Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: Bad Science- Blacker than Any Hole

Trolling for fake controversy.

Pretending that mathematical solutions could be subject to some kind of "conspiracy of silence" or that it matters who wrote which paper when and whether there were errors in the initial version or not. Just compute it by yourself if you must. It's math! (not as if most of the commenters would do that but grad students sure can).

singularities in his gravitational field nullify the theory of General Relativity

No they just mean that GR is not applicable in every situation. That's clearly a "no shit, Sherlock" kind of brainwave.

Now fuck off.

I'll continue being the Register's Norwegian death metal Tinker Bell.

More like the tinfoil brigade cavalry.

Re: Oh, they've replied now.

Comodo has provided and built a Free SSL model that give SSL for free for 90 days since 2007! Trying to piggy back on our business model and copying our model of giving certificates for 90 days for free is not ethical.

M. Abdulhayaoğlu Melih ("dedicated to innovation"), (founder of Comodo, which of course is praiseworthy in any case) unfortunately sounds like a kid of Generation Entitled here.

But further down "robinalden" (Comodo Staff) has this to say:

With LE now being an operational business, we were never going to take the these trademark applications any further. Josh posted a link to the application and as of February 8th it was already in a state where it will lapse. Josh was wrong when he said we’d “refused to abandon our applications”. We just hadn’t told LE we would leave them to lapse. We have now communicated this to LE.

So all is hunky dory?

Re: Ok...

It's not Utah, but...

Generally, you better be prepared for some finger play!

Teen Sues US Over Cavity Drug Search for Which She Was Billed $575

What once were modest exceptions in Constitutional America morphed into a vast “Constitution-free zone.” The “border” is now a strip of land circling the country and extending 100 miles inland that includes two-thirds of the U.S. population. In this vast region, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can and conduct warrantless searches.

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Re: Porn? Oh, horror!

Idiots taking over?

Better stock up on guns!

(Note that I always stay out of gun-free zones. I don't like being the lowest rung in the food chain.)

Re: This is why AMD and NVidia are making ARM chips

Design errors [of ARM 32], like ... making every instruction conditional

I am totally not au fait with CPU instruction sets as I have abandoned that particular specialization after writing floating point arithmetic operations for NS32032 at uni, but are these instructions for "predicated execution" as used in IA-64 "Merced" and the Zuse Z-3, meant to reduce (or eliminate) branches?

See: Konrad Zuse deserves even more credit

The IEEE Computer Article referenced in the above is actually 'Challenges and Trends in Processor Design', Janet Wilson, IEEE Computer Magazone, January 1998, with the item "Introduction to Predicated Execution" by Web-mei Hwu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where we read:

The story of Merced, Intel’s first processor based on its next-generation 64-bit architecture, will continue to unfold in 1998, Intel expects this product of its collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to reach volume production in 1999. To date, however, the two companies have released few details about Intel Architecture 64 (IA-64). One significant change they did admit to at the October 1997 Microprocessor Forum was the switch to full predicated execution, a technique that no other commercial general-purpose processor employs.

Predicated execution started as a software approach to avoiding conditional branches in early supercomputers. Vector architectures such as the Cray 1 and array-processing architectures such as Illiac IV adopted predication in the form of mask registers to allow effective vectorization of loops with conditional branches. During the era of mini-supercomputers, the Cydrome Cydra 5 became the first machine to support generalized predication. Parallel to the Cydra 5, the Multiflow Trace machine adopted partial predication by introducing a single instruction with a predicate input, a select instruction. Contemporary processors, such as the DEC Alpha and the Sparc V9, have adopted the partial-predication approach so they can maintain a 32-bit instruction encoding.

Well if Herr Trump takes over there won't be a discovery phase at Gitmo for all the Muslims and then Democrats.

Cheap liberal demagoguery.

Is he going around threatening to FEMA-trail illegal undesirables and bleeding heart "bombing you hurts me more than it does you" Democrats?

No he isn't.

Though confused, guy's is probably less bad than Hillary, a rancid neocon zombie and pathological liar.

Nearly every company I have ever worked with have war stories about a CompSci graduate that they have employed. The complaint nearly always boils down to: intelligent, but not actually much use for "our" business without spending two years (re-)training them.

Why is this? Why has this still not improved?

Because companies' IT departments (except for cookie-cutter companies of 3 people selling travel advice for example) cover very specific business areas, have created very specific, often undocumented and lore-rich environments that have grown over a long history of non-standard trial-and-error adventures, management changes and incompatible "solutions". Add to this the vagaries, frank retardation and change-for-change sake of low-brow "solutions" like Windows and its hanger-ons and add-ons and two years in training sounds actually pretty good.

The complaint seems to be mainly the usual manglement gripe of not getting something for nothing, again.

Re: Do we really want more computer scientists?

When the grads turn up in the workplace they typically can't code, better to get someone with a Maths degree who can

Either you are looking fora "coder" who may or may not be able to code, or you are looking for a person able to get a Math degree who, again, may or may not be able to code, but who is at least interested in IT. This actually means getting a "Computer Scientist"

Getting a "Math degree" person and asking him to do coding is not a good idea. Knowing how to do multidimensional differential geometry is not often a useful thing in the workplace. And algebra is basic knowledge, isn't it?

In fact, you want more a "Computer Engineer" than a "Computer Scientist", really - the scientist should do the science at work at IBM Research, if that still exists and hasn't be wrecked by Wall Street gyrations.

Re: Please....

Reposting due to great success: Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you

Abstract: TL;DR? Why not just go watch another five second video of a kitten with its head in a toilet roll, or a 140 character description of a meal your friend just stuffed in their mouth. "nom nom". This blog post is not for you.

Re: Lack of qualified people

Lack of qualified people. Coupled with a tale of qualified people being replaced by (cheap) unqualified people. Does not compute.

Yes it does.

There is no law that hinders a business to take bad decisions and go under as a consequence.

Nor should there be.

Capitalism! It's worth trying!

Running on fumes ... of the hippie kind.

Are you stark raving bonkers?

If they were licensing that, no rocket would be flying yet.

In April 2015, the SABRE engine concept passed a theoretical feasibility review conducted by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the lab will reveal two-stage-to-orbit SABRE concepts in the near future, they believe that a single-stage-to-orbit Skylon space plane is "technically very risky as a first application of SABRE engine ," and this is why they are developing two-stage-to-orbit concepts.[24] In August 2015 the European Commission competition authority approved UK government funding of £50 million for further development of the SABRE project. This was approved on the grounds that money raised from private equity had been insufficient to bring the project to completion. Then in October 2015, British company BAE Systems agreed to buy a 20% stake in the company for £20.6 million as part of an agreement to help develop the SABRE hypersonic engine.

Yeah, incomplete project and BAE gets involved, that's gonna be a good engine for launches with minimal red tape... NOT!!!

You actually want stuff that works, sooner rather than later. Cutting edge does not need to go into self-cutting bleeding edge.

Re: Why LIGO Is a Scam

Clueless jerk detected!

Amazingly, the Einstein Gravity calculations work out pretty well. Exceedingly well.

And GR has nothing to do with the graviton, which is QFT, which is another can of worms. Go back to cave regardless.

Or stop grunting and start here: Is Newton's Law of Gravity consistent with General Relativity?

> rebelscience

Nothing says more than "I'm a 14-year-old homeschooler with delusions of grandeur and asperger's" than "rebelscience".