Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
"And this one of the primary reasons for the downturn in PC sales. They stay current for longer because the workload is no longer increasing and neither is the PC power. "
Unless of course the main supplier of desktop OS's and the apps that uses t hem rolls out a new monster resource gobbler while shutting down earlier versions.
But why would they do such a thing?
Are you viewed as
A) A person with a passion for serving your country
or
B) An ethics free morally flexible individual who'll probably put the "coolness" of the hack above any concern for what it's going to be used for.
And of course wheather or not most companies would quite like A or B
Time will tell.
Wrong.
No one gives you rights because there is always someone who reckons they can get more money/power/land/whatever from disregarding or ignoring yours.
The English Civil War was fought to end the absolute power of the monarch to do WTF they liked WTF they liked.
That doesn't look like a side effect to me.
That look like a goal.
If the rational course is to do less bulk collection and the person in front of you still wants bulk collection what does that say to their world view?
The people behind May areobsessed with bulk data collection. This is not a rational policy. It's an illness.
Chocolate Teapot.
Having read the Interception of Commnuications Commissioners report he seemed most eager to encourage more snooping under RIPA.
I wonder if the cabal behind May will help her writer her answers or will they just let her sink and wait for the next sock puppet Home Secretary to come along to "brief" into submission.
Yes that sounds about right.
Lots of downside from higher initial costs and likely more batteries needing to be replaced to multiple security holes and reload procedures.
Upside.
Looks pretty.
Allegedly more convenient.
BTW I've been seen stories about spread spectrum light switches in PopSci dating from the 80's.
That's 30 years and counting.
"The "deep" bit of "deep learning" normally refers to the fact that you have multiple layers of neurons between input and output."
Pretty much what I thought.
I'm aware there is a step change between 1 layer and multilayer NN's
But I'm not sure what it results in could be called "deep" in the sense of understanding
Enquiring minds.
If the exact details of the Stellarator path are critical to its function I'm not surprised it didn't work in the 1960's.
Wheather it's "better" will remain to be seen.
It's certainly cheaper than ITER.
Or does it in fact have no idea how much overdue and/or over budget it's going to be?
BTW Due to the nature of government (Budget, Statutory Instruments etc) any government specific system should have flexibility built into it from day 1 because in government things always change.
IE scheduling rules in files, not hard coded into the software.
In a word. No.
So far they've got 4 flights which are basically Orion shakedowns with maybe an asteroid meeting
the whole lot (including the preeeding CxP) programme currently probably tops $20Bn with 1 launch (that of the Ares 1x upgraded SRB + dummy 2nd stage) to show for it.
Sickle cell is an interesting philosophical one for gene therapy as a radical interpretation (the sort of thing usually promoted by people who don't have it) is that it could be depriving people of African origin of their genetic heritage.
From my awareness of the symptoms I think most sufferers of the condition would say "F**k that, I've never been to Africa." Then again maybe some people might feel that life threatening (and often extremely painful) random blood clots are their birthright.
Now things get very murky if someone says "I'd like my sickle cell gene to be enhanced to give me the Malerial resistance without the random blood clots."
Another interesting one (courtesy of Vernor Vinge) would be if you could have the obsessive focus of autism on demand? Controllable by you and capable of being turned off.
I think most genetic diseases are just that. Defects that most people would want removed from their genome.
But such choices will come.
This is what she produces.
1 "sort of" terrorist
1 already known paedo buying it from a web site.
This is it.
This is the best she can come up with justify universal data collection of every email, txt and web site's meta data (where "meta data" includes a shedload of stuff like user passwords) visit in the UK
Lame.
It would seem the civil servants contempt for parliament has rubbed off on her.
You're not thinking like a data fetishist.
To these people there are no innocent people.
Only ones they haven't found something out about that can be used.
No that doesn't make sense to a normal person.
But these people are not normal.
Seriously.
No one thought this would be a problem?
In other shocking new water is wet.
I don't think that most people should be surprised an awful lot of routine stuff can be done on a thin client and in an ideal world would be.
Including most of senior managements.
Getting senior management to accept that is of course another matter.
From the head of MS Developer Studio.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
"..optimised for reducing Mean Time To Market" maybe
"..optimised for getting developers hooked on cheap tools that are inadequate for large scale development definitely
Yes, I think I'm starting to calibrate my DevOp BS detector quite well.
But they don't.
The "Advisors" they get from the big 5 UK accountancy firms do that when they are "revising" those laws.
I'd guess the same "advisors" advise on the chances of prosecutions of large tax dodgers avoiders being successful.
Surprise.
They don't think the chances of a successful prosecution are usually very high.
Surprise.
The rules are complex.
And when they go back to the firms they advise their clients on the "latest" rules they have helped draft.
Can you say "conflict of interest"?
Senior HMRC officials were (and AFAIK still are) rated up for the "good" working relationship they have with "clients."*
*Because at this level they are not mere "tax payers."
"Actually this sort of thing exists in Clang, it will say this is a better ways to do it, and can in some cases rewrite the source code for you. "
My point was that while making it easier to write the next generation of code is good most of the grief is being caused by problems in existing code, which really needs some tools to run over it to find (and maybe fix) issues.
We've seen issues with code that's been open source for twenty years and no one spotted a bug which was likely found by the NSA sometime in the mid 90's.
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