Posts by TheElder

Trapped under ice with no oxygen for months, goldfish turn to booze. And can you blame 'em?

Sucking it isn't going to get you more drunk

I think it may depend on the size of the goldfish.

Google and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in full

Mapping the Mind

I am currently doing Brain Mapping. As for Asperger's, that is directly connected to higher than average intelligence. It should not be considered a form of Autism. There are many who do not agree with the DSM-5 in that respect. It is really just a different way to perceive reality with extreme honesty. Not usually a bad thing. I should mention that I have taught children with both Asperger's and true autism.

When asked "Do you like my new green dress?" say "It looks good on you" (while thinking especially when you remove it)

For the most part I do agree with Simon Baron-Cohen’s work. Many people do not but that is a matter of opinion, not so much direct research.

Asperger's exhibits quite differently in women than in men. It also appears to be far less common in women. That would explain why far fewer women are interested in STEM. That is especially the case in engineering. Those women that do have Asperger's also seem to learn how to hide it far better than men. They still have it but it is not as obvious.

At the lab I work at the programmer is female. She has a master's in Computer Science. However she has no idea how to write code in Ruby and the Prof tells me neither does anybody else. Yet Ruby is really just Xerox Smalltalk on steroids. It is now being taught to children for Sonification, which I have also been using.

http://sonic-pi.net/

Men and women are different

It is time to face up to a very simple fact. Men and women are not the same. They do not think the same way. Much of this is determined by the amount of testosterone they are exposed to during development before birth. Women have testosterone, just not as much as men. It varies quite a lot. This has a direct impact on how the brain develops. It is a very powerful neurochemical.

It has very little to do with intelligence although the female brain is slightly smaller on average. Forebrain size does have a mild correlation with intelligence. However brain size is strongly correlated with brain plasticity, the ability of the brain to repair the loss of neurons with time. It is like having spare parts.

It is my experience teaching people how to use computers that women are far better at understanding the operation of computers. They LISTEN when they are given instructions. They do not jump to false conclusions about how it will work. That is why in every office there are even now women that are running the show behind the scenes. The man in charge dictates something.

The woman then must create the actual communication to others. She must clean up the messy verbiage and make it somehow readable. The woman is the one that must somehow try to prevent misunderstandings and major problems. It sure would be nice if we could prevent the trumpeter from doing a swan dive.

There is far more I could say but there is one very simple thing. Men are the killers in history, not women.

Also, you will never see this with women:

Naked Men holding thier balls in public

Equal treatment is essential

No time off for having a baby I presume...

World's largest private submarine in mystery sink accident

Re: Madsen is now charged with involuntary manslaughter

Exactly what I expected. The question now is was the journalist taking a known risk? It is like bungee jumping, the risk is inherent even if the bungee breaks. The one main possible problem is not having a signed waiver of liability just as they usually do for downhill skiing. Of course they still must find the body, if one even exists. They must prove she is dead beyond reasonable doubt, a concept used in Denmark.

I must have a look now

Something to do with a licence plate.

Virginia and the word AGINAS

Re: People have been convicted for murder in Denmark without ever finding the body.

Another question arises. Who had possession of the mobile?

People have been convicted for murder in Denmark without ever finding the body.

Sure, it is possible. Circumstantial evidence can be very strong. Witnesses see two people enter a room. One murders the other leaving blood on the floor. Nobody actually sees it happen. Later the body is then secretly removed by the murderer and hidden permanently. The perp has that blood under his fingernails and it matches the blood on the floor. The victims blood is already medically documented. Time of death is when there was no possible chance of anybody else being seen entering the room.

Who is the killer? Law is the same as programming. It is all about logic.

More on Crime Scene

In this event and especially since the sub operator claims the woman left the sub earlier then Corpus delicti will certainly apply. They must find an actual body. Without a witness seeing both people on the sub soon before it sank then Innocent until proven guilty applies as usual. Even with a witness it would be circumstantial evidence only. Perhaps she escaped, swam underwater and is hiding? Asking "why would she be hiding" is not valid.

Perhaps she was eaten by Sharks

crime scene?

That will almost certainly be involuntary manslaughter. Accidental death of a person where another person had or should have had control of the circumstances.

Re: What's Danish for "Conn, ramming speed!"?

Clearly, Google doesn't

Google doesn't understand the military concepts or they try to censor them. A good example is Cock Pit

Pictures

Here are much better pictures of the UC3 Nautilus.

UC3 Nautilus

What's Danish for "Conn, ramming speed!"?

I speak Danish.

Ramming speed = Vædder fart

Also the concept of a ramming includes a ram with a big dick in Danish and English.

So we have a Big Dick Fart.

The captains name is Peter. That name is derived from the noun Stone (in English). Perhaps the captain was stoned on something that produces gas....

HMS Queen Lizzie impugned by cheeky Scot's drone landing

trained eagle

Eagle? How about crows? I have pics of crows doing fighter attacks on an eagle bomber.

Re: Weaponised drones...

Chemicals would be most likely or maybe a 3 iodide.

get a lock?

At supersonic velocity the minimum turning radius is hundreds of metres or more.

Hell desk to user: 'I know you're wrong. I wrote the software. And the protocol it runs on'

Past events

There is a lot I could say here. I will not though because I do not wish to reveal my true identity. I wish I could post little online pictures from other sites so I could edit my copyright notices for my off time graphics work. I have thousands of those pictures that are no longer online anywhere, not even my server. No way do I want to overload my server. I was getting over a million hits per year for my pages. I still get very many for other sites that run on it.

It has to do with me working for a very big company where the bottom level management was normally one work assisting manager per ten or so workers. Back in the 1990s they gradually reduced that to 1 per 100, slowly increasing everybody's work load. It was to the point I was working an average of nearly double the usual work hours on a regular basis.

I finally gave up and had a meeting with H R assholes. I put my voice recorder in the middle of the table to make sure any threats would be recorded. I still have that record. Shame I cannot post audio.

It did not turn out well. I gave them six weeks notice that I was quitting. I sent my resignation letter by registered mail, Fax and e-mail to six top level managers.

I heard nothing. No reply at all. One month later I attended a major computer show in Vancouver. I dropped into the office to see see some people and ask why they did not reply. Everyone I spoke to was very surprised that I was QUITTING???

They had no clue. I showed them the receipts for the registered mail. Apparently they thought I was just joking or something. Maybe everyone thought that someone else would deal with it. Zero corporate communication happening.

Then after I quit I had to fight them to the point of nearly hiring a lawyer to make them pay my fully vested pension. They also tried to ignore all my banked vacation time. I had to threaten them legally. They finally gave up just in time. I beat the dot com bust by just one week since I took the money and put all of it in the dollar only.

Tech billionaire Khosla loses battle over public beach again – and still grants no access

use it during those wee hours!

With extremely bright flash lights. It's all about avoiding Sharks, right?

Alzheimers?

Seems that Mr. Khosla must be forgetting what Mr McNealy said:

"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

Blocking

When visiting The Reg I will occasionally turn off my blockers so they will earn a penny or two from my visit. Otherwise it stays blocked everywhere for the most part.

I have a few items in hosts just to make sure they stay local. I also own most of windows, especially some super hidden files.

Re: Good old days: Remember Yahoo News?

Remember Google News?

I block everything including cookies here. Still seem to be able to post here. This site is also the most bug free site I have ever seen, I have been testing...

US border cops must get warrants to search phones, devices – EFF

Search my phone? (or laptop)

I once worked for a company where the only way to log in was to call a phone number (dumb phone). It used a five minute window synced with the time of day on the laptop. The login password changed every five minutes. Call, type your ID and the robot gave you the proper password for that five minutes.

"Sorry sir, the number is busy or not working..."

The other thing to do is very simple. Multiple users with one that has access to nonsense. Some some pretty pictures on the screen should be interesting...

Music album covers

the day a Facebook profile is required to pass border control, I'm screwed.

Simple solution. I do not exist on social media.

No need to get that uncomfortable.

The Canadian two dollar coin (Toonie) is just perfect.

Cool Kids coin modification

Can GCHQ order techies to work as govt snoops? Experts fear: 'Yes'

headed toward V for Vendetta territory at an alarming rate.

Somewhat like North Korea...

Did you know most software projects fail?

The average rate for large projects exceeds 50 percent and can be much higher. This is especially the case with projects that use large amounts of data such as anything in the medical industry.

For a bit of an eye opener just do a search on this: medical industry corruption

We are having major problems here right now. The government is trying to switch to a new patient data monitoring and wide ranging record keeping system. Doctors are refusing to use it due to serious problems and mistakes threatening lives. They are now using paper. I predicted this over a year ago and informed people at the local newspaper.

They have been following my advice about just what is wrong with the system and my advice has proven to be correct numerous times. I have written code that deals with large amounts of data and am doing the same now.

What I am seeing is very likely corruption at the top levels. Possible payoffs to buy a ridiculously expensive system that has already been involved in massive failures in the U.S. The failure rate in this sort of system can exceed 70%.

The one good thing is that the government just changed hands politically. We shall see if that makes a difference. Unfortunately those gears grind very slowly.

Forced to work?

First words you will hear is I'M FIRED

Tories for Torytarianism.

Brits look at Google and Facebook every 210 seconds, says survey

I have some books with faces on them.

We'll deliver 'in a few weeks' says troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm

Not a buyer

I have one sitting on the shelf.

Don't buy Microsoft Surface gear: 25% will break after 2 years, says Consumer Reports

Heat cycling (ie. normal use) breaks them.

Do not turn it off. Do not go into sleep mode. Just set the power use to minimum.

I bought a new Intel I7 gamer style laptop last year with Win 10 Pro and SSDs. I am very disappointed. My Win 7 machine runs far faster with AMD and with the BIG super-cooler I use I can run it up to 4.4 GHZ. That includes one 27" 4K screen as well as a couple of smaller ones, one of which is 3D. It also has nearly silent fans. When not doing anything that uses a lot of graphics the power drops to maybe 8 watts. If I turn off a few cores then it goes even lower. I use three internal SSDs as well as one internal spinner. External is a couple of 3TB spinners from WD as well as my remote server for backup.

I always use a gamer keyboard with LED lighting.

Cancel the farewell party. Get back to work. That asteroid isn't going to hit Earth in October

The cheap opiates

Pot is not an issue. In fact in older people it may have some beneficial effects on the brain.

The "opiates" aren't true opiates. They are highly synthetic and do not operate the same way that opium does (morphine, heroin). True opiates are hydrophilic. They are water soluble. Fentanyl and similar are lipophylic, they are fat soluble. Water soluble drugs diffuse into the brain through the blood/brain barrier slowly and are then degraded slowly.

Fat soluble drugs are fast in and fast out. This makes overdose far more likely. The synthetics also do not activate the neurochemical receptors in the same manner although the main one(s) are much the same. It isn't just one receptor. There are about 8 IIRC and about half of them are not well characterized last time I studied in this area.

I am considering becoming involved in the code for a hand held mass spectrometer they are developing at the University. It will be used to detect the fake opiates in just molecular quantities. I have worked with spectrometers in the past. I have also done scientific glass blowing.

I really wonder just how long the opiate epidemic will last? At some point we should run out of addicts... Shallow end of the gene pool...

We are doing OK on the drug thing at least...

Drugs

Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon's lawyer, UK supporters rally around Marcus Hutchins

A bit more on drugs

Once when I was living in a rooming house near Berkeley the police dropped in with a drug sniffing dog. There was no trace of anything in or near my room. The dog alerted strongly. The officer began searching everything. It then dawned on me what was happening. I had just visited my mother and her dog was in heat. Traces were on my pants I guess and that is what was interesting to the dog.

I told the officer this. He totally denied that possibility. I then said to him "So, if you were smelling a pretty young woman you would't be alerted?"

US is going to hell in a handbasket.

That was the title of an essay I wrote in High School social studies.

The US had some fucked up drug laws up until the 90's

Still do. In Virginia it is one year in prison for a single marijuana seed. It used to be 20 years.

Foot-long £1 sausage roll arrives

Speaking of recipes...

Something I spotted in the news today...

Cock Jerk Chicken

So you're thinking about becoming an illegal hacker – what's your business plan?

Are they like Ningy's ?

No, a Ningy is a form of fiat currency as is a PU. Bitcoin is imaginary.

Re: 6 months? It was probably automated.

No doubt about that. I get shit like that in my server log constantly. I also leave one e-mail address a bit more open than the others so I can see what they are up to. There is code I could post here but I won't of course. I was just talking with a young lady about updating my net phone and she was just recently wiped out by the wanna die. I instructed her on how being curious can kill the cat.

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

But I also enjoy running/cycling/going to the gym

I ride a very nice e-bike designed in Vancouver. It has a very special design. It is easy to hack and they even provide documentation that makes it even easier. This is to increase the horsepower above the local allowed limit... Like exactly how are the constabulary going to measure the horsepower?

I always use the same psychology I have for many years. When you see one in uniform riding past one should smile and pretend you know them. This confuses them into thinking they must know you and they will automatically pardon you in their minds.

The bike computer has everything I need to know when riding. I use a dumb phone and I do not take it with me. If somebody needs to leave a message I have e-mail.

Watch

My watch is analogue. Three dark hands with a light background with all the numerals easily visible. When I push the button it lights up for a second. The name at the top is Forester. As I look out the window I am about 10 metres from a triple trunk 50 metre spruce tree.

As for watching TV I prefer Max Headroom

New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017

apple IIgs was the best

Try bit mapping. What made Apple successful was the very first easy to use spread sheet program, VisiCalc.

if things were handled properly

Like maybe not patenting code...

Commodore

My favourite Amiga game was Dungeon Master. Had two Amiga 500s with one maxed in ram plus some overclocking. Started overclocking on the PET as well as rewriting the character generator and BASIC itself. Also designed and built a bit mapped video system on the PET as well as a ram card that took it up to 32 K of ram and a sound/speech generator as well as more I/O. Same for the 64 and the 128. Overclocked the 128 video system to increase resolution quite a lot.

I quickly switched to all machine code for most of my work. The 65xx series CPUs were so nice since two could be run on the same ram by just inverting the clock. The original multi processor system. Also worked around the various undefined operations to do some fairly cool operations that were rather unusual. Also sped up the original disc drive a lot. Some of my work is published in Transactor as well as by Commodore. I owned the first PET sold in Canada.

I started in this area after doing Fortran at UC Berkeley on the CDC 6400 mainframe. Was also a BOFH on an IBM 360-30 in New York City for a while. STOP trashing the cards by taping them to the packages!!! Worked for Branch Motor Express. Still have one of my card decks for the 6400. I learned the hard way to stop loops properly. Ran that deck on the 6400 and the BOFH there let it print about 3 inches thick stack of output. Made a nice supply of note paper though.

Speaking in Tech: Do I need some weird thing listening to me in my house all the time?

The photo

It occurs to me you should have shown him talking on the phone...

It depends on the the forum they use

Biological functions

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

Parallel CPU limitations

There are fundamental limits on what may be achieved with multiple CPU architecture.

Amdahl's law

It may not mean anything soon.

Graphene transistor could mean computers that are 1,000 times faster

Less than a month since the above link we have this:

First graphene transistor?

And this:

SAMSUNG Electronics Presents a New Graphene Device Structure

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

now we see the conservatives move on to Bing

I don't use Bing or Google (except searching). I am totally apolitical. I once voted for Micky Mouse. Not everyone gives a shit about the political parties. It is ability and honesty that count.

Re: Digital computing began largely female

Not entirely. I started programming when I was 13. I also skipped a few grades so I was in High School at that time. The first machine I coded was a Bendix G-15 with glass cylinders filled with nothing. I also took typing. A lot of guys were teasing me until they noticed the very pretty girls that I found in the typing class. I am also tall with long fingers. Turned out to be a very good thing in more ways than one....

I should also mention that was in Berkeley...

the presence or absence of gene 123alpha6 is actually no use when recruiting physicists.

I work in the field of genetics. You made me curious just what gene this may be so I did a quick search on 123alpha6. This is the first hit:

Memory leaks