Citizen, you are now charged with high-colesterol permissive inactive coercion.
You shouldn't believe everything you hear. Just don't become a TV amoeba.
Avocado with cheese and bacon? Hell yeah.
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"that's just corporate greed and some sleazy white collars trying to save their HUGE bonuses"
On the other hand, it just means that macro-economically, resources are being shifted elsewhere, from black/beige/silver box production to whatever.... definitely hellfire missiles and lovingly grilled children as there will be tax-and-spend thing going on. Or maybe ....
**OPENINGS IN McMANSION POOL MAINTENANCE!**
The "owners of capital" don't dictate anything [they try hard and succeed though - by the use of trade barriers, subsidies, taxes, IP legislation, and "friendly" congressmen, all things that should get the baby seal treatment when the revolution comes], but ultimately, it's the consumer that dictates. A factory owner can only produce the stuff that people *actually want*.
"The Gaming Lady is bad luck to those that know her. When a poor night at the wagering machines has emptied her purse, her jewels are carried privately into Lombard Street, and Fortune is tempted yet again with a sum from my lady's pawnbroker! Then she sells off her wardrobe as well, to the grief of her maids; stretches her credit amongst those she deals with, pawns her honor to her intimates, in vain hope to recover her losses!
"The passions suffer no less by this gaming-fever than the understanding and the imagination. What vivid, unnatural hope and fear, joy and anger, sorrow and discontent, burst out all at once upon a roll of the dice, a turn of the card, a run of the shining gurneys! Who can consider without indignation that all those womanly affections, which should have been consecrated to children and husband, are thus vilely prostituted and thrown away. I cannot but be grieved when I see the Gaming Lady fretting and bleeding inwardly from such evil and unworthy obsessions; when I behold the face of an angel agitated by the heart of a fury!
"It is divinely ordered that almost everything which corrupts the soul, must also decay the body. Hollow eyes, haggard looks, and pale complexion are the natural indications of a female gamester. Her morning sleeps cannot repair her sordid midnight watchings. I have looked long and hard upon the face of the Gaming Lady. Yes, I have watched her well. I have seen her earned off half-dead from Crockford's gambling-hell, at two o'clock in the morning, looking like a specter amid a flare of wicked gas-lamps --
"Pray resume your seat, sir. You are in the House of God. Is that remark to be taken as a threat, sir? How dare you. These are dark times, grave times indeed! I tell you, sir, as I tell this congregation, as I will tell all the world, that I have seen her, I have witnessed your Queen of Engines at her vile dissipations --
"Help me! Stop him! Stop him! Oh dear Jesus, I am shot! I am undone! Murder! Can none of you stop him?"
Slavery is not Freedom.
War is not Peace.
Intellectual Property is not a Thing. And cannot be "stolen".
The juxtaposition of "stealing" and so-called "Intellectual Property" mainly proves the utter confusion and retardation of the person who uses it.
Except when he is an "intellectual property" lawyer because then at least he knows how is bread is buttered.
You could argue about breaking a licence or something but even that is debatable.
"unauthorized access to a highly sensitive DMZ, or 'demilitarized zone' resources inside an organization"
That's why the term "demilitarized zone" is dangerous - people let it all hang out on that little perimeter network. Militarize that DMZ now - passwords, encryption, intrusion detection, all of it.
"A judge in a (sadly unnamed) British case has decided that Bayes' Theorem - a formula used in court to calculate the odds of whodunnit - shouldn't be used in criminal trials."
This makes me feel queasy.
I don't see how going back to fuddy-duddy reasoning and Bushian "gut feeling" is going to help.
Next: "A judge in has decided that Aristotelean logic - a formula used in court to decide whether a defendant belongs to a given set - shouldn't be used in criminal trials."
> you have to think in terms of which is more likely - double murder or double cot death
That sounds fishy.
This would mean your sample space is the space of "two dead people in a row". This doesn't sound well-defined. Those two dead people - are they grouped according to the same court case? Did they die in the same house? Of the same murder weapon? Did they have the same age? Doesn't really make sense.
The question is "what is the probability of double baby death by natural causes given that there is no other indication of foul play like baby skewered by a fork".
Your sample space is the set of families in which at least one baby died of apparent natural causes that look like cot death.
Turns out that in that set, a family has a high probability of seeing another cot death.
Larry dear will only "beat x86/64 to death" outside of the announcarhea arena if there is commodity hardware that runs better, cheaper or greener than current hardware - with the same software (i.e. Microsoft OS) on top. This means emulation. Which ain't gonna happen soon.
x86/64, like the nanny state, is here to stay.
This is about as relevant as affirming that you can lean Quantum Field Theory using a USD 100 telephone sized textbook.
Yes you can.
Just need some time.
And even after that, you may still be lousy.
Wait up, I gotta make the office tour, see what the guys have coded up NOW... FFS!!
“Some would say adding Lambda expressions is just to keep up with the cool kids, and there’s some truth in that”
What's this?
Lambda expression should be pack & parcel of any programming language that prides itself on being relevant and high-level.
Get with the program.
Once you feel the expressiveness you won't go back.
"The lack of information on this flaw in Linux is beginning to look very shabby indeed. It's an open source OS, everyone out there should be able to examine the code for the flaw. Looks like the only person who did was the attacker."
You are implying that there is some new trick going here.
Might just have been an old trick, judiciously applied.
Gotta say that I would not entirely trust somebody who supports republican Palpatine impersonators and is on an ego trip so hard that she shells out a few tens of millions to make a bid for public office in California, a hive of scum and villany.
That's not a businessperson. That's someone in need of a pharmacist.
But the Apotheker has just left the building. Ha. Ha. Ha.
I don't know whether this article correctly distinguishes between "activist investors" (uppity owners - good) or "corporate raiders" (prospective owners -- not good : rips company apart or good : unlocks value hidden by bad boardroom decisions depending on how you look at it).
The probability of a disgorgment of "Intellectual Property" moanings and jeremiads is pretty high. About as high as Panetta finding that decreasing the increase in military spending will cause doom for the US.
"China's advance has been slowed because of a lack of intellectual property protection"
Ok here we go.
"It is also clear that no country holds a monopoly in information technology"
But you are working on it, Cartellmeisters.
So, we have neutrinos with imaginary mass? Which brings to mind a 15 year old paper about how that might have been a possibility with the neutrino bursts from that supernova in one of the Magellanic Clouds arriving faster than expected, so this is not completely, only somewhat unexpected.
But doesn't that mean that the future is written in stone, immutable and the whole universe a timeless brick? That would mean Einstein wins in the end, because isn't that what is required to make General Relativity stay consistent? At least it would focus efforts on getting the free t variable out of Quantum Mechanics. NYAH!
The splattering you hear is "free will" philosophers brutally decelerating after they jumped out of their armchairs and through windows.
Still, my bet is that error bars will just get larger, killing off this particular weirdness.
The Standard Model Higgs (and indeed, there are others, like Supersymmetric Higgs) is just a mathematical consequence of the Standard Model. We know the latter is not a 100% correct description of physics, so it might well prove to have a hole where the Higgs should be.
Indeed, by end of the year there might well be enough data to exclude the Standard Model Higgs "at 95% confidence level". That would make things interesting.
More here: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3960
Astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski:
"a computer can only look for what you teach it to look for".
"We've essentially built the world's largest distributed supercomputer, dedicated to pattern recognition. We've linked up over 300,000 human brains and turned it into a science machine."
Midiclorians I say.
"The remarkable observation that people are probably smart enough to distinguish between organic search and advertising links, even if the latter are ambiguously labeled."
Holy shit, Batman, smart and media-savvy people on my Internets?
Still, it's qualified by "probably" and "remarkably", so default assumption are still being held, unremarkably.