Re: Respect?
Not Nethanyahu? FUCK THE EU!
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Exactly. And when you use stuff like Java, bugs (and security flaws of course) are a built-in feature, but unlike in C there's sod all the developer can do about it.
The problem ----> XXXX
Your head -------> o .... "waaah stop liking Java, it's shit!!"
Writing complex code in C in 2015 is quackery and incompetence. Or a manifestation of ego problems. Deal with it.
Time to go really brownshirt on these wannabe Butlerian Jihadis before someone decides he is the reincarnation of Unabomber and someone gets killed.
It's not like we don't have enough real problems hitting the fans. We don't need invented ones imagined by an idiot in need of publicity like Elon Musk and a few confused retards taking up a manufactured cause.
Sinatra dependency rack-protection
I suppose this is not something for women so why the hell is it a dependency on whatever authentication scheme is being implemented? What happened to straightforward simple shit that someone can understand and audit?
"Modern" programming: "Dependencies, dependencies, dependencies"?
With no checks.
The mission of this gTLD, .dev, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which Google can enact second-level domains specific to its projects in development.
Contents of .dev, circa 2020:
beta1.dev
foreverbeta.dev
ohnonotagain.dev
funnycoloredballs.dev
discontinued.dev
onyourownnow.dev
beta.dev
betabeta.dev
notevenalpha.dev
subbeta.dev
buggybeta.dev
worksbutoverysoonover.dev
nobodycares.dev
closedsoon.dev
funkydaygloproject.dev
betafoo.dev
betabar.dev
rebetaed.dev
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Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields connect, disconnect, and reconfigure explosively, releasing bursts of energy that can reach the order of billions of megatons of trinitrotoluene
Can anyone explain this? It is nice to say "magnetic fields disconnect" but this does not evoke anything of substance - magnetic field lines are always closed loops around electric currents. So should NASA rather be talking about the dual, currents in space (born by ion streams I imagine) that snake around wildly? And where do these billions of megatons go? I suppose, radio waves?
Researchers theorize that the principles of magnetic reconnection and the energy release they generate are a significant force throughout the universe including the acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Not in this solar system. Near supernovas and neutron stars, more like. And possibly inside cloistered chambers inhabited by politicians.
“The idea that she will be pervasive is important to us,” Ash said.
It is not a "she" and is Ash really an android?
Microsoft was accused of making a communications blunder and mishandling the situation.
I am sure the people responsible, once fired, will be happily taken up by the Obama administration and the State Depratment.
Google/Netflix/Facebook aren't broadband operators
"Microsoft released a comprehensive security fix in 2010 to address the vulnerability the Stuxnet virus exploited. As technology is always changing, so are the tactics and techniques of cybercriminals."
Not really to the point and sounds suspiciously like a politician trying to drown the latest scandal by stringing words together that at first reading nearly make sense but actually don't.
I wonder what the next excuse for another "easily access all areas" security "failure" will be.
Obama estimated that the government will bring in $100m by adding a charge onto the the H1-B
Frankly, he could get those 100m by looking under the lorry that leaves the Federal Reserve printshop on a daily basis.
I think the upper echelon really thinks people are utterly retarded. Oh wait, they are.
Workload management softer refines these data flows
There is nothing more satisfying than softening up the salespeople in the early morning through workflow management. It's like being on the business end of a rolling 155mm howitzer barrage. And then the M1A1s come.
Or this
You don’t get to replace the precise predictions of QM by slippery verbal reasons-why-you’re-not-yet-proven-wrong that change from one experiment to the next. Instead, you need to replace QM by an alternate mathematical theory that
(1) also describes anything that could possibly happen to a many-particle quantum system (not just one particular thing),
(2) agrees with all experiments that have already been done, but
(3) unlike QM, does not require an exponentially-large Hilbert space.
YOU HAD ONE JOB. "Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science" doesn't even manage to get the pants up.
the idea that action might happen at a distance
Because "admitting" that will lead you to the interesting idea that action can happen backwards in time and fuck you up six ways to sunday (just change the reference frame), so you better let it drop. And then you do your experiments and find that your system under observation clerarly cannot have any classical state before you squirt the classical bits out of it (see this) and you have to move the paper-writing hidden variabilists, oil droplets and all, to the "fun but not really relevant" category. Like with the winners of the special olympics you politely applaud but you don't tell them they did something amazing or shed new light on stuff. Bohm was there, he tried and came up with a Rube Goldberg device which is just a conceptual clusterfuck, only to be in accord with experimental results. The Occam Hair Transplantation procedure, as it were.
Enough.
Im too lazy to pursue the classical handwaving into adequate equations, but I notice the FAIL at the last sentence:
And if reality is analogue all the way down, then quantum computers are just analogue computers, so their failure to deliver magical results is unsurprising. In fact, we'd rather see it as evidence that the emergent quantum mechanics research community may be on the right track.
Their "failure to deliver magical results is unsurprising", really?
First of all these results are not magical and of course they are analog. The "failure to deliver magical results" has to do with adequate production processes. No-one has yet said "that's odd" because the machine magically fails (which would be interesting). It isn't even big enough yet to exhibit such an interesting effect.
Not so long ago it was not at all clear that large digital machines could be constructed because errors due to stray voltages and flaky vaccum tubes may well propagate and swamp the delicate computation of the state machine. Amazingly, it was all solved and no-one except overclockers give this problem much thought today.
Also, Scott Aaronson in Collaborative Refutation.
"Third thought: it’s worth noting that, if (for example) you found Michel Dyakonov’s arguments against QC (discussed on this blog a month ago) persuasive, then you shouldn’t find Anderson’s and Brady’s persuasive, and vice versa. Dyakonov agrees that scalable QC will never work, but he ridicules the idea that we’d need to modify quantum mechanics itself to explain why. Anderson and Brady, by contrast, are so eager to modify QM that they don’t mind contradicting a mountain of existing experiments. Indeed, the question occurs to me of whether there’s any pair of quantum computing skeptics whose arguments for why QC can’t work are compatible with one another’s. (Maybe Alicki and Dyakonov?)
But enough of this. The truth is that, at this point in my life, I find it infinitely more interesting to watch my two-week-old daughter Lily, as she discovers the wonderful world of shapes, colors, sounds, and smells, than to watch Anderson and Brady, as they fail to discover the wonderful world of many-particle quantum mechanics. So I’m issuing an appeal to the quantum computing and information community. Please, in the comments section of this post, explain what you thought of the Anderson-Brady paper. Don’t leave me alone to respond to this stuff; I don’t have the time or the energy. If you get quantum probability, then stand up and be measured!"
Beer to that, Scott.
It represents a significant amount of money simply vanishing out of the the country.
You do know that is currently a currency war of historically unheard proportions going on, whereby various central banks are busy destroying the citizens' wellbeing by printing money in order to keep exchange rates at level supposedly favoring "exports" (I won't go into the fact that this amazingly disfavors the "imports" needed to generate the "exports").
Now money never "vanishes out of the the country" - it will have to be exchanged against some other currency, or even "hard money" (the horror!). Doing so will depress the exchange rate as more "GBP paper money" starts to accumulate in vaults. So this is good! Meanwhile, savings (eww!) abroad increase. This is also good, though maybe not for the economy of the UK if no-one bothers to invest there anymore.
What you actually mean is of course "money simply vanishes from under parental control of the nice UK state". That is something else entirely.
This sure will absorb a fat part of the 252%-of-GDP debt level of the UK, which has increased at the healthy clip of 30% since the start-of-the-recession. MUH AUSTERITY!
Considering that GDP numbers are currently artificially inflated by excessive use of the government's credit card, we might well be looking at 300%-of-actual-GDP debt levels and up.
Athens-upon-Thames when?
systemd
on Monday
Wasn't one of the reasons for secrecy that they were in massive violation of the Washington Naval Treaty
Apparently not:
"Preliminary studies for a new class of battleships began after Japan's departure from the League of Nations and its renunciation of the Washington and London naval treaties"
Meanwhile, national "newspapers" getting their information from SACEUR's shrill press releases and neocon suggestions are having a 24/7-hatewank about the permanent-imminent dangers of P.U.T.I.N.
I laugh.
We have arrived at Blairville, make no mistake.
Take-home point: I hate you Java and all who sail in you.
You seem to not develop in Java, so do you mean "I hate the JVM" or "I hate the Oracle JVM" or "I hate the JRE package that Oracle provides" or "I hate Oracle"?
Enquiring minds etc.
I feel the urge for .Net runtimes. Now that Clojure has been ported...