Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Holy damn!!!

I always knew we needed more global warming as in cold countries sex is demonstrably lousy.

I can't wait.

F*ck you, I'm an Object Store!

Doesn't OS/400 have one of those?

Either El Reg selectoquoting or a goldmine of confusion

"The lack of women represents a loss to society of the types of ICT that might come from non-male minds"

LBGT community and amanfrommars, step up!

"I do not hesitate to say that having an ICT workforce more representative of humanity must result in technology which is more humane"

Please DO hesitate to say so. "Must result"? I would like to believe.

"All too often technology is imposed on us aggressively and before it is fit for purpose"

Like those Apple maps? That has more to do with market conditions than with the caring, sharing mind of wimmin. And really, the only one who "imposes" stuff is state. From others, one can run away or build a better product.

I thought she had been in the biz for 25 years?

"Despite taking only a month the investigation racked up costs of more than $26,000"

What? If I'm on a project for a two weeks, it will cost upwards of 40'000 (even though I don't see a large part of that money). And I am not even of the legal profession. Sure there aren't a few zeroes missing?

"I'm Cave Johnson. I own the place."

I think we have found the real-live founder of "Aperture Science".

Chairman Greencloud feels there is some cirrus at the frayed edges

Clearly, the government has to provide a Central Cloud (nominally independent and possibly labeled as "private"), so in case your preferred Cloud Provider goes bust, bail-cloud power and quantitative clouding can be quickly provided at the push of a button by the Ministry of Cloud so that Your Preferred Cloud can be reinflated at reasonable cost to the taxpayer.

What is an apple rock?

Makes no sense

Is that 1 GBP at "western" price levels or 1 GBP in the boondocks of Somalia?

In a world in which printing money is seen as a fix for economic problems, "deficits don't matter" and "we owe it to ourselves" while trillion dollar bailouts make sure the deep wallets of the Well-Connected-Ones stay topped up with minimal effort at the cost of the taxpayer and their children, who is astonished about such little smalltime retardation?

Missed chance

"The president is fine"

I hoped for a millisecond that I read

"The president is on fire"

No such luck. Oh well.

Anyway, this would clearly have been a hit be the nefarious Colonel Moretti. Definitely not morally acceptable even if Mr Peace Prize Bailout Change Bomber would have be singed a bit.

More mess with dark matter detection

However, the precise significance is not the most important issue here; in the end, we sometimes shrug off 9 sigma signals. To the right, what looks like Pollock's painting is in fact a summary of best-fit signal regions and limits from various underground experiments in the dark matter mass vs. cross section parameter space. The most worrying aspect of the CDMS result is that the signal region seems comfortably excluded by the limits from Xenon-10 and Xenon-100 experiments (the green lines in the plot). To reconcile these results one must either assume a serious systematic issue with the xenon analyses, or consider more exotic dark matter models, for example the xenophobic ones where the effective coupling to xenon nuclei is suppressed. On the other hand, the region of the parameter space preferred by CDMS is consistent with the earlier detection claim by the germanium target detector CoGeNT.

So, dark matter, a fluke, or a fundon? Unfortunately, the past experience with direct detection experiments suggests that we will not learn the definitive answer anytime soon.

> the search giant made $3.55bn in net income

Seeing how the greentrain is already pushed by "The Man", this means that Google *already* contributed heavily to greenery in the form of taxes.

Green logo because green.

Only in the world of state-worshipping abasement

"low prices achieved through legal but immoral financial shenanigans – could become a public-relations burden"

Financial "shenanigans" are NEVER immoral.

The only immoral things are taxes, i.e. confiscation of goods under imaginary contracts that no-one can state or find, arbitrarily decided, and always on the way up to pay for what? We don't know.