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  1. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    Helicopters are sitting ducks for even low tech missiles.

  2. Re:meh on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    Just because we cannot see the internal degrees of freedom does not mean that they do not exist.

    If internal (hidden) degrees of freedom are impossible to detect then they are metaphysics and do not exist in the real world. If hidden degrees of freedom are merely impractical to detect, or beyond our science to detect, then they may exist. If hidden degrees of freedom have predictive value then they probably exist. However as of today, no theory relying on hidden degrees of freedom has shown any predictive value, in spite of huge numbers of research dollars having been tossed down that hole. Hidden degrees of freedom do exist in some form: they are the super massive black hole of science funding.

  3. Re:So when is information lost? on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    At some point an object make look as if it is moving away faster than light, meaning it is out of your light cone. You can still attempt to approach it and get closer to where it was but not where it is, but you'll never interact with it again.

    If an object is out of your light cone then you may not interact with it so it cannot appear to be moving away faster than light. Not only that (correct me if I am wrong please) the object always was out of your light cone, and you were never able to interact with it.

  4. Re:Why C on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    So why is the speed of light the limit?

    Figure that out and get a Nobel prize, never mind taking the crown for greatest thinker of all time. But you are unlikely to get there as an anonymous coward.

  5. Re:Why C on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    Good luck with your new theory.

  6. Re:This isn't the case in this universe on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    Because anything falling in takes infinite time to reach the event horizon, at which point they cannot exit (or, from our point of view, continue in) and are trapped on the event horizon and cannot be detected at all

    So from our point of view, all or nearly all the mass of a black hole exists at the event horizon? From our point of view, a particle or its remnants may approach the event horizon arbitrarily closely. What happens when the event horizon expands? Does the particle still take infinite time to reach the event horizon?

    IOW, doubting your assertion about infinite time.

  7. Re:Shoelaces CAPTCHA: exclude on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 2

    Thanks for clearing that up. I can get back to my facebook updates now.

  8. Re:PHP works well, if you know what you're doing. on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 3, Funny

    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.

  9. Re:Relevance? on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 2

    I would say that nodejs is now a better choice for anything that would be otherwise done with php.

  10. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    You don't need 283 A-10s to fight ISIS. It looks like the number engaged is more like 12. They are flying a lot of missions,but there aren't dozens of them doing it.

    Perhaps their should be.

    Choppers are more expensive to operate, less effective, and more vulnerable than A-10s.

  11. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    You just left a slime on the internet that won't wash off.

  12. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    We don't actually need several hundred A-10s because we don't have a hundred thousand guys in need of CAS in either sandbox anymore

    I'm not sure what planet you're living on. Not the same one as me. Two words: 1) Syria 2) Iraq

  13. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    Apple astroturfers with mod points churn my stomache.

  14. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 0

    The actual "exploit" is _bordering_ on the old school "look at all the horrible things you can do if you have root access" exploits as though root access itself is the exploit.

    Except for the fact that this does not need root access, did you actually read and understand this or did you just jump to Apple's defence?

    He just jumped to Apple's defence.

    Good, I don't see an issue with Apple users getting it in the nether hole because of blind fandom.

    I do have an issue with faithful Apple cultists abusing their moderating privileges

  15. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 0

    The actual "exploit" is _bordering_ on the old school "look at all the horrible things you can do if you have root access" exploits as though root access itself is the exploit.

    Except for the fact that this does not need root access, did you actually read and understand this or did you just jump to Apple's defence?

    He just jumped to Apple's defence.

    Good, I don't see an issue with Apple users getting it in the nether hole because of blind fandom.

  16. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apologist? It's a bug. Real one. Even some gurus are going to get stung by this one.

    And you greatly overstate the difficulty of joe dumbass user googling to find out how to allow non-apple apps.

    Apologist.

  17. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    Top-poster much?

  18. Obvious on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Psycho managers and back biting culture do not a happy engineer make.

  19. Interesting on Check Point Introduces New CPU-Level Threat Prevention · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Interesting. It should up the game for threat prevention, however it is a practical certainty that the black hats will learn from this technique in order to develop new and nastier exploits. If they have not already.

  20. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    Re drone, you're speaking my words back to me. Don't worry, the F-35 mafia will try to kill that too.

  21. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    I honestly have no fucking clue why they're doing this test. F-35 is not supposed to be the plane that flies into the teeth of the enemy's bnti-aircraft guns 50 ft from the infantry. That's supposed to be done by drones.

    Very simple. They need to kill any cost center that competes for funds with the infinite black hole that is the ongoing F-35 fiasco, and they need to kill every aircraft in any role that the F-35 (in some fat assed desk pilot's fevered imagination) might be able to perform, with the goal of proving the fiction that F-35 is a multi-role fighter. There's some truth to that: F-35 sucks equally badly at all known roles. Erm, well sorry, actually it sucks extra specially hard at some roles, most probably including CAS.

  22. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    I guess people will be interested in seeing F-35s at airshows ten years from now in the same way that they like to check out Edsels and wallow in that monumental fiasco. The A-10 on the other hand is likely to continue to be much loved even in its afterlife. CAS will increasingly be the domain of drones and those drones are likely to look an awful lot like A-10s. There, that's what my crystal ball says, next thing to do is wait ten years.

  23. Re:GPGPU on MIAOW Open Source GPU Debuts At Hot Chips · · Score: 1

    Open Source hardware designs might excite many more people if there were 3D printers that could output the result cost-effectively.

    Apparently, you do not have the slightest clue about ASICS or FPGAs.

  24. Re:So it's not unlimited, then... on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Correcting that: A contract is nothing more than a legally binding _promise_. All promises are agreements but not all agreements are promises. Your subscriber agreement is a promise that meets the legal definition of a contract.

  25. Re:So it's not unlimited, then... on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    I suspect that they throttle by simply dropping packets.