well i for 1 would not have run away
there would have been too much drag generated in the back of my trousers!
oy vey
Posts by Naughtyhorse
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Dead bloke reanimates in mortuary
Attack on 'Cyberbullying' critic prompts raid by armed cops
Amateur claims crack of final Zodiac Killer cipher
Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads
Suspects in PayPal web attack not so anonymous after all
Stuxnet clones may target critical US systems, DHS warns
Wednesday 27th July 2011 10:57 GMT
It's still possible to lease dedicated lines
Not in the uk it isn't.
More cost effective to unilaterally bung eveyone on an ip based system, which is unacceptable for any secure/time critical application.
AFAIK stux moved via usb keys - tyipically SCADA isnt connected by TCP/IP - usually a modern variant of RS 232. So code gets developed & tested in a sim, and shipped to remote sites in some dudes pocket on a flashdrive.
US Navy orders laser machine guns
Toyota tech to steer cars round jaywalkers
Boxing boomers bounced building in Seoul
'There's too much climate change denial on the BBC'
Thursday 21st July 2011 15:36 GMT
Now I know modelling the whole world's climate is not easy
quite right it's not easy, it's impossible.
absolutely impossible. By definition.
And the uncertainty in the models, which will always be there, is what the deniers have latched onto. they offer no models of their own to back up their therories, simply exploit the ignorance of the public re; science in general and mathematics in particular in debunking the CC work that is happening. (I.E if the models are good then they should work perfectly - they dont, never will... thats what chaos _means_)
As an earlier poster stated " the hockey stick model has been successfully proved wrong"
fact is that this has happened on at least 5 occasions, sadly on each occasion the methodology employed by the deniers wes demonstrated to be fundamentally flawed (most spectacularly when it turned out NASA didnt really know where it's satelites were!).
As you point out the Why is not at all proven, and i guess we need to wait until a couple of 100 years after the last barrel of oil has been burned to find out the truth on that, except of course it won't be us, it'll be the cockroaches - the only things capable of surviving big oils hubris, or the coming entirly natural eco-pocalipse.
Thursday 21st July 2011 15:16 GMT
Their models are unstable for minor perturbations in inputs
which i guess is in no way whatsoever a result of the fact that the phenomena they are trying to model are in fact chaotic - e.g. systems which show large and un predictable shanges in output from minor pertubations in inputs.
or to put it another way you are suspicious of CC modelers models because their behaviour so accurately reflects the behaviours of the systems they are trying to model.
or to put it a third way, tweak the way actual real clouds form a small amount, sit back and wait for a 100 years and lo the climate will indeed have changed - a lot. in which way i wouldnt dare to hazard a guess, but a lot would be my bet.
You are aware that climate is chaotic, of course you must be, what with writing statistical models for a living. and as such you will recall from 'mathematical modeling 101' that the first thing you do when setting out to model a system is to characterise the models overall behaviour; linear, non-linear, chaotic etc etc.
unless of course you are a big ol troll who knoweth not of what he speaks???
Russia’s space telescope in orbit
Wednesday 20th July 2011 15:20 GMT
Amish... quite interesting science
try and breed a population of a few hundred thousand from a few hundred individuals (where inbreeding was already a problem start with) and just watch the genetic mutations proliferate.
Of course this is all due to genetics, which is a practical implementation of evolution, in which they don't believe.
Which kinda makes the other guy's point akshuly
I remember coming across a bunch of amish folk at a market in Madison Wi - felt very sad for them, which surprised me a bit, I dont usually do compassion.
Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze
Thursday 21st July 2011 12:30 GMT
benefit our own people...
by which you mean ashcroft?
cos you know thats what would happen if those self serving bastards at westminster got their greedy mitts on it.
meanwhile the 'ordinary' people of the UK would be crippled meeting the cost of non subsidised food
great idea that one, i think you should take the rest of the day off
RUPERT MURDOCH HIT BY PIE
Wednesday 20th July 2011 11:58 GMT
I call Godwin on that
So you lose! Mwahahahahahahahahahaah!!!!1!!!11
murdock and minimurdock must now end up in the scrubs, and brooks to star in revival episode of cell block 'H'.....
... whaddya mean it's morning and time for me to get up and go to work... bugger
we can but dream.
1 thing dose seem certain is that 'plausible deniability' is a busted flush for news corpse - seemed to me the commitee was saying "either you are crooks, or incompetent - you choose" and whatever bullshit they use to dodge that bullet will be used against rupert and mini rupe in the soon to be announced re-shuffle at the top of the company.
plus the pie thing was a hoot :-)
And as for the comments saying well done for giving the sun it's headline.... do you really think that in the absence of a good pie in the face gag that the sun would have lead with " It's a fair cop guv, it woz us wot dun the blag" ffs
if push had come to shove they wouild have posted a full page apology for whatever story it was that they fucked up yesterday, and put that on page 1 - with a sarky note to the PCC about priniting apologies in prominent positions.
a pox on them all
Nepalese gov to nail Everest's bigness in row with China
Wednesday 20th July 2011 11:41 GMT
lol
Try telling that to the israilies/palestinians!
Old story really, didnt i read somewhere that spain and portugal both carried out surveys of their mutual border, last century sometime, and came up with markedly different figures?
apparently it came down to the fact that portugal, being smaller, therefore land being more important to them (?) took more care to measure the route in smaller steps - round big stones etc, while the spaniards went from hiltop to hiltop. thereby exposing the fractal nature of geographic boundaries.
i guess you could say the same here, im not too sure but i think china is a fair bit bigger than nepal
CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
Educating Verity the OU way
FBI probes claims of Murdoch 9/11 hack
Friday 15th July 2011 23:24 GMT
Freedom of the Press is an important thing...
but is it? really?
I mean, do the maths, the numbers of people reading any daily newspaper in the uk are, more or less, statistically insignificant (ok, well about 10% of the populace? give or take) - The big hitting red tops sell a couple of million copies a day, proper newspapers are lucky to shift a few hundred thousand copies a day.
I'd like to say that the vast majority of people have done the same as me; just refused to play their stupid games and voted with our wallets.
The press got away with all this crap because they are really irellevant (until the Millie Dowller thing) If TV journalists got within a country mile of the sort of behaviour that the average fleet st. hack regards as basic tradecraft then the station would lose it's operating license in a trice. And their editors are aware of it, therefore it's not an issue.
a pox on the lot of em, the sooner all these dinosaurs go the way of the news of the screws the better.
also think of the trees!
:-)
Google turning us into forgetful morons, warn boffins
Friday 15th July 2011 22:38 GMT
well spotted...
theres part one of the problem - a significant proportion of 'facts' online are bollocks. (go on! google it i dare you :D)
and part two - is where everyone becomes stupid(er) when google is not available. Given many scenarios where google is not available needs smart people not eejits - by which i mean end of the world stuff rather than crappy reception.
Anonymous spaffs Monsanto employees' details
Wednesday 13th July 2011 12:21 GMT
exposes innocents to risk?
I guess that depends on the definition of innocent one chooses to apply.
I have no particular axe to grind here, not a massive fan of GM, which i understand is a field in which Monsanto are big players. (pun intended)
but if I was then I would almost certainly feel that 'innocent' people didnt work for Monsanto and by their own choices made themselves fair game.
Resorting to good ol Reductio ad absurdum - anyone worried about bin ladens right to privacy being curtailed? - apart from the pakistani authorities who were protecting him {oops}
I think a lot of the point of anon is that they are not a traditional type of 'group' I am curious to see if that really works:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/07/anonymous_feature/
this article touches on the issue, some people are more charismatic\ socially powerful(?) and inevetably end up taking a leadership role. i guess it could be that in anon the criteria are just different?
The cyber terrorist issue is kinda funny. Given the fact that AFAIK all anon targets could be accused of 'taking unfair advantage' using political power or old fasioned folding stuff to promote their agenda to the detrement of the wider public and bugger the consequences. (I assume this Monsanto is the same one that bought the '97 labour government, and in a totally unrelated sequence of events the '97 labour governement allowed Monsanto to plant GM crops in the wild when there was still significant disquet as to the wisdom of doing so)
Seems to me more that real world bullies ar straying into Anons playground and getting a bit of their own medicine.
Hardly unqualified support but as lurker says above. when you see the target it's hard not to say 'Oh Good!'
It would be fantastic, e.g to see rupert murdock's voicemail posted online :D
Illegal, for sure, but gloriously apposite.
.XXX to launch nothing-but-smut unsafe search
News International grabs SunOnSunday.co.uk domain
Monday 11th July 2011 12:13 GMT
true
But I strongly suspect he's pissed on his chips as far as that goes.
Too many enemies, causing too much embarassment to those who arent his enemies... yet.
he and that redhead fuckwit will probably still think they are immune right up until the judges gavel drops as he intones 4 years or some such.
Well i can but dream.
well IMHO (lol) interfereing in the investigation to Millie Dowlers disappearance hampered police investigations. The animal responsible for Millie's death went on to commit 2 further murders. Who is to say that the plods trying to work out WTF was going on with her voicemail wouldnt have been the guys to stumble across the vital clue leading to the early capture of said animal. which in my book makes ruperts carrot topped friend an accessory.
Im sure not the only lives on her consience, well whatever it is she has where a normal human beings consience is.
hagins to good for em!
(Oh noes!!!1 Im infected with newsofthescrewsitis)
Chambers of Commerce say UK recovery is weak
Monday 11th July 2011 16:07 GMT
depends how you count it.
there were some mumblings some time ago about 'hapiness indexes' coupled with an admission from the govt that the obsession with balance sheet figures was not the best way to proceed.
sadly it was all bollocks, when it came to saving a few quid on 1 supply contract, they went for the bottom line, no more uk train manufacturing.
so what (y'know i dont think the sort of people who make trains for a living are 'people like us' after all)
and the knock on devastation in the local community (up north - who gives a fuck?) - not enough of them vote tory, that;ll teach the buggers.
Just waiting now to find out that the whitehall numpty who signed this contract didt stupulate that there should be seating in the carriages, and thats extra!
Cambridge IT guy 'was the Spanish Guy Fawkes', say cops
Apple patent: 'Pour' your data from iPhone to iPad
Entering a storage jail
PM promises change as police interview ex-spokesman
Friday 8th July 2011 12:41 GMT
far from criminal...
not so
"Where an offence under any provision of this Act other than a provision of Part III is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—.
(a)a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or.
(b)any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,."
classic catchall
if yuo were a boss and did know what was going on, you're a crook
if you were a boss and didnt know what was going on, you were criminally negligent, and a crook.
If only we had listened to 'news of the screws' all those years and brought back hanging :D
Coulson arrested
ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind
Cameron backs public inquiry into NotW hacking claims
Ofcom slaps Channel 5 for loud PlayStation ads
Wednesday 6th July 2011 13:43 GMT
need an intergral as opoposed to differential function m8
that'll sort out compressors (easy to detect with the ears, once you know what it sounds like) look at the area under the curve as opposed to the peaks
fyi compression is the application of a non linear gain, which is a function of signal ampllitude. this allows you to push top and bottom without running into distortion - for a laugh look at _any_ prodigy track on a spectrum anyliser - completely flat at about -.5db from 20Hz to 20kHz - what makes you think it was mixed on a computer by someone with cloth ears :-D )
like just about everyone else here i hardly ever watch live tv anymore - due to this problem.
all advertising is bollocks anyway. lett em get on with it i say (anything that keeps that tit chris evans in a voiceover studio and off my bleedin radio, cant be all bad)
many moons ago i had a video with a 'fast forward 30 seconds' button on it, great for ad skipping, would fit in just great on v+ sky+ etc etc
(having watched '20 minutes into the future' again recently i'm getting a little concerned that ads are now being cut to subliminally program us when watched at 32 times normal speed - i mean you have to watch really hard to catch the re-start of whatever you are watching - so what use is being made of all that wasted attention?????
I think we should be told...
oh btw Buy cilit bang - it's fucking amazing :D
Biting the hand that feeds IT
