Yen, is that a new sexier Cola with Rum > new age Cuba Libre? R, we know that in the "quantum" PC the NSA captured and enslaved aliens are doing the calculations... Can't fool us, it's all a scheme...
Thanks for this great thread. Really enjoying it Concerning encryption: sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218161225.htm ScienceDaily is a good read I think.
Physicists Are Turning to Pancake Batter To Combat Loss of Vision Somewhere on University College London’s campus there is a lab occupied by a number of engineers making breakfast. The only thing on the menu in this lab is pancakes, and many of the chefs have terminal degrees in fluid mechanics. Everyone in the lab is possessed with a singular purpose: creating the perfect flapjack. Few would disagree that this is an admirable goal, but the engineers’ maniacal pursuit of pancake perfection has less to do with ensuring a delicious breakfast than figuring out what the physics of pancakes can teach us about restoring eyesight... more [video=youtube_share;wsFjIJMTUiE]https://youtu.be/wsFjIJMTUiE[/video]
No protons needed? Possible discovery of a four-neutron particle It’s tempting to call the tetraneutron a theoretical particle, as its existence has yet to be confirmed. But that would imply that it’s a consequence of some existing theoretical model, that it’s predicted by some theory. The tetraneutron, however, contradicts the relevant theories—it should be impossible. And yet, amidst all the (deserved) excitement for the detection of gravitational waves last week, an experiment quietly turned up the strongest evidence for a tetraneutron thus far. It’s not full confirmation yet, but if the new study’s conclusions are borne out, things are going to get weird... more
Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years. Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing. The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records. The technology was first experimentally demonstrated in 2013 when a 300 kb digital copy of a text file was successfully recorded in 5D. Now, major documents from human history such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and Kings James Bible, have been saved as digital copies that could survive the human race. A copy of the UDHR encoded to 5D data storage was recently presented to UNESCO by the ORC at the International Year of Light (IYL) closing ceremony in Mexico. The documents were recorded using ultrafast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is written in three layers of nanostructured dots separated by five micrometres (one millionth of a metre). The self-assembled nanostructures change the way light travels through glass, modifying polarisation of light that can then be read by combination of optical microscope and a polariser, similar to that found in Polaroid sunglasses. Coined as the ‘Superman memory crystal’, as the glass memory has been compared to the “memory crystals” used in the Superman films, the data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz. The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures. Professor Peter Kazansky, from the ORC, says: “It is thrilling to think that we have created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations. This technology can secure the last evidence of our civilisation: all we’ve learnt will not be forgotten.” The researchers will present their research at the photonics industry's renowned SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering Conference in San Francisco, USA this week. The invited paper, ‘5D Data Storage by Ultrafast Laser Writing in Glass’ will be presented on Wednesday 17 February. The team are now looking for industry partners to further develop and commercialise this ground-breaking new technology. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page
Very interesting! The past thermionic valves time, a triod, of the electronics. No so many years ago was the first step of electonics studies. Will be possible in the future to see a similar home-self-made for one integrated circuit?
Microsoft's Windows app strategy comes under fire: 'The most aggressive move Microsof Microsft CEO Satya Nadella's new app strategy has come under fire from one of the gaming industry's most high-profile and respected executives. Tim Sweeney, CEO of blockbuster games studio Epic Games, today published an op-ed in The Guardian condemning Microsoft's Windows 10 app strategy as "the most aggressive move Microsoft has ever made."... more The op-ed Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it
Here’s How To Get Cleaner Water For 700 Million People When you think of cleaning a city’s dirty drinking water, it’s easy to imagine using giant plants or some tiny new portable technology. But one of the most effective ways to provide cleaner drinking water may be to protect and restore nature... more
Google alert: The government is after you [FONT=&]Google Under Government Siege[/FONT] The technology giant is under siege because it’s popular [FONT=&]By Stephen Moore [/FONT]April 24, 2016 [FONT=&]Last week the bureau-thugs at the European Union declared war on Google. Europe can't compete with Google so instead Brussels will sue them for being too successful. Now the U.S.government is threatening the same string of harassment, lawsuits and fines.[/FONT] [FONT=&] That's the basis for the EU's just-announced antitrust complaint against Google. The California-based technology giant is accused of installing into the popular Android smartphone software that favors Google features, such as Google Maps over competitor products.[/FONT] [FONT=&] "Our concern," complains Margrethe Vestager, the EU's antitrust chief, "is that by requiring phone makers and operators to preload a set of Google apps, Google may have cut of fone of the main ways that new apps can reach customers." That's ridiculous because it was largely Google technology that made apps work on smart phones in the first place.[/FONT] [FONT=&] The heart of the complaint is the longstanding and controversial issue of a company "bundling" its technology products to favor a firm's own services over those of competitors.So now the EU wants to force Google to offer its competitors' products on the Android phone. Next thing you know, McDonald's is going to be slapped with an antitrust complaint for not offering Wendy's fries.[/FONT] [FONT=&] But if we cut through the EU's 19thcentury antitrust mumbo jumbo, this is nothing more than a raid on Google's profits and products and market share which is said to be too"dominant." The same might be said of this year's Golden State Warriors.[/FONT] [FONT=&] Well it's true that Google's Android technology has a commanding two-thirds market share in Europe. How did that happen? By building a better smartphone technology. And if Europeans want access to all these alternative apps, they have a simple market remedy: buy a different phone.[/FONT] [FONT=&] Is there any industry in world history that has been more hyper competitive than high tech? How can Google be anti-consumer when prices for Internet services and products keep falling year after year? The EU says consumers need "more choices." There are many competitors to the Android technology - and those alternatives don't favor Google products. Why should Google be punished for having the most popular product? Once ATT and Microsoft were thought to be monopolies and it was market forces that evaporated their lead.[/FONT] [FONT=&] The spurious complaint could cost Google tens of millions of legal costs to defend itself and billions of dollars of lost sales - but that, of course, is exactly the point. The Eurozone is using trumped up antitrust charges to improve the competitiveness of their own second-rate smartphone and other technology products. Similar claims have been brought against Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. The U.S. government should be vigorously defending American companies and jobs against such hostile litigation and regulatory barriers to trade.[/FONT] [FONT=&] Here's what's maddening. The eggheads in Washington are piling on. The Federal Trade Commission lawyers are launching their own investigation into whether Google violated restraint of trade laws. This only validates predatory foreign claims against American companies.[/FONT] [FONT=&]Can anyone imagine the Germans, the Japanese, the Russians or the Chinese suing one of their own home-grown companies for being TOO successful? Never. [/FONT] [FONT=&]The Obama administration seems to be intentionally trying to export tech jobs out of America. The antitrust cops under Obama have been hyperactive in blocking multi-billion dollar mergers of American companies - from airlines to tech companies to retailers to energy firms- supposedly to protect consumers. [/FONT] [FONT=&]Earlier this month the FTC blocked an energy merger involved multi-billion dollar Halliburton and Baker Hughes and the Pfizer-Allergan marriage. It is blocking the Staples and Office Depot merger, which Staples argues persuasively is necessary because all of the competition now is with on line retailers like Amazon. All told 150 mergers have been blocked by the feds under President Obama, according to CNN-Money.This doesn't protect consumers, it injures U.S. competitiveness. Mergers lead to economies in production costs and are more likely to lower than raise prices.[/FONT] [FONT=&] It's clear that the Europeans are trying to bring down an American tech giant to allow their own feeble alternatives to compete. This is just a disguised form of Euro-protectionism.But Washington's case against Google is much worse: it is unpatriotic and damaging to the U.S. economy. [/FONT] [FONT=&]Things may get worse not better next year. Hillary Clinton has promised that if she becomes president she would"beef up the antitrust enforcement arms of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission," and hire "aggressive regulators"in order to "better understand the link between market consolidation and stagnating incomes." She's coming after those Ferraris and millionaire secretaries at Google and Facebook. [/FONT] [FONT=&]Then these same liberal politicians wonder why the economy is growing at a measly 1.5 percent and why businesses aren't investing.[/FONT] [FONT=&]• [/FONT][FONT=&]Stephen Moore is an American economic writer and policy analyst. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of "Who's the Fairest of Them All?" He founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. Moore is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...moore-google-under-government-siege/?page=all [/FONT]Damn liberal progressive politicians out to constrict/control/destroy free enterprise, yet again... Will it ever end?!...
The issue is not popularity but conformity to the backwardness of the governments in question. Microsoft had the same issue and now they don't, the difference was Windows 10 aka spyware.
The difference is in being monopolistic and misusing that position, to the detriment of competition, i.e. their competitors and consumers. OK, here is ABC... So, it is in the interest of the whole ("general interest") to rein in partial interests (banks, financial institutions, SW or HW manufacturers, it matters not), to the benefit of many, not just some (see Great Depression, cartels and so on). Moreover, when those companies (corporations nowadays) have started as pirates - what do you expect from them, "self-control", that the neo-lib "idea" of self-legislation/self-policing would "work"? Yeah, right, we have seen how that worked, whether it was banks, investment groups, speculators, mortgage lenders, car manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, food industry or whatever... In this case, Google are rigging their searches and forcing everybody to it - for profit. This is not being too successful, this is being in a market position where you are not a player on the market but you actually move the market and that - as we have seen time and time again - is bad for the whole. The myth of "markets are rational", quite frankly, is for uneducated idiots and corporate gangstas... And no, economy is not growing because the top 1% (or less) do not know what to do with it, other than stash it offshore. They can't do anything that would move the economy, as opposed to the most people, who would put it back into circulation and the economy then is growing handsomely. See the times when top "earners" were paying 90% taxes and - start cringing at what you swallowed whole... When the income gap was lower, the whole was healthier! Growth was there! Myth after myth after Wall Street Chicago "school" Friedman-style myth is being destroyed, time and time again - and yet this is what they are trying to make us swallow unthinkingly forever and ever.... FFS, wake up and smell the coffee...
Erm....the ABC is quite short. The more I have the more I am is an EGO illusion. The 'details' are depending on the current situation and how to realize this illusion without to get much resistance. (Using holes in laws or changing laws (lobbyism), or ignoring laws) Google's bloatware enforcement..or cheating by faking values (automobile industry) Another illusion is the need to grow any time...nature teaches us what happens if something ever grows...just search for 'cancer'... All that happens is that people are debating about 'details' while the illusion persists....humans are stuck in 'mutual' accusation while the unavoidable (destruction of ego and its buildings) takes its course....nobody can consume 'all the time'....
That depends on "consume": if we are taken collectively as Humanity - we can [and indeed, we must] "consume" knowledge and hence "grow" all the time (although regression is possible, even collectively, at times). We and other living beings also have to constantly "consume" food, water etc. That in itself does not automatically mean "destructive behaviour", i.e. unsustainable, irrational relationship with nature. Ego - as you are implying all the time - is misused here. What you are criticizing is legitimate but that is greed - and some other, similar attributes of some subjects (not necessarily all, even if the system is set up badly, as Capitalism is, in this regard - this is an essential point to raise, namely that we are irreducible [without even any residue] to our circumstance, system of organised life in a community etc.). Ego can not be reduced to it (objects of it are irrelevant at this point: money, possessions, power, influence...). Without "ego" there is no Human Being as a Modern Subject... I wish you would be a little bit more careful...