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  1. Sorry, but performance bug is an euphemism for: the programmer has no idea what he is doing. It is one of the conditions for good programming, that the thing be computed efficiently, as efficiently as a good programmer can make it! If it is too slow, it is badly done! It is like saying we want buildings to stay upright! If the building implodes, it was badly constructed! Who wants to save whose neck on this one?

  2. Re:Conversely... on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    (am I wrong or this last idea is the typical matter for a Consortium?)

  3. Re:Conversely... on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Real problem is people with patents do not seem to UNDERSTAND what it is all about: they treat patents as a restriction on production and consumption instead of a freeing of the market, given a structure of payments to internalize externalities and grant incentives and prizes to innovation and some times to production (in addition to benefits). Teach this to the people who are holding and handling patents and it will go better for all! It is not correct to say: I want to make this but it has a patent and cannot... The right thing to say is: I want to make this but it has a patent and I have to pay... This may require more negotiation that normally implied in Capitalist markets... A solution would be to require patent owners to NOT engage in production of its patent product but to franchise (or better chosen term) to a ... of producers the actual production for the market. This would leverage the complain: I cannot make a profit after patents because all production players would be paying more or less the same rights and the patent owner would not be competing against his own interests by offering the same product, at the level of production it alone can produce, without the cost of patent rights.

  4. Re:In Other Words on No, We Probably Don't Live in a Computer Simulation, Says Physicist (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words? Somehow the Universe functions... and computers somehow also function in a way that makes things function, so it is only natural to ask whether the way the Universe functions is similar to a computer functioning making it function... and it does seem to be a correct relation in terms of... well, in terms of relations between such constructions as what we call physics and what computers can do and how they do it. Yes, it is annoying (not upsetting), that people fell quickly into the Universe is a Simulation, because a point of view of Physics in terms of only information is desirable, and is even Standard! Speed of light arguments ARE arguments about information communication, as a general example... And entropy is a shared concept also. So it is no the Universal Simulation but the Universal Emulation and the thing emulated IS the emulator itself and can be treated in those terms up to some point... or deeply. That is the research due. Discussing this is complex, we give away too much in the implied semantic of common terms when the task is to define basic terms and avoid tautologies and logical vices. The Statement: there is no better model of X than X itself should be accepted as an Axiom and even a statement of Principle for this kind of disquisitions. Someone should start doing the math, in fact... 3:-{D3

  5. Re:Sounds about right on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Aaah... but all these people bought the Chinese method and learnt what it means to want to be and live like they were Africans and now only live for their sband or disband making them even more miserable because they have the hope of living without voices at the expense of getting rid of babies, money, anything mentioned in their schizophrenia and basically all people who tune well to them, abstaining of places, eating bad food, wanting descerebration, wanting to know not wanting to know who is what name and whether they... AFTER, their expectation of having found something useful and life vital are broken because they were NOT the person they think and they got nothing off it but STILL lived it and will keep talking about it ... and with no end in sight because sband they do not understand means exactly the same as the killer of Phnom Penh but they believe it is like a movement and the best they can do is DENY IT ALL, SAY IT ALL BACKWARDS, SAY NO, DEFIND HUMAN AS REPTILE OR INSECT for reasons they do not understand and do not dare brake, hearing threats the whole day, etc. Do they still think about happiness? NO. Basically it seems all things giving happiness have been forbidden or are in the process of being denigrated and destroyed, including radio, TV, videogames, good coffee, clean beer... What did you expect? This comes after the Monitor announced Norway is the champion in happiness. If you cannot find info on the killer of Phnom Penh it is but an example of the atmosphere, lest people do understand what is sband...

  6. Re: Chain of 6 Exploits on Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    (It is not that they are written by Humans but that we cannot test combinatorial explosions and only hope for some proven bounds to go by; this would be true of automatically written systems also unless you do have the time and not the profit incentive to go through an infinite series of chains...)

  7. Re:Do security researchers trust those laptops? on Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    But, new or stolen laptops? It is not the same... I am waiting for policemen to recover the ELEVEN laptops that have been stolen from me in the prime of their system life, (oh, one mummy, one baby and two in their second infancy). I wonder if any of these guys had anything to do with it...? Fluorescence? I do have some trouble from time to time with screen brightness as of lately.

  8. Re:Have fun with those Pwn points! on Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to sell it in a malware, antivirus, computer health, application and fill people with lots of popups and aggressive advertisement in downloads and fringe sites so people with such problems... (?) Anyway, the real solution is patching or versioning the underlying software and that is something OEM vendors are supposed to do, not just any company.

  9. I have a right to be remembered also! on NY Bill Would Require Removal of Inaccurate, Irrelevant Or Excessive Statements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which may be one reason so many people get here to write and even protect their pseudonyms and nicknames, or use their names. It would be much better to leave it as it is: one individual vs another individual on case by case as a civil matter. Why? Because it can become asymmetric, confusing and abused! See that whoever CANNOT write can bring down anyone who does write and force erasure? Which cannot be done with books that directly, incidentally. And people do get confused and self imply! See that eventually all themes stop being of public interest because the public lost interest and would say so even if it IS public interest. I would see suspicious whoever want someone else to erase something about them, unless of course it is a blatant lie. Or they cannot live with a polemic?

  10. Re:It's all a simulation on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Lazy evaluation implies homogeneous?

  11. Re:How does this affect me on Astronomers Find Star Orbiting a Black Hole At 1 Percent the Speed of Light (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the TOKEN act what matters. A dispute with Mexico over immigration is affecting research funding some way. It is not good when the mass will only understand RESEARCH BUDGET CUTS. Though it could be media that is not fully professional on this, and why am I making this comment in a thread for astrophysics?

  12. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    What about sending these ADA guys back to India and other jungle countries like any sensible folk caring for himself would do? Do you try to instill some kind of folk solidarity among US? Sloped down walkboard corners is a good idea, but how many people do you see around in wheelchairs? I only find mutilated Africans and some very few old men who will not travel far. Who had this disabilities act idea? Does it provide compensation for being forced to witness mutilations and gather with very disabled people? Someone brain disabled found a way to use it creatively and have a nice revenge on normal people, the majority in fact, (hopefully). Where does it come next? Windows banned because the start page is not ADA compliant? Etc.

  13. Hotly inspired a few days ago?

  14. Re: That's not a 3d printed house on 3D-Printed House Constructed On-Site In One Day (treehugger.com) · · Score: 1

    That statement is NOT true. Unfortunately. Lots of Users do get the wine to the head when they learn to click a one thumb computer and do some reading and that is all.

  15. Re:Bill Gates: Serious interest in technology? on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I already commented in a previous thread, but anyway... Seems you can lump it into capital investment taxes. But! should there be, say, Japanese opposition to the use of Robots in the USA and the Occidental world (because they want to differentiate as a follower by claiming it was them who invented robots, not Occident), it would be positive as Government would have to get an accountancy on robots in se. It would be tantamount to a SECURITY tax, pay for your safety (we will only provide standard national security and so sorry if you cannot get robots/lost all your robots/did not let you use robots barf barf barf).

  16. ...is that it was not seizing but theft, it was computers and cards and were just taken without any warrant nor any indication it was some authority, which can of course be accessed formally and keeps matters public if need be. And is findable. And no, I would not erase my computers nor cards nor drives, the photos are to be followed according to the meaning I can give them. Some, most of them even. So the implication is that these people heard of THIS case and are mimicking. False news? Could be. That neither computers nor cards were, are, in my possession is what was not seizing but theft, and does turn the thieves into my almost something! I ve seen that trick before, Lump Together, they are all a group and... the tactic is African in essence. So now leads trail somewhere else, and my case? Confused with this one. So may be playacting or really enacting or trying to find WHO to **make the rumor** real, which is a technique of displacement. No doubt this theft can even reach across continents, after all, it is the first time it is happening to Humanity, NEARLY ALL PICTURES TAKEN ARE IMPORTANT DESPITE THEIR OVERALL NUMBER. So what do they want to investigate? They will understand nothing without an ordering tool, most likely. This news should come with picture samples. There is style in Photography, no doubt. Consider any attack against pictures a Muslim inspired attack.

  17. It is an incentive to labour, jobs. You get a CAd genetic test for free!

  18. Re:move the PC to a virtual area on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    WHERE do you find an area with no signal? It happens this laptop has wider radio capabilities than wi fi and there is no interface to see what the laptop radio is saying over what frequency, other than conformant http protocols. The radio buttons never goes out but it was off when the laptop was brand new. The point is to be able to be online without danger, not to be completely isolated. Maybe Win 3.1 was fully isolated, but these new windows do not seem to be able to stop being in permanent conference.

  19. Re:Theory number one: on Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Many more Muslims and Africans and Indians, so you impose Islam four-no-more rule and ipso facto, less sex, less women, less Europeans, less babies, more men, army, less people and go live in a desert because in those conditions it works. This is mechanical, so it is the theory because it is how things work. The proof is by construction.

  20. Re:Potato growing conditions on Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You should sell the experimental case conditions box.

  21. Re:We know... on Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nope, more like putrescine.

  22. Re:We know... on Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    We ll send lots of Campesinos to grow potatoes on Mars... soon... Keep tuning?

  23. Re:Annealing again on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    (Simulated) Annealing is not only meant for optimization, it is a controlled cooling stabilization of a distribution to see what distributions remain as stable states in a lower T configuration. Evolution can be thought as a (simulated) annealing process, so it is interesting if they can achieve some emulation.

  24. Re:Quantum look like on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I do not think he had a real grasp of the mathematics implied, only of the Big Meaning architecture. But it makes me wonder if no one was already writing the Pyscho-history equations and did not say...

  25. Re:Round and round we go... hey! on Quantum Computer Learns To 'See' Trees (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    We are discovering planets outside the solar system and suddenly we need a real categorization for new types and anomalies we might find because now we can see longer and farther, so Pluto ended up not being classified as a planet. And it DOES have a Pluto (WD) face on it. Then what? You are supposed to entertain people on that while we get the pictures of future planets and moons at our disposal.