* Posts by John Smith 19

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ISPs: Relax. Blocking porn online won't really work

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@Don Jefe.

"That's great! Someone should start a campaign depicting her in the role exactly as described in her title."

You can bet that CEOP have shown her some of their gallery of shame. Shocking images of children and what they have been made to do.

Who can say if she hasn't taken her work home with her? Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right Clare?

Might be a bit embarrassing if something turned up on her home PC.

Just saying.

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*If* Clare Perry *really* wanted to do something for "The children"

She could try doing something about the number of children in the UK that get murdered each year by their "care givers."

Most of whom seem to be known to the local social services department.

But apparently they are "acceptable" losses.

The dead will remember her silence.

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Childcatcher

Some highlights from that Cameron speec h.

"Today, I am going to tread into territory that can be hard for our society to confront, that is frankly difficult for politicians to talk about...I want to talk about the internet, "

Because most of you are so f**king clueless about it perhaps?

"Once CEOP becomes a part of the National Crime Agency, that will further increase their ability to investigate behind pay walls to shine a light on the hidden internet and to drive prosecutions of those who are found to use it. "

Funny , I thought they were an industry funded body of non police people.

"to produce a single secure database of illegal images of children "

And it will be very bit as secure as the 200 000 personal details sent by HMRC through the post and which got lost. Twice. Handy if you want your CP "to go." It's got the ****ear Seal of Approval.

"It will also enable the industry to use the digital hash tags from the database to pro-actively scan for, block and take down these images wherever they occur. "

Aha. The Achilles heel of any pedophile ring, its meticulous (and standardized) picture tagging protocols.

<how we will make search engines throw up a warning, CP ahead message>

Well it's way cheaper than paying up the billions in tax they should be paying for the UK market.

"On Friday I sat with the parents of Tia Sharp and April Jones. "

Obligatory human interest aspect. Individual personal tragedy makes bad policy. Individual personal tragedy to whitewash a policy already decided is disgusting.

"If CEOP give you a black-list of internet search terms, will you commit to stop offering up any returns to these searches?

If in October we don’t like the answer we’re given to this question if the progress is slow or non-existent then I can tell you we are already looking at the legislative options we have to force action. "

"The cultural challenge is the fact that many children are watching online pornography - and finding other damaging material online – at an increasingly young age. "

Translation. Clare Perry's youngest showed me more filth in ten minutes than I saw in all my time at Eaton.

"But we as a society need to be clear and honest about what is going on. "

Hahahahahahhahahahaha.

And seriously?

"In a survey, a quarter of children said they’d seen pornography which had upset them."

And did they go looking for it? And did they stop looking for it afterward or did they just say "Damm that was fugly and move on to the next video?" Enquiring minds Davy

"Parents say – ‘we’ll do our best to raise our children right’ – and the state agrees to stand on their side; to make that job a bit easier, not harder.

But when it comes to internet pornography, parents have been left too much on their own and I am determined to put that right. "

No Clare Perry still can't set up a web filter, and frankly neither can I, but now we parents won't have to.

Highly amusing if you know the UK Conservative party as the government favoring personal responsibility and smaller governmental interference.

"Those who wanted default ‘on’ said – it’s a no-brainer just have the filters set to ‘on’ - then adults can turn them off if they want to and that way we can protect all children, whether their parents are engaged in internet safety or not.

But others said default ‘on’ filters could create a dangerous sense of complacency.

They said that with default filters, parents wouldn’t bother to keep an eye on what their kids are watching as they’d be complacent and assume the whole thing was taken care of"

And other said your plan was b***ocks to begin with.

"I appointed Claire Perry to take charge of this for the very simple reason that she is passionate about this issue and determined to get things done."

IE To get a seat in cabinet and a newspaper column. This is the women who wanted to age limit every website by a similar system to how gambling website work. Until it turned out several of them had fed the bank account details to scammers.

"And, in a really big step forward, all the ISPs have rewired their technology so that once your filters are installed, they will cover any device connected to your home internet account.

No more hassle of downloading filters for every device, just one click protection."

And saves them having to set up some kind of "sub account" management software, which costs them money and makes it clear you're in some one else's system at their sufferance.

"I know there are lots of charities and other organisations which provide vital online advice and support that many young people depend on.

And we need to make sure that the filters do not – even unintentionally – restrict this helpful and often educational content.

So I will be asking the UK Council for Child Internet Safety to set up a working group to ensure that this doesn’t happen as well as talking to parents about how effective they think the filter products are."

"UK Council for Child Internet Safety" WTF are these people?

"In the new national curriculum, launched just a couple of weeks ago, there are unprecedented requirements to teach children about online safety.

Which will be handled mostly by grossly unqualified teachers, some of whom probably want some help in downloading their pron.

"We need to teach our children not just about how to stay safe online but how to behave online too – on social media and over phones with their friends."

"Our parents kept an eye on us in the world they could see. "

But mostly packed us off to some school to be warehoused and raped by the staff most of the year, allegedly.

"We are closing the loophole – making it a criminal offence to possess internet pornography that depicts rape. "

Because y'know we need more laws in this area to arrest charge and imprison people for.

"And today I can announce we will be legislating so that videos streamed online in the UK

are subject to the same rules as those sold in shops.

Put simply – what you can’t get in a shop, you will no longer be able to get online."

Some of my relatives were farmers. I know s**t when I smell it.

"Everything I’ve spoken about today comes back to one thing: the kind of society we want to be.

I want Britain to be the best place to raise a family.

A place where your children are safe.

Where there’s a sense of right and wrong, and boundaries between them.

Where children are allowed to be children."

Translation "I want an internet where children can remain children forever and not learn anything that might scare them. Like how much we will spy on them for the rest of their lives. "

Having read the full speech I think I can say that I was very moved, in a gastrointestinal sense. The experience was truly, quite abnormal.

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Big Brother

So by "active choice" call-me-Dave meant *his* choice to opt everyone *in* by default.

Thanks for that Dave.

Brittards. There is an election coming in 2015.

Perhaps you too would like to demonstrate your active choice.

While you still have one.

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Re: Teresa May is the problem

" Therefore anyone within HMG searching for Home Secretary gets a face full of norks. This is why they keep frothing at the mouth (and not in a good way)"

Well that sounds like a simple solution.

Bye bye Teresa May. Just leave the crib sheet ("maintaining capability..." "...changing threats..." "safety of the state...") for the next sockpuppet honourable member.

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Re: What next?

"So when this has been proven not to make the slightest difference, what then? What draconian legislation will they eventually come up with in the name of protecting the children?"

Well NuLabor made all naked image of underage children including all cartoon robots and aliens illegal (look up the cartoon pron law)

So it's going to have to be something really stupid.

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Childcatcher

Re: Job title

"Tory MP Claire Perry, who is Cameron's adviser on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood"

Hmmm. It is rather unfortunate that it makes her sound like the recruiter for an underage brothel, does it not?

Oh dear I think I'm going to have to go away and meditate on that dreadful thought.

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Re: TalkTalk doing the NSA/GCHQ's work then?

""TalkTalk's Homesafe.... harvests all the URL's"

Ever wondered why some people call them "Stalk Stalk." ?

But note when offered opt in only 25% of customers actually asked for it.

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Re: Just get the filters installed and everyone shut up.

"To avoid government censorship one has to explicitly put their name on what is likely to be regarded as 'The Pervert List'."

I hate to raise Godwin but does this remind anyone of the gay and lesbian box on the 1935 German census to prevent discrimination because of gender preference?

Turned out to have other uses.

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Re: Just get the filters installed and everyone shut up.

"Scaremongering..."

Titus, is that you again?

Come out behind that silly AC

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Re: Just get the filters installed and everyone shut up.

"The filtering solution isn't going to be 100% perfect, but given time, it will improve."

If you think the filtering systems the problem you are very mistaken

Jackboot dangled over NSA's throat for US spy dragnet outrage

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@JohnMurray

"And for the full round-up of who voted what:"

Ultimately the only district you can affect is you own.

You have to go tactical. If enough of these people are voted out at the next election and it's made clear why people did it that may change the next lot a bit.

The question do and what should people be more afraid of.

A single even that happened 12 years ago and affected 2 cities or a their own government spying on them with no evidence of wrong doing other than (like the other 300m US citizens) they might do something that might break the law or threaten The State (because the implication behind these laws is that The State is more important than the citizens, which imply they exist to serve it, not the other way around).

I think I'd know which one I'd be more afraid of.

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Re: I called my Congresswoman and asked her to support the amendment

"And yes, I'd rather we have a real debate over this before we passed something like this, but our leaders don't seem to want a real debate. "

Well AFAIK the "debate" on THE PATRIOT Act was essentially. "Support this. It will protect American forever and if you don't support it you're practically a terrorist."

You might like to look up the voting record in both houses on it.

I think their was damm little dissent from either party.

Good rule of thumb. Someone hands you a 360 clause contract and says you've got 5 minutes to read it and sign it or they walk. Tell them to walk.

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@hplasm

"A big red "X" through them all?"

Tempting admittedly but I think something a little more nuanced might get broader approval.

That way you've got more of a chance of getting the more SEL contingent ("America is under attack 24/7/365 from within and without. We must have this to stop another Boston").

Oh wait, they did have it before Boston. The SEL will argue that's because the surveillance was not extensive enough of course.

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Re: Not quite

"It won't prevent anything. It can only make certain activities illegal."

Now, when your boss comes to you and tells you to commit an act you now know to be ilegal should you say a)Yes no problem or b)They've changed the rules and my pension is down the toilet if I agree to do this?

Actual formal illegality can have a calming effect on the men in the cubes who actually have to do this.

Not much, but some.

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"Give me 6 lines from an honest man and I'll find something to hang him."

Attributed to Cardinal Richleau, but probably coined by one of his staff.

And the NSA (or a reciprocal data sharing agreement with other agencies in other countries) had collected rather more than 6 lines.

Anyone think it's time to start going through those 360+ paragraphs of THE PATRIOT Act with a red pen?

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@Alpha Tony

"Rather than 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act' they should have called it 'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Telecommunication Examination Directive'. Has a nice ring to it."

Well, isn't that what they are doing?

World+Dog hates PRISM: Cloud Security Alliance

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@Titus Technophobe.

"Continuing in a familiar theme, this is not a new phenomenon, take a look at the ‘Dirty Tricks dispute between BA and Virgin from the early 1990’s."

Where a competitor who was also a service provider let Virgin use their system and abused their position of trust.

Thing is if I rent capacity off Amazon to run my catalyst design software for example Amazon don't have a catalyst design division and I'd think it in their interest to keep individual customers data apart. IOW I have a reasonable expectation of privacy (the link to and from them is another matter but there are other options for that).

But that rule goes out the window with the USG. THE PATRIOT Act puts my data in a direct relationship with the US government with no control over who sees it or what they do with it.

Under the rule of law in a representative democracy it's up to the state to prove that I'm doing something they should become involved with. I should not have to hope that it's too busy not to nose into my business basically because they can.

Your PoV only makes any sense if you are a)Very trusting in governments not abusing their powers b)Ignorant of how much information is being collected and retained or c)You paycheck depends on you being officially a and b.

I'll remind you that the internetwork was established specifically to enable remote researchers to gain access to high performance or specialist computing resources that they did not or could not do themselves. Again are you really that trusting or that ignorant?

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US cloud suppliers "Foreigners are dumb and can't read."

Snowden has helped bring the issue of jurisdiction of data under scrutiny.

If your cloud deal goes sideways and you have to lawyer up where do you lawyer up for?

The servers (which behind this "cloud" BS is what this about) are in some country with don't-give-a-f**k-about_foreigners-data laws? It all got scrambled but as the company is locally registered they are not liable.

Man-and-his-dog can look at your data or metadata (IE THE PATRIOT act)? That one would depend on wheather that database was shipped in and is "communications data" or the "communication" itself. OTOH if its a "business record" then it's straight over to anyone who flashes a federal badge. Still not our problem, Mr customer.

In principle migrating processing requirements to shared processing pools is an excellent business idea for any organization big enough to need that sort of horsepower. But this time I think the US has no advantages for anyone seriously concerned about privacy or confidentiality.

US intelligence agencies have shared information with domestic firms (of course only the "secure" ones) before.

I guess it depends on how seriously you take your business.

Fail because US cloud hosters don't seem to get it's their problem and it's up to the hosting company (which is what they are) to prove safety, and they cannot. As a working principle all your data sent to the US is literally property of the US Govt.

Man who pulled gun during chess game surrenders to robot cop

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WTF?

Truly nuts

He wasn't a large hairy individual who tended to communicate by a series of loud roars and grunts?

I've seen his kind before.

They tend to rip the arms off 'droids if they are losing.

Curses! Reddit plan for fat old beardy to 'smell hot pop girl Taylor Swift's hair' FOILED

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But is he tall enough for it.

She's like, a giraffe.

Royston cops' ANPR 'ring of steel' BREAKS LAW, snarls watchdog

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@Amorous Cowherder

""Everyone is a potential criminal, so we'll have all we need on you when you do finally commit a crime, which we know you will! You lot can't help yourselves! You're all criminal, law-breaking scum AND A NEW ORDER WILL BE ESTABLISHED UNDER ONE RULE OF LAW LEAD BY THE GLORIOUS LEADER!""

Yes that's pretty much exactly what the Home Office civil servants who bank rolled this think.

The cops might be willing (as long as someone else puts the cash on the table) but it's the data fetishists of the HO that really want the dream of theirs to live.

A sane society would not kill or imprison such people.

It would study them to find out what twisted their world view to make this seem a good idea.

It's a condition, not a rational policy.

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Re: Its not just in Royston

"Incidentaly the ANPR records from the whole of england (perhaps even the whole UK , I'm not sure on that point) are kept on a database at Hendon for 2 YEARS. "

I think you'll find it's now 5 years.

The got a good deal on more storage.

No. There really is no justification for this length of data retention.

It really is "because we can," which is partly what drives all these fetishists.

Boffins flip optics to make booster-free superfast fibre

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Intriguing on several levels.

Passive so no electricity supply needed

Potentially more reliable (if the materials are stable over long periods of time)

Not sure how much this boost existing capacity but sure sounds good.

Thumbs up for some very clever work.

Google Reader replacement 'Old Reader' crashes

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For the really paranoid, back up to tape.

Anyone want to have a go at dismantling a flash drive and probing the chips?

Anyone know where to start?

Senator: Surveillance state based on secret law 'has no place in America'

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So that would be another person who did not read THE PATRIOT Act then ?

I'll note that FISA was established under Jimmy Carter in 1976. It's focus then was foreign governments and intelligence agencies, with some interest in terrorism.

Shrub signed off on a major upgrading and AFAIk that's when you could no longer even talk about its judgements.

BTW that one sided arguing of the case is exactly the process by which "super injunctions" have been awarded in the UK.

There is nocounter argument given (not that there is no argument, merely that those that could give it don't know it's happening)

Does this sound like the constitution you learned about in school?

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Re: A good moment to remember Franklin's words

""They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety""

True. And a better time to remember Edmund Burke's

"For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing."

Boffins, Tunnel Tigers and Scotland's world-first power mountain

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A few notes on UK Hydro

Note the capacity . Roughly 1/2 a GW for 22 hours with a 12 hour reserve. You get a feel for how damm big you need to go to get serious storage and as others have noted that's already got as much off peak storage as needed. You'll want one like that near the coast to store all that wind energy..

A company written up in the Engineer remote manages quite a lot of micro hydro schemes in the UK (thats water power < 1MW). Most have no storage and they reckon there's about 1GW they can build out at the present feed in tariff. Interestingly they say most of the turbines are decades old but the controls are all broadband linked back to their office in central London.

Note the ageConstruction started shortly after Calder Hall nuke station opened in 1956. Calder Hall is closed but hydro (if properly constructed) can last indefinitely, with refurbs and upgrades. The Hoover dam is over the century. BTW A lot of these have "pad" bearings which have demonstrated almost unlimited life and close to zero wear rates. However this is not factored into the Treasury ROI calculations. I doubt any reactor will be running > 50 years after it's built unless someone just tore up the safety manual.

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Re: If you're on the other side of the world

"The Manapouri Power Station in New Zealand is worth a visit if you like this sort of thing."

There's always Vulture South.....

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Re: "photographs are forbidden for fear terrorists could make use of them,"

"Terrorists, internet pornographers ...or Paedophiles!"

To a data fetishist what's the difference.

They want them all on file.

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AC@09:28

"Re: "photographs are forbidden for fear terrorists could make use of them," "

Personally I just think they read too much Christopher Brockmyre.

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

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Re: The devil in the detail

"I can remember the press getting upset about children swapping floppies with nude images twenty years ago. Mankind survived. Twenty years from now, we'll have porno 3D holograms. So what?"

And naturally the jails will fill with nubile young people on possession, mfg and distribution of CP (because they will were underage at the time.

A nice little treat for the actual violent robbers, murderers and rapists serving long sentences with plenty of "free" time on their hands.

Fail for this jackass law and it's completely predictable consequences

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The very thin end of a *very* long wedge.

This "Think of the children" hysteria is exactly that.

The internet was built by adults for adults. In adult societies such protection is opt in IE "Please filter me" and assumes adult behavior otherwise.

"But children need protecting"

True, but that's what parents are for and if you can't protect your children either a)Don't have them in the first place or b) Hire someone who can.

This is not really about this TOTC bo**ocks people are being fed it's about starting a list and getting people used to being monitored. I smell the fishy fingerprints of Number 10s "nudge unit."

You won't like how fat the fat end is or where it's going to end up.

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Re: The devil in the detail

"However I'm in as long as they block the Daily Mail as I don't want my kids to grow up bigoted, reactionary, small minded, scientifically illiterate and politically to the right of Mussolini."

Fair point.

So where will you getting your supply of JB in future?

UK gov 'still failing' at procurement, says Commons committee

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"lack…understanding" on how to collate their requirements, measure suppliers attributes, etc.."

So senior civil servants still don't give a f**k. It's just something for the procurement gimps to sort out.

But looking on the bright side 180 days --> 153 sounds like a (slight) improvement.

But even the French could do it in 120?

Funny I thought some of these "procurements" could take years to get the wrong thing delivered and installed.

Laser-wielding boffins develop ETERNAL MEMORY from quartz

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All your tax records for *decades* on one indistructible package.

It's got me excited I can tell you.

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Re: a long way off being on the brink of a practical fusion reactor.

"UK "big six" energy company profits before tax are about a billion pounds per year each (i.e. approx total 6 billion) . But even the US spends /under/ $500 million per year on fusion; and its total spend since 1957 or so is only about $30 billion. Hmm, what did BP have to put aside for the gulf oil spill?"

So in another 30-40 years it will be up and running then?

Fusion energy research. The biggest producer of PhDs in fusion energy research ever discovered.

Yay for that mr AC

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

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AC@21:41

"I don't have an issue as such with blocking porn - I have teenage kids and so block it at home anyway."

And that's where the blocking should be.

That's sort of the root of this.

But Clare Perry, the MP whose been getting on her hind legs over this, has 3 kids and is clueless about setting up ISP filtering.

So rather than a) Pay someone to do it for her or b) Learn to do it for herself (I'm told some women can manage this task quite well in the 2nd decade of the 21st century) she decides on c) Start a campaign to make all ISPs do it for her.

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Re: In other words

"The government has taken an important step in preventing rapists from using rape porn as an alternative to going out and raping women, ensuring no woman is safe."

Good point.

Distasteful, but good.

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Re: So....

"If parents want porn (or whatever) blocked, they can learn how to do it themselves or they can pay someone to sort it out for them."

And by "parents" I think you mean Clare Perry MP, who IIRC he put in charge of this clusterf**k "initiative".

Hasn't kissed a girl.

Probably wouldn't like it if she did.

Margot James OTOH...

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe in pure evolution – and that's an upswing

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Re: Faith and Science should be seperated

"Further, the internet itself would cease to operate effectively in such an ill educated land, much to the general relief of the majority of the world."

Yes.

Unfortunately that could apply to America as well.

I can absolutely see some SEL thundering "There is no internet in the Bible (capitalised spelling mandatory)"

incest, rape and murder certainly, but no internet.

The more I know of different religions and the people who result from the indoctrination process the more I think they say about the teachers rather than the actual belief system

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AC @02:42

"Does the improving status of evolution now indicate that the pack of 'scientists' are gradually regaining their credability and solidarity by giving up their infantile philisophical aligment to aspects of their psuedo-scientific theories that were not just unsupported, but actually in conflict with existing evidence?"

Voted down because you appear to be attacking the idea of evolution itself, not how its advocates have developed it.

But thanks for the reference. A very interesting report on what happens when anyones belief system is challenged by 2 marketing professors.

And I though the subject had no uses.....

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Re: Slight confusion here

"Don't you see that the same leap of faith is required to believe the (circumstantial) evidence for evolution based merely on a similarity of structures as it is to believe that there is a God based on a book that continues to defy skeptics?"

And this is only their second post since joining.

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Re: I believe ...

Or as Mr Spock might put it "It's beer Jim, but not as we know it."

100-metre asteroid 2013 NE19 zipped past Earth today

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Too big for NASA's "Asteroid heist" mission plan, too small for easy detection. OTOH....

There's meant to be lots of them to detect if a serious effort is made to go looking for them.

A nice round up of the SoA in asteroid stopping is given. here

Bottom line, the only borderline viable method would be to send 2 nukes, one to dig a hole into the object, one to go down it and shatter it. Navigating down a freshly dug hole, having just survived a recent nuclear explosion at (fairly) close range and not detonating till you get to the bottom is quite challenging.

Earth orbit velocity is about 8Km/s, escape velocity is sqrt(2) bigger. Expected oncoming velocity is about 30 Km/s. Landing is not an option.

Troll loses 'we own the Web' patent appeal

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Joke

Clearly a game design opportunity

Whack a troll ?

PRISM scandal: Brit spooks operated within the law, say politicos

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Matt Bryant unmasked as an internet predator "I am a wolf" he screams.*

No, not quite what you said, but close enough.

A little nip here, a little tuck there and you're a danger to society. Think of the children, right Mattie?

Like you're own for example.

Still never mind. No harm done as long as it doesn't get on a huge database to be used against you later on?

*Actually I filed it under "grossly inflated image of himself."

How do you drive a supercomputer round a Formula 1 track?

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Teams have been using laser sintered gears since at least 2004.

It's interesting they go CAD --> plastic --> lost plastic casting.

BTW perhaps the author should have used the ear being laser written in "Face/Off"

SIM crypto cracked by a single text, mobes stuffed with spyware

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Re: Blimey

"People who understand encryption know this. The ideal encryption system keeps information secret until the end of the value in keeping the information secret. So a message saying we're going to start the attack in 5 minutes, is OK to send out on a system that takes 6 minutes break.

Sadly most people who use encryption technologies don't know this"

True.

Indefinite security needs much longer keys.

BTW have you noticed the epidemic of downvotes for saying that DES was f**ked since the EFF cracker in 1998?