Re: [LINK] U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

2019-10-25 Thread David
On 26/10/2019 8:40 am, Karl Auer wrote: Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.” It

[LINK] Facebook to offer 'News' tab, pay (some) publishers for their work

2019-10-25 Thread Antony Broughton Barry
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[LINK] Paul Bongiorno: Your right to know about our slippery slope to tyranny

2019-10-25 Thread Antony Broughton Barry
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Re: [LINK] U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

2019-10-25 Thread Karl Auer
On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 06:50 +1100, Michael Wood wrote: > Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. > “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage > capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and > control message receipt and

[LINK] U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

2019-10-25 Thread Michael Wood
As is acknowledged in the article, is this a good step or not? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control

[LINK] Google's Quantum Leap

2019-10-25 Thread Stephen Loosley
Bits: Google's Quantum Leap The New York Times 26/10/2019 In a paper published in the journal Nature, Google researchers described how they had used a quantum computer to perform, in 200 seconds, a series of calculations that, they claimed, would take the world’s most powerful supercomputer