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DARPA Looks Beyond Moore's Law

ddtstudio writes "DARPA (the folks who brought you the Internet) is, according to eWeek, looking more than ten years down the road when, they say, chip makers are going to have to have totally new chip fabrication technologies. Quantum gates? Indium Phosphide? Let's keep in mind that Moore's Law was more an observation than a predictive law of nature, despite how people treat it that way."

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  1. I hereby predict by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Troll
    Human Brain Processors. Of course, we'll have to pick only the best, so no Slashdot editors.

    Example:
    10 GOTU 4o
    30 Re+URN; G0SUB 42
    40 Print "Welcom to Windoes!":PRINGT "JUS KIFFING! HAHAHA!"
    43 RUN
    50 REM Copyright SCO(TM)(R)(C) 2012, NOT! HAHAHAHA
    6o GOt0 14.3

    Hey, it's a joke! Relax - no angry human brains will be used either!

  2. Let's get them all out of the way... by ReluctantBadger · · Score: -1, Troll

    AUTO LAMENESS INSERTION

    • Ooooh, but does it run Linux?

    • I, for one, welcome our new DARPA overlords...

    • Bite my shiny metal ass!

    • I don't work for DARPA, you insensitive clod!

    • Did anyone else read that as *INSERT STUPID REMARK HERE* ??

    • Yeah, I'll send Darl $699

    • 3: Profit!!!

    • *sigh* blah blah boring drone etc blah

    • I know I'm going to lose karma for saying this, but...

    • Microsoft's security model blows goats...

    • In Soviet Russia, Moore's Law looks beyond DARPA!

    etc etc ad infinitum. You Slashbots can fucking SUCK IT like the little predictable unfunny bitches that you are.

    That will be all. I thank you.

  3. morons looking through phonIE scriptdead ?pr?.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ?firm? generated hypenosys/deception. no one is above the laws of humankind/nature.

    the greed/fear/ego based corepirate nazis must deny the existence of the genuine/unlimited power supply.

    moore about the creator's laws, & the real power, later.

    what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.

    fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right? .asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.

    what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?

    you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.

    they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.

    of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.

    that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.

    communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.

    you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.

    meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.

    don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.

    the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.

  4. bunghole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gnaa reccomends anuses cheeses

  5. morons WANdering whois really mynuts won? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    seems like there may have been a MiScouNT here?

    I'm glad that the majority of posters... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by bmajik (96670) <matt@mattevans.org>
    on Wednesday August 20, @05:07PM (#6748536)

    (http://www.mattevans.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 30, @09:12PM)

    are seeing this for what it is: "No big deal"

    This
    is NOT big brother. This is about building valuable meta information
    on top of usenet. Why ? Because one of the things MS heard long ago
    is that people liked linux because they could go to a newsgroup and get
    help with it, often from the people that wrote the component in
    question ? What did MS do ? They responded - MS employees now monitor
    the microsoft.public news groups. We respond to posts, try and solve
    problems for people, answer questions, debug code, etc etc. I myself
    can be found occasionally posting in the Visual Basic newsgruops (where
    we have lots and lots of non-full-time or beginning programmers that
    really need just a little bit of help to get them going).

    The
    people that _write_ the VB compiler are now monitoring VB newsgroups to
    try and help connect with real customers and to really understand how
    people use and dislike MS products.

    Managing and making sense
    out of the whole mess that is usenet is a nightmare, and MS Research is
    doing some good work in this area. MS has some internal software that
    treats usenet posts as "issues" and determines if they've been resolved
    or not, if they need followup, etc etc. One interesting thing we've
    found is taht there are many issues resolved by "the community", i.e.
    non-MS employees that are subject matter experts. I don't know the
    details on this but I think we make an effort to track who is and isn't
    a great contributor and maybe they get some sort of compensation or
    recognition or something.. like i said i don't know the details of that
    at all..

    In any case, the point of this usenet data mining is
    to try and analyze the incredibly huge sea of usenet. We want to
    figure out what kinds of problems people have, what people are causing
    noise, what people are really helping other, etc etc. There is no
    nefarious invasion of privacy here, the only thing that is analyzable
    is what people explicitly post to a public forum...

    Look at my
    userid - i was a slashdot reader long before i work where i currently
    do. Back then, the MS bashing and second guessing definitely took
    place, and i even participated. I'm still a slashdot reader but I do
    get awfully tired of the sheer volume and irrationality of negative-MS
    stuff that happens here.

    When I started at MS, I found out
    awfully fast that many of my arguments against MS were speculative, but
    mostly it was me being factually wrong and talking out of my ass. I
    remember in my original interviews i was trying to lecture an NT
    developer about how putting GDI in kernel for NT4 was stupid because it
    would lead to crashes. How pompous of me! It was something I read on
    some stupid website or industry rag. Later I found out (from reading
    Inside W2k -- excellent book) that it was irrelevant because if the
    session manager sees that the GDI user-land process exits /crashes for some reason, it reboots the box anyhow, i.e. a problem with GDI reboots the box either way.

    So
    after 8+ years of hating MS and talking out of my ass, followed by 3+
    years of working at MS and realizing how much i was talking out of my
    ass, I'm doing two things:

    1) talking out of my ass less
    2) telling others that are clearly talking out of their ass that they are doing so,