Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Err, so what gets tested at test time?

Yeah, but so what?

This operation will be used in low-assurance SW for consumers (and fock them if it doesn't fully work)

or in SW that "may fall into enemy hands" and for which more money can always be found for "bang on it until it works" operations.

Re: "one of the licensing conditions "

> 2014

> Using GPS to put a force package on target

Instead of honest-to-God real-time terrain recognition in a matchbox the way the original Tomahawk Cruise Missile was doing it via a baseball-sized computer back when Reagan talked about the Evil Empire on TV.

Youngsters. These days they just want to have it easy.

Re: wrong type of regression curve

Protip: These "hoarders" HOLD THE CAPITAL NEEDED FOR INVESTMENT.

Of course, in the nice new world of Keynesian Retards and Egalistards, we fake up the capital by printing in central banks, making everyone paper wealthy while the while world falls apart around us.

But all of this has happened before -- and it will happen again.

The way of surviving is of course being the first in line when the uniforms are handed out. Moral qualms, me? I have no problem making sure people stay in their assigned camps when the time comes, thank you.

Re: There are reasons that GnuTLS has to be used in some situations

I'm also not sure what your comment brings to the table either really.

What kind of "Could well be Unfit for Purpose" is unclear to you?

The original post is suggesting that GnuTLS is bad. No one has said it isn't.

Thus GNU License trumps Fitness For Purpose.

The sadness of License True Believers (LTBs) in a double negative.

With that kind of attitude, you ain't gonna get much traction, kid.

Re: Interesting ruling, but

But what if a drug company develops a pill that's a cure for leukemia, and someone copies it by producing a pill that contains all but a couple ingredients

SO FUCKING WHAT!

so few patients would take it instead of the official medicine

A) BRANDED SUPERSHARK® WALLSTREETO™ RELAXATOR® subsidized by Medicare B: USD 1500 per dose.

B) Shenzen Blue Oyster Copycat: USD 10 per dose.

A poor schlok in a poor country will go for B), not for A) even if there are risks, you can be sure of that. But at least he can go for B)

Re: Downvoters

the tiny minority who really use Linux for everday computing

Where the hell do you think you are here? Fecking toff.

Re: Question.

I would assume this is the first step towards real teleportation. Teleportation of data happens almost instantaneously through measuring entangled particles.

Totally wrong. First you "teleport" (the correct way is "move") quantum state which you don't know what it is. Nothing happens "instantaneously" (because in what frame?) And if you "measure" it, you do not even to get out if bed, you already lost.

The closest thing to "real teleportation" is putting the thing on a truck and driving it there. Ain't no way around that.

as you measure (and thus set) the spin of one electron, the other immediately takes on the complementary spin

In the same way as finding out that you have the queen of spades in your hand causes your opponent to have the queen of hearts?

Well, in this case you just get pure light (gamma radiation), so there won't be shielding by magnetic fields (which trap electrically charged particles, forming the Van Allen Galactic Fried Grilling Zone)

On the other hand, the atmosphere is pretty good absorber of this kind of energy. You will get ionization in the upper layers and the accompanying chemical reactions (NOx formation and whatnot, possible elimination of the ozone layer) and electromagnetic phenomena on-ground. See also: electromagnetic bursts from nukes popping in orbit.

Not sure how much energy could be maximally put into the atmosphere by an Andromeda-located neutron star merger and what the consequences would be. Enough for an extinction event? Some PhD should do the calculations.

Re: Nah, follow the money...

All that effort and time in planning to completely discredit the brand only to try and resurrect it later as a commercial venture? If that was the plan...

Maybe they are Cylons.

Re: More useful to look at those who do *not* buy

"Hello, Mr. Snowden!"

A nation of muggles.

Yes, the education system of the US is in such a parlous state that actual skilling-up has to be performed by knowledgeable person from abroad.

These then train sysops.

Which are then mistaken by amurricans for spies.

Re: LibreSSL

Yeah, but the content makes up for it. "AES Infinite Gerbelling Extension" And immediately thereafter "Weaponized Comic Sans: This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters - donate now".

And then

"The OpenSSL 'Foundation' is basically a FIPS consultancy - we are not. We believe this creates a priority inversion to the needs of the larger community. FIPS is actively harmful to the security of the library,... FIPS is not a goal of LibreSSL"

This may explain why OpenSSL.

Re: who cares about the Ukraine?

Pretty sure US/NATO is ready to fight for Ukraine down to the last Ukrainian.

Obama gave his full-on "exceptional superimperialist commander in chief" speech at West Point. You know what's coming.

(Meanwhile people rejoice because April's durable-goods orders are unexpectedly up 1.6% as Uncle Sam buys Nuke Subs for 18 billion on the credit card. The end is near.)

Also, El Reg: "Comrade". A quarter of a century after the Soviet Union imploded? Really, now.