Given that:
a. a mole of substance contains somewhere around 10^23 particles
b. 300 km between the source and the detector. Not to mention that the source is "Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo" (TFA), not exactly too far away from Fukushima
c. "neutrino beams" are hardly something actually possible
d. lots of other sources for neutrinos
odds of 10^-14 magnitude doesn't seem actually that low. But maybe I'm wrong.
It's not worth setting a precedent that we'll all analyze video for the police merely to get justice for a few totaled cars.
What would be next... going after perpetrators ourselves, arresting them, incarcerating them somewhere in our homes and feed them for years? (we're already paying for all of these in taxes... are they saying/admitting we are paying them for nothing?)
Similarly, people who have eBay stores "on the side" might not declare the income they make.
The way I know, eBay doesn't make public the identity of the seller, only the nickname. So, either I am wrong or eBay lets HMRC access to private information? Google too? Or what?
The decision to target cyberspace to hunt down those evading tax comes as HMRC continues its campaign to recover around £7 billion lost to the Treasury each year.
How do they know how much is "lost"? Is it "MAFIAA accounting - type" again? Or is it, somehow, a "corporate mission" in disguise for the "target-collection for the next FY. Guys, this is how much we need!"? Or what?
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Maybe I became too demanding now that I got old... (cranky?)
Matter less for old people: they are supposed to already have established themselves (so they do have time to whinge in/. "How's this new?")
For the younger generation, this matters more: they will need to know when, next year, they'll submit their resume to a job ad asking for "3 years+ experience in MS Visual AMP++".
This time, it wasn't them to start. To begin with, the "Microsoft Project Plan" was theirs long before the "Massive Parallel Processing" came into the picture.
(did I mention that I hate acronyms? Yes, I did... Oh, well, SNAFU... I'm still FUBAR)
Gosh, I came hate this acronymia that so endemic in IT.
In this context, AMP doesn't stand for amplifier, Adenosine monophosphate or Ampere, but for "Accelerated Massive Parallelism". Seems like a microsoftism for the more traditional term of "Massive Parallel Processing"
While I agree fully (hey, I was part of the old era of the different layers of hacking, most of us probably (hopefully?) were...)... I'm only worried about another revamp of the near totalitarian political shift that occurred back then due to the "anarchy".
Hmmm... how old? Because last time a counter-culture decided to "stick it to the man" was about half a century ago. And, after a while (with McCarthy and Nixon gone), it was better... for about 20 years.
It's not generally the offense that's the problem, it's the investigative techniques involved. Nobody had an issue with the NSA investigating terrorism, but most of us have a problem when they claim to need warrantless wiretaps and the CIA need for black sites to do interrogations.
And with these alreadyhappening, what exactly other liberties are lost?
[Only fools trust WSJ]... because it is owned by Newscorp ( Rupert Murdoch ).
So long as the disclosure of information is in the financial interests of Newcorp (or advances Newscorp's march towards world domination), you can trust Rupert with your life... until a higher bidder shows up
The "explanation" from "Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" (which is a different from the same author):
The image on the cover is M104: The Sombrero Galaxy. M104 is located in Virgo and is just under 30 million light-years from us. At it’s core is a supermassive black hole weighing in at about a billion solar masses. ...
The image of M104 on the cover is a combination of the famous visible light photograph from Hubble (right), and the recent infrared image from the Spitzer orbiting observatory (below, right). It’s the infrared image that clearly shows us the ring nature of the galaxy. In visible light we only see the front edge of the ring in silhouette. The central bulge obscures the rest of the ring. But in the infrared, the hot particles in the ring shine through the central bulge. The two images combined give us a view we’ve not seen before and imply that long ago it was a raging inferno of activity.
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what's the connection with fukashima?
Some good source of "rogue neutrinos", I guess.
a. a mole of substance contains somewhere around 10^23 particles
b. 300 km between the source and the detector. Not to mention that the source is "Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo" (TFA), not exactly too far away from Fukushima
c. "neutrino beams" are hardly something actually possible
d. lots of other sources for neutrinos
odds of 10^-14 magnitude doesn't seem actually that low. But maybe I'm wrong.
It's not worth setting a precedent that we'll all analyze video for the police merely to get justice for a few totaled cars.
What would be next... going after perpetrators ourselves, arresting them, incarcerating them somewhere in our homes and feed them for years? (we're already paying for all of these in taxes... are they saying/admitting we are paying them for nothing?)
Yes. Republicans are pro-rape. You hit it on the head. Congratulations.
And, in this case specifically... are they trying to protect raping the cows?
I find it more and more funny that a country which is known as 'the land of the free' sues everything and everybody ...
"The land of the free" is the world's leading jailer. So successful that the "jailing industry" needs now to rely on "imports"?
How long 'til what I wanted yesterday no longer represent an interest today?
Similarly, people who have eBay stores "on the side" might not declare the income they make.
The way I know, eBay doesn't make public the identity of the seller, only the nickname. So, either I am wrong or eBay lets HMRC access to private information? Google too? Or what?
The decision to target cyberspace to hunt down those evading tax comes as HMRC continues its campaign to recover around £7 billion lost to the Treasury each year.
How do they know how much is "lost"? Is it "MAFIAA accounting - type" again? Or is it, somehow, a "corporate mission" in disguise for the "target-collection for the next FY. Guys, this is how much we need!"? Or what? .
I think picking on the acronym is a nice way to sidestep talking about Microsoft actually doing something cool.
Sidestepping? Maybe... but I still hate acronyms.
Java is equally garbage.
Mm-yeeaah!... But, at least, it has a garbage collector. :)
If only it could collect itself.
You need something recursive for that: try Prolog and/or the "GNU's not UNIX" toolset :)
Because "CUDA" and "GPGPU" are such obvious bits of terminology ... ?
BOHICA!
(may I hate you too, along with all the acronyms?)
Haskell? So '90... but newer than C++ anyway?
Java is equally garbage.
Mm-yeeaah!... But, at least, it has a garbage collector. :)
Is this tech news? Things that matter?
Maybe I became too demanding now that I got old... (cranky?)
Matter less for old people: they are supposed to already have established themselves (so they do have time to whinge in /. "How's this new?")
For the younger generation, this matters more: they will need to know when, next year, they'll submit their resume to a job ad asking for "3 years+ experience in MS Visual AMP++".
Haven't you heard of AFT? Acronyms for techies?
Nope. Only "GNU's not Unix" ;)
For example, ".Net".
This time, it wasn't them to start. To begin with, the "Microsoft Project Plan" was theirs long before the "Massive Parallel Processing" came into the picture.
(did I mention that I hate acronyms? Yes, I did... Oh, well, SNAFU... I'm still FUBAR)
</lame_joke>
In this context, AMP doesn't stand for amplifier, Adenosine monophosphate or Ampere, but for "Accelerated Massive Parallelism". Seems like a microsoftism for the more traditional term of "Massive Parallel Processing"
While I agree fully (hey, I was part of the old era of the different layers of hacking, most of us probably (hopefully?) were...)... I'm only worried about another revamp of the near totalitarian political shift that occurred back then due to the "anarchy".
Hmmm... how old? Because last time a counter-culture decided to "stick it to the man" was about half a century ago. And, after a while (with McCarthy and Nixon gone), it was better... for about 20 years.
Magnets are the secret that power 4chan.
So secret that even they don't know how magnets work?
I'm just surprised these guys don't naturally just turn on each other over time.
Without any principles/program/ideology but "doing it for the lulz" (i.e. nothing to argue about), where's the motivation to turn each other?
It's not generally the offense that's the problem, it's the investigative techniques involved. Nobody had an issue with the NSA investigating terrorism, but most of us have a problem when they claim to need warrantless wiretaps and the CIA need for black sites to do interrogations.
And with these already happening, what exactly other liberties are lost?
to a bank that isn't completely corrupted by profiteering and shitty service.
Huh? Is there such a thing nowadays?
[Only fools trust WSJ] ... because it is owned by Newscorp ( Rupert Murdoch ).
So long as the disclosure of information is in the financial interests of Newcorp (or advances Newscorp's march towards world domination), you can trust Rupert with your life... until a higher bidder shows up
FTFY
Indeed...WOW!
Tell me again...what is the fscking point of Unity then!
To push you onto XCFE.
They managed to do it. My only regret: they should have done it earlier!
The image on the cover is M104: The Sombrero Galaxy. M104 is located in Virgo and is just under 30 million light-years from us. At it’s core is a supermassive black hole weighing in at about a billion solar masses.
...
The image of M104 on the cover is a combination of the famous visible light photograph from Hubble (right), and the recent infrared image from the Spitzer orbiting observatory (below, right). It’s the infrared image that clearly shows us the ring nature of the galaxy. In visible light we only see the front edge of the ring in silhouette. The central bulge obscures the rest of the ring. But in the infrared, the hot particles in the ring shine through the central bulge. The two images combined give us a view we’ve not seen before and imply that long ago it was a raging inferno of activity.
Tell us what you make of the above "explanation".