Luxleaks is not a tax evasion scandal, dude.
It may be classed under "unfair practices" and "sweetheart deals" as apparently in Europe states are supposed to not deal those out.
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> after all there's nothing absolutely impossible
Come back when something is faster than c.
Also: Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity
(Yes, I know you mean "there's nothing that I consider possible that is absolutely impossible", but that's not the same)
Thanks yank.
But the US steel industry then only got itself to blame.
Japan loses the war, the mills, the personnel, the skills, the investment money and a good chunk of the support infrastructure and still comes out ahead?
That's damning for US entrepreneurship.
Also, "mythical katana" fags around here? In El Reg? FAIL.
Haaretz writes:
In response to a question from Haaretz, ThyssenKrupp said that the cyberattack did not affect any of its naval projects, including those linked to Israel.
The company, which owns the shipyards now building new warships for Israel, has been in the center of a scandal in recent weeks involving Netanyahu's personal lawyer and the role he might have played in Israel's deal to buy the submarines.
Sorry, but the usual chain logic "X is associated to fascism thus X and anyone associated to X are bad and must be demonized (applicable only if the subject is not Israel or Ukraine)" just doesn't work for me.
Ivan Ilyin, a proto-Fascist active in the 1920s and 1930s
And we are off with a solid tarringstatement. So what's wrong with Ilyin? He sounds like rum chap. Remember these were the 20s and the 30s. Even saint FDR was taken by Mussolini's "management style", which must be why he tried un-american control freakery during the depression, causing catastrophic economic damage. Maybe the only thing wrong with Ilyin is that he's one of Putin's favorite philosophers, so something MUST be wrong with him?
Putin's ideology would be well served by simply casting doubt and discrediting the election.
Maybe this MSM meme (link to NYT, the arbiter of truth? I laugh!) should be explained a bit further. It's pretty acausal. As for making the election "look like a mug's game", well, anyone who has gone through the election of 2000 knows what's up. You can't win, but maybe you can sabotage.
Meanwhile, you could do worse than have a look at Distorting Putin’s Favorite Philosophers (WARNING! The site I'm linking to has been declared a Putin outlet by Grand Organ and War Propeller the WaPo!) for a discussion on Ilyin.
The case of Ivan Il’in (1883-1954), whom Putin regularly quotes and whom Putin is known to particularly respect, is more complex. Some of Snegovaya’s suspicions in his case are indeed accurate. Il’in has a conservative temperament.
It is fair to call him a nationalist, though one concerned with Russia alone, and with no messianic ambitions. As will be seen below, Il’in was not against authoritarianism. Il’in was, however, complex and worthy of much more careful consideration.
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Here is how, in Our Tasks, Il’in described the character of the “Soviet man” (a man that Ilyn deplores, so much about the meme of Putin wanting to restore Soviet Russia, then) that the future Russia would inherit: “The totalitarian system imposes a number of unhealthy tendencies and habits among which we may find the following: a willingness to inform on others (and knowingly falsely at that), pretense and lying, loss of the sense of personal dignity and the absence of a well-rooted patriotism, thinking in a slavish manner and by aping the thoughts of others, flattery combined with servility, constant fear. (Hey wait, is he talking about the West? Never mind.)
“The fight to overcome these unhealthy habits will not be easy It will require time, an honest and courageous self-awareness, a purifying repentance, the acquisition of new habits of independence and self-reliance, and, most importantly of all, a new national system of spiritual and intellectual education. [I. A. Il’in, Nashi Zadachi (Our Tasks), sobr. soch. (collected works), vol. 2 (Moskva, Russkaya Kniga: 1993), 23-24.]
Il’in was indeed deeply concerned about the danger of Russia’s disintegration and indeed was concerned about the defense of its borders, although, of course, not their restoration. To avoid such disintegration, Il’in urged Russians to not repeat what he considered the fatal mistake of the February Revolution its premature push for full democracy.
Guy was not wrong.
Yeah, it's not as if there wasn't a slight suspicion that the "Russia in the water" meme being spread by completely-above-board MSM fauxlets was not a little preparation of the public mood for contesting the election should it not go to the "right" person.
(Meanwhile the usual neocon suspects supported by Sheldon Adelson's publishing empire are out clamoring for an attack on Iranian forces soon. This is not going well. Here's hoping President Trump can shrug off Israeli and Saudi Arabian thinkfluencers and start the de-escalation with Russia.)
He is the sysadmin!
Boss wants names changes? Names change!
Now get to it.
Not happy? Write up exactly what the problems are, what the consequences are and demand feedback. Maybe propose to hire two "tuners" to do it during a week or so.
If boss still says go do it, go do it. It's not a fucking democracy.
Are we now at the point in history where sysadmins start to publicly moan about having to do their job?
If ithis kind of thing is difficult to do, then there is indication that a lot of base work has not been done yet.
It shall drink a beer to one of the Milestone People of the Cold War!
To John Glenn! Salute!
(He always looked like that mercenary guy in "Under Fire", maybe because it was the same actor who played Glenn in the US-centric "dramatization" of real-life events "The Right Stuff")
> after a short illness
Yeah, nice circumscription for what must be "massively invasive cancer"...
"it has a full Windows 10 computer built into the headset"
What is a Windows 10 computer and why does the baroque bullshit need to be found in a headset? Do they want to recreate the effects of Halloween III: Season of the Witch? Hmmm... now that I think about it, the Microsoft logo looks a bit like a Silver Shamrock. Coincidence? Maybe not!
Microsoft Bob. Which it tried to make a success in 2015.
More like 1995, am I right? (Hmmm... yeah "an operating system designed around Clippy". Even I do not wish that on Microsoft costumers, but que sera sera)
It is not entirely clear to me how Nuance is involved, aren't they just doing speech processing and generation?
I suppose the audio stream goes out over the Internet (unencrypted?) to Nuance's servers, is processed according to customer demands, then another audio stream goes back into the creepy puppet?
> W.I.N.D.O.W. S._S. E. R. V. E. R.
Not even once.
Been on 2012R2 just this afternoon.
It's a playground of crazy. "Notepad"? "My videos"? "Windows Explorer"? Click Click Bing Bing???
As if a millions of consumer minds had suddenly clamored for a "professional" system, then been utterly silenced with Disney-level shit. I fear something terrible has happened.
10nm is frankly amazing!
At IEEE Spectrum (Leading Chipmakers Eye EUV Lithography to Save Moore’s Law) EUV (13.5-nanometer light) we read:
Today, GlobalFoundries uses triple patterning when it makes its 14-nm chips, the most advanced ones currently created in Fab 8. This means that, for certain critical layers, a chip takes two extra passes through a scanner—and every other tool that is used to make those layers. And the company anticipates going to quadruple patterning at 7 nm, its next chip generation, says George Gomba, who is leading the company’s task of evaluating the technology at a SUNY Polytechnic Institute facility in Albany, along with colleagues from IBM.
For now, GlobalFoundries plans to roll out its 7-nm chips in 2018 without EUV, but it is reserving the option of pulling the technology in when it is ready. A key question for Gomba and his colleagues is when the cost of EUV will break even with multiple patterning. And it’s a very tricky question to answer because it depends on a number of unknown factors, including how bright EUV light sources will become and the uptime of an entire EUV lithographic system—the percentage of time it’s actually available to be used.
So, how good will the production capacity for 10nm be in mid-2017 (for a rollout in 2018)?
EUV is not yet fully ready. Maybe in 2018+.
(Compare with the optimistic prediction of EUV Chipmaking Inches Forward: ASML says extreme-ultraviolet-light machines should be bright enough for commercial production by 2015 from of July 2013.)
The Government worked in partnership with GCHQ on its blog21 on smart metering infrastructure"
This inspires as much confidence as seeing two men in black leather coats doing a beeline towards your front door at around 06:00 in the morning, while a largish Daimler-Benz is idling on the kerb.
What exactly is going on here?
S'truth but ...
> formally trained in a university environment
It's not enough. I know.
You need to be embedded in a coder sweatshop and suffer mightily for a few years to really get into hit. In fact, you need someone that is both a bit of a mathematician and of a woodworking artist and who can consciously walk the line between those two domains.
It's a judgement call.
Write you own if you have time, money, and the skills.
But beware of the freshman's error who think's capable of doing good and ends up reinventing the square wheel. And who forgets about testing and debugging. And that the maintenance problems just BEGIN once the code has shipped.
Generally not worth it.
In fact, don't do it. If you must, clean up an existing library.
"The best code is no code."
> We tend to pick the best tool for the job, but it does mean that I'm now supporting a system written in a mix of node.js, d3, bash, Ruby, Java, T-SQL, Postgres 8, Postgres 9, Mongo, Python 2.7, Python 3, Go, MDX, DAX, R, Cypher, SPARQL and some proprietary stuff.
If you are using node.js and Mongo, you are NOT picking the best tool for the job.
It sounds more like your are picking the tool that is hot.
And not even a single logic programming language?