* Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

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Met Office wants better supercomputer to predict extreme weather

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Re: New Computamabobs...

@ElNumbre

Correct me if I am wrong but it took more than 18 months to get the last one up and running.

When they got it running properly, they started asking once more. It's a finance war against the mandains, similar to the military ones.

The biggest problem with Superdoopers is they consume inordinate amounts of energy queuing up algorithms. What is really needed is a device to save that 98% energy flux heating the environment with what is something like 10 megawats of waste.

Either that or find out what actually causes weather.

Nobody seems to be working on that one.

Barclays axes 422 UK IT staff

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British management

Strikes didn't kill the car industry. British management killed the car industry, it killed everything even the world economy. Can't you even read the story you are commenting on?

I worked at the Knuthouse once. Youhave toi use their cash card to buy anything in their canteens. At the end of the week you should be able to claim your remaining credit back on the card issued. It was always empty on Friday.

In the bank headquarters that is some 64 acres of Bank.

If they couldn't run that they can't possibly run anything larger or remotely complex. And we have a world national debt to prove it.

'My product is driPhone, not iPhone'

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Pirate pirated

"Journalists and news editors were looking out for their employment prospects, the media analysis company Lexis Nexis speculated, having conducted a survey into coverage of the proposed law and found a curious silence in "mainstream" outlets."

The idea of Mucky Murdoch's empire crumbling because other people are doing unto him what he hath done unto everybody makes me sick with anger that I can't punch his octogenarian multimillion pound face in.

Still, it will give me something to think about at night when I can't sleep. I can cuddle up to his bloodstained corpse in my dreams when they do arrive and wrap my arms loving around his neck, just to make sure.

Reg hack cops a licking from the bosun's cat

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Alert

In the middle of the night. I go wallowing in the deep.

Wearing a couple of boat anchors. Though the waves are so steep.

Shipmen got in the non ship type floatation device and pretended to be taking the spare anchor out to some unspecified location to unspecifically help the ship ride the waves better in some way. Just like any man jack of them would do in such circumstances.

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Holmes

When they appear on the MetO North Atlantic SSP charts (produced by the supercomputer that they have now got running, I am led to believe) boat anchors forecast volcanic activity.

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Correctio (I think)

The nights are getting shorter and the days will be getting longer soon. (I think that's right.)

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Boffin

Ships and boats

I was wondering if someone was going to make a distinction between ships and boats. I was thinking the anchor pictured would be a boat anchor or for a very small ship. One off from a trwler then?

It looks about 6 feet long and I'm guessing weighs half a ton or just under.

If it was cast once it must have also been wrought. It would never have been cast from a boat as it is too heavy for two men to handle safely and not from a ship as it would be hanging off the sharp end, out of reach to most.

Manning's lawyer calls for pre-trial officer to quit case

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Mushroom

I'm not in the army now or ever was

And the poor wretch who spoke to a civilian whilst in a shit for brains army isn't now either. He is in prison in a country that openly abuses people (according to spokespersons for ex Presidunce George the Thick.)

This case could get interesting: http://infinitefuture.blogspot.com/

US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says

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Whaddaya mean "Next"?

I remember the good old days, when the Brits used to send in half a dozen tanks where only four were needed. The USA routinely offed 2/3rds of their allies.

The home team shot down all the US aircraft at Pearl Harbour just before WW2.

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Worse than the USA?

Where have you been living for the last decade or so?

Jimbo Wales ponders Wikipedia blackout

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Facepalm

Yebbut

They both conkered merica dinnit?

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Terminator

Pecuniary disadvantaged

Wikipedia put the whistle-blower off the air for trying to alert the world to the state of the world’s banking under the good king George the Thick.

I have no idea what their politics is but I am pretty sure what their funding strategy was before the world and it's bubble imploded forcing them too to go begging.

Well done Jiimmy.

Carrier IQ VP: App on millions of phones not a privacy risk

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Trollface

Si emptor curandum. Et emptor curaturum.

"The fundamental issue here is whether the carriers have been genuinely abusing the software, or whether they're just using it to monitor their network's performance, as is claimed. Whether the users were aware of the application's existence in the first place is utterly irrelevant: they agreed to the operators' T's & C's up-front. The onus is on the end user to read those contract terms and conditions *before* signing on the dotted line.

It may be 2011, but the golden rule of "Caveat Emptor" still applies."

Are you a shill?

Once they realise that there is a problem they will tryto undertand theproblem. And once they understand the problem they will try to solve it. This usually takes the phorm of buying a bigger and better machine.

It was the making of Windows. I can't see how it can fail for phones.

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Pint

Doh!

Or have the programme switch on and off-able.

Cambridge puts Isaac Newton's notes online

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Which Cambridge?

Keele University had all this stuff at one time before the dickheads sold it to America.

I can't imagine a British Uni putting anything online for free. That is a strictly USAan policy.

Malicious gossip could cost you your job

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Flame

Speaking from experience

My ex-wife made such allegations against me. Unfounded and spiteful in the nature of such things, I am still tainted and of course totally unable to prove my innocence.

There should be a law similar to that of an eye for an eye when someone makes such an accusation.

I'd have her eyes to content myself with. I'd preserve them for jinglingling like clackers whenever I thought about it.

Google unfurls less laughable Wikipedia

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Paris Hilton

Zap Ruder

Toilet Clogs?

What a pair!

San Francisco sysadmin stays in jail for now

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Thumb Up

The Cisco Kid

Apt name for the Childs.

Originally the hero of the silver screen was a murdering criminal of the lowest kind. Soon histrory saw him as an hero.

Politics is ever thus.

Rogue SF sysadmin coughs up passwords

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Happy

SFSico II

From a link posted about it earlier:

Sole administrator

A key point made in the e-mail is that Childs' managers and coworkers all knew that he was the only person with administrative access to the network. In fact, it was apparently known and accepted in many levels of the San Francisco IT department. Again, quoting from the e-mail:

“This is where it gets tricky for the prosecution, IMO, because the localized authentication, with Terry as sole administrator, has been in place for months, if not years. His coworkers knew it (my coworkers and I were told many times by Terry's coworkers, 'If your request has anything to do with the FiberWAN, it'll have to wait for Terry. He's the only one with access to those routers'). His managers knew it.

"Other network engineers for the other departments of the City knew it. And everyone more or less accepted it.

"No one wanted the thing to come crashing down because some other network admin put a static route in there and caused a black hole; on the other hand, some of us did ask ourselves, 'What if Terry gets hit by a truck?' If a configuration is known and accepted, is that 'tampering'?”

My source appears to believe that Childs' motivation was the antithesis of tampering, and that Childs did everything possible to maintain the integrity of the network, perhaps to a fault:

“He's very controlling of his networks -- especially the FiberWAN. In an MPLS setup, you have 'provider edge' (PE) routers and 'customer edge' (CE) routers. He controlled both PE and CE, even though our department was the customer; we were only allowed to connect our routers to his CE routers, so we had to extend our routing tables into his equipment and vice versa, rather than tunneling our routing through the MPLS system.”

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-n

He shouldn't be in gaol at all!

He should be free to hold the secrets he was entrusted with -until payment was made for the knowledge he was allowed to leave his employment with.

You don't sack a man in that position until you have made him release his secrets. Once you stop paying him you can't expect any different.

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Coat

SF Cisco

What does SF stand for? SanAndreas' Fault? Send fail? Systems failure? Sentry fled? Soft Fu....errr ....geddit.

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Unhappy

After they turned off the Caps Lock

How do you do that then?

Convicted spammer goes AWOL from federal prison

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AOL spammer

Absent Over Long?

How long was he down th pub before anyone noticed?

Most w-s from those holiday camps go aol when it becomes clear further legal action against them is pending. If authorities ever tried talking to each other, things could get a little more secure.

Home Office classes openness review a secret

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Coat

Suspr0n, Middlepr0n, etc

However, to be fair to the Home Office, there is no evidence that it is any worse than any other government department in this respect.

Somehow I get a tight restricted breathing feeling when I try to analyse that. Oi! What's that chap doing with my hey.. you...

Jeremy Clarkson tilts at windmills

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Need front plates

How about finding a neighbour with the same model and swapping one number plate?

Or buy 2 cars of the same model (and colour.)

Dublin airport was crippled by flakey network card

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2@MoD

> They're using it for flight critical stuff too (they're calling it CDN or ARINC664)

03 July 2008

Thales UK welcomes contract signature for new aircraft carriers

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today signed the contract for the manufacturing phase of the carrier programme.

http://www.thalesgroup.com/

Coupled with the order for the aircraft to play on these stations going to USA...

Should be interesting if we follow them into Iran.

I can just see the headlines from the boarding parties:

"All your inspection personnel are belong us."

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Jobs Halo

Two be Sure To be be sure

Big O rah.

Brown's aide, Mata Hari and the BlackBerry

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Meta Harry

>But the Chinese woman was no true Mata Hari - if she were she would presumably

> have copied the BlackBerry's contents and returned it to the the aide while he was

> still sleeping it off.

Why? It's not as if the MoD would learn anything they would put to use. And a second hand mobile in China would be worth more than a couple of used CDs in Clapham. They wouldn't need transporting home, for a start.

Google eats Russkie ad firm

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There can only be 2 reasons that I can see.

Eye eye.

(Sorry about that. K Melleon seems to think my last missive had an excellent title, worthy of recycling.

Eat that IE.) ((I love this browser BTW.))

Meanwhile, cloaked in secrecy the big question is

> The question for M$ is why didn't you get there first?

And the answer is: They did.

Why do you think half the superpwned all report to Moscocv? And half to NSA, Washingdone.

It would explain the missing White House e-mails at any rate.

Prime Minister's email takes month off

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There can only be 2 reasons that I can see.

3.

Brownout.

EU thumps Intel with more anti-AMD charges

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Doh

Ermm what exactly is the Register involvement with this case?

MMMmmm cases...

San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail

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San Fran politician

They re-elected the mayor who caused all the fire damage after that earthquake a hundred years back. They really know how to handle petty criminals over there.

What they really need is for some way that they can elect this guy.

Wait... e-ballots.

OK!

Nice one. And he should get a nice bonus from ..wassaname of them vote fixers... Bush.. no.. Die something... Dyebush. That's it.

ETS apologises for online marking blunders – again

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Checking all the right poxes

Lowest bidder does not always mean best value for the NHS.

But it does ensure the survival of the fittest.

Irate sysadmin locks San Francisco officials out of network

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Paris Hilton

A cunning plan.

"One does sort of 'root' for the underdog, but unless he has a cunning and devious plan up his sleeve, he is in for some rough treatment."

The best cunning plans involve not getting caught. Failing that technique, we can at least hope he was devious enough -and his employers stupid enough, to fall into a trap he set that will exonerate him by wiping all the evidence, or changing it enough to make the case fail.

I find it hard to imagine politicians and civil servants being cluebatted up enough to cope with that.

Want a new career as a contract killer?

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Paris Hilton

“security”, “armed”, “private” and “for hire” & Feeling lucky.

No thanks. If I have to look like one of those I'd rather take my chances with HM Job Centre.

IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz

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Somethinhg in the "What?? ...errr"

The anti-Vista jokes were funny and the pro-Vsta posts were funny for their bad timing.

I just want to know what happened to all the "Where is Osama Bin Laden now that they have the technology" jokes?

Or is this one going into the great Microschism in the NSA?

Tetris anyone?

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Paris Hilton

Metric?

Have we got a value for chips? Something like a Bletchley, say? How many huts is a core worth? And is a Layer of chip surface area an adequate description of the Standard Bletch?

Intel stinks

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Pirate

Who were the realtors? Intel?

Reminds me of the story some years ago of the country cottage owner no longer permitted to keep chickens because the incumers didn't take to country life as is.

Or was.

Ex-HP veep pleads guilty to passing on IBM trade secrets

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Black Helicopters

HP & NSA

I hardly imagine that any large player in the industry is unaware for what the new IBM supercomputer is going to be used and what whichever secret service in charge of instituting the new spyware laws is going to be doing with everyone's insides.

What with the latest submarines designed to couple up to glass filaments 1000 leagues under the sea...

Old fashioned P2P encrypted 128 whatevers are not going to hold up the Internets very long.

Davis increases majority, says goodbye to Tory front bench

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IT Angle

Very Interesting ....but...

How many sincere politicians will get the message and do the same?

Ah, yet, oxymoron.... "sincere politician" ..well, apart from that then?

Trust on the slide, Chris Moyles on the up at BBC

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WTF?

"As the BBC Trust opines: “At the heart of BBC culture sit the values of honesty, integrity and straight dealing. These values... must be impressed on people on the day they join and be at the heart of their professional life throughout their time at the BBC.”"

I only got as far as that fart. I used to play at BBC BBs. It was the most heavily censored board I have ever seen. But that wasn't the worst of it.

They hired people to change your post to suit them. I have never come across such blatant, lying hypocrisy before or since.( I had it happen once on an Earthwaves notice board but after asking them to remove all my posts, they did.)

I loaded all my posts to the Beeb with foul language in the hope they'd have a fit and delete the lot.

Bastards!

Thief swipes cabinet minister's laptop from Salford office

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IT Angle

Stupid lessons

Where can I go to get thick so I can get into politics?

The British Empire neds me.

Ah here's a tricky one, do I put a Paris Hilton on here and show I know what's what or do I forget to and make myself look good?

I'll just check it with my honourable friend.

US Senate to probe Goo-Hoo!

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Coat

Ook?

Is this the same senate that can't be bothered to ask a monkey how he got them into an illegal war?

The same one irresponsible for permitting GITMO and renditions?

Nice to think it will impinge on us to our favour.

AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic

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Spam

I seem to be getting more spam lately. I can't say it is a better class of spam either:

"AVG 8 scans search results on Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's Live Search. And unlike similar technology from ScanSafe, it doesn't mask the user's IP address."

Firefox record breaker sets the date

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Let's have out own party

And download Konquerer, Safari, Opera, K-Melleon and all them others instead.

Interstate web host foils gonzo porn baron Max Hardcore

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Backing off

If someone puts something in a sewer and it backs up to your house, you are the one who has to do something about it.

First clean house then find the bastard that did it. And if the sewer pipe was intercontinental so what? He shouldn't shit on my floor!

Hacker cops to $70k botnet rampage

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Good one.

I can't see them getting their costs but that would be nice. Or better if he did the full 9 yards for failing to cough up.

And then got done for botherding.

(How do you misappropriate one of them, BTW?)

I remember Tom Coyote's forum being done at the same time, I think his was one of the first of that group. Now his forum has been taken over by people trying to sell me stuff.

Not the botherd but someone who stepped in when he hit flat broke. Shame. I wonder if he can get comp.

Cavalcade of privacy watchdogs bark for data pimping probe

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Pro file

What are the profiles they look for when they want these sort of people? And where can I get a list of qualifications for these secret service jobs such as water applications information officer?

Renditions flights controls~ officer, liason officer, route planner, resuscitator.

US FTC cracks open anti-trust investigation on Intel

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>on the fence

They don't have a reasonable 32 bit OS yet, what on earth are you talking about 64 bit OSs?

Wikipedia kills Greatest Show On Earth

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Happy

> By Joe K. WTF II

It's like insider dealing only on the outside.

If you were inside you could illegally manipulate things to scam money on unsuspecting investors. People don't do it because it is illegal. Enron and such come to mind.

On the outside you can set up rumours in popular watering holes. It's called Slander or Libel. It can cost a firm money, like the early assaults via the Internet on Proctor and Campbell and MacDonalds and etc.

E-mails full of lies were sent in chains with the intent of putting people off using them or just having a cheap laugh. But the rumours cost millions. And innocent people got hurt.

So other counter rumour mongers set up sites like Urban Legend and Snopes' etc.

So if you get in with Jones' and co and start putting rumours out about the Utah company, the shares will fall and you can buy them or get someone to buy them. Then you can strip their assets if they go bump. Or you can catch the customers as they leave.

And if you pick a firm that is just ripe, you can cost them a fortune and they won't be able to pay the lawyers to sue you. Or they will be forced to try and sue Jones' first leaving a pit like SCO dug, for innocent parties to fall into.

And if they lose, the freedom of the internet is at stake so we don't want the rumour spreaders caught.

Personally, I'd change the law over-night, catch the crooks and hang them after watching their wives and children being raped and butchered in front of them.

Then I'd start on their cronies.

And then the 419ers.

Then Tory B Liar after letting him know what was coming and stopping him fleeing to Washington.