The Aaron Swartz Story is quickly becoming some new kind of Godwin's Law.

Yes, it was a horrible tragedy that everyone involved probably wishes they could do over again. No, it has nothing to do with this case.

The Brazil rat didn't "know" to communicate signals. The US rat didn't "read" the mind of the Brazil rat.

Here's how it works.

There is a recording electrode in Brazil Rat's head. It passively records the activity from a region of the brain involved in the task. There is a stimulating electrode in US Rat's head. It passively replays the activity that was recorded from Brazil Rat's head.

The control condition in this case is what happens to the US Rat's choice behavior when they shut off the stimulating electrode.

Make more sense now?

Why does this insanity continued to be repeated on Slashdot?

Resolutions were passed authorizing the use of force. Congress has authorized vast sums of money to wage war. Politicians in both parties have acknowledged that we are at war. Personally, I'm not particularly happy that we went to war, but it's pretty clear that we did so.

Version diversity isn't the only kind. Implementation and hardware diversity matters too - for instance, I've run into a crash bug when attempting to start a new Activity from within a TabHost that only occurs on Galaxy S devices. That sort of thing is really incredibly frustrating, and makes QA far more of a pain in the ass than it should be.

Apparently the Libertarian Party had ballot access in almost every state in 2008, and I assume the same will be true this year.

http://www.lp.org/ballot-access

Take a look at the benchmarks. The FX-8150 really doesn't come out looking good against the 2500k, much less against the i7-980.

The sensor is 41mp. They're subsampling, not supersampling; generating a (supposedly) superior 5/8mp image from an original, potentially fairly noisy but high-detail, 41mp image.

And they still sell Power7 with 8 cores and issuing 6 instructions per cycle at 4GHz+. They're obscenely fast, but they're also not cheap unless you're comparing them to Itanium, SPARC, or Intel's -EX series Xeons.

Bulldozer - their current architecture - was really bad. Slow, mediocre price/performance ratio, and power-hungry. It remains to be seen if Piledriver can make it all better.

A company that fronts as an intelligence publisher... but is secretly an intelligence publisher? Oh, Associated Press, why you make no sense?

CTSS had email before UNIX did - 1964, if I recall.

No, you. The 96km is a mistake in the summary. The number in the article is 96,000km.

FMA is pretty much irrelevant for any of the above workloads.

Real-world benchmarks that aren't linpack. Video encoding. Games. OLTP and OLAP workloads, as tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL. Even the TPC-C results are pretty unimpressive.

You seem way too personally involved in this.

For specific workloads, Itanium is great. It can sustain 2 FP loads, 2 FP stores, and 2 FMA's in a cycle, which means for certain types of DSP-ish workloads, it has more performance per-cycle than just about any other mainstream CPU. It also has a very high-performance cache hierarchy, with massive blobs of SRAM and a low-latency L1 (one cycle to access.) The problem is that it's expensive, clocked low, and not really ideal for where it's marketed (the mission-critical enterprise server business.) It still has significant advantages over Xeon for some workloads, namely things that are highly cache-sensitive or that scale high enough where directory-based coherence is good to have.