Posts by Destroy All Monsters

"has caused a minor panic on social media"

So zero real-world effect.

Mainly idle idiots in US coastal areas affected.

This is also why "Russian Tweets did Hillary and Kenya" is such complete bullshit that can only emerge from the mind of a Startegy Boutique full of Generation Connect braindeads.

A loud Russian View on Aircraft Carriers

Not dispensed via Twitter of Facecuck Ads:

“Unsinkable” American Aircraft Carriers: Five Nonsensical Statements

Dead, Jim!

Platooning stuff ahead!

Although Efford's proposed clause was withdrawn, by mutual agreement, the question is a thorny one that has long vexed ethicists and others

It completely depends!

Depending on whether the car has declared to follow the example of Cat Stevens and become righteous out-meter of bearded punishment, adheres to the somewhat moribund sect of Jesus of Nazareth or prefers to safely stay in the traditional but very stern and not-averse-to-ultrakill original Abrahamic Community, different results can be expect as a function of the religious affiliation of the people uncomfortably attached to tracks / standing in the middle of roads / delivered in cages near burning fires, as the case may be.

The Great Popes of Tensorflow will have to congregate for a lively synode...

Old News!

We know that Russians have been doing since "Die Hard on a tarmac".

But seriously, we need more details on this "hack". These things are always overblown for fame and ego-stroking.

"Angela", eh?

How fitting.

Backdoor access to whole subcontinent....

Apple said that, over the past year, its overall percentage of women employees was flat at 32 per cent, while underrepresented minority employee levels were only up one per cent, at 23 per cent overall.

What an eldritch horror. Can't something BE DONE to attain those activist-imposed musrt-have pewrcentages?

But then, you know, when the bottom line is on the line,. Social Justice Bullshit and their retarded defenders can go f*ck themself and one actually wants to hire people good in tech...

Gun Control you say?

Gun Control failed because this Democrat should never have been able to obtain one (Devin Patrick Kelley got his gun illegally.)

But then; Texas church massacre: Man hailed a hero for chasing gunman after killings

"The shooter got in his truck, the gentlemen with the rifle came to my truck as the shooter took off, and he briefed me quickly on what had just happened and said we had to get him, so that's what I did," he said.

That's the spirit. And maybe we can concentrate on something else now.

Sceptical Deplorable is Sceptical

Those worried for the church as a whole might take some comfort from the fact that priests seem to be in great demand in other parts of the world.

Definitely not in the Middle East and other countries ravaged by a series of invade-the-world/invite-the-world US presidents allied to NATO allied to batshit crazed Sunni from Hell out of Saudi Barbaria.

I hear adherents of The Christ on refugee boats may even be considered excessively diverse, beaten up, then thrown overboard to feed the fish (the converse of using fish to feed the flock).

Well, who cares?

It's probably a devious plot by PutlerPutletPutin, Deng Xiao-Ping and Hubba Bubba to trash our cherished belief in democracy and Bambi. We know that the US TLAs are unanimous about two things: Trump has russian ties and Assange and Snowden are China-Soviet plants out to besmirch all the good things Obomba and Killary did to the world. And who would not trust TLAs?

I'm beset by doubts

I don't see where the few-qubit computer from D-Wave comes into the "traffic optimization" problem, which can be solved nicely using any of a large library of optimization algorithms, among which simulated annealing. On mid-sized classical computers.

Has anyone from the theoretical IT crowd looked at these claims?

I don't get this muon thing

Muons streak through our planet close to the speed of light.

Very unlikely. These are not neutrinos.s

Muons have charge so should be slowed rapidly then be pulled into atomic shells where they decay.

Electrons for example are not known for streaking through our planet close to the speed of light or very deeply for that matter.

Somewhat related

Metropolis at 90: You’ll Never See a Movie Like This Again: A dystopia with utopian activism, inspired both socialists and Nazis.

Okay

As they say, "Welp!". It's the 21st, dontcha know...

This brings to mind William Gibson's "Count Zero" (1986, back when we had home computers on dial up lines, and BBS, and cops going after "The Anarchists's Cookbook", things like that)

Silicon doesn't wear out; microchips were effectively immortal. [of course this is untrue, your Xeon will go titsup at some point] The Wig took notice of the fact. Like every other child of his age, however, he knew that silicon became obsolete, which was worse than wearing out; this fact was a grim and accepted constant for the Wig, like death or taxes, and in fact he was usually more worried about his gear falling behind the state of the art than he was about death (he was

The Wig sat on the beach at Cannes for two years, ingesting only the most expensive designer drugs and periodically flicking on a tiny Hosaka television to study the bloated bodies of dead Africans with a strange and curiously innocent intensity. At some point, no one could quite say where or when or why, it began to be noted that the Wig had gone over the edge. Specifically, the Finn said, the Wig had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God, or some new manifestation of same.

You are shitting me

Each acknowledged that the impact of political ads over the US presidential election – paid for by Russian agents – was far greater than they have previously admitted to.

Ridiculous. Actually insulting.

What "Russian Agents"? How is that impact even measured? Does it even exist? Admitted by whom?

In other news, cranks have found that the impact of mobiles on brain tumor prevalence is far greater than anyone has previously admitted

No, sorry, wrong headline.

Claims of Russian interference in US election ‘dead & buried’ – George Galloway.

Computronium!

Sounds interesting, but of course only useful for some algorithms (that have characteristics of "physiciality": they are local and far away nodes need to be messaged first). In computers, memory is used as "super-lightspeed" communication medium.

But yeah, basically the Connection Machine 1 without the hypercube communication channels? (Upon which, it is always interesting the re-read The Book. It's likely floating around on the 'net somewhere. I mean come on MIT Press, USD 34 for a 30-year old extended paper in B&W?)

I smell unbelievable bullshit, artfully applied

I'm waiting for this crap to settle down and the journalists to stop panting over material they barely comprehend. But I hear the ties are far more to Ukraine (which is not Russia since the coming of the Freedoms and various ugly events involving Nazis that shall not be mentioned) than to Russia.

A political job, dragging in dirt? Of course not! How could that be!

Btw, I wonder whether anyone has been looking into activies of AIPAC influence peddling recently. No. I don't think so either.

Finally a writeup which makes sense

This Week's Hype

Peter Woit blogs:

Yet another entry in the long line of nonsensical hype about fundamental physics driven by misleading university press releases is today’s news that CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist. Tracking this back through various press stories, one finds that the original source, as always, is a university press release designed to mislead journalists. In this case it’s Riddle of matter remains unsolved from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, a press release designed to promote this paper in Nature.

The paper reports a nice experimental result, a measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment showing no measurable difference with the proton magnetic moment. This is a test of CPT invariance, which everyone expects to be a fundamental property of any quantum field theory. The hype in the press release confuses CPT invariance with CP invariance. We know that physics is not CP invariant, with an open problem that of whether the currently known sources of CP non-invariance are large enough to produce in cosmological models the observed excess of baryons over antibaryons. An accurate version of the press release would be: “experiment finds expected CPT invariance, says nothing about the CP problem.”