Re: Maybe it was just one impact
Nah it's the public "health" budget cuts (coupled to salary increases for state employees to give full-spectrum austerity) and companies buying up all the lithium for batteries...
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Curiosity team: Massive collision may have killed Red Planet
Friday 19th July 2013 01:52 GMT 
You can get to photosynthesis, but Mars is smaller and colder, so the laboratory needs more time.
Now, if Pluto rammed Mars, wouldn't that have zeroed the surface of the whole ball and be evident??
PEAK APPLE: 'iPhone sales STALL' at first sniff of fresh droid competition
Thursday 18th July 2013 18:04 GMT
Re: 150million over 134million is a huge increase... what stall ?
It is not difficult to distinguish between relative share and absolute units sold.
Try to keep up!
iFonnery seems to be stuck at 20% of the total market. So it shall be.
Hackers crippled HALF of world's financial exchanges - report
Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE
Now you can be the NSA: Snoop on a Google Glass hipster with a QR code
Tumblr's iOS fix for clear-text password login howler was WEEKS LATE
GitHub to devs: pick a license, we dare you
Wednesday 17th July 2013 10:55 GMT
Re: MIT
1) There is only one "MIT license". There is no "X11 license". Look it up. Wait, I 'll do it for you: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
2) No licence guards against patents. Work on your IP basics.
3) GPL a "better choice"? Opinions, my dear. Which GPL, btw? 2 or 3? Or maybe LGPL?
4) Thank you for the attempt at complexifferoizing the IP horror.
Wi-Lan loses 3GPP patent suit
IBM, Accenture play blame game over $1bn project blowout
Rap for rap chap in crap rap app flap: Jay-Z blasted by privacy bods
Look out, Lenovo! HP: We're not happy with being a 'number two'
Dear Linus, STOP SHOUTING and play nice - says Linux kernel dev
Tuesday 16th July 2013 13:54 GMT
Re: Well said Ms. Sharp
> If this was a professional company he'd have been fired by now (and rightly so).
LOLNO.
There are worse things going on at "professional" companies than shouting. Then the people responsible get promoted out of trouble.
I have found that shouting may help get the stream lined right, until the manager comes in and tells one that one has to be "careful" lest the programmer who just wrecked the source tree "leave us".
Seriously, have you ever had a job?
The IT crowd: Fiercely loyal geeks or 'inflexible, budget-padding' creeps?
Tuesday 16th July 2013 06:11 GMT
Re: No, No,Thrice No
You seem to be complaining about Security clampdowns (that have not been taken in discussion with management), not about IT as such.
Maybe the fault is with management, not with IT? Maybe one wanted to prevent the fail train to stop at the door of IT while the other people where not taking responsibilites and were out golfing?
How the clammy claws of Novell NetWare were torn from today's networks
From Russia with no love: Prez Putin dubs Ed Snowden 'unwanted gift'
Tuesday 16th July 2013 11:44 GMT
He he he he
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweating-towel-guy
...and, giving the Prez of the Diposition Matrix the peace prize "hasty and ill-conceived"? Falling-down-stairs retarded while Orwell looks on, rather.
Oh well, Kissinger got one, too.
Pwn all the Androids, part II: Flaw in Java, hidden Trojan
Linux 3.11 to be known as 'Linux for Workgroups'
Unmasked: Euro ISPs raided in downloads strangle probe
Monday 15th July 2013 14:43 GMT
Re: wtf
Now take a deep breath, put down Ayn Rand for a second and think about what is happening here.
A) Something happens, there is a backdrop, which El Reg does not explain.
B) Cogent: Upgrade your interconnects! (This presumably means more money to Cogent)
C) ISP: No, we won't (They leave their customers with sucky service but need to pay less to Cogent)
D) Cogent: Then we will have to drop traffic, idiots!!
E) I don't know what...
F) ATLAS SHRUGS!!!111!!
Explicit shots: China's gorgeous flop-tastic Tianhe-2 supercomputer
Amazon button leaked user traffic
Chinese police probe iPhone user's death by electrocution
Cubesats to go interplanetary with tiny plasma drives
Boeing batteries back under spotlight as 787 burns at Heathrow
Sunday 14th July 2013 18:09 GMT
Re: Comets and bean-counters
But these are all interpretations with perfect hindsight.
When looking into the future, things are not at all clear and clear-cut.
Several engineers will queue at the door and say that there is a problem with this and that.
Sure there is. But what do? Maybe make a bad call. Maybe launch the Shuttle. Maybe leave it on pad. Maybe fix this nagging problem with the foam coming off. Maybe not. Maybe the risk analysis is good and you will just be unlucky.
If things go wrong, finger-pointing and the blame game will start. Then the prepared engineer has a copy of his "letter to management" in the drawer that he wrote two years ago...
Sunday 14th July 2013 08:34 GMT
Re: Theory
Bullshit. Are you implying your Graupner model stuff LiPo shit is the the same as the one in planes? Next you will be telling me that avionics is built on Windows.
> disinclined to do too many safety studies
Evil capitalists p0wning you? More like consumers want these, and it works quite well (people are not blowing up right and left and even state regulators don't complain too much) so it's on the market. Or are you seriously implying that you prefer to carry a Vietnam-era lead-acid backpack for your laptop?
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Forget Snowden: What have we learned about the NSA?
Sunday 14th July 2013 06:39 GMT 
Glenn Greenwald on Security and Liberty
The oft-repeated claim that Snowden's intent is to harm the US is completely negated by the reality that he has all sorts of documents that could quickly and seriously harm the US if disclosed, yet he has published none of those. When he gave us the documents he provided, he repeatedly insisted that we exercise rigorous journalistic judgment in deciding which documents should be published in the public interest and which ones should be concealed on the ground that the harm of publication outweighs the public value. If his intent were to harm the US, he could have sold all the documents he had for a great deal of money, or indiscriminately published them, or passed them to a foreign adversary. He did none of that.
He carefully vetted every document he gave us, and then on top of that, asked that we only publish those which ought to be disclosed and would not cause gratuitous harm: the same analytical judgment that all media outlets and whistleblowers make all the time. The overwhelming majority of his disclosures were to blow the whistle on US government deceit and radical, hidden domestic surveillance.
My point in this interview was clear, one I've repeated over and over: had he wanted to harm the US government, he easily could have, but hasn't, as evidenced by the fact that - as I said - he has all sorts of documents that could inflict serious harm to the US government's programs. That demonstrates how irrational is the claim that his intent is to harm the US. His intent is to shine a light on these programs so they can be democratically debated. That's why none of the disclosures we've published can be remotely described as harming US national security: all they've harmed are the reputation and credibility of US officials who did these things and then lied about them.
For those who say that they wish there was more attention paid to the substance of the NSA stories than Snowden: here is the list of the NSA revelations we've published over the last month. Feel free to focus on them any time.
Hubble spots ALIEN NAVY world – and it's pelted with GLASS RAIN
The Yawhg vs XCOM: Enemy Unknown. How small devs can win against the big boys
Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X
Saturday 13th July 2013 18:16 GMT
Re: Fragmentation can be a good thing in this case
That's the problem with craptops: just barely compatible and with a slightly modified graphics/network/whatever chipset to stay within an energy envelope of shave off a few dollars per unit (Windows-only special sauce drivers thrown in, upgrades downloadable from the manufacturer's website using the manufacturer's special install program -- if titsup events don't occur, ain't it Fujitsu-Siemens?) ...
Microsoft biz heads slash makes Ballmer look like dead STEVE JOBS
Analyst: Tests showing Intel smartphones beating ARM were rigged
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