Comment Re:Question... (Score 1) 181
Most "common whores" would rather starve than to participate on evil of this magnitude.
Comment Re:It's called self-interest (Score 1) 181
They do not. Mathematicians have had constant good job opportunities for the past century or so and funding of basic research always was adequate. Sure, you do not get rich that way, but the argument that they somehow have to take the devil's money in order to not starve is completely bogus and ignores reality completely.
Comment Re:Shame on them (Score -1, Troll) 181
If the devil payed you to successfully research a method to eliminate poverty would you do take his money?
Most certainly not. There is always a hidden agenda and the evil of the outcome will always trump the apparent good. As we are seeing currently with the NSA.
Comment Re:Shame on them (Score 2, Insightful) 181
Work for the fascists, become a fascist yourself. There are times where you have to take a stand or become part of the forces of evil.
Comment And thereby they are just as guilty... (Score 1) 181
When the coming totalitarian, fascist regime is finally overthrown, mathematicians will be identified as a key group that helped to put them in power. Apparently, far too many of these people have no ethics at all and are willing to sell their honor and integrity for a steady meal-ticket.
Mathematicians Uncomfortable With Ties To NSA, But Not Pulling Back 181
An anonymous reader writes: When we talk about how the NSA operates, it's typically about the policymakers and what the agency should or should not do. It's worth remembering that the NSA is built upon the backs of world-class mathematicians, whom they aggressively recruit to make all their underlying surveillance technology work. A new piece in Science discusses how the relationship between mathematicians and the NSA has changed following the Snowden leaks (PDF). But as Peter Woit points out, these ethical conundrums are not actually spurring any change. This is perhaps due to the NSA's generous funding of mathematics-related research.
The article talks about the American Mathematical Society, which until recently was led by David Vogan: "...after all was said and done, no action was taken. Vogan describes a meeting about the matter last year with an AMS governing committee as 'terrible,' revealing little interest among the rest of the society's leadership in making a public statement about NSA's ethics, let alone cutting ties. Ordinary AMS members, by and large, feel the same way, adds Vogan, who this week is handing over the presidency to Robert Bryant, a mathematician at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. For now, U.S. mathematicians aren't willing to disown their shadowy but steadfast benefactor."
The article talks about the American Mathematical Society, which until recently was led by David Vogan: "...after all was said and done, no action was taken. Vogan describes a meeting about the matter last year with an AMS governing committee as 'terrible,' revealing little interest among the rest of the society's leadership in making a public statement about NSA's ethics, let alone cutting ties. Ordinary AMS members, by and large, feel the same way, adds Vogan, who this week is handing over the presidency to Robert Bryant, a mathematician at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. For now, U.S. mathematicians aren't willing to disown their shadowy but steadfast benefactor."
VirtualBox Development At a Standstill 288
jones_supa writes: Phoronix notes how it has been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the virtual machine software managed by Oracle. This comes while VMware is improving its products on all platforms, and KVM, Xen, Virt-Manager, and related Linux virtualization technologies continue to advance as well. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox? It has been said that there are only four paid developers left on the VirtualBox team at the company, which is not enough manpower to significantly advance such a complex piece of software. The v4.3 series has been receiving some maintenance updates during the last two years, but that's about it.
Comment Re:Positive pressure? (Score 1) 378
Your link is broken. But that does fit your general presentation.
Comment Re: Add noise (Score 1) 86
No, it does not even do that. It only weakens the signal.
Comment Re:Add noise (Score 1) 86
It is not. A Faraday cage is great for shielding a static E field (for this, it is perfect if made form a perfect conductor or you wait infinitely long), but it does exactly nothing for shielding the B part. Hence a Faraday cage _weakens_ electromagnetic radiation, but it does not block it completely. What you need is proper EM-shielding, which can be accomplished with any conducting material, but effect is dependent on thickness.
It is fascinating though that you think a Faraday cage would give you 100% reliable protection, when it does no such thing. This exemplifies the real problem with IT security: Too many people that think they know what they are talking about, when in fact they have no clue.
Comment Re:Positive pressure? (Score 1) 378
And hence the proposed solution does work even less. You seem to have completely missed what I was talking about and that the UEL is completely irrelevant for my argument. "WTF" indeed.
But you know, UEL 100% nonsense. Wikipedia seems to have copied a rather obvious error. Looking it up, it turns out to be 80...82% and that explains why it is used in this fashion: It has an extremely wide working range as a fuel-air explosive.
I do stand corrected on the UEL though, even if that has zero impact on my point and your claim is just as wrong.
Comment Re:For all of you USA haters out there: (Score 1) 378
Yea, like the US had the first _electronic_ computer. This is just some verbal trickery to obscure the fact that the US is not a technology-leader at all...
LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release 148
TechCurmudgeon sends word that LibreOffice 4.4 has been released. "The Document foundation announced availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on Thursday, which it says is the most beautiful version of the open source productivity suite yet. LibreOffice 4.4 also fixes some compatibility issues with files that are saved in Microsoft's OOXML formats. LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love," Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, who leads the design team for Libreoffice, said in a statement. LibreOffice 4.4 is currently available for Windows."
Comment Re: Positive pressure? (Score 1) 378
Oh? Ever saw an ATM crash and display a BSOD? Quite often these are industrial PCs and they cannot take much more temperature as the CPUs are the limiting factor these days. And the mechanics have an even worse high-temperature behavior. It is not that things immediately stop to work, it is that every 10C halves the lifetime of components, and ATMs are _expensive_.
Comment Re:Wont work around here... (Score 1) 378
In Europe, there was a ruling that withdrawals at the Bank's own ATMs must be free, as the Bank is the one owing you money and cannot charge for paying you back.
