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  1. Re: Wikipedia ruined the internet on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

    You seem to think logic == reason. Silly.

    This fellow is either the best logician of that millenia or of all time. And he did demonstrate some logical problems in logic and i suppose you do not find it useful to notice.

  2. Re: How to store a YB on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Curiously in the labs there is this highly redundant DNA storage scheme. Sort of refrigerator size. Currently a YB of sd stick retail would be 10*27/10**9 or a million T$. Better called an exa $. Or a quintillian ion bucks.

  3. Re: No confirmation on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Oh my. I do not work at lhc and never have. I am not a scholar though i play one on Hulu. Everything i know i learned at slash U. No wonder you were pissy. I thought that since you were making an emotional argument i should try to make nice in spite of having a bad hair day trying to research something around a local instance of demographic pressure on a few hundred elk. Your nice noise cheers me. Thank you.

  4. Re: No confirmation on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    The big things in science last century was first that logic says math is not true and then we came up with computer modeling as a new kind of science. We have decided to ignore the first as best we can and on the second pretend we know how to do it correctly. What does this have NOT to do with with anything scientism? Still you are fundamentally correct. I have been puzzling over the relationship between addressable memory models and security vulnerabilities and the proposal to go to the 128 bit words because the numerical calculations are too flaky to be fully trusted depresses me. I really thought 64 bits should be enough for everyone. Sorry. I should know better. Have a great day.

  5. Re: No confirmation on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Maybe but you do so like to conflate difference experience. Somehow a computer model result is presented as the same as a bench experiment result. And if you are relying on flops because you have too many data points for your processor limits then big decimals are not very relevant. Indeed the thought becomes adding more bits to the processor word as in the case at CERN i referenced. In my world the models always support the funder's policy position. Hmm. Maybe it is different for you. Maybe you do live on Jupiter? Talk about off...planet.

  6. Re: No confirmation on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 0

    Idiot. Evidence is evidence. We have been using evidence since before we were human. Some kinds of evidence we chose to evaluate differently than others and the way we do this changes over time. Now a better way is to look at authority/experience interplay and way people balance that. Science socially comes up with some authority because of our experience with the expertness we get from controlled experiments as in physics.

    Kiddie, when I was young I was hand coding in assembler matrices of partial differential equations and the hot item was that we had some math to tell us when the rounding error made the results garbage. We still do not have that one really solved at LHC.

    Tell me again about evidence being evidence.

  7. Re: At this point, just take their territory from on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Democratically elected government? Do not think Godwin will protect you.

  8. falsification on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    Honest question. .3 to 4.6C over a long time predicted. What would falsify the prediction? What IS the prediction?

    is this for the time between now and 2114?
    if you measure the global temperature right now what are the error bounds?
    In the above what does "now" mean with respect to climate? Are we looking at a ten year average or what? If we look at an average of .003C a year increase this is not very impressive and need not be attributed to AWG. Similarly the sea rise prediction seems less than the average sea rise over the last 10k years. I pull a 100 m out of some old archeology.

    There is something particularly sad about lying when the truth is better. I suppose the sad is more about your audience but still.

  9. Re: Absolute attempt to copy Fluke's design. on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Pardon. You may be sincere in speaking to the only legitiment? Reason for trademarks but then maybe you are a useful idiot also. It is not very hard to go to the Web site of the trademark police and find a short tutorial. Impress us all by doing that.

  10. Re: Precisely how... on Shuttleworth Wants To Get Rid of Proprietary Firmware · · Score: 1

    Yah. But ARM has the little bit of cpu ram. Thus you start out without having to knowi anything about the busses like to the regular RAM. But there are specialized compilers for say AMD64 that produce programs that do not use RAM. But ...
    Grub2 just will not fit in the usual sized BIOS ROM. Mostly everything is easy quantity 1 plus some sort of trade offs in money and skill and time. Now go fix it quantity G this calendar year with everyone trying to stop you.

  11. Re: Alibaba and the thieves on Alibaba Confirms Plans To Offer IPO In US · · Score: 1

    I have an account on alibaba. You can order quantity 1. You can have it dropped shipped. Delivery time is reasonable. Your own logos if you want on box and carton. Preloaded software images. But suppose the manufacturer decides you are not going to be a repeat customer? Your product get picked from the floor sweepings. That way in the US also sometimes. Let us think a bit.

  12. Re: Don't they have to fly that thing around? on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    Ultracaps. A GF will replace my electric car battery nicely. This is off the shelf stuff. Energy to mass and energy to volume is little weak but it can discharge and recharge instantly. Powers the auto missile defense lasers too. Think of a beuwulf of those.

  13. How to store a YB on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

    YBs are an active element of public policy. A YM is sort of the size of the universe and at that size the cosmologist types have multiple definitions of distance. But a TM is about the size of the solar system. Pluto is about .6 TM out and Voyager 1 is about 18 TM out. The next star is about a PM out.

    If i buy high end SD cards and load them up with a YB then they will fit very comfortably in the space shuttle assembly building.

    i notice that people are talking about TB USB sticks.

  14. Re: Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    Let me add May 1942 at 13.18 %. I did look at your link and it is only annual summaries. So you go to "recently" rather than "since 1940". And maybe episode is an interesting word.

    So. Do you say the inflation rate in the US has not exceeded 13.1% on a common era calendar month basis since 1940 CE?

  15. Re: Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    How nice for you that definitions are so very real and you still get to chose the best one per the current dominate view. And you get to use the time period that you like some you like I guess you did not notice I specified a month rather than a year.

      As far as M1 a traditional view on inflation involves currency and M1 is currency and it went up 2.5% last week which I thought unexpected. This is actually the most interesting number round here because we have a convenient fiction of about 1.5% annual inflation and the two numbers conflict. We all know what is happening there if we open our eyes.
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  16. Re: Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    The first panacea for a mismanaged nation isÂof the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

    -- Ernest Hemingway

    Wolfram says you are wrong. Try 19.02% in April 1947.

    I know of four nice inflation rate definitions all repectable. Why do you cite to the lowest of the set? Aside from being wrong even then so it does not matter

    my initial assertion was because under Volcker the prime was above 20%. My designation was then rather common socially.

    But take a look at M1 change last week.

    For a bit of sanity:

  17. Re: Will we still talk ethernet over it? on Intel Rolling Out 800Gbps Cables This Year · · Score: 1

    Yah. I can have 100Mbs to my house right now off the shelf. Since the fiber is there I expect that if I am needy with deep pockets I can get 1Gbs. And I am sure there are lots of dark Fibre at the road so I can get 100Gbs with lots and lots of money and lots of lead time. So I need the right corporate configuration to get Internet2 to be friendly but that is more just more money plus mission commitment. But my desktop OS does not support ATM/SONET. :-)

    But let us have a little fun here. There are some little arty local nonprofits in my rural area. If the current tech was accessible the local kids could jam with people in Afghanistan and Argentina and with the associated video walls and sound systems the local audience would feel like everyone was in the same room.

    Do you want this?

  18. Re: Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    The Volcker hyperinflation. Get off my lawn kiddie. Though i suppose after that the definition of hyperinflation was changed. Or maybe the calendar.

  19. Re: You don't get how it works... on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    You seem a little too sane to be walking thru ./
    And I confess I have not trained recently on your skill set. Bye for now.

  20. acm on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    Acm student membership with the digital library option is $42 a year. This is golden for you as a student and you might do some profesional networking. If you can eventually grab the professional membership some people are impressible.

  21. Re: You don't get how it works... on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    Pooh. I was being fairly serious but a little too cryptic I suppose. I get tired of people running warfare using shills and trolls so everyone can know that my neighbor is more terrible that I am. The last straw was the "taken care of" threat in a parent.

    Looking harmless can be safe. Being the most terrible around can be safe. We have not decided which works better.

  22. Re: You don't get how it works... on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 1

    I enjoy the Mormons and i enjoyed Ender's Game. Oh. If I am inclined I can enjoy being more poly the thou. And I admire the author of Ender's game. Yah.

    Let us think for a bit. I think a bit of good sense is to be as nice to your OTHER as you can afford to be. Then your OTHER can maybe do something similar without worrying so much about being "dealt with".

  23. Re: no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    Relying on the jury system Is silly. First of all, the DA only wants a jury trial if it helps him get reelected. Otherwise it clogs up the underfunded court system. If you get there you really will get slammed if you try for jury nullification explicitly which is pretty much what one of the GGP thought was what he could rely upon. I suppose he looks like a solid upstanding sort. Probably can afford a good lawyer.

    oh well. I have read of a local case where a family was out camping and one of their nude kids ran through the camera frame. So they did get off eventually.

    Moving on. If you do refuse the plea bargain then when you are in court everyone is already mad at you because you are not playing by the rules. Now you get convicted. Better be deeply remorseful even if you were completely innocent.

    yet the above description may be the best system we are able to put together and defending it may prevent it from getting worse

  24. Re: magic on Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. And the SUSY model that is consistent with .... The null hypothesis

    I think I will submit a story

    SUSY is chopped up. Wait for it.

  25. Re: Lawsuit? on Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors · · Score: 1

    Check out openbsd policy on us citizen code contributions to the kernel or advice on where it might be safe to download code from. Years ago I thought this was just Theo being Theo. Send money.