Posts by Frumious Bandersnatch

the values taught by ... Buddhism

That would probably be to live a life "without too much attachment and too much aversion". I think that all this suspicion of technology probably counts as "too much aversion"

damn!

After reading the headline, I thought that was going to be an article about Bono.

The Darwin awards for 2009 should be out around now, after all.

they should go further

... and ban images of torture, too.

Oh wait, that would mean that crucifixes would be out. Ah well, can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

feeble (this and that)

I know which I'd choose:

A suffusion of yellow

Or blue screen of death

@Who is the terrorist here?

> If a message has no validity than there are no followers

You've never met any God-botherers (to cite one among *many* delusional beliefs), I take it? Unfortunately people prefer to believe things they want to believe, the evidence (or lack thereof) be damned.

> If you don't like the channel, change it.

Ah, "consumer choice" ... the pinnacle of western Democracy! Shame about the attention span.

> ... messiahs ... nothing more than terrorists.

You should probably learn to save hyperbole for when you really need it...

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint. No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness.

probably more like non-Newtownian fluids

in that they'll put up more resistance the more they're pushed around.

"outside the jursidiction of EU law?"

That would surely also include Norway, eh?, since it's not actually in the EU...

more on the Japanese

mentions "13cm of American-sized buns". Was wondering if it was a subtle dig at American largeness, but 13cm "buns" would be abnormally small (unless you work for Ralph Lauren, I suppose). So I guess it's not a paradoy, though why they think largeness (or Win7, for that matter) is a selling point, I've no idea.

re: meat patties, the ad actually says "beef patties"... so not quite as disgusting-sounding. Shame that the picture does that job all by itself.

PS this is far from the only strange re-imagining of western food out there. Pizza with mashed potatoes comes to mind as one of the odder dishes I've come across...

"but there could be only one"?

... at least until the next largest is discovered, of course, assuming there is no maximum Mersenne prime, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

Besides, I don't know what all the fuss is about.. it's just eleventyone...eleventyone recurring!1!!

@Mike007

As I understand it, all searches on compromised machines go through the one IP address, but that doesn't mean that that same IP address has to be the one that makes the queries to Google. Could be a multi-homed machine, could use proxies. Could even route the requests back through infected machines, for all that.

Are you even sure, though, that Google actually implements the system you're talking about? How would it handle large networks behind NAT gateways and IP address changes to said gateways?

@The Word According to the Shatner

> he did a little too much LDS.

Got too much involved with the Mormons? WTF?

"digital forensics"

> [most popular password was "123456"]

perl -nalF: -e 'print $F[1]' | sort | uniq -c | head -10

*ahem*

PlayMobil not "real news reportage"?

I'm shocked. Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Lowe.

"man in the crowd ...

with the multi-coloured mirrors on his hob-nail boots". Now where have I heard that one before?

It was also interesting to note talk of banning such devices from locker rooms. Didn't El Reg have a locker-room snap in its review of the new Nano?

probabalistic infection

Obviously 50% isn't considered serious enough. Never mind the impact of a successful attack, I suppose.

Stubb's Gazette

Whatever happened to that?

but what about violation of the letter/spirit of the relevant copyright act?

Surely a mere exposition of facts in response to a specific question doesn't warrant copyright protection? Also, what's the actual legal status of click-through licenses? Obviously content providers would love it if they were enforceable, and love to act as if they have legal validity, but has this ever been tested in court?

"the process that *bread* it"?

Excuse me?

synonymous with buffer overflows, eh?

Still, kudos for building a complete TCP/IP stack in isolation and having it almost work on the first try.

windows 7's ins?

I thought they wanted them out?

/confused

light and shadow

One other thing that seems to be wrong is the lighting. The new head appears to be predominantly lit from the left side. Everything else is being lit from the right. A bit glaring, that, if you'll pardon the expression.

regression testing?

I'm sure they do use regression testing on lot of their code at MS. I'd hope so, anyway. Doesn't look like this particular component gets that sort of attention before being pushed out the door.

Plain Text??

> Honestly, what kind of site stores it's users passwords in plain text! You should always hash your password column in your databases to foil these kind of attacks.

The perlmonks website comes to mind as a recent example...

Not too bright.