Posts by John Smith 19

Re: Chop off their hands and gouge out their eyes

"This isn't a bad suggestion but the bleeding hearts of the world would be aghast at proper punishment for piracy."

Sounded like a cube rate in the NSA.

Now just a troll.

Do not feed.

Re: How about...

"... making it a felony to be a corporate whore while in office?"

Because turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving?

Re: Sad

" If illegal streaming is a felony they can get a better return on all the systems that were put in place to stop terrorism, but don't stop terrorism. "

True.

But isn't copyright infringement a civil matter? IE it's a private dispute between the copyright owners and the person doing the streaming?

This smells of more paid conslutancy.

@bazza

"Given that most photocopiers get used for copying nothing but text containing documents, it is surprising that Xerox saw fit to choose such a stingy default setting. That is pretty poor judgement on their part."

I'm not sure there is evidence this was on factory defaults. It could be the company/university set it to "economy" settings and that was one of them, along with using less ink for the black parts.

We just don't know.

But if this was the default that would be worrying.

Re: There's all sorts of image processing going on in there

"I can just guess what would happen if we lost out on a RFC because the copier had changed a 6 to an 8."

Perhaps you already have?

Time for a visit to Messrs Shyster, Shyster and Flywheel?

Re: Encryption

"Sorry to burst your bubble there but the person that created it knows how to break it."

That statement tells me you know very little about how modern encryption algorithms, the kind that become international standards not the kind baked into your cars key fob, are developed.

With that level of ignorance you're right to post AC.

Re: Physics can disagree all it likes ...

"All done in the name of democracy, or was it corporate interests?"

Well in the aces of Alledne of Chile in the early 1970s it might have been the CIA pension fund holdings of RTZ, which (IIRC) he nationalized.

Interestingly the CIA seemed to avoid most of the Iran/Contra efforts to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua (another democratically elected left of centre government, unlike the Formosa family, that ran the country the way a mafia family would run a country for a generation).

Re: @ AC1550h GMT - Right now I am on my knees praying

"Those images should feature CP*, best to be hosted in a hidden folder on mumsnet and then linked to the Daily Mail."

While deeply despicable you have to think that if you wanted to stir up plenty of TOTC type outrage the Daily Jailbait Mail would be the place to plant it.

Re: Draft dodger

"Limbaugh avoided service in Vietnam by claiming to have an anal cyst."

Excellent.

With John Wayne (Only uniforms he wore came from the props dept) Mel Gibson (skedaddled to Aus) and Shrub (Texas Air National Guard. Keeping Houston safe from VC insurgants) I can now go ahead with my new range of "All American (Draft Dodger)" teeshirts.

The only question is to do a quartet of this bunch of right wing blow hards or a set of individuals for customers to collect.

Decisions, decisions.

"Is this the IT expert who's been advising Cameron and Perry?"

Neat.

Thumbs up for the idea. If true truly the gates of hell are not far off opening.

"Whereas the Reg programming style guide requires that method and variable names contain alliteration and dodgy puns."

Hey. No peaking at the page source.

"Infosys does not discriminate Americans. It discriminates against all employees who are expensive, including Indians. Infosys finds excuses to fire all those who are experienced. It only wants employees who are in complete control of the management and paid less. It lacks complete the middle management level. Irony is that it had to bring in the most experienced person who is already retired."

<parsing failure>

And in English?

Re: The mouthpiece speaks!

"Says Infosys's token American...."

That's token Italian-American woman.

That makes her a "threefer" by my count.

Now if she were a disabled lesbian that would be just about perfect.

Re: This is legal according to FISA?

"We have laws that rightly restrict abuse of the NSA's data gathering capability. Not only does it appear that there is a flood of data going out of NSA that isn't related to National Security and Counter-terrorism, but it appears that sworn government agents frequently perjure themselves on issues of where data is being sourced."

That only applies if the information is no good.

Of course it might be a bit awkward if most of those tips came from eavesdropping on US nationals, as opposed to foreigners.

So probably best not to say where it came from

Re: I don't get this

"Either this is a group of very stupid people"

But smart enough to subvert multiple web sites and with what seems to be a private stash of CP they want to share with their friends, but not very securely, hence not encrypted or password protected.

"or someone is trying to whip up another moral panic."

Quite.

Time to sharpen up Occam's Razor?

Re: Target Audience?

"Are teen, pre-teen Americans.

Any of those here?"

Hard to say.

I have my suspicions.

Some of you can be very childish.

Re: After watching the start ....

It proved George Lucas could make a film better than the Phantom Menace (although only marginally)

So much processing power, so little creativity

Re: Truly there is no God

"We could always campaign to have Avatar considered a metaphor for Catholic Church's historical penchant for traveling to new lands and destroying any culture they find there. Seemed to work pretty well for derailing the Golden Compass movies..."

So Avatar is like "The Mission, " but without Al Pacino being thrown over a waterfall as an act of contrition?

The Golden Compass plays down the religious aspects. It's there if you look for it but the Magisterium is a secular authoritarian state.

As such it's only politics are those of oppression and obedience to The State.

All else is sophistry.

Re: It would be a better companion

"On second thought, maybe we need a new name for orbital boinking."

Already done.

Look up "Three Dolphins Club."