* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Connectivity's value is almost erased by the costs it can impose

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Re: ... and a descent into a kind of stupidity we haven’t seen in many years.

> One only has to notice the outcome.

The outcome wasn't bad considering what was on offer. Sometimes you have to roll the hard six.

At least we haven't WWIII yet, even if Trump has been assimiliated by the swamp things he was supposed to be draining and we are moving to the realization of the neocon wet dream fast.

Move over, Stuxnet: Industroyer malware linked to Kiev blackouts

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Re: Where the real problem lies

But I want my weekly Ukraine-victimizing / probably Putler financed hacker story!

Say hello to Dvmap: The first Android malware with code injection

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I'm sure that's an anagram of something.

But what?

"A Kaput Morpheme Gun"

Hmm..... Nah.

We're not saying we're living in a simulation but someone's simulated the universe in a computer

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Re: I dabbled with 3D rendering a few years back.

That or your "real time" is actually really...slow.

Recommending Greg Egan's "Permutation City". Read it now!

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Re: "The universe is made up of about 23 per cent dark matter and 72 per cent dark energy"

We just don't know.

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Re: That is not science..just a waste of time and resources!

Trump supporter, right...?

Don't remind me.

2018 US HEP Budget

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So is this the first large-scale simulation since the Millenium simulation more than 10 years ago

Back then we had: This progress has been made possible by important algorithmic improvements in the employed simulation code, and the high degree of parallelization reached with it, allowing the computation to be done efficiently on a 512 processor partition of the IBM p690 supercomputer of the Computing Center of the Max-Planck Society (RZG). (That machine was actually POWER4 based)

Fantastic job, you get algorithm design, SCIENCE, investment in high-performance computing and massive parallelism (i.e. ENGINEERING), happy Nvidia shareholders, busy PhD-chaser and irate creationists all in one action. More like this!

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Re: That is not science..just a waste of time and resources!

crawl back to your sitcom reruns

Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...

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Read again after update. It wasn't.

Cool.

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Re: So the signal was due to natural, replicable causes and there is no government cover-up?

But what if the government covers up natural, replicable causes ...

Or a government cover-up actually is a natural, replicable cause?

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Re: Arthur C. Clarke quote

It is more likely our current theories are woefully incomplete

I beg to differ. There is strong evidence that our current theories, though more "effective" than "fundamental", are quite complete indeed.

There is tons of things to work out and possibly a complete remodeling will be needed, but the speed of light is quite the fulcrum of everything.

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Re: Roll up, roll up

These days, "alien contactors" need to show that they have at a minimum tenuous links to Russia, otherwise they won't make headlines.

I fought Ohm's Law and the law won: Drone crash takes out power to Silicon Valley homes

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Taking the war home...

This is what other people have to endure if the US blows up their whole power distribution infrastructure with carbon chaff because reasons.

Only in that case it's permanent.

Teen texted boyfriend to kill himself. It worked. Will the law change to deal with digital reality?

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> Victim who thinks abuse is normal and he deserves it.

No, society teaches it.

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So....

Narcissistic sociopathy?

DeepMind takes a shot at teaching AI to reason with relational networks

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Short recall on classical AI architectures (GOFAI and Nouvelle AI)

Lecture 19: Architectures: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind

Russian hackers and Britney Spears in one story. Are you OK, Reg?

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Neologism proposal: "Ruskers"

"Russian Hackers here, Russian Hackers there, subverting Britney Spears, poisoning muh democratic atmosphere"

RUSKERS shall be the neologism for "Russian Hackers", which for some reson have replaced Greys as eyeball-pulling headlineware. It's short, it's pity, it's to the point. You know you want it.

After that:

CHINKERS, NORKERS and ... uh ... ISRAKERS?

NSA leaker bust gets weirder: Senator claims hacking is wider than leak revealed

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I like the smell of pliant-media-constructions in the morning

Hey Intercept, Something Is Very Wrong With Reality Winner and the NSA Leak

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Re: curiouser and curiouser

The fact they tried to hack registration databases and voting software should be very concerning

There is not even any information about that at all.

So he'd probably love it if the democrats take back the house and senate, to guarantee a state of partisan gridlock.

Back to the Clinton years? Then we watch OJ making a run for the border again. Oh great.

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A trick that 1984 didn't foresee

CNN reported suspected Russian fake news plants precipitated the crisis that has seen several Arab states impose sanctions on Qatar.

Yup, blame all of Eurasia's unforessen events on "fake news" that made it past goodthink control, planted by those wiley Eastasians.

WHY DOESN'T BIG BROTHER DO SOMETHING?

I haven't been following this stupidity much because it has been well-known that Qatar likes to transfer money to Sunni Wahabbis and Takfiris of the most flamboyant colour for about 2 decades now. What makes it ridiculous is that Qatar is being accused of supporting Shia Iran. I mean, what the actual f... Is a new media bubble is being created for a little Riyad-supported takeover? I mean, it worked in Yemen, right?

Obama's intel chief says Russia totally tried to swing it for Trump

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Reality Winrar!

A timely reminder on The Clapper's statement regarding the independenc of the FBI:

Russia-gate’s Mythical ‘Heroes’

The FBI is a political machine of the state (whether deep or shallow), always has been.

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This is getting a bit tiresome

Why doesn't El Reg open a sidebar on "sponsored news about Russia".

Then we could find out about evil undermining termitic Russians (and now Chinese) separately from all the rest.

> the FBI's independence.

I spilled my coffee you bastards.

State of DevOps: Everyone's slinging code out faster

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Re: Management by the numbers

Suicide bomber outfits may think this a good metric.

Consultancy titan EY to shift jobs to Indian outsourcer TCS

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That outsourcing craze....

It feels like the early 90s again.

Then in the late 90s companies noticed that they had hollowed out their skills base and stopped the madness. Outsourcing morphed into "Rightsourcing" (yes I know, management fad designations are even worse than IT fad designators, but we have "node.js" as the kewl way of saying "i'm totally hip to using an interpreter for one of the worst languages ever in an arse-backwards scenario", right?)

So, when will the pendulum swing back again?

Horror in space: Hot alien giant boiled alive by nasty radiation-belching star

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Re: That picture

Probably Aliens.

(These exoplanet dispatches increasingly read like something from Frederick Pohl's "Gateway". No Heechees though)

Russia is struggling to keep its cybercrime groups on a tight leash

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It's a William Gibson world

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.

He didn't see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco façade of a place called the Khush-Oil Hotel.

First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired

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When DevOps goes too far

.... The tears are one junior programmer away.

UK PM May's response to London terror attack: Time to 'regulate' internet companies

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Based pint man says: Alcohol is humanity's friend

One could import a few hundred thousand "consultants" from Qatar/Saudiland & al. and impose Sharia law, that would fix things outright. Internet clampdown would come with this as a bonus. May 100% happy.

In the meantime, most people just keep stiff upper lips, NYT bullshit notwithstanding:

https://twitter.com/A_V_M_L/status/871273339725238272/photo/1

The open source community is nasty and that's just the docs

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Re: I'm not surprised.

That is not nice and means the Scott guy is a bit of a c*nt, but is it justified to generalize to "the JBOSS community"?

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Re: Humans aren't all sweetness & light!

Also

really nasty stuff like sexual advances

This is why the West dies off.

ESA astronaut decelerates from 28,800kph to zero in first bumpy landing

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Re: You are missing the point

> do you have any evidence to back this up

Engineering is not politics.

Those panels are needed in case the Soyuz capsule does a few more orbits after leaving the ISS (or even if it doesn't go there in the first place). They are likely even parts of the waste heat radiation system. The on-board batteries are likely to run down a bit quickly, that's just how it was designed. Gemini didn't have any panels, I guess the US had chemical batteries large enough for the mission.

> if this landing was a proof to show that this system is reliable under extreme conditions then fair enough

No, looks like a dog-standard landing.

> However as was stated this grew from the soviet need to avoid sea based landings, something that surely is no longer an issue.

Absolutely not. Well, one could splashdown in the Aral sea, but ths demands waterproofing and floatatingproofing the whole system, a difficult job. Plus change the logistics of retrieval.

Americans like water, the Orion is foreseen to perform splashdowns. Crazy.

Boffins find evidence of strange uranium-producing bacteria lurking underground

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Re: "Now if the bacteria absorbs U235 preferentially things could get interesting....."

Physicists will tell you that there's no chemical difference between how different isotopes behave chemically, which makes them very useful for radioisotope tracking of chemical pathways through the body.

Ah. The devolution of modern degrees. You just get nicely printed toilet paper and a debt certificate after 5 y of doing nothing at all (maybe getting schooled in the fine arts of politicial correctness).

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Re: The usual baloney

Biological Nuclear Transmutations as a Source of Biophotons

Now that sounds rather far-fetched. Citation Needed! And no, a paper on the Arxiv is not acceptable (because the Arxiv is non-peer-reviewed-self-published stuff).

The energy levels of atomic nucleus changes are often more than the bacterium can take, unless it comes from Krypton.

Amazon granted patent to put parachutes inside shipping labels

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Your emotionally absent pic-snapping partner's going to look you in the eye again

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Re: Why would anyone want one of these?

Many interesting photo are made from unusual, innovative points of view.

As anyone watching Jackass can attest.

The Big Blue Chopper video that IBM might want to keep quiet

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Re: Limo

> they employ the copter pilot nowadays to be the daisy cutter !!!

How do you transform a copter pilot into Fuel-Air Explosive?

Trident nuke subs are hackable, thunders Wikipedia-based report

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Them dry bones!

Bone-borne computer virus?

Definitely a new approach at snow crashing things.

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Microsoft boosts its AI framework with Cognitive Toolkit 2.0

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Any use of this beside CV stuffing?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Because I'd rather just learn more about quantum computing (if I had the time).

Also: June's edition of IEEE Spectrum about Building Artificial Brains

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

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Re: blah blah blah

LOLNO

I was was in business at that time and this ain't that at all.

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Re: Cindy Lauper

> Cindy Lauper

Seriously who?

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Paris Hilton

Not bad but why is there a spanish lady apparently dancing not far away from highway leading an article on containers

Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane

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Re: Interesting

If they're planning on firing the rocket engines while close enough to fry the tail, I DO NOT WANT to be aboard this aircraft. Ever!

Indeed, Sir Hugo Drax might fancy stealing it while in flight.

Identity management outfit OneLogin sugar coats impact of attack

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Putin or Nork fingered soon.

Probably on the next cycle of the USUK media machine.

Cisco cuts 250 jobs in San Jose, has 850 more pink slips to hand out

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Re: Great opportunity

Hmmm..... a job as dogwalker in the cubicle-based luxury condo sure will be interesting.

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Well, he's already being blamed for all the crops rotting in the fields as illegal workers stay away since February.

India sets June 5 as the day it will join the heavy-lift rocket club

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Re: Ariane

> The majority of satellites launched and in orbit are by Ariane.

That is unlikely

> Falcon 9 ... US subsidised.

Are you implying that Ariane is NOT subsidized?

The correct comparison is with .... hmmm... Delta IV Heavy?

Russian search engine Yandex's Ukraine offices raided for 'treason'

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> You should also stop promoting Putin's views here.

"Things I don't want to hear or talk about = Putin's views"

It's getting pretty brownshirt fast.

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Oh, Ukraine still exists?

I thought it was a burnout case with barely any economy and hired oligarch muscle, Real Nazis™ and various mobster sectors vying for a piece of the cake while the ones who still can are moving out.

Nobody in the MSM seems to want to talk about all of this. Better focus on the Eurovision "contest" and its various stupid spats or on the demented screeching via NYT of members of the Neocon Senilate like McCain.

The always heated Saker had to say in March:

This all begs the question of the future of Poroshenko and here your guess is as good as mine. The only thing which kept him in power so long is the support from the USA and EU, but with the crises (plural) surrounding the Trump administration and the political uncertainty in Europe, there is only that long which Poroshenko can use his western mentors as the base for his power. Sooner or later, somebody somewhere in the Ukraine (my guess is in Odessa) will figure out that the local power configuration is far more important to him/her than what the western politicians have to say. Again, Somalia is the example to keep in mind: for a while the western powers also had a great deal of influence there, but only until that power was successfully challenged and then everybody declared victory and fled.

And just recently:

The Ukraine: apparently Trump simply does not care about the Ukraine and, frankly, I can’t blame him. Right now the situation there is so bad that no outside power can meaningfully influence the events there any more. I would argue that in this case, considering the objective circumstances, Trump did the right thing when he essentially “passed the baby” to Merkel and the EU: let them try to sort out this bloody mess as it is primarily their problem. Karma, you know.

The EU has a big Obamerkel-incubated problem barrelling down on it and it has only itself to blame.

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

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Re: Ships

> court martialled

We are not at war though.

Or are we?