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Animal Liberation drone surveillance plan draws fire
Facebook prepares to dominate Android
Tuesday 2nd April 2013 13:07 GMT 
Yet another thing that will keep the progressives awake at night!
This just in
Experiment Shows How Facebook Can Spread Racist Thoughts
By Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard
"Heavy Facebook users are more likely than those who log on occasionally to react positively to racist remarks."
World's first petaflops super dumped on scrap heap
Monday 1st April 2013 22:49 GMT 
Maybe Cell power attracted soul eaters from the fifth dimension?
That would be explain glassy-eyed salesdroids. They HAD to get rid of it....
> and a simulation of the universe at a 70-billion-particle scale.
What simulation is that? I know about DEUS-FUR at 549 billion particles running on the CURIE supercomputer in France and the Millenium Simulation series with 10 billion to 348 billion particles.
Veiny green 'scum' meteorite may be first visitor from Mercury
Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix
Monday 1st April 2013 10:07 GMT 
"Mechanisms to do digestive gas exchange in unlighted environments"
Cm'on Reg... patent laywers don't do copyright claims.
Patent lawyers may be the scourge of the earth after politicians/state employees/mafiosi but they know how their bread is buttered.
"Copyright claims" are precise and too easy to disprove or to work around to bring in the hay. See the pathetic trick "copyrighted lines of signal constants and some commentary" by McBride's
Well, I guess McBride still enriched himself in his sociopathic ways using the burndown of his company as stepping stone, with the employees as useful idiots ... Wikipedia says McBride is now President and CEO of something called "Me Inc."
You couldn't make it up.
Facebook buys Dummly from outernet prodigy Dick D'Miner
Public cloud will grow when experienced IT folks DIE
Saturday 30th March 2013 12:33 GMT
Re: What about the story of AMZN stealing ideas?
The fun thing about "ideas" is that they are freely available. Until lawyers and useful IP idiots enter the scene.
There is no need for amazon to open the source code.
They just need to observe, imitate, then do likewise.
Your value should be in delivering and ameliorating, not in fapping over a "unique idea" that probably has been had by a few dozen folks somewhat earlier.
Saturday 30th March 2013 10:59 GMT
In 1994, Greg Egan wrote in "Permutation City" ....
I don't see the interest of running mundane tasks like Bugzilla, TinyPM or Salesforce "in the cloud" once stupid problems of maintenance, upgrade and upkeep have been ironed out. And if we expect BYOD to be made viable, these WILL be ironed out. You will just need a fiber optic cable and a 1 dm³ ComputerCube made by some white-label asian company, probably sitting atop the microwave oven in the company kitchen, running the stuff of 20 employees. However big computation will remain TEH BIG....
It was only 8:15. The whole day loomed ahead, promising nothing but bills. With no contract work coming in for the past two months, Maria had written half a dozen pieces of consumer software -- mostly home-security upgrades, supposedly in high demand. So far, she'd sold none of them; a few thousand people had read the catalogue entries, but nobody had been persuaded to download. The prospect of embarking on another such project wasn't exactly electrifying -- but she had no real alternative. And once the recession was over and people started buying again, it would have been time well spent....
Maria put an end to her indecision in the usual way. She logged on to her Joint Supercomputer Network account -- paying a fifty-dollar fee for the privilege, which she now had to make worthwhile. She slipped on her force gloves and prodded an icon, a wireframe of a cube, on the terminal's flatscreen -- and the three-dimensional workspace in front of the screen came to life, borders outlined by a faint holographic grid. For a second, it felt like she'd plunged her hand into some kind of invisible vortex: magnetic fields gripped and twisted her glove, as start-up surges tugged at the coils in each joint at random -- until the electronics settled into equilibrium, and a message flashed up in the middle of the workspace: you may now put on your gloves.....
Maria reverted to the standard clock rate, and a macroscopic view of her twenty-one Petri dishes -- just as a message popped up in the foreground:
JSN regrets to advise you that your resources have been diverted to a higher bidder. A snapshot of your task has been preserved in mass storage, and will be available to you when you next log on. Thank you for using our services.
Maria sat and swore angrily for half a minute -- then stopped abruptly, and buried her face in her hands. She shouldn't have been logged on in the first place. It was insane, squandering her savings playing around with mutant A. lamberti -- but she kept on doing it. The Autoverse was so seductive, so hypnotic . . . so addictive.
Whoever had elbowed her off the network had done her a favor -- and she'd even have her fifty-dollar log-on fee refunded, since she'd been thrown right out, not merely slowed down to a snail's pace.
Curious to discover the identity of her unintentional benefactor, she logged on directly to the QIPS Exchange -- the marketplace where processing power was bought and sold. The connection to JSN had passed through the Exchange, transparently; her terminal was programmed to bid at the market rate automatically, up to a certain ceiling. Right now, though, some outfit calling itself Operation Butterfly was buying QIPS -- quadrillions of instructions per second -- at six hundred times that ceiling, and had managed to acquire one hundred percent of the planet's traded computing power.
Maria was stunned; she'd never seen anything like it. The pie chart of successful bidders -- normally a flickering kaleidoscope of thousands of needle-thin slices -- was a solid, static disk of blue. Aircraft would not be dropping out of the sky, world commerce would not have ground to a halt . . . but tens of thousands of academic and industrial researchers relied on the Exchange every day for tasks it wasn't worth owning the power to perform in-house. Not to mention a few thousand Copies. For one user to muscle in and outbid everyone else was unprecedented. Who needed that much computing power? Big business, big science, the military? All had their own private hardware -- usually in excess of their requirements. If they traded at all, it was to sell their surplus capacity....
Smartphone running 'Facebook OS' said to debut this week
Dell directors foresee unremitting brutality in PC market
Sunday 31st March 2013 21:06 GMT 
One last thing....
So you wanna get back into the "value chain" biz?
Then GET RID OF WINDOWS.
License an OS. Any OS. Tune it into something agreeable with SWEAT, PAIN AND BLOOD. But get RID OF WINDOWS. Get RID OF THAT HORRIFIC INTERFACE. Get rid of THAT PILE OF JUNK that needs "ANTIVIRUS", that still doesn't know how to organize files properly in a meaningful hierarchy, is subject to the whims of some sweating overfed kids from marketing, is so NIMBY that it knows about FAT16 but not EXT2 ... in 2013, has a IN-HOUSE BROWSER THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT, is so wobbly that you find trojans ensconced in C:\TMP, needs RESTARTS whenever something kernelish happens (and then may NEVER COME BACK) and is all-round a PITA allied to a LIQUID SANTORUM.
I know you have the cojones beaten out of you by a decade of "Customers Want Windows" sludge and brainwash from Redmond, but BY GOD, IT IS TIME TO WAKE THE HELL UP.
Jobs' first boss Nolan Bushnell: 'Steve was difficult but valuable'
Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre
Sunday 31st March 2013 11:27 GMT
Found on Google Maps, finally
There is a swastika-shaped building, too. Still pretending there wasn't collection of germanic know-how after the Mad Confrontation of The Two Collectivist Powers was over?
Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux
Sunday 31st March 2013 10:33 GMT
Re: Destroyed All Braincells Gordon BTRFS? You must be joking...
Why insist on truck-lifiting distributed filesystems into the discussion? Who mentioned them first? And what is a "Sunshiner"?
> Trying to bolt together a Frankenstein network filesystem out of Luster and ZFS seems pretty pointless when Red Hat already have a superior option in GlusterFS, or hp with LeftHand.
Apparently some people who imply that they are "in the industry" actually believe that a distributed filesystem is a magic black box that drops off a vendor's conveyor belt, glittering in pixie dust, instead of basically a bunch machines, each with disks arrays having their own filesystem plus a remotely accessible centralized lock manager and possibly a metadata server.
A place in marketing beckons. The BS levels are there. Bonus for mentioning "FTSE 1000" and some HP products.
Sunday 31st March 2013 09:18 GMT
Re: Must say it..
> The classical mechanical degrees of freedom of a proton (disregarding the quarks and gluons that compose such a particle) in 3d space are surprisingly enough are 3.
They clearly would be 9: 3 for the position, 3 for the momentum, and 3 for the axis of rotation.
> However one could precisely measure the position of such a particle.
No. Because you need too much energy to do that.
> by zero point fluctuation alone.
Explaining impossibility to determine position and momentum at the same time is better explained by the olde Fourier Transform: peaks in frequency domain mean flat functions in time domain and conversely and doesn't involved Marvel Comics Science Terminology.
Saturday 30th March 2013 19:28 GMT
Re: Gordon BTRFS? You must be joking...
Knowledge Matt® now in a new edition of: "Undistributed filesystem is undistributed".
Film at 11.
Also: "ZFS is suitable for desktops and that's about it."
Words fail. These must be *big* desktops.
You can check out some of the desktops here. They are evidently using ZFS on backend nodes to provide a clustered filesystem on top. Hmm.....
Google Street View releases devastated Fukushima town tour
Sunday 31st March 2013 10:07 GMT
The effect of the visitors uncannily disppearing if you come from another direction freaks me out.
Friday 29th March 2013 11:05 GMT
Re: If you ask me
50 micro-Sv/h seems to be max, values are generally below that.
If you drive around for 10 hours (at the max value), you are still below the EPA recommendation for annual exposure of a member of the public. At that point, all depends how much stuff you put into your system or whether you get a few X-rays later.
Friday 29th March 2013 10:01 GMT
Re: Thumbs up to Google
Why do you assume it is a driverless car?
This ain't the interior of Tchernobyl block 2.
Btw, the 2013 issue of "(GRS-S-53) Fukushima Daiichi 11. März 2011 - Unfallablauf, radiologische Folgen (2., überarbeitete Auflage)" is out.
You know how your energy bills are so much worse than they were?
Egyptian navy captures divers trying to cut undersea internet cables
Relaxed Windows 8 rules hint at smaller slabs to come
Boffins birth man-sized military ROBOT JELLYFISH
IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME
Friday 29th March 2013 22:00 GMT
I shall have to demoralize you...
Unless you are a born-again X-tian, Armageddon is not a "real event".
You may also notice that "Pearl Harbor" and "9/11" were attacks on Amurrica used at full efficiency to rally the rubes behind fascistic agendas of full-scale domination, so in a sense "digitalizing" them is fully in-line with we are looking at here.
You are also missing "Digital Attack on the Maine" and "Digital Gulf of Tonkin".
Friday 29th March 2013 09:55 GMT
Re: You're lucky...
Oh yes. After BIND turned out to be an incomprehensible mess that moreover opened up the server to hacks back in the '00s, I turned to djbdns. Easy, comprehensible, straightforward. It had some bizarre quirks and illiberal behaviour due to the grammar nazi attitude of Bernstein which earned me complains from the front office in some rare cases.
Though patching it at each install to make it work with modern compilers was a pain. Way to go putting up that kind retarded license prohibiting third-party distros, DJB.
I hear licensing has been fixed in the meantime and improvements are rolling out but, well, I'm using PowerDNS now. Recommended and you can inject LUA scripts.
Yahoo! makes Brit teen app maker VERY RICH with Summly buy
Sprint, Softbank to swear off Huawei kit as condition of merger
Friday 29th March 2013 10:14 GMT
I warned you about that greenback, dawg. I told you!
> interest on treasury paper
Like that's not simply coming off the printing press of the Federal Reserve.
Interest has never been that cheap.
Debtors should be hopping mad at this as it actually means the US is defaulting on the debt while nuking the value of the principal. And trying to fend off anyone buying something actually worthwhile with those dollars. On the other hand, China is keeping its currency artificially low, so a pox on all their houses.
Gartner's gurus forecast future tech spending splurge
Friday 29th March 2013 09:04 GMT
WTF are they talking about?
Oh Gartner heard about Cyprus? And they think it's relevant somehow? Did the luminairies just now discover that we have fractional reserve banking? That reaches Krugman-levels of economic knowledge. Well done.
Yes, all that bailout/keep-solvent money pushed out of the Fed printshop and currently held by the banks will have to be liberated at some point in time. Then there is the additional coffer of 60 billion USD/month currently printed up by "Serial Numbers Only" Bernie.
Pretty sure there's gonna be "spending" ... a lot of it. But will you be able to buy something with it?
BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries
Thursday 28th March 2013 23:26 GMT
Re: I'm sure we'll see more of this
So, why not just disallow zone transfers at the drop of a UDP packet?
I don't see the utility in such an operations, really. It sounds very much an anti-utility operation, because the zone should only be served from the authoritative server in the first place, so no-one has business requesting it.
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