Posts by john 112

max plank institute

The situation is even more indeterminant in the case of the Werner Heisenberg Institute. The mere act of observing their web site creates a new instance of the institute.

awesome

Thats good news. so having the name first counts, even when being sued by a company with more money than that you have? What a concept.

the battery is glued in place

So the person who designed my old GM (model redacted) car to require the engine be hoisted to replace the thermostat moved to cupertino after the bankruptcy?

Oracle lawsuit

Maybe Larry Ellison will have something to say about Google dominating the earth with technology he paid for.

Long Live Megatron

1)Take the smart phone app that uses a camera to make your phone 'transparent'. Only of course, add in /edit images to taste.

2)Take the glasses that Data on Star Trek wears. Install on head, adding the smart phone app

3) add ear buds with software similar to the transparent phone themre.

Now you have the human robot. Reality fully controlled by google. We can make it do anything we want. Have sex with grapefruits. Walk out of windows. sign checks.

Smells like Victory

Napalm can also be sued to communicate. No fibre needed.

oops

Great remind me not to buy this car. Please no follow up stories about what Yahoos figure out they can do to your car or what your car does when the sensors are on the fritz.

Good _ quit watching his films after the revenge of the stith stuff

Well up to the last muddle he made good films. Guess we all get old. I have decided not to watch anymore of his movies anyhow. Hint, its called a 'Movie'. When they call them 'filns' the danger of pretentious rubbish is acute.

I can think of one reason no one has reacted to this incident. If you follow the link you get a report, but no detail whatso ever. So how to react? What SCADA package? Network details? default passwords?

Its very common to have mfg/scada networks separate from the office network and theoretically with no access to the www. But we all know that there is no perfect isolation with Humans involved.

definition

PM is the one who makes things as complex as humanly possible, thereby checking off the maximum number of jargon credits. If there is any time left also blocks necessary fixes and re designs until after the catastrophe is upon you. Then asks ;how come you did it this way'.

Maybe if we give them sufficiently entertaining graphics tools they will become absorbed in making pretty pictures and get out of the way.

defense is insurance

Have a nagging worry.

Western defense posture in general seems to be to downgrade and assume the future enemy will be idiots on camels.

When you really need a defense force is when you have to face someone scary, such as the chinese which regret to say are still on the horizon.

Need a successor to C++ that learns from java and c#

What the world needs now is a new programming language that is not owned by a single corporation. C++ is a very good programming language that is not owned by a single company. I like java as a language. On windows C# blows java out of the water because of performance and simplicity. By contrast C++ is faster than both languages, uses less memory but has the dreaded segfault.

MS had the concept of a c++ with memory management. Is that patented?