Now that teleporting is a reality - what price the firewall or lots of threads brought together
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 by Alternate Setting | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Two years ago in Australia scientists reported the first successful teleporting of a laser beam encoded with data from one location to another. There is a small downside, it basically involves making a copy which is then transported at the cost of 'losing' the original.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/australia_teleport_020618.html
It occurs to me that if we should ever get to the unlikely stage of transporting atoms and then people it is not entirely a thing to be welcomed and that some method would be necessary to prevent unwanted intrusions. Long (and purposefully) lost relatives dropping in at awkward moments, spelling obsessives suddenly appearing over your shoulder and refusing to leave until you'd edited and re-posted your thread.
A wave of unexplained disappearances of confectionary and only the faintest hint of Catsan in the air to give a clue as to who may have took it. Dedicated thread followers will know that the cow with the parasol is far too busy trying to find new batteries for its flashlight at the outer ring of the Galaxy to appear in this post.
So given this glimpse into tomorrow's world now that teleporting is a reality - what price a firewall ?
Oh yeh nearly forgot about Old Crab (sorry) for OC it wouldn't be an issue - he'd use a scuttlecraft
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http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/australia_teleport_020618.html
It occurs to me that if we should ever get to the unlikely stage of transporting atoms and then people it is not entirely a thing to be welcomed and that some method would be necessary to prevent unwanted intrusions. Long (and purposefully) lost relatives dropping in at awkward moments, spelling obsessives suddenly appearing over your shoulder and refusing to leave until you'd edited and re-posted your thread.
A wave of unexplained disappearances of confectionary and only the faintest hint of Catsan in the air to give a clue as to who may have took it. Dedicated thread followers will know that the cow with the parasol is far too busy trying to find new batteries for its flashlight at the outer ring of the Galaxy to appear in this post.
So given this glimpse into tomorrow's world now that teleporting is a reality - what price a firewall ?
Oh yeh nearly forgot about Old Crab (sorry) for OC it wouldn't be an issue - he'd use a scuttlecraft
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Alternate Setting
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:13 AM
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:13 AM
Yea - someone gets me - and this time not with a butterfly net .
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Aleatoric
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:43 AM
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:43 AM
Aleatoric teleports in from another thread, doesn't see any chocolate, and teleports back out 
Alternate Setting
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:03 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:03 AM
There was chocolate - hey is that Catsan I smell again ?
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Aleatoric
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:10 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:10 AM
The operative word is *was*. I guess I was too late for the chocolate, must have been Fuzzy again 
Alternate Setting
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:15 AM
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:15 AM
I've always been under the impression that Fuzzy was an innocent pawn, a catspaw if you will - if only we could find the cunning mind behind this innocent and well respected moderator 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:50 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:50 AM
That sounds dangerously close to calling one of the mods his 'pimp' Wonder which mod has a pimpmobile? 
Wonder which mod has a pimpmobile? 
DesignCaddy
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:55 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:55 PM
gratz, logic. you just killed bush's approval ratings!
Alternate Setting
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:27 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:27 PM
Hold on, Bush is approving the ratings - what user level is he ?
Alternate Setting
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:12 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:12 PM
I must have gained a little of the ESP that goes around here cos yesterday the technology moved on again and properties from one atom were moved into another without any physical link.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-16-atomic-teleport_x.htm
(yes, I know thats a physical link)
"The breakthrough may not yet make it possible for people to disappear and reappear somewhere else, like actors in a science fiction television show. But it could help lead to "quantum computing" technology that would make superfast computers".
Quantum states include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field.
"We've done it for the first time with massive particles, with atoms," Rainer Blatt, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Alternate Setting provides additional material just cos its polite to do so:-
"With 7,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 atoms in the typical human body, it would take ten billion years to teleport them all, says Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of Wales, Bangor"
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-16-atomic-teleport_x.htm
(yes, I know thats a physical link
)"The breakthrough may not yet make it possible for people to disappear and reappear somewhere else, like actors in a science fiction television show. But it could help lead to "quantum computing" technology that would make superfast computers".
Quantum states include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field.
"We've done it for the first time with massive particles, with atoms," Rainer Blatt, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Alternate Setting provides additional material just cos its polite to do so:-
"With 7,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 atoms in the typical human body, it would take ten billion years to teleport them all, says Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of Wales, Bangor"
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Alternate Setting
Reply #13 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:01 AM
Reply #13 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:01 AM
A particularly appropriate quote (source Lao-Tse) philosophy of the Tao or way. Also I note that Jafo isn't above ripping from the Chinese.
Alternate Setting looks down to check thickness of ice.
Unsure - runs for the hills
Alternate Setting looks down to check thickness of ice.
Unsure - runs for the hills
Alternate Setting
Reply #15 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:27 AM
Reply #15 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:27 AM
Just for using the word 'hence' :-
©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo
I've abused your copyright
Alternate Setting double checks for cracks in Ice and still unsure returns to hills.
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©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo
I've abused your copyright
Alternate Setting double checks for cracks in Ice and still unsure returns to hills.
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Jafo
Reply #16 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:51 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:51 AM
Help....I'm being abused.....can't you see the violence inherent in the system?
Ok...so it 'should' be 'repressed' but that wouldn't make sense....
IPlural
Reply #18 Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:03 AM
Reply #18 Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:03 AM
http://www.dhmo.org/ this cracked me up... I was just logged into Scientifc America and there was a short write up on this site....
read the site, if you know what it is, don't say anything for a bit
this cracked me up... I was just logged into Scientifc America and there was a short write up on this site....read the site, if you know what it is, don't say anything for a bit
Jafo
Reply #19 Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:09 AM
Reply #19 Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:09 AM
Yes...I saw that not too long ago...always worth a giggle...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:03 AM