Posts by Destroy All Monsters

WHAT!

"The ability to use DC as well as AC power supplies ... the DC power supply can take 48 volt or 60 volt power, while the AC unit can scale from 100 volts to 240 volts.

Ok. Why don't "commodity" servers have that kind of extra option? Do only telecom-historical racks have DC? Doesn't DC reduce hardware bolt-ons? Or does it INCREASE hardware bolt-ons?

"if you want redundancy. The DC supplies cost a couple grand extra."

Why so expensive?

"In this case a maximum of two 1,200 watters"

Can one actually put more than a couple of those machines in the same rack without blowing the room's breakers? I can't imagine. The cooling effort must be tremendous, too.

What, no monitoring of /b/?

Sun Tzu you say? This shall be updated for the American Age:

"If you don't not know your enemies nor your friends nor yourself, if you don't know whether you are spending too much or too little, if you don't know left from right or right from wrong, if your only hope for survival is to invent military problems, if you have no brake to your ambitions, no sanity in your economic reasoning and you are ridden by arrogance and hubris like a sick horse, then you will be forever known as the gigantic faggot."

Ohhh.. nooo....

"Boogeyman-du-jour comes just behind economic fears about income disparity and fiscal imbalances, and concern about rising greenhouse gas emissions."

No mention about the actual economic meltdown and the evils of paper money, fractional bank reserves an the destabilizing effect of central banks? Ah, but that would be challenging to the current order of the clowns. Better look into uh ... cyberterrorists and global warming. Enlightening.

Le résumé de la situation -> http://mises.org/daily/5837/Some-Additional-Reflections-on-the-Economic-Crisis-and-the-Theory-of-the-Cycle

Optional

> NASUWT challenged the notion that current IT teaching was "dull" It is not? Says who? > Removing the curriculum in the subject risked short-changing pupils HOW? > and creating a free for all Oh no, disorganization. IT MUST BE BAD. > Adding that school teaching shouldn't be left to the agendas of multinational companies. Preferring that school teaching should be left to the agenda of well-meaning left-leaning decision makers who like to mind other peoples' business. What could go wrong? Pretty apropos: http://mises.org/daily/5862/University-Guildsmen-and-Anticapitalism

Only one side has nukes though...

If this escalates, we will see whether the Saudis fly their US gear better than the Israelis do theirs.

Crazed irate Wahabbis vs. Bonkers irate Zionists ... FIGHT!

TAX THE SINFUL FALLEN TO SAVE THEIR HEALTH!

"It would deliver a hefty $13bn in revenue to the hard-pressed US exchequer"

Promptly blown on such health-improving devices like The Depleted Uranium Sand Denizen Enduring Genetic Improvement Project (DUSDE-GIP).

I also think the US economy could currently use 13 billion "in the pocket" that are not being "redistributed" by confused left-wing programs, even it is currently spend on giving people the sugary shakes. Why not consider the absence of tax a stimulus?

Beer now!

Pfffrttttt!! Muahaha!!!

"Content from News Corporation – Fox broadcast programming, The Wall Street Journal .... "

Hey kid, ready to listen to your warmongering govnmt-propaganda propelling XBox after a game of Halo?

The founding fathers, indeed.

Prof! Slight correction!

"particles and antiparticles, the antiparticle falling into the black hole and causing it to lose mass"

Actually, either of the particle and antiparticle call "fall in", so the black hole would be seen to emit particles and antiparticles in equal amounts (except if there were some mechanism that would be biased to one side or the other, who knows).

The MSM is far too busy...

...drumming up support for the war on Iran at the behest of the Israeli extremely-far right and assorted X-tian end-timers in the US.

There is also the important story about how the economy is going to recover ANY MOMENT NOW. We have to know what Michelle Obama is doing. Oh yeah, the presidential election freakshow is there too. Then we have the total defeat, sorry I mean VICTORY, in Iraq and the continuing SUCCESS in Afghanistan.

Have pity on them.

So I heard you like X11 ...

I remember his Billsian Gateness proclaiming the X server idea (or maybe the protocol) as "insanely dumb", then proceeding to fag up the world with crashing fat clients.

Ah well, good ideas don't die, they just come back rebadged and appropriated.

Also, arcelormittal.com defaced

Earth silently turns.

While Wild trolls do their stuff.

You want a better world?

I give you politicians.

Fracking chestbusters!

How come these things are discovered by accident then found to infect 77% of the hives?

It is pretty astonishing, we can photograph the arsehair of a peacenik from orbit, then pull his telephone friend list from a data silo before we dispatch Mighty Guy In Blue armed with capsicum delivery systems for a hold&confront .. but bees are just the outer limits?

And mobes influencing bees? Yeah right.

This comment section is a goldmine of copypasta!

It shall be put to use in future trolling attempts.

But really, I blame the popular press administered in unhealthy doses to people who are psychologically incapable of correctly - quantitatively or qualitatively - gauging cause-effect relationships, paired with paranoia. Something with "people with different needs" of the mind.

I have a colleague like that, locks on to any unlikely stuff you can find as long as it flies in the face of reality. If in the quiescent phase, she tries to push bizarro ideas on why Quantum Mechanics is wrong and can actually be explained by <pet hidden variable theory that makes no use of mathematics whatsoever and must therefore be correct>. She was going full antivaxer during the last flu flap, with claims about nasty holocausty tricks to reduce population count.

Deplorable

The US still isn't getting that it's not the center of the universe?

Excellent!

It would definitely be an improvement over the ICBM-like bunker-with-carpet atmosphere that I'm surviving in now.

But can I have with a simulation of a STALKER-like blowout to get the coworkers to work instead of waiting, coffee in hand, for database fixes?

We must be imagining this!

Self-styled "Presidential Material" out of Amurrica keeps insisting that "there is no Palestine", so doxing Israeli credit cards must be as material as doxing credit cards from Hobbitburg, right?

Clearly another take on

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/03/japan_cyber_weapon_research/

I still don't understand what they are trying to do. There is no general "antivirus" in this universe. This is like paying for a broom. It may come in handy if you find dust in your house, but if the problem is an inch of water in the cellar, what you gonna do?

They really should spend the money for designing good management practices or for serious engineering of trustworthy and open OS and hardware, even if it's only for bolt-on stuff like SELinux.

"Physicists working for CERN in September fired a beam of 15,000 neutrinos from Geneva, LHC's HQ, to Gran Sasso in Italy"

That would be "fired many many beams of many man very high-energy neutrinos through 700km of rock and about 15'000 of the neutrinos were found to do something in the detector"

"only to find the particles completed the 730km journey 60 nanoseconds faster than light would have."

Only to find that measurement devices indicated that the particles completed the 730km journey 60 nanoseconds faster than light; finding no obvious errors in the setup they went public.

Hope of this result standing up to scrutiny: 0.0000000001%

"Politicians may focus on ways to get consumers to spend more money in an effort to rebuild their economies"

Politicans may do so but that just means they are ignorants, can't think and don't define their words. Or they are actually "vote me in, feed me taxes and fuck you all" evil.

I think a better example should be found.

Fascinating, to be sure.

The Afghan arsehanding moneyburning Pakitrolling civviekilling still going on?

Pity.

A fire upon the Moon?

Let ancient evils sleep in peace!

http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0812515285/0812515285.htm

Oh come on....

It's just very simple differential equations, though a long evening in a quiet office looks necessary to grok this all

But why exactly the USPTO dude feel the Anger Raising In Him?

All the HP stuff looks legit.

"Find the budgets", my ass

Governments do not "find the budgets". They write random numbers on dotted lines depending on hemming, hawing, horse-trading, ego stroking, vote buying and rhetoric-of-the-day mayonnaised up with plain old-man stupidity. They then print the money as needed.

Now for the funny part:

"The US government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

Also, Vietnam attacked us, we do not bomb Cambodia, the Iraq war was a Great Success with few civilian casualities and Iran tries to get nukes.

And even if they are not LYING OUTRIGHT, this is just a SHEEPLE-ORIENTED non-denial denial covering up the FACT that they know that TRANSHUMAN INTELLIGENCES FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION are injecting RANDOM SEMANTIC CONTENT into this reality, kinda like those scientists beaming modulated gamma rays into the Solarian ocean, you know what I mean?