Posts by Destroy All Monsters

War is peace, ignorance is strength, copying is a crime. Trust the computer.

"At present, there is no specific obligation under Nominet's terms and conditions for owners to ensure their domain names are not used for crime."

I would say that doesn't need to be in T&C, really.

"Despite this, in December, at the request of the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), Nominet revoked the domain names of 1,200 websites it said were being used to sell counterfeit designer goods"

That's a _crime_ nowadays?

Maybe they should read the universal declaration of human rights

1) Do something in your own home with stuff owned by you.

2) State, backed by fatcat lobbyists, arbitrarily decides that it can decide that you cannot do that

3) ???

4) JEW! errr, I mean GUILTY!

The Fletcher Memorial Home is that way..

"The publication of this classified information by WikiLeaks is an irresponsible attempt to wreak havoc and destabilize global security. It potentially jeopardizes lives."

It's not like bombing and invading random countries or torturing some random dudes to death potentially jeopardizes lives.

Statist riffraff.

On collectable clunkers with an application to the Verwertungsproblem

A box that's a bad attempt at commercial-level encryption, some electro-junk from a cultish startup and the infinitely copyable thoughts of young Alan.

Can I have the lot for USD 50?

1.3 x 10⁹ USD?

Ok, that's one whole MySQL database with 30% markup, then?

That jury must be collectively retarded.

"so that the number of inventions generated soars"

In other news, free energy generated out of empty beer bottles, gold found in toilet etc.

Why do I have to read such crap from pretend intellectuals (are there any other) in the morning? And the day was beginning so well, with all the servers up.

I want my women objectified and hot!

I also want to have a .50 Browning HBAR fully locked and loaded with 500 antipersonnel rounds to use on these whining "government save me, clamp down on other people" amoral spidery cretins.

It's good to hear taxpayer keep paying for such B.S.

It's not like the empire is broke and washed ashore.

Still, I can't wait for the headlines this will make when a fully autonomous attack mistakenly blows up a few hundred rich Pakistani in a well-populated inner city because of an off-by-one error. That's gonna be The Lulz.

And here I was hoping for a movie featuring Babbage and the Difference Engine.

Turns out it's just porn.

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What does the Federal Reserve have to do with credit cards?

I thought their only job is to blow paper money out of their arse by the truckload if government and Nobel-prize-heavy economists demand it, blowing the economy heavenwards enough to survive till up to the next elections (and damn the consequences)?

"we cannot build exascale systems that require their own nuclear power plant" to juice them up

Err... whyever not?

Because Greens will dump core upon hearing that a few kilograms of enriched uranium are going critical in a downtown office building?

Sod that! It sounds like a perfect market driver for those small-scale nukes on the drawing boards.

Ah, Indonesia.

Such a lovely country.

A little genocide (with the West's complicity, I hasten to add), a little Prison For Porn, a bit of crackdown on sodomy, a little antiterror slash-and-burn...

Umm....

"For years cellular operators have been charging ludicrously high roaming charges for calls in neighboring countries and making excess profits [what the hell are 'excess profits'?] on overseas traffic. It has taken years of legislation from Neelie Kroes and others, to stop this profiteering."

The only legislation I remember that caused international tariffs to go down was the breaking of the state-run telecom monopolies on landline and mobile traffic that hoovered up crazy money from their captive market (these state employees have amazing salaries and perks, ya know). Big corporate customers suddenly able to route all their calls through private switches or mobile customers able to switch their provider were a marvelous wake-up call.

By a hundred hanging popes!

That X-tian description would make me expect that Lovecraft's body animated by Nyarlatothep would be making guest appearances during episodes of especially deep bass accompanied by the mad piping of blind, ghoulish metal groupies.

Otherwise I would ask for money back.

So I guess...

...the check cleared.

Seriously though, Sweden tops the rape/inhabitant list in the same way as Stalin's Russia topped the spys/inhabitant list.

What is an "industry official", pray tell?

MS claimed that the respondents offered “resounding support” for government and industry officials to take action against pirates.

Respondents of various questionnaires would certainly offer "resounding support" for any pea-brained scheme coming from any cammarilla of Armani-dressed government/industry officials. They would even happily wear a brassard to show their allegiance.

Oh well

Can't hurt I guess. These people are not going to tune your automotive board controller anyways.

I guess....

Hey!

I though it was "impossible" for these scanners to store and even less print images.

Where do these X-files (naked silvery humanoid with facemask pun!) come from, then?

Just as planned...

...but by whom?

"I will be back"

I hope there shall be a book about those algorithms. And no patents! (I wish)

Pretty novel interpretation of copyright law, if you ask me...

Quite apart from whether actual copyright infringement has occurred, which, given Larry's constant testosterone problems, may quite well not be the case, I have never heard of a plagiarist attempting to shove off the responsibility of his copying to his readers...

Or am I misunderstanding something?

Fedora does what is has to...

because strutting politicians are stinking things up relentlessly, believing that draconian laws will make the world a happy place full of smiles, candy, fluffy animals and well-ironed uniforms.

This will go on until only criminals and three-letter agencies have dual-use tools and then we are truly owned.

Yeah.. he he...

“Whether intentional or not, collecting information sent over Wi-Fi networks clearly infringes on consumer privacy,” said FCC official Joe Gurin earlier this year.

And only the state can do that without restraints. Otherwise, where would we be?

With the Imperial Stormtroopers on location...

"The drones are used to kill terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen."

You mean "kill random people".

On the other hand, they got killed, so they must have been terrorists, right?