Random Thought of the Day

[angry pancake]

Just watched the Daily Show and saw that the puppeteer who portrays Elmo from the sesame street show is a very large and scary black man. I don't know why I always pictured Elmo as being a 4'8" Korean bitch.

I am so fucking disillusioned right now. Eh, probably the narcotics I'm on.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

Originally Posted by angry pancake

scary black man

oxymoron

[Orgazmo]

The A-Hole and the B-Hole are the exact same thing. Yet resign and re-sign are exact opposites.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

I don't follow the 2nd sentence.

[Orgazmo]

To resign from a position means to leave it. To re-sign means to extend a contract and continue.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

What if you have to re-sign a receipt because you put your signature on the wrong line?

[Saint DH]

Then you're a retard.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

What if someone rearranges the letters on a church sign for example, and you have to fix up the letters?

[thekremlin]

What about the stuff you use on your violin bow, but like a g fell in there

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

like this one?

[Ironic Mustache]

RTotD: I'm thinking about starting a shemale magazine and calling it "Rods and Cones."

[Dent]

That's a good name for an Opticians

[Ironic Mustache]

You get jokes!

[Dent]

I get jokes.

[Orgazmo]

As technology continues to increase, the ability to create animations that look quite realistic is starting to become astounding. CG movies are pretty god damned impressive these days.

Soon, it will likely be difficult to tell the difference between a CG film and its real life counterpart. We can already do this with still pictures, for fuck sake.

The thought: Once we can create photo-realistic video, it would, in theory, be possible to make a video of anyone doing anything (or, at least, a video that is identical to a video of anyone doing anything). A Betty White sex tape? No problem. Obama fucking a goat? Sure! The world is your oyster.

The question: Will this be legal? If not, where will the line be drawn? One can make this type of art but not pass it off as genuine? Seems like a good place to draw it, but also allows for some fancy wording to get around that.

[Dent]

Posting a mess without tidying up, none of this makes sense, hopefully it will tomorrow. I think quantum cryptography could be used to spot fake/edited videos/photos/whatever, and it looks like there's been some progress
Attached is the paper in this weeks nature magazine "The ultimate physical limits of privacy" it takes the 20 year old babble i'm trying to understand below further.

Can you keep secrets safe from eavesdroppers? Yes you can, say Artur Ekert and Renato Renner. They argue that recent developments in quantum cryptography, coupled with the fact that we still possess free will, suggest that truly private communication will always be possible, even in a world with access to as yet undiscovered code-breaking technologies. The answer lies in new insights into the nature of randomness and non-local correlations. Thus equipped it should be possible to outsmart even the most powerful surveillance procedures.

Quantum Cryptography Could Make Unbreakable Privacy | LiveScience

The BB84 Protocol - YouTube

The BB84 Protocol - YouTube

Originally Posted by Orgazmo

One can make this type of art but not pass it off as genuine?

Thought about laws on file size, maybe making it illegal to create something so ultra-realistic that the best computer wouldn't be able to spot the fake, it wouldn't take much to trick us as we are now.
Super-minds would probably be pissed off with how pixelated the holograms are and demand better rez.

Uncertainty principle to the rescue?
size 1 = bollocks

Alice is randomly sending polarized photons that can exist in one of two spin states /,\,) and (
(I thought photons only had two spin states, not sure how they get four -I'm right, the surrounding stuff is bollocks!)
through one of two filters + or x, only /\ can pass through the + filter, )( through the x filter.
She notes down both the spin state sent and the filter that corresponds to that spin state used. example : /\)\(/\)(\/\\/)
Filters would be ++x+x++xx+++++x

Alice ->->->-Evesdropping cunt->->->- Bob

Bob doesn't know which filter to use to detect the photon so he chooses randomly, choosing the correct filter half the time and the wrong filter (which will give the correct answer half the time) the other half of the time, 75% of bobs results should be correct. he notes down his results : (\/\\/)

They call each other to discuss bobs findings

The reason this conversation can be public is because of the way it's carried out. Bob calls Alice and tells her which filter he used for each photon, and she tells him whether it was the correct or incorrect filter to use. Their conversation may sound a little like this:

Bob: PlusAlice: Correct
Bob: PlusAlice: Incorrect
Bob: XAlice: Correct

Since Bob isn't saying what his measurements are -- only the type of filter he used -- a third party listening in on their conversation can't determine what the actual photon sequence is.

^ because each filter has two values



6 minute bbc podcast on this today
BBC World Service - Science in Action, First Designer Chromosome , Quantum Cryptography

[Mr. Blonde]

None of this matters. You're probably inside of a simulation. Just accept it and #YOLO, son.

[Dent]

Nick Bostrom doesn't think we're living in a simulation btw.
This could be the end for quantum key cryptography, mind boggling.

Weak Measurement (cont. from Heisenberg's Microscope) - Sixty Symbols - YouTube

Weak Measurement (cont. from Heisenberg's Microscope) - Sixty Symbols - YouTube

A few wiki links related to weak measurement.
Weak measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lev Vaidman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
v not really related but interdasting
Two-state vector formalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Mr. Blonde]

I created you, Dent.

[Dent]

I hope you're forgiven.

[Saint DH]

Originally Posted by Dent

mind boggling.

Kottonmouth Kings - So High - YouTube

Kottonmouth Kings - So High - YouTube

[Saint DH]

Boobs is just poop upside down.

[Mr. Blonde]

Originally Posted by Johnny Richter

Boobs is just poop upside down.

Not with a capital B and an S it isn't. Also, this belongs in High Things my friend. Which I would love to restart...but I don't know Nubblites smoking frequency...

[Dent]

Originally Posted by Dent

Nick Bostrom doesn't think we're living in a simulation btw.
This could be the end for quantum key cryptography, mind boggling.
Weak Measurement (cont. from Heisenberg's Microscope) - Sixty Symbols - YouTube
A few wiki links related to weak measurement.
Weak measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lev Vaidman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
v not really related but interdasting
Two-state vector formalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKlpexL_Hg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaye...quantum_eraser

no paradoxes bitch please

Israelis are so good at physics

[Orgazmo]

Originally Posted by Orgazmo

As technology continues to increase, the ability to create animations that look quite realistic is starting to become astounding. CG movies are pretty god damned impressive these days.

Soon, it will likely be difficult to tell the difference between a CG film and its real life counterpart. We can already do this with still pictures, for fuck sake.

The thought: Once we can create photo-realistic video, it would, in theory, be possible to make a video of anyone doing anything (or, at least, a video that is identical to a video of anyone doing anything). A Betty White sex tape? No problem. Obama fucking a goat? Sure! The world is your oyster.

The question: Will this be legal? If not, where will the line be drawn? One can make this type of art but not pass it off as genuine? Seems like a good place to draw it, but also allows for some fancy wording to get around that.

Can we all appreciate that I foretold Deep Fakes??