Posts by Christoph

Find out how they grow and connect

Rather than trying to map everything it should be a lot easier to work out how the brain develops, and how the connections grow and are pruned.

There's a lot less than 150 trillion proteins etc. used to grow the brain and to control how the wiring develops, it's *got* to be easier than mapping the result..

Somewhere ...

probably in the back room, I have a single board computer with hex keypad input, 8 LED output (i.e. 8 bits, not 8 characters), and Kansas City CUTS interface for storage.

Aaargh!

How stupid can they get? They've actually announced they intend to do this?

Talk about going down on their knees and begging people to race to see who can be the first to crack the system and issue a fake alert.

Encouraging terrorism?

So this would apply to encouraging terrorist acts like asking awkward questions in a Labour Party meeting? (Remember the bloke who got accused of terrorism for that?)

The usual obvious problem

As soon as this was live there would be loads of faked links directing people to those blocked sites while they thought they were going somewhere innocent.

Can I be the first to say ...

They really ought to secure their systems. I mean, it's not rocket science.

Only approved applications?

"all applications must be approved by the International Foundation for Online Responsibility"

Is this supposed to be how they will keep dodgy operators out? By an approval process?

Either it will be too tight and reject legitimate bids or too loose and let in crooks. In fact those will overlap.

And it could only work if it's easier to find porn there than elsewhere on the net. Which is, quite frankly, ludicrous.

Who, in which country, decides what classes as porn? Who decides what kinds of operation are legitimate?

Do they really think that porn operators will pay to restrict themselves to a domain that is trivial to block? Even if there is some advantage to having such a domain, they can simply point a non-xxx domain to the same server.

What advantage is this to anyone at all except the people selling the domains?

Their god got it wrong?

"upholds heterosexuality as God’s creative intent for humanity, and subsequently views homosexual expression as outside of God’s will".

A large proportion of humans are homosexual. This also happens in many other animals. It's not in any way 'unnatural', it happens in all cultures and all places and in many species.

If their god intended humans to be entirely and exclusively heterosexual but created them as they actually are, in part homosexual, then that would imply that their god, according to their own statement, is grossly professionally incompetent.

How else would he expect it to work?

"Some browsers offer a numbing sequences of nightly drops - and they may or may not work and they may or may not be reflect in what the final product will do,"

Yes, it's called open source development. Is he really claiming that Microsoft didn't make nightly builds available to the IE9 developers?

Did they get the name right?

"Instead of emails in English purporting to come from Mrs Miriam Abachi"

Were the Welsh ones from Mrs Trellis?

Wait for the obvious hacker reply

Which will be the first US Government website to get their own takedown notice, including the direct implication that they are involved in child pornography, hacked onto the front page of the site?

What about the really backward countries?

Will they apply the same child labour policy to the really backward mediaeval countries such as the United States of America?

http://www.firedupmissouri.com/content/jane-cunningham-says-enough-our-stupid-child-labor-laws-already

How does that compare with the figures for the USA?

I seem to remember the US has similar or worse figures?

Oh, and if you want to be pedantic (not that El Reg readers would *ever* be pedantic) there's live dinosaurs still around today - sitting on the branches going "tweet tweet".

We must protect the children!

Yes, we must censor the entire internet just in case a kiddie sees something meant for adults. But there's far more important things to do first.

For instance, do you realise that it is extremely dangerous for kiddies to play hopscotch in the fast lane of the M1? We must slow all traffic everywhere to a slow crawl to Protect The Children! Once we've taken care of that we can look at re-writing the internet in nice simple safe language with no discussion of anything nasty or disturbing.

I don't think they thought that through

"the staffer was required to delete the remark and report it to the bank."

So if someone were to locate the facebook page of a staffer and post lurid (but carefully not libellous) insults about the upper managers of the bank, said staffer would be required to report all those insults in detail to the managers? Every time it happened?

Hang on, that does make sense

A homeopathic scientist does make sense - it's someone who dilutes the meaning of the word 'Scientist' until there's nothing left, and then claims that this makes it much more powerful.