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Createon For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays

To me, this seems like AstroTurf PR for the quoted manufacturer's Movidius™ Myriad™ 2, just tested at [hope to be trendy HEP institution].

Pity the photo with friendly smiles from the press package was left out, but the curious will find it with a brief search.

Createon Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

Computers are machines for copying data. A good computer is one that copies well, quickly and cheaply. The internet is a machine for moving copies of data around. When the internet works well, it copies data quickly and cheaply.

Ideologically, this is difficult for some people to accept. If your fortune has been based on stopping people from copying information, it is an inconvenient truth indeed. If you earn your living by preventing copying, the only options are to change everything, or deny everything.

Copy killers, Cory Doctorow

Createon Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years

"Really? Is that all? I thought there might have been more," Strickland responded, sounding surprised.

It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists.

This recognition is for those, who successfully appropriate the spirit of a given time. Aside from the propaganda/marketing stunt.

Createon It’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics

Are you referring to some NeXT box, RPC, or the cut-down SGML with links? Or any combination of thereof? It is amazing how easy it seems to appropriate technical engineering feats with simple narratives that are repeated often enough (ie. propaganda, in the Goebbelsian 20th century sense).

Everything was ready by that time, just remember the conference where it was presented. Or compare the internal memo with contemporary systems, such as the Symbolics Document Examiner. Or the NeXT demo for that matter.

The WWW you might allude to exists in large part due to US deregulation of that time, and therefore politics. The "value" part of it is as old as Alexandria, or Paul Otlet (TBL's boss who signed it off at the documentation dept. was also Belgian).

Createon First ever color X-ray on a human

Are you referring to the stripped down SGML, RPC or hyperlinks? Or the combination? Because all three have been around much before. In many flavours and mixes. The WWW variant’s adoption had more to do with politics than scientific/technical merit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI

https://archive.org/details/paulotlet or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLX2OGw31Oo

Createon First ever color X-ray on a human

Agreed. Photon counting has been around in (medical) imaging for ages.

Createon First ever color X-ray on a human

Your problem will be, that it is very easy to argue for somebody knowledgeable in the field, that this can be done completely without CERN’s research. Actually, similar stuff has already been done.

Createon First ever color X-ray on a human

The way "color images" are produced is to map the Hounsfield scale to the visible colour spectrum: i.e. blood red, bone white, steel gray etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounsfield_units#Value_in_part...

CT machines have this calibrated as standard, DICOM images have the corresponding fields for the values. Any DICOM viewer will do this (i.e. 3D Slicer, ParaView, OsiriX etc.)

As you say, there is nothing new in this, just PR. Medipix also has been around for a while, it's basically a solid state detector with an integrated USB readout on the silicon. Neither has been invented at CERN, its COTS.

Createon GitLab 10.4 released

Hi!

It would be nice to see burndown charts in CE along with EBS[1], just like pipelines and runners.

[1] http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-based-scheduling-ebs

Createon The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

CERN certainly does this for at least a decade, although it has its own "jurisdiction". Management likes it a lot, because it is so easy to abuse.

Createon Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached

It isn't stupidity.

Europe has been destroyed in WWII only to be liberated by the USA and the USSR (China is also among the winners). The USSR collapsed and withdrew from Eastern Europe, on condition that it remains a buffer zone (think about Ukraine in this context).

The EU is therefore essentially a peace project, subject to the peace treaties ending WWII (this hasn't happened in N. Korea, think about it in this context).

Those treaties are still in force today, including the stationing of liberating forces. This pretty much sets the boundaries, including the defense (read supervision) of strategic resources, such as gas pipelines, energy grids, and yes, communication lines and information technology. Obviously, these restrictions hardly reflect current German economic strength (just like after WWI), which inevitably leads to tensions (‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’, as the POTUS puts it).

Createon Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison (2014)

He Had Some Quirks

Larry would sometimes take time out to think. He would just disappear for a few days, often without telling

Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO, was brilliant, driven, witty, charming, ruthless, wildly egoistical, a superb salesman, a notorious womanizer—and a seriously random number. Anything could happen, and often did. For example, one fine day I was part of a group that had a late-morning meeting with Larry. When we convened at his office, he wasn’t there. This was not unusual. Larry has just acquired a new wife—his third—and he apparently liked to go home during the day to make love with her. But our meeting was important, so we piled into a car and took off for his new house in Woodside. My manager, a former classical cellist who was stunned by Larry’s behavior as I was, turned to me in the car and said, “And now, we journey to the land where time has no meaning”. When we arrived, Larry came to the door, tousled but in good humor, and invited us into a huge house devoid of furniture, at least on the first floor, where we transacted our business and left. […] But although Larry was a nice planet to visit, I didn’t want to live there. In six months at Oracle I had five different managers, the last of whom was a former CIA agent who was much crazier than Larry was, but nasty and not half as bright.

— High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars by Charles H. Ferguson

Createon Lisping at JPL (2002)

A fellow^1 pointed us to

https://web.archive.org/web/19991014000627/http://www-aig.jp...

which leads to

https://web.archive.org/web/19990219163754/http://www-aig.jp...

containing a listing.

The papers and hqx-s would be most interesting! (MCL 2 is not a concern, it can be happily emulated too)

CMU also has an interesting reference to your work:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/robotpg/robofaq/13.html

Thank you for your kind effort!

^1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13628967

Createon Lisping at JPL (2002)

would it be possible to make the files available again please?

http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/ftp/

Thank you!

Createon Inside CERN's multi-megawatt data center

Hw is regularly replaced, old kit being thrown at poor nations (obviously they’ll foot the energy bills). Its a regular intel shop, mostly with dell stickers. Truly run-of-the-mill current cots, what you would expect anywhere else.

Createon Inside CERN's multi-megawatt data center

They have long hit the limits of that building, they rent space in a DC across the lake, but salaries being too expensive, they built one in Eastern Europe. They probably regret that by now, moreover the PM of the host country is openly hostile to international orgs. Btw cern is recruiting disposable temp technicians through AstroTurfing. Even looking for a full stack dev! See other post. Their pr and tv studio(!) is bigger than some experiments.

Now that a grain of salt has been handed over, go ahead and downvote as usual.

Createon Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures

The US has already leaned hard on European officials to abandon the €1.1bn (£772m) project.

Last year, the EU press spokesman for Galileo, Gilles Gantelet, declared that under the strain of American pressure, "Galileo is almost dead".

While US pressure has not killed off the Galileo project entirely, concessions made by European officials mean Galileo will now be a much weaker rival to GPS than the system they had envisioned.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/08/world.internation...

Galileo will lead Europe into conflict with the US, which has security concerns about the building of a navigational network to rival its own system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1893022.stm

The United States has security worries about the development of Galileo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3121682.stm

Createon Intel Management Engine cleaner

Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit."

Createon U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25922569

Createon U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media

Since they raised $16 billion, making it the third-largest in U.S. history.

Createon QEMU Advent Calendar

squeak/pharo

Corman Lisp/Clozure CL/SBCL Common Lisp Interface Manager https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM

meta emu: b-em/atomulator/elkulator/rpcemuspoon/ep128/amstrad cpc/fuse/stella/atari800/hatari/vice/uae/apple II/kegs/basilisk/sheepshaver/vmac/psx/pcsx/mess/EACA Video Genie etc. A lot has compatible FLOSS ROMs included.

sky is the limit: Stellarium

Createon UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtRe...

Surveillance is not an end toward totalitarianism, it is totalitarianism itself.

Createon Can Sweden tackle the throwaway society?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_capitalism

Createon Can Sweden tackle the throwaway society?

Not directly. They are more often than not replaced by brand new AAAAA (or whatever) efficient products.

Throwaway society stuff is generally dumped on Eastern European outlets (prime example are used cars, white goods, even clothes etc.).

Createon Germany planning to ‘massively′ limit privacy rights

Dear Downvoter,

I'm not sure whether it requires more concentration, but it may very well be that like you know, some people read well and it's nothing for them to read a book a day. And other people this is a big deal. I mean it's a struggle, and what's likely is going on is that most people never learn to read very well. And so, the amount of concentration they have to put into the mechanics is what's defeats them with the amount of material that has to be read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041287

Createon Germany planning to ‘massively′ limit privacy rights

From the adoption of printing by Europeans in the 15th century we began to be concerned primarily with access to printed material.

The right to read, and the right to publish were the central subject of our struggle for freedom of thought for most of the last half millennium.

The basic concern was for the right to read in private and to think and speak and act on the basis of a free and uncensored will.

The primary antagonist for freedom of thought in the beginning of our struggle was the Universal Catholic Church.

An institution directed at the control of thought in the European world, based around weekly surveillance of the conduct and thoughts of every human being. Based around the censorship of all reading material and in the end based upon the ability to predict and to punish unorthodox thought.

The tools available for thought control in early modern Europe were poor. Even by 20th’s century standards but they worked. And for hundreds of years, the struggle primarily centered around that increasingly important first mass manufactured article in Western culture: "the book" Whether you could print them, posses them, trafficking them read them, teach from them without the permission or control of an entity empowered to punish thought.

By the end of the 17th century censorship of written material in Europe had begun to break down first in the Netherlands then in the UK then afterwards in waves throughout the European world.

And the book became an article of subversive commerce and began eating away at the control of thought.

By the end of the 19th century, that struggle for the freedom of reading had begun to attack the substance of Christianity itself and European world trembled on the brink of the first great revolution of the mind it spoke of "liberté égalité fraternité" but actually it meant freedom to think differently.

The "Ancien Régime" begun to struggle against thinking and we moved into the next phase of the struggle for freedom of thought which presumed the possibility of unorthodox thinking and revolutionary acting.

And for 200 years we struggled with the consequences of those changes.

That was then and this is now. [...]

Everything we want everything we hope everything we’d like everything we wish we new about is in the search box and they own it.

We are reported everywhere all the time

In the 20th century you had to build Lubianca you had to torture people you had to threaten people you had to press people to inform on their friends I don’t need to talk about that in Berlin

https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...

Createon Germany’s Chinese investment problem

Dear downvoter:

The production and exports of cars, run by foreign owners, is a key driver of economic growth in the eastern European Union member where wages for skilled workers are well below Western European levels.

Daimler workers in Germany, where wages are much higher, took part in strikes earlier this year, which led to a deal in May to lift wages by 4.8 percent in the metal and electrical engineering sectors in Germany.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/11/24/hungarian-mercedes-worker...

Createon Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman

_All_ this data is stored for one year.

Createon Germany’s Chinese investment problem

This is one of the reasons why Europe is falling apart. The hidden cynical double standard always trumped good will. Brexit voters were unusually open (in a secret ballot) about east-west relationships.

Createon Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman

Create 291 days ago | parent | on: UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network ...

Transparent monitoring for your protection

In keeping with this spirit, here is a reminder of how we monitor (your) CERN activities. We monitor all network Traffic coming into and going out of CERN.

Our new analysis infrastructure will be able to cope with the automatic live analysis of about one terabyte of data every day. All this data is stored for one year.

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2016/05/News%20Artic...