Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: I hate pylons

A one off cost of £7.2 billion for removing a blight from massive areas of the UK as well as providing a more reliable system and creating a serious number of jobs?

Fail at economics. Hoovering up £7.2 billion via taxes, immediate or deferred, does not create jobs. It destroys them.

Because there are no female sockets accepting the rugby players' bits?

Re: Snap, crackle and pop

No, it's bullshit and after having covered in fear of the microwave oven, the ElectroCrowd has moved on to demonized "pulsed" energy from mobiles and Wifi "pollution".

This reminds me of a story from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from the early 80s where a kid takes refuge from his abusive father near HV overland lines (his dad can't pursue him there because of a pacemaker). He then acquires the paranormal capability to smell other people's (and animals') emotions.

Well, HV lines were new back then, I imagine.

Re: Stop!

Errr... what? Maybe, but you better stand on on foot for the duration. The voltage differences across your crotch may be painful otherwise.

Re: Not Hidden by Design

First off, all power lines should be buried.

Only someone in charge of other people's money and bereft of knowledge of the vagaries of capacitance can say those things.

It looks heavy and is very static

Gb2 tweeting granny club for a beautiful spotless english landscape

Re: At Last!

You can't prove that but it seems to be a law of nature (see most anything by Scott Aaronson and in particular NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality and this blog entry) Indeed, whenever you think up a physical machine with quantum powers to collapse NP to P, it fails through some unphysical assumptions you need.

As P = NP would actually would mean that things that are easy to check are easy to guess, immense powers of godlike computation would ensue and as this trick is not being performed in nature to all available evidence, the P = NP believers and agnostics have to be firmly placed in the camp of cranks and perpetuum mobilists.

Technically: BQP is strictly smaller than NP.

Re: Don't/Can't people notice these infections?

Did you run CCCleaner and reboot the machine?

Wrong. The "big crunch" is max entropy as at that point, everything has collapsed gravitationally to maximum mixture. At the "big bang", gravitational clumping is minimal, so entropy is very low.

you may be confusing "crunch" with the "heat death" hyothesis where everything gets converted into entropic so-called "heat" energy which just keeps expanding into an empty infinity

"Heat death" means that the universe ages without crunching. Entropy increases constantly until every cm³ of space is just a uniform warm bath of heat and no useful work can be done anymore (this happens after the last black hole has evaporated and possibly the last proton has decayed and/or rest mass has gone to zero for some reason or other). Ultimately, you just have very-low energy photons, and the universe continues to cool off as it expands (OTOH, there would be nothing left to even build a clock with, so is there actually TIME at that point?)

Re: I feel this won't end well because not enough influential people care about old games.

what they have already done with music, movies and books

What did Google do to music, movies and books?

Amazon did more, I think.

Re: Freedom at a price

As a general rule, in Spain if there is no law permitting something it is basically illegal.

It is always good to consider citizens as euthanizable robots of the state apparatus that need a certified upload before they may function. It keeps lengthy discussions at bay.

How does a certain Linux kernel lead fit into that position? He seems to pride himself on being one.

You have to distinguish between Dilbert-type arseholes and the other arseholes.

Also

If you consider the large enterprise, you have policy implemented across a variety of tools. What changes things is the ability to express those controls in a formal way using Chef. That policy as code also comes back into Chef Delivery

Don't tell me logic programming is back en vogue? That would be rad!