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Death row inmate claims allergy to lethal injection

responsible for your actions

As the right says, everyone must be held accountable for their actions especially if they are black and poor. Rich people are naturally more favored by God and better people so of course we need to make dilluted crack cocaine 100x more illegal than white guy preferred pure cocaine. Like I said this guy is trash and deserves to die and far too many poor people blame the system for their shortcomings but also far too many suburban neighborhood association fat people think money makes them better people.

Is Oracle severing its LSI relationship?

Woohoo!!!

>SPARC64 VIII is canceled.

Good! It was a long overdue mercy killing. Not a huge fan of developing on Solaris but at least on x86_64 it is almost speedy enough to be tolerable. I absolutely loath having to work on the SPARC boxes at work. Such dogs in cpu and io performance to the point of feeling like I am working inside a linksys embedded router or something. Die SPARC die!

LSI still exists?

I thought that company disappeared eons ago. I guess they are just largely an irrelevant shell of their former selves ala SGI, Atmel, Freescale, etc.

Angry Romanian hackers deface Telegraph for Top Gear toss

if only all gypsies were like

Brad Pitt and his crew in Snatch. What is the term, Parkees? (sorry if racist just going by term in movie)

The Romanians I know

actually are more biased against the gypsies than anybody I have ever met. Remember they live with them and their antics.

Adobe to sue Apple 'within weeks,' says report

in other news

Google will soon open source their new video codec so we can finally start to see Flash die the death that is a decade overdue. Don't get me wrong don't like how Apple does business but at least some of their products are ok and even a bit revolutionary. Adobes products on the other hand are made in India, bloated malware is not fit for any purpose short of getting any platform under the sun owned by script kiddies in record time.

Shrek's Donkey poses with bustier-clad strumpet

mexican donkey show

And here I was thinking donkey shows are usually just an excuse to get you into an dark alleyway where the locals can beat up/mug you.

Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin

RHEL really?

Linux is linux so distro difference far less than people make out ,once you learn a bit how everything is put together. Still who the hell would use Fedora for anything but a development test environment? If you want stability go RHEL or RHEL based (Centos, etc.). If you want features, the latest code, and usability there are about a dozen distros better than Fedora IMHO.

Re: fair play

>every linux install ive done has been a pain in the arse. usually with wireless drivers and the like. not to mention failing updates etc

Long gone are the days of having to compile in madwifi with each kernel release. Wifi is now largely seemless on linux (thank the netbooks for that) unless perhaps if you are using a bad offbrand card.

>maybe im just windows indoctrinated.

People always go with what they know and I am so glad I have forced myself to be exposed to virtually every operating system written in the last 30 years (hobby of mine, Plan 9 and Haiku, but most of all VMs ftw).

>for the record i just bought my first copy of windows. win 7 64bit. by far the best windows ive had the pleasure of using.

Yes even have a box running this and agree the latest Vista SP mascarading as an OS finally got it right three years late. If not for the forced DRM and forced Windows Disadvantage malware crap might actually be a somewhat respectable OS (no wait IE malware portal still embeded in OS - the all time dumbest OS move and what happens when marketing and accountants start giving input to developers).

>maybe its my complete hatred of wasting my precious home time (dont care about wasting time at work lol) means i just dont like playing with hardware at home.

Which dumb IT person accidentally gave the beloved El Reg link to his clueless Manager of Information Systems. In the States I remember there were three types of students in computer science classes, CS students who once weeded out the chaf usually wrote fairly elegant code, CS/EE students whose code while less elegant was usually very functional and MIS students whose code either wouldn't compile at all or was elegant due to being rich trust fund babys who would pay CS students to write their code for them. Now many years into the real world I realize it is not how good your code that determines your rank in an IT org but how can you outlast everyone else by eating crap and being a yes man. IT is like a tree full of monkeys, nothing but aholes looking up and nothing but smiles looking down.

Research In Motion drives away with QNX

QNX good but wrong side of history

Embedded linux did more to reduce QNXs shine than anything. For mission critical I would use QNX or perhaps even VxWorks. For shipping a massive volume of low margin consumer devices with very little unique IP I would use zero license cost embedded linux.

Nintendo beats Wii patent infringement rap

kiddie fiddlers > Hitler > Satan > Patent Lawyers

Patent Attorneys these days are largely a blight on capitalism and expose the modern artificial house of cards virtual land rush VIP Feudialism (patent lawyers, big bankers, self important politicians) that ultimately will crash our standard of living for a generation.

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

lmao @ UK

How far the mighty has fallen. Doesn't the UK still have to follow EU laws? I thought Europe was supposed to be more mature and protective of things like individual civil liberties. Pretty sad when the UK is even worse than the US Inc. when it comes to these issues. At least our government is bought and sold by the corporations who are some what accountable to shareholders instead of self appointed incompetent window lickers who are accountable to no one. Hey UK wake up. If even we the sheeple in the states can get rid of Bush and buddies perhaps you all shouldn't be reelecting NuLab and Gordo Brownie.

Google to open source $124.6m video codec, says report

props to Google if they do so

Granted I am one of the first to rip on Google when the worlds highest tech ad agency screws over the public but this move not only makes sense but does show sometimes Google does the right thing. Most companies that survive long term do (Sony being perfect example of what happens when a company quits doing so, how is the BR/PS3 uptake, as well as your quarterlys there Sony Bony). Most of all I am just grateful to finally see a light at the end of the crap malware flash tunnel that is not the Adobe train f__king us all over.

Antarctic boffins obtain prehistoric deep ice core sample

Re: The expedition FROM HELL #

Bah it doesn't sound like their ship ever got caught in the ice and they had to make a 800 mile voyage across the stormiest open ocean in the world, while only being able to take 4 sextant readings in a lifeboat (Maori power baby). Nor does it sound like anybody froze to death because they chose to solder close the oil cans along the journey instead of using animal fat to seal them. Finally it doesn't sound like they had to eat the dogs they used to carry them to their destination for survival. Study up on early polar exploration (both poles) and you will find some unbelievable but true stories that make modern Jon Krakauer stories look pussy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen

Adobe plots rebound with latest Creative Suite

Adobe used to be relevant

But since they ran out of new ideas about a decade ago and now just buy all their compeitors and ruin their products I say Adobe needs to die a horrible death. Can't wait for web to move on and leave the malware portal that is flash and reader in the dustbin of history. Good move there Adobe moving your software dev over to that bastion of code quality, India. And no I could care less about Steve Jobs cult I mean company, I hate adobe on all platforms.

IBM debuts new Power7 iron this week

Slowaris had this too

>All of this does not sound like the scenario you paint. Maybe you ought to work in a big AIX shop sometime, and see what binary compatibility is really like.

In my experience Solaris was awesome at this too. You could run SunOs 4 binaries on the latest Solaris 10 box no problems. Not breaking driver apis every two weeks ala linux were nice also. Too bad Solaris was unbearably slow (expecially on Sparc), expensive and will soon be a memory we can tell our kids about ala DEC, Wang, or Osborne computers.

I will take the flamebait

>The largest software vendor MS has pulled the plug. Titanic has no future. I hear Intel manegement is going to kill Titanic. Only POWER7 has a bright future.

Watch the POWER line will only last as long as IBM is able to get game console contracts with it. That is the only way they can get the volume to justify ever increasing costs for each new generation.

Adobe man to Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

they both suck

Adobes software is the worse in the industry stability wise and especially security wise. The less Adobe bloat malware you have on a box the better off you are. They also showed the world clearly why outsourcing your code to India is a horrible idea.

Apples business tactics have gotten as bad as Sony's lately. Then again their business model of turning the screws on their dumb fanbois is nothing new. At least unlike Adobe, Apple actually occasionally innovates and creates a decent product.

So in conclusion they both suck but if I had to pick a company to vanish, let it be Adobe. The world would not miss their rubbish (except perhaps crap web designers who think they are developers but world wouldn't miss them much either).

Glitch diverts net traffic through Chinese ISP

i speak engrish

All the internet traffic belong to us. Haha foreigners. First we make your toasters and now us you come for your data. Chairman Mao is happy dancing heaven.

Wi-LAN throws down Bluetooth patent glove

Re: paytards

Have to say it is actually very rare to actually see anyone not purposely trolling defend the US patent system. It seems to be one thing IT people on the left and right can agree with. The only people at all that defend it only defend it when they are getting paid hundred of dollars an hour to do so. Funny how when most lawmakers are ex lawyers how slow the laws get changed regarding a lawyer cash cow.

Java bug exposes users to serious code-execution risk

another Sun fail

Oracle doesn't care because they make most of their money on Java on the backend. This just shows what a fail Sun was the last year of the 5+ year coma. First that users that didn't install Java didn't notice a lack of functionality and those that did got pwned. RIP Sun the world will hardly miss you.

'Virtual sit-in' tests line between DDoS and free speech

stupid Ivory Tower

Yes cutting spending to education is like eating the seed corn and will bite us bad in the ass later. Still the sympathy for many working Americans towards our civil servants (many of whom directly or indirectly caused the current financial mess) is a bit low. The public sector should realize the private sector doesn't exists solely to sponge off of. Those in the ivory tower only seem to care when it affects their fat paychecks.

Bloke threatens BT with giant plywood cheque

next gag should be

If BT accepts cash somewhere you should pay the next bill in the smallest denomination coins possible. Oh and put them all in a garbage bag as paper wraps would be way too easy. Penny spamming ftw.

Adobe Reader security updater to be unveiled next week

get what you pay for

So I guess it is safe to say Adobe turning over their code base to the hajis and their $1 a day labor rate may have been cheaper but good god am I glad I don't have to support that code.

Microsoft roasted for Office 2010 standards FAIL

ISO are such p_ssies

<weenie voice> Microsoft you giant powerful multinational you better respect our authority or else .. else we will taunt you in a press release again</weenie voice> LMAO M$ exposes ISO for the worthless irrelevant joke bureaucracy geek club from the very beginning of this process. If the EU was smart they would treat ISO as just another worthless trade organization worth ignoring.

Microsoft pulls plug on Intel's Itanic

Intel not HP whooping butt

>Intel is going to win one way or the other, with AMD happy to ride along on their coattails. The pincer attack of Itanium in the high-end and Xeon from below has already killed Sun, why should Intel or hp let up the pressure on Fudgeitso and IBM when the tactics are working so well?

For the record the amount of pressure HP with the Itanium is actually putting on IBM is near zero. x86 perhaps more and probably most in services. My impression is that IBM doesn't really want to talk to you on service side unless your talking multimillion dollar. HP is cheaper and most of their consultants I have worked with tend to be very knowledgeable but a bit shifty characters. Nobody ever got fired for selecting IBM but count on the IBM parasite being around awhile. HP more fly by night and have to be careful around them but less likely to have to pay IT tax to them every year.

Just to show I am not shill for any of these companys I will cut them all down. Intel will own Power over the long term unfortunately. HP actually did help this not by putting out the disasterous distraction that is the Itanium but due to giving Intel their IP on designing enterprise chips. Intel doesn't exacly always have its pulse on customers needs and trends (see power hungry P4 disaster when oil went over $100 a barrel) but it does have more money than God and that can overcome many problems (see Core microprocessor savior in record time). It will simply utilize its scale of economy as each generation gets more expensive to push IBM out. IBM has deep pockets too but has a lot less interest in risking it trying to keep up with the Jones (IBM happy to join you if can sell their precious services). In fact I dare say the only reason Power is keeping up so far has to do not with super high end business machines (where margin great and all but volume also super low) but by being able to get a monopoly on this generation of gaming consoles. As far as I can see after losing Apple etc IBMs only hope of keeping up is to continue getting most of the gaming console contracts. Unfortunately after the minor debacle that was the Cell this might not be realistic in a few years time.

umm no

>The pincer attack of Itanium in the high-end and Xeon from below has already killed Sun, why should Intel or hp let up the pressure on Fudgeitso and IBM when the tactics are working so well?

I can buy most of what you say but call bullcrap on Itanium killing Sun. Suns own managerial incompetence killed Sun. And has been stated elsewhere the only thing Itanium ever did right was initially cause FUD in the MIPS crowd about going head to head with deep pockets Intel. Not enough decision makers had the foresight of the engineers and knew Merced would show Itanium for what it really was, nothing but a well covered IP grab by Intel for HP few remaining DEC valuables. Funny how many of the whizbang features are showing up in Xeons years before IA64. Besides Sun was never that big of threat to HP. HP's biggest threat is probably other ink makers, as after all HP is the world's highest tech ink seller.

in mats defense

As a developer I absolutely loath having to use Sparc Slowaris machines. About like trying to doing RDC to a windows 2000 machine running on a single core Celeron II. So glad the shop I doing work for moving to x86. As with any of the vendor specific UNIXs (Solaris, AIX, HPUX, etc) though they are all damn near intolerable to work with for any amount of time without installing the GNU tools though (no recursive grep, no bash, wtf is it 1990?).

Matty where you at

Hey Matt B remember heehawing at Red Hat dumping Itanic by saying well its still supported on the most common computer OS? Itanic RIP yet another billion+ dollar chip mistake in Intels annuls. Funny how chipzilla can weather these and still claim world domination (actually more because Hector Ruiz is a short bus window licker but neither here nor there).

IBM tears up open source patent pledge, claims FOSS

Re: I'd rather have a System Z

> I would definitely not want one of the few non-Intel architectures to die off thanks to having a zillion users running z/OS on junk archs (x86, x64).

Nothing like an shill IBMtard sizing things up. I will second your point that having fewer cpu architectures is indeed a bad thing but the reason Power, Cell, Sparc, etc are getting their ass handed to them by Intel is because Intel is quickly adding features that used to be only found in big iron (some of it by raiding HP's DEC IP) and offering it at a fraction of the cost. Also as for calling them junk they may not be so elegant and all but most of the worlds computing is done on x86 and x64. Some people just want to add computing power without having to get the CFO and sales force involved and being forced to sign a 10 year multimillion dollar support contract for one damn box.

PDF security hole opens can of worms

el reg has template

Do you just cut and paste from the last PDF vulnerability article (usually less than two weeks ago) or do you have a template set up specifically for PDF and flash flaws. Adobe has the worst software security wise and it really is a huge economic sink hole that few realize. I suppose outsourcing everything to India a while back didn't work so well as shown by held together by duct tape, gum and chicken wire software. You get what you pay for unless you actually buy anything from Adobe in which case you got screwed.

Computer pioneer and Gates mentor Ed Roberts dies

HP shill in the house

Oh come on the only reason HP hasn't gone the way of its close cousin DEC is because it is the worlds highest tech ink dealer. I am not saying HP hasn't been revolutionary at times I am just saying you could give props to other equally if not more important business focused companies at the time such as DEC and IBM as well.

Bush-authored warrantless wiretapping suffers abrupt defeat

yep traditional is east texas

East Texas is so much better than them hippy liberal commies on the left coast. Thats right in East Texas not only do they have the largest community of KKK sympathizers in the US but the courts are the friendliest to patent trolls as well. Rednecks would be a lot more entertaining if they had less power and didn't shout so much.

either a great troll or unfortunately about %35

of the American public. Thats right if we shout loud enough and ignore things that get in the way, like facts, maybe just maybe we can wear down the lefties enough where we can realize our dream nirvana of the 1950's (lovely decade of McCarthyism, %50 marriages due to pregnacy, and Jim Crow laws) but even better with only one strong man in charge and us safely in our middle management spot above the unwashed masses.

DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC!

Re: Someone tell our brave special ops soldiers #

Ash made the chainsaw cool. Remember shop smart shop S-Mart!

Booby-trapping PDF files: A new how-to

Easy response

>It takes real talent for a company to make Microsoft look like they know what they're doing!

Even M$ unlike Adobe is not dumb enough to farm out their entire codebase to third world sweatshops paying $1 a day. Adobe's software practices and software are some of the worse in the industry because with developers you generally get what you pay for.

AMD tempts gamers with multi-monitor Eye candy

Hector Ruiz curse strikes again

Boy nothing screwed over ATI like catching the eye of that tool Mr. Ruiz. They still haven't fully recovered from being AMDized (you know selling inferior kit for bargain prices). Hopefully this all behind them and we are seeing them become bleeding edge again.

Hacker pledges to re-enable Linux on PS3

what this is all about

Again the OtherOS option from day one was totally out of character for Sony so I was not surprised to learn they only did to try and get the lower tariffs for computers as opposed to consumer electronics in many countries throughout the world. When this failed obviously they dropped this feature like a hot potato as it costs them money and supposedly does give more of an attack surface on their precious broken business model. Honestly so far the PS3 does not seemed to have been hacked but has the PS3 been the cash cow Sony thinks it was going to be? Its attach rate is even worse than the Xbox 360 which has been hacked for a long time. Note to Sony: customers hate DRM and customers not stockholders are what most important in the long term.

Woman finds Romanian living in shed

sounds like

CNN and Faux News here in the States depending on if your a lefty or righty. Strangely enough though CNN is much worse about moderating opinions that may accidentally stray into the mainstream moderate part of the spectrum (couldn't be due to elitist liberals silencing dissent). I guess Fox with raging Teabaggers has less concern with this. The key is always keep the people divided fighting each other so they don't notice you and your buddies looting them blind regardless of your supposed political stances.

PS3 update to rid all consoles of Linux support

whats really going on

As has been stated elsewhere the only reason Sony even bothered with the OtherOS option was because they were trying to get the lower tariffs for computers as opposed to consumer electronics in many countries. After this ruse failed they have had zero interest in maintaining this feature. Makes sense because since when has Sony shown any interest in letting you use their hardware however YOU want. Kinda sad that the only next generation console that is really open to homebrew and still being able to play games online is the WII (token DRM protection but easily defeated).

bullcrap

>Holtz is clearly and idiot PS2 emulation, SACD playback both relied on at least partially on hardware, which were removed because consumers whinged about the price of the PS3 initially.

>He is backtracking and trying to cover himself now, as it's clear he has opened himself up for being sued...

Bullcrap. DRM will never work and just about every other company besides Sony has accepted this. At some point you have to allow your customers to see your content in plaintext or else they won't buy your stuff. You put something out there and say you can't do anything with YOUR hardware that we don't approve of and guess what, someone will. Holtzs only mistake was being so public about it. Also don't quote the DMCA as it is obviously unconstitutional and doesn't apply outside USA Inc.

http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

EU only chance

As much as I hate to say EU laws are the only way to fight this. American laws are way to big business friendly to waste the time. By the way blaming George Holtz for this is what the Sony astroturfers want us to do. Everything George is doing is morally correct so far because the fact is he is hacking HIS system. He is not trying to run software he doesn't own the right too. Sony is at fault because everyone else in the world has realized what a house of cards DRM is and how artificially trying to protect broken business models in the short term will only cause your business to fail in the long term. Look Sony your system has been largely unbreakable so far but how much profit are reaping these days? What you are in third place even behind lowly M$? Perhaps you should talk to Toyota about the folly of short term profits at the expense of long term customer satisfaction.

All your PS3 feature belong to us

George Holtz himself sums it up best.

"The PlayStation 3 is the only product I know that loses features throughout it's life cycle. Software PS2 emulation, SACD playback, and OtherOS support are all just software switches you can flip. It's unbelievable you would go and flip one, not just on new boxes you are shipping, but on tens of millions already in the field.

Again I'm sorry users. Sony, I expected more from you."

it only does everything (but linux and ....)

>Does the firmware update do anything useful to the customer.

Probably fixed the flaw that gimps the console every four years but the way Sony is going (losing money) they might not have to worry about a gaming division in four years. This is crap news but I mean what do expect of a company so greedy and with so few ethics they believe there is nothing wrong with loading rootkits on your computer? I mean they really believe they can tell you how to use their products (you think you own the PS3 haha, try lifetime lease unless Sony revokes) and pay through the nose for the privilege. Sony the company we grew up with and loved died the day they bought a movie studio. By the way f__k the Welsh for that greedy bastard Stringer (American too but you expect that).

Lads from Lagos pose as US troops to snare unwary ladies

merkin girls

Actually every population has a few speds or these 419ers wouldn't waste time composing broken english emails. Still I guess merkin girls have a bit of a rep in at least Europe. Here is an oldie but goody about the subject.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/european-men-are-so-much-more-romantic-than-americ,11552/

iPhone, IE, Firefox, Safari get stomped at hacker contest

actually

>"Microsoft researchers, who were present en masse at the contest, are investigating the report and will issue a patch if their findings warrant it"

>Which means either in 6 years, or never.

As much as I love to bash M$ for their business practices just the fact they take this event seriously and have auto update etc shows they have really come a long way in the last five years. They handle security issues much better than many other large software houses <cough Adobe, Oracle>. Granted if they would have taken security seriously starting in the early 90s, they and us would be in a much better place but hey as anybody in the industry knows legacy code is a bitch. I guess having your dirty underwear aired via the worm of the week will get even a multibillion dollar corp. attention.

UK.gov blames Israel for cloning passports in Dubai hit

are you serious?

>When you buy your fruit make sure it comes from the West Bank. That way you aren't supporting a terrorist state.

I hope you were being ironic but I am guessing not. I won't argue the point about Israel (pariah state much like North Korea) but saying the West Bank hasn't also committed some terrible human rights violations against even their own people is to deny reality. For christ sakes they had a Mickey Mouse clone teach the tikes to kill jews on TV. The west bank hasn't gotten much better since Arafat died but too early to praise their tactics yet.

Foreign Office changes tourist advice after Israeli inquiry

easy solution

The easiest way to solve the problem and punish Israel is not visit there at all. With all the instability and hate in the region probably the sane choice plus maybe it would cause Israel to also rethink their land grab strategy. I know a lot of merkins like me use to stick up for Israel but lately they have become our "buddy" like North Korea is to China and don't deserve our money.

Court bars charges against teen who posed semi-nude

friggin England take back your godtards

Oh why oh why did the Puritans and Quakers etc have to land in my beautiful land. Should have sent them to Australia like the convicts. Got to love in America you can see Steven Seagul break some dudes arm on prime time (its ok as long as its a "bad" guy) but how dare they show bare women's breasts. America where you get in trouble more for you love than who you hate.

Employers call for end to Mickey Mouse degrees

education foot in door

Really the only thing in the states a degree (until recently) showed an employer is you can learn and have the persistence to complete something. This was a way to get a foot in the door and a way to weed out the chaf. German employers seemed to care alot more about your college grades than your work experience. To each his own but see whose GDP has grown more in the last 40 years.