IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William in one of the country’s biggest tabloids, News of the World.
As Scotland Yard tracked Goodman and Mulcaire, the two men hacked into Prince Harry’s mobile-phone messages. On April 9, 2006, Goodman produced a follow-up article in News of the World about the apparent distress of Prince Harry’s girlfriend over the matter. Headlined “Chelsy Tears Strip Off Harry!” the piece quoted, verbatim, a voice mail Prince Harry had received from his brother teasing him about his predicament.
The palace was in an uproar, especially when it suspected that the two men were also listening to the voice mail of Prince William, the second in line to the throne
The ones in charge, Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, have known about this for years and approved of it. They are the ones who should be charged, not the pianists, i.e. the reporters. They did what they were told to do.
"When The Times reporters asked one veteran News of the World reporter how many people in the offices knew about the hacks, the reporter said “Everyone knew The office cat knew."
"Work on the Origin of Life is poised to converge onto a fourth phase and, many of us hope, success. The first phase concerned prebiotic synthesis of the small molecules, amino acids, nucleotides, lipids and others, essential for life and spanned some forty years. The second overlapping phase was inspired by the symmetric of the DNA or RNA double helix, presumed that life must necessarily be based on some form of template replication of one strand by ligation of free nucleotides to create the second strand, melting of the two strands and cycling again. Spearheaded by L. Orgel, but with many others, this effort has, to date, failed. The third phase begins with the discovery that RNA molecules can act as enzymes, and posited the RNA world, in which RNA molecules dominated. This has led to slightly successful efforts to evolve an RNA sequence able to template replicate itself. Current success is an evolved ribozyme able to do so for 14 nucleotides."
How can the Demaines not do better than those CERN guys, where "The author has gathered some 17 scientists from around the world to collaborate and compete with one another, CERN/LHC experiments style, in a generative scientific environment."? It was after all a folding competition, wasn't it...
The previously known distribution of the algae included the North Pacific (http://us.mirror.gbif.org/species/13292500, click the agreement), not southern oceans as claimed in the title
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/6/24/amd-insiders-speak-out-bapco-exit-is-an-excuse-for-poor-bulldozer-performance.aspx Following our coverage on AMD's exit from BAPCo and blog post made by Nigel Dessau, we got a surprising call from the person at the heart of AMD which we had to check out. After the end of an eye opening conversation, we started calling our sources in order to confirm if the claims made by an obviously disappointed engineer hold any substance. We talked to our usual sources inside the company, as well as with a number of sources at their key partners and customers. The odd part was that all of our contacts said the same thing - the story checks out. Thus, we bring you the modestly edited version of our conversation, filed with comments.
AMD's BAPCo Exit is a Smokescreen First and foremost, we started the discussion over the blog Nigel Dessau, AMD's Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer wrote, stating clear reasons why AMD decided to leave the BAPCo and why AMD considers SYSmark 2012 an invalid benchmark.
"When I read Nigel's blog and saw the press release from BAPCo it made me sick because our CMO talks about transparency and honesty and it's all smoke and mirrors. At the end of the day, we actively had internal teams and external organizations hired to promote/discredit SYSmark. Not because it was inaccurate, but because it is accurate. Back in the original Athlon 64 and Opteron days, when we were winning in SYSmark we were heavily promoting it in the public sector, who in turn used it as a benchmark on which they based many of their purchases on. It was us who actually got BAPCo and SYSmark inside several government tenders to win orders measured in tens of thousands of systems. SYSmark was used to show how our K8 processors were beating Intel's NetBurst."
Officially, AMD claims that the latest version of SYSmark, the just-released SYSmark 2012, fails to keep up with current computing trends and ignores the increasing role the GPU plays in computing tasks. Since AMD is trying to differentiate itself from Intel by boosting the GPU in its new chip designs, SYSmark’s reliance on just the CPU, in AMD’s opinion, doesn’t reflect everyday computing performance.
That’s the official word. But conspiracy theorists think there’s more to the story than just that. Most sensationally, Bright Side of News has run a piece with startling claims from “unnamed sources,” most notably that AMD decided to pull out of BAPCo because its forthcoming Bulldozer chips delivered underwhelming performance on SYSmark 2012, and that the company has spent resources toward surreptitiously undermining BAPCo through negative PR campaigns. According to the piece, AMD’s paranoia about SYSmark is related to the benchmark’s role in securing government contracts and the chip company’s fear that it won’t win new contracts with poor SYSmark 2012 results.
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Even if I prefer Fortran to C due to the ease of handling matrices, I haven't seen any case where Fortran is faster than C. Therefore "when the going get tough FORTRAN get going" cannot be due to speed. Or, any links to benchmarks to back it?
Huh?! You mean I missed out on "women's studies", or what? That has little to do with feminism, as far as I'm concerned. I've have studied several aspects of women, really penetrating the issue at hand, and have yet to see the connection with "feminism", or the entirely different subject "feminist research".
For me, "feminism", is fine if it relates to equal rights between genders, etc.
For me, "feminist research", is as bad as all forms of racism (anti-whites, anti-negroes, anti-semitism, anti--clowns, anti-nerds, anti-whatever) if it means that you allow yourself twisting the questions beforehand, distorting the presentation for your own needs, seducing your neighbor's niece, and ultimate brainfuck your conclusions so that W.A.S.P. are bad people.
I salute well performed research, but ill-conceived fucked-up research with a political agenda should be fucked, brutally.
That does NOT mean that ill-conceived fucked-up researchers with a political agenda should be fucked, brutally; just their research, in printing.
Slashdot Mirror
Those morons were never in charge or paid by Murdoch to commit crime.
They were not even aware that they were witnesses to crimes, repeatedly.
Thanks for the report!
Shuttles always give me tears and goosebumps.
Can't help it.
Published: September 1, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html
IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories that began appearing about Prince William in one of the country’s biggest tabloids, News of the World.
As Scotland Yard tracked Goodman and Mulcaire, the two men hacked into Prince Harry’s mobile-phone messages. On April 9, 2006, Goodman produced a follow-up article in News of the World about the apparent distress of Prince Harry’s girlfriend over the matter. Headlined “Chelsy Tears Strip Off Harry!” the piece quoted, verbatim, a voice mail Prince Harry had received from his brother teasing him about his predicament.
The palace was in an uproar, especially when it suspected that the two men were also listening to the voice mail of Prince William, the second in line to the throne
The ones in charge, Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, have known about this for years and approved of it. They are the ones who should be charged, not the pianists, i.e. the reporters. They did what they were told to do.
Read more at http://www.observer.com/2010/media/new-york-times-goes-after-murdoch-and-news-world-phone-hacking-scandal
"When The Times reporters asked one veteran News of the World reporter how many people in the offices knew about the hacks, the reporter said “Everyone knew The office cat knew."
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/europe/12hacking.html?_r=1&ref=world
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/world/europe/11britain.html?ref=world
The evidence is there, and everywhere, Murdoch and Brooks are scum.
Huh? Different faces?
Laplace's demon, Omega, or Les? From my reading this million node supercomputer will be Les.
But then it would be no challenge.
but www.3m.museum is free
The Demaine father (Martin) and son (Erik) are a very impressive couple.
I congratulate both of them.
Let me suggest that they tackle "The current status of work on the origin of life" http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=137302
"Work on the Origin of Life is poised to converge onto a fourth phase and, many of us hope, success. The first phase concerned prebiotic synthesis of the small molecules, amino acids, nucleotides, lipids and others, essential for life and spanned some forty years. The second overlapping phase was inspired by the symmetric of the DNA or RNA double helix, presumed that life must necessarily be based on some form of template replication of one strand by ligation of free nucleotides to create the second strand, melting of the two strands and cycling again. Spearheaded by L. Orgel, but with many others, this effort has, to date, failed. The third phase begins with the discovery that RNA molecules can act as enzymes, and posited the RNA world, in which RNA molecules dominated. This has led to slightly successful efforts to evolve an RNA sequence able to template replicate itself. Current success is an evolved ribozyme able to do so for 14 nucleotides."
How can the Demaines not do better than those CERN guys, where "The author has gathered some 17 scientists from around the world to collaborate and compete with one another, CERN/LHC experiments style, in a generative scientific environment."? It was after all a folding competition, wasn't it...
Hope they call it 3M instead of MMM (Manhattan Mathematics Museum).
The previously known distribution of the algae included the North Pacific (http://us.mirror.gbif.org/species/13292500, click the agreement), not southern oceans as claimed in the title
This Top500 comes in handy after these:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/6/24/amd-insiders-speak-out-bapco-exit-is-an-excuse-for-poor-bulldozer-performance.aspx
Following our coverage on AMD's exit from BAPCo and blog post made by Nigel Dessau, we got a surprising call from the person at the heart of AMD which we had to check out. After the end of an eye opening conversation, we started calling our sources in order to confirm if the claims made by an obviously disappointed engineer hold any substance. We talked to our usual sources inside the company, as well as with a number of sources at their key partners and customers. The odd part was that all of our contacts said the same thing - the story checks out. Thus, we bring you the modestly edited version of our conversation, filed with comments.
AMD's BAPCo Exit is a Smokescreen
First and foremost, we started the discussion over the blog Nigel Dessau, AMD's Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer wrote, stating clear reasons why AMD decided to leave the BAPCo and why AMD considers SYSmark 2012 an invalid benchmark.
"When I read Nigel's blog and saw the press release from BAPCo it made me sick because our CMO talks about transparency and honesty and it's all smoke and mirrors. At the end of the day, we actively had internal teams and external organizations hired to promote/discredit SYSmark. Not because it was inaccurate, but because it is accurate. Back in the original Athlon 64 and Opteron days, when we were winning in SYSmark we were heavily promoting it in the public sector, who in turn used it as a benchmark on which they based many of their purchases on. It was us who actually got BAPCo and SYSmark inside several government tenders to win orders measured in tens of thousands of systems. SYSmark was used to show how our K8 processors were beating Intel's NetBurst."
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/why-did-amd-quit-bapco-board-poor-bulldozer-performance-on-sysmark-2012-or-intel-bias/6230
The latest dust-up in the AMD-versus-Intel never-ending conflict concerns BAPCo, a consortium of tech companies that releases a set of benchmarks, including, most importantly, SYSmark. This week, AMD quit the BAPCo board, and speculation over why has run rampant ever since.
Officially, AMD claims that the latest version of SYSmark, the just-released SYSmark 2012, fails to keep up with current computing trends and ignores the increasing role the GPU plays in computing tasks. Since AMD is trying to differentiate itself from Intel by boosting the GPU in its new chip designs, SYSmark’s reliance on just the CPU, in AMD’s opinion, doesn’t reflect everyday computing performance.
That’s the official word. But conspiracy theorists think there’s more to the story than just that. Most sensationally, Bright Side of News has run a piece with startling claims from “unnamed sources,” most notably that AMD decided to pull out of BAPCo because its forthcoming Bulldozer chips delivered underwhelming performance on SYSmark 2012, and that the company has spent resources toward surreptitiously undermining BAPCo through negative PR campaigns. According to the piece, AMD’s paranoia about SYSmark is related to the benchmark’s role in securing government contracts and the chip company’s fear that it won’t win new contracts with poor SYSmark 2012 results.
Coincidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
Brrr
Faster Linux adption, of course! :)
apt-get and aptitude users won't as they don't know how to use synaptic; at least I don't.
Where is the practical relevance?!
If done over a network I guess it would generate a kind of traffic no server could handle.
In forensics, yes. But where otherwise?!
Julian Assange still is in the UK, not in Sweden and definitely not in the US.
Wikileaks vs tv shack...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/10/29/intel_execs_outline_y2k_chip/
12 years of sarcasm!
Big deal...
Here is a plausible scheme
930 [Country] Taps Free Men To Rewrite Its Constitution
1900 [Country] Taps Newspapers To Rewrite Its Constitution
1920 [Country] Taps The Radio Show To Rewrite Its Constitution
1940 [Country] Taps Telephone Company To Rewrite Its Constitution
1960 [Country] Taps The TV Show To Rewrite Its Constitution
2010 [Country] Taps Internet Site To Rewrite Its Constitution
So, where is the relevant news?
I. Thou shalt win
Even if I prefer Fortran to C due to the ease of handling matrices, I haven't seen any case where Fortran is faster than C. Therefore "when the going get tough FORTRAN get going" cannot be due to speed. Or, any links to benchmarks to back it?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn != Cristiano Ronaldo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzuY5V_YUI
THIS is how to charm hotel maids :)
Does this mean that LA is or was a large red light district?
Botnet herder? Bah! Here is a pike herder.
Huh?! You mean I missed out on "women's studies", or what? That has little to do with feminism, as far as I'm concerned. I've have studied several aspects of women, really penetrating the issue at hand, and have yet to see the connection with "feminism", or the entirely different subject "feminist research".
For me, "feminism", is fine if it relates to equal rights between genders, etc.
For me, "feminist research", is as bad as all forms of racism (anti-whites, anti-negroes, anti-semitism, anti--clowns, anti-nerds, anti-whatever) if it means that you allow yourself twisting the questions beforehand, distorting the presentation for your own needs, seducing your neighbor's niece, and ultimate brainfuck your conclusions so that W.A.S.P. are bad people.
I salute well performed research, but ill-conceived fucked-up research with a political agenda should be fucked, brutally.
That does NOT mean that ill-conceived fucked-up researchers with a political agenda should be fucked, brutally; just their research, in printing.
Subtlety day?! Wasn't that, like last week or so?
Well, this flimsy plastic movie made by a bunch of fat dudes in Kentucky or wherever may still pack a punch. Never underestimate bad taste.
I will see it!