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Re: Operation Fast & Furious
It's hard to not be a thorn in Eric "I'm not responsible for my fascist decisions" Holder's side unless all defenses are indeed very much down.
Re: THIS GUY IS....
Yes
Re: Pure Comedy Gold.
Gold, indeed.
Technology does not play a large part. But Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking, yes.
Basically, Governments are the cause of the economic breakdowns and they know it. But they will never admit it. Just compare what Greenspan said BEFORE he managed to land his job at the Fed.
Just today, there was a nice writeup here:
http://mises.org/daily/5938/Seventeen-Years-of-Boom-and-Bust
I hope our several hundred western intelligence agencies and the IAEA and its inspectors would have told you in no uncertain terms (i.e. not using Amano's "I'm gonna freak people out using innuendo based on random faxes from the State Department and the 'smoking laptop' source from MEK") SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE THAT CAN HAPPEN that there was a possibility that Iran had:
1) A military nuclear program
2) The political intent to make a nuke
3) Enough 98% enriched uranium or even plutonium to make a nukes
4) Run tests on that nuke
5) Miniaturized the nuke far enough to put it on an ICBM tip
6) Built the ICBM in question
Currently we are stage 0)
"Sparking fears of a downed aeroplane or missile attack."
Missile attack??
Please, PLEASE, good people, stop trying to navigate the real world, stay comfortably at home and watch 24 or 48 or something. Indeed, you have fully lost attachment to reality. Still, remember to vote! Because politicians work day and night to protect you from all kinds of dangers!! And they need your support!!!
Re: Beware America
I just hope their rocketeering effort is of higher QUALITY than their effort at imitating high-speed trains.
Posted in GM puts the brake on Volt e-car output
"GM said it has 3600 Volts parked outside its factory"
I wonder what the trade union says about that kind of health hazard.
Nice to demo your math skillz, but relevance to Real World is zero.
“The amount of energy released infront of the ship is unbounded, as we can increase the energy of the released radiation and particles simply by travelling across a larger distance,”
Oh we can has infinite energy if we just can make this work, then?
Hell, it's not like the universe forces you to keep your total energy at a constant, right? Yeah, in some parts of the multiverse, Einstein's coffin is being used to spin up Alcubierre Generators.
"a furious response from European Commission VP Viviane Reding"
Please, El Reg, can we leave the emoting bullshit to the gutter press?
A "furious" politician is just code speak for emotional theater behind which the politican sees opportunities to upweasel his position, perks, kickbacks or put down a political opponent. It has nothing to do with the matter at hand.
An innovative leader!
http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2012/02/16/time-to-recognize-the-blair-governments-criminality/
'In the kabuki theater of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theater after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike. The farewell speech of one of the most artful, Tony Blair, had "a sense of moral conviction running through it," effused the television presenter Jon Snow, as if Blair’s appeal to kabuki devotees was mystical. That he was a war criminal was irrelevant.
....Deploying sinecures of "peace-making" and "development" that allow him to replenish the fortune accumulated since leaving Downing Street, Blair’s jackdaw travels are concentrated on the Gulf sheikhdoms, the US, Israel and safe havens like the small African nation of Rwanda. Since 2007, Blair has made seven visits to Rwanda, where he has access to a private jet supplied by President Paul Kagame. Kagame’s regime, whose opponents have been silenced brutally on trumped-up charges, is "innovative" and a "leader" in Africa, says Blair.'
This trainwreck is just leaving the station.
With 4 billion of taxpayer-extracted money "on the table", you can get a lot of supplier-supported FAIL and burning wreckage. I hope the landfills are large enough.
"The committee pointed out that it was all very well for Washington to be debating government involvement in private sector cybersecurity issues"
Did you mean "debasing"?
Or maybe Operation British?
There goes Australia!
I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks
From before the Forever War:
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col38.html
Posted in France: All your books are belong to us
Re: Just One Of Their Brainfarts
"Just taking away property rights to books completely incompatible with human rights"
Well, MY books are safely stored in a case made of wood in my living room. Problem?
Posted in France: All your books are belong to us
The state grants you "copyright", the state takes it away.
"Publishers are the big beneficiaries."
Only if the publisher gets a monopoly grant for issuance of said work. Otherwise FTP servers can spring up anywhere. Does he? Possibly. Not clear.
"And the French Free Software movement, recognising the freedoms of software libre depend on strong copyright"
Oh yeah? Howzzthat then? I would rather think it depends on strong copyleft.
A "secret indictment", huh?
Break out the SS regalia. Reanimate Judge Freisler. Open the star chamber.
Then again, what would one expect from the a nation in which the president arrogates himself the absolute freedom[tm] to terminate random citizens (which would thus be anti-citizens, I guess) if a case can be made in a secret legal document that he can, in fact, do so?
The US is currently shit tier and heading deeper into the brown bog. It doesn't need to be this way. Things can be changed with judicious application of crowbars.
>lack of knowledge
Don't be bashful. It just means "to all evidence, problems that are hard to solve for a classical computer will STAY hard to solve on a quantum computer (more generally, mother nature won't hand you over the keys to the car no matter what) except for some niche stuff like factorization - and simulation of physics"
Protection?
Nice young people with ADHD you got there... shame if something should happen to them...
>processing data at speeds we can barely imagine
Unfortunately, the space of NP-hard problems *will* stay out of reach. You will have P plus a few extra tendrils that become practical (as far as we know).
But you will be able to at least build efficient simulators of quantum system.
This should open a lot of doors in material science, possibly in experimental mathematics.
Re: Whats the story?
"...found a way to extend the quantum coherence of the qubits by up to 100 microseconds, two to four times greater than previous records"
Which means that they managed to have the qubit not leak information about its current state of superposition (aka. its current wavefunction) into the surrounding system (the "observer") for > 100 μs (i.e. avoid it getting "measured"). Apparently at that point you can do quantum error correction (I suppose, something that keeps the quantum state of interest in its superposition. like a sacrificial anode keeping a ship's hull from rusting)
[Mr. Holmes comes nearest to the pipe-smoking, tweed-jacket-with-leather-elbow-patch-wearing professor, so there...]
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Next: Grannie gets beaten up in the street. Police investigate whether action should be taken for her causing broken bones and a lengthy hospital stay. Not to mention irresponsibly letting her purse be snatched away.
IT security staff?
I can tell you that operations staff may well be at the same level, what with 24/7 operations that have to run on a shoestring budget powered by hairy rats running in threadmills in the server room. You then get "agility" pushed in your face which basically means that an upgrade will be forthcoming at date X and operations has to somehow choose what to leave out to nevertheless reach an acceptable acceptance level [which basically means the application stack will crash after 2.5 hours instead of immediately, great perspective], you write up an assessment of the problems to be solved [most of them of an as-yet-unknown or even unidentified nature], nobody reads it or reacts on it, marketing makes fun of you because you seem to pressure your coworkers for no good reason, at date X-2 you get told that you should have "informed" people beforehand that there actually were problems (you don't say?) and that your assessment is anyway worthless because there is no precise planning in it, just about thirty blocking points of which two have recently switched to "green". Come again? THIS IS CLOWN INDUSTRY.
Re: What?
NO!
Once again, galilean and non-galilean reference frames are mashed up and confused in a pretend-physically-correct hodgepoge of ignorance.
SIT DOWN! YES, YOU!
What is this "TV" people speak of?
Isn't that some old technology from before the wars? With Tony Blair and stuff?
Posted in Galaxy is teeming with homeless planets
Re: Re: Does this answer some of that unexplained mass
Yes and No! We are talking MACHOs. But there are limits on these...
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryonic_dark_matter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonbaryonic_dark_matter
"A small proportion of dark matter may be baryonic dark matter: astronomical bodies, such as massive compact halo objects, that are composed of ordinary matter but which emit little or no electromagnetic radiation. Consistency with other observations indicates that the vast majority of dark matter in the universe cannot be baryons, and is thus not formed out of atoms. It also cannot interact with ordinary matter via electromagnetic forces; in particular, dark matter particles do not carry any electric charge."
Forks, Spoons and Knives.
> There are OpenSolaris forks out there
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/14/openindiana_launch/
"Then Oracle changed the licensing terms for the Solaris 10 freebie distribution, which only allows those who download the operating system to use it in test and development environments; if you use Solaris 10 in production, you are supposed to pay Oracle $1,000 to $2,000 per socket per year, depending on the scalability of the server. Then the OpenSolaris community died of neglect and eventually committed ritual suicide. While the Illumos Project, launched in early August to create an open source alternative to the OpenSolaris and Solaris kernel and core network features (called OS/Net in the Sun lingo), Illumos did not go so far as to create a full distribution."
The future of MySQL also is murky.
Re: Stolen plans
Emperor Basam Damdu finally gets the blueprints of the Swordfish!
Mine's the trenchcoat with old comics stuffed in the pockets.
"Prey" is one word!
Summarizing it with "Abysmally Bad Writing" gives us three.
Stanislaw Lem's "Upside Down Evolution" in Realtime
Now with additional Steampunky Brass elements!
NOT an intelligent reaction.
Looks rather like standard work in precision measurement.
Noisy people (including sundry sunday-physicist bloggers) pushing extra-dimensional neutrino travel, string pretzel phenomena or imaginary mass will have to wait for another measurement discrepancy and in the meantime might fall back - if they are testosterone-fuelled enough - to neutrino-denial conspiracy theories. But really this is all as it should be. A suspicious result leads to publication leads to checking of gear and statistics which leads to the result disappearing. Thus the telenovela of "still no kinks in current physical models" continues.
Then again, it might reappear after even MORE checking.
"Spitzer spots..."
"What the hell is that NY attorney up to now?"
"Hold on...."
"Oh it's about spaaace."
I confess to reading too much left-leaning headlines.
Re: Re: No matter how much others you'll try...
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770873(v=ws.10).aspx
OTOH, the darkest times of helpless despair and groveling at the feet of the Beast are indeed upon us when people need a howto about copying configuration files over.
Biblical apocalyptic genocide at the command of Jehova icon is missing? Nuke will do.
"Facebook would become a common way to serve documents in future."
Now I know why I always have "new messages pending" even though I never log on!
Re: Re: What do you mean, RSA package?
So what is the problem? No need to discuss basic facts, this is not show & tell.
-> If you are on an open-sourced Unix, check the implementation of /dev/random [for random numbers derived from the system state] or /dev/urandom [for random numbers derived from an algorithm]
-> If the random-number generator comes with the package [in whatever form], check that. See also the Debian event: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number_b.html
-> If you see "RSA Data Security" on the package [in whatever form] and the PRNG is part of said package, ask for a signed statement of the CEO that this PRNG is correctly seeded and passes sundry statistical tests etc.
-> If you have a hardware number generator, use that, but stay away from naive implementations like "as simple as a CMOS gate input left open circuit". See here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0
The obvious answer...
"We don't run Microsoft IIS?"
madotsuki_vomit_chan.jpg
Not mention that times of delivery may vary heavily and/or your SMS may be dropped by eager operator-installed "spamfilters" or just because the airwaves are clogged. Course you will still get billed.
On the other hand, "if you want a guarantee, buy a toaster"
Re: Good!!
>the biggest voluntary shafting ever received by consumers
Forced to hand over money, are you?
"officials asked for permission to sometimes suspend Secure ID checks"
I smell something fishy going on here.
Waving Mossad operatives through, are we?
> the Windows Vs Linux debate that ended a few years ago
I remember this! Wasn't that shortly before the War on Terror was won?
"notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay"
I thought they were just indexing torrents?
Posted in Dick estate gets stiffed
"Copyright law" is just another tool to pull in the rent.
Really, how can something called "The estate of the deceased writer Horselover Fat" pull in the monies on his production thirty years after his heavenly ascent and accuse others of "greed"? It's like a carpenter hammering away and accusing other carpenters of f*cking him over because they also use hammers.
Take those hammers away.
Re: Re: Re: LOST IN TIME....
>Who the bloody hell is responsible for this software?
Who the bloody hell is responsible for "daylight saving" pants-on-head retardation?
I wonder how many billions have been intestinally transported out of office windows for that kind of genius idea.
This is impressive and I am impressed
Fast chips running off solar cells? Genius. This eliminates THE bottleneck to embedded intelligence / ubiquitous computing and makes shipping adequate compute nodes to villages in the steppes or wherever actually possible.,
On the other hand, the NSA must be fapping hard at the prospect of putting sensors everwhere and increase the compute density of their data centers without a higher electricity bill.
Re: Criminals belong in prison
So what about Jews?
Suddenly it's down to money!
"but they have been running this nasty Internet dirty-trick campaign with taxpayers' money"
As opposed to pushing frankly bad legislation with taxpayers' money, which gives everyone a hard time and burns even MORE taxpayers' money?
[Anyway, how is this Harper government still in session? From here, Harper is permanently trying to outdo the US in outrageous neocon behaviour like a pimply-faced kid pandering to the schoolyard bully.]
"there really is nothing happening!"
How so? Maybe if the real world is compared to 2-hour relentless shoot, rape and torture Hollywood dross. And even then...
Posted in Ten... digital adult toys
Still no "tasp"
http://mindhacks.com/2008/09/16/erotic-self-stimulation-and-brain-implants/
"Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for computing"
Just. What.
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