Posts by Paul_Murphy

What the F?

>while 28 per cent were never patched.

Never?

So what's the point of keeping up to date anyway - almost a third of the programs on a PC won't be fixed!

Is there a Linux version of this report?

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Good luck guys (and girls of course).

After visiting BP for the first time this year and seeing the amount of effort put into the Colossus re-build, not to mention the bombe rebuild as well, I'm sure that they will do an excellent job and hopefully visitors will be able to follow their progress once things start to get viewable.

There is still the question of what they might intend to do with it once it's done, but the journey will be interesting.

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Umm wrong topic?

Why is this under Science .. Physics.. - are the numbers (or planes) so large that they will start warping the fabric of the universe?

I bet this will be moved to Business soon :-)

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Well

China can afford to wait around and let us bankrupt ourselves (especially the Americans) paying for our consumables.

Once they have all of our money and credit they can just buy us up - one country at a time.

ttfn

Hopefully...

I'll be able to sit on it and it will work as a magic carpet.

Or I can contact the dead,

Or it will double as body-armour,

Or ... Oh I give up - who cares? does it really matter that much?

ttfn

And meanwhile there are over 2000 wikileaks mirrors.

Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 2174 sites (updated 2010-12-14 22:12 GMT) (from http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html).

And there are instructions on it's site on how to set up mirroring so that it can be updated - not only is the cat out of the bag, the horses bolted and the leaper leapt, but unless wikileaks decides that it's not under assault by the US, and fighting for it's survival - which I doubt will happen anytime soon - it would seem that they are far more interested in carrying out their mission to spread the leaked truth than they are in protecting the organisation that is attacking them.

funny that.

ttfn

I believe..

That the ladies wanted him to use a condom, and he didn't.

Still - I'm sure the truth will come out, I just wonder whether it will be the Swedish, UK or USA version of the truth, the ladies, Assanges or the 'real' truth.

If he is guilty then he should be punished accordingly, but if he is found innocent then I hope that he can claim compensation.

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I must admit that..

I'm left with a feeling of disgust over the behaviour of paypal and others who seem to leap on any excuse to punish a single person.

Assange is not wikileaks - he is just the figurehead, and though I feel that wikileaks is behaving more like an attention whore than a legitimate organisation I also feel that if our 'system' of democracy actually worked then we would not have any need whatsoever of wikileaks,

Oh wow - I just checked the list of wikileaks mirrors (quote: 'Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 507 sites (updated 2010-12-06 14:02 GMT)'):

http://wikileaks.info/mirrors.html

And here is some help to find alternatives to paypal:

http://www.screw-paypal.com/alternatives/alternatives.html

Shame - I just bought Snow Crash from ebay using paypal, I don't really want to stop using it, but I'm starting to feel I must do something.

Maybe I'll use my collection of junk to build a TOR-based wikileaks mirror and hide it in my shed.

ttfn

Excellent news.

So at some point during 2018 the roads and shops will be less full of id10t's, since they will be in Russia - that's good news.

I recall visiting Asda and noticing that the shop was emptier, with people smiling at each other and it was an order of magnitude more pleasant, some big football event was happening and only sensible people were out and about.

Why can't this happen every year?

ttfn

A thought

Anyone heard of 'chaff' - developed in the second world war to frustrate radar.

I would assume that clothing with a suitable lining, most likely reflective sheets with very small holes in, would be able to reflect and confuse the scanners.

So not only would the perv scanning be rendered blind, but the perv pat downs would have another person to process.

And who knows, maybe enough back-scatter would break the scanners.

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deployment

How on earth would these be deployed? - too big (19m long) and heavy (160 tons) to be dropped by plane I would have thought.

Maybe the USAians might like to develop a stealth 200,000ton hydrofoil to drop these babies off where they would be useful?

ttfn

That's easy

>criminals that they cannot hide, even in prison,

After all - we know where you live.

Size

But it won't be smaller.

Or if it is then I guess there will be lots of sniggering going on.

Or maybe it will fold in half.

hmm

ttfn

Nevermind all that..

wheres my space-elevator?

ttfn

Better yet...

Why not postpone Christmas until the end of January (after all celebrating New Years is enough), get all the presents in the January sales (you know, the ones that start on boxing day) at knock-down prices and spend the time reading books or going for walks with your family.

Why must we always be buying stuff?

I'm also for everyone spending the money (that you might normally spend on presents for other people) on themselves instead - then on Christmas day you thank all your family for your present that you really wanted, and they can thank you for theirs.

Far less waste, and you get to decide how much you want to spend.

ttfn

Surely

It would be easier to track and audit where the various minerals came from - anything that can't be positively tracked to a known good source can be inferred to come from the DRC.

It wouldn't take long to pinpoint those plants that are using 'untrackable' ores.

ttfn

Certainly a tricky one.

After all criminal activity should be punished, but it seems as though that particular law has been rushed.

I would have thought that a number of area could be addressed:

The person(s) responsible for making the images/films in the first place - they should have the prison sentences and huge fines.

The publishers or ISP(s) hosting the files, especially if they do not remove them from circulation after notification, fines based on accesses to those files. In the case of printed material then based on the numbers printed.

The viewers or holders of the material - a fixed fine I would have thought, unless there is reason to suspect that their possession was unknowing or involuntary.

For a silly example:

It seems rather silly that if you were to purchase a newspaper with a dodgy image you could get prosecuted for millions despite the fact that you hadn't even opened the paper, or known that it was there.

ttfn

LCDS?

http://www.theplace.org.uk/lcds

Really? I must be out of touch...

ttfn

The Drake equation

Come on someone:

N = R* fp ne fl fi fc L

where,

* N = The number of communicative civilizations

* R* = The rate of formation of suitable stars (stars such as our Sun)

* fp = The fraction of those stars with planets. (Current evidence indicates that planetary systems may be common for stars like the Sun.)

* ne = The number of Earth-like worlds per planetary system

* fl = The fraction of those Earth-like planets where life actually develops

* fi = The fraction of life sites where intelligence develops

* fc = The fraction of communicative planets (those on which electromagnetic communications technology develops)

* L = The "lifetime" of communicating civilizations

(from http://www.setileague.org/general/drake.htm)

Where's my alien overlord and their flying cars!

ttfn

Hardly fair.

Measuring from sea-level - after all we have one and the moon doesn't - unless they measured the moons high-point from the earths sea-level, but that would be a silly thing to do.

ttfn

How could you tell?

It looks legit to me.. though if they know the address then why not just pop over with the loot and if the face-to-face checks are Ok then they leave the money, else they can arrest the person.

I'm sure if someone with a badge and a lorry-load of cash turned up on my doorstep and asked to look at my passport I'd be happy to help.

Seems all this emailing and acquisition of forms is rather superfluous.

ttfn

Umm

Ok - this sounds like one of those Science-fiction novels where the 'inferior' enemy end up putting sugar into the fuel supply and trouncing the 'good guys'.

Do they honestly think that this is the answer? everyone knows that what the modern soldier really needs is a powered battle-suit with augmented strength, armour and the ability to call down orbital laser-strikes.

It would also mean that they could have a load of two-foot long pockets to put useful stuff into.

Everything else is just turkey-tickling.

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Hooray!

Death from above goodness - what a nice safe world we live in, I can't wait for the next chapter.

ROTM...

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