Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Re: Nothing can make a wedding nicer than...
It's like that celebration scene in Star Wars ROTJ where at the end Evil Guy turns up in Ghost Form.
Only here, he hasn't repented yet. And he's for real.
I'm expecting downvotes by the Independent's John Rentoul....
Re: Mass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
"Also if assuming a radius of one AU, then there may not be sufficient building material in the Solar System to construct a Dyson shell. Anders Sandberg estimates that there is 1.82×1026 kg of easily usable building material in the Solar System, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of 600 kg/m²—about 8–20 cm thick, depending on the density of the material. This includes the hard-to-access cores of the gas giants; the inner planets alone provide only 11.79×1024 kg, enough for a 1-AU shell with a mass of just 42 kg/m²."
Well, we are talking Magical Tech here of a full, solid sphere, so you can go with anything. Maybe structured spacetime, who knows?
Re: I for one...
A downvote? Are there God-botherers here tonight??
So what about the runaway Greenfly?
Maybe we should be looking for evidence of stars shrouded in green instead.
In "Orbitsville", there was one... seemingly abandoned and ready for use. But it was A HONEYPOT TRAP!
Re: I for one...
Very unfortunate of you to welcome them! As they are most likely Pak Protectors, they will regard us as horribly mutated children and will drop by briefly for some euthenizing of biblical proportions.
The rapture, Jim, but not as we know it.
For those interested
http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Other_searches.htm
Re: The Premise
This is the Templeton Foundation, which funds admittedly bizarro stuff in multiverse theory but the taxpayer ain't involved.
Now, please pay the guy at the door, he needs money for the F-35.
What?
Harness the energy of multiple universes? How does that even make sense? Do you just lay a cable, then see energy in the Big Room appear from nowhere until the energy/mass content is locally so high that you big crunch this universe? WTF???
Anyway, we cite Stross...
“Hmm.” Sagan is busy with a mouthful of delicious tetrodotoxin-laced meatballs. “It’s clearly a Kardashev type-III civilization, harnessing the energy of an entire galaxy. What else?”
Gregor smiles. “Ah, those Russians, obsessed with coal and steel production! This is the information age, Dr. Sagan. What would the informational resources of a galaxy look like, if they were put to use? And to what use would an unimaginably advanced civilization put them?”
Re: In other news
Luckily they can use candles made of lawyer fat.
I thought the cold war was over? Like, 20 years ago??
I may be as naive as John Connor in Terminator II, but ... what is the state of trade controls with the Russian Sphere of Influence? Are CoCom controls still in place? I know that Romney is shit-hot on designating Russia as the "New Evil" but apart from that...
"Business decisions" and other displacement activities of the 21st century
So Larry, how is Java 8 coming along? Features being dropped? Seriously falling behind the curve? Recent security holes going unfixed? People looking at alternative languages? Right .... let's .... feed those lawyers.
Re: So...
There are issues? There are no issues! There weren't any issues when the debate started, there are none now and we stick to that story. Beside, everyone has signed the no-issues memorandum of understanding
Meanwhile
the "grab the campaign contributions and stuff them in your freezer" offline game and the "most disgusting candidate [morally or physically] that you CAN VOTE FOR" catwalk show are continuing apace.
Democracy - it failed abysmally.
But...but...but!
Behemoth is an Ancient Evil of the Jewish/Muslim Bestiary of Legendary Creatures, so it wouldn't be involved in delivering bacon?
Re: Looking for more?
Also:
http://libra.msra.cn/Publication/4756394/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-computer-science-perspective
Re: Aliens done it.
If they open the Stargate underwater, we are DOOMED!
Re: Just be glad
Radioactive oil burns as well as non-radioactive one. The persons in charge will just allocate the non-radioactive part for cars and plastics in Washington DC and their various holiday resorts.
Problem?
Re: No surprises
Ooohh a Telegraph reference. But two can play that kind of game, and I really believe Gareth Porter more than some Telegraph writer.
http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2009/07/02/us-uses-false-taliban-aid-charge-to-pressure-iran/
"The Bush administration initially claimed it had evidence of Iranian aid to the Taliban in 2007 that didn’t exist, only to have it refuted by the U.S. command in Afghanistan.
In April and May 2007, NATO forces in Helmand province found mortars, C-4 explosives and electrical components believed to have been manufactured in Iran. Then Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns asserted that the United States had "irrefutable evidence" that those weapons were provided to the Taliban by the Qods Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was questioned about the Burns statement on Jun. 13, 2007, McCormack admitted that the charge was an inference.
Gen. Dan McNeill, then the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, rejected the idea that any official Iranian role could be reasonably inferred from Iranian weapons showing up in Afghanistan."
Re: Great move MS
Wanna explain yourself?
Re: No surprises
Yeah, it's just that nothing concrete has come to light on this except spittle from Fox News and Neocon "think tanks". Maybe YOU should be paying attention.
Re: durrr
In other news, The West has just delisted Mojahedin-e Khalq, usually referred to as MEK, a lovely group of Islamist-Marxist bend with a cultish leadership whose main purpose in life seems to be to blow up civilians in Iran and elsewhere. This has been done mainly through the concerted push of the "three amigos". They can now be funded and trained at will. I think it's quite obvious to anyone with a brain that The West sponsors, sanctions and encourages terrorism against their "enemy du jour" on a regular basis. so this news does not surprise me in the least.
ROBOTS MAY MOVE SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT WARNING
Oh yeah, system design and all that.
A "kill switch" like in any industrial processing unit that needs to pass certification? Who would have thunk it? Problem is, when do you press it? You would need a computer to do so, things are happening fast.
> how to failsafe market systems
Let retards take the risk and pay, as opposed to the taxpayer or the people whose pension money just went buh-bye.
> These single exchange problems are not a result of complexities or fragmented markets, but rather a result of more basic technology 101 issues.
More like overpaid cretins driving to work in a Ferrari, then hacking random code which "must be good" because they are so shit-hot that they understand differential equations and apply String Theory to derivatives trading, then drive home at 16:00 while World & Dog has to pick up the pieces.
Re: What a spectacular collection of douchebags Oracle is.
And personally hurt they are, too!
Posted in Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review
"too big to be a phone, too small to be a tablet"
You are now reading this in the voice of Johnny Cash.
Re: Evil breeds evil
In this case, after many incantations, Evil was put to sleep for a while. But it will wake again.
Maybe a virgin had to be horribly sacrificied on the altar of IP?
I draw you a Mohammed!
Well, seeing how Turkey seems to become a main pivot for a raging Middle East conflagration involving Syria, Iraq, the Kurds, the Tans, Israel and, God forbid, Iran (I hope the next US prez has enough backbone to flip Bibi off and tell him to perform the Israeli version of Russian Roulette alone, but odds aren't good), a little censorship sure will come in handy.
Hopefully...
...he was escorted to that Oregon hog farm afterwards.
Re: To wit
I think you will notice that gravity forms a very nice plasma containment field indeed.
Re: I guess Samsung isn't interested in ...
Your laughed-off arse, sir!
Re: OK, so to make a point...
> being forced to pay the fees
No-one is being forced to pay anything. What is happening is, people pay to get into a club. That's all there is to it.
University Guildsmen and Anticapitalism
Students incur heavy debts in their own speculative endeavors, vying for entry into highly esteemed universities. They thus emerge from their training with unwieldy debts, dupes of university speculation, with no sure employment prospects and little job experience. As with all other things, the surfeit of university degrees on the labor market decreases the value of each and every individual degree. Students speculate not only because the inflated tuition costs of certain universities signal that degrees are valuable, thus leading to malinvestment, but also because individuals do require a certain amount of general knowledge to be successful in today's job market. The university promises increased literacy, complex mathematics, and a certain level of cultural sophistication. These are certainly useful studies for salesmen, primary and secondary educators, and engineers, but it still is not true that the university guild system and government regulation are required to promote those studies when the market has a vested interest in them — just at a lower cost.
Re: Alternatively...
Did you mean "due to go to jail next year"?
First one who makes a prison rape joke using "tightened-up" should be banhammered, btw.
Re: Bootnote
Of course not. You don't use "tools". You integrate, with the metric tensor giving the "local distance at each point".
Do the math ... it's not so complex
Falling Into and Hovering Near A Black Hole
The key point is that if an object goes to the left [inwards to the event horizon], it crosses every single one of the analytically continued timeslice of the outside observers, all the way to their future infinity. Hence those distant observers can always regard the object as not quite reaching the event horizon (the vertical boundary on the left side of [the] schematic). At any one of those slices the object could, in principle, reverse course and climb back out to the outside observers, which it would reach some time between now and future infinity. However, this doesn't mean that the object can never cross the event horizon. It simply means that its worldline is present in every one of the outside timeslices. In the direction it is traveling, those time slices are compressed infinitely close together, so the in-falling object can get through them all in finite proper time (i.e., its own local time along the worldline falling to the left in the above schematic).
Oh Really?
"a protest against tuition fees"
More like, make up some shitty cause after you have penetrated the network and hoovered up random stuff. Not too hard, seeing that there are math profs doubling as system administrators and whatnot.
Really, cretinonymous: the tuition fees are HIGH because there are people who can, and want to PAY FOR THEM (possibly because they get subsidized by the state in the first place). Deal with basic economic principles.
Even Toasters know better!
much much more secure
"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."
Re: What a laugh if ...
Only if you want to tie them up in GPL licences. There is nothing stopping you implementing a truely open version of Office XML.
Wronger words have never been spoken.
"Like the TSA, the facility wouldn't exist if it weren't necessary."
I really would like to not have the TSA considered "necessary". Political theatre to provide cushy jobs to well-connected players, shift taxpayer money to services We Don't Need, shorten the dole queue and keep the population aware of the fact that Big State can finger your rectum before inviting you to a visit to a political prison. Sure. But necessary or even useful? No.
Re: Well...
The "European Patent Office" is "European" just in a cargo-cult push to embiggen itself and AFAIK is a Grand Defender of the US way of Patenteering.
Don't get your hopes up anything. This can only end in FAIL and AIDS.
Posted in Adele's Skyfall poised to fall from sky
I have been living under a rock for some time and am now officially Olde Geek™...
...so does this have anything to do with Harry Harrison's "Skyfall"?
Re: Too much of a coincidence?
Yeah, the Penguin ate my folders, officer, honest!
Oh my
What happened to the "digital/knowledge economy" effort of 2000 or so?
Stuck an obstacle, infected with bubonic plague, tanked, sunk, dead while eurocrats now have houses in rather nice locations, I reckon.
So they are prepping the launch of another ship of foolish hope.
Re: How ignorant
Do I hear a prison rape joke? Again?
Re: Forced Entry
Just vandalism?
Clearly it would be an attack on America, Democracy, the Star-Spangled Banner, Freedom, Freedom Fries and the Founding Fathers. Possibly even on Jesus and Abraham Lincoln (after that nasty politicking business with "being against slavery" went through, natch)
It's like an episode of XKCD
In my classes, the booms were all accidental...
If AIPAC supported TPB instead of the Wasa Guy...
Would one hear about that particular association?
Re: Throwing rocks...
We demand a Libertarian Moonbase NAOW!
Politicians - always so sure of themselves
"US multinational corporations benefit from the security and stability of the US economy"
Oh my gawd. Stability? Security?? Of the US economy??? Not in this dimension, no sir. Most of the taxes seem to go into colonalist adventures and random "industrial policies", i.e. buying stuff you don't need at elevated prices (which includes quite a lot of the wages of public employees). Even then, it's never enough. Print some money, create gigantic debt holes that are visible even once all the precautions have been taken to cover them up etc. Nice job.
"You need an educated workforce, with enough wages to buy toys like the iPhone"
Rank rhetoric. Wages are "high enough to buy toys like the iPhone" not because "the workforce is educated" (which it often isn't btw.) but because an enormous amount of time and money has been put into developing the overall production chain which eats raw materials on one end and spits out iPhones on the other, making iPhones actually "cheap to produce" (I will abstract away from income differences along that chain, due to *cough* exploitative practices *cough*). That production chain as been built with the money and is being developed with the money THAT HAS NOT BEEN TAXED AWAY. Surprise!
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