Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
They are nowadays generally seen as an option more suitable to government operations where a lot of performance is wanted and quick launch and cost are not the primary issues
I think that "cost not an issue" window may be shrinking as real-world economics snap back.
What's that? A brand-new governmental printshop? Oh carry on...
From TOAST:
The Party by definition cannot be wrong. But the party, in all its glorious wisdom announced in 1997 that the supervisor program used by all their Class D computers was Correct. (That was not long after the Mathematicians Purge.) Bugs do not exist in a Correct system; therefore anyone who discovers one is an enemy of the party and must be remotivated. So nothing can be wrong with the Computer, even if those of us who know such things are aware that in about three months from now half the novel writers and voice typers in Oceania will start churning out nonsense.
"More on QUIC"
Why didn’t you build a whole new protocol, rather than using UDP?
Middle boxes on the Internet today will generally block traffic unless it is TCP or UDP traffic. Since we couldn’t significantly modify TCP, we had to use UDP. UDP is used today by many game systems, as well as VOIP and streaming video, so its use seems plausible.
Why does QUIC always require encryption of the entire channel?
As we learned with SPDY and other protocols, if we don’t encrypt the traffic, then middle boxes are guaranteed to (wittingly, or unwittingly) corrupt the transmissions when they try to “helpfully” filter or “improve” the traffic.
The article in this weekend's Guardian suggests a very different story
About this...
"Peter Niesewand and Cyril Garfunkel arrive just in time with the Welsh Police, and the Harry Orchestra, and proceed to sing a love song which allows Dr. Indira McNorton *just* enough time to cross the alps into Geneva, where he meets Kon Rapp, a Kung Fu fanatic and cat lover, who frivolously shoots him, but not before introducing him to lively intelligent Norwegian widow Lanny Krimt, who shows him her inner thighs, where he finds the address of a good French restaurant, and unexpectedly meets Gabriello Machismo, an ex-Korean plastic surgeon whose frankly blond assistant Sally Lesbitt is now the half-brother of a distant cousin of Ray Vorn Ding-ding-a-dong, the Eurovision song, and *owner* of the million-pound bidet given by Hitler to Eva Brown as a bar mitzvah present during a state visit to Crufts, and which remained hidden, etc. etc. etc."
THIS THEY NOW DO!
Found it
Dark Actors: The Life and Death of David Kelly, by Robert Lewis
This analysis of Iraq biological weapons inspector David Kelly's suicide is a shameless piece of conspiracy theorising
Hmmm......
AFAICR it wasn't planned for that date but someone of the terros came in or messed up late so they had to postpone.
The coincidences of
0) This day being written 9-11
1) NORAD running an exercice about hijacked planes
2) Rummie hanging around at the Pentagon
3) Someone shorting United Airlines fiercly in the morning
all on the same day are bizarre. Look elsewhere effect. Probably.
Did I mention that the building insure came through just a few days earlier?
13 years ago.
Nobody even remembers how things were BEFORE.
Do YOU?
Really?
Yeah, things sucked with Clipper chips, then Janet Reno productions and bizarre unresolved mysteries (these were the days of the X-Files and John Doe #2 - not Nichols) and dead Iraqis that were "worth it" etc. etc. but it was nowhere near like today.
I think.
Yet another case of politicians' delusions of being able to change reality by issuing laws. The economic impact of cops and judiciary playing whack a mole hasn't even entered the calculation I see. "IMPLEMENT THIS! THINGS WILL BE ... errr... DIFFERENT!"
Yes, wind those underground crackers up. I dare you!
Where is the icon of the faithful servant of Louis de Lombard?
" And think about the implications of that: if we're alone in the Universe then the whole purpose in the universe is in us."
How the fuckety fuck does that even follow? Does the Universe have a purpose? It could be the equivalent of $DEITYs old tire dropped by some $OLYMPIC roadside for what we know (a reverse Roadside Picnic?)
These non-hivemind flesher Turing Machines are just so full of themselves. The future shurely lies with collective intelligences (i.e. insects), as Charlie Stross predicts.
That's because there are only two ways of achieving that:
1) Beam the image directly into your eyes. Personal viewing. Very difficult indeed.
2) Fill the room with some kind of *stuff* which the image can reflect off (e.g. a huge plastic slab with nonlinear optical properties)
No magic "you are my only hope" holograms projected by your set-top box in reality, no Sir!
Oh, I forgot:
3) Write the image directly into your visual cortex. Yummy, but even tougher.
In the end, holograms will be good for visualization and Personal Computing, but not so much for entertainment. Even for the pr0nz. I am not sure about watching a bunch of people seemingly having a go on my sofa.
On the use of passports in America:
J.D. Tuccille on How Our Right To Travel Became a Bureaucratic Ordeal
Anna is THE HOT, though.
In addition, past whistleblowers, such as Daniel Ellsberg and even Bradley Manning, ran their mouths... and stayed to face the music. Snowden ran his mouth and bugged out for China, and then Russia. This makes him look bad.
Yes, and even back then it was not sad at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Trial_and_mistrial
I would not call the shit coming down on people nowadays "facing the music". Military detention, torture, "accidents" and whatnot? I can quite understand that one does not want to stay in GermanyUSA and may want to ask for some hospitality in countries that are not exactly beacons of liberalism but at least have the courage to show the US some inverse V sign.
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