"squeezed the juice" out of the two papers...

And out of Turing, too. Yes, I mad.

Now, how does this relate to the work polish mathematicians did on cracking Enigma before the red/brown sandwich invasion?

Good that they didn't have full business process engineered and in place.

Receive E-Mail.

Access to computer automatically denied.

Can't open desk drawers. Automatically locked.

Window locked down, suicide is not an option.

Burly roboguard shows you out of your office; door closes and access code blinks red.

Speaker system gives out a canned announcement by good-sounding female text-to-speech system that you are now leaving the building.

Never be able to read the retraction.

So does this only apply to govnment employees, then?

"Hard at work" wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Though I don't know how one can possibly claim monies for psychological distress if hearty rumpy pumpy results in a collision with a descending illuminatory device.

Woah that slide sucks

This is like copying commentary. Yes, in this world where you can trademark A Goat On a Roof, this counts as "Intellectual Property". Remember we are going up against copy-friendly people like China with that kind of stupid.

The only really nasty thing one can say about this that in both cases the error report in the exception will certainly confuse the hapless developer. Too half-assed to actually say "Out of range [X,Y] with index Z", instead just saying "Z"? Yes, good work, one side. Or both sides.

"some of whom had stayed up all night trying to win tickets to the show"

foreveralone.jpg

So far, so Eurozone

-- Justice Kelly said Eircom was "of great strategic importance for the State" and a "key provider of fixed-line services throughout the country".

Too big to fail? Important for the State? Is this Mussolini's Italy?

It's just another service provider. One with 800'000 EUR debt per employee. Who holds that debt btw?

Probably "we".

Totally off-topic

An idea on a future approach on how to get rid of the pesky spacetime and unify QM and Gravity:

http://media.scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video.php?f=20120411_2_Arkani-Hamed_qtp.mp4

Some of the Anons here may be interested.

The evil that permeated it at birth never can be expunged!

"It's particularly troubling since the company seemed to be making so many positive strides"

...2012

...Still hoping Microsoft will make an actual positive stride, ever

Nope.

Master Chief is back

Smörebröd,Smörebröd-Römpömpöm!

"Intellectual property exists to encourage innovation"

That's the mental disorder right there.

It does NOT exist to encourage innovation. After all, if someone knew how to encourage innovation, we would be cruising the galaxy right in a Jetson two-seater by now. It exists to put a "NONE SHALL PASS" fence around someone's crap that he deems to fall under "IT'S ALL MINE, MINE!!", completely forgetting that he stands on the shoulders of all that worked before him and worked next to him.

Just looking at how patents came to pass, how they metastasized into a daily dose of cancer and the historical evidence of the damaging effect on innovation tells the whole story.

Copyrights have their use. But these too should be strongly curtailed. In particular, no control on grey imports, please.

How to generate classical random bits from lolcat fluctuations

1) Take all possible pictures of Schrödinger's lolcats and arrange them in a box.

2) Assign a selection probability to each picture, exponentially decreasing with the fatness of the lolcat, but so that the sum of the probabilities over all pictures still yields at most one.

3) Select a picture at random, using the previously assigned selection probabilities.

4) If the tail is on the left, emit 1. If the tail is on the right, emit 0. Otherwise, emit NULL (and restart the experiment.)

Now use lasers somehow and there you are.

More like this at:

http://www.markrichardsphotography.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=5

The women in my office don't understand this at all.

Holy bong, this bings it!

It's just because money is cheap, credit is easy and no-one will ever pay anything back.

In a world where 3 trillion dollar can be injected into the economy and the interest rate be kept below zero for years and years without a single person setting himself on fire in shame and desperation on the front porch of some parliament, anything can happen.

Let's roll!

As for the 20th century fraud squad. What can you do when government is the one performing the fraud? In fully daylight? And it is DEFENDED for doing so?

As previously linked...

http://atimes.com/atimes/China/NC24Ad01.html

"In any case, in a few years the dreaded Chinese rare earth monopoly will have collapsed, with the assistance of the Chinese themselves, and the free world can enjoy its hybrid vehicles, its smartphones, its Tomahawk missiles, and its night vision goggles free of the anxiety that China will make the rare earth world go dark."

Nazi Space Raptor will meet you now!

Even humans have arses too big too comfortably lift up and accelerate to appreciable speed. I do not think Trannysaurus will drop down in a vehicular device soon. And then again, why not meet them? Because lizard races are hollywoodian ungood?

Anyway, I remember some paper about how the chirality comes about due to [the magic of] galactic magnetic fields working on amino acids buried in comets. So there.

And on a far planet, we read:

"Death Star ape aliens could rule galaxy!!- Rather than dying out in the dimly lit aftermath of a ginormous asteroid impact, apes on Earth may have instead spread to other planets and built a terrifying space-conquering empire...."

WILMAAA!

"Hence the experiment achieves the genuinely spooky: a read-write operation across two laboratories connected by around 60 meters of fibre, in which the receiving atom becomes entangled with the transmitter, even though there’s been no direct interaction between them."

I do not understand... hold on, yes I do!

"German scientists link two labs with ‘universal quantum network’"

should actually read

"German scientists 1) copy quantum information from one atom to another and also 2) link two atoms into a single quantum system, both by exchange of photons via interconnecting fiber"

This is extremely nice engineering. This is not particularly "spooky".

Yes, I know that the "spooky" comes from having to deal with a probability calculus using complex numbers instead of reals. Nature is like that. Deal with it.

This is not particularly spooky.

FFS

"In other words, bacteria are already good at battling antibiotics, so it’s not entirely safe to assume anthropogenic antibiotics have created an evolutionary hothouse that forces bacteria to defend themselves."

FAIL at logic.

The bacteria population is NOT good at battling antibiotics at least by default otherwise there wouldn't BE any antibiotics.

The bacteria population BECOMES BETTER at battling antibiotics otherwise there wouldn't BE more antibiotics-resistant strains right now.

This "BECOMING BETTER AT" evidently comes from evolutionary pressure on the bacteria population. It doesn't come from God's Own Farts.

This is what "evolutionary hothouse that forces bacteria to defend themselves" MEANS.

Whether ancient bateria have activated genes to pump the molecules to the outside of their fatty surface is neither here nor there. It just means that modern bacteria probably can just fallback tio already-present genes, leading to better survivial in the hothouse.

MARITIME ARTIFACT ESCAPES NIETZSCHEAN ETERNAL RECURRENCE!!

Film at 11!

Pretty bizarre

No-one has ever confirmed a single WIMP and the LHC has shown nothing so far.

Better talk about neutrinos.

Pics or it didn't happen

Off the bragging haxxoring weirdo area, Duqu has made a reappearance...

Of course, the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) was relabeled from the Communications Capabilities Consolidation Programme (CCCP)