* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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15 'could it be aliens?' fast radio bursts observed in one night

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Hawking Bacon

Professor Hawking (and Elon Musk) seem to be the sciency showbiz equivalent of bacon: getting their soundbites on subjects they scarcely know anything about makes everything better!

Microsoft sets the date for Fall Creators Update

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Re: Ya'll missed it by a mile...

Microsoft was NEVER brilliant.

The only good idea they ever had was take up Dave Cutler on a offer.

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FAIL

Re: Android names

Creator's Winter is coming.

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All those WHYs

It could be it's an Alien Intelligence trying to tell us something but we still haven't found out what.

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"New experiences made possible by Windows Mixed Reality"

Does this mean I get a free subscription to the New York Times?

Hubble Space Telescope spies possibility of liquid water in TRAPPIST-1

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Re: Major trade possibilities

You don't have enough money, you have to pay 100 BEEEELIONS to Merkelland first.

That virtually impossible classic compsci P vs NP problem is virtually impossible, say boffins

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Re: What the hell is #P-Complete?

#P definition

A problem is P‑complete if the solution is easy to find, and NP‑complete if the answer is also easy to check. The paper shows that the n‑Queens problem can be cracked, but not a second time quickly.

This needs to be reformulated.

Please El Reg, can we have a diagramming tool to quickly upload a simple back-on-the envelope diagram to explain things?

Big Tech slams Trump on plan to deport kids

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I have never understood America's xenophobia and attitude towards immigrants and foreigners, when you consider the entire country consists of immigrants and foreigners.

OTOH, why should the US and Euroland be the only countries to have open gates for the huddled masses?

Apparently it's a moral thing to allow your kid's country to get swamped by random people wandering around looking for a better life in a somewhat economically successful countries, thus destroying them utterly (because economic resources happen to be finite, as constanly bemoaned by greens), but I don't see it.

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Rich CEOs are the new moral guides! Engage laugh track!!

"Your pension schemes and your medicart will be HURT!!!"

HA HA HA HA HA.

This is coming from golden parachuters, tax-squirrelers (not that there is anything wrong with that but one should not be hypocritical) and H1B Visa exploiters probably not batting an eye when the US starts yet another 20-year war and prints money for bailouts, subsidies and tech economy liftups.

I hope the honorable Bong and Garland of Flowers were at least cos-signatories of this particular peice of cuckery.

Don’t buy that Surface, plead Surface cloners

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Re: Berlin or Bust

Aren't UK denizens just about to be declared counter-Merkelite Euro-separative honorable Nazis in Germany, and thus open for a good shellacking? Germany may be dangerous.

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It's for people who get one thrown in when they buy their private charter flight.

You know, to pass the time on long flights.

P≠NP proof fails, Bonn boffin admits

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Re: Oh well, Every failure is a dress rehersal for success. *

As said previously, it probably is not a mathematical problem at all, so there may well not BE a solution space.

"Prove that c = 1".

Well, duh!

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Let them eat Clay!

The Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1m in prize money for solutions to these problems.

The Clay Mathematics Institute is silly because if some has the solution (as long as it is constructive) he would be RAKING it in and probably take over the very living brains of the Clay Institute Members by midnight.

Say Brain, what do you want to do tonight?

The same we do every day Pinky: Try to prove P=NP!

ARF!

Criticize Google, get fired: Spotlight spins on ad giant's use of soft money

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Re: drain the swamp

Unfortunately, Trump is the swamp.

We will need a lot more hardcore conservatives to get anything done.

Uber sued by Uber for tarnishing the good name of Uber

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Re: Maybe just change your name?

From the 1940s onwards, not so much...

Don't tell me the Poles had many friends...

Living in space basically shoves a warp drive into your blood stream

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Re: Prevention is better than cure.

Turns out that anything above 1 rpm starts to affect people, and beyond 3 rpm it's not good.

Not sure this makes much sense. A few units seem to be missing.

Wouldn't one rather express this as differential force bewteen foot and inner ear?

Intel ME controller chip has secret kill switch

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"High Assurance Platform"

That means someone is getting the "Low Assurance Platform".

That's you.

"You can't turn off the telescreen if not inner party member, prole!"

VW engineer sent to the clink for three years for emissions-busting code

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Re: Unnecessary deaths?

OTOH, you may have given a future mass-murderer lung cancer, thus bending fate to the good side. Who's to know?

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Always good to read, better than journo snark or muh GW noise

Actual engineering stuff:

"Mettle Fatigue - VW’s Single-Point-of-Failure Ethics"

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If only

...this kind of sentencing would apply to the Hillary Camarilla and the Bushbama Administration Crime Bosses down to the Neocons still imn thinktanks and TV. Disgustomats from CNN and Fox can come too.

One would have to institute an open airlock policy to make space in the clink.

Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee

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Re: Fair enough

I bet these people never even slept under their desk to get a project done......

Sleeping under the desk is now getting a projet done.

Go home, [euphemism for gay person].

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Re: Whats the issue?

Move jobs if you don't like it.

Schnorrer!

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Solution is to show up at the meeting unkemp, with an untucked shirt proudly displaying sandwich leftovers.

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Re: Surprised

That's at least 80 a month out of taxed wages.

Plus weeatetee, Joe, plus weeatetee!

I can afford it but it still pisses me off to see people apparently occupied during the day to dismantle the company from within like dumb fcucks because God himself code-injected some exclusively CEO-targetd Genius Idea into their brain through the bottommost sphincter access port pulling in 5-figure salaries.

Forget trigonometry, 'cos Babylonians did it better 3,700 years ago – by counting in base 60!

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Re: 3700 year ago ... and before then?

Well, GR and QM were pretty much invented overnight.

So no.

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Re: Three-valued logic

Three-valued (and even higher-valued) logics are nice but the thing is, you need to know what your logic operations are going to express, and there are quite a few of them (16 for binary, 19683 for ternary)

As for formulas, undecidablility arrives fast, too fast.

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Re: So much for digital

The commercial world, which calls itself the real world, runs on binary coded decimal

S'truth. Today on java.lang.BigDecimal until JSR 354 comes out. (actually you need a BigRational too)

See also: Why not use Double or Float to represent currency?

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Re: Copyright

That is absolutely brilliant.

Andrew is probably already penning an article about the starving Babylonian artists and scribes forced to live in Akkad dumpsters.

US focuses eyes in the sky as Hurricane Harvey starts to slam into Texas

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Hurricane Antifa

Maybe it will rip away some confederate statues, commemorative plaques to fall Confederate soldies, microaggressing tiling, swastika-adorned anchors (if there are any in the US) and racist rapist frat houses.

San Franciscans unite to smite alt-right with minefield of doggy shite

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These "people" are beyond redemption

Degenerates. Shit flinging monkey behaviour is exactly the right activity for them.

Fuck them.

Fewer than half GCSE computing students got a B or higher this year

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Re: Teaching IT doesn't have enough money

This is very much the problem with business, they want it all for free.

Sorry, if the subjects are unlearned or not though, fuck them, that's not the CV I was looking for. There is space for people ready to do menial tasks.

Paris nightclub red-faced after booze-for-boobs offer exposed

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Who cares

Seriosuly I would pay for anyone offended by this to have his teeth loosended,

The "IMMA OFFENDED!!" clown circus must come to end, by force or more force.

It's fucking time, where is my Dodge Ram?

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

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Re: Whatever the truth is...

Excessive bitching?

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

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Pakistanis. Rape. Something Something. T'was all nuthing but h8 spitch.

This goes under "really trying to keep the lid on"

Maybe they can succeed.

Social peace at any cost (including behaving like one of those mythical Wandering Nazis that one wants to battle so vigorously in case one finally finds them) is a good idea -- if one has a plan.

For some, the plan consists in getting to the Carribean mansion before SHTF.

Not so good for most.

Oh well, China can pick up the peaces.

Comp sci world shock: Bonn boffin proposes P≠NP proof, preps for prestige, plump prize

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Only an All-States-At-Once computing system (aka Quantum Computer)

This is ABSOLUTELY NOT what a Quantum Computer is.

Check out the complexity class BQP.

Quantum Computers are NOT KNOW TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE NP-complete or NP-hard problems in NP in polynomial time.

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That's right.

It is "hard" in the sense of "expensive", not in the sense of "complex".

Microsoft president exits US govt's digital advisory board as tech leaders quit over Trump

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Re: Really...

Obama would not say the "I" word because...

He was also extremely busy killing civiies in Syria/Lybia and kissing Saudi arse. Was also ok with BLM nuking inner cities, who was at fault? Blue jackets.

Anyway, here's the short take:

Resurfacing the Truth is 100% allowed if you are an Establishment Construct like Obama and you give at least the impression of being a progressive do-gooder.

A crazy confused guy like Trump who opens up real grievances and causes contradictions and "unmentionable" problems to come to the fore shall be branded a Nazi and useful idiots fancying themselves "The Resistance" will be rolled out for an internal color revolution.

Especially if he's not onboard with Cold War II.

From here on, things will either be getting more crazy and then burn out or the lid is put on again and the whole pressure cooker will explode.

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Let's get into the progressive funky mode, do da crazy moral dancin'....

NYT finds out that CEOs are now the New Hope!

From iSteve's super crazy press review blog:

NYT: CEOs Speak Truth to Power

From the New York Times:

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The Moral Voice of Corporate America

By DAVID GELLES AUG. 19, 2017

The nation has split into political tribes. The culture wars are back, waged over transgender rights and immigration. White nationalists are on the march.

Amid this turbulence, a surprising group of Americans is testing its moral voice more forcefully than ever: C.E.O.s. …

Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan said, “The equal treatment of all people is one of our nation’s bedrock principles.” …

The forthright engagement of these and other executives with one of the most charged political issues in years — the swelling confidence of a torch-bearing, swastika-saluting, whites-first movement — is “a seminal moment in the history of business in America,” said Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation and a board member at PepsiCo.

“In this maelstrom, the most clarifying voice has been the voice of business,” he said. “These C.E.O.s have taken the risk to speak truth to power.”

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In 2017, the rich get not only richer but holier.

Comment:

LOL! We are now beyond Orwell. Winston is being tortured for the crime of having too much power.

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Re: Strong moral principles

The same companies have also pulled all their manufacturing and sales operations in ... Israel ...

You are pulling our collective legs.

Lawyers who could withstand the strong winds of Chosen Rightousness just don't exist.

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That virtue signaling!

I do no longer need to go to the hairdresser, my hairs gets frisquéed just by reading these thunderous vapid pronounciations by the truly worthy.

Mozilla are holier-than-you kids with diversity (and bug-fixing) issues, but the IEEE should be staid enough to stay out of this and not beclown itself. I'm a bit embarrassed on their behalf and I suspect this will lead to some noises in the ranks. I can't remember them coming out against BLM or Obama's non-pronounciations against undocumented shopping? Or, more relevant to engineering ethics. his boastful killing spree using drones and predilection for mas surveillance?

Meanwhile, right-wing blogger Anatoly Karlin writes better stuff than any journalist: The Ascent of Society 282

Europe famously has hate speech laws, which run the gamut from banning Nazi propaganda to criticizing mass immigration.

Russia’s version of it is Article 282, which has been used on everyone from genuine Neo-Nazis and radical Islamists to the nationalist pundit Konstantin Krylov for stating that it’s “time to do away with this strange economic model [of federal subsidies to the Caucasus]“.

And yet if the United States has an exceptional degree of respect for absolute freedom of speech, encodified in the First Amendment, this is mitigated by its organic “Society 282,” as the Russian nationalist Egor Prosvirnin has poetically called it.

In the days the Unite the Rite march in Charlottesville, in which one antifa counter-protester was killed by a Neo-Nazi going postal with his car (the MSM version of events; reality might be rather different), Society 282 has gone on a veritable purge of Alt Right and Dissident Right content on cyberspace...

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

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The game was developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak in 1975, following Atari's hit game, Pong. Jobs said the $5,000 he was paid for Breakout served as seed money for his nascent company, Apple

I rhink the story is that he got 7000, told the Woz that they gave him 4000 and "here's half for you", and then used the 5000 as he saw fit.

100% Jobs from the get go. SAD!

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Re: I hope Nestle loses everything somehow

Next to Microsoft and Oracle, Nestle are now practically emissaries of Jesus.

You now picture Jesus with Sponsored Ads on the cross.

New MH370 analysis again suggests plane came down outside search area

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Re: If they do find the voice/data recorders....

Seeing how the Titanic of the Crazed Fools of the West his going, there will be a personal message of Putin mysteriously found on that black box.

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Re: Now this is intersting

And why the hell would the french ministry of defense that satellite images of basically the most desolate region of earth?

To get good photos of whales?

A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A

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These are the people who will disappear the "faux news" for your reading pleasure

Oh Brave New World!

Photon scattering puts a shine on CERN ATLAS boffins' day

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No, not that "heavy photon". Just the W.

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Re: Stupid me

Well, pace Feynman, "understanding" just means creating a syntax processor inside your head (aka. "program") that can simulate what's going in the problem domain you want to be able to handle (whether the problem domain is correctly described or underspecified by the information you have about it is another matter).

Some people are just unable to do so for complex-enough problem domains (this can be seen in undergrads quite clearly, which is why 50% drop out each year and some barrel through leisurly at 18). So sorry, mission impossible in general, Feynman.

Interestingly, you can go recurisve and blackbox the blackbox, maybe leaving out detail until the person in front of you "gets it".

(Whole populations seem to be predisposed to being better/worse at blackboxing some problem domains, this is probably why the "Journal of Computational Intelligence" is now dominated by Chinese, oops, getting into HBD here, better shut up. No Golden Retriever icon? Penguin, then!)

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Very perceptive.

You can read the whole paper at nature here.

Indeed, QCD is not involved. We stay in QED and use virtuals particles from the weak force ("heavy light", innit) or fermions to interacdt with:

One of the key features of Maxwell’s equations is their linearity in both the sources and the fields, from which follows the superposition principle. This forbids effects such as light-by-light (LbyL) scattering, γγ right arrow γγ, which is a purely quantum-mechanical process. It was realized in the early history of quantum electrodynamics (QED) that LbyL scattering is related to the polarization of the vacuum1. In the standard model of particle physics, the virtual particles that mediate the LbyL coupling are electrically charged fermions or W± bosons.

So.... electromagnetism starts to get into the nonlinear regime, a bit like gravity.

(This also explains the lightshow under space-orbital lasers about to fire as seen in "Akira", I'm sure)

Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'

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Everything I don't like is a Nazi

... and whatever is Hitler.

It's been appropriated by straight-out low-IQ and hysterical thought enforcers and politicians out for a quick rallying so much that it's become meaningless.

See, you have this guy who is looking for some aggro & pushback and keeps hearing from the baying (and let's face it, variously challenged) hordes of people-minding-your-business that he's a Nazi. So, what will he do? Come with a Nazi flag of course to make things clear. What are you going to do about it?

How many adepts of the ancient germanic-bureaucratic-socialistic movement are there now, for real? A few hundred? You can only listen to tape re-runs of Goebbels a limited number of times.

Here, at least an interesting take: Codes of the Underworld

That’s the way to read the alt-right and the stuff they say and do on-line with respect to non-whites, Jews and women. They don’t actually spend a lot of time talking and writing about these groups. They spend most of their time talking about how to organize themselves, the issues that face white identity movements and the philosophical points of their thing. The offensive memes and the racists language are mostly signalling. If you freak out over Hitler themed twitter avatars, then you are never going to be in their thing.

As with bike culture, it is defensive signalling to ward off entryists and the posers, but it is also a signal that joining their thing is more than just a secret handshake. If you are on-line talking about white identity, you’re never going back to the squaresville world of normie politics. You are rejecting that world as illegitimate in favor of the new thing. In effect, the racist memes are an offer. Accept it as a price of admission, but understand that by accepting the offer you are leaving the old morality behind for the new moral framework.

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The jury is still out as to whether the alt-right is the long hoped for response to the rise of the New Left in the 1960’s. Ironically, the worst thing that could happen for the alt-right is for Trump to be everything his critics in Washington claim. White identity politics can only flourish when whites believe they must be an intolerant minority, battling other intolerant minorities for space. What is clear is that the alt-right is not another Tea Party. It has staying power because it is a cultural movement, not a political one.

Deplorable icon, of course. Go Deplorables!

Brit firms warned over hidden costs of wiping data squeaky clean before privacy rules hit

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Fuckwittery can be allayed with large amounts of money and project extensions.

Just saying.

Some people expect everything is free.