Posts by Destroy All Monsters

"imposed on people who used to be civil servants"

Any questions?

I will be at the pub.

No boom today.

Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow

Good riddance

...and don't come back, ACTA.

Was the "Copyright is Theft" subline really needed? It doesn't make any sense however you look at it.

Copyright = Privilege (which may vary greatly in extent and moral justification) granted by state to a "right holder" (often a well-connected) to control the distribution and replication of an often intangible good. Apparently "creates new markets" and "puts the food on the plates of the creative types".

Theft = Somone takes your TV. The ECB issues money, driving inflation. You are being hit by the taxman.

Not the same thing at all.

Yeah right

They are actually playing Half-Life 2. You can see the underground sewer of City 17 on that greenish screen,

Pretty historical stuff

"The real story is not that a generator can bring down a chunk of a cloud, but that the recovery process when there is a failure is still hairy even after some of the best minds on the planet have tried to think of all the angles."

It's also the first time in human history such cloudy juggling at a large scale is being attempted. Just keep on trucking!

As for the 2012-leapsecond-linux-bug, I wonder how many Linux server are still running full blast in the various datacenters right now. I hear our hosting company noticed a fat uptick in Watt consumed when the bug hit.

These statements are actually sinister

One can actually imagine Beria sitting in the smoky, shady background, nodding, while the sweating spokesperson delivers the laudatio-of-the-party-interspersed-with-appropriate-selfcritique-and-the-demand-to-be-controlled-by-people-more-worthy to the assembled members.

Only a reference to the teachings of Marxism-Leninism and the glories of The President is missing.

As said in the comment section of the earlier iteration of this article...

Details on Tevatron data mining and compositing:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/25_sigma_higgs_signal_tevatron-91654

Ivory-tower uponfrowned rumormongering details on the upcoming 4th of July PRESENTATIONFEST at:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

Tossers!

People have unreasonably high expectations. Let the dole queue lengthen, let state interfere somewhat more in the economy, let the depression continue or even worsen.

Social networking, mobile and gaming??

Be happy to take up a job in the basement of MinPlenty as datatypist to the Big Blair Computer.

The Old Collider

Bosons appear, possibly -

Significance increased!

Anyway, and as usual, details can be admired here:

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/25_sigma_higgs_signal_tevatron-91654

And for people who want rumormongering about the 4th of July:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4794

Objectivism married to Machiavellism?

Office Attilas and Witch Doctors shall get no traction!

The General Service Vehicle "Lots of Boxes On This Slide" is entering subspace!

I should really get interested in these things but that slide looks a wee bit crowded. On the other hand, the words indicate that the boxes indicate "wishful attributes" which may or may not be encountered in real life. How do they manage to stitch up stuff from various developer cultures together and still make sense afterwards? Shouldn't one just keep things simple? I have spent a good part of my life trying to heal wobbling boxes-withing-boxes, configuring obscure elements and scripting around "one-click deployments". Oh my god.

Has it come to this?

Our only hope is death camps.

Ha! HA!

"As always, partners will continue to determine final price and currency to end customers.”

I think "end" is being used as a verb here rather as an adjective.

Additionally, this article should end with the obligatory "Which is nice" quip.

Keeping interest rates low not long-term enough for ya, skippy?

This $EXPLETIVE$ guy assumes that governments take long-term views?

Hey, we are currently in a DEPRESSION OF SOME MAGNITUDE.

Guess where it came from? Not investment funds or pension schemes with "short term view"

I can only conclude that the PwC airhead considers a "long-term view" a permapipe from the taxpayer and inflation-funded government moneyhose into his bank account.

This is EXACTLY why government should have practically no economic relevance whatsoever. Outfits like these beat their drum, some politicians decide to "invest" in a hare-brained scheme, it ends in tears but the drum-beating outfit and its boardroom members are richer.

Crowbars. Apply to braincase.

Wooly and confused.

Who speaks of "rights"? Did anyone mislabel the drives?

"The only right that Sun is seeking to enforce..."

It's called a "privilege". Generally one has to work for that. Not here. We just relabel it a "right". Instant gratification.

"...thus does not engage the principle of the free movement of goods"

Recently the NSA has said that it couldn't tell anyone how many citizens it was listening in on because doing so would violate their right to privacy. This statement is in the same ballpark.

Austerity? The only solution is to get drunk and set fire to things!

Clearly a bunch of 99%ers who are eagerly awaiting their social-security financed tablets to be delivered to their front porch.

Wasn't there something along those lines in a John Brunner novel? "Muckers"?

Carding macht frei

"the UGNazi black-shirt hacking crew"

Either black hats ain't enough anymore or that should be "brown shirt".