Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That will render any attribution process useless. Just like you can disassemble code, you can obfuscate it.
You can fool current attribution software easily. It gets better over time and what you're describing is essentially leads to an arms race of obfuscation software versus attribution software. I wouldn't bet that current obfuscation software would be able to permanently hide all traces of my own composition while keeping the paper coherent.
What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law?
I'm guessing the answer is no ( betteridge's law ) and we are going to stay in the multi-core environment for a while. 128, 256, 512, 1024, ... cores. Though I suspect that is going to run into problems very quickly.
Progress is being made. The price of graphene has come down a lot in recent years. There's a new process by which you can coat a cd with graphite oxide and selectively burn paths of graphene with a LightScribe laser. At this point its pretty trivial to create flakes of graphene at home with some basic chemistry equipment. (enough to make your own 1 farad supercapacitor!)
(I took the Stanford nanoscale materials science class this summer, and we all had a good laugh. Graphene is very interesting, but it’s subject to the hype cycle.)
I guess this is for the nontraditional programmers since computer science is a mathematical field and programming is simply applied mathematics in some sense. I don't see how you could get a CS degree without being competent in mathematics to some degree since CS is a mathematical field.
Why is this news? Everyone does this, including the nytimes. The nytimes marketing department offers their clients on all kinds of identifying/targeting traits for advertising.
From your fashion to your viewing habits to which news you consuming to even the types of pets you have and everything in between is used. Where you work, where you live, what kind of parenting situation you have, etc.
Isn't that the point of political and corporate advertising? Isn't this why the nytimes and cambridge analytica is in business? Is the obvious "news" now because of trump and the "right wing"?
Considering the DNC spent a lot more money than the RNC the past few elections, there are far more organizations who targeted left-wing voters than right-wing voters. But I guess the nytimes doesn't want to write an article about itself and its ad team and their clients.
Actually, he couldn't. He thought he could hide. But we find out in the ministry of truth and room 101 that everything he did "secretly", like writing in his diary or his rendezvous with julia, were known to the authorities.
But I agree, unless we wake up, I think a mix of 1984 and Minority Report style of dystopian future awaits us.
Easy one: stop fucking up Africa. Everyone wonders why piracy is so prevalent there and why it rose when the fish reserves dried up to a point that they were only fishable with giant trawler ships... surprise, European (and iirc also occasional Russian) fish factory ships vastly overfished African seas, the states either did not (due to diplomatic pressure e.g. to cut assistance) or could not (Failed State Somalia) do anything against what essentially is sea piracy.
Europe now finally gets back what it created... same with refugees driven into desperation by European agriculture and textile exports under the guise of "donations" which essentially wiped out the local industry. Hard to compete with "free".
> what is your solution for violent piracy and it's effect on shipping?
This is what I don't understand. The economy of US, Russia, and other naval powers suffers because of piracy. New navy ships need field tests, new sailors need training. We're at peace time, so it's hard to do realistic trials.
Why not just station some navy ships in the pirate-infested areas? Have them hunt down and sink any violent pirate boats. Equip civilian ships with satellite-based "911" signal saying "we're at (lat, lon), we're under attack", so the combat vessels know where to look for targets?
I've read that they (the navies) are reluctant about adding firepower, because the pirates would so the same (or "natural selection" would mean the knife-wielding pirates will stay home and only the AK-47 and RPG-wielding ones will continue), which will mean all the ships would need defending against powerful pirates.
It's a bit like policing in the US.
A sister comment to yours has a saner opinion, I'd add why not fight the African poverty/corruption that cause these people to attack ships.
At one stage, non-armed-forces vessels were being permitted to carry semi- and automatic weapons under very stringent controls. If you imagine those locks on the duty-free drinks trolley on a plane, and upscale it: they could unlock the weapons in defined areas and were permitted to use force to repel attack from unidentified craft.
That obviously invites an arms race with pirates, and probably reduces survivability of the crews. That's why I asked about a different solution - where merchant crews are unarmed, but armed forces provide separate, rapid response service with overwhelming force.
Issue them with letters of marque and give them a list of what to attack, would be the established method. Though I am not sure if that is still considered acceptable.
> Fentanyl only exists on the dark web because of the Chinese labs pumping it out. Wake up!
The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it. If it isn't china producing it, it would be produce elsewhere ( even in the US ). Stop with your scapegoating rhetoric.
> They see this as just revenge for the British selling opium in China.
It wasn't just the british. A huge part of the US industrial and political power derived from colonizing china.
Though I disagree with your fearmongering and your erroneous equating of the US with britain, I do agree that we have to come to terms with china one day over our historical transgressions and their future ambitions. It's inevitable at the very least that china will want the US our of east asia and possibly want retribution for a century of brutal colonization/humiliation/rape of china. How these issues get resolved will determine the future of the US, China and the world in the 21st century.
> The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it.
Unsuspecting people are becoming addicted to Fentanyl because it is being cut into other drugs they are taking without their knowledge. It started with Heroin and has now moved into other drugs. Even Xanax has been found to have Fentanyl in it. So if you think this came about via supply & demand you should do some more research on the topic.
> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born?
"We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We were colonizing china up until 1949.
People truly do not understand how much "we" ( as in the US and imperial europe ) screwed over china. I bet not 1 in a 1000 americans knows that the US were imperial colonizers in china even after ww2.
I see the same comments every time a china topic is posted on HN. I wonder why?
> I don't think it would be far-fetched to assume that some very protected and valuable IP has leeched through our doors and into China's hands.
China has a "technology transfer policy" for foreign companies doing business in china. So if intel has a fab in china, they agreed to the technology transfer.
> In all honestly I really can't fathom how the American government let this deal occur.
Probably because it benefited US companies and the wealthy.
If china is stealing anything, it's here in the US, not from intel who agreed to trade technology for chinese market access.
Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That will render any attribution process useless. Just like you can disassemble code, you can obfuscate it.