Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

Simple - any deficit between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete will be surgically removed before you leave. Therefore, every time you go to the toilet, it's vitally important that you get a receipt.

Re: Of course there's a backup plan!

Jellied Eel, is that you?

Re: Ever

Bitcoin without SHA256 is not Bitcoin, and SHA256 is one of the algorithms to be deprecated. It's circumstantial evidence, but where cryptanalysis is concerned, that's the only evidence of compromise we're going to get until exploits go live.

Re: Wouldn't Trinity make it after the first three...?

Sadly <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Shot”>not true</a>. The only argument at the time was whether to use them as production allowed, or to save them up for use in Operation Downfall.

There were yield problems at the Hanford site due to the Wigner effect and excess ²⁴⁰Pu, but they were mostly in 1946 and eventually solved or worked around.

A medal for anyone who goes to court and proves that the transition from Win 10 to 11 fails the definition of upgrade.

Easy mistake to make. Don't beat yourself up about it.

Re: Battery?

Multiple layers of shielding? Probably asbestos and lead, just to be on the safe side.

Re: The UK, under that nice Mr Starmer, has this sussed

They wouldn't be wise to choose NZ for their hideout. They still believe in the rule of law over there. They also have some robust war crimes statutes, including extraterritoriality.

Rent seekers

IIRC, the substance of that argument was: since it costs money to effectively speak to the electorate, restraining election funding is a restraint on free speech. We can't have that, naturally... and so the rent-seekers didn't so much get their foot in the door as render it permanently open with a flamethrower.

So now everyone who already has a ridiculous amount money uses it to buy the next round of politicians of whatever party brand. Always with one condition: Thou shalt not stop us making money. Be it IT, energy, health care, housing... you name the field, if it's essential to survival or making a living, some billionaire oligarch is there behind the scenes with his hand in your pocket, charging you just to do what you need to survive, and at a rate that increases higher than the cost of production.

Five hundred years ago that was called feudalism.

Re: Warren's big mistake

petit malabsence, please.

Although more likely to be complex partial, in all likelihood.

Re: "Always keep a second passport"

Not to mention being very sure of what is in his tea.

All the letters are there

Oh no! You've unmasked the conspiracy! Microsoft Politico™.

Re: "The biggest trade item for all three countries is autos and auto parts."

And the Exxon Valdez.

Re: There's always one....they indeed walk among us!

Obligatory xkcd

Re: Seems something's semantic somewhere

And let's add to all of those good reasons for mistrust of this misfeature: it's an AI algorithm. Even it's authors can't be sure of its decision-making processes.

You tell me it's not going to slurp my confidential data, I say prove it.

Re: if you don't trust your government, then why do you live in that country?

For all that her other points are valid, MyffyW's 4th reason is the only one I need.

Everyone wishes for a world where police are unnecessary. The reality is I'm comforted by the knowledge that, since they are necessary, my country's police have been trained in the law, and in human rights law specifically. And that if I had a problem with the police, someone is watching them, too, a lawyer is on my side, and an impartial judge is no more than 24h away..

Everyone wishes for a world where spy agencies are unnecessary, but I'm comforted by the fact that my country's spy agencies publically encourage IT security, but they have no say in what I choose to do with the internet. And that they don't have close personal and political ties with my country's police.

Re: Hmm

60% might be a (bare) majority of the electorate but it's still a minority of Americans.

Turnouts in US elections are pitiful, especially for a nation that puts itself forward as an exemplar of democracy.

Re: "Qantas personnel in Sydney even requested removal of the report"

Fifteen years ago it absolutely would not have been the typical Qantas administrative response. Amazing how much damage a culture of no motivation but the dollar sign can to do an organisation once famous for its maintenance and safety record.

A software vendor has had a researcher's work withdrawn from publication because of a claim that their software was not validly licensed. The merits of the research remain unchanged. The ethics of the authors have been impugned and we don't have enough information to judge, because of the opacity of supposedly authoritative journals.

How do we know the software author's claim is valid, or straight defamation? Did the authors believe their own or their institution's licence was valid when they published? Has the publisher been threatened with legal action if they failed to impose the withdrawal? Is this a case of "nice research you're doing there, it would be a shame if anything happened to it"? Software vendors would have an interest in the chilling effect this would have on other authors, to make sure they pay, probably the expensive "you can be sure you publish academically if you've bought our premium edition" route.

Re: What does an NPU actually do?

Can't use it to render or ray trace spheroids, then.

If it was triggering the sensor, it was copper-plated steel.

Parting a fool from their money is distressingly easy. With the price of copper being what it is, the skill lies in minimising how much of your own money you use up doing it.

The dems are the party of pedophiles in the US

Only the Republican candidate had his photo taken with his arm around Jeffrey Epstein's shoulder.

Re: Do not press this button again

MAGIC o-- MORE MAGIC

Re: The Chessboard

2⁰+2¹+...+2ⁿ = 2ⁿ⁺¹-1

FTFY.

Re: (...) Flowers

The breakeven driving distance is between 26000 and 40000km, depending on what fraction of renewable energy makes up your supply.

Re: In other news: Quarter Pounders causing E. coli outbreak

They were out of covfefe

Re: Stuck...

Kuwait: stuck between Iraq and a hard place.

Re: Well done!

for those who fancy, the folks at the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) have a ZIP archive containing all 41,024,320 digits.

I hear the ZIP archive containing the base 2 representation is a bit smaller.

Again, a close reading of history needed to tease out the subtleties.

Finland was the only democracy to ally with Nazi Germany. They fought together to expel the Russians from (then) Finnish territory in Karelia.

Finland did not participate in Barbarossa and when the Siege of Leningrad was taking place Finnish armies stood at the border and kept watch. Given their proven ability to take on the Red Army, Finnish support at that phase of the war might have been the difference between Leningrad being held, and it falling... which might have been the difference between Moscow being held, and it falling.

When Germany started to lose, the equation quickly turned to one of land and money for peace.