The information released is not "in the public domain". It might be publicly available but it remains classified and it's still a crime to discuss the contents. And yes, that's about a thousand kinds of absurd, but that's how classification works.
Seriously, fuck this guy. His next step since he can't get anyone to buy his product voluntarily will be to explain to some legislators over dinner (his treat) and maybe a round of golf (ditto) why it's a good idea for them to mandate it. One way or another, our boy Scotty gonna get paid.
Ralph Ellison's book is "Invisible Man". It's hard to take seriously the literary lamentations of someone who biffs something as basic as the titles of the books being lamented.
If the Cray architecture selected for Blue Waters is akin to that of Cielo then UIUC is going to rue -- RUE! -- the day they got in bed with these Cray con-men. The uptime and filesystem stability of Cielo is an absolute dog (as in, at least 2 FS rebuilds per week with data loss accompanying 2 in 5).
Well, that's just bullshit. Go play your children's games somewhere else. The Left has been howling with rage at Obama's civil liberties failures: continuation of Gitmo, expansion of the TSA, refusal to pursue prosecution of Bush torturers, etc.
The idea that a man's very name can be placed under legal protections this sweeping is utterly absurd and I think that's what has so many people in a tizzy.
I have no problem with laws allowing the Tolkien estate to prevent someone from publishing "Gutter Sluts by JRR Tolkien" and using the 4-letter symbol on the cover. Being able to deny someone the privilege of even USING the name in another context? That's wack, yo.
For what it's worth, when I clicked "Submit" the site was reporting exactly zero comments on the article. 20 minutes after, it was still reporting exactly zero comments. All I can figure is the site is suffering from the Self Effect.
The dogma of the Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with the Virgin Birth of Christ. The Immaculate Conception was the conception of Mary without the taint of Original Sin.
We have a tendency to anthropomorphize our gadgets, especially gadgets that move around and do stuff. How many times have we read about "the plucky rover" or "the rover that wouldn't quit" or "the rover that slept with my now-ex-girlfriend, the whore" ?
They're machines. They were designed to do a job for a specific period of time with the expectation that we'd continue to use them until they finally broke down. Spirit has pretty much broken down. It's been a great run and we've gotten a shit-ton of data from it, but it's time to hit the Off switch and release the staff to other projects... like prepping for the next rover mission.
Apparently someone forgot to tell NASA that they're a government agency and not some kind of mass-media Nielsen-dependent agency that relies on "scoops" and "special announcements". When they find something, they should announce it immediately. Suppose they'd found these tapes on July 21...would they have thought it appropriate to sit on them until July 20, 2019, just to have something special to go with the 50th anniversary?
It's a funny thing...these little machines have done the job they were designed and built to do, done it well, and while I know they're expensive versions of RC cars, there's a part of me that will be sad when they stop working.
"does Title IX block men from sports so they can fill those same slots with whatever women they can come up with?"
To some degree it does. If a school has a disproportionate number of men's sports then it's not uncommon for them to eliminate those programs to get the numbers in line with IX requirements. The men's swim team was disbanded at my alma mater for this reason.
As a software developer who's worked on the Lab's previous ASC machines (Blue Mountain, Q, Lightning) I can say that once the calculation is run to get a machine atop Jack Dongarra's gee-golly list, it's partitioned, segmented, divided, and subjected to such crappy resource management that if I could trade the entire machine for a pair of coupled 8-core Mac Pros I'd do it in a heartbeat.
The real PITA with these machines is that the powers that be are trying to kill two birds with one stone: they want an R&D platform for advanced computing, but they also want to certify an aging and untestable nuclear stockpile. That rather requires a fairly static platform, and so far our experience with ASC has been that when a machine hits that sweet state, they yank it and give us the next one.
"The problem with calling people out on their unconscious racism is that they often react defensively (and sometimes violently) [...] I am annoyed by your attack against the *possibility* such a remark might be motivated and licensed by racial ignorance."
The reason people react defensively when called out on their "unconscious racism" is because the term is meaningless but still offensive. To be a racist or a sexist or some other -ist requires an actively discriminatory state of mind in which the thinker attributes inferiority to someone else for some reason or another. Is "Chinaman" offensive? Sure, to a lot of people, and some of those who use the word know that and are indeed racist. Others, though, use it because it's an old-timey word like "Hottentot" or "Watusi" and they are ignorant of its impact.
And therein lies the rub. If you call someone who is ignorant ignorant, he might get a bit miffed but will likely respond well to further explanation as to why words like "Chinaman" aren't kosher. Er, cricket. Um, acceptable. If you call the same person a racist, even an "unconscious racist", he's going to get angry and he's going to stop listening to you because you have leveled a false charge at him.
If I might paraphrase an applicable line, never attribute to an -ism what can better be attributed to ignorance.
Thank you for your time, and we now return you to your regularly-scheduled discussion of the earth-shaking relevance of a tech company going under.
Languages going extinct just means it's more likely that any two people can communicate with one another, and communication is Good. Animals going extinct...that's alarming.
Nonsense. Safety analysis of multiple weapons in an accident scenario has been part and parcel of nuclear safety since nukes got small enough to put more than one on a delivery vehicle. I spent the first 8 years of my career at Los Alamos doing just that. What Tom Clancy novel did you get your assertion from?
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The information released is not "in the public domain". It might be publicly available but it remains classified and it's still a crime to discuss the contents. And yes, that's about a thousand kinds of absurd, but that's how classification works.
Got it in two.
Seriously, fuck this guy. His next step since he can't get anyone to buy his product voluntarily will be to explain to some legislators over dinner (his treat) and maybe a round of golf (ditto) why it's a good idea for them to mandate it. One way or another, our boy Scotty gonna get paid.
Ralph Ellison's book is "Invisible Man". It's hard to take seriously the literary lamentations of someone who biffs something as basic as the titles of the books being lamented.
"You can have my DNA when you suck it out of my dick."
Schneier will _not_ be testifying. Sorry, nerdlingers.
We were notified last week that Those Who Run The Machine are throwing in the towel on Panasas and are securing a Lustre-based farm for Cielo.
If the Cray architecture selected for Blue Waters is akin to that of Cielo then UIUC is going to rue -- RUE! -- the day they got in bed with these Cray con-men. The uptime and filesystem stability of Cielo is an absolute dog (as in, at least 2 FS rebuilds per week with data loss accompanying 2 in 5).
Well, that's just bullshit. Go play your children's games somewhere else. The Left has been howling with rage at Obama's civil liberties failures: continuation of Gitmo, expansion of the TSA, refusal to pursue prosecution of Bush torturers, etc.
The idea that a man's very name can be placed under legal protections this sweeping is utterly absurd and I think that's what has so many people in a tizzy.
I have no problem with laws allowing the Tolkien estate to prevent someone from publishing "Gutter Sluts by JRR Tolkien" and using the 4-letter symbol on the cover. Being able to deny someone the privilege of even USING the name in another context? That's wack, yo.
For what it's worth, when I clicked "Submit" the site was reporting exactly zero comments on the article. 20 minutes after, it was still reporting exactly zero comments. All I can figure is the site is suffering from the Self Effect.
The dogma of the Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with the Virgin Birth of Christ. The Immaculate Conception was the conception of Mary without the taint of Original Sin.
We have a tendency to anthropomorphize our gadgets, especially gadgets that move around and do stuff. How many times have we read about "the plucky rover" or "the rover that wouldn't quit" or "the rover that slept with my now-ex-girlfriend, the whore" ?
They're machines. They were designed to do a job for a specific period of time with the expectation that we'd continue to use them until they finally broke down. Spirit has pretty much broken down. It's been a great run and we've gotten a shit-ton of data from it, but it's time to hit the Off switch and release the staff to other projects ... like prepping for the next rover mission.
Came here for a Felice Landry reference. Leaving satisfied.
It sure is. Or something.
Apparently someone forgot to tell NASA that they're a government agency and not some kind of mass-media Nielsen-dependent agency that relies on "scoops" and "special announcements". When they find something, they should announce it immediately. Suppose they'd found these tapes on July 21...would they have thought it appropriate to sit on them until July 20, 2019, just to have something special to go with the 50th anniversary?
It's a funny thing...these little machines have done the job they were designed and built to do, done it well, and while I know they're expensive versions of RC cars, there's a part of me that will be sad when they stop working.
"does Title IX block men from sports so they can fill those same slots with whatever women they can come up with?"
To some degree it does. If a school has a disproportionate number of men's sports then it's not uncommon for them to eliminate those programs to get the numbers in line with IX requirements. The men's swim team was disbanded at my alma mater for this reason.
As a software developer who's worked on the Lab's previous ASC machines (Blue Mountain, Q, Lightning) I can say that once the calculation is run to get a machine atop Jack Dongarra's gee-golly list, it's partitioned, segmented, divided, and subjected to such crappy resource management that if I could trade the entire machine for a pair of coupled 8-core Mac Pros I'd do it in a heartbeat.
The real PITA with these machines is that the powers that be are trying to kill two birds with one stone: they want an R&D platform for advanced computing, but they also want to certify an aging and untestable nuclear stockpile. That rather requires a fairly static platform, and so far our experience with ASC has been that when a machine hits that sweet state, they yank it and give us the next one.
"The problem with calling people out on their unconscious racism is that they often react defensively (and sometimes violently) [...] I am annoyed by your attack against the *possibility* such a remark might be motivated and licensed by racial ignorance."
The reason people react defensively when called out on their "unconscious racism" is because the term is meaningless but still offensive. To be a racist or a sexist or some other -ist requires an actively discriminatory state of mind in which the thinker attributes inferiority to someone else for some reason or another. Is "Chinaman" offensive? Sure, to a lot of people, and some of those who use the word know that and are indeed racist. Others, though, use it because it's an old-timey word like "Hottentot" or "Watusi" and they are ignorant of its impact.
And therein lies the rub. If you call someone who is ignorant ignorant, he might get a bit miffed but will likely respond well to further explanation as to why words like "Chinaman" aren't kosher. Er, cricket. Um, acceptable. If you call the same person a racist, even an "unconscious racist", he's going to get angry and he's going to stop listening to you because you have leveled a false charge at him.
If I might paraphrase an applicable line, never attribute to an -ism what can better be attributed to ignorance.
Thank you for your time, and we now return you to your regularly-scheduled discussion of the earth-shaking relevance of a tech company going under.
Languages going extinct just means it's more likely that any two people can communicate with one another, and communication is Good. Animals going extinct...that's alarming.
Nonsense. Safety analysis of multiple weapons in an accident scenario has been part and parcel of nuclear safety since nukes got small enough to put more than one on a delivery vehicle. I spent the first 8 years of my career at Los Alamos doing just that. What Tom Clancy novel did you get your assertion from?
"My wife is an actress, and a very good one..."
Mine's not. Those orgasms are real, yo!
If a guy is worried about his project being perceived as a "looser", it's a loser.