Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
Trust but verify. I can live with that.
So at what point did banks become "trustworthy"? Come to think of it, I still don't know when my bank will fold, taking everything with it; I have no real indicators as everything is nicely obfuscated. Surveillance often is asleep at the wheel (BCCI, anyone?) and one may have to wait for criminal investigations or recession crunch time for some effective "rating". In the latter case, governement steps in with a "bailout" but that's no solution either, it's just a licence for the bank to play pirate at taxpayer expense.
If your cloud crashes and burns, the gov will give you back your byte amount taken from /dev/urandom. Hmm...
Troll logo, because it's all hair-raising.
Google will help you ascertain that these were not "wide open sendmail gateways" but that you had to buffer overflow the sendmail process, then load source, compile it, make sure that it couldn't be removed easily, and further attack other machines..
If that is "messing with sendmail" then breaking and entering then bludgeoning granny to death is similar to pushing the unlocked front door.
...by dumping a few liters of demineralised water onto (and not sparing the power supply either). How did the sand get in? The building's front had been sanded down during a the preceding week and the stuff had seeped in through cracks in the window frames.
The PC still worked afterwards.
>>Nothing is about 'racks' anymore, it's all about the kW and the kW/m2.
Quite. Have your OpenOffice Calc sheet ready, as well as your SNMP-able power supply rail and roll those numbers. I'm just migrating stuff to a rack in a well-secured datacenter (which has sculptures in the lobby and two meaty dudes behind 1-inch plate glass). We start off with a full rack at 900 EUR/month for 2kW, and pricing is just stepped in kVA and J/month burned. Network? Don't care...
>>why should we respect the US patent system?
We don't of course. A separate patent has to be taken out in the various countries of the EU to be valid. As for the Chinamen, lip service is the order of the day.
Anyway, the whole patent system - not just the software patents - is total crap. I can't wait for this mistake to land on the scrapheap of history. It started off with the Wright Brothers and Edison going full retard and scuttling their potential commercial success trying to be monopolists hiding under Mama Govnmt's shirts. It hasn't become better since. Yeah, all that "publication of ideas" B.S. and blah blah blah.
"So NASA believes one kooky theory but not the other - could it be there's profit to be made out of the more 'believable' one?"
Could it be that there is serious evidence of one but no evidence at all of the other?
Yes, go look at the graphs and pretend that ice on the pole is actually increasing. Works well if you are squinting.
Now waiting for the 9/11 truthers, the UFO conspirationists, the JFK assassination nutjobs and the Quantum Mechanics is Wrong retards to chime in.
Did the ancient Romanians know something that we don't?
Ok, maybe Japanese. "Double ball pen". Hmmm... Ominous.
Anyway, didn't we have the "polar reversal" B.S. back in the early 80's? There was also panic production because of an "alignment of the planets". Of course, nothing happened and primary school went droningly on. Sh*t.
Yes!! Imminent Transdimensional Invasion threatens. Upgrade to plan CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN and implement shoot-to-kill police state immediately. Then strike a NuLabour/NuOverlords deal. Win/Win situation.
As for the rest of us, anyone who judges himself able to understand modern QFT and assorted mathematical tooling enough to be able to even judge the likelihood of an LHC event killing the planet or whatnot can probably understand http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3381 And thus the case rests.
> Considering that black holes are known to have a magnetic force
> The unknowns and improbables are possible but no one know the odds.
> Hey, our maths says there's an infinite number of universes out there, and they all really exist!
> Perhaps LHC-type devices are an evolutionary test for advanced intelligence
> Since Everything is made of Photons, this pinpoint sized object thus contained, well, Everything.
LOL NO!! This is like listening to a badly tuned radio.
Ok, enough of this, I'm going home.
Why do these guys think they can build nuclear reactor if they leave laptops lying around? Apart from that, Bushco/AIPAC & Israel together are dumb as a sack of beans; they should just have told the IAEA to go take a look-see, but that that wouldn't have been manly and Tom-Clancy-like enough, now would it? Can't have THAT.
Ceterum censeo to AC:
"I am reminded of the enigma encoded message that was sent to the Mexicans offering them arms to fight against the US, this was decoded in the UK, but they staged a break in at the German embasy to make it look like it had been stolen. Knowledge that enigma had been cracked would have been very bad for the war effort."
You are mixing up the history of WWII (Enigma) and WWI (the Rest). Don't forget that the telegram was a godsend for Wilson so he could stick his fat interventionist finger into the Euro-Mess, leading to century of total catastrophe. Nice doing.
that all of the teens killed or paedofiled had, in addition to a facebook account, NO VALID COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP CARD (Marxist/Leninist/Zinonviest branch). NOT ONE!!
This is a clear indication that, if they had been members of the COMMUNIST PARTY (Marxist/Leninist/Zinonviest branch), none of this would have happened!
THINK ABOUT IT!
Become member of the COMMUNIST PARTY today. For safer yoof!
"it's reintroducing the neglected trade of doing strange and unusual things to moneys for science."
That's not a neglected trade, the Fed's doing it all the time for fun and profit (though definitely not for science), generating inflation (nothing to do with cosmic inflation, sadly).
"NASA said the monkeys will not be killed and will retire to McLean Hospital in Boston where veterinarians and staff will oversee the animals for the remainder of their lives."
The word "lifetime guarantee" come to mind.
So ... MS has state-enforced power to force you to buy their stuff over and over and over again at elevated pricing? Patrolled and enforced by the BSA vigilantes and teams of plods that have nothing better to do? All in the name of saving the loss of "billions" of children, I mean GBP?
Well, it's good to be officially reminded that you are the object of a shakedown and protection racket.
Even if you can't do much about it except vote with your feet.
"SCO was quite sure that the deal included the Unix copyrights as well - so sure that it started waving them at the Linux industry,"
Implying that Linux infringes any AT&T Unix copyrights.
If I remember well, at the start of this SCO cancertrip, the claim was that "Linux had copied" "thousands and thousands" of lines, which was demonstrated with a PowerPoint slideshow showing similar C comments and the identical numbering of the process signals. This was later whittled down to 25 lines or so.
Well yeah. If someone with more rectitude and with less bubbly love than Greenspan had been at the helm, if banks and government were not allowed to print money, if the government didn't step in to bail out banks...
I'm sorry, you were calling for better regulation?
".. I immediately think of those screaming that the changing climate is all our fault ?"
Because these people are of course "the minority."
In reality, only Andrew and a few dudes who could as well be in the orbit of the 9/11 truthosphere are saying so.
Extremists think that most people think the way they do? Well, my dear Victor, the experience was a success!
"government insider threat management solution"
Because of course the "government" must be "protected" from "insiders" (aka. the nominally in-charge public). Wouldn't want to take the blinders of the horse, now would you?
But it's good to know that all those "leaks" appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other neocon watering places will no longer just be under suspicion that they are deliberate misinformation.
A grenade, to be tossed into various undisclosed locations.
On the contrary. It's like working off the alcohol after a night on the tiles. The economy readjusts after the heady party days of easy credit, serial malinvestments and bubble blowing. People look for good investment schemes, unsustainable businesses get folded and prices readjust. Of course, like a host fearing that hung over guests will turn sour, government does everything it can to keep the blood alcohol high and the cocaine bowls filled by doing the Keynesian song & dance: print money, burn resources and keep giving out easy credit. Welcome to the Great Recession.
De-legislation could work wonders.
Level the playing field. Begin by dumping a whole lot, if not all, of the "Intellectual Property" cancer. Trademarks could stay and so (obviously) could trade secrets, but anything related to patents, copyright on APIs and restrictions on reverse engineering should be thrown on the scrap heap of history. A lot of rent-generating cushy positions would suddenly be opened to the wonders of the oft-praised "ecosystem". Yeah, I know, it's an "ecosystem" if you get to determine where others may put their shrubberies, and it's "unfettered capitalism in need of regulation, destroying the hopes of the small innovators" if you feel the heat.
"It also stated the company expects to finalize details of the restructuring and to reach cash flow break-even for core operations within the next month."
Clearly the lawyer team is now working pro bono and is consulting for third parties to generate some cash.
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