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Submission + - The first particle physics evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model?

Submitted by StartsWithABang
StartsWithABang writes: It’s the holy grail of modern particle physics: discovering the first smoking-gun, direct evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Sure, there are unanswered questions and unsolved puzzles, ranging from dark matter to the hierarchy problem to the strong-CP problem, but there’s no experimental result clubbing us over the head that can’t be explained with standard particle physics. That is, the physics of the Standard Model in the framework of quantum field theory. Or is there? Take a look at the evidence from the muon’s magnetic moment, and see what might be the future of physics!

Comment Re:Still... (Score 1) 193

by UnknownSoldier (#47714883) Attached to: C++14 Is Set In Stone

The 'x' in 0x stands for hexidecimal

I picked 'z' because:

a) it is not a hex digit
b) it close to x to type
c) it is a mnemonic for zero
d) it stands just enough out
e) it has an hint of symmetry about it -- z is the last character in the alphabet so using it for the lowest number base seems appropriate.

Considering some assemblers have used the dumb '%' percent sign to designate binary, having a consistent form with C's hex literal leaves a little choices:

Using a .. f is retarded because they are hex digits. 'x' is taken. Using I, L, O is dumb because lowercase they blend in.

That leaves: g, h, j, k, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, y , z

0g110101 looks dumb
0h110101 looks dumb, some languages use 'h' for hex
0j110101
0k110101
0m110101 blends in
0n110101 blends in
0p110101
0q110101
0r110101 blends in
0s110101
0t110101 blends in
0u110101 used for unsigned -- not appropiate
0v110101 maybe
0w110101 too verbose
0y110101 maybe
0z110101

So which symbol would you pick??

Comment Re:Shame (Score 0) 102

by UnknownSoldier (#47713337) Attached to: Interviews: Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Your Questions

Considering I am a rendering/optimization/UI expert working for a Fortune 50 company on R&D you tell me?

Without janitors to keep the place clean people would get sick. Everybody has their role to do a company -- no one is more important, or less important, for a company to function properly and efficiently.

Pro-Tip: Using an ad hominem just makes oneself look like a complete tool.

Here is some free advice:

"Better to remain silent and thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Now if you have something constructive to add to the discussion ...

Submission + - Gaming Journalism In Disarray

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The internet is awash with scandal today after accusations that game developer Zoey Quinn is exploiting the nepotism of the gaming industry by getting favourable coverage from people she has supposedly slept with. Garnering favours to push her game 'Depression Quest' through Steam's GreenLight platform, whilst attacking with DMCA takedown requests and legitimate female game developers.

Reddit is now also currently heavily censoring anything to do with the discussion thanks to her manipulation.

Whilst manipulation, corruption and illicit acts have corrupted old, mainstream media to the point that no one trusts it, are modern reporting methods and new media just as corruptible? Is Internet journalism at all trustworthy?

Submission + - Man arrested, strip-searched after photographing NYPD wins $125,000 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: Settlement comes weeks after a bystander's video captured NYPD chokehold arrest.

A New York man who claimed police arrested and strip-searched him after he photographed a stop-and-frisk of three African-American youths has settled his civil rights suit with the New York Police Department for $125,000.

The settlement, first reported Monday by the Daily News, comes weeks after the NYPD reminded its officers that it was legal to peacefully record police activity. That department-wide memo followed the videotaped NYPD arrest of a man who died after being subdued by a chokehold last month.
The NYPD settled with a man named Dick George, who alleged that while he was sitting in his parked car in Flatbush in 2012, he saw two NYPD officers get out of an unmarked car and perform what is known as a stop-and-frisk of three youths. George said he captured the search on his mobile phone. He claimed he went up to the youths and told them next time that happens to make sure they get the officers' badge numbers.

He said the two officers overheard his comments, followed him briefly in his vehicle and then arrested him for disorderly conduct—and strip-searched him at the station.

After being held for about an hour, he was released. He said he injured a knee during his arrest, and the cops erased his photographs from his mobile phone.

Comment Re:Where are my designated initializers? (Score 1) 193

by UnknownSoldier (#47704425) Attached to: C++14 Is Set In Stone

You want the committee to focus on practical problems?! LOL. You are more delusional then them! :-)

Recently they wanted to add a 2D graphics API to the language! Yeah, let's re-implement OpenGL ES.
http://developers.slashdot.org...

This is your typical design-by-committee of a "Solution looking for a Problem". God forbid we actually have _standardized_ pragmas like we do for OpenMP.

The committee has only one motivation:

  "Job security by obscurity."

C++ has a become a total cluster-fuck of over-engineering. It jumped the shark back in 2000 when they forgot the mantra of GOOD programming & design:

    Keep it simple, stupid!

D seems to clean up some of this crap but sadly it not properly supported across multiple platforms.

Submission + - Solar plant sets birds on fire as they fly overhead (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Elledan
Elledan writes: Federal investigators in California have requested that BrightSource — owner of thermal solar plants — halt the construction of more, even bigger plants until the impact of these plants on wildlife has been further investigated. The BrightSource solar plant in the Mojave Desert which was investigated reportedly kills between 1,000 and 28,000 birds a year with the concentrated solar energy from its 300,000 mirrors, charring and incinerating feathers of passing birds. This isn't the first report of negative environmental impact by this type of solar plant either.

Comment Re:Still... (Score 1) 193

by UnknownSoldier (#47704349) Attached to: C++14 Is Set In Stone

> Now, one interesting thing in C++14 is binary literals (using "0b" a la "0x" for hex).

Hey, it only took ~40 years for a C based language to add binary literals! (It will only take another 40 to standardize pragmas such as struct packing.)

Using 0b is dumb. They should of used a letter that isn't in hex, say 0z1101.

Using '_' would of been nice but the C++ community doesn't really have a fucking clue about solving real-world problems. Witness ...

Herb Sutter looking into adding Cario 2D into C++
"http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/01/04/2115249/cairo-2d-graphics-may-become-part-of-iso-c"

This is your typical design-by-committee of a "Solution looking for a Problem"

--
"One of my most painful programming memories was working on a professional C++ compiler. My colleagues used to joke:
There are 2 problems with C++: It's design, and implementation. "

Submission + - How patent trolls destroy innovation (vox.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: A new study by researchers at Harvard and the University of Texas provides some insight on this question. Drawing from data on litigation, R&D spending, and patent citations, the researchers find that firms that are forced to pay NPEs (either because they lost a lawsuit or settled out of court) dramatically reduce R&D spending: losing firms spent $211 million less on R&D, on average, than firms that won a lawsuit against a troll.

"After losing to NPEs, firms significantly reduce R&D spending — both projects inside the firm and acquiring innovative R&D outside the firm," the authors write. "Our evidence suggests that it really is the NPE litigation event that causes this decrease in innovation.

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