Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Comodo resellers cascading compromise?
Do they use some packaged webapp by Comodo that needs a bit of patching?
Also, xkcd's Exploits of a Mom, Gaius Baltar etc..
Like this penguin's fat belly, cropped but nearby
If that mass is extragalactic, then it can't contribute much to keeping the galactic rotation curves flat. The mass must be nearby here, in the galactic disk.
No
Just no:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/72/images/darkMatterPie-590.jpg
Why, then.
No problem routing from Sarko's left ear to his right ear, then.
Quite so.
And that's why OpenOffice sucks. They managed to faithfully copy all the retarded annoyances where control is taken away from the object in front of the screen and the silly program imposes its own opinion on where the table/break/formatting should go. Permanently. With no recourse. When you have to hand in the paper in about an hour.
Also:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohn/thoughts/advice.html
"If you are going to submit a paper to a journal, you should do a professional job of it. If possible, you should write your paper using LaTeX (the TeX users group has information). That's not necessary, but it can't hurt to make it look professional, and it means the journal won't need to retype your paper if it is accepted for publication (which can introduce errors). Almost all research papers in mathematics use LaTeX. "
Is this like String Theory?
Make test! Reality doesn't comply? No problem, clarify what you _really_ wanted to say.
Also, imaginary friends in the sky etc.
Posted in Adam Curtis: The Rise of the Machines
Yet even Marx predicted the state would eventually "wither away"
Marx predicts the same as Chriswell.
Indeed, the state would wither away, once the "proletariat" had obtained the power to decide exactly what YOU should be doing in the morning, afternoon and evening. In other words: total control. Calling this "withering away" is just an extreme example of doublethink. When everyone wears the uniform, nobody does, right?
Anyway, what's new? We once had Newton's Clockwork Universe with philosophers ponderously debating whether free will could exist in such a system or not. Then came quantum mechanics. Same hard thinking in the corner. Old social ideas were put on paper and to the test; Communism, Fascism, Socialism, New Deals, New Society, Big Society; same shit different jars, people nearly incapable of following a thread of logic for more than two inferences suddenly are in the seat of power or glom onto the next upwardly mobile sociopath, go apeshit and decide to turn the knobs. The hard thinking went on and on until the leather-elbow-patch tweed jacket wearers had killed about 300 million people in a quarter of a century. Managerialism indeed. Nice doing, intellectuals.
Hands off those knobs, I say!
"a depleted uranium molecule, one with its radio-active element removed"
Not really.
U-238 still decays with a half-life of 4 x 10⁹ y, which is around 10 times longer than U-235. Still, not a lot.
Seems apposite
"But the reason I voted for Obama in 2008 is because I trust his judgment. And not in any merely abstract way, either: I mean that if he and I were in a room and disagreed about some issue on which I had any doubt at all, I’d literally trust his judgment over my own. I think he’s smarter than me, better informed, better able to understand the consequences of his actions, and more farsighted. I voted for him because I trust him, and I still do."
I hope IP-encumbered closed stuff gives similar warm and fuzzy feelings to people who need to play Gimp to someone.
You will have to pass this Voight-Kampff test first...
People doing the revolving-door thing are not covering themselves in glory?
Luckily they generally don't care as they most likely belong to the set of specially deficient people who can crush adorable puppies with a steamroller while plotting about obtaining a new Ferrari at the peons' expense.
A clear example of government's looting of deep pockets.
http://mises.org/daily/5298/The-Google-Pharm-Case
Over the years, Google has accepted some advertising from some of these so-called rogue elements. In a free market, they would be perfectly legitimate advertisers. Google makes no guarantee of the exact nature of the goods and services of all those who choose to advertise on its network. It has some degree of interest in quality control, of course, but if the customers are buying and happy, what could be the problem?
Well, the medical cartel, of course, and it asked for the Justice Department to intervene. As of this writing, Google is assuming that it is going to be in hot water very soon. Its recent report to stockholders says that it has put half a billion dollars in escrow to deal with the Justice Department investigation. The presumption here is that Google is going to be held liable for permitting ads to run from market-based drug sellers.
The only way to maintain a cartel is through government regulations, and this is what the pharmacy industry has long relied upon, much to the detriment of consumer well-being. The attempt to crack down on free-market advertising of prescription drugs is all about protecting an industry from competition, and has nothing at all to do with protecting the consumer.
It's good to know...
...that at least Somali pirates are quaking in their sandals before them thar mighty ships.
Yarrr!!
Captain is pleased?
Wouldn't you be pleased to be on a naval vessel on which you have to occasion to pass the command
"LAUNCH ALL VIPERS"
A broken record may be right all day
Additionally regarding "most advanced destroyer", a morality tale:
http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html
Posted in LinkedIn goes ballistic following IPO
Really now...
That would be at least Bubble 3.0 [in the ned millenium], the one after the dot.com having being inflated by cheap credit which arrived in the housing market. The current one, pumped by Quantitative Easing 1 and 2, will be a Sendai Earthquake event.
Do want.
Germans - they now how to party in an Italian Sci-Fi Flick way.
Posted in Eight New Yorkers sue Baidu for $16m
To the whole world except to the USA.
If AIPAC had a search service, would anyone sue it?
You are now reading this in the voice of GlaDOS
"So your searches - and again this is all very fully disclosed - are kept for 12 to 18 months in a complex series of ways, and after that, we anonymize them"
For the next test chamber...
As long as Alyx Vance stays around...
Bring it on!
Neurotoxin in your research center? I's more likely than you think.
Sounds like reasonable behaviour all around for once.
If the bugs ain't fixed but are in the process of being so, wait a bit.
We don't want Sony-Sized Events with industrial hardware. No, we don't.
Good point....
In principle, a magnetic field does not do work - it acts on moving charges only -- orthogonally to the vector of movement, thus FORCE dotproduct VELOCITY is zero. Ok, that doesn't help here.
Now, if your wrench is pulled towards the permanent magnet because the electrons have some correlation in their orbital movements [in the classical approach], then clearly work is being done. It must come from the potential energy inherent in the start configuration. Once the wrench is on the magnet, the total field magnetic should be reduced, as the wrench will start to behave like a magnet with inverse polarity.... that should be about it...
Anyway ... something for physicsexchange, I reckon.
Yes, you behind the bikesheds! Stand still laddy!
"Strangelets – a "a totally new form of matter" comprising three quarks (u, d and s), as opposed to our modest earthly matter, which has only two quarks (u and d)."
NO!
Strangelets have a "strange" quark, so hadrons (3-quark units) like [up, down, strange] or mesons (2-quark units) like [up, strange] belong to that set.
Bog standard low-energy matter as we encounter everyday uses up and down exclusively so hadrons like the neutron [up, down, down] or mesons like [up, down] belong to that set.
The purring of the fat cat
>>massive government subsidies to the incumbent operator
Diversion of resources to building infrastructure that possibly no-one needs? No telco is against THAT.
>>not having had to open up its network to rival operators
Higher prices [not to mention "licensing fees" etc.] than would be provided in a competitive environment? No telco is against THAT.
Posted in Third mighty WD 'data tub' launched
The "Battle Against Any Raid F*" (including Six) goes on!
No RAID Four, Five nor Six!
http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html
Pretty much that...
But I have also personally noticed:
- Out-of-this world requirements from functionairies on the other side of the table who assume that implementation of magic functionality is either "already covered" or can be done "on the side". Consequence: pad the price beforehand because you know it's coming.
- Constantly changing requirements from functionairies on the other side of the table who assume that basically changing the system on political whim is either "already covered" or is just "a minor change". Consequence: pad the price beforehand because you know it's coming.
- Excessive bureaucratisation of the development and implementation process because functionairies on the other side of the table assume that delivering a whole truck of "documentation" that no-one can read is going to bring "clarity" or "transparency". Consequence: pad the price beforehand because you know it's coming.
- Red tape, arbitrary onerous requirements regarding "compliance" to ISO whatever as well as the minister's preferred management scheme as well as "working together" with politically favoured, already established players will make your life hell, kill your dog and make your spouse flee to Havana. Consequence: pad the price beforehand because you know it's coming.
WHERE exactly...
...do all the heatpipes on the M2090 go???
Oh yes...
Fancy an attack on Pakistan my'lord?
Just when you thought irrationality unlawfully carnally paired with american militaro-exceptionalism had generated enough stupidity, they manage to take it to 120%.
TMG has said “no personal data was disclosed”
Because once they have it, it's no longer personal.
Posted in EXPLODING MELONS terrify Chinese
Yeah! Burn his house down! Burning people!
...Wait -- what's going on here?
Getting that picture in your face during breakfast is deleterious to health!
Please don't do it again, otherwise I will set the Daily Mail on the case.
That would put Elop on the same train as Lenin, so to say.
I'm impressed.
There is some confusion going on here, my dear lad...
...namely, between the theoretical concept of the "memristor" and a physical implementation of the same.
The theoretical concept, which can be elegantly summarized in a differential equation that I hope you are all aware of, is being alluded to _here_:
"Memristors are the fourth fundamental type of passive circuitry"
Whereas a physical implementation of a particular type is being referred to _here_:
"The core advantage of memristors is that they can theoretically achieve speeds 10 times that of flash at one-tenth the power budget per cell."
I'm sure you could build memristors out of huge power-hungry electronic valves and cabling using the "fat finger" gauge [exercise left for the student]. While these would clearly be *memristors* inasmuch as they would obey the differential equation mentioned earlier, they would have none of the advantages of the physical realization performed by one "HP".
In the same way, you can have a condenser that is a few nanometers across or one that stands in the corner of the room, accumulating a monstrous charge and covered in warning signs. Both are condensers, but of different kind, of different implementation and of different use.
Posted in UK public-sector union DDoS'd
What are they then? Fabians?
Always wondering at the concept of a Union For People Paid By Expropriation of Others.
You know Eric Holder will find a porn stash under his bed....
... just after a SEAL team orchestrated a Counterstrike Event on his hideaway, which resulted in unforeseen circumstances [tm] while he was using his parrot as avian shield.
May I be the first to say?
No
"around 20 years ago"
And it hasn't expired yet, WTF?
You need a "right to plank"?
Sod that. Plank ahead.
I'm a Mac. I have no user-serviceable parts inside.
And I generate lots of "fan noise".
Posted in Porn found in Osama bin Laden compound
It's called "psyops"
The counterpoint of showing clueless and ignorant Obama & Clinton "in control" and "on top of it".
Yeah....
I'm always suspicious of the unused VoIP conferencing device on the main conference room table [not a Cisco though], plugged into the LAN and sitting there, mute and sullen.
Always wanted to firewall it.
Yeah....
Maybe Google should just set 500 million aside to move to a place where it won't be bothered by governments and various "actors" looking for a cash windfalls.
Seriously.
GSV?
Internet Hivemind!
I have the book...
Need time to code. Where to get?
"One Free Internet"
A Winrar is you!
Posted in Official: phones sting bees
The Green Fearmongering Group is to the left, right after the communal compost heap
"1/ Try and deny the claim"
There is not even a need to try.
Posted in Official: phones sting bees
Yes...
This explains everything because many bee hives have mobile phones nearby.
Classify under "brain tumors" "calcium loss" and "stepmother visits" -- "mobile phones [unspecified technology], caused by"
Yes!!!
Now everyone can play Wheatley!
Just need to practice my classical music and reading skills. Also, DAT ACCENT!
Ok, I'm going. I'm going. Forget I said anything.
Mr Staberinde, I presume?
That would be an epic movie but people would have to have larger bladders than they needed for Titanic.
Maybe an anime series?
He thinks anonymous is in fact an organised group with leaders.
laughing_girls.jpg
Skype is worth more than Sun?
DAMN BUBBLE ECONOMY, HOW DOES IT WORK?
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