Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: French non-image is different

With such QUALITY information sources it is lucky that JFK wasn't on the plane otherwise there would be rumors about Lyndon B. Johnson having fired on the plane from a grassy knoll.

"their"

there

"that your radar program is defective or the military personnel are failing to do their job"

Probably both, as is that caste's custom, but it's not as if Russians were particularly interested in a takeover of the vast stretches of roo-land at the point of the Avtomat Nikonova.

Re: If only...

High res spy sats are only any good if you know exactly where to look. Osama could have been sunbathing naked on the roof of his Pakistani hideout, waving at passing spysats and they still wouldn't have seen him until local intel gave some pointers.

Ah yes, about that...

New York Times journalist Carlotta Gall, who spent more than a decade reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan has pretty well confirmed that Pakistan not only knew of bin Laden’s presence, but actively protected him. More than that, the U.S. government knows they knew, and the Pakistanis know they know they knew.

Re: Surprised?

How do you black out AC's "Mom's basement"?

Re: The old

Regarding recent political events, the correct approach is "report whatever fits into a prevailing narrative, don't care about any facts, even later".

You could gas whole editorial boards and the garden sheds full of gnomically idiotic "opinion" page writers (WaPo and NYT I'm looking at you E.J. Dionne, Krauthammer etc. ) and nothing of value would be lost. Indeed, the average sanity of Earth would be markedly increased.

It is pretty cruel to just cut a ship loose at sea and the perps should be strung up by their gonads for some righteous drying ... but then:

In January 2014, there was speculation[19] based on an interview with a salvager in the British tabloid The Sun that the ship might be nearing the coast of England and be infested with cannibal rats. The rumours were subsequently debunked.[20][21] Psychic Uri Geller offered to help locate the ship.[22]

Okay.jpg.

Re: $1000 wouldnt be enough

Clearly you need Clippy to give you advice on blood pressure management.

Re: Lambdas meh, Java has always had Threads and Java 5 has concurrency classes

Don't meh the Lambdas, or they will lisp you in a curry.

Ruby and all the other hipster languages,like Scala, are wannabe mainstream languages, but have been discovered to not be usable in anger, so people went back to reliable Java.

This is politspeak for "I don't understand any of this, leave me alone!"

but that's not standard and not properly approved...

How exactly does you bank approve a new JVM? Do they rub body pieces of the CIO over it?

Re: Java on the desktop is dead

the Dalvik engine, which is Google's implementation of a Java VM

U wot M8?

It's not even a stack machine.

Re: Java on the desktop is dead

Java on the desktop is dead, it's primary use these days seems to be to infect your computer with malware. The best thing to do is deinstall it. I bet about 99% of people will never need it.

Sounds like random shock talking points from one of the "N arguments to make the heads of [some political opponent you want to antagonize today] explode" posts that one can regularly find on confusenik websites, written by people actually unable to develop a coherent train of thought.

Servers and mobiles seem to be a success area, but really it's depressing to see smartphones running Java apps

Which ones run Java?

Re: There is at least one other possibility...

then dig themselves into much bigger problems simply by telling lies to themselves

I suppose the solution to this here problem would then be to move everything into the cloud....

Re: Hijacking foiled scenario?

Plane is hijacked by tech savvy terrorist intent on a 9/11 type attack on Beijing.

Considering that no a single peep was hear from the nation-state listening stations, whereas for 9/11 chatter was extensive, the whole folder was basically on the FBI's desk and the undercover guy was phoning it in but got recalled for retarded bureaucratic infighting reasons... this is very unlikely.

"And tech-savvy terrorist forgets how to read a compass...."

"Batteries, Aziz!"

Re: Facts

I don't see why Freescale or Iranians come into this.

Care to elaborate? You seem to be hinting at something, possible a plot for "Moonraker II: The Boeing"

Re: Win 8 trade secrets

as opposed to giving away millions of hours to developing an operating system nobody wants or uses

I thought he was talking about all the nameless Microserfs mercilessly squeezed like sweat shop boys to give their Pocari Sweat to build Windows RT?

"Bond is sent by M to a clinic to improve his health. While massaged by physiotherapist Patricia Fearing, he notices Count Lippe, a suspicious man with a criminal tattoo (from a Tong). He searches Lippe's room, but is seen leaving by Lippe's clinic neighbour who is bandaged after plastic surgery. Lippe tries to murder Bond with a spinal traction machine, but is foiled by Fearing, whom Bond then seduces. Bond finds a dead bandaged man, François Derval. Derval was a French NATO pilot deployed to fly aboard an Avro Vulcan loaded with two atomic bombs for a training mission. He had been murdered by Angelo, a SPECTRE henchman surgically altered to match his appearance.

Angelo takes Derval's place on the flight, sabotaging the plane and sinking it near the Bahamas. He is then killed by Emilio Largo (SPECTRE No. 2) for trying to extort more money than offered to him. Largo and his henchmen retrieve the stolen atomic bombs from the seabed. All double-0 agents are called to Whitehall and en route, Lippe chases Bond. Lippe is killed by SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe for failing to foresee Angelo's greed. SPECTRE demands £100 million in white flawless uncut diamonds from NATO in exchange for returning the bombs. If their demands are not met, SPECTRE will destroy a major city in the United States or the United Kingdom. At the meeting, Bond recognises Derval from a photograph. Since Derval's sister, Domino, is in Nassau, Bond asks M to send him there, where he discovers Domino is Largo's mistress."

Yep, I think this must be how it happened.

Pretty sure there are. IIRC, in Yurop alone, subsidies are allocated depending on what is being grown, which is checked by you-guessed-what. All the tech for all the wrong things. On the other hand, we can analyze and map the whole surface of nearby planets within weeks. This isn't being done manually.

Anyway, I had a course on this back when Bush made Kuwait safe for the Emir again, back when computers were slow and 16 MByte counted for something.

Re: Maybe

I don't know what to think of this exhibit of millenial brain power.

What?

So you think it was the guy with the X-Files Collector's Edition in his personal library wot done it?

They expect some basic safeguards to be in place as they have other priorities in life, which don't include checking every little detail on things like in-app purchases.

PEBKAC

These "other priorities" apparently include buying the latest bling on which they then load games they don't understand (the use of which sure is going to be declared a "human right" by an UN panel any moment now).

UTTER FAIL.

Re: FFS, Reg...

What's that, ***? Not into the PC wars of 2014? **** ***, *****!