Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Just One Of Their Brainfarts

"Just taking away property rights to books completely incompatible with human rights"

Well, MY books are safely stored in a case made of wood in my living room. Problem?

>lack of knowledge

Don't be bashful. It just means "to all evidence, problems that are hard to solve for a classical computer will STAY hard to solve on a quantum computer (more generally, mother nature won't hand you over the keys to the car no matter what) except for some niche stuff like factorization - and simulation of physics"

Protection?

Nice young people with ADHD you got there... shame if something should happen to them...

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Next: Grannie gets beaten up in the street. Police investigate whether action should be taken for her causing broken bones and a lengthy hospital stay. Not to mention irresponsibly letting her purse be snatched away.

Re: What?

NO!

Once again, galilean and non-galilean reference frames are mashed up and confused in a pretend-physically-correct hodgepoge of ignorance.

SIT DOWN! YES, YOU!

Re: Re: Does this answer some of that unexplained mass

Yes and No! We are talking MACHOs. But there are limits on these...

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryonic_dark_matter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonbaryonic_dark_matter

"A small proportion of dark matter may be baryonic dark matter: astronomical bodies, such as massive compact halo objects, that are composed of ordinary matter but which emit little or no electromagnetic radiation. Consistency with other observations indicates that the vast majority of dark matter in the universe cannot be baryons, and is thus not formed out of atoms. It also cannot interact with ordinary matter via electromagnetic forces; in particular, dark matter particles do not carry any electric charge."

Forks, Spoons and Knives.

> There are OpenSolaris forks out there

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/14/openindiana_launch/

"Then Oracle changed the licensing terms for the Solaris 10 freebie distribution, which only allows those who download the operating system to use it in test and development environments; if you use Solaris 10 in production, you are supposed to pay Oracle $1,000 to $2,000 per socket per year, depending on the scalability of the server. Then the OpenSolaris community died of neglect and eventually committed ritual suicide. While the Illumos Project, launched in early August to create an open source alternative to the OpenSolaris and Solaris kernel and core network features (called OS/Net in the Sun lingo), Illumos did not go so far as to create a full distribution."

The future of MySQL also is murky.

Re: Stolen plans

Emperor Basam Damdu finally gets the blueprints of the Swordfish!

Mine's the trenchcoat with old comics stuffed in the pockets.

"Prey" is one word!

Summarizing it with "Abysmally Bad Writing" gives us three.

NOT an intelligent reaction.

Looks rather like standard work in precision measurement.

Noisy people (including sundry sunday-physicist bloggers) pushing extra-dimensional neutrino travel, string pretzel phenomena or imaginary mass will have to wait for another measurement discrepancy and in the meantime might fall back - if they are testosterone-fuelled enough - to neutrino-denial conspiracy theories. But really this is all as it should be. A suspicious result leads to publication leads to checking of gear and statistics which leads to the result disappearing. Thus the telenovela of "still no kinks in current physical models" continues.

Then again, it might reappear after even MORE checking.

Re: Re: No matter how much others you'll try...

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770873(v=ws.10).aspx

OTOH, the darkest times of helpless despair and groveling at the feet of the Beast are indeed upon us when people need a howto about copying configuration files over.

Biblical apocalyptic genocide at the command of Jehova icon is missing? Nuke will do.

Re: Re: What do you mean, RSA package?

So what is the problem? No need to discuss basic facts, this is not show & tell.

-> If you are on an open-sourced Unix, check the implementation of /dev/random [for random numbers derived from the system state] or /dev/urandom [for random numbers derived from an algorithm]

-> If the random-number generator comes with the package [in whatever form], check that. See also the Debian event: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number_b.html

-> If you see "RSA Data Security" on the package [in whatever form] and the PRNG is part of said package, ask for a signed statement of the CEO that this PRNG is correctly seeded and passes sundry statistical tests etc.

-> If you have a hardware number generator, use that, but stay away from naive implementations like "as simple as a CMOS gate input left open circuit". See here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0

Not mention that times of delivery may vary heavily and/or your SMS may be dropped by eager operator-installed "spamfilters" or just because the airwaves are clogged. Course you will still get billed.

On the other hand, "if you want a guarantee, buy a toaster"

Cellulitis?

> the Windows Vs Linux debate that ended a few years ago

I remember this! Wasn't that shortly before the War on Terror was won?

"Copyright law" is just another tool to pull in the rent.

Really, how can something called "The estate of the deceased writer Horselover Fat" pull in the monies on his production thirty years after his heavenly ascent and accuse others of "greed"? It's like a carpenter hammering away and accusing other carpenters of f*cking him over because they also use hammers.

Take those hammers away.

Re: Re: Re: LOST IN TIME....

>Who the bloody hell is responsible for this software?

Who the bloody hell is responsible for "daylight saving" pants-on-head retardation?

I wonder how many billions have been intestinally transported out of office windows for that kind of genius idea.

Re: Criminals belong in prison

So what about Jews?

"there really is nothing happening!"

How so? Maybe if the real world is compared to 2-hour relentless shoot, rape and torture Hollywood dross. And even then...

Re: Ohh, you're so clever..

>>Just for the record, you were probably not even working on the internet pre-2000, and were still in your nappies.

Don't know why you would want that for the "record", nor for whose record exactly, but I think you mistake me for someone from a younger generation. Connecting with a Tektronix 4014 to the Unicos machine downstreet? Yup, been there, done that.

Re: Even so

Next in this zombie flick:

TRADEMARKS ENFORCED IN CHINA!! FILM AT 11!!

I guess there are well-oiled connections to high-ranking animals in State to uncover.

Re: Well, who'd have guessed it?

> A strategic partnership with IBM

By first-hand experiences, it CAN work. But:

1) Take what the salesmen say during the tendering process with a large grain of salt.

2) Secretly prepare political ammo for justifying:

a) Doubling the project length.

b) Doubling the project cost. In particular, lots of "included" features will turn out to be "extras".

This is standard in particular for GovOrg where no-one wants to admit to real cost or complexity.

3) Keep your own management away from meddling and re-planning once it's started.

4) Particular for GovOrg.: Set recent hires / young people on the project who don't endlessly try to not take a decision and actually have enough Courage Wolf inside to actually do some work.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You must be a really shit coder then.

Gentlemen! I urge calm!