Posts by Prophet Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

First learned programming ALGOL 60 on an Elliot 803 installed at RMIT in mid 1960s in Melbourne Australia. By correspondence; sent in code to be punched into paper tape by RMIT; certainly was a slow turn around for fixing typos/bugs.

Oz opposition caves, offers encryption backdoor compromise

Is the government also planning to make it mandatory for tech. companies to provide the decryption keys to unscramble ransomware?

Boffins find sign of water existing deep into Earth's mantle by looking at diamonds

Using pressure to turn stuff into water.

Last year, I think it was, an article was published in (New Scientist?), in which it was shown using computer modelling, that under huge pressure deep down beneath the earth’s crust, elements/compounds such as silica could be transformed into water.

Finding water in diamonds supports this hypothesis.

FYI: That Hawaii missile alert was no UI blunder. Someone really thought the islands were toast

Software Systems Should be Rigourously Tested

Just think, if this message hadn’t been sent, nobody would have known the warning system was flawed.

Apple’s facial recognition: Well, it is more secure for the, er, sleeping user

Apple said the chance of defeating TouchID was 1 in 50,000 and the chance of defeating FaceID was 1 in 1,000,000.

Apple also said the evil twin/lookalike would be required to enter the password of the genuine owner. Also, the FaceID was intelligent enough to adapt to changes in owner’s face over time, including the growing a beard. Photos won't work because they don't have physical depth and are not heat/infrared pictures.

Four Brits cuffed in multimillion-quid Windows tech support call scam probe

Been getting these annoying calls for years. (Telstra Technical Department they often called themselves.) Hope they now stop.

Australia Post says use blockchain for voting. Expert: you're kidding

Was listening to many talkback radio listeners last night complaining about parcels that were never delivered when Australia Post said they had been. Would the system apply with our votes?

SETI mulls reboot: Believing the strangest things, loving the alien

What if God sent sent a message?

How would they prove that it was not the intelligent Creator of heaven and earth?

Hardcore creationist finds 60-million-year-old fossils in backyard ... 'No, it hasn’t changed my mind about the Bible'

Ever hear of Eisten’s General Theory of Relativity and mathematics?

Set aside disbelief…

Set aside your disbelief in God’s integrity for a moment and embrace reason.

Can you evo-creationists tell us how a live fish became fossilised in sedimentary rock and now appears above water level on dry ground?

And what about all those countless fossils of animals, trees, etc. that clearly live on land? How on earth did so many fossils become trapped in sedimentary rock, high and dry on dry land?

Clearly this is not a process of slowly putting down many layers of sediments over millions of years as many evolutionists imagine, is it?

Creationist: The Flintstones was an accurate portrayal of Dino-human coexistence

Atheists call their imagination science.

Atheists imagine the universe was created by the superhuman forces of nature. Creationists have good reason to believe those superhuman forces of nature were actually created by the Son of God and will be sustained by Him until they they wear out are replaced. There is plenty of evidence in the Bible of his ability to do the things which atheists imagine are magical, but which you'd naturally expect an intelligent God who created the laws of nature to be able to do, e.g. turn water into wine, raise himself from the dead after crucifixion, etc. etc. etc.