Posts by Destroy All Monsters

This is why we can't have nice things

CEO with egos bigger than Will Smith's dong, playing either revolving door buddies or repeatedly hammering the Nuke Everything Now button through Induhlectual Proberty lawsuits decided by confused juries. A pox on all their houses.

Courage Wolf!

"We are even?"

"Leak names of Anonymous"

"NOW WE ARE ODD!"

Recycled Guardian pap!

"we have to decide, as a society, if we think that allowing governments access to the location of their citizens is a risk worth taking in exchange for the benefits it gives"

Who is that "we" who has to decide. What does "as a society" mean?

Hold on, someone from a TLA is at the lobby window.

"Who is Google One?" "You are Google Six!"

Schmittchen's sayings are pretty schizotastic (let's stay charitable here). He will certainly be getting hearings and success in the corridors of power. And he has been thinking about the problems of identity since the Internet was telnet, usenet and IRC? Somewhat an authoritarian mindest here, wouldn't you think?

At least Google comes clean about what it wants.

NO! I DON'T WANNA BE A GOOGLE NUMBER!

The guys crack me up.

"The DoJ said Oracle had misrepresented its true commercial sales practices – meaning government customers received deals on worse terms than customers in the private sector."

If Oracle was busing empty fuel drums in circles through Iraq and then bill 200 USD/km, no-one would notice.

But a known overly expensive shrink-wrapped EULA with a download link? Well, sure, we want the best deal on THAT.

This is not the weapon shop of Isher you are looking for

"DARPA's principal customer – the American warfighter"

Isn't DARPA a taxpayer-funded outfit that is allocated money seized from the populace to come up with stuff the that military-industrial-congressional-entertainment complex can make money off?

The "American warfighter" ("soldier" no longer Rambo enough, I see) is the dumb sod who ends up with his gonads blown off, so he is definitely NOT the customer.

Except when he finally needs those futuristic prosthetic limbs.

Why do you need the FLOP count anyway?

Isn't that, like, integer processing that we want here?

EU outlaws winters to reduce CO_2 emissions. Apparently winters go on regardless.

Wake me up when this becomes relevant to the real world.

Woah! No information on the Apache httpd frontpage?

Is the webmaster kicking it back in the Carribean?

"If you don’t want to be searched, don't come through customs."

Why not abolish customs?

Kuang Grade Mark 11!

"NeoKylin"

Really!

Do they have rappers in the marketing department?

Guns!

Did you mention guns?

Woah! That was a confusing explanation.

Really, does the "explaining to kids" strategy work?

I didn't understand ANYTHING.

Is it a leaker? Is it a mole? No... it's DANIEL!

When will the interview appear on WiReD? Maybe followed by a presidential Medal of Freedom, just for the hell of it.

Seriously, who comes up with this kind of stuff?

"The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA)"

Who are these guys and what are they doing for whom and why?

"The company also breached a rule that prohibits companies releasing information about prescription-only medicines that would encourage the public to ask their doctor for the product."

Why does such a rule exist? Do the blinders need to be kept on them good horses? Is somebody afraid of consumers?

"...where companies bring discredit upon and reduce confidence in the pharmaceutical industry..."

What does that even mean? What or who comprises the "pharmaceutical industry"? Why doesn't said company just bring discredit upon itself? Why should people have "confidence in the pharmaceutical industry" in in the first place??!?

It smacks of cartel logic trying to protect some turf, really.

"Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey"

Why is the GAO getting involved? Are they looking for work?

I would hope that there was enough pressure from consumers and the insurance companies to ... oh wait. Socialized medicine. Never mind.