* Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

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When PR backfires: Google 'forgets' BBC TV man's banker blog post

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How does a giant remove a man's name from a search engine

A huge concern like Google can't jst tell its servers to obliterate the man's name. It would block everyone with that name.

It is a stupid law to try and enforce and not only enforce it once but to exclude any subsequent iterations. Such a thing wouldn't just tie up the courts it would tie up the internet.

As soon as the last trace of the man has been got rid of some clown will mention it on Twitter and then.....

Come to think of it, it could be a fun diversion for the rest of us on a rainy afternoon. Feeling bored?

Why not tie up the search engines of every server in Europe?

Can't wait.

But then I aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects ...and that cap fits.

Crypto thwarts TINY MINORITY of Feds' snooping efforts

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If the police state

Just imagine a world half filled with starving people and the other so rich they buy their processed vegetation from extremely expensive sources...

Who ya gonna call?

Judge says there's no such thing as a 'Patent Troll'

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How about naughty boughty? NT

This text is a non product oriented entity serving one purpose alone, that of distinguishing the post to the server on this website.

(Patent pending.)

ICO probes BBC after secret British army unit's info LEAKED

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@ Smudge

All the money that has been wasted on teaching "ICT" in this country =

This bit is about bullets and target practice.

it is still the norm to copy and modify documents rather than use templates, style sheets, etc. =

Some militants prefer home made or modified (or maybe secret service modifations (not clear, more data required.))

The use of a template for the application form would have meant that there was minimal chance of needlessly copying unnecessary data. =

The weapons used can still be traced if care is not taken.

New NSA boss plays down impact of Snowden leaks

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I had great difficulty reading the article

The word BASTARDS!! kept getting in the way.

Microsoft thumbs nose at NSA, hardens crypto for Outlook, OneDrive

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Facepalm

So as a potential terrorist...

What is to stop me using good old fashioned book codes over the net?

I'm pretty sure bibles and q'rans -for obvious examples, make ideal texts for spies like us to pass messages on in very simple codes without all the encryption buggery.

Sorry, chaps! We didn't mean to steamroller legit No-IP users – Microsoft

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So you see; it is OK really

Really?

MIT and CERN's secure webmail plan stumped by PayPal freeze

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Let's hope the Germans have the balls to shit on them

I wish the German banks (or the Swiss, maybe) can come up with a suitable replacement for Pay Pal.

It's incredible that none of the lords and masters of the internet has set up offices outside their NSA's "right to screw everything" domain.

I gave up hope for all things USAnian when the Smithsonian went from HTML4 to Adobe M$ only. I've been smarting over that for ages while all this Snowden business was going on. There is just so much bum-buggery involved it hurts.

Russian gov to dump x86, bake own 64-bit ARM chips - reports

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Boffin

Don't believe everything you read. OTOH...

“For strict security enthusiasts believing AMD and Intel have been compromised by the NSA or other US agencies, it's time to celebrate.”

Read:

Russia is ruled by gangster the scion of the ones who turned everyone into a spy in the good old days.

NSA is doing what Uncle Joe Macarthy wanted to do and nearly managed.

And GCHQ is the son of the fat drunk who gave Eastern Europe to Stalin.

"Seeing as how dependent Russia is on external expertise in areas like oil and gas exploration, I doubt very much that it is capable of building and maintaining chip-making facilities."

Read:

Russia's hands-on approach to engineering gave them superb rocket engines and before that, made the Rolls Royce jet engine as good as anything the USA had.

Their present crop of polonium toting, rouble wielding, gas-line owning, Ukraine invading gangsters are not going to let the CIA do what it wants with their address books and e-communications if they can help it. Especially not if there is a huge market for a new player involved.

Ditto that if Iranian nuclear reactor making, jihadist supporting, oil well owning, USA hating Iranians want in on it too.

By the way, decades ago, Russian oil exploration encompassed research that western interests have not even considered yet.

Auditors blast Blighty cops over binned multi-million pound IT project

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Hello, hello, hello.

Hello?

Hello??

Err... hello?

Nobody's in sarge!

Hello?

Kids hack Canadian ATM during LUNCH HOUR

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Re: Not a 'hack'.

Not an hack.

Good grammar restored to the previous poster.

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the worst legal system in the World

Speaking as a retard; in the USA whistleblowers feel safer in Russia and the FBI invades homes in New Zealand. OK that isn't strictly in the USA but...

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Customer mark up service

46 if you count mine.

I never touched your post as I thought your comment valid - even very well justified. The story had nothing to do with the USA. But since the NSA and CIA are monitoring the site for sure, you can go and hang.

Tech companies are raising their game (and pants) post-Snowden

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Government Agencies

The Smithsonian uses an Adobe backend on its servers that is openly hostile to Linux (Try downoading the volcano database it offers for Excel users.) Am I wrong in supposing that the other agencies that have all gone that way or Googlified their sites are in fact doing it just to watch us?

It was very strange that the Smithsonian ditched their text archive for a website that just didn't work. (Now it just doesn't work in Linux KDE (not sure what the other versions are like.)) Fancy them not keeping the viable one running during the switch!

And you can't even copy and paste the address they give you as a non-link to complain through. Can you fathom it?

Beats me.

The British Meteorological&Climategate Office is also doing something similar but no doubt that is foist on them by GCHQ. Anyone know who is running ther software?

I imagine they could do it in house if that was government policy. I assume they have tech people for writing code for their models.

Kim Dotcom: You give me proof of govt corruption in my case, I give you millions

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What thread are you from?

What has this got to do with all the rants about finance?

600 school sysadmins sacked in New South Wales

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Re: That sounds like you never heard of damn small linux

Any reason you put XP on P1s?

Or was it just ignorance?

Either they get to learn to be just as ignorant or they don't get... oh wait...

Let me rephrase that...

Everyone can and should learn to code? RUBBISH, says Torvalds

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Arsehole teachers just what every child needs, a miserable bitch to catch them on their downside.

"My wife thinks its pointless and boring she's a teacher and supposed to teach it from September!"

I can remember the teacher who put me off school for most of my schooldays. (But I was easily persuaded.) She's going to do a great job. Maybe her boss is being paid by Microsoft?

Well at least somebody's thinking of the children.

Facial recognition tech convicts man in Chicago robbery case

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I can smell black helicopters.

Flying saucer with 'stadium-sized' orb to INVADE Earth's skies

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Re: Waste of Helium?

Since the balloon is not a part of a factory complex or any other cooling system and hydrogen would prvide much more lift per stadium, why isn't hyrogen the gas of choice?

Doesn't NASA have the capabilities needed to design an hydrogen balloon?

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Re: So ....

I was wondering who was going to think of the children.

So hw may swimming pools fill a garbage patch and can we rely on NASA to put them in the skies around Hawaii so that few of them will drift into the Atlantic?

Is the answer to life, the universe and everything hidden in Adams' newly uncovered archive?

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Re: The ultimate question of life the universe and everything. (thx1138v2)

Is that one to think of having a planet to use light bulbs and the other to get the contract arranged designed and paid for and 8 children between them while waiting thousands of years for Thomas Edison?

Snowden shoots back: 'So you DO have my emails, after all'

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Cheyenne Autumn

I was 13 and still playing cowboys and indians in an era when children stepped very slowly into adulthood. There was no such thing as international communication outside of what the TV and newspapers chose to tell us and what came out of Hollywood.

I was totally mind wiped by the idea the indians were the good guys after all. I still resented incoming opinion about the USA's role in Vietnam. That would take me a decade of immature innocence to learn the truth of. And I thought Black Power was bad at first -though of course I couldn't understand what was going on with the buses and schools in that very unknown country we now love and hate.

What Edward Snowden has revealed came as history not news -only the unimaginable scale was breathtaking. For me the secret polce were not just the German SS of the Third Reich and the Stazi but the FBI and our own beloved secret services. And what they were doing was always very murky. Only now I realise it was and is also extremely mucky.

I was pretty certain that when all the undersea pipelines to the USA from lines of communication that went through the middle east were sabotaged by accidents in or near busy seaports not long before the Chimpanzee instigated modern Victorian wars on peaceful Moslem countries once more, where supposedly metal thieves and careless navigation chopped into them was the actual work of the US navy/CIA.

Bit of a mouthful that last sentence but what has Mr Snowden on that?

It would clear up the haves from the have nots in most people's minds. All except for those who are in the employ of said nefarious industries.

Fat-fingered admin downs entire Joyent data center

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Re: How fat was the finger?

I think the register is in sausages per finger but we are dealing with lemons here -until we learn more.

'I was trained as a spy' says Snowden

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According to their Director of Intelligence he was a puff of smoke.

Compared to the real thing James Clapper had to qualify this quote:

"I'm speaking about the most massive and most damaging theft of intelligence in history..." with the words:

"...by Edward Snowden..."

The video was clipped by US journalists to obfuscate any deeper explanation. But you get the picture. You already had it from the horse's mouth even before he fled to a safe country.

Keep on keeping on Mr Ed. Don't listen to the canned laughter or your nosey next door neighsayer.

That Snowden chap was SPOT ON says China

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What is all this about?

Everyone knows the USA won't do business with Cuba. To imagine it might even consider doing so with China is ridiculous!

What a betrayal if it was selling them stuff. You can't smoke an Havana and drink a Coke at the same time in the same place. Imagine all the Vets and NRA men who imagine themselves the last bastion against commnnists if you could do both in China.

The idea is enough to turn you into a liberal pinko.

Police at the door? Hit the PANIC button to erase your RAM

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Re: RIPA2000

This is *dreadful* legislation, but no party seems even remotely interested in reforming it (I've tried asking them...)

What do UKIP say?

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Human rights in the British soviet?

In police states like the USA and Britain have become, human rights stop with the words: I arrest you.

The biggest problem the precaution has is that police raids tend to catch the targets unaware. Even with CCTV, you would have to be a very cool customer to think clearly about deleting all your computer files. Just downloading the app and telling yourself you are prepared to do that isn't enough to overcome the paralysis of an early morning raid by a gang of professional mobsters like a police team.

Guilty or innocent the doors and windows will be in shards and splinters along with your peace of mind and stay that way until you pay for the repairs and the councelling. And if you are important enough for the government to release the files from them, GCHQ will already have what you have.

If things go on like they seem to be going it won't be long before raids to get your personal copy of GCHQ's evidence will be deemed unecessary.

NHS chiefs' claims exposed: GP-data-grab boss claimed fattest expenses of the lot

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2@

A 2@ 2@ 2@ 2@ 2@!

Earthly astronomers catch best-ever image of MASSIVE solar flare

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Looked like a seismic event with it

The shudder that moved north or upwards with the eruption was too slow for ligh and shadow wasn't it?

Too fast for waves in the atmosphere to peak and trough too.

Estimate the speed of sound to be between 1 and 4000 mph for the atmospheric pressure.

Watch out, Yahoo! EFF looses BADGER on sites that ignore Do Not Track

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You get free internet?

Damn!

I have to pay for mine.

And I still have to watch adverts.

But now I can't watch free moviers online because NoScript won't let me.

Damn!

Oh, I already said that.

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Headmaster

everything will start falling behind paywalls.

Everything you don't want to read sea or hear on the internet will start falling behind paywalls.

There, FTFY.

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Facepalm

Your heart bleeds for NSA.

No Text.

Oh well if I must:

They should change the name of BT to GCHQ so Microsoft/Yahoo users might realise why they own all the landlines.

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Boffin

Ah yes I remember the salad days of yore.

Lady Chatterly made it into print in the 1960's I believe.

It was good to be young then. Not that I ever read it of course. I am looking forward to a transaltion of Fanny Hill into the vernacular (to be venal.) Especially because I like my porn to end happily ever after. Not just so I can understand it, I assure you.

So sod's law get's trumped by Murphy does it?

Well that just goes to show how sod's law works doesn't it.

Ouch... right in the Androids! Google hit by another antitrust sueball

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Paris Hilton

Except of course that it is the best search engine.

I have no idea what makes a good search engine but having all my data slurped over by the US government as well as handing me adverts for old women that want shagging and asbestos awareness courses I don't need taking, other things to watch on You Tube before I have finished watching things on You Tube and all the rest of it doesn't happen with duck duck go does it?

I prefer to use duck duck go to find things on the internet because shaped searches tend to find me the things I have already fucking well seen. Or is a better search engine supposed to be a walled AOL/MSN type garden?

Asteroids as powerful as NUCLEAR BOMBS strike Earth TWICE YEARLY

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Dumb Luck?

Talking statistics is talking rubbish.

The article says that none has ever seen any sign of thes things until after they happen. How the hell do they manage to miss every one of them when they are as common as solstices?

And how come none of these things have ever hit the moon?

Or did you all think that lunar craters are nearly perfectly symmetrical because that how meteor strikes operate on the moon as opposed to the ones that hit earth?

US Supreme Court supremo rakes Aereo lawman in oral arguments

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Dear prostitutes

Someone on here thinks prostitution is illegal:

"The same logic would have prostitution legal, since I have a right to have sex with any willing partner, but it is illegal to pay for it."

Can you please tell me if he is right?

I always thought people can have sex for pleasure or for money whichever they prefer. Or are we in the USA already?

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In Soviet America

The state rules you.

I don't get how he can be taken to court for not breaking the law and then have the judge there accuse him there of publically not breaking the law "on purpose".

About the egg timer the Reg uses:

Do you mean we can rewrite the post we spent how many minutes? 10 is it? rewriting, only to see it disappear into a vacuum before we get the chance to press control alt and save (which in case you hadn't thought about it (having considered the first part presumably????) requires more time, effort and concentration than clicking the submit button?)

Or do you mean that yes, in common with the most likely belief of most of us on here, it is a load of wank but that there has to be a reasonably good reason the wankers wank us?

Give us more time to hold a page open that has advertising on it perhaps?

Boss of Russia's Facebook says Putin cronies have taken over his company

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Don't be pedantic

You should know by now that internet forums are for people who are terminally hard of reading.

Brazilian president signs internet civil rights law

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Re: Going, Going, Gone?

"How long before the biggest serial privacy abusers (FesseBook, Goggle, et al) announce they are no longer doing business in Brazil"

How the hell can that possibly be a bad thing?

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Black Helicopters

It might help the Venezuelans

Something of the kind would prove what is going on there is due to criminals from the CIA. Especially if everyone had access to the internet. That is probably the greatest drawback their government faces. Someone is already cutting off the power in all the large cities.

That and some Snowden masks should help. Where can I get one?

Next Windows obsolescence panic is 450 days from … NOW!

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Pint

<OT>About them</OT>

I'm (less than important to everyobody)^3, don't have a server, only use Linux and forecast earthquakes:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.geo.earthquakes/GPgOSV-2bQg

What would you like to know?

PS:

I can't say I have never played a computer game. Someone came round with an Amstrad once and showed me one about driving a train. I couldn't see the point and saw no future in that sort of thing. Geo-Physics of course is endlessly entertaining -though full of prattfalls.

Plus you get to be a real Thaumaturge.

MIT boffins moot tsunami-proof floating nuke power plants

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But we live in a democracy

Some of us prefer fish having fingers.

And MIT have some notably dab hands in that plaice.

BSkyB, CityFibre, TalkTalk pull clear of bigwig BT's bundles – plan to set fibre to York

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Waterbout the plumbing?

I'd have thought piping broadband would have been better given to the water companies than to Bollocked Testicles. At least they know shit.

Samsung files patent for ear-mounted Google Glass competitor

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Re: I'm sure that will be very comfortable to wear

They will certainly be more comfortable than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick....

Unless steamlining makes that sort of thing less painful?

'Graceful' solar flare erupts from surface of Sun – NASA vid

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I forgot

Oh shit!

When did they introduce the memory bus?

Commonwealth Bank in comedy Heartbleed blog FAIL

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IIS - not affected

Is that because it doesn't need to be, or what?

SpaceX Falcon tests hovercraft tech – despite ISS outage

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Re: Where are the fins?

That Professor Goddard with his chair at Clark College doesn't know of the relationof action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum to push against.

http://astronauticsnow.com/blazingthetrail/gruntman_btt_pages/gruntman_blazingthetrail_p_117.pdf

Bollocks too to the Registers timeline for an edit. You bastards.

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Where are the fins?

Lap land?

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Re: Soft landing on the planet

"why dunk it if you can help it"

Not disagreeing with you but if you can't land it safe on earth where can you land it safely?

I can't see why Russia is set on going to the moon for its next project nor any of the stupid things the Chinese have been doing just because they can.

Why don't the lot of them get together and work on doing something they can't, much nearer home?

War easier to maintain than peace, is it?

Android engineer: We didn't copy Apple or follow Samsung's orders

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Good Grief!!!

What on earth is physical musical media?

A vynil record only make a noise when you drop it. It needs electronic circuitry of fabulous sophistication to get it to produce music.