* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Sony expands legal offensive to more PS3 hackers

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Big Brother

American Dog, we make torture you!

Where can I subscribe/comment so that Sony sends me a nastygram and forces my local law enforcement to waste money and play personal toyboy to their "law and order" department?

Oracle and Java: Mobile dev FAIL dooms Ellison's future

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COBOL *is* mighty!

Like the Force or Dark Matter, it pervades the Universe and controls your bank account.

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Run, Forrester, run!

"We expect to see educational institutions switch to other languages for primary education, ones with stronger client-side representation such as JavaScript and HTML 5"

- Implying that you can teach people in JavaScript as opposed to confusing them

- Implying that HTML5 is a language

- Implying that "client-side representation" is somehow important in teaching

AOL buys Huffington Post

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Paris Hilton

...onto a supersonic jet!

"Social-climbing limousine faux-liberals" love taking supersonic jets.

Battlestar Galactica vets needed for online roleplay

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WTF?

Why is Albert Wesker commanding the Battlestar carrying Mai Waifu?

I demand an answer!

Oracle and IBM carve up open-source Java leadership

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"Java" will now be relabeled "Belarus"

But we can live with that, can't we?

Oh I think, there's an armed taxman at the door....

Mindjack

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Happy

But GiTS had a good storyline

Also, Fujikomas.

Wintery January hurts US jobs growth

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Snowstorms! Get ready for Quantiative Easing Part 3!

FIRE!!

Keynesians will cream their pants, wise widows will transform their dollar account into cold, hard and shiny metal bought illegally and leftists will bemoan the "austerity" measure hitting the "worker class", then demand a tax hike and a wage increase because it's hard to live under boot of capitalists.

ROBOT COP scatters LIVE GRENADES in San Francisco STREET

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I blame unions.

California according to Gary North:

1. A gigantic debt

2. A gigantic annual deficit

3. A declining school system

4. High unemployment

5. A rotten business climate (48th worst)

Now add:

6. Sheer bloody-mindedness in nonzero-risk situations

Boffins hope for dimensional portal event at LHC by 2013!

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Boffin

Because Nature doesn't work with equations but equations model it...

There do not seem to be "actual infinities" cropping up in real life, so the idea to smell the brimstone when your equation breaks down is a good one. E.g. in General Relativity, you have infinities at Black Hole centers. But this is most probably unphysical - in real life "in the small, and at extreme curvature", spacetime may undergo state transitions so that the equations of GR are no longer applicable at all and you have to switch to something else. Take a look at Chemistry where some equations are applicable "generally", but once things heat up and get too energetic, you better invent new math to describe what happens.

Wilzek on SUSY is here:

http://video.ias.edu/stream&ref=409

Very nice.

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Dead Vulture

Rage!!

"Dr Bertolucci has previously briefed the Reg on the intriguing theory of supersymmetry, which suggests that space-time actually has up to ten dimensions rather than the humdrum four we can normally perceive."

El Reg should then pay attention to what was being said in that probably well-wined lecture.

Supersymmetry has nothing to do with "extra dimensions", hidden or not. You need group theory mainly and the iron will to eliminate infinities in your equations.

PlayStation phone promo'd in creepy commercial

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Asian sweatshop operating room

Hell yeah.

But did they give it two right thumbs?

'You don't even know what change management is'

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Next theory: Why the Earth is banana-shaped

1) Change management: an administrative function trying to sound like an executive one.

What kind of meaningful interpretation can we assign to this phrase? Doesn't everyone know that "change management" has a much to with boardroom antics as "bug management"?

2) This is what was behind much of the Web 2.0 blather, too.

I thought it was joss sticks, and lots of free money sloshing around due to incredibly retarded credit policy by the Clinton / Greenspan horsemen of the econocalypse.

3) Large companies (such as newspapers, for example) deferred to their technicians to produce the innovation and strategy - only to find they had over-promoted a cadre of bureaucrats.

Doesn't make sense from any angle. Does this mean that "innovation and strategy" is coming from the executive level? That technicians are actually bureaucrats which may get over-promoted because they are innovative? Questions, questions....

4) It's just a theory.

Your attitude needs correction. The headmaster shall see you now.

Scanner snares senior servant

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"The pornography itself seems to have been mild enough."

No-one should care whether it's mild or whatever.

There seems to be a lot of "trust" in the state bureaucracy. Are they afraid of leakers? I guess getting fired counts as a win.

Feds seize 10 domains accused of illegal sports streaming

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"Homeland Security Investigations"

I feel there is fat-bellied mid-level middle-aged bureaucracy sniffing out for some empire building and thinking that going into share denial enforcement would be a good way to score some brownie points while waiting for the pension scheme to vest.

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Apparently some kind of event...

...whereby participants are encouraged to give their brain stems the shaky treatment by smashing heads together.

Apparently ads are also shown.

Republican reps push for mandatory gun ownership

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America! Fuck yeah!!

But you should be able to buy "offshore". A Belgian P90 with a silencer and an Israeli Elbit Falcon red dot sight, please.

On second thoughts, the silencer is probably prohibited by Federal Law. :-(

Newest PS3 firmware hacked in less than 24 hours

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Grenade

Call to protect my ruined PS3 experience spotted, film at 11

The paycheck from Sony will clear, I'm sure.

Judge rebukes 'World's No. 1 Hacker'

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"Security expert on Fox News, Bloomberg TV, and CNN"

Enough said.

World's No.1 hacker. Ugh. Why isn't he in a movie with Travolta getting a blowjob?

Panorama stalks alleged stalker's twin brother

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Coat

Inspecteur La Bavure

I the police was doing something they would probably have shot the twin brother at point-blank range. Mistaken identity etc..

Fedora servers breached after external compromise

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Dead Vulture

Good to hear that

Reg. Checks. Not.

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Alien

Larry Ellison is .... Fantomas?

I all makes sense now....

Egypt switches off the internet

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"Too Big To Fail"

Her Imperial Cluelessness hasn't been her of yet. Let the Imperial Vice President speak:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0127/Joe-Biden-says-Egypt-s-Mubarak-no-dictator-he-shouldn-t-step-down

Asked if he would characterize Mubarak as a dictator Biden responded: “Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with – with Israel. … I would not refer to him as a dictator.”

(...) Mr. Biden's comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down. About eight protesters and one policeman have died this week as Egypt has sought to bring down the heavy hand of the state against opponents. Since the US provides about $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt a year, the repressive apparatus of the state is seen by many in Egypt as hand in glove with the US.

Gatwick Airport security swoops on 3-inch rifle

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Pint

The SA80 actually works now?

That's news to me.

Microsoft insists autistic Xboxer is a cheat

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FAIL

"through many hours of hard work"

This *is* 2011.

NYT casts Assange as 'arrogant' (with a little 'Peter Pan')

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Well, the NYT isn't a newspaper, so why are they complaining?

They are still propelling the propaganda on Iran and Af/Pak (generally using officially leaked leaks from unnamed government officials) after grave facilitation of the Iraq debacle.

At least they got rid of Judith Miller.

What a bunch of embedded jerks.

Greece tells Siemens it wants damages

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Nope

You ask the European Central Bank for some help.

It then socializes the cost over Europe by printing money and ratcheting up inflation.

ACS:Law turns back on file-sharer court case

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Pirate

Well...

Maybe he fired off a letter to the local Pakistani Mobster's family home.

Some people do take the law into their own hands.

Heat, kitchen etc,

US Wikileaks investigators can't link Assange to Manning

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Also forgets to mention

...that there is nothing new in the cables.

That irate wailing in the background is The Reg Hack With No Comment Section who has a personal friend visiting Bradley Manning every week or so.

Matrix 4 and 5 in works, threatens Keanu

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Megaphone

Why not adapt The Difference Engine?

The Matrix with Steam and Brass.

And no fights.

And a story.

WikiLeaks accused of tapping P2P for secret docs

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FAIL

Next in this saga: LAMO OUTS INTERNETS!

"It made lots of documents available. Completely irresponsible."

Brazilian cult condemns USB

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Pint

"blue is the colour of Jesus' eyes"

Yeah, that's likely.

There must be a lot of spice down in the holy lands of neverending negotiations.

Lame Stuxnet worm 'full of errors', says security consultant

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Remember...

....these are the direct descendants of the people who floated the idea of offing Castro with a remote-control shark.

...and they passed through at least ten years of aggravated cronyfication and empire-building.

It's enough to make Goering blanch with envy. But will it generate good code?

HBase: Shops swap MySQL for open source Google mimic

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Headmaster

So the bottom line is....

HBase is useful in some cases.

Badness-browsing Belgian busted on Brit break

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Paris Hilton

Pics or we shall be unable to judge!

He may just have browsing a catalogue of eager-to-please cheerleader hopefuls.

We know that these days, there is a major disconnect between what children are actually allowed to wear and the burqua they are supposed to wear.

Small biz would pay more for simpler tax

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Too complex?

In other news, politicans find brain, switch on.

But 21% is still death by slow strangulation. I hear some people are into that.

Linux ecosystem spins around Red Hat

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Welcome

"...finally found it prices again, only took me 20 mins just now"

Never works for me either.

I always get the feeling that the Red Hat Way would be that big-ticket customers have elegantly dressed salesdroid(esse)s explain pricing & packaging to them while they sip espressos, then get heavy discounts at the end of the presentation after some light haggling.

Watson beats humans in Jeopardy! dry run

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Physics envy?

That "elegant" system may not exist. As far as we know, anything able to navigate in the real world is a horrible kludge with bolt-ons left and right and something called the "limbic system" acting up regularly. Bletcherous!

I fear the real world is too complex and real-time for elegance in processing if all what you have got is polynomial time and constant space processing. Deal with it.

Apple tightens rules for iPad news delivery

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Pint

You sound like someone with Stockholm syndrome...

...trying to justify why the guy in the balaclava just kicked in your teeth.

To each his own.

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There are people who still wants to read The Economist?

Have those &%*& apologized for their unconditional support for the Afghan War yet?

Yeah, didn't think so.

Same about "Orthodox" Bubble Economics?

What a rag. I let the subscription expire 5y ago and never looked back.

Google plugins force-feed open codec to IE and Safari

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Jobs Halo

That's a very large public company acting in its own self-interest.

Quite so.

And it's all good.

Haters gonna hate. Frack them.

No court order against PlayStation hackers for now

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Cue Darth Vaderesque heavy breathing from Sony Execs

Hurrrr....... Hisssss.....

FADEOUT

(to be continued)

[...and after the credits roll...]

Off-screen voice: “That would mean the entire universe is subject to my jurisdiction, and that's a really hard concept for me to accept.”

CLOSE-IN ON:

President Obama doing the Gendo Pose

EU study frowns over data breach notification rules

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Can we solve the shifting of all bank details and airline PNRs to US surveillance first please?

Till that's is sorted, I won't notify about anything.

Thunderstorms found to squirt antimatter into space

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Headmaster

"along the curving field lines"

That should be "orthogonally" to the curving (magnetic) field lines. These are not electric field lines.

Sarko to use G8 presidency to promote net regulation

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Just what the doctor ordered

Population in uproar? EURO on the brink of becoming colorful toilet paper? No jobs left in the welfare state? Presidency in the dumps? Prize wife shows cold shoulder?

REGUALTE TEH INTERNETS!

Yorks cops bust Bradford guinea pig farm

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FAIL

Implying that cannabis is banned because it's "more harmful"

...as opposed to Christian value pushing and ass-covering inertia.

George Nazi assumes Alcatel 'senior execution role'

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Stag Stopa salutes you!

I pity the guy. He must always convince BOFH to set special spamfilter settings, I'm sure.

The Girl with the NSObject Class Reference tattoo

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William Gibson does Apple placement, too.

And other stuff. Bechtel-armoured cartel-grade Toyota Hilux, anyone?

Vegas vid-poker hackjackpot bonanza duo face charges

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It's tough these days..

Little player: He finagles a little win, pays off state with taxes, then still gets a raw deal.

Big player: He finagles a big win, which, if it goes wrong, is reimbursed by state with taxes, then still gets an invitation to a Presidential Dinner.

Feds subpoena Twitter for info on WikiLeaks backer

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Hillary Clinton...

...wants to know everything. Even your Tweets.