Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Hmmm...

If you choose to lock yourself in a two-dimensional left/right view of the world modelled after the seating convention of parliament immediately after the French Revolution, you are have only yourself to blame for the shitty categorizations you end up with.

Re: Something new every day

Except that my employer has been doing this for years.

No he hasn't.

You are confusing "I'm gonna do something along these lines like a rabid monkey with some fast guesses" with optimization.

Re: The Hodges biography

Downvoted for stating facts. Are there communists here tonight?

Re: Yes It's terrible

So is "Cryptonomicon", of course.

Re: The Hodges biography

American manufacturing, Russian blood and British brains

Nice for a speech at Yalta, but one immediately notices that there is no word about chinese blood and General Winter. I won't get into how bureaucratic ineptitude of both the german and the russian socialistic regimes played into the hand of the russians over the long run, even though most of the russian military skillset had been "purged" a bit earlier.

Re: Not Again

And then you start thinking about embedded crud with problematic glibc libraries out there that is not going to get any updates soon.

In strange aeons, fatbergs will rise!

Directly from Jimbo's Floatsam Bucket of Retconnable Knowledge:

▶ August 6, 2013: A fatberg roughly the size of a bus, consisting of food fat and wet wipes, was discovered in drains under London Road in Kingston upon Thames.

▶ September 1, 2014: A collection of waste fat, wet wipes, food, tennis balls and wood planks the size of a Boeing 747 aeroplane was discovered and cleared by sanitation workers within a drain beneath a 260 foot section of road in Shepherd's Bush in West London.

▶ September 3, 2014: The sewerage system beneath Melbourne, Australia was clogged by a large mass of fat, grease and waste.

There is clearly a large market for autonomous robotics still to be opened.

Also, new El Reg units will be in the works. Soon.

Re: Security?

Don't give the terrorists any ideas!

Also: How to cut off Tokyo in Patlabor 2 (disregard the lousy dub made by voice actors too young for the role)

Re: Too early

Once you have cleaned your cellar a couple of times of mucky backflow from the public sewer pipes due to some heavy rain considered unlikely 20 years ago, this won't faze you.

Re: riveting thriller takes fresh look at AI

every door has to be accessed with a keycard and half the facility is underground

Yep, I can see where this going, but hopefully I am wrong.

It’s rare to say something new about AI

Because in the end it is just another management system, hopefully quite a bit more refined and widely read than the drooling reflex bags wearing suits currently in charge. Vote for AI? I would.

Re: Billion

> 2015

> People unsure about billion being anything else than 10^9 are still posting on the Internet

Just get with the times, FFS.

Re: Another Illusion Shattered

Get out of here, gramps!

This one I repost regularly, it's from October 11, 1994 (Newsgroups: comp.society.folklore, Subject: Re: Folklore and stories re: excessively clueless for-profit users). I wonder whether facebook gets complains about various content on the 'net from obsessive-compulsive content correctors?

"One guy posted a MAKE.MONEY.FAST slime to a few groups, and I sent a message to his postmaster, and attached a curtosey copy to the poster. I get a message back a few hours later, with NO quoted material in it, systematically responding to everything I wrote. He (she?) said that if I reported it to his postmaster, he thought it was very unfair. He was a newbie and didn't know, blah blah blah. Then he asks for the address of his postmaster, so I give it to him. Not long after that, I get _another_ message saying that I shouldn't expect to keep my account for very long because he (she?) reported "my abusive attitude and harrasment" to his service's support. (AOL) I sent another reply back explaining the fine points of the net. I don't know if he ever responded to that; I set slocal up to kill his messages."

Re: Facebook/Portugal

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

"And nothing of value was lost"

MZARG from ROLZOR XII agrees.

Re: greater affects?

No need

1) This mass is so small that any General Relativity gravitational effects are totally swamped by gravitational noise your St Bernard dog creates when moving around the house. Indeed, we can use Newtonian gravity to get good results about trajectories of the N-body system under analysis.

2) "Gravitational waves" are very weak (Directly from Jimbo's Dubious Font Of Knowledge: If we use the previous values for the Sun and the Earth, we find that the Earth's orbit shrinks by 1.1×10^−20 meter per second. This is 3.5×10^−13 m per year, which is about 1/300 the diameter of a hydrogen atom. The effect of gravitational radiation on the size of the Earth's orbit is negligible over the age of the universe.). They also propagate at lightspeed, so are soon gone.