* Posts by LaeMing

2410 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009

Marissa Mayer in Vogue fashion shoot

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Happy

Re: What's a woman?

It is like a man, but slightly upgraded. :-P

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Re: Looking at just her, she looks good.

Maybe it signifies how she has had to bend over backwards to make any headway in the mess that she inherited.

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Re: I think she looks nice.

Gaaah. Now I have to go study the Goatse man to get that horrid Balmer image to leave me alone!

'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail

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Re: Correct

Technically, if the Government is terrified of its people, that makes those people...

Brazilians tear strip off NSA in wake of Snowden, mull anti-US-spook law

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It isn't like alternatives aren't available

It isn't like there aren't alternatives to all these 'big data' companies already available. Not always as convenient as selling your life up the river to FB et.al. but still more-or-less usable.

I killed my (already seldom-used) FB presence a few weeks ago and I'm only holding off enacting my own Diasporia* pod until I see slightly better data migration across major version upgrades, which I am quite sure is in the works.

I switched to StartPage just today after a fellow commentard in another thread made me aware of it (been using DDG for some time on-and-off but I need images searches quite a bit in some of what I do for both fun and profit).

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Sucks to be a US-based data company today. Really, I honestly think it must!

US court rules IP address cloaks may break law

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Of course, said Australian circumventing geo-blocking would only be in violation of any actual law if it was an Australian law (or they were residing in the US and doing it from there).

Australia doesn't directly apply US laws for some reason - something to do with being an entirely different country, I think.

Getting worried, Assange? WikiLeaks spaffs out 'insurance' info

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Re: You know what the data is don't you

And stegged into the encrypted LOLcats image is a heavily encrypted Goatse image.

Screw you, Brits, says Google: We are ABOVE UK privacy law

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Sauce for the goose

I guess any EULAs, or even more official contracts with Google anyone outside the US signed are invalid under local laws (since local laws don't count for anything with Google) and can be arbitrarily terminated with out consequence or recourse to Google.

Wikileaks Party scrambles to explain election decisions

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Voting below the line is easier backwards.

I always start with the largest number and work back.

Nutters, loonies and one-policy-wonders at the bottom.

Major Parties in the middle.

People with a platform worth voting for at the top (if any).

Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic

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Someone googled 'Google'.

Google: Cloud users have 'no legitimate expectation of privacy'

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Re: I wonder what advertising they send to spammers?

Discounts on known active address lists, probably.

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Re: Now I get it...

The full version is: "Don't be evil - Google owns all the IP on evil."

Facebook's request to the flash industry: 'Make the worst flash possible'

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I'd buy that for a dollar!

I have an immediate use for such tech. Has to have long store times and high density, but not at all fussy about speed or re-writes above a few hundred cycles.

1,100 haiku heading to Mars on next NASA mission

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Re: Why a DVD?

As the article says, the disk also contains Mars-inspired graphic art.

And if you want to engrave your data on silver or sapphire for long life, don't store it in a spacecraft that is designed to burn up on atmospheric entry! (Also in the article!)

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Bothering to read the article you are commenting on - a skill for life!

Should UK tear Wi-Fi a new one at 5GHz? Speak your brains, says Ofcom

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"There are disadvantages to using signals at 5GHz: they have a shorter range than 2.4GHz transmissions and they can't pass through walls and other solid things quite as well."

This can, depending on application, also be considered a considerable advantage!

Study finds online commentards easily duped, manipulated

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Re: Let's test that theory, Reg style @Rukario

Apparently AC@23:29 above is the only thread poster objectionable enough to overcome everyone's desire to balance every up/down vote on this thread.

US feds: 'Let's make streaming copyrighted content a FELONY'

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Re: How about...

That is more of a High-Treason level offense, I feel.

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Re: Sad

"Maybe they'll just execute you if you're smoking a joint & watching Game of Thrones simultaneously."

Nah, there's no profit for the owners of the private prison industry in that.

Curiosity sings 'Happy Birthday' to itself on Martian anniversary

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Don't tell the RIAA!

Don't tell the RIAA that there is no breathable atmosphere on Mars.

If we are lucky they will send a bunch of their lawyers out there ASAP!

Ex-Cray supercomputer interconnect guru Scott leaves Nvidia for Google

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My first reading of the article titile was "Ex-crazy supercomputer interconnect guru..."

Transdimensional rift appears above Australian bolt supplier

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It's a conspiracy!

West Bromwich have obviously conspired with the lizard army to re-route tourist traffic from the Bermuda Triangle to them, via this rift!

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Re: Slime Lords of Ugu knocking up a kitchen stool

And 9 months later we are over-run by Ugu-stool hybrids. Gaaaaaaaaaaphrhhhhhh.

Terror cops swoop on couple who Googled 'backpacks' and 'pressure cooker'

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Re: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

To paraphrase:

NEWS IS TRUTH. REALITY TV IS ENTERTAINMENT.

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Black Helicopters

Re: If we all do this two or three times a week....

And up everyone's taxes to pay for the massive growth of their little civil service empires. Mission accomplished (for them).

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Meh

Re: So don't shop while at work?

Um... unless you live in one of those big 'cities that never sleeps' type places, lunch time is often the only time you have to do a lot of your shopping.

Disney finds new way to give movies depth

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Mushroom

Plot! Schmot!

Look at the shiny!

Look at the shiny now in (sort-of) 3D!

Jurors start stretch in the cooler for Facebooking, Googling the accused

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Re: Worrying

"The most worrying part is that someone with that little common sense to think they could get away with posting something like that on Facebook"

But he was only posting it to his closest friends. All 400 of them.

NSA security award winner calls for hearings into agency's conduct

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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

Of course most people have things that, while not illegal, they still don't necessarily want on record for any small-time power-abuser to access. And that is in a society that (for now - no guarantees for the future, of course) has legal structures to support relative freedom of opinion and activity.

Australia threatens Adobe, Apple, with geo-blocking ban

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Until they factor in the Coriolis effect on the cloud, at least.

Darth Vader's old gaff awaits exogorth desert DUNE DOOM

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Re: Divine Justice

The force is strong in this sand dune.

Divers nearly DEVOURED by HUNGRY SEA BEASTS

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Re: I haven't heard many reports of Japanese who don't like the taste of whales.

My understanding is that senior Japanese associate whale meat with wartime austerity, when it was the only meat they could get. The stuff apparently tastes rank. Only posh people wanting to prove how posh they are to other posh people pretend to like it. Most gets turned into pet food and cheap school-supplied meals (ie fed to people who have little choice but eat it). The latter is intended to try to generate a taste for the stuff in upcoming generations in the face of the fact that the vast majority of existing adults won't eat the stuff.

So why do they persist in killing whales for heavily subsidised pet-food? The Japanese whaling industry has a long long history dating all the way back to ... WWII austerity measures. And has a powerful political lobby group associated with it.

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And that yellow bit on the back will make you fart for days.

New Kiwi spook law allows domestic prying

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I seeeeeeee YOOOOOOOOOOOporn.com

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

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Meh

Re: Really?

Hmmm. If you swap the word 'advertising' for 'porn' suddenly you get an argument that actually makes sense and intersects well with reality.

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Re: So...

Agree. We already have cable for that!

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Next up:

Road rules dramatically changed so it is safe for 8-year-olds to drive trucks.

Confirmed: Bezos' salvaged Saturn rocket belonged to Apollo 11

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Re: Don't be fooled

The US didn't have the tech to fake a moon landing. That's why Australia did all the film-work for them. They WANT you to think it was faked in the US!

PORNAGEDDON: Sexy bloggrs stung by Tumblr smut smackdown

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Re: Mature content filter

I have no problem with "Mature Content", it is an "Immature Content" filter I want to see.

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Re: "Adult"..?

Friend of mine, new to the English-speaking world, wandered into an 'Adult Bookshop' expecting to find literature targeted at adults. Well, she got an eye-full of, well, I guess some of it may be considered 'literature' one day. And "lots of plastic penises. Lots and lots of them."

Well, she was basing the assumption on the term "children's books", of course. But the terms are not quite opposite!

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Do children enjoy childhood as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Ex-prez Carter: 'America has no functioning democracy' with PRISM

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Re: Obama is a hypocrite and morally bad person.

Obama is a 21st century politician. That goes without saying?

Ad man: Mozilla 'radicals' and 'extremists' want to wreck internet economy

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Efficiency

I have a 'no junk mail' sticker on my mailbox.

I also made a 'Junk mail please' sign for my recycle bin that lives next to it.

The leaflet delivery person gets paid, I never see the stuff. Everyone wins! Well ... everyone that matters.

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And by dammit!

We have a god-given right to a profit, irrespective of what the end user wants or needs!

IQ test: 'Artificial intelligence system as smart as a four year-old'

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Re: half way there ...

DJ-3000 - http://vimeo.com/18516240

Dear Linus, STOP SHOUTING and play nice - says Linux kernel dev

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Meh

The only difference between what Linus is shouting at devs about and what I shout at devs about is the only one who hears my shouting is my monitor.

I do, on occasion, have cause to doubt a certain piece of software has had more testing than 'it compiled, in the repo it goes'!

STEVE BALLMER KILLS WINDOWS

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Re: Balmer is now just stamping on the bits

With a chair, presumably.

US states: Google making ad money on illegal YouTube vids

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Re: MacKeeper! Gah!

Heh, I saw a MacKeeper ad just an hour ago. Despite having less than 2 weeks experience on a Mac (well, since System7 anyway) I still looked at it and immediately thought 'Well, they do that PC scam for Macs too.'

Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL

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Re: Really? I'm the first?

We're all too busy planning the revolution and building a big big wall.

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Probably that the brown note is a myth. But it would be hilarious (for outsiders) if it wasn't.

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My brain developed a reflex add-block many many years ago. My audio and visual system seems to edit them out as irrelevant information, presumably by the same nmtural mechanism it edits out anything else irrelevant in my perceptive fields. It can actually be annoying if I encownter some wanted-information that someone has been idiotic enougr to think would benefit from an advertising-like format.

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Public service with a brick.

So now when some vandal smashes a train window, they can validly claim provocation?