Posts by Brian Walshe

Password guessing attack exposed in Twitter pwn

RE: far less sensitive

I think the point is that this was an admin account with access to login credentials for many accounts. That's some pretty sensitive stuff, regardless of how pointless twitter is.

Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers

Noel Edmonds.

Noel Edmonds makes crap TV programs and has a stupid beard.

Boffinry bitchslap brouhaha: Higgs and Hawking head to head

@Marvin the Martian

The the LHC is big, and the surface above it isn't flat.

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

Re: Journalistic niceties

I'm not offended by the swear words. I'm offended by the fact that they were used to pad out a story that was completely contained in the first sentence.

Seriously though, after telling us that Hadoop is an implementation of MapReduce, what does Ted tell us? Twitter are a bunch of jerks, ruby sucks, etc. He leaves it for someone in the comments section to even give an example of something that even uses the technology.

Stick to blogging.

Cuil feasts on Salmon of Nonsense

Scratch my last comment.

I just found a dictionary, the Irish for "goal" is "cúl" (no i). Oh, the shame.

Another translation

Cúil also means "goal". If their marketing department are quick, maybe they could change their story before anyone notices.

Tech support gets religion

Fail

Did you get that joke from a left-over Christmas cracker?