And does this level extend to LEO?
[citation needed] as I remember that they didn't complain too loudly when the US decided ten years ago to take a little 3-trillion dustbath mainly to make the Middle East safe for Israel and oil exports.
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'Hello, is that the space station? NASA here. Can you put us through to Moscow?'
Driver drama delays deep desert XP upgrade
Greenpeace reveals WORLD'S FILTHIEST CLOUDS – and the cleanest may shock you
Thursday 3rd April 2014 06:32 GMT 
Come back salmon!
I don't see this. The power company will provide you with a "mix" of differently sourced power and "ecological" will not mean less expensive, it will mean *more expensive* (unless the cost is collectivized by governmental decree).
I don't even understand how anyone can claim that he does 100% ecological - are there are special high-tension lines going to their premises that transport electricity coming from particular sources fully separate from large-scale mixing electrical circuit that is the countrywide system?
Also, Hetzner is going overboard claiming that they have 100% ecological water leccy. I think that means they get *most* of it from Norway. Well, someone has to build the dams over there.
MySQL daddy Monty talks up Fusion-io's data-stuffed flash
Chinese patent app tries to own Wine on ARM
Wednesday 2nd April 2014 03:40 GMT
Re: This is an elaborate April fool's joke, isn't it?
the whole rounded corners meme might not have happened, and most of us would have been aware that the Apple/Samsung thing was initially about "trade dress"
It is still about someone claiming "ownership" of the general characteristic of "rounded corners". Putting "because of reasons" instead of "because I invented it" after "I own rounded corners on mobiles" does not make it any less idiotic.
Titanfall, shoot-'em-up gamers, cloudy contracts and cattle
Google confirms Turkish ISPs 'intercepted' its DNS service
Monday 31st March 2014 09:54 GMT
Re: Turkey is preparing for war
Yeah, probably because "war on poverty" means liberalizing the economy. Instead of that, you get regulations, cronyism, powerful "liberal" action and the war on the poor.
If Turkey does Syria, the whole region might well resemble a can of gasoline going up in flames. At least we won't hear about the insufferable hectoring from our idiotic self-styled Lord Protectors Of Crimea anymore.
Better get some popcorn.
China's CERT blames US for a THIRD of all attacks on Middle Kingdom PCs
YouTube follows Twitter onto Turkey's block list
Sunday 30th March 2014 23:03 GMT
"They even leaked a national security meeting," Erdogan said at a campaign rally. "This is villainous, this is dishonesty ... Who are you serving by doing audio surveillance of such an important meeting?"
The people of Turkey, you little sh*t. Remember them?
Speaking to reporters in Kutahya, Davutoglu confirmed the meeting took place and said, "A cyber attack has been carried out against the Turkish Republic, our state and our valued nation. This is a clear declaration of war against the Turkish state and our nation."
"This is an inconvenient attack on my little group of corruptics and idiots."
Military action in Syria by Turkey? Sure guys, feel free.
Sad to say, I hope the military gets a grip again and cleans up.
Meet the man building an AI that mimics our neocortex – and could kill off neural networks
Sunday 30th March 2014 19:48 GMT
Re: Let a thousand flowers bloom
I am suprised that anyone would think that a neuron has a single-bit output. Surely a neuron isn't just On or Off, but also somewhere in between?
Of course. Back in 1998 we had Pulsed Neural Networks which must have seen some development since then, but I wouldn't know as I have been drifting away into very down-to-earth Internet-based technologies and that kind of fluff ... you know...
Sunday 30th March 2014 19:36 GMT
You may want to consider removing yourself from the the genepool with the appropriate application of a large chunk of meat before you morph into Sarah Connor.
The "OH NO COMPUTERS! MUH JOBS!!!" discussion has been had in the 70s/80s/90s.
Turns out the jobs that went out of the window were the heavy industry ones ... who of the the heavily unionized fellowship would have thunk it?
Sunday 30th March 2014 19:31 GMT
Re: model a neurone in one supercomputer
I agree. These guys never seem to address the arguments in Penrose's book
That's because they are embarrasing shite.
Penrose should stick to dabbling in math. If the world were made of Penroses, we would still consider engineering impossible because decisions cannot be described by continuous paths on n-dimensional manifolds or something.
Brit game devs WILL get tax relief for, er, EastEnders Game and Legend of Slough
Apple vows to add racially diverse EMOJIS after MILEY CYRUS TWITTER outrage
Facebook taps up NASA boffins to launch drone fleet, laser comms lab
ECCENTRIC, PINK DWARF dubbed 'Biden' by saucy astronomers
Friday 28th March 2014 00:32 GMT
Re: Large Masses
AFAIK mars-massing balls in orbits at a serious angle to the ecliptic are well within the realm of possibilities.
This is the idea of the Halo of "Oligarch" Planets (finally Planets with Russian names!)
Research bods told: Try to ID anonymised data subjects? No more CASH for you
Thursday 27th March 2014 17:29 GMT
Re: Research vs commercial interest
And to be perfectly honest I really care ... about insurance ABC knowing I have that gene and more likely to develop a particular disease exclude it from my medical cover or increase the price to reflect the risk.
Doesn't sound very ethical to me. Basically, you want deluxe low coverage for a known shite car.
The argument may well be "it's not my fault", but it's not the fault of the guy who will pay for it either.
Terminator-maker 'Cyberdyne Inc' lists on Tokyo stock exchange
Thursday 27th March 2014 08:18 GMT 
HAL ... evil AI creation.
Unlike HR managers and practically all politicians, HAL was not evil, just confused. He was ordered to lie and couldn't.
Somewhat on-topic, has anyone admired the 100% progressively truthy speech of Mr Obama in Brussels?
Moreover, Russia has pointed to America’s decision to go into Iraq as an example of Western hypocrisy. Now, it is true that the Iraq war was a subject of vigorous debate, not just around the world but in the United States, as well. I participated in that debate, and I opposed our military intervention there.
But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraq’s territory. We did not grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people in a fully sovereign Iraqi state that can make decisions about its own future.
Inmarsat: Doppler effect helped 'locate' MH370
Nvidia unveils Titan Z: An 8TFLOPS off-the-shelf supercomputer disguised as a gfx card
New-wave offshorers present exotic new risks
Speaking in Tech: GitHub users did WHAT to AWS' backend?
As WinXP death looms, Microsoft releases its operating system SOURCE CODE for free
WTF: Twitter bug temporarily kills THAT Oscar selfie
ODMs a 'threat' to Euro server biz? Well, yes, says HP exec
The Reg's desert XP-ocalypse aversion plan revealed
Boycott Firefox, gay devs urge as Mozilla appoints JavaScript daddy as CEO
Tuesday 25th March 2014 21:58 GMT
Oh, a new outrage of the week. Finally, I was getting worried.
"a Firefox exec was funding the KKK"
Because: Not supporting a peculiar contractual arrangement among consenting adults that is mainly relevant because of taxation == lynching blacks in hoodies with a background of burning crosses and everything
"or had supported some law that supported the denial of rights to, say, Latinos or Jews"
Because: Not supporting a peculiar contractual arrangement among consenting adults that is mainly relevant because of taxation == denying unspecified (positive or negative) rights to Latinos (a persecuted minority) or (the horror) Jews
These comparisons effortlessly reach Amurrican Liburl levels of retardation.
Soon:
USING FIREFOX IS AKIN TO APPEASING HITLER. IN MUNICH!
You heard it here first.
Bulls hit city streets after alleged Samsung ad shoot hits the fan
EE...K: Why can't I uninstall carrier's sticky 'Free Games' app?
Zuckerberg, Musk and Fake Steve Jobs invest in secretive AI firm
Google pulls SCHAFT out of military honeypot, sprays gold at bot team
Boffins working on debris float models to track MH370 wreckage
Monday 24th March 2014 22:03 GMT
Re: "fresh analysis of satellite data"
Clearly some kind of Hadooping. Behold the chestbeatingz:
UK firm behind Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 breakthrough
Inmarsat senior vice-president Chris McLaughlin said the firm had studied electronic "pings" - or bursts of data - which the plane had sent to one of its satellites.
He told the BBC: "We have been dealing with a totally new area. We've been trying to help an investigation based on a single signal once an hour from an aircraft that didn't include any GPS data, any time and distance information.
"So this really was a bit of a shot in the dark and it's to the credit of our scientific team that they came up and managed to model this."
Mr McLaughlin continued: "They managed to find a way in which to say just a single ping can be used to say the plane was both powered up and travelling, and then by a process of elimination - comparing it to other known flights - establish that it went south."
Oceanographer Dr Simon Boxall, from the University of Southampton, told the BBC: "The algorithms and the techniques [Inmarsat] have applied to try and locate - to within a certain area - where the last transmission was made is really quite phenomenal - but also quite tragic because it does show this plane was heading to an open area of ocean."
He continued: "They've probably crammed almost a year's worth of research into maybe a couple of weeks, so it's not a routine calculation they would ever, ever make.
"They've been looking at all the signals they have, all the recordings they have, and processing that many times over to try and pinpoint where the plane's signal came from. Technologically it's really quite astounding."
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