Vampires are now soooo 1830s, dear!
Wasn't Steampunk over once William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had issued the caleodoscopic "Difference Engine"?
...and that Microsoft guy had his own Difference Engine delivered to his living room?
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"the foundations of special relativity look rather absurd -- they basically state, as an input assumption, that all observers will measure light travelling at the speed of light *regardless of their own speed*. So when we're travelling towards the Sun and travelling away from it, we measure exactly the same speed. Absurd."
Apparently not.
Mitch Feigenbaum thinks this is all a straightforward extension of Galilean thought... this is a paper I have yet to read though.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1234
"We determine the Lorentz transformations and the kinematic content and dynamical framework of special relativity as purely an extension of Galileo's thoughts. No reference to light is ever required: The theories of relativity are logically independent of any properties of light. The thoughts of Galileo are fully realized in a system of Lorentz transformations with a parameter 1/c^2, some undetermined, universal constant of nature; and are realizable in no other. Isotropy of space plays a deep and pivotal role in all of this, since here three-dimensional space appears at first blush, and persists until the conclusion: Relativity can never correctly be fully developed in just one spatial dimension."
See also
"The things I tell you will not be wrong"
For those haven't seen it yet: Large-Scale Simulation, a bit old now.
A simple guess s that there would seem to be a lot more mass (several percent of the observable mass) in the direction of the cluster. It's like waking up in your home and finding all the furniture stacked against the eastern wall. Something is going ON here. Maybe we are in a Spielberg horror movie.
73 quasars distributed over four billion light years is not particularly dense. As is commonly supposed, a quasar is a black holse swallowing up stuff in the center of forming galaxies. If you see 73, you are looking down the axis of rotation of those holes in 73 cases. Doesn't sound a particularly surprising surprise, there must be tens of thousands of galaxies over 4 billion lys
Come to think of it, that should read input buffer cocaine rather than electronic cocaine, because "electronics" is how it is implemented (hopefully we will see photonics before I meet the bearded guy in the sky) but the input buffer is what overflows, constantly.
Yeah but first you need the gazillionaires to actually finance the thing.
A good example what "savings" are for btw, as opposed to paper money freshly exchanged against bonds at the central bank.
Icon of what is nearest a tall-hat wearing space elevator baron shortly before he is taken down by antitrust for a natural space elevator monopoly. Which we can't have.
At Java 0day Mass Exploit Distribution
One of the best statements that I have seen in regards to the fairly impractical "just uninstall it" approach was presented by one of the handlers at the ISC Storm Center in today's issue of SANS NewsBites: "Editor's Note ([Mat] Honan): It seems each time a zero day exploit is found in software, be that Java or otherwise, the industry pundits recommend that people stop using that software. New vulnerabilities will always be discovered in the software we use. If our best defence to a threat is to cause a denial-of-service on ourselves then this in the long term is a no-win strategy for us as an industry. We need to be looking at better ways to defend our systems and data, one good place to start is the 20 Critical Security Controls http://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/
Not a lawyer but, well... I would say odds aren't good.
Have a search for the Service Mark in question. Not the first guys who start tomorrows here...
The USPTO uses something called 'gate.exe'... and "Please logout when you are done to release system resources allocated for you."
But anyway so I went to that shop to buy some networking gear but wound up with an inscription to bumfuck U instead. What do?
> He was kept in an open air cage for 10+ years
Apparently just for a short time, but then got the full Manning treatment. He was then accused of high treason, which is bemusing considering that a well-known american crook, liar and accomlished political entrepreneur who had ceded the eastern half of Europe to Stalin under cover of secret understandings and had recently kicked the golden bucket was himself a great admirer of Mussolini.
> idiotic ferocity to marginal acts
Because that's how state justifies its existence? You can go after the little man easily, it amuses the proles, makes the guys in uniform feel badass and the guys in robes feel useful, and the theater pleases their well-manicured, white-cat-stroking handlers. But big fish are big fish. You don't go after big fish.
Real problems are never solved, they just ....
Hey, Obama just appointed Jack Lew to be Treasury Secretary! Well, whaddya know, talk about putting the fox into the henhouse.
"Portal Access Keys™ (PAKs™) are downloaded to a cellphone, pc, laptop or tablet to unlock a quantum portal that then allows data to be teleported from a quantum computer to a human or animal brain programming it for desired benefits."
I think they might be angering GlaDOS here. Not to mention the state's Data Protection Agencies and Public Health Safety Bureaucrats.
Will be a great surprise to the many left-leaning Americans who would consider that "deficits don't matter" and that debt is of no consequence because "we owe it to ourselves". Hopefully Krugman will write up a column exposing the fallacies in the White House's reasoning and we can get this government superprogram rolling.
You mean it fell off a truck in Manchester or was it shipped back (hopefully billed to the occupying forces)
I like these cozy "industrial policy" deals pushed by our manufacturers and cronies.
Same with the containers of AKMs ordered by Petraeus. Quite a lot went missing. Arm the people etc.
"Measured tip-to-tip across its spiral arms, the galaxy spans more than 522,000 light years, making the star system five times the size of the Milky Way."
That's a lot of empires, however if the "tip" is the extreme extension of the "arm" then the spiral itself is about as large as the Milky Way.
How about 6 million light years? Yes, we can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_1101
There appears to be multiple ad networks redirecting to Blackhole sites, amplifying the mass exploitation problem. We have seen ads from legitimate sites, especially in the UK, Brazil, and Russia, redirecting to domains hosting the current Blackhole implementation delivering the Java 0day. These sites include weather sites, news sites, and of course, adult sites. A few obfuscated files are being delivered to victim systems with names like Stretch.jar, Edit.jar, UTTER-OFFEND.JAR, and more. The first appearance of the exploit's prevention in our KSN community seemed to be January 6th. But as we dig back further, we find related samples from mid-December. So, we have been preventing this 0day in particular for quite some time. At this point, it seems that the first instance of the particular 0day jar file contents ITW is 7550ce423b2981ad5d3aaa5691832aa6. Filenames for the class files remain the same until recently. It would be interesting to see an earlier instance.
Good question.
I wonder what went wrong NOW? Shurely the Java sandbox must be one of those things that have no obvious errors, as opposed to obviously no errors.
I also wonder what will happen if that "Native Code Running in the Browser" thing takes off. That's gonna be Clouseau-level.
"am I missing something"
Yep, you are probably not living in the real world.
"I'd like to announce that 3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, and 2.3.15 have been released. These releases contain two extremely critical security fixes so please update IMMEDIATELY."
This actually means the patches are actually in 3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, and 2.3.15, actually.
"tell everyone the problem is there for them to exploit to boot"
Uh... yeah. Release an open-source update but not tell anyone that it's about this little fix to cover up THIS ACCESS ALL AREAS MULTIPASS. Yeah, those sysops will leisurely update laters, no need to tell them to hurry. Bad guys can't into grep, I'm sure.