Posts by Florida1920 1243 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2011
Emotionally traumatized squirrels are a lot closer than this asteroid. Therefore, they pose a greater present danger. So do a host of other problems here on earth. It simply makes no sense to say, "Oh, look, an asteroid may get us, so let's overlook anything else." We ought to be able to handle more than one problem at a time.
Honky Tonk Freeway is a 1981 comedy film directed by John Schlesinger. The film, conceived and co-produced by Don Boyd, was one of the most expensive box office flops in history, losing its British backers Thorn-EMI an estimated $11,000,000 and profoundly impacting its fortunes and aspirations.
New Yorkers lined up for blocks to see for themselves just how bad it really was. Still, it lost money!
And yet, it gets a 5.0 rating on IMDB.
At 5.5 billion light-years distance, this email with attached circularly polarized lulz cat video, was sent 1 beelion years before the formation of our planet.
I can now reveal its decoded text contents. It's a chain email. Unless each recipient forwards it to 20 other civilizations by midnight Saturday, they are doomed. How the senders knew we'd be here to decode this message now may never be known, because the Chronicles end with
<Winnt_root>\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
I hope the boffins at Parkes know what to do next.
Cameron should acknowledge that the only people he'd catch would be common citizens not professional terrorists!
Jim, I'm sure you know this, but sometimes we decent folk slip and give pols more credit than is due by taking them at their word. Cameron isn't after cyberterrorists, he's after votes. Ninety-nine percent of being a politician is gulling the constituency into believing you're earning your pay. The other one-percent is playing golf.
-- Jim O'Cynic
It sure seems as though Comcast is throttling Netflix in South Florida. Netflix is reporting streaming problems, but on Smart TV devices, not PCs. Though I'm getting excellent throughput and low latency everywhere else, Netflix keeps dropping. Maybe all my ancient snowbird neighbors are watching pron, but I kind of doubt they even have computers.
I did have a good chat with a Comcast billing "analyst" last night, though. They were trying to double-bill me for this month. Guess they need the money to buy Time-Warner. FSM, help us!
Needs refreshing.
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/tree-liberty-quotation
Yes, they’re Condemning the Paris Attacks: The Muslims’ War on Terror
Hezbollah Leader Says Islamic Extremists Have Hurt Islam More Than Cartoonists
Try doing some research before shooting off your mouth. Stop making it necessary for the rest of us to condemn your bigotry.
I want to add to my previous comment. I don't for a second believe the 'Charlie' murderers were acting as Muslims. I think they were violent psychopaths for whom alleged religious belief gave a cover for their disgusting acts. If they hadn't "discovered" religion they'd likely have found some other excuse to act out their frustration at being losers.
Blogger and professor Juan Cole suggests their acts were intended to provoke attacks against innocent Muslims, causing an "Islamic Awakening" (my term) in France where, according to Cole, most Muslims are not religiously or politically active. Misery loves company, and these psychos seem intent only on dragging other Muslims down to their depraved level. Let's be careful not to play into their sick scenario.
Anyone more offended by "needling, taunting and provoking" cartoons than by the murders of 12 innocent people is seriously in need of help. No one ever died from looking at a cartoon.
I'm often offended by various media sources, especially as I'm an atheist. But I don't pick up a battle rifle and storm Fox News HQ, or sit on my butt and encourage others to do so. I simply rarely watch their cable channel or read their Website. At worst I might complain in an online forum or among friends, who are similarly opposed to using violence to express their dissatisfaction with this or that.
I hope this helps you gain some perspective.
Using "Comcast" and "High Speed" in the same sentence is a bit of an oxymoron.
Depends on where you live. In my condo complex I can watch European Netflix via VPN for hours with a single dropout maybe once every couple of days. Perhaps because my elderly neighbors only use the 'net to look at grandanklebiters' photos on Faceplant and get their video fix on conventional cable. Their loss, my gain. Location Location Location.
Probably a lot less of the reports were for the never shot down SR-71
Now that I'm well past the age of caring.... a radar operator at a USAF radar station outside Charleston, SC, detected something flying high and fast in 1967. The Pentagon sent down a major to investigate the "UFO" (the "Purpose of Visit" entry in the orderly room sign-in book said "UFO investigation"). The major advised the operator he hadn't seen anything. I wonder if even that major was cleared to know about the SR-71, which probably is what was detected. The radar operator was a well-grounded, believably serious young man, so until I heard about the Blackbird I often wondered what it was he'd seen.
"Networks need to get serious about shutting down bot armies and unplugging peers who willingly host them."
You can identify a bot coming from a pwned usr on a large U.S. ISP, contact the ISP with log details ad infinitum.... And expect absolutely no response. FFS, if they can monitor phone calls and archive all emails they can detect bot-related packets and turn off the connection.
Such shameful accusation belches daily from the corrupt western tongue of Rush Limbaugh.
FTFY.
"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest."....disrupting the internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic
The Norks are obviously all Republicans.
Here's the problem. If you're good at security and your company is never penetrated, you'll have a hard time proving it wasn't pure luck. After a while, the bean counters start looking at your budget the way a fox looks at a chicken. If they cut your budget and security slides, it won't be a bean counter falling on his/her sword when the Huns breach the walls.
We could hope the Sony breach will scare the bean counters into paying attention. We could as well hope that Santa Claus is real.
Releases of further purloined data stopped when Sony decided not to distribute The Interview. That suggests that when they said they weren't behind the scheme, the Norkies were telling porkies. Now that the movie is going into limited release, may we expect another bushel of confidential data? Or did that "accidental" shutdown of NK's Internet access get the point across?
Happy Hols, all. We'll be having pasta and turkey meatballs for dinner.
Turns out there's a free VPN way to do this, so thanks for the suggestion. I'm watching a UK-based Netflix flick now. After looking over the selection, I can tell you it isn't much better in the U.S. Guess it depends on the studios that want to do a deal with Netflix. There are a few U.S. TV shows available in the U.K. that aren't available here in the States, but not the ones I'd want to watch.
Why should we tie up resources starting a series of niche events that are unlikely to grow much, when we could put all that time, effort, and management attention into the bigger tradeshows and move the revenue up more quickly?
Sowing seeds for the future? Oh, sorry, I forgot. This is modern capitalism. We live only for today.
So remind me, exactly what is the aim here? What do these self-styled "Guardians" wish to achieve?
Chaos. That is all. Even if they leak Sony into bankruptcy, other corporate entities will fill the gap.
"The Interview" movie still confounds me. No one has mentioned that only two days before 11 September 2001, a bogus news team used the cover of an interview to assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, a pro-Western, anti-Taliban insurgency. That might have been a clue of what was to come, but AFAIK it didn't register as such at the time. Massoud was killed by a bomb, apparently as in this new movie. Maybe I'm just too rational to see how you could turn an event like that into a comedy. I hope Sony loses a fortune on this one, but no one ever went broke, etc.....
You know they're going to make a movie about this, starring Seth Rogen as the indomitable and incompetent head of Sony IT. Angelina Jolie can play Amy Pascal. Kim Jong Il can play himself.
I feel sorry for the innocents who were hurt by these leaks, but Sony management had it coming. Yes, Kim Jong Il is a proper bastard, but he's still a head of state. Downvote me if you like, but making a movie-joke about his assassination was JUST PLAIN STUPID AND IRRESPONSIBLE. And Pascal "green-lighted" the project. Now its stars are whining about how America should stand behind their employer, while they cry all the way to the bank. Say What?! The press coverage is the best PR that movie could ever hope for and it isn't costing Sony a penny.
And let's face it: This saga is way more interesting than any movie Sony has produced lately.
If you are interested at looking in the mirror I suggest you look at the hateful, assuming rant you accuse them of resembling
You know there are other news sources in the UK besides El Reg, right? Try reading them. Even from this side of the pond it's no challenge to see UKIP for the xenophobic, intolerant thugs they are. But hey, I guess even football hooligans deserve a party, yeah?
That huge graphic at the top of the home page is a waste of space, as is the BIG HEADLINE.
Not sure rearranging the page is an improvement. As someone who reads El Reg a few times a day, I got used to finding my way around. Learning to read the new layout doesn't add value IMO. Just like Playboy, most of us look at El Reg for the articles, not the pix. Unless they're graphics that add value. The new look won't drive me away, but it doesn't add anything to my desire to visit, either.
If Russia tries to insulate its people from outside information contrary to government interests, Russians will find alternate ways of learning the truth. The samizdat movement flourished in the USSR, and something similar will surface now. Only a paranoid like Putin would believe otherwise. And it's not pre-1989 anymore, when samizdat comprised secretly-photocopied books and journals. It will be a lot easier now. Putin is riding full-gallop toward a steep cliff.
Waaaay back in the day when smokers were confined to the shipping dock (no smoking anywhere on the grounds anymore, I'm sure) at a place where I contracted, that was the place to hang out to get the lowdown on anything happening in the company. People always seemed more willing to talk to a fellow pariah. If you could recreate that outlaw atmosphere (intended) where people begin to feel they have more in common than an employer, communication may improve. Hot tubs?
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