Posts by Lars

Re: Southern? Cross?

@ GrumpyKiwi

"once he's in the US there is still the small matter of actually proving beyond reasonable doubt before the courts and a jury."

Yes, I was brought up with that nice idea too about reasonable doubt before the courts and a jury. "Twelve brave men" and a mindset in that direction. But things have changed, the reality become different.

I don't give a shit about a fat prick who decided to call himself Dotcom. This is all about a legal system and a legal system that is not legal at all, and about extraditions. Somehow I don't think NZ will extradition inhabitants to Thailand if they make a joke about the King's parrot, nor do I expect the NZ legal system to extradition women who drive cars to Saudi Arabia. In short who the hell do those elected to represent the people in NZ believe they where elected to represent.

We have looted the world from the very beginning, some more successfully than others. but never in human history has any country been as successful in looting its own people as the USA. Never in human history has so many had so little reason to celebrate so few. I would not support even extradition of Americans to that legal system.

Still this is WhateverMas, and as long as we are able to laugh and be cynic, merry and awful lets not forget that the worst is still to come.

Re: Complex? It's an STV election...

"I could design a ballot paper that would be human readable, and therefore easily verifiable, as well as machine readable, and therefore able to be loaded to the dB quickly.".

Not punch cards. Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest.

Re: HUMMMMMM.... so nothing to do with having Guns everywhere?

Why do you think he was shot at all. Damn it, it took me some time to add "at all".

Re: Follow the money

More about the guy as a businessman in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCIwXdQ9p90

I don't like that guy and since some time ago, when I see his small round mouth my arse has started to argue with him, very annoying, I can't understand the language but I feel the smell. Coat as there is no icon for diapers.

Re: Solution: More free speech, not less.

@ gazthejourno

A country run by a dictator is called a dictatorship, no need to use any fancy words there. A wartime industry is centralised, of course. Happened in each and every country that took part in WW2. Very few cars for normal use were built in the USA during those years, for instance.

Re: It's official now.

"Maybe the guy didn't have a password set either?" Maybe he didn't have a computer either, most likely not the only person in the world with just a phone, my aunt aged 91 comes to my mind. Backup?.. what .. please my knees!. What the hell, you expect the car you take to be repaired to contain your stuff when you get it back.

Re: Call me suspicious

I am not sure if I understand you. In the Nordic countries (and many other countries) broadband is both faster and cheaper than in the USA because there is competition. The ISP I use for the line to my house is by one ISP but my dongle is with an other, and I could add a few if I wanted. Still some Americans call the Nordic countries "socialist" while at the same time Americans seem to have less and less choice and call it capitalist, very funny, although it makes me laugh less and less. Are those Nordic ISPs run or sponsored by the states, no. There is not one country or one area in those countries, and you can add many more European countries, where you have only one ISP to choose from and no competition, not so in the USA.

As for Bernie Sanders, he has indeed forced Hillary to speak about real issues, stuff that actually interest normal Americans, even blabbermouth donald seems to take a page or two from him.

Bernie does refer to the Nordic countries, perhaps he should not, perhaps he should speak about some new fantastic all American invention like affordable health care and education never seen anywhere else in the world before. Is he just too honest and just not stupid enough for the American people, we shall see.

And of course there is the word democratic socialist, in Europe the word tends to be social democrat which again is capitalism with a social conscience the way I see it. Still a one ore two word sentence is never enough to explain anything.

Re: Distrust

Interesting, but could it have more to do with Britain still being more of a class society than any other western European county. The small is interesting too, as aunt Hillary said, the USA is not Denmark, like the poor idiot at Fox News too, Denmark is a small country. I suppose, with that logic, Botswana should be twice as good as Denmark. Suppose that has more to do with education, or as the Americans prefer to say "socialism". Poor Americans, look at what the Republicans have brought up for the presidency.

Re: Selling free software

@Jamesit, Yes, and as I think some people might miss-understand your comment, this is from your gnu.org link:

"Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.

Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license. If this seems surprising to you, please read on." That why the "too" in my (as in money too).

The "Free" is a bugger, some in politics will deliver their free speech for free and then again the same spin for good money at some "dinner", where you are free to pay but not free not to pay, and so forth.

Re: Famous people who died from syphillis--Al Capone!

Trying to find some moral logic by connecting somebody to some disease is just silly, not that you don't know it too. And if there is somebody out there who doesn't get it, try cancer.

Re: Boo, hiss

Please LazLong. It's not that I can't understand your point, but seriously, the sentence "they will be riding in one of the safest, most reliable spacecraft ever flown." is PR and it's just too early to claim it. Let me give you an example of how we all react. Long ago in a foreign country I heard a good stupid joke, and everybody was laughing, some years later I told that same joke in that same country and surprise, surprise, it wasn't funny at all, and the simple reason was that I, as a foreigner, told that joke. We tend to react that way. Some time ago I happened to look at the F1 Brazil 2007 race:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQQSevUJWXM

Very good British referees who know their business very well, but then listen to those very very "sour grapes" when they realize they won't have a British World Championship. First they are pissed off knowing that Massa will most likely let Räikkönen pass him if it helps Räikkönen and then they start to hope for cars to crash in front of Hamilton, who fucked up his race, and then they hope Alonso would suddenly decide to stop driving because, perhaps, he likes Hamilton more than Räikköen. Sour grapes indeed. We are like that even when adult.

As for anti American feelings I would like to point out that I don't think Europeans have invented any by themselves. The USA is an open society that still speaks and argues rather vividly about it's society. Of course if you are American and you criticize the "shining city upon a hill" you have to be anti American and leftist if not communist. You are like that.

Have I been able to clean up between my ears, not so sure, but at least I know where to clean.

Re: Even the ladies are allowed to drive these days

Very interesting, do we know anything about the size, volume of their dicks, interesting, as we all know the relation between the size of the boobs education and intelligence, then again there is the arse, slightly confusing to me, right now, but do not despair, I have sent an e-mail to Trump, stay tuned.

Please give us a "half joke" icon.

"Patching light bulbs is not going to happen,” said F-Secure chief execc". There is memory you can update and cheaper memory you cannot update, perhaps the reason.

Re: ZFS is looking more and more attractive...

No, nothing "much protection against an attacker with root access!". You can, of course, prevent that, allowing root access only locally. Have I bothered about that, no, have all Linux users done that, probably not, who knows. And damn it, if you get root locally, why not take the who damned machine, or at least the drives with you. Although I know Linux is more secure than some other solutions I am still pissed off with people who think it's all about the OS. Give me a bank, any bank, if I speak the "language", I would claim I would need less time fooling people than fucking around with bits and bytes regardless of the OS or any security ever invented. Should we not also discuss more about the "human factor" among all other security risks. Damn it, better stop here.

Re: After the suffering comes the clean-up

"close down western markets and, no longer having to supply western customers". I am not sure I understand that sentence. But Wikipedia tells us this:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China)

"As of December 2014, the People's Republic of China has 23 nuclear power reactors operating with a capacity of 19GW and 26 under construction with a capacity of 25.7 GW"......and this should reach 88 by the end of 2020."

As for "going after western customers" the one to be built in Britain, as I have understood, is a joint French-Chinese project. (A fair amount of funny comments about that on ElReg). China has worked with France on nuclear power for years, like with the USA and Russia.

@stuart 22,

I agree, but do we need a sentence like "China has an openly interventionist national technology and industry policy". China had an industry long before Europe and has never had any intentions of not expanding it into the future, why should they. Should we not rather construct a nice sentence describing what has happened to the British industry.

Re: Ultimate goal

"Who did they choose for servants?", The best suited for the task of course.

Re: There is only one solution

"Dubai simply cannot exist without the MASSIVE amount of oil being pumped out of the ground". True, but then again, they know it too, and they do invest heavily in solar power. When we assume they are, for some reason, more stupid than we are, then we should rather wonder about us and why we keep living in a world that does not exist but in our head. They do have other problems too, like water, but they know that too, but on the whole, they are, in a way, more concerned and prepared for the future than we Europeans tend to be.

Re: Seems sensible for anyone with a high profile.

Note to Assange, stay away from hores in the future.

Re: This is old news...

The MAVEN spacecraft confirms what NASA expected, they are after all studying just that, right!. Still worth the article, and who knows, perhaps there are readers here who did not read stuff like this in 2001.

Re: goto might disappear

If you know machine/processor code there is always, and has always been, a goto, Then you can play around with the "return" (again a goto) to produce a subrutine or what ever you want to call it. The goto will never disappear. What has mixed you up, nothing "wrong" with that, is the sentence "Goto considered harmful" or you are taking about some makro language like Algol, a nice language, I used 40 years ago, perhaps there was a goto there too. Then again, why the hell, did I goto into this.

Re: The US government is something different than the US people.

Hello naughtyhorse. Lets have a look at that "1/2 of the population", it's a good question. In a two party system like the one in the USA it's either or, or nothing. The "nothing" part of the US voters is huge and disturbing. But the either or is also sic. Never in my life have I been confronted with the same hopeless choice as the Americans. Let me give you an example, when the Republicans, for reasons I will never understand, came up with something as totally mad as Sarah Palin. Most people voted for the party of their choice, what ever, for ever, probably true in any country. So American Republicans voted for the Republicans all the same, or did not vote at all. To suddenly switch from friend to enemy is hard.

In other words, a two party system is not good at all, as has been so obvious in the USA for years.

The USA needs one or several new parties to regain democracy but those two old parties will fight such an development as vigorously as any one party system. I would claim Canada is a more democratic country because they have been able to much avoid a pure two party system, much due to the French probably. (this to tease you Brits, of course.)

The Presidential circus, the Republican cacophony, some later day.

Re: Private Cloud...

Why do we actually call a Private Cloud a cloud, well, perhaps I'm a bit tired in the head and in my private cloud right now.

Re: We're all doomed

"understanding to make technical decisions on our behalf? And how should such decisions be made?"

Damn good question. Probably old. I would wager the stone axe guys where pondering about it too, if not them, certainly their wifes regarding crocks.

And the stuff I dry to avoid when walking on the street. I do like these articles but I have not earlier understood how difficult it apparently is to take a "delicious" pic of food.

Re: Slow download speeds

The first Linux distro I downloaded at hone, a Helix Code took some 8 to 9 hours, 99 perhaps. The earlier RedHats I downloaded at work until I was told "nicely" not to do it anymore.

Re: Yeah, right.

Yes, I would prefer Meccano too. Very fond memories, although I was a bit pissed off with the quality of the nuts and I am sure the paint was toxic. The "problem" with Lego, as I see it, is that there is this predefined picture of what to build and your kids will lose interest half way and you end up putting the damned thing together (no kids around anymore, and your wife has decided to hide the whisky). Rather just let them build what ever comes to their mind. The younger the kid the bigger the blocks should be.

Damn it, has Christmas started in Europe too.