Posts by Evil Auditor

Re: In one way pulsars are not the great hope they used to be

It's just the reader from Down Under. As any fule kno everything is reversed down there. That downvote is actually an upvote from an Aussie. Ask dropbear for it must kno.

Not that I'm qualified to answer but within this context that should be perfectly acceptable. Trump, I think it is fair to assume, contains some form of neural network. And from my limited experience, that neural network behaves scarily similar to one artificial neural network that I built about twenty years ago.

It was a simple one, very trivial: input/output field was something like an six-by-six dot matrix and it was trained to recognise single-digit numbers 0 to 9. It did reasonably well for an experiment. But it had one major flaw: whatever the input was (maybe even for a blank matrix), it would always "recognise" a number. So, from a rather high number of stimuli, the output was limited to a very small number of possible reactions - but it would always and instantly react.

Re: Hello

265 slides? I call that an eleven seconds video clip.

@phuzz

Not that I have much doubts. After all, even Down Under they procreate. But the need of doing so upside-down didn't regulary occur to me. You seem to have gained some niche experience - can you please elaborate?

Re: "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK"

Vicious sheep, I tell you! Anyway, for a moment I was wondering if that had happened during the time when English people would come to Wales for the weekend just to find their second home in ashes...

Re: Shiny, shiny

@Unicornpiss

"...they really didn't innovate, but instead built on others' inventions..."

That is pretty much the definition of innovation: improve an existing product, combine existing products in new ways. I didn't expect to find myself ever in the position of defending Apple. But even I have to admit that they had been a very innovative company. They didn't invent graphical user interfaces, touchy screens and, contrary to popular believe, not even squares with rounded corners, mp3 players or the lowercase letter i. Apple though took those things and a few and innovated them into a new and in many ways better experience than what the single inventions had been before.

This is innovation. Or, in the case of Apple, was.

Re: Adobe Flash plugin ... that the user is tricked into running

And what do the mac gods say about brain-impaired fanbois willing to pay silly dosh for a monitor stand?

Re: Soundbars , meh

...and planned to spend more

His last expenditure was 50p on a box of cotton buds. That solved the "doesn't sound right" problem.

Re: I no longer use Ikea ...

I expected something along the lines of:

...after going there once with the missus. And we're also separated ever since.

Mind you, not my own experience. But I did observe some rather distressed couples/families there. Not a pleasant sight at all.

Re: whether if they'd had their sidearms they could have shot the lock off instead

Don't know about the REDs - removed from my memory for good. But certainly the aliens in Aliens knew that trick.

Re: Changing Wallpaper can have career enhancing effects

End 90s I changed mine to the Pink Floyd Body Paint photo. Which I simply considered a work of art. Didn't run into too much trouble. Except with one person who, I assume, wasn't much of a Pink Floyd fan...

I like to rely on our system of justice and don't believe in "an eye for an eye". But boy, sweet irony!

Re: "Recover the once-white earbud"

As much as I understand your comment, following your advice would be a rather limiting killjoy.

I fully understand the virtues of running a more independent infrastructure - just consider, e.g. the recent allegations and discoveries regarding Cisco and Huawei products respectively. That is one thing. It is a completely different matter though to oblige all ISPs to connect via pootynet routers.

I'm just not able to appreciate such and can't resist my inner evil that says: sod off, you feckin' sinister control freaks!

Re: What does that make me?

Wait... I am one of those who keep the internet going?!

I doubt. But failing to identify with any of the given personality types, shitposter I can verily relate to.

Re: “the rarest thing ever recorded.”

Or a genius in a genius bar.

The shopping trolley problem, by the way, has been solved: adding a fifth, fixed, forwardfacing wheel in the centre of the trolley.

Re: So...

I'm assuming in the other 4 cases the robot reached some sort of dead end and the human took over?

Yep. They called the butcher.

Re: What a fucking idiot

A fucking idiot?

Yes, most likely. But a raging fucking idiot, that is. He probably found that his expensive MBA wasn't worth quite what he had expected. Had he learnt something useful during his studies he would have known other -better- means of revenge than this pathetic act of vandalism.

Re: Lucas Lambert

Don't know who hired him. But Assange, he's clearly run by his cat. His recent antics closely resembles the behaviour of my cat, e.g. messy, unshaved, always in your face, and if you want her to go somewhere you either have to drag or carry her. And she complains. A lot.

The whole Internet stands on my first 6.199.067

Right. Let me get this straight. Mentioned patent was filed in 1999. And the Internet, obviously since it stands on it, was created shortly thereafter. It all makes perfect sense! And I claim license fees for using my patented moroness. Prior art, you say? Bummer.

Re: That girl in the pic...

To be fair, for a horse its English is astonishingly good.

Re: Terrified...

eradicate the hazards to humanity that seem to occupy most of the continent

Bogans?

Re: My OCD is firing up

"stopped"? I think, defenestrated is the word you were looking for.