacy and security against hackers who work on weapons and surveillance. The scary thing though, is that attacking is always easier, as he mentioned, if you add a new security layer on top of something, the new layer eventually becomes a new breaking point, so security people are losing. Quantum cryptography might be the only hope on the future, is either that or people become sane. He mentions technology people should be regulating technology, the sane ones won't because government always works to increase power, private information is power so don't trust politicians who talk about reducing surveillance. "Data wants to be free", private data shouldn't.

Can't see the video because it says "private", but am pretty sure that this reply will be valid anyway: If you take into account how people actually hack online profiles, you will see that security and privacy are one and the same. That is, people will use your private information to get into one of your email accounts, and from there they can hack every single one of your online accounts. Personal information = power, corporations and governments want lot's of it, so when you see government officials talking about privacy, beware of bullshit, because it usually means they want more power for themselves and less for everyone else.

Looking into the neuroscience of it should be more useful than the usual generic behaviour descriptions.

Are those your definitions of science fields? That was much more entertaining than the usual description.

I confess I haven't read the whole topic. But my reply to this sentence probably sums it up what I feel the issue is here: "there is no experiment a person could conduct in a small volume of space that would distinguish between a gravitational field and an equivalent uniform acceleration'' Albert Einstein Of course that is correct, if you can pick a feather from the ground that means your body is more powerful than the combined gravity of the entire planet. So obviously that is not what Einstein suggested as an experiment 100 years ago. What Einstein suggested to test his theory was that astronomers would take pictures of the stars behind the Sun during a total eclipse, since the light of the Sun would normally prevent the stars to be seen, then the theory predicts that the Sun's gravity would bend space and the light around it, making the stars seem to be located on a very precise different position. And he was right, the light did bend around the Sun.Now the reason I've explained this, is because the people who often try to disprove relativity, are actually the ones that have no idea what they are talking about. So make sure you understand what is it that you're criticizing so you don't make a fool of yourself by claiming to be smarter than Einstein.

Maybe watching cartoons about mouses that can talk and people who are immune to death, pain and injury has made dumber, but I will never know. Certainly dealing with religious people has made me dumber, not because I was ever religious, but because having to deal with them slows you down.

Don't push things, make them curious about it and they will demand to know. Ex: You start reading a book they really enjoy, when it gets to the best part you stop and leave the book around, they will WANT to pick up the book and start reading, because the feeling of incompleteness about not knowing the end will be distressing. Teach people self education, the best skill you can have is the ability to teach yourself anything. That's akin to saying the person will learn to adapt to every situation.

I wouldn't believe a diagnose even if it came straight out a psychiatrist's mouth, these "doctors" are not evidence based and can't diagnose a brain disorder if all they do is talk. Now if you have a behavioural problem, that only means people around you might find your behaviour annoying and some would wish you started taking medication so you are too doped to get in their nerves. And if you do have a behavioral issue it's possible to learn how to modify your own behaviour. I scored 20 BTW.

If a kid is majorly pissed off, Doctor may call it firstborn syndrome, antisocial personality disorder, oppositional defiant disorder or ADHD. But what do all those things have in common?

I haven't met many people who understand what the word narcissism means and certainly none of the narcissist people I've met would admit to it. Lately you don't have to wait someone to mention it, you can just visit their social profile and see a bunch of pictures of themselves plus the self-absorbed comments.

"Some people just want to see the world burn" The Joker Specially if bitcoin undermines their power (banks). It's not unrealistic at all to have a larger botnet than honest nodes, we already have that, it's called Windows.

If bitcoin money can be generated by robots, odds are not very good this new currency will survive. A malicious hacker could effectively crash the market with a large enough botnet. It also incentivizes problem solvers to spend their time going outside the law and causing harm, instead of helping people with new technologies that make life easier. I don't know much anything about bitcoin, but read this post and tell me if what I said above is possible: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/

How do you spot a fake smile? The smile is not in the mouth, it's in the eyes.http://youtu.be/oSs_6B6MDpo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFd_ExZ0ag&t=23m39sPay special attention when she starts crying. Have you ever seen someone cry without shedding a single tear? She keeps looking to the sides to see if people are falling for it, and smirking when she realizes people bought it.Also note the look of her husband when she starts crying, he is not actually feeling sorry for her, that is the face of someone who has seen the act a few hundred times.Learn how to read body language, and you will be able to avoid people like this. Remember that holier than thou attitudes are a red flag, this is constantly seen in religious circles where the one who acts the most religiously benevolent is usually trying to hide the true self. If you pay attention, you can tell real caring and giving from faking it. And even if you don't pay attention, you usually identify such persons anyway. If you have an uneasy feeling about someone, trust your feelings, because you might not consciously realize the person is a fraud, but deep down you know it.

If you learn enough about society you're bound to become an outcast. When you can't unlearn what's been learned, ignorance will seem blissful. Being smart and curious is all fine and dandy, until you're burned on the stake for it. Read the Hacker's Manifesto: http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3

Maybe what people like you and me think about the properties of hemp is irrelevant, because we are not informed enough to have an opinion: Given what I said above, why people care so much about what politicians and Hollywood artists think about it, instead of asking the neuroscientists and MD's?

Or, hear me out on this, how about there is no downvote feature, and nobody has to waste any time with it? Isn't that brilliant?Because, you know, there is the report button already and any bad post can be reported anyway.

Let's say I'm an annoying troll and am very glad you mentioned this, because I can go around the forum and downvote each one of your posts. Even if there is a limit of how many downvotes you can do a day, would take a few days to get you banned, or a single day on multiple accounts.

It deals with numbers as waves. Quantum computing = waves of probability.

Quantum computing is not binary, it's the probability of 1 or 0 or 0 and 1 at the same time.