Re: Geography Lesson
> Who mentioned Nigeria?
Exactly!
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TWELFTH-CENTURY TARDIS turns up in Ethiopia
New Terminator-style 'bots can self-assemble, leap, climb and SWARM
Police constable 1337 stunned by Lego lookalike
Microsoft: We're nearly OUT OF STOCK of Surface 2 and Pro 2
Two years after Steve Jobs' death, how's that new CEO working out?
Sunday 6th October 2013 13:28 GMT 
The anti-capitalistic mentality is strong in this thread.
Apple should be attacked for one thing only: Their attempt to control the market through monopolistic practices: patents, lawfare and engineered incompatibilities.
For the rest, go forth Apple, and break up sclerotic shit.
Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII
Sunday 6th October 2013 10:10 GMT
Re: Should be titled "Down with UTF-16"
> There's nothing wrong with Unicode's approach of mapping each character to a code point
Actually there is plenty of wrong with that. Because then you suddenly need the whole cartesian product of diacritics and the base characters.
The only one who I would trust to come up with a "good Unicode" would be Knuth.
Saturday 5th October 2013 22:11 GMT
Re: The historical accident of little-endian
Compare this with another ridiculous right-to-left vestige: the mathematical notation for function composition: f(g(x)), so cumbersome that mathematicians composing functions a lot (e.g., in category theory) adopt notation from programmers
I think you cannot into math.
It's written f∘g (x), with the ∘ generally being a bog-standard multiplication sign.
"Notation from programmers", indeed. Pchao.
Samsung denies benchmark cheating, despite evidence
Twitter spills unprofitable guts in $1bn IPO filing
Friday 4th October 2013 07:43 GMT
Re: Where did the money go?
> They have a system with one table database, two columns, max single record of 140 characters
Not at that volume, we don't.
And you would be surprised at the money that even a company housed in a shed can burn through.
As for the "5 people company". Do you really expect much happening in a 5 people company unless you outsource pretty much everything?
It's official: Steelie Neelie is a triple-triple-TRIPLE win digital woman
Friday 4th October 2013 07:39 GMT
It's like we are doing elections here?
Women, the digital market and Europe's economy can all benefit from more females working in the IT sector within the EU, Brussels' unelected digital czar Neelie Kroes insisted today.
The whole of Europe could benefit if a mothership from Xargoz IV appeared in low earth orbit and proclaimed that it would hand over unbelievable technology to caring and liberal/progressive nations which have "free healthcare" and strong gun laws not to mention the foresight to worry about global warming and that treat their army of public employees well by giving them higher salaries than can ever be reached in the private sector.
But it ain't gonna happen.
Iranian cyberwar chief shot dead. Revolutionary Guard: Assassination? Don't 'speculate'
Thursday 3rd October 2013 16:01 GMT
Re: terrorism, not war
[Citation needed for killing random Jews Worldwide]
While Iran is not a do-gooder country (but still stays seriously below the rap sheet of "The West" in all respects, a fact for which quite a lot of our "leaders" should spend their lives in a supermax), the AMIA bombing has all the clarity of the finding that "Iran was working with Al Qaeda towards 9/11", i.e. something served up in fast food fashion for boobus americanus and his siblings. WIth mayonnaise on top.
Indictment of Iran for ’94 Terror Bombing Relied on MEK
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman based his 2006 warrant for the arrest of top Iranian officials in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 on the claims of representatives of the armed Iranian opposition Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), the full text of the document reveals.
The central piece of evidence cited in Nisman’s original 900-page arrest warrant against seven senior Iranian leaders is an alleged Aug. 14, 1993 meeting of top Iranian leaders, including both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then president Hashemi Rafsanjani, at which Nisman claims the official decision was made to go ahead with the planning of the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA).
But the document, recently available in English for the first time, shows that his only sources for the claim were representatives of the MEK or People’s Mujahideen of Iran. The MEK has an unsavory history of terrorist bombings against civilian targets in Iran, as well as of serving as an Iraq-based mercenary army for Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq War.
And also
Argentine Report Casts Doubt on Iran Role in '94 Bomb
Less than three weeks after that Iranian bid for negotiations, on March 17, 2002, a bomb blast destroyed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 26 people. Argentina, the United States, and Israel have long maintained that Iran was responsible for both that bombing and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA headquarters.
But it seems unlikely that Iranian leaders would have ordered or knowingly supported any terror bombing in Buenos Aires just when they were concerned with nailing down an agreement to protect Iran's important interests in relations with Argentina.
The report goes on to present new information that also appears to rule out an Iranian role in the 1994 AMIA bombing. It confirms that Menem canceled the second and third nuclear technology contracts with Iran but not the first contract involving the low-enriched uranium.
etc. etc.
Cloud biz model 'unproven' as Amazon scares world+dog into competing - or ELSE
Thursday 3rd October 2013 09:14 GMT
Re: Gee.
Can someone somewhere come up with a convincing reason to stream GBs of data to a cloud over a sub 1MBps link to somewhere largely unknown?
Exactly not the target market.
For me, the cloud works because I use it to quickly set up and tear down applications for customer projects or for trialing software.
Thursday 3rd October 2013 09:04 GMT
Re: Gee.
Goddammit Jake, posting from your survivalist stronghold innawoods again.
"Security" against NSA or whatever is not the point at all. It's easier to cloudify than manage the horror of the infrastructure in-house. Sure, it may not fit all use cases (and you seem to say that it must fit all use cases). Welcome to the market.
By your rationnel, there would be no Internet because not secure etc. etc. Instead leased lines would be everywhere.
"Joke Alert" icon because it is the nearest to "Jake Alert"
Feds smash internet drug bazaar Silk Road, say they'll KEELHAUL 'Dread Pirate Roberts'
In defence of defenestration: Microsoft MUST hurl Gates from the Windows
US spy court says internet firms can't report surveillance requests
Washington Post officially sold to Amazon's Bezos for quarter of a Tumblr
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 16:12 GMT 
Glories of Youth
"that broke Watergate"
Nowadays carrying water for AIPAC and various imperalist agendas or else permashilling for various D.C. powerplayers. Called the "Neocon Post" for a reason.
They even waited for the Guardian to come out with the Snowden Snowball first.
That outfit needs a slash and burn.
Britney-obsessed Ubuntu 13.10 DUMPS X Windows-killer Mir in desktop U-turn
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 16:06 GMT 
Mir will now be know as "WTC 5"
As Mayor Guliani once said with his best Tarkin impersonation to a firefighter asking what to do about the burning WTC 5: "PULL IT" (because why did we spend the past 2 months setting the demolition charges if we don't use them now?)
[...okay what he actually said was "PULL OUT" (because a majorly large part of the support structure is missing), but that's not nearly as fun.]
Scientists to IPCC: Yes, solar quiet spells like the one now looming can mean Ice Ages
Curiosity keeps on trucking despite government shutdown
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 09:44 GMT 
All in all it's a sorry 55th birthday for NASA. The agency came into being on October 1, 1958 after being set up by President Eisenhower, who also established the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
That's a simplifying view of history. I remember the story of Lyndon B. Johnson operated operationally in Washington to create NASA to replace NACA, purposefully using practically the same name and posting legislation in Arthur Dent fashion buried and just before holidays. I need to find that story back. I need to find that story back.
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 09:08 GMT
Worse than theatre. Clown show.
By Peter G. Klein
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
We all know that in GovMedia speak, “spending cut” means reducing the rate of increase in spending, while “shutdown” means reducing the workforce by 40%. From David Henderson we learn that “defund” apparently means “change a few implementation requirements without reducing funding by a penny.” Specifically, the Congresspeople who supposedly want to “defund” Obamacare proposed only to scrap the individual mandate [mandatory buying of health insurance] and remove the subsidy for Congresspeople and their staffers.
Remember the old Soviet-era joke, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us?” This is the state of US political discourse about economic issues. The Republicans pretend to oppose Obamacare, and the Democrats pretend to oppose them. The purported differences are trivial, the “debate” political theater. Only government officials and the Official Media are amused.
'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 07:37 GMT
The reflexive "he was an exec, he must be bad" idiots are out in force I see. Apparently they trust the government and the SEC. I laugh.
"Insider trading" is very often a bullshit accusation, where you are being asked to prove you are not a witch. I expect the next level will come where you are accused of not having sold your shares in spite of knowing their value would go up, depriving poor widows and children of their just rent.
The real insiders are setting pretty on the Hill and clustering around Fed offices to pull on the contracts fuelled by money printing. Anyone ready to haul them away? Nope.
US.gov - including NASA et al - quits internet. Is the UN running it now?
Tuesday 1st October 2013 22:38 GMT
Liberal spotted
"It's pretty clear that once anybody understands what "obamacare" is really all about, they really, really want it. And that would really destroy the Tea-bagger narrative, now wouldn't it."
Apparently YOU really understand what obamacare is all about, so YOU want it. Does anybody else? Must be those freaking "tea-baggers", right.
As far as I see it, its is mandatory insure to be taken out by the taxpayer for a service that already exists in quite a few places. It's not something that will help the bottom rungs to get "free healthcare", which is a concept that exists only in the addled minds of people who think things like healthcare can be "free" (don't be surprised by no service or a deathtrap when you actually need it, as is the use in quite a few places in Yurop). It is also a promise to not pay healhcare workers for the work they do (that is the part called "price controls").
But apart from that.... anyone talking about the runaway military spending and the cancerous government growth that could be curtailed in order to continue working? NOPE! NO WAY, NO SIR! THAT'S AN ACQUIRED BENEFIT, THIS IS! GIMME AN ADDITIONAL F-35 SQUADRON ON THE TAB, PLEASE. AND ANOTHER 10'000 FEDERAL WORKERS DOING NOTHING BUT HEAT THEIR SEATS IN D.C.
We all know that in GovMedia speak, “spending cut” means reducing the rate of increase in spending, while “shutdown” means reducing the workforce by 40%. From David Henderson we learn that “defund” apparently means “change a few implementation requirements without reducing funding by a penny.” Specifically, the Congresspeople who supposedly want to “defund” Obamacare proposed only to scrap the individual mandate and remove the subsidy for Congresspeople and their staffers.
Remember the old Soviet-era joke, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us?” This is the state of US political discourse about economic issues. The Republicans pretend to oppose Obamacare, and the Democrats pretend to oppose them. The purported differences are trivial, the “debate” political theater. Only government officials and the Official Media are amused.
As well as the patsies, apparently.
Google adds Large Hadron Collider tunnel to Street View
GCHQ's CESG CCP 4 UK GOV IT BFFs? LOL RTFA INFOSEC VIPs ASAP
ATOM SMASHER ON A CHIP technology demonstrated
Monday 30th September 2013 13:00 GMT
Cut it some SLAC
> First, you must get the electrons up to speed and then ramp up their energy using electric fields and a precisely engineered tube of ridges
That is because after a "suitably high" energy, the speed doesn't change much because of "that speed limit".
This wouldn't make an "atom smasher" either (no hadrons), but if you add:
1) An antielectron source
2) The calorimeters and other detector stuff
you might get a Small Electron-Positron Collider or a Small SLAC which can be fun.
Thorium and inefficient solar power? That's good enough for me
Monday 30th September 2013 11:52 GMT
Re: Slightly fruity comparison
"You are precisely correct, civilian nuclear plants ARE derived from U.S. nuclear submarine development"
In a large, vague way yes.
On the other hand, Fukushima-style Boiling Water Reactors do NOT fint into submarines.
For that, you have Pressurized Water Reactors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PWR_reactors
> But the public trusted the nuclear designers before
When was that?
Saturday 28th September 2013 15:37 GMT
Re: Slightly fruity comparison
So.... Mr "Retired Physicist" talking from on high to the rubes...
It's all down to ignorance and nuclear lobbying? And a lack of logic?
But on the other hand, relying on solar/nuclear is faith and the infrastructure is crutters anyways because of economic uncertainty over the price of electricity?
"Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology"
Yeah. I despair of my profession.
Clear this week's diary - Twitter just might flash its secret $15bn IPO in public
London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY
Sunday 29th September 2013 10:53 GMT
Re: Hurr durr!
Spamhaus CIO Richard Cox removed from RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group, 18 November 2010:
James Blessing, concerned Internet citizen, said he noticed that Co-Chair Richard Cox tends often not to be present at RIPE Meetings or not involved, unless it is to be hostile towards RIPE itself. He asked if Richard was the correct person to be working group co-chair.
Working Group Co-Chair Brian Nisbet said he contacted Richard and asked him to respond to comments that had been made, but Brian had not heard back from Richard in relation to this.
Jim Reid, Internet citizen, said this was a delicate issue, and even if the co-chair of a working group was critical of RIPE, that is not necessarily a bad thing. He said, however, that his opinion was that Richard crossed a line insofar as his comments were unfair and unjustified, and he confused RIPE with the RIPE NCC in his comments, which is not helpful. He said Richard’s comments unfairly damaged the reputation of RIPE, the RIPE NCC and the Anti-Abuse Working Group.
Rob Blokzijl, RIPE Chair, noted that this is the first time there has been a situation like this in the history of RIPE. Rob noted that the RIPE Chair, the Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board and the RIPE NCC Managing Director met with Richard where they tried to clear up some misunderstandings. He said all three who met with Richard are disappointed that the outcome of this meeting, where they thought issues had been cleared up, were not reflected in subsequent posts from Richard that were published on websites. He said he felt that if you were elected to chair a working group by the RIPE community then you had a responsibility to that community and to its secretariat, the RIPE NCC. He concluded that it would be better for the community if Richard would step down so it would be clear that when he spoke he was speaking for himself and not the RIPE community.
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Brian said he had discussed the matter with Rob prior to the working group session and they agreed that the working group had the authority to appoint its co-chairs and, therefore, to remove them. Brian asked if anyone was willing to stand up and object to Richard Cox being removed as Co-Chair of the Anti-Abuse Working Group. As nobody took this action, Brian declared that consensus had been reached. He said that he would require a new co-chair and he expressed his wishes that one could be in place by the RIPE 62 Meeting.
Sunday 29th September 2013 10:35 GMT
Hurr durr!
Not a friend of spam but not a friend of Spamhaus either, having been bitten by their enthusiastic policies which are on the level of Team Amurrica and the Centre for the Propagation of Democracy in the Middle East before.
A good read:
Cyberbunker account of the blacklist event
A2B account of the blacklist event
Spamhaus account of the blacklist event
Unrelated but at least Cyberbunker is funny:
Cyberbunker raided by SWAT team
I feel I'm gonna host with those guys.
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