The stewards in that video looked a bit nonchalant to me. Is that because they were shiftless ne'er-do-wells, or is it just because E-cars don't tend to burst into flames like proper cars do?
Posts by TonyK
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'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed
Jersey sore: Anchor rips into island's undersea cables, sinks net access
What the hex is up with Jupiter's North Pole?
Dwarf planet Ceres has a watery secret: An 11 mile wide ice volcano
Magnetic memory boffins unveil six-state storage design
NASA saves Kepler space 'scope by turning it off and on again
European Patent Office heads rapidly toward full meltdown
Apple coughs up $350m – 2.3 days of annual profit – to make Italy's taxmen go away
Here – here is that 'hoverboard' you've wanted so much. Look at it. Look. at. it.
IBM bats away Australian sueball over billion-dollar-blowout
Now we know why Philae phouled up comet landing
Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more
Rocketeers aim for the Moon with first-stage £600k tin-rattle
MONSTER GALAXY spotted hiding behind IMMENSE BLACK HOLE
HOLY SEA SNAILS! Their TEETH are strong enough to build a plane
You do have proofreaders,right?
Obviously the teeth in the picture can't be both "100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair" and "just less than a millimetre long". How on earth did that slip past the proofreaders? That "100 times thinner" figure refers to the prepared samples that the scientists put in their strengthometer. You can see a picture at http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31500883.
Also I suspect that it's the cross-sectional area that is 100 times less than a human hair, not the diameter.
NSA: SO SORRY we backed that borked crypto even after you spotted the backdoor
Misnegation or obfuscation?
"In truth, I can think of no better way to describe our failure to drop support for the Dual EC DRBG algorithm as anything other than regrettable."
You might want to run that through your internal parser a few times. It is a syntax error; but if it means anything, it means that he has no regrets at all over the failure to drop support for the rogue algorithm.
Thirteen Astonishing True Facts You Never Knew About SCREWS
Mathematicians spark debate with 13 GB proof for Erdős problem
The importance of complexity
Dots and Boxes
I once got paid real money to write a Dots and Boxes program (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_Boxes). This game is NP-hard, according to Berlekemp et al's Winning Ways (p.534). But I didn't use any of the sophisticated approximate solutions that have been developed for such problems, I just tried to steer the game to one of the positions that the program could analyse in polynomial time.
The result was that I was the only human who could beat it on a large board, because I knew how to frustrate its goals.
Inside Turing: Computer boffinry to cuffing cups to radiators
Surely an invention?
That stuff about bicycle chains is surely an invention of Neal Stephenson's from his novel Cryptonomicon? You can read the relevant chapter at http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/slide18.html.
And yes, I know that HistoryArticles.Com supports this ridiculous notion (at http://www.historyarticles.com/enigma.htm), but I won't believe it until I see a pre-Cryptonomicon reference.
Timing attack threatens private keys on SSL servers
Six years out of date
This attack, and a robust counter-measure to it, were published in 2005 in "Advances in Elliptic Curve Cryptography" (Blake, Seroussi, & Smart - editors). So you are wrong to say 'Security researchers have discovered a "timing attack"'. If you had taken the trouble to follow your own link and read the Abstract there, you would have seen that all the Secutiry Researchers have done is to take this hackneyed old idea and show that OpenSSL is still vulnerable to it.
Man's MySpace page torpedoes personal injury suit
45th Mersenne prime revealed
@Back again
>More to the point, why does the article refer to this as the 45th Mp, when (the infallible) Wikipedia gives it as the 47th?
Because it was the 45th Mersenne prime to be discovered, but currently the 47th largest known Mersenne prime. The author of this story has presumably just awoken from a thirteen-month sleep -- see http://www.mersenne.org/primes/m45and46.htm, dated 15th September 2008. I pointed this out in an earlier post, but it seems to have been rejected by Vulture Central.