* Posts by Sooner Boomer

9 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2008

Is there anything to find on bin Laden's hard drive?

Sooner Boomer

Key length will be too short

"Can you imagine OBL keeping track of 20 odd random passphrases in his head?"

No, but I can imagine him memorizing the entire Koran. How many passphrases, and of what length, do you think he could derive from that?

Amazon jumps the gun on free clouds

Sooner Boomer
FAIL

Idiots...

"Our customers have told us they don't want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices."

Then Amazon customers must be total idiots (or Amazon must think they are...). How are people playing their music (files) without Amazon's service? Are microSD cards THAT hard to use?

Julian Assange™ applies to trademark himself

Sooner Boomer

so then it would br...

Assange®, or in plaintext, Assanger. ass anger. Appropriate.

Thunderstorms found to squirt antimatter into space

Sooner Boomer

Dung Beetles

So that feller's roller-ball vacuum is basicly a pile of dung?

Texas National Guard site disappears after malware attack

Sooner Boomer
Go

I wonder...

...if these so-called "miscreants" realize that folks in Texas carry guns, and are *more than* willing to use them. Google "Joe Horn" if you need an example. These folks might just find themselves invaded by the TNG. (mine's the "Go Git 'em!" sign.

'Idiot' pulls cables, downs ISPs at Telecity

Sooner Boomer

Isn't this exactly...

...what that guy in San Francisco was afraid of. Looks like he was right, just a few miles off. I guess stupidity is more pervasive than we feared.

New York subpoenas Comcast 'reasonable network management' records

Sooner Boomer
IT Angle

Provide what you advertise

If an ISP advertises "all you can eat 24/7" then that's what they should provide. Unlimited downloads should mean exactly that. ATT/SBC is even worse - after 20 minutes of downloading a torrent, they shut off my DSL modem. After 3 new modems, and many complaint phone calls, situation is not resolved.

Taliban demand night-time cell tower shutdown

Sooner Boomer
Pirate

Go ahead, shut down the towers

I have two words for you - "Rivet Joint". Go ahead an look it up....go ahead, I'll wait.

(icon meaning "death" not "pirates")

Virgin exhibits coconut-powered flying jumbo

Sooner Boomer
Happy

@Mark

"...Coconuts are non-migratory"

(obMonty Python)

GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts are migratory?

ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.

The question IS: African or European swallows?