* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008

Teen thugs lure, rob Pokemon Go gamers

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Hmm...

Police at the US State of Missouri's O’Fallon Police Department issued a statement warning that four individuals were arrested in a Black BMW with a handgun after they were reported lurking at locations where Pokemon were likely to appear.

Just Clintonistas phising for votes.

No wait, they are armed...

Kotkin on who made Trump and Brexit: Look in the mirror, it's you

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Err, Hello?

"Look in the mirror, it's you!"

Well, duh! And it's only the beginning.

“At least with Hilary Clinton I know what I’m dealing with. Trump is mentally unstable."

Delusion comes in many forms. Clinton was the gal responsible for foreign policy. How did that work out? It's just that they got Ghaffi sodomoized with a knife than cackled about it on TV. Called Putin a new Hitler. Wants to go up against China and penetrate Ukraine. Great stuff. I guess only a loss of a few US cities will make Murricanians wake up?

IoT puts assembly language back on the charts

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Gimp

You can "learn" assembly?

No you can't.

"Assembly" doesn't even exist as any "assembly" is completely chip (and might I say, board dependent) and using it is anyway similar to killing cockroaches by throwing lego bricks at them. While being gimp'd up.

But the assembler (the program) and the editor to write the code can fit into 15 KByte. That's a plus.

Anyone who expresses the desire to "learn" it is on a hiding to nowhere. You can just "do" it, and best print out the PDFs manuals first, because there will be much cursing and flipping through pages.

I also fail to see who would want to use this approach in 2016 even for the IoT unless stuff is being shat out so quickly that there isn't even enough time to wire up a proper compiler backend to generate the binary specific to said "Thing". Go figure.

Juno probe spins up its sonic screwdrivers for Jupiter flyby

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

"It's in the pipe, five by five"

Ah, a saying from when Colonial Marines ladies were artfully piloting dropships from orbit into harm's way, not even removing the Ray Bans (having overly confident mariens and some unhinged civvies meant to do "consulting" in the cargo hold).

Those were the times, when America was Great...

Blighty will have a whopping 24 F-35B jets by 2023 – MoD minister

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

I have been at the Battlestar Galactica prop hangar and these Vipers looked very impressive.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Facepalm

There are going to be quite a few built (>3000).

Woah there is crystal ball rolling around here. Someone may have lost it?

As a country we literially make more money by buying these than not. We'd make money even if we immediately put the jets through a car crusher after taking delivery.

Complete failure of basic economic knowledge detected.

Where will the taxpayer-sourced economic oomph come from for this EXACTLY? Don't say we will print money or go into debt (which are just other ways of saying "my children will pay for this"). What kind of economic activity will have to be NOT implemented to get this crap into the air?

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Pirate

The last pirate expedition of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

Plus, what are carriers good for?

Carriers won't go up against anyone who can rip a largish hole into their hull.

So. They are nice for implementing Liberal Whitey's "Responsibility To Protect" against erstwhile sandland dicatorial friends who have been reinvented as enemies for domestic political reasons ... but that epoch of history is receding fast.

They might be used to do police operations to keep the Colored Hordesdiversity-bringing people of the sun at bay, which is a new period that's indubitably coming over the horizon (while the US wants us to fight the Russians for them, thank you suckers, but that's another discussion), but for that you don't need F-35s. You need floating container structures with helopads.

Bomb-disposal robot violently disposes of Dallas cop-killer gunman

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

A first!

It is this the Obamoroid or the Dalekama?

Dying satellite sends boffins one last surprise before disappearing

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Three executive employees from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to take a ten per cent salary cut for four months following the mistake.

DAFUCK? Clearly we are now entering Political Kevlar Vest Zone!

The black hole acts as a “thermostat” and stops the galaxy growing, Prof McNamara said. The gas is too excited to clump together and form stars. If the galaxy grows too fast, the black hole swallows up more matter and releases more energy to fire up the hot plasma to prevent more matter being formed.

I don't think I understand this. Something lost in translation?

The Great Brain Scan Scandal: It isn’t just boffins who should be ashamed

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Always scroll immediately to the parting shot in these articles.

Especially if the author is a media analyst or something generally writing about copyright issues.

YADDA YADDA SCROLL!

We probably need a whole new intelligentsia: one less eager to reduce humans to programmable robots, or uncomplaining deterministic rats.

Woah, is this a complaint from the 30s or what? I don't think that this is anwhere near of what is being said or implied.

Baby, bathwater. OUT!

Oracle says it is 'committed' to Java EE 8 – amid claims it quietly axed future development

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Holmes

Re: Die Java Die

I don't think they are, Java is *incredibly* unpopular with a lot of the programming community, at least in part because of the overly verbose syntax and bloat

The advantage is that you are not forced to use "Java" on the JVM.

You can use Clojure for example (YAHA modern LISP, i LOVE IT), Groovy (the only language I currently use on the JVM) or quite a few others.

Although I am looking at Haskell at the moment. A typed functional language? Fuck yes, this is the pr0nz. Not on the JVM though.

In the same way, JavaScript has no right to even exist (I think Lovecraft wrote about that language in "the thing on the doorstep"), but one can have ClojureScript running on JavaScript engines for example to easy the pain, so it's ok.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Headmaster

"Oracle is committed to Java and has a very well defined proposal for the next version of the Java EE specification – Java EE 8 – that will support developers as they seek to build new applications that are designed using micro-services on large-scale distributed computing and container-based environments on the Cloud"

I wouldn't even use Java for this. The Erlang Virtual Machine and the Elixir language seem more appropriate to this use case.

While this new interface would use some parts of Java EE, it would be approximately 80 to 90 per cent proprietary.

It would also be 80 to 90 per cent stillborn. I hope everybody knows about / remembers the unusuable horror of the Sun-issued J2EE (Java 2 enterprise edition) super-heavy spec. "Enterprise" Java became viable (though still unnecessarily baroque at times) when the JEE specification and its free implementations became available (and then there is/was Spring as a competitor). Proprietary complex stuff that one can not play around with, open up, modify or drop on the floor as needed in 2016+? HAH!!!

Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
FAIL

“the culture they exist in is still very much rooted in misogyny and inequality”.

I'm not for misogyny but the only time inequality won't exist is when everything has been nuked to smithereens.

Meanwhile, life goes on!

FBI won't jail future US president over private email server

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Mushroom

Re: And people wonder why Trump is hanging within 5% of Hillary's vote

Hillary should be leading Trump by double digits

That would be if Hillary had anything to offer except more neocon bullshit and populist "liberal" rhetoric. (Hell, she's the chosen candiate for Project For A New American Century II, this should make anyone's hair stand on end)

Trump should be DESTROYING Hillary like a B-52 area bombardment with bunker busters and added napalm. Only Ameridumb mental zombification and the MSM's control of the Goodthink narrative served with fat amounts of Computer Graphics and Duckspeak keeps the Trump barbarian out of the entirely rotten, maggot-infested and pestiferous Rome of the establishment.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: How about...

Quite so!

In any case, they certainly can be found in a data center in Utah. To be printed out and slipped elegantly across a waxed desk should the need ever arise, accompanied by a small cough and raised eyebrows, as is the Imperial City's custom.

(One should also prosecute the cleaning lady for not adequately dusting around the server, the gardener for not appropriately cutting the greens visible from the server room windows etc.)

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: Interesting downplaying there

> Are you aware that the stuff was classified after it was sent ?

That doesn't mean anything.

Andrew P. Napolitano (aka. "The Judge") writes in Hillary Clinton’s False Hopes

Also this past weekend, Gen. Michael Hayden, formerly director of the CIA and of the National Security Agency, stated on CNN that it is a near certainty that the Russian government and others had access to Clinton’s non-secure server and all it contained.

Lawyers familiar with the terminology of state secrets will refrain from using the word "classified" to describe the emails that contained state secrets, even though Clinton repeatedly does that. The word "classified" is not a legal term; rather, it is derived from the verb "to classify," and it means that the classification process has been completed.

Since nothing is marked "classified" – the legal markings are "confidential," "secret" and "top secret" – Clinton has been materially misleading the public and the FBI when she claims that she never sent or received anything "marked classified."

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Holmes

Re: Wrong type of privilege

A LAW FOR US, A LAW FOR THEM!

AND NEVER THE TWO SHALL MEET!

Yeah, where has the "vast right-wing conspiracy" to do the the Clintons in (as imagined by the Clintons) gone? Well. it has merged with the Clintons into a new, more powerful conspiracy! OM NOM NOM!!

Mind the GaaP: UK.gov needs to get a grip on digital

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

It would be a world first!

Unfortunately the probability of success is epsilon.

Microsoft: Give us better staff

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Headmaster

Re: Supply and demand meet at a place called "price".

But as in all capitalistic adventures, you need INCOMPRESSIBLE TIME to build the chain of production first. It's a 21st century delusion that you can throw money at something and it gets done (another reason why Keynesian policies fail except when the idea is to throw warcrap at someone else)

The skilled personnel will be there in 10 years. And then the next bandwagen will have arrived anyway.

"Use them like toilet paper" seems to be rational action right now.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Headmaster

Re: As a recent cs grad

"project management via prince 2 and other methodologies"

I have seen the result of this.

"Project managers" who can't project their own arse out of the loo. "project management" is not something that comes by "education". It comes by having been immersed in a technical and organisational culture for a long time.

"Prince 2" is just a label on a garden shed with nothing inside.

we had a "partnership" with slurp and they made it very clear that non whites, females and other "minorities" would get first selection irrespective of talent

Suicide by PC? YES WE CAN!

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Headmaster

Re: It's not like Microsoft is the prime reason for shit basics and security problems

Make the UK Great Again!

Ok, going overboard here. Trump is unhinged on economics. But as I read elsewhere "he may be the last off-ramp from the Repubocrats endless wars of choice". As the next wars of choice will be with Russia and China and Madame Clinton will not think twice about triggering these for politicial brownie points, that off-ramp better be taken!

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

It's not like Microsoft is the prime reason for shit basics and security problems

Pushing MSFT products that are unfit for teaching into universities with "discounts" and likely "incentives". Going around poisoning the IT ecosystem. Patenting new ways to wipe your arse and speaking darkly about "patents" to spread FUD. Closing off avenues to jump off their pestilential ship to nowhere. Then charging doubly for a ticket because there is a cloud on the rotten mainsail now.

Yes they do.

They then go and demand that somehow people be provided that have good basics - and that these fix the security problems MSFT themselves created out of sheer greed and incompetence (and which they are peddling to Uncle Sam for all we know.)

Chutzpah doesn't even describe this.

One can only vote Trump and hope that the Redmond Cancer gets its comeuppance along with the federally bailed out banksters and mortgage peddlers. And that comeuppance should be some good old Robespierre treatment.

By Jove! NASA's Juno prepares to slip into orbit around Jupiter

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Pint

Re: Success!

WIN!

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

WWH9KS

We read:

Jupiter is a giant gas ball – eleven times wider and 300 times more massive than Earth. It is unknown if the planet has a solid core so Juno will not be landing on any surface. Instead, if the spacecraft successfully enters Jovian orbit, it will be descending into its fluffy clouds.

Well, Juno will not be landing on any surface not because it is unknown whether that giant gasball has a solid core (pretty sure it does as primordial crap must accumulate somewhere) but because it would have to dive into a hydrogen ocean for several Earth diameters, then burrow through a solid "dark hydrogen" layer for a couple more Earth diameters and then worm its way through a major mass of metallic hydrogen like the angry fist of God for many additional Earth diameters to finally ding that solid, seriously hydrogenated core.

Instead, if the spacecraft successfully enters Jovian orbit, it will be descending into its fluffy clouds.

It will do what now?

What would HAL 9000 say?

fMRI bugs could upend years of research

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Unhappy

Only 20% of a software development team's brains are used at any moment!

What would happen if they used 100% (as Einstein famously not said). Click "HERE" (site related to Scientology) to find out!!!

Forget YouTube – meet ChewTube: Strangers watching millennials eat

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Holmes

OTOH, social eating has been standard practice since Olduvai Gorge. It was even featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey".

there's something even worse coming along

How about that: NATO General Breedlove (who must be losing sleep about the purity of Ameriyouth's body fluids) was fomenting a war with Russia by biggening up "Russian Aggression" in Ukraine, and the Commander in Chief as well as the hapless Eurodummies lapped it all up.

Well, it's not being streamed, but it definitely is worse.

Apple, Amazon and Google are screwing us, warns Elizabeth Warren

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Oh my. I'm shocked that screwing is going on!

Okay, cool. Fauxcahontas has her new wedge issue to flog.

But so what.

Mystery black hole hides by curbing its appetite

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: missing mass (or at least some portion thereof) found?

There is a problem as there are ongoing search for microlensing effects due to black holes passing in front of other stars, and I have not heard that a massive population of hitherto invisible black holes is now suspected to exist.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: The real reason they're good at hiding...

You just need to find the areas where ominous music can be heard to be playing...

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: Absconder

The black hole is detected based on interaction with its low-mass companion... which evidently doesn't zip around with serious fraction of lightspeed.

So no.

Google hires black man

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Vice chair of the Federal Reserve? And he can do actual work, as opposed to wandering the corridors of the Imperial City, writing memoirs to be tossed into bathtubs??

Or does Google take steps towards solving its Artificial Intelligence White Guy Problem?

InfiniBand-on-die MIA in Oracle's new 'Sonoma' Sparc S7 processor

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Headmaster

Re: It's SPARC

"The UNIX" (UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group) vs "an Unix"! (Actually the latter is verboten, one has to write " A UNIX® operating system")

"The Internet" vs "an internet"!

"The Cloud" vs "a cloud"!

It's enough to make one go brexit!

Zero-interaction remote wormable hijack hole blasts Symantec kit

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Decomposing composers!

So is this decomposition a furtherance of what we had last month?

Global 'terror database' World-Check leaked

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Well, well, well...

A high profile public disclosure of the database beyond the original leak could be wreckless

Or rather, it could be "wreckfull"?

Inaccurate terror designations were first revealed by the BBC's Radio 4 which gained 30 minutes of access to the database in August 2015 from a disgruntled customer.

That "customer" would be a bank employee in a bank subscribing to said service?

One of those was the account for the UK Finsbury Park Mosque which was described in a HSBC letter as having "fallen outside of HSBC's risk appetite". ... Sources say HSBC closed on the mosque because it donated money to Palestine during the 2015 Israel-Gaza war.

Well, it's pretty clear where the loss of appetite comes from. It's not fun being on the lawfare end of the "Forever Victim" industry. But who are those "sources"?

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Re: I'm too SQuooL for school

Isn't this a comment for another article?

You can be my wingman any time! RaspBerry Pi AI waxes Air Force top gun's tail in dogfights

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: Hopefully this will mean cheaper planes

The first thing to employ would be nuclear weapons to clear the skies, followed by anti.aircraft missiles...

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Re: T500

Agreement factor 75%

At this point, seems to be more like "chessmasters in the sky". They are not slowed down by any remains of human fighting ritual, so this is like fighting a lawnmower while taking on the role of the possum. Once they get autonomous enough to take off from the carrier and do CAP all by themselves, it's going to be interesting.

Then someone with connections to the MICC will propose to close the feedback loops and give these things nuclear ramjets, just to be sure...

I have never heard of this particular decision fuzzification (is there a book from Springer yet?), but I remember the good old rule-based "TacSoar" (based on SOAR with the "chunking"/rule-learning stripped out) trying to assist air missions back in the 90s (the time of "Strategic Computing Initiative" and all that). It was not very successful and also easily confused by ground-hugging kangaroos, IIRC.

Nuclear goes boom

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Big Brother

Re: $100,000 a month

Well, at least our illegal arm drops which are totally unlike "Putin in Ukraine", yes sir, because we are just supporting offshoots of Al Qaeda and not evil Novorossya insurrectionists are arriving at their destination, so at least some of the three-letter agencies are doing their job.

Ohh... wait....

Magnetic, heat scanners to catch Tour de France electric motor cheats

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: "...sending a clear message..."

there must be a pseudo-psychological origin for this

No, just Amurrican politicians.

They are always "sending messages" to this or that guy or else threatening to "punish" someone for perceived or potential transgressions.

Like a control-freak nanny that drank too much coffee in the morning.

Visiting America? US border agents want your Twitter, Facebook URLs

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Big Brother

Re: I'll have whatever you're smoking.

Besides, isn't Obama just carrying on with Dubya's legacy?

Yeah, but he's really taking up the weight with gusto.

God Help Us All if Hillary is elected. A two-front war with China and Russia using stealthed first-strike tac nukes in a "nuclear ramp-up" scenario? Yes, she can!

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Re: Is there a kickstarter fund i can contribute to....

To keep the "yanks" (i.e. loutish New Englanders with missionary complexes) in you will have to build a wall at the height of the Mason-Dixon line but that would probably be considered racist nowadays seeing how the Confederate Flag (apparently "a more rectangular variant of the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag") is a "symbol of hate" and gives the PC brigade more conniptions than subliminal messages of terror in TV scan intervals.

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Serially jumping sharks!!

"Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government or Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide?"

Not often, but in my advancing age my anger is increasing so this might become a more permanent hobby. (Oy hey I think the US didn't label Kissinger-approved excesses in East Timor or Guatemalan "anticommie" ops genocide, so it's ok if one lent a hand in those hotspots?)

How to traverse DHS-controlled territory: The Matrix Lobby Scene

We have hit peak Silicon Valley: New crazy goal to disrupt entire cities

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Windows

Re: How old?

Don't remind me.

I'm starting to shuffle of this mortal coil, but I still know nothing. On the other hand, I have the books that might tell me something. That's why I eagerly await the AI to go through the walls of text and perform some conclusions that I can depend on...

That being said, I thought "Y Combinator" was just a discussion group about functional programming and combinatory logic, because, well Y Combinator. What's been going on??

Parliament takes axe to 2nd EU referendum petition

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Why is Mr Bong! voting from Panama?

Shouldn't he be voting from Shoreditch from a whote-painted glass cubicle straight out of a William Gibson novel?

And why is he using LISP notation?

Gun-jumping French pols demand rapid end to English in EU

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Mushroom

Is there no concentration camp that can take these people up??

This is on the level of charver subhuman scum accosting brown-looking persons in the street and telling them to "go home" as happens now...

I will chip in freshly printed EUROs for the Zyklon Bthe reeducation manuals and well-uniformed guards.

Seriously, who cares about french?? And I'm speaking it every day, btw..

NVMe SSDs tormented for months in some kind of sick review game

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: "Drives"

From:

From: "Adapting to Thrive in a New Economy of Memory Abundance", Kirk M. Bresniker, Sharad Singhal, and R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett Packard Labs - IEEE Computer 2015/12, pp 44-53:

Simultaneous adoption of massive NVM pools unifying storage and main memory, centimeter-scaling photonics, application-specific computation acceleration, and relegation of I/O to peripheral interfaces could indicate a fundamental shift in information processing that harkens back to Turing. With today’s emphasis on cheap computation, scarce volatile memory, and abundant nonvolatile I/O storage, systems must constantly manage data flow into and out of memory. The application code provides the translation mechanisms between the efficient, dense in-memory representation and the serialized, buffered persistent or communication representation, while the OS maintains application state and mediates hardware resources. Without the state provided by the OS and application code, the in-memory representations are meaningless. Data must be computed to be useful, but what happens when a vast in-memory representation lives much longer than the now ephemeral computation? Data might need to carry its own metadata and be packaged with its own applications and OSs. As with Turing’s universal machine, the heart of the new machine will be memory, with demonstrably correct access to data in perpetuity. Given that this concept of computing could be the catalyst for many profound insights, we have christened it Memory-­Driven Computing. Having emancipated memory from computation and made it the centerpiece of computing, how do we guarantee its correctness? Augmenting the interfaces to memory with a state-change mechanism based on a functional language could provide a formally provable evolution of data without side effects as well as a self-describing type system to guarantee continuity of data interpretation. Adding strong cryptography and a capabilities-based permission system could give future generations the confidence that our information legacy is trustworthy.

Image of the Future Memory Hierarchy

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
Paris Hilton

Re: cratered during file copy?

> if it wasn't unbuffered then no wonder it died...

One would hope to imagine that running low on I/O buffers would not mean that Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye!

Beautiful model to explain the universe to physicists

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Re: I've always felt uncomfortable with this statement

You are overthinking this.

The statement just means that the universe can be modeled as a gas at large scales (contrary to what would be expected if certain approaches like Scale Relativity where right, as you scale out, things gets more uniform, as opposed to what you would see in a fractal structure for example).

Down and out in the Middle Kingdom: Beijing is sinking

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

"Reverse China Syndrome" would be more accurate.

LIGO team may have found dark matter

Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

Huh, it's on amazon. It must be true!