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Comment Re:Robyn Denholm... (Score 1) 125

Telsa

Did you mean Telstra or Tesla? This could get really confusing.

Easy to tell the difference, one is a large company producing inferior products to people who refuse to shop anywhere else... Oh wait, I haven't thought this through (not true, Telstra has become a competitive and reliable service provider since Sol Trujillo was outsted, maybe Denholm can turn it around for Tesla)

You've got to be fucking kidding? Telstra competitive and reliable.... please give me some of what you've been smoking.

Submission + - The First Climate Model Turns 50, And Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly (forbes.com) 2

Layzej writes: Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel looks at a climate model (MW67) published in 1967 and finds "50 years after their groundbreaking 1967 paper, the science can be robustly evaluated, and they got almost everything exactly right."

An analysis on the "Climate Graphs" blog shows exactly how close the prediction has proven to be: "The slope of the CO2-vs-temperature regression line in the 50 years of actual observations is 2.57, only slightly higher than MW67’s prediction of 2.36" They also note that "This is even more impressive when one considers that at the time MW67 was published, there had been no detectable warming in over two decades. Their predicted warming appeared to mark a radical change with the recent past:"

Submission + - One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week (vice.com)

SlaveToTheGrind writes: Bitcoin's incredible price run to break over $7,000 this year has sent its overall electricity consumption soaring, as people worldwide bring more energy-hungry computers online to mine the digital currency.

An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.

This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes.

Comment Re:The drug industry chasing $$... (Score 4, Informative) 125

Antidepressants block the absorption of serotonin in these organs as well, and the researchers warn that antidepressants could increase the risk of death by preventing multiple organs from functioning properly.

Is it just me? I find the whole idea of a pill curing depression rather strange. I think what we need is a more just society; a society that focuses less on material possessions or money but more on family -

  whatever that may mean to an individual.

Let's remember that there are communities on this planet where depression is an unknown, especially the so called third world nations, despite their popluation's daily struggle to survive.

Yes it is just you! Although it's true that unhappiness can be a byproduct of social ills it is profoundly ignorant of you to confuse this with clinical depression. The former might trigger an epsidoe of the latter but depression, anxiety, bipolar specturm disorders, schizophrenia and other mental disorders have a neurophysiological basis.

Also, please keep the tired trope about third world nations to yourself as there is no evedince whatsoever to support the conjecture. People in third world nations who suffer mental illness are generally shunned. Those that come to harm generally have their cause of death misattributed,

Comment Re:Programs?? (Score 1) 89

The first link looks like a mistake, it has nothing to do with HTML/CSS.

Then again the question: why do you post nonsense like this?

What real life problem would you implement on top of a (simulated) turing machine?

Can YOU (not one, *you*) implement the Leipnitz Formula to calculate PI with the Turing machine simulator of your first link?

Throwing around 'turing complete' on /. is completely meaningless.

The first post is definately not a mistake. It's the repo of code by the guy who figured out that it is turing complete.
In terms of what real life problems... well given that it is turing complete it could potentially be leveraged as a malware vector. That said, please refrain from putting words in my mouth: I was not making any claim as to usefulness, I was just responding to someone trying to be a smart arse.
Also, since when has throwing around _anything_ on slashdot not been completely meaningless?

Submission + - SPAM: Exploit Revealed For Remote Root Access Vulnerability Affecting Many Routers

Orome1 writes: Back in January 2013, researchers from application security services firm DefenseCode unearthed a remote root access vulnerability in the default installation of some Cisco Linksys (now Belkin) routers. The flaw was actually found in Broadcom’s UPnP implementation used in popular routers, and ultimately the researchers extended the list of vulnerable routers to encompass devices manufactured by the likes of ASUS, D-Link, Zyxel, US Robotics, TP-Link, Netgear, and others. Since there were millions of vulnerable devices out there, the researchers refrained from publishing the exploit they created for the flaw, but now, four years later, they’ve released their full research again, and this time they’ve also revealed the exploit.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Paying Customer Dragged from United Flight (nytimes.com) 7

LeftCoastThinker writes: United Airlines forcibly dragged a paying customer from a Chicago flight after overbooking it so that 4 United executives could board the flight to a corporate meeting. The actual violence was committed by a airport police officer who is now on leave.

Comment Re:ECC (Score 1) 264

No boot ROM means that a hardware device constructed from discrete logic and analog chips directly demodulates digital data from the radio, addresses the memory, and writes the data. Once this process is completed, it de-asserts the RESET line of the CPU and the CPU starts executing from an address in memory. Really no ROM!

Ok! (Very) remote pre-boot DMA, nice!

Thanks for the expdanded explanation,

Comment Re:ECC (Score 1) 264

The situation for AMSAT is still pretty bad, as far as I've heard. As a radio amateur group (and one that has launched quite a few satellites as space hitch-hikers) they can't afford the good stuff, but they get some donated by NASA and some of the commercial satellite companies. Only a few years ago they were still using the 1802 as their main vehicle controller, as that was their main choice in silicon-on-sapphire CPUs. They get some donations of space-qualified solar cells. They scrub their memory continuously, They use no boot ROMS. The program is loaded entirely by hardware, and then the CPU is started.

Bruce, what do you mean by "...no boot ROMS.... loaded entirely by hardware" ?

Submission + - Blueprint for building a quantum computer released by Sussex U researcher (phys.org)

haruchai writes: "An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth

The work features a new invention permitting actual quantum bits to be transmitted between individual quantum computing modules in order to obtain a fully modular large-scale machine capable of reaching nearly arbitrary large computational processing powers.

Prof Hensinger said: "The availability of a universal quantum computer may have a fundamental impact on society as a whole. Without doubt it is still challenging to build a large-scale machine, but now is the time to translate academic excellence into actual application building on the UK's strengths in this ground-breaking technology. I am very excited to work with industry and government to make this happen."

Submission + - What is pushing the Milky Way through the Universe at 2 million km/h? (sciencealert.com) 2

schwit1 writes: You can’t feel it, but our planet is orbiting the Sun at speeds of roughly 100,000 km/h (62,000 mph), and something is making our Milky Way galaxy move through the Universe at more than 2 million km/h (1.2 million mph). That’s 630 km per second, and now scientists might have finally figured out why.

In front of us, there's a dense supercluster of galaxies some 650 million light-years away called the Shapley Concentration, and it's pulling us towards it. Behind us, scientists have found evidence of a previously unknown region of space that's almost entirely devoid of galaxies, and it's pushing us away with incredible force.

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