Posts by Tom 13

That's assuming somebody from co-int

managed to get a word in edgewise amongst all the back slapping that they'd managed to get OBL.

I frequently agree with you, but not this time.

When the case involves "a personal favor" it isn't justice that is being served. The confinement for failing to appear in court as opposed to the original charges smells bad also. Too much like the fatally flawed process in the Miller decision. Yes in the Miller decision the accused was a piece of work that needed to be rotting in prison, but essentially depriving him of representation on appeal did not serve justice for all.

Actually, you would be the one who needs to go back to

read the definition. Fascism actually has nothing to do with burning Jews in gas ovens even though that's what people now a days associate it with. As Mussolini established it (and he was the one to originate the term) it was the government controlling the key corporations and industries so as to control the people. Interestingly, Mussolini actually sought the help of prominent Jews and worked to protect them. That changed when Hitler decided Mussolini was no longer a reliable ally and installed his own goons to run the government with Mussolini as the figurehead. Not that not killing Jews makes the system less oppressive, but I do like to keep the facts straight.

How Facebook is different than the situation with your dad

is that on Facebook the drug dealer can have hundreds and hundreds of friends whereas in the case of your father, there were probably only a handful. Therefore the Facebook leads are worth considerably less than the one to your father, wven though that one was erroneous. Of course, if one of those Facebook leads does pan out, they'll also have him on wire fraud or mail fraud or some such.

Fail - The reports said the credit card information was encrypted.

Yes I think it is bad that they stored the rest of the data in an unencrypted format. That doesn't excuse you claiming they did more damage than they have done.

I've find it interesting how many greens are willing to invest 20 years out for their tech,

but when it comes to developing an oil or gas field that will produce in 5 or 10, that's too long term to be considered.

Bought my Ford Focus at the end of 2001,

and I still own it. It's a hatchback, and I expect it to last me another 2 or 3 years.

My next car will likely be Japanese, but that has more to do with me not wanting to support unions than the quality of the car.

Take a chill pill mate. If you don't want to get annoyed by the fanbois,

don't read the threads. The rest of us enjoy them and they, rather than the articles themselves are the real reason we visit El Reg.

Nope SETI is about finding little green men. The rest of it they

regard as by-product. Once upon a time I ran the SETI at home program on the basis that they were finding the other stuff. Got curious about it and sent them an email. The reply back made it obvious that they really were far more interested in LGM than the rest of it. A few months later I switched to Einstein and never looked back.

So yes, I'm quite happy the goober squad is now defunct and will be happy to see other real scientists using their equipment to do actual science.

Everybody tunes to the benchmark, because those

are the numbers the tech rags report. My issue with this isn't whether it is tuned to the benchmarks or even whether or not he's an MS shill. It is that he is comparing an unreleased product to those in production.

I would go so far as to say that from an Engineering perspective,

we are far closer to putting a man or woman on Mars than we are to having an effective electric-only car.

I HOPE you forgot

the sarcasm tag.

Yeah I have.

I was just checking out Weird Al's latest spoof last night. Seems Lady Gaga wasn't googoo over him releasing it. But after fans hit his link about 500,000 times based on just word of mouth (or email or twitter or facebook or whatever) she came to her senses.

Honestly? I expect State is filled with fatheads

who won't take advice from their IT Department and are so infatuated with themselves that they think they are the only ones who ever thought of stealing the other guy's diplomatic mail.

On the other hand, I expect one of our premier nuclear research facilities to be staffed by people who have purchased at least one clue in their lives.

Maybe. It was definitely

a throw away shot in Back to the Future II, a mostly forgettable film and important only because it sets up III which was a much better one.

Nope. To be a DA candidate, you need to do something

spectacularly stupid. This was just run of the mill, boring, stupid. It's the difference between the guy trying to weld together two partially filled propane tanks and the guy who walks in front of the oncoming train.

Despite the downvotes for Oliver, I think he nailed it.

It's not so much Jobs looking for the brain transplant as Apple. The last time he left, they almost did too. His next exit looks to be a bit more permanent, even if he stays amongst the living. When corporations lose their ability to innovate, they turn to their lawyers instead. Apple haven't shown much ability to innovate without at least one of Jobs or Woz.

If you'd ever worked with (let alone for) the government,

you'd know they'll be the last one dragged into IPv6. And they'll be kicking and screaming the whole way.

Not stole, it was the counterpart to Heinlein's novel.

The two met at an SF convention and made a bar bet about who could write the better religiously thematic SF book. Heinlein won the better book, Hubbard won the money.

No chance of countersuit

Time-Warner isn't stupid enough to waste lawyers on a project that has no chance at a financial return.

Three words:

Betamax vs VHS

Actually, the bangs tend to be smaller and

more precisely targeted.

We do use the Berne Convention,

but if you register the copyright with the US Office, it removes certain burdens of proof required under the convention. Therefore most lawyers will tell you to make sure you have the certificate on file before filing the case.