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At the last GECCO conference I saw a paper presented on the use of a genetic algorithm to speed up the simulation of certain chemical reactions:

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Google cache because the link is to a power point...

Basically, a multiobjective GA was used to find parameter sets for chemical simulation equations that increased the speed of those simulations by a factor of 10x-103x. (And were more accurate, to boot.) That enables the reaction models to be more complex and, as the presentation stated, "lead potentially to new drugs, new materials, fundamental understanding of complex chemical phenomena."

Cool stuff.

I'm just wondering if you've noticed but people who talk to you about this start off rational and nice, and then after 3 or 4 messages from you full of nothing but attacks and subtle (for a gorilla) insults of people's intelligence they get pissed and call you on being the bullshitter troll you are.

Yes yes, the democrats (who had gotten all their information PRE-exaggerated and PRE-cherrypicked) did vote for Bush to be able to go to war if needed. Funny, but you seem to have forgotten that Congress was reading the intelligence reports that had already been bastardized by the administration. There goes that selective memory you've been accusing others of.

I think your entire line of posts on this subject have been like the pot calling the tupperware black.

And don't go off on people providing sources of information, if you remember from out little thread a while back you didn't offer me ANYTHING but supposition and empty rhetoric.

And tell me, as a lightbulb factory worker, just how HAVE you become such an expert at what evidence is 'obvious' and which is of the 'tinfoil hat' variety? Does your association with luminescent devices make you think you're bright? (Even my trite little jabs are better than yours)

Yes yes, democrats (especialy those on the DLC) can be corrupt too, but you (should) know that that has nothing at all to do with the topic at hand.

As for your little "we have plans to attack britain, my mom's house and the keebler elves" or whoever it is you listed, did we have a plan to attack them at the earliest convenience? No? Oh, we didn't with Iraq either? http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmeric asDefenses.pdf says other wise... Here's a google PDF-HTML translation to be kind to your browser.
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ruMnHnl98cAJ: www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefen ses.pdf+PNAC+Rebuilding+America's+Defenses&hl=en&c t=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Please, PLEASE bring some sense and relevant facts to the table or just walk away.

Server isn't responding to me. So I ask google. cache

UbuntuDupe is a known forum troll.

I recalled a similar incident affecting the F-16 fighter. The story goes that the aircraft would flip over when it crossed over the equator into the southern hemisphere.

A little googling got me a couple of links that stated that the error only occurred in the simulator, before the actual aircraft encountered the bug. Given this history, the F-22's bug seems like a serious error in quality assurance. This F-16 bug is a part of quality assurance lore. It is hard to imagine that any manufacturer of aircraft navigation systems would not have test cases for this kind of thing. Perhaps they included the equator, but not date line. Even if there was not a test case for the date line it should have been caught in the simulator, just as the F-16 bug was.

Here's the link of a converted word doc referring to this problem from Google's cache. Perhaps someone else can find a better link or knows more of the story.
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:QMGHr9wm558J: www.cis.strath.ac.uk/teaching/ug/classes/52.422and rew/Introduction.safety.critical.systems.doc+F16+e quator+flip&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

Another serious failure to consider is the incredible investment of resources into production of this type of aircraft. This failure is one of imagination. The assumption is that we are not competent in coping with the world in a more skillful way than spending billions on this type of aircraft and contemplating using it. Our issues with North Korea are difficult, no doubt, but a military solution does not appear to exist - a least not one that have potentially grievous costs. Our (non-economic) issues with China seem to be generally limited to the status of Taiwan. Again a military solution would not be effective for the US. In the long run China can deploy a stronger military force in the region than we could ever. Given China's increase in military spending, the long term forces that may restrain China from forcibly controlling its "renegade province" must be diplomatic and economic. They would likely fear trade retaliation more than whatever military force that might be deployed there.

google has a cache. I'll fix that right away. You trolls are useful after all.

here is a quote from the net.. Can you figure out without hitting the link who it's referring to?For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HB_qxPVZ4AsJ: underthenews.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html+ snopes+ecology+irony+author+private+jet&hl=en&ct=c lnk&cd=1&gl=us

I'll share some of my past rants about floppies.

Here's one on Userfriendly.org.

A statement to be thankful it's going away.

I can't find all my old rants, they're not all indexed.

I've done my best to avoid putting them into newer systems with one exception, when building a computer for someone else I used to put 5.25" drives from the junk pile in just to be a jerk. They would ask me if they needed that drive. I would say no. They asked if it was good for anything, I would say no. They would ask why I put it in their system. I would say because I have extras. They would ask if I would take it out. I would say no. Hey, if I'm building them a free computer they can take what I give them, if they pay me I'll leave crap like that out.

IANAL...

But it doesnt matter as much if the actual illicit item/activity is not itself illicit, so long as your actions go to support only that they are illicit. By that I mean if you are caugh selling ziplock baggies of oregano, but are going around telling people its really pot, and charging like it is, they can arrest you for solicitation. Directly from a (googlecache) NY Bar Practice test, question/answer 2: "solicitation is the asking, inciting, or requesting that another commit a crime with specific intent that the crime be committed." By this reasoning, as long as you make the first contact to the undercover officer posing as a 13yo and are first to bring up meeting them or doing stuff with them thats illeagle if she really is 13, meaning they did not join the chat room and start talking to everyone in there about how they should meet her and do stuff even though shes only 13, etc, you are guilty of solicitation. You have asked the girl, posing or not, to perform an illeagle act with you, ie: statutory rape or contributing to the delinquency of a minor or any of a handfull of those "think of the children!!" laws that might apply. Your "roleplaying" excuse would only hold up if you specifically ask the girl if she was doing so, and confirm that she is really of-age (at which point she, as an under-cover, would probably stop talking to you or blow you off somehow and sit around and wait for another target).

As it applies to the MPAA's actions, they are trying to setup their own sting operation. By requesting an illeagle download, be it the real thing or something that just looks like an illeagle copy of a movie, you are guilty of solicitation. Their ground is a little more shaky though, since they themselves are not officers of the law, and by advertising the fact that they have said files available (by posting to trackers or whatever), they themselves become accomplices, which if you follow that practice exam I posted above, could get at least the MPAA's testimony based on their actions thrown out, or even get the whole case tossed. As I see it, the only way they would/should (who knows what they tell the judge) not be held as accomplices is if they put their files on their own torrent server and nowhere else. Like standing on a street corner posing as a prostitute. But, if they dont post to a tracker, or send out where their torrent site is, no one would know to go there. If they DO post or whatever, they are encouraging people to go there, similar to a prostitute holding a sign over her head advertising her services.

Tm

I recall seeing a story before, this one:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:0XUFkJuF1RsJ: p2pnet.net/index.php%3Fpage%3Dcomment%26story%3D51 85%26comment%3D15123+apple+tablet+nipper+patent&hl =en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

It seems to me Steve Jobs is in fact doing what that story author was ranting about. The Apple cell phone looks like the stuff talked about back in that story, with the exceptionb of being scaled down to a smaller form factor.

I wonder whether Jobs is in fact stealing from that person or whether he's really secretly working for Jobs?????

I'd say that Jobs is indeed tryimg to attack Microsoft, albeit from behind its new cell phone, which is just a thinly veiled pre-cursor to an Apple Tablet of some form and size. Testing the water perhaps to see what he can get away with, perhaps. Aren't you in enough trouble already Steve? You should be grateful you greased past those pesky Feds.

Tried to post the whole dialog, but slashdot considers it to be lame . . .

Google Cache:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:www.attrition .org/postal/z/033/0871.html

Wow...

The only six axes I know about are the kind you buy with a gun!
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:Olqst_zslZgJ: www.gutenberg.org/files/16349/16349.txt+%22six+axe s+and+a+gun%22

Hah! Yeah that's what I thought of too. I find it amusing is that the "came back to nwn after nwn2" thread over at bioware is five pages long. This on a game that was released in June, 2002. And they still have one more patch coming for it, which will hopefully have rideable horses. (registration required for that link, here's the google cache).