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Comment Re:Sounds like... (Score 1) 116

by GeffDE on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @03:34PM (#31914454) Attached to: Cassini's Elaborate Orbital Mechanics

An evolutionary approach has the same difficulties in dealing with local optima. There are techniques (like simulated annealing) that transform the nasty optimization problem into a nice (convex, or at least, single optimum) optimization problem such that the global optima of the two problems are identical. Then, the nice, solved optimization problem can be slowly transformed back into the original, nasty problem in such a way that you can find that global minimum.

Comment Re:It still amazes me... (Score 2, Informative) 515

by GeffDE on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @05:02PM (#30756162) Attached to: Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort

Tomorrow Never Dies...

Comment Re:You mean physical memory right :-) (Score 1) 983

by GeffDE on Thursday December 04, 2008 @10:59PM (#25998369) Attached to: Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems?

The Cult of Stupid spreads far beyond computers, sadly. Nobody wants to be a nerd seem like they know anything.

There, FTFY.

35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush 1657

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @07:52PM from the high-crimes-and-misdemeanors dept.

vsync64 writes "Last night, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) spent 4 hours reading into the Congressional Record 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. Interestingly, those articles (63-page PDF via Coral CDN) include not just complaints about signing statements and the war in Iraq, but also charges that the President "Sp[ied] on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment,' 'Direct[ed] Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens,' and 'Tamper[ed] with Free and Fair Elections.' These are issues near and dear to the hearts of many here, so it's worth discussing. What little mainstream media coverage there is tends to be brief (USA Today, CBS News, UPI, AP, Reuters)." The (Democratic) House leadership has said that the idea of impeachment is "off the table." The Judiciary Committee has not acted on articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney introduced by Kucinich a year ago.

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