Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: In other news...

... make both pi and e equal to 3.0.

e^iπ + 1 = 0

Oh dear, this is going to get messy.

Re: China is not a democracy

As far as I can tell, the US isn't one either. It has always pretended to be one, but whatever it ought to be considered now, a democracy it ain't.

Actually the US has never been a democracy. In fact the word democracy doesn't even appear in the US Constitution so it's hard to understand why so many people get it wrong. Per Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution the US is a republic. Besides, two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner isn't necessarily the sort of government people should really strive for.

Re: Babysitters are for babies

So no like people working in the tv industry they are not assholes.

Right, TV folk are just self-important, narcissistic, self promoters and completely unlike these Youtubers you speak of. Oh wait...

On another note, I've concluded we're dealing with a parody of the PDP-11. Clearly lacking the skills of Ocean's 11.

Re: Why not instead

But I wonder what problem AI lawyers are intended to solve, and for whom?

Simple, upwards of 90% of lawyer work is simply filling out and filing forms because the entire legal code was written by lawyers and every attempt was made to intentionally obscure it from the typical person. Having AI lawyers means the real lawyers can release the paralegals in the office and save a few bucks.

Have no fear, there won't be any AIs blustering away at juries any time soon because they still haven't mastered the art of tear jerking. I'm sure they're working on it though.

Re: @jake - It always pays to carry a Micro-Uzi in a shoulder holster

Read about the Waco Texas massacre and come back and tell us about scaring the government.

And just how many times do you think the line 'it's to save the kids in the compound from being raped and abused' is going to win over with the tank drivers?

Besides, Koresh was first, a tactical idiot for thinking he could hold out in that dinky compound, and second, a contemptible prick for using children as a shield. These days I think everyone knows you need to be able to move unless you also think you're the messiah.

Re: profilling

@DougS: It was Newsone and if you check their About Us page you'll see it starts with

NewsOne.com is your destination for news and information for and about Blacks in America.

@Trixr: The linked article has the dashcam video which at 0:34 shows both occupants and the vehicle with the open trunk in the background.

Re: Crony capitalists* are happy

Ah, I have the definitive word, it should be pwned bitches so says Amazon Cuomo.

I can't help but wonder how he gets the brown off his nose and whether Bezos gets tired of washing Cuomo's lipstick off his penis.

Focus @anonanonanon, focus! This was the cops who did the shooting. It wasn't a mass shooting and, albeit surprisingly, no puppies were harmed. There's no need for a non-sequitur so you can go off on a rant. I'm sure cops in your 'civilized world' have shot innocent people too although they might have been able to plant the required evidence to make it look like a "good shoot".

Re: Cryptos

It also probably had a lot to do with the high price of bitcoin earlier this year.

Re: It's in the list.

Agreed, it's quite toasty indeed but still remarkable since many others in the top tier do far worse. Tianhe-2A, ranked 4th, uses twice the power and only manages half the score and only three others in the top 20 managed over 10 TFlops/Watt with Japan's ABCI coming very close at 14.4 TF/W.

Hmm... I wonder what the mark has to be to make mining bitcoin profitable.

Re: Inquiring minds

I think I see the problem between the EU and US. I'm pretty sure it's the common letter that causes the confusion. Let's see if I can explain graphically.

EU-----US > EU---US > EU-US > EUUS > EUS!!!

See, it's really hard to determine where one ends and the other starts.

Granted, both do it with the entire world and in a much less direct way than Russia and China do with actual land grabs but the principle is the same.

Re: Deals between certain mobile phone networks and certain video streaming companies

This does seem a bit shady and may be grounds for an anti-trust or racketeering investigation, perhaps both.

Re: So

No, that was when the US learned that what goes around comes around and...

I get what you're saying which is that it was before, and that's fine. However you are mistaken to think that the US government has learned anything about things coming or going around.

Re: Looks like idiot machines

The thing is the GPU drop was quite predictable as it coincides with the current price of bitcoin and small miners being pushed out since the cost of electricity makes mining with GPUs unprofitable in many if not most locations.

Look back to mid August, AMD was about the same price as today and it rises to over 30 by mid September and has been dropping through October. Meanwhile BTC had just finished it's drop in mid August and has largely been flat ever since which means many non-ASIC miners are losing money on GPU based rigs.

It's pretty clear a bunch of analysts missed that even though it's much easier to buy a GPU today than it was six or nine months ago.

Re: In all fairness

Alexander also didn't slam the door tight and merely implied it was insufficiently mature and at this time there are better tools for the respective jobs. At least that's how I took the comment of "blockchain is an interesting technology that would be well worth being observed, but... for every use... today, there is a better technology".

Re: The real challenge for Huawei

Historically the Chinese actually did quite well in the innovation arena. Granted they didn't keep up with the control freaks of the world and they wound up subjugated by one imperial power or another and ultimately got stuck with their own control freak in Mao. They're only really starting to try to fix that but Xi is still a control freak and hasn't grasped the concept that you can't command innovation.

I like the KISS aspect of RSS El Reg and that it doesn't succumb to the whims of the latest UI/UX fads like the main page does.

Re: "Facebook doesn't listen to, view, or keep the contents of your Portal video calls,"

Don't they have an analytics firm in Cambridge to do that sort of menial task?

Re: Let's Cook!

I always had lots of questions that nobody would ever answer. Can I get that with bacon? How about a bit of toast with jam on the side? Are coffee refills free? etc.

That's the crux of the problem. My phone has AMBER Alerts, Severe Threat Alerts, Extreme Threat Alerts, and Presidential Alerts. So in theory, the Presidential level is even worse than an Extreme Threat. What does that mean exactly? Personally, I'd rather go on about my day and be atomized rather than know 90 seconds ahead of time so I have time to kiss my arse goodbye. Let's face it, if my image is going to be etched into the stone behind me by an ICBM I'd rather future scientists see it and know that I was caught walking along instead of wondering, "Was this guy licking his balls? Why would he do it here? Wait, is that another one doing the same thing while looking at some rectangular object?"

Sorry, I just don't see the point.

Re: Margin Calling..

I'm kinda curious how much shorts could make given this outcome was predicted very shortly after the tweets.

Well if a short could borrow all of Tesla's stock, sell it, and then Tesla shuts down it would mean the short could make whatever the market cap was for Tesla when they sold the stock. The reason is that after the shut down the stock becomes worthless and the short wouldn't have to buy it back to return to the original lender.