Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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J?
Jennifer Lopez?
Jamaica?
Israel?
Gag me with a spoon
"Any mainstream media outlet that published the information may have some ethical qualms about dealing with the anarchic hacking collective"
"Mainstream media" has no problem at all sourcing "unnamed insiders", "leakers", "experts" and assorted bureaucratic riffraff when they want to splatter the latest economic "analysis", war spin or govnmt feel-good news onto the front page.
Now they would suddenly be virginal goody two-shoes?
RIGHT!
"God Bless America"
Then a Reaper Drone collides with it on the way down.
So is something happening or not?
At this rate, we will have disproven String Theory first.
That's pretty weak.
Let's get Lulzsec on the case, some now in the fridge will probably "volunteer".
Spread rumors about goats and unholy intercourse. Go!
Sigh
Start with copyright =/= trademark protection
That is...
If you want to have a date.
*Who* wants to have a date with a U student?
SPADS, eh?
And me thinking about Special Assault and Destroying Sections.
The future: A boot stamping on a hand trying to open a book -- forever.
"They were then sued for copyright violation by the campus bookstore"
Well, I hope this crap was dismissed and the bookstore got countersued for harassment.
Because that would be really hardcore Nazi if a *buyer* could be convicted of copyright violation.
Wouldn't surprise me though.
Oh look, a paper by the Bogdanovs!
"locking up thousands of papers behind publisher copyright --no matter how useful for getting things published in paper"
Which is about Zero Useful.
The publishers just draw in massive amount of fees for a service that is consistenly broken and toothless: so-called "peer review".
Hence, arxiv.org etc. Which has another kind of brokeness, in the sense of preventive suppression of politically problematic papers endangering grants I hear. But that's yet another story.
Posted in Cloud changes shape in a crystal ball
I'm not worried
"Now we need to think of multiple cores – millions – in an optical gel providing free space interconnections between them. You could make something that is currently unimaginably powerful."
That's Greg Egan's Luminous, right?
Well, I actually expect Eric Drexler's Rod Logic to come online earlier. But it's gonna take some time ... maybe forever.
The shoes are hideous though
Bletch
Statist much?
"then they can't have been to bothered about losing the right to provide it"
Hayek can now be tapped for the provision of necrological rotational energy.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
WTF am I reading?
Looks like Sarah Palin quotes, but apart from that I really don't know.
Beer, quick!
What's the terminal velocity of an iphone?
It depends on whether it's laden with malware.
Posted in Amazon tackles soaring textbook prices
Captive market, and subsidies, duh!
_Of course_ the price is skyrocketing. Same with, hmm, admission prices for law school and some such. Hell, I recently took a look at the price of high school textbooks. The way it's going, a hardcover Harry Potter would be EUR 120.
Just another bubble.
I remember that even back in the oldem times, we kept the copier smoking. Or we didn't go for drinks on Saturday for a month or so,
Also, "Sizzling Sixteen". What? The Hell?? Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Clifford Stoll and Douglas Hofstaedter, more like.
Posted in Educating Verity the OU way
THIS IS A SCANDAL!
There is nary a reference to gender equality or race issues in these questions!
WTF were they thinking?
Posted in Beyonce bigs up girls in space
Seriously!
Being a woman in space is dangerous. You *will* be chased by lusty starfleet captains, aliens that try to procreate their species through of laying of eggs in chest cavities or mafia killers out to keep the drug business going on faraway mining moons. Not to mention renditioned to heavily armed Space Gitmo because you might be a member of a terrorist organization.
Stay at home, keep your gonads away from radiation and let SAL9000 stand in for the female side, if you insist.
That would be "Windows NT"
And as far as I can remember, "phone" and "embedded" weren't on the radar back then.
But yes, if WinNT would have become what it should have become according to DreamSight[tm], everything from IBM boxes to desktop towers would now be running it. At a cost.
Lattice Gauge Computations?
I hope it does.
Posted in Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted
What! No!
"The whole structure of a URL needs to change"
There is no way. There is a reason for the "http:" in the URL, or more precisely, URI:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
What if you want other things than "http:"?
Posted in Vesta flashes charms to approaching Dawn
It's a trap!
Once the spacecraft is near enough, an enormous door will open and mechanized space snake will lunge at the poor NASA junk, crushing it instantly.
They will then put it down to "software malfunction" or an "incident during the hypergol pressurization procedure" to keep the people in the dark.
Oh yeah?
> On my databases - runninng a 1000+ SQLs per second is the norm
Maybe you should become a rapper.
SQL is the fastest method
Implying SQL is a "method"
Ok, this is getting like a Lady Di goodbye
Can we move on now?
Actually, like, get useful robots into space instead of a glorified truck out of a Mad Max movie?
This is all pretty content-free
1) Facebook has lots of users and lots of data
2) Facebook uses MySQL to store data
3) Things become slow (surprise!)
4) Stuff gets moved into faster volatile memory (using memcached, surprise!)
Stonebraker chimes in, saying:
1) The above is bad (WHY??)
2) Dropping ACID properties is bad (this depends on the application and he sure knows that you can drop these properties them _somewhat_ in return for speed until you get distributed hashtables, which may or may not be ok in your application, see also Brewers CAP theorem http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theorem for a discussion)
3) "NewSQL", in particular his VoltDB to the rescue. (HOW?? What does he drop in VoltDB to solve performance problems? What part of ACID is being killed?)
It's like a breakfast cereal addy, FFS.
P.S. I always get into a huff when SQL is brought up anywhere in these discussions. SQL is just the crappy insanely dumb query language on top of whatever your database is.
Posted in W3C moves to snuff Apple web patents
But you can't patent that
It's a spec, so USPTO will exceptionally say "no".
You need some magic applicative dust ... "method to enrage superego CEOs of fruit-logo bearing companies"
Still don't know what problem virtualization is supposed to solve
...except configuration mess problems that should maybe be solved differently than with a virtual sledgehammer.
So what does a "friend" request on Facebook do then?
Because I don't know, you know.
Are you people still talking shag power?
What, are you 12 years old?
Once biochemical path modeling has advanced somewhat...
...and can be run for a few thousand bucks on a supercomputer in Shenzen, with the results in a nice tar that you can just upload to your molecule sequencer, politicians and daily-mail reading people who like to mind your own business are going to SHIT BRICKS.
Correction
You mean while the government is in control.
We are not legislating against legal highs?
"The government are legislating not against perfectly fine legal highs, but against people purchasing for human consumption compounds whose effects are unknown."
Hmmm... a tautology followed by a goal that's only reachable in a politician's brown-envelopes-and-pony land.
Yup, the masses may be unwashed but at least they are brainwashed.
Yeah well
I'm not sure whether the air gap is enclosed or not...
That's coo... oh God, that's a pun! What's wrong with me?
Even if that were the case (which I doubt, as you can move your PC even with the harddisk spinning), you could still use it in stationary devices.
Which is nice, but..
"You need to do it for your country"
Now THERE is someone who needs to taken behind the woodshack for a little ... educational experience.
The sad thing is...
...you cannot fault him for the public's rather dismaying taste in bilge.
Quite so.
There is a gigantic penguin in this room. It may be hard to spot behind all the salesdroids at first...
You are off mass shell
"A building is a building is a building. Once the fabric is there in place, and assuming its been built properly (and there isnt the odd earthquake), its there and has a fundamental value, it is fundamentally the same thing for years"
No.
The price of labor and the price of goods nothing to do with how much material, what type of material or how much time went into it. Start with the basics:
http://mises.org/daily/2255 - "The Source of Prices"
Coalition warfare!
"We accept the need to persevere with painful measures to cut the deficit. But the government must move beyond the rhetoric of growth, and introduce radical reforms to help businesses export, invest and create more jobs."
Because it's in the government's power to do so? Even Gandalf refused jobs he knew he couldn't tackle.
"It called on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to postpone premature interest rate rises and the government to implement more growth-enhancing policies"
Code for Keynesian policy and quantitative easing. Meanwhile they are moaning about inflation....doublethink or hopeless confusion?
When will the "Whip Inflation Now" Cameron-Pins come out?
Not really either
The US could have changed the course before Gulf War I (Bush Senior), but just letting it rip with the military-industrial complex was, well, the easy way to go. Incessant Warfare-Welfare financed by Keynesian Policy did the rest.
"They need to find $4tn within a few weeks"
Well, that's really easy. Treasury sends IOU to 4 trillion to Federal Reserve, they print the money and keep a few percent to pay the janitor, amortize the building, then send the container back to Geithner. Instant riches!
"It makes even less sense that the same building in 2007 is worth one amount, and 6 months later has lost 80% of its value"
Of course it does. How much did you pay for the PC on which you are writing this. Not 20 million USD, right?
Yes
It's like Steam Locomotive Spotting. Extra points if the conductor invites you in to shovel coal.
"The shuttle brought about the USSR's final collapse "
Yes.
Actually no. It was Bruce Willis who demonstrated that the US could redirect stones to any city of the Evil Empire.
>can I be taken to court for anything at all
No, unless you actually *use* it.
State-guaranteed monopoly does not preclude you to actually build what someone else has put on paper during a toilet break, but once you did all the hard work and possibly went to market, the next step is paying up.
THE AUDACITY OF ART!
Yep, that was *not* smart however you look at it.
Thar arts master didn't have a side dish in ethics and legalities.
"An even more minority view is that consciousness is a quantum effect."
Unfortunately this assumption is useless.
"Quantum effects" is just code for "some magic happens that gives you additional power; I will leave for the reader to imagine what that could be". In other words: low-level religious feel-good crap packed in modern jargon [yes, I'm looking at you, Penrose!]
Even honest-to-god quantum computers would not help you solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. In fact, the problems in BQP [bounded error quantum polynomial time] do not seem to be of any interest for daily jobs. Do do not need fast factorization for getting milk jugs out of the fridge.
Aren't they unionized now?
Expect the union to ride to the rescue of the perp, coz it can't be that TSA employees are being spied upon by lowly private airline company underlings.
Posted in Is Facebook worth more than Google?
An Open Letter to President Obama
1) Seize Facebook using Executive Prerogative or some similar Nazi B.S. If needed, Mr. Koh can finagle a justification.
2) Sell at 1'000'000'000'000 USD (1 TRILLION US DOLLAR)
3) ???
4) Reduce national debt by 1/14! (or have the cash ready for next year's military expenditures)
Uhm
I think arteries clog due to inflammation by certain sugars and veggie oils.
Leave out the chips, then go wild on the full fat!
But I'm not sure the beer will help.
On the other hand...
...if they did the true testing-and-assurance song and dance a lot of the stuff wouldn't be there in the first place and overlay programming on a 256K machine might well be latest feature to hit the stores.
Mass consumption electronics is what it is. Deal with the risk.
And for anything serious, you have "maintenance contracts".
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