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Voters pick luminous tech spacesuit as NASA's off-world fashion statement
Security guru: You can't blame EDWARD SNOWDEN for making US clouds LOOK leaky
US judge: Our digital search warrants apply ANYWHERE
Wednesday 30th April 2014 14:50 GMT 
Re: Another angle
@jubtastic1
"should the US be able to annex assets abroad without regard?" No. they should just play by the rules, and ask foreign law enforcement authorities to get the data and accept a yes or a no. Or Microsoft et al should just tell us that any data on their sever anywhere belongs to the US authorities. The funny thing is that to help Microsoft et al we should stop using them as much as possible because they have no point at all if they cannot prove they are loosing business. An other question is of course if they actually give a shit about protecting anybodies rights and privacy.
How Brit computer maker beat IBM's S/360 - and Soviet spies
Whoever you vote for, Google gets in
The gift of Grace: COBOL's odyssey from Vietnam to the Square Mile
Gay marriage foes outraged at Mozilla CEO flap, call for boycott
Chrome makes new password grab in version 34
Melting permafrost switches to nasty, high-gear methane release
The... Windows... XPocalypse... is... NIGH
Wednesday 9th April 2014 02:25 GMT
Re: XP Strategy: ''Put it on its own subnet and VLAN, wall it off from everything'.
I am nor a X or a P, but I wonder about this X and P a lot. I cannot understand or believe this new "understanding" between X and P where X defines when X drops the shirt and P can have it all. Why all this waiting for X when a P. As a teenager, and the P, waiting and waiting, for X for no avail, still pissed off with this, then huge a P, waiting for the X. What the hell is going on here, is P still waiting and waiting for X to tell when he can have it in. I cannot believe it, at all, there is no other explanation to this cook up than a agreement between X and P. Fuck you both, I would say, but will not, understanding how long you P has waited for this. And to level this smoothly off, business is business. Bull, and goodby.
Why won't you DIE? IBM's S/360 and its legacy at 50
Tuesday 8th April 2014 00:06 GMT
Re: Some small corrections...
And I would like to add that there was indeed a time when IBM representatives where the most disgusting persons you would ever meet, and I know things have changed, gone to MS perhaps. One of the moust "funny" things was a 45kg girl (a customer) who told me about a 120kg IBM service guy who refused to move the punch card device he was supposed to fix because it was +20kg. So this girl moved it for service, her self, across the room for his convenience. There was a lot of this around 60 and 70, on the other hand I would not, perhaps, write this had I not known a guy at IBM 1965. Oh Christ, have I met some IBM representatives.
Torvalds rails at Linux developer: 'I'm f*cking tired of your code'
Saturday 5th April 2014 22:41 GMT
Open source
What a hell of a word. Open like nice, what a miss understanding. There has never been any nice with open. Open is where you cannot hide behind your company, their lawyers, and your errors. Open is where you cannot onanate behind closed doors. A world where your imaginary penis is just imaginary. And now forgive me for this rant. Now, during my 35 years of programming I have had to understand and accept that I have never had the right to question the shit my superiors have programmed nor have I ever had the right to question mad time schedules. What a nice life, always supported bye strong dorks as long as there was nobody but me to accuse. Open source is nothing like that, it's more like honest, shit is shit, and please, you are welcome again if you skip the shit. So what was this article about, as far as I have understood there was a guy who made a silly programming error, then there was somebody who pointed it out and the first guy said shit, and then (after presumably 10000 words of softness) Torvalds said "SHIT" you damned primadonna. A rather soft expression towards a prick, or have I missed something. Anyway, you programmers of to day, If you want to live and learn software go and join the open source world and perhaps, if necessary do some work where ever, keeping you soul and beer on the table. And for primadonnas, they dwell further south, never in the north, or make Kimi a primadonna if you can, and sometimes with this northern inability to vomit lots and lots of words, "you shit" often works better and is shorter too.
Dutch doctors replace woman's skull with 3D-printed plastic copy
Sticky Tahr-fy pudding: Ubuntu 14.04 slickest Linux desktop ever
Friday 28th March 2014 19:40 GMT
Re: Head to head
"Seriously, what is so bad about the command line?"
Nothing, people who know how to us it will always (if available) use it when it's faster more reliable and especially if you can make or reuse a script. People who can use the command line have no problems using a GUI when appropriate.
People who do not know, probably work only with Windows, and their opinion regarding the command line is totally worthless, like having strong opinions regarding a language you don't speak.
So, in other words, the bad about the command line is that people who know nothing about it tend to express their worthless opinion about it. Omitting (then) the command line was one of the worst mistakes Microsoft ever made. They had the *nix world on their knees but they blew it and I still feel both surprised and damned happy about it. People working within MS then wrote about it and explained that the stupidity was due to the big boys considering the command line old fashion. Ha haa haaa. Still I feel like a traitor when writing about it. Keep sleeping MS. Good night.
Say WHAT? ATVOD claims 44k Brit primary school kids look at smut online each month
Saturday 29th March 2014 15:50 GMT
Re: @Nick Ryan - 1 in 16 boys? seams low
"anal sex has been legalised". Sounds funny, legalised by who, as far as I remember, according to the Kinsey report every second woman who has tried it likes it. Disclaimer, my is out only. Wonder if this icon is legalised and why is this damned spell checker is against legalised too.
Friday 28th March 2014 17:33 GMT 
Smut
What the hell, I still enjoy being number 6 or 9 or any possible variation of any number. Where the hell did this obsession in finding smut in our bodies come from. From religion, of course, what is good for me, and sin, is very bad for you, especially for you. I cannot find any largely offending smut looking (without a mirror) at me, nor anything largely interesting either. Having explored a wife or two, not to mention all the girlfriends, I have found no smut either, rather astonishing and nice stuff. Something odd here, what if the British Museum decided to reveal all the "smut" in the stolen stuff from Egypt, I think they are called penises or something. Would that disturb me, probably yes, I am modern too, and size matters. But would not a more practical look at facts among priests and our religion have made male child abuse less common among the strong priests in their belief who find a cunt or the luck of one as smut.
Nobody is as obsessed with sex (smut) as the church, and I can understand the reasons for it but as long as it is like this, the church has to go as far as I am concerned.
Lets move the "smut" word into a more appropriate use.
ECCENTRIC, PINK DWARF dubbed 'Biden' by saucy astronomers
Passport PIN tech could have SAVED MH370 ID fraudsters
Microsoft frisks yet another Android gear maker for patent dosh
Forget sledgehammers – crooks can CRACK ATMs with a TEXT
Thursday 27th March 2014 05:17 GMT
Re: Sheesh
And sheesh to my self but the damned logic is that if you hit your thumb with a hammer you may say sheesh but it would perhaps be silly to blame the hammer. Still you will probably rather throw the hammer in the drink than your self. Life is sometimes unfair for hammers windows and penquins.
Thursday 27th March 2014 04:33 GMT
Re: Sheesh
"Which maniac thought it was a good idea to put XP on ATMs". Basically IBM as they gave up, lost the plot, so to say, for reasons I don't know. But again the way the OS was used and the way the "old" ATMs where designed, as the text goes "in the case of older cash machines still running (dead-man-walking OS) Windows XP" the problem would have been the same regardless of the OS. Nobody was then, long ago, prepared to back up Linux with any force, but with the same guys "designing" the ATMs the result would have been again the same. The fuck ups regarding Android is equally not because of Linux. There is nothing you cannot fuck up totally regardless of the OS.
As WinXP death looms, Microsoft releases its operating system SOURCE CODE for free
Schoolkids given WORLD'S CHEAPEST TABLETS: Is it really that hard to swallow?
Tuesday 25th March 2014 19:04 GMT
Is it really that hard to swallow
Schoolkids given WORLD'S CHEAPEST TABLETS: Is it really that hard to swallow?.
Yes it was hard to swallow for Microsoft who wanted the One Laptop Per Child to be their own lucrative business and almost destroyed it. The opposition to cheap computers is largely related to the problem of making a $30 profit with a $24 computer. No surprise the Indian government understands they have to do that investment themselves.
And I do agree with this article.
Then there are those commenting on foreign aid to Africa seemingly unaware of the fact that we still take out (rob) much more than we return. And there are those who think that running water and similar will suddenly happen without knowledge and education, or that education will suddenly stop all progress in other fields. Makes me think of Gandhi who would probably have answered the question "what do you think of western education" with "what a good idea that would be". Almost just kidding you. And there was the teacher who, probably only wanted to point out that teachers are important too but made it sound like he was afraid of loosing his job because of computers.
Nice article but somehow I might have left out the last sentence "Even if what they come up with is nothing at all like ours."
Bono bests Bezos in Fortune's 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' list
Sunday 23rd March 2014 01:13 GMT
Well, no1 leader
Lets hope the new leader will lead the child abusing priests into prison, lets hope he will show the priests without women or children into onanating without the threat of hell, lets hope the new leader can move his church at least a hundred years towards to day, and lets hope he will eventually grasp the logic between a condom and AIDS. Lets hope, no matter how funny it sounds. Lets hope he will dress in jeans and run a bike, lets hope he will find a woman (not so sure about that, as women have a tendency of abstracting leaders, just ask me or Adolf). Lets hope he wakes up some morning questioning all the rubbish he is supposed to represent.
PS. Google, did the leader pay you for hiding the word o***''ting or is it a personal problem for you.
Keep your quinoa, hipsters: Boffins back healthy slabs of choc
French novel falls foul of Apple's breast inspectors
Tuesday 18th March 2014 17:29 GMT
@Hans 1
Yes I find Bill Maher quite clever too, if not always. And no, I don't and I am not and not that either. Things I have problems with is when he calls European countries socialist. European socialists, there could be some, would burst out in tears or throw chairs or something if they where accused of living in a socialist country. And there we have the American problem where everything is either left or right. The space in between, where all the common sense lies has disappeared. Good affordable education for every child like good and affordable health care for everybody and social security is nothing but common sense. After all, having a piss, insuring your house, changing the engine oil in your car is common sense too. And if you look at "Michael Moore - Capitalism A Love Story (2009) FULL LENGTH" I have a feeling that Moore has a bit of a similar problem. The magnificent speech by Roosevelt (in the film) is about common sense too, nothing else. I quite appreciate Moore too and Oliver Stone Neil deGrasse Tyson and so many more with common sense. l was going to write "with some common sense left". But no, some American readers might not get it right.
But I would like Bill to meet a deaf person once as he doesn't seem to understand why a TV program might have a text and sound in the same language. New rule, Bill, double check more.
MH370 airliner MYSTERY: The El Reg Pub/Dinner-party Guide
ZEPPELINS to replace Goodyear blimps in American skies
Previously stable Greenland glaciers now rushing to the sea
Wackadoo DIYers scissor-kick beatboxer
Windows hits the skids, Mac OS X on the rise
Saturday 15th March 2014 04:16 GMT
Never mind
"StatCounter is only slightly more pessimistic", why not rather optimistic. But I wonder how these two decimal figures are counted. I am fairly sure that none of my Linux machines has ever been counted as Linux. Nor have I filled in even one death certificate (to the proper authorities). What would the number of ppl on the earth be if we believed in heaven on earth. Does it matter, (tears running down my cheek), not really. Let the shit hit Windows and leave me alone as the numbers count according to MS.
Mozilla takes Windows 8-friendly Firefox out back ... two shots heard
This city's smog is so TERRIBLE, people are told to stay indoors. Beijing? No – PARIS
Bill Gates-backed SOLAR POO RAYGUN COMMODE unveiled
Is no browser safe? Security bods poke holes in Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox and earn $1m
Amazon wants me to WEAR NAPPIES?! But I'm a 40-something MAN
Friday 14th March 2014 19:21 GMT
Re: Well..
A something man like you probably have children or grand children who need nappies. That is logic, get over it, you cannot hide. Still when I put Linux on a Windows machine previously used by my wife and using it now, YouTube keeps proposing stuff I never looked at. Also I am frequently asked to do something about my Windows machine as it's running out of space and guts, spooky. What makes me a bit sad are a few, god forsaken sites, where I have been, for years, the one and only first 1.000.000 human being to accidentally find them. Please somebody help them.
Behold, the TITCHY T-REX that prowled the warm Arctic of long ago
Web inventor Berners-Lee: I so did NOT see this cat vid thing coming
Friday 14th March 2014 18:10 GMT
Very zorry to zay zat z4 waz first commerzially available computer
Hello Hanz, I suppoze you are German and zur commanze of the Engliz langeuage is from somethink like http://www.sfgate.com/comics/ck/Katzenjammer_Kids/2014-03-02
Still I am surprized you did not mention that Ferranti was the sonz of an Italiano.
What the hell (end of Joke alert), why the hell are we so unable to get rid of this mad sic and blind natinalism.
Looking back it's the reason for almost every problem and looking forward there we go again. Putin has managed to convince the Russians that the Nazi are on the other side of the boarder (a bit like Netanyahu).
Damn it, education and common sense, common sense regarding old books and cave paintings too. Are we not doing so well. Damn it.
Friday 14th March 2014 13:27 GMT
Re: Very zorry to zay zat z4 waz first commerzially available computer
I suppose Zuse was not a household name in Britain around 1940 but this is what the Wiki has on Zuse and the Ferranti Mk 1.
Konrad Zuse (German: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is often regarded as the inventor of the computer.[1][2][3][4]
Zuse was also noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process-controlled computer. He founded one of the earliest computer businesses in 1941, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer.
In 1950/1951 the Z4 was the only working digital computer in continental Europe, and the second digital computer in the world to be sold, beating the Ferranti Mark 1 by five months and the UNIVAC I by ten months, but in turn being beaten by the BINAC (although that never worked at the customer's site[10])
The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature,[1] and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer.[2] It was "the tidied up and commercialised version of the Manchester computer".[3] The first machine was delivered to the University of Manchester in February 1951, ahead of the UNIVAC I, which was turned over to the United States Census Bureau on March the 31st (but not delivered until late December the following year[4]).
The UNIVAC I was the first American computer designed at the outset for business and administrative use
We seem to be rather obsessed with being first in one way or another.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
