Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: nanny mozilla strikes again

> and I often don't have the time to drop everything and upgrade Java

You better get your lazy arse in gear and employ half an hour to do something productive, then.

Re: Ominous.

> republicans are driven by libertarian fervor

I don't think the words you use have the meaning that you think they have.

Republicans are big-state conservatives, they just to tax & spend for as much as democrats, or at least do not manage to do otherwise. This is called "bipartisan consensus": spending other people's money to mind other people's business, while doing some welfare on the side. If one can squeeze it in, grill some sandpeople for fun & profit.

Libertarians are something completely different.

Re: The Black Swan Theory

Not sure this is a "Black Swan" (unforeseen event that your model didn't account for and that gets you unawares like a supernova popping off in your neighborhood while you thought about visiting the next solar system).

It is just utter failure of vision and willingness to take risks, followed by wanking over the godlike benevolence and willingness to take risks of the magnificent state by paid court jesters. Here in the person of professor Mazzucato, who probably doesn't even know what "neoliberal" means. (What does it mean? It means the person who has given up on classical laissez-faire liberalism by injecting a fat post-WWII dose of socialistic state control, aka. "favouring middle of the road" policy.

We are quite a bit further down the "middle" of that kinda road now, of course, as evidenced here. My, these fasces are coming awfully close.

Re: What the UK can bring to the table.

Yes. The could all meet at the Deep-Fried Mars Bar, then stay there.

Re: a 10^15 dollar

At what point does 1.7 quadrillion (about $243,000), per year, have any relationship to the real world?

NOW!!

I guess these are not always different quadrillions sloshing around in there, indeed they are quite like the same going around like fat cows in circles, though I would wager that Bernanke's 65 billion dollar per month of QEn are in there SOMEWHERE.

Re: Lawyers paradox

EPIC STD!

Re: Linux wasn't using RDRAND directly

the XOR instruction hasn't been modified to recognise when it is working with RDRAND output

Excellent trolling, the same people who unlock the backward compatibility on XBOXONE must fall for this.

Not a triumph

Please, no use of "kind of lame" around this here comment section.

> the only people running MSL ARE real scientists

Aren't they more akin to engineers though? In actuality, I would not want to have a honest-to-god scientist running space programs, quite apart from the fact that he/she should be doing Science!.

Re: TL;DR me if you like, but this is important

Yes, yes but:

Telcos spent years building robust networks in a highly regulated domain. In exchange for the pain and complexity, they got to have virtual monopolies on their services,

I think that's ass (the animal) backwards. This is a highly regulated domain because the Telcos and their suppliers like the cartelization and actively lobby for it. It is not a gift of monopoly by state for slavishly following regulation written by bureaucrats.