Comment Re:Is this the 90s!? She's been trolling for years (Score 1) 376
I think Paglia may be an actual troll. Perhaps a troll doll in human's clothing.
I think Paglia may be an actual troll. Perhaps a troll doll in human's clothing.
Can you not conceive of a roaming consultant who does not wish to install his whole toolset on his client's machine?
Also, browser -> remote ssh server -> remote network is still more secure than local ssh -> remote network.
The story is really about a firm collecting information about the teenagers belonging to a "Skype Hand" -- a member of the secret society running a phone sex operation, with all participants being teenagers and all conversations happening over Skype. Once the firm finishes collecting information, it will distribute it to GOP congressmen.
I'm not looking for any such thing, because I know it can't exist. I'm pointing out the sloppy language of the report when it claims over unity return on energy invested. This language is every similar to the free energy nuts who would be looking for such a thing which cannot exist.
The report ignores the energy input of the sunlight. It may be economically sensible to ignore that, but on a thermodynamic level it's stupid.
From the PDF you yourself linked: "Of course, no algorithm using a bounded amount of memory can generate a nonrepeating sequence such as the digits of p indefinitely, so we have to allow arbitrary-precision arithmetic, or some other manifestation of dynamic memory allocation."
MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe
I understand what they mean, but it's a silly way to write it. Maybe Slashdot should have someone who edits submissions.
How would you revise it without adding anything?
Best I can come up with is
MIT, Caltech, and Harvard, as well as some European universities
As well as the resources it takes, in both CPU and storage, to compute pi out that far.
[If] you run Windows or OSX [at all], you're pretty much fucked.
FTFY.
The half-life of unusual British phrases in the US is less than 18 years.
would I even be visiting TIF's website anyway?
Indeed. A bicycle is never stable either (unless it's lying down).
And my brand new social network Rossy, not yet released, containing at present exactly one post which is not junk, has a S/N ratio of infinity.
So much for S/N as a metric.
"someday they will all be nuclear powers, and the art will become as formal and minor as flower arranging."
from "Black Easter", 1968
It's amazing. Just when I think Slashdot can't possibly find a subject I'm less interested in than Orbitz's decisions about what to promote to Mac users
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"