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Comment Re:Open set it is! (Score 1) 248

by bierik on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @04:02AM (#43729385) Attached to: Major Advance Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture

This isn't pedantic at all. The constructed number does not have to be a prime (as shown below in locofungus' example) and thus the additional step (there must be another prime, contradicting the assumption) is needed.

Comment Re:1:3.14159 (Score 1) 582

by bierik on Thursday January 07, 2010 @12:01PM (#30683316) Attached to: Best estimate of monthly spending on food:shelter

The cake is a lie! The cake is a lie!

Comment Re:This. Game. Sucks. (Score 1) 138

by bierik on Saturday January 31, 2009 @02:15PM (#26678525) Attached to: Looking Back At <em>Far Cry 2</em>

I played and completed the game last November. I can clearly remember the savegame problem. After a couple of hours you had so many savegames that it took minutes to get to the save/load screen. When I realized what the problem was I started to delete the oldest savegames after every 2-3 hours of gameplay.

How To Suck At Information Security 198

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:22PM from the words-to-the-wise dept.

wiedzmin writes "Great entry in today's SANS Internet Storm Center Handler's Diary — How to suck at Information Security. Some of my favorite points include: 'Assume the users will read the security policy because you've asked them to. Assume that policies don't apply to executives. Make someone responsible for managing risk, but don't give the person any power to make decisions. Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security. Hire somebody just because he or she has a lot of certifications. Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down.' Very entertaining and informative read with total of about 4 dozen points. Now if I could only find a way to get management to read it." There's also a one-page PDF on the author's site.

Early Praise For Empire: Total War 79

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 29, 2008 @01:50AM from the more-nutritious-than-17-bowls-of-generic-brand-war dept.

CVG had a chance to preview Empire: Total War, the latest in Creative Assembly's popular strategy series. This installment focuses on a time period which includes the Industrial Revolution and the struggle for US independence. CVG praises the intuitive interface and the improved AI, as well as the level of detail shown in large-scale battles. Quoting: "With a single mouse click I changed my troops' attack orders to melee and sent a sea of blue uniforms sweeping down the hill at the enemy. Zooming into the action revealed a previously unmatched level of battlefield realism and detail, with each motion captured soldier actively seeking out an opponent before engaging in a mortal shoving and stabbing match. Men toppled into the mud, squirming with terror before receiving a deft bayonet jab to the windpipe. After a titanic, 20-minute struggle the tide turned my way with the enemy hightailing it thanks in no small part to a bullet to the British general's head that broke his men's morale."

Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On 183

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 13, 2008 @09:15AM from the cashing-in-on-your-crimes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Eight years ago Mafiaboy (Michael Calce) knocked Yahoo offline. Today he he works as a legitimate security consultant and has just published a book documenting his criminal career and offering advice on how people can protect themselves from people like him on the Internet."

Comment Re:Landau & Lifshitz (Score 2, Informative) 276

by bierik on Sunday July 13, 2008 @06:58AM (#24171377) Attached to: Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?

The Landau & Lifshitz books are quite advanced but absolutely worth reading (well, "reading" is not the correct term to use here; it is very demanding and will take you a lot of time). I've never really been too fond of Feynman's lectures, but the again I'm more of a "lots of equations and exercises" guy.

Another book worth mentioning is Sakurai's "Modern Quantum Mechanics".

Submission + - E8 structure finally decoded

Submitted by arobic on Monday March 19, 2007 @05:25AM

arobic writes: A group of mathematicians from US and Europe succeeded in mapping the E8 structure, an example of a Lie group. These were developed by the well-known mathematician Sophus Lie (pronounce Lee) in the last century and are used for many applications, mainly in theoretical physics. This is an important breakthrough as it could help physicists working on Grand Unified Theories (aka GUTs).

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