* Posts by asdf

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Latest PS3 hack hits Sony with massive migraine

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> If you built it, they will steal it and try to make a profit!

Yeah but Sony goes out of its way to make itself a target being by far the biggest DRM (most DRM schemes invented by Sony) peddler in the world. Going after geohot, installing rootkits, taunting anonymous with such a poorly secured network exposing their customers info to the world is not a way to build up goodwill with customers so they want to buy your stuff instead of steal it. Sony is still pretty arrogant and still thinks of its customers as walking wallets and thieves first. Might be why they have lost billions for the last five years straight. Japanese hardware companies in general tend to think you are only leasing the hardware you buy (Nintendo fights against fair use law in the US which is the law of the land). The fact is it is your hardware and you have the right to run any code you are legally authorized to run on YOUR hardware.

Wonder why you live longer than a chimp? Thank your MOTHER IN LAW

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Re: back in favor

took a lot of anthropology in school and it was entertaining but I quickly came to the conclusion why there is no money in it is because social science is more of the first word than the second.

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back in favor

Last I heard the grandmother hypothesis explaining menopause was in disfavor or was just a minor factor but I guess its the flavor of the day again. Wonder if that stupid theory how humans evolved in shallow water is due for a revival by the pseudo scientists again soon also.

Apple unveils iPad mini, upgrades its big brother

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Re: A must have?

You were going so strong and then you had to mention the Surface. Maybe not as DOA as the Kin but probably about as DOA as WP7.

Judge says PSN hack can't spark class action

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yawn

The goodwill hit Sony took by making an ass out of itself going after Geohot and then getting wtfpwned by Anonymous is probably greater than the punitive judgement of an even a class action would have been (especially after appeal). Still with 5+ years in the red and now 1/5 the size it was in its heyday any good news is appreciated I am sure these day.

US patent office prepares to kill off Apple's bounce-back patent

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Re: This should never have been a problem

>The solution here isn't to change the system, it's to fix the patent office.

So let me get this straight you want the politicians to spend more money that they work hard to steal from the people to fix it so the patent office brings in even less revenue for them to spend? Yeah good luck with that one. Much like oil and minerals the patent office is one of the few revenue generating parts of the government and as such politicians tend to take a very hands off approach (thus oil and minerals hiring hookers and not watching BP in the gulf).

Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release

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Re: Digital Research?

@Nigel 11

a most excellent synopsis of what really went down. well done.

Black hole spews out 2-million-light-year-long stream of WTF

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Re: Nnnnng

Bah 2 million light years is not all that far. At its current speed it would only take voyager 1, 37,508,472,896 years (or so) to go that far. At over twice the current age of the universe this is quite easy to comprehend :P

I just LOVE Server 2012, but count me out on Windows 8 for now

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Re: Thanks for the warning..

> MS is pretty good at high speed U turns.

WebTV (1997), Tablet PCs (2002), WinFS (1990s), Sidewalk.com (1997), Passport (2000), Windows Live Spaces (2004), .NET (2002), WinG (1993), Silverlight (2011), Kin (2010), Vista(2006)

That they are. It helps having a near endless stream of OS and Office cash to cushion the fubars though.

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Re: Thanks for the warning..

>it's bullshit isn't it. no-one seriously uses tablets anyway except to do asine shit like play angry birds and "follow" someone on twitter.

yeah but that is what people want to spend $$$ on. Just because you don't agree with the market doesn't mean it gives a sh_t what you think. Follow it or die as Dell and Acer are learning the hard way.

Naughty Siri breaks law by listing Chinese escorts

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easy

Well as the recent scandals show the way to best political rivals legally in China is get them labeled gangsters and or prostitutes and then you are free to do to them as you please. We in west may be disgusted with our political systems but we really have no idea how bad it can get.

EARTH was a BAKING LIFELESS DESERT for 5 MILLION years

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Re: More science

>Yeah yeah yeah, I have yet to meet a scientist that knows what they are talking about.

Guess its bad luck you didn't meet the men that invented the antibiotics that very likely saved you or a loved ones life. Obviously science did invent it or half our children would die before 5 like has happened to humans all throughout history until about 50 years ago. Its ok though you can continue to reap the benefits without even realizing as you criticize evil science in you bible school class in a few days.

Moon was formed when PLANET SMASHED INTO EARTH

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Re: Real explanation.

You mean Mr. Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Misses right? You better or as a the faithful Pastafarian I am I will need to declare silly jihad on you.

Valve's Half-Life

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Re: Arrrg!! etc

Hysterically bad polygon count today but in 1985 this was new and exciting to the general public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag

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Re: Arrrg!! etc

Bah your not old unless you remember being floored by the state of the art 3D graphics in the Dire Straits money for nothing music video.

Steam spawns vulnerabilities, say researchers

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Re: Not the only problem

What I like about steam other than obviously my addiction to CS is the fact that you can buy games on steam and 5 years from now install the client on another machine and boom you have all the games you purchased right there no finding long lost DVDs etc. This was a pleasant surprise for me when I installed the steam client on my Mac and was able to download the majority of the games I had purchased years ago for my old PC (obviously some games never ported to Mac).

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fan boi post warning

CS GO rules and Steam still is the only DRM I would ever let near any of my computers. They will resolve the issues I am sure. That is all.

Kaspersky Lab to create new OS 'to save the world'

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Re: I can't believe this

Yeah wonder what he hates about VMS. Is it the fact its virtually uncrashable or the fact that it is as secure an operating system that currently exists. Newer is not always better.

Intel inches above Wall Street's earnings expectations

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Re: wow

x86 instruction set I meant. Maybe Windows 8 will ride to the rescue. Almost kept a straight face on that one.

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wow

> "continued progress in Ultrabooks"

Hahaha oh you are serious? Intel's current market looks to now be officially mature. It might be a good time to really try and muscle in on ARM. Oh I forgot the x86 is a complete fail for sub watt cpus and even with Intel trying for over a decade they still haven't made a go of it yet.

Iran blamed for ZTE's 260 PER CENT profit slump

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Re: Three lousy choices

I think you will find the UK did have a colony in China named Hong Kong and kept a very weak China in the 1800's under its thumb in some rather dubious ways. As for Russia like most European countries the UK might have some claim to it with the massive inbreeding the royals of that continent did. Still neither country are really long term as big a threat to the West as we are led to believe. The people of both countries like material stuff. The real danger is from goat farmers who value the lies their mullah tells them more than the output of other cultures.

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Re: Three lousy choices

another failed former colony of the British meant to say as well as pointing out that the predecessor to BP had a large hand also in the coup that brought the Shah to Iran and made them love the west so much.

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Re: Three lousy choices

Yep because the last revolution due to incompetent governance went so well for the West. Iran is damaged goods and another failed colony of the British (though modern fail mostly due to CIA ). It seems like most of the West's enemies these days were former British colonies often made our enemies by lovely colonial governance (see partition and the lovely failed state of Pakistan).

Skydiver Baumgartner in 128,000ft plunge from brink of space

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Re: Cool!

Yes Congrats all around. Wow still check out the story the author alludes to with the SR71 in the 1960's. Amazing stuff was going on in the AF and with NASA at this time and its cool to see even a small piece recreated today. Amazing story of survival.

http://roadrunnersinternationale.com/weaver_sr71_bailout.html

Leaked AT&T files show planned anti-piracy measures

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>Ok, I'm no advocate of piracy but AT&T works for the customers, not the content owners.

Nope. AT&T is desperately trying to not just be just another low margin fat pipe provider for the customer. They need to lick Hollywood's balls to get access to their content so they can resell it to their customers with the %25 cut or whatever. The reason Comcast and others are buying media companies is they know where the margin is at.

Fukushima operator feared shutdown if risks revealed

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Re: "I see that Lewis hasn't filed this one." Judging by the thumbs there are at least.......

>You think France has energy problems?

Lets see how affordable things are in a century when they have to start dealing with decommissioning and or keeping existing plants running. Much of the problem with Fukishima was because it was an ancient plant near the end of its life. To be honest I like more the energy future of the USA with cheap natural gas due to fracking. Yes it is somewhat polluting where extracted (NIMBY but luckily non in mine haha) and gas does put carbon in the air but overall it looks to be a lot less of a hassle in the long term than nuclear. As for climate change at this point its India and China with half the world's population doing most of the carbon polluting anyway.

Vote NOW for the vilest Bond villain

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Putting Blofeld first virtually assures the win. He is still my favorite even if Kojak (Telly Savalas) ruined the character forever.

Unrootable: Mash these bits together to get a CLASSIFIED spyphone

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politically damaging = classified

So happy I will never have to use one of these phones (probably will never even see one). Maybe %5 of the people using them are actually do something worthwhile for society but the rest are mostly just cogs in the runaway military industrial complex death machine (especially true in the USA).

Hoosiers to get the world's fastest academic super

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There's more than corn in Indiana!

Remember the corn field scene in the movie Casino? Supposedly that happened in Indiana as well. The Indiana tourism board should run with the campaign, Indiana come see all the bodies the Chicago mob buried here!.

Kernel crimps make Windows 8 a hacker hassle

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Re: The reason malware won't work

Your post would have been timely in 2005 but even as a massive critic of M$ I have to say their security has come a sh_t ton of a long way since XP. They are still cleaning up their mess but are far ahead of security pariahs like Adobe and Oracle at this point. The actually do follow best practices for the most part now. Of course it took the worm/trojan fiascos of the early 2000s bringing down computers all over the world to get their attention.

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Re: The reason malware won't work (Lee Dowling)

Wow a reply so full of fail it makes the original post look correct. DLL hell has largely gone away but really only since early XP days not 3.1.

>Make your mind up. Do you want programs to keep DLLs in their own direcetory or the system directory?

No what he is saying is programs should not be able to keep system DLLs in their own directories and programs should not be able to override DLL's in the system directory. He didn't say anything about application specific DLLs Pretty obvious and a big reading fail on your part.

Canada: We'll boot 'security risk' firms from gov network bid race

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Re: So instead

Canada loves to mention this but they always fail to mention their big brother the UK being at the peak of its naval strength at this time being the ones that really put the hurt on. Ten years ago I would say our salvation army could whoop Canada but with the time both have spent in Afghanistan there are obviously some badass Canuks (especially snipers) as well.

Ballmer aims chair at Apple after Windows package miss

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Re: If you *need* Windows for the Captain's Chair

>Then you are probably just playing at being Captain.

Or he is the real ass captain (urban dictionary fluff).

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Re: Bonus for Ballmer?

Hush you. Then M$ might start succeeding outside the desktop and we will get stuck with even more crappy M$ products at work.

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Re: Just a thought.

Really more flexibility than Mac OS eh? Do I sense sarcasm? With friggin Mac OS you can't even hide the menu bar at the top without a 3rd party app. Even Windows 95 could do that I believe.

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Re: Newsflash: Desktop Linux is Dead

Yep and with both the GNOME team and KDE team taking the piss in the last 5 years its not really a surprise. Still Linux might not own the desktop but it sure owns your phone.

Borderlands 2 review

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Re: because I missed the review of the first one

My friends and I generally don't hang out online but more in the pub. I generally find most people online are only good for calling nub pugs when they go like 3 kills and 15 deaths. My main problem is I don't like me too mediocre fps shooters.

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because I missed the review of the first one

Woot Borderlands. Think Fallout but less fun.

HTC profits lobbed off a cliff by rivals Samsung and Apple

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>She added that sales in the last quarter of the year will depend on how widely distributed the One is as well as the reception given to HTC’s new Windows Phone 8 devices.

Wow can you say short sell?

SpaceX Falcon 9 flameout leaves commercial satellite in wrong orbit

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Re: Manned spaceflight

Besides Moon hell at this point NASA can't even get to the ISS without help. Give it 5 years just like the last 10?

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>Which suggests you have no idea that NASA has been running a programme to do *just* that.

Believe it when I see it. It takes money obviously to get to the moon and unfortunately space seems to rate about as high as Planned Parenthood and PBS on the Republican spending scale and the Dems aren't much better.

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Re: Manned spaceflight

In fact I am pretty sure if we tried to go the moon again today we might not even be able to do it. The cost would be much greater and frankly the people are not as good. The politicians would pull the funding (after the next regime change) before we would get there if we could ever get it approved in the first place.

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Re: Manned spaceflight

The ISS imho is by far NASA's biggest screw up in their entire history (at least when nauts died it was for something). Just the fact they have to rely on private companies and Russia at this point speaks volumes about this mistake. Our space capabilities (the US) are now arguably less than before Apollo.

40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun

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Re: Proving yet again that the inmates are running the asylum

If the Tories are any indication right wing nuttery and incompetence are transnational.

Steve Jobs is STILL DEAD

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Re: What about...

Since the 1940s, medical science has developed chemotherapy, radiation therapy, adjuvant therapy and the newer targeted therapies, as well as refining surgical techniques for removing cancer. Before the development of these modern, evidence-based treatments, 90% of cancer patients died within five years.

So much for ancient cures.

Samsung claims Apple jury foreman LIED to get REVENGE

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Re: Monsieur, le chèque s'il vous plaît!

My bad 8 years on a Chapter 7.

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Re: Monsieur, le chèque s'il vous plaît!

>Dunno about the US, but in the UK you can't go bankrupt twice!

I think you can but only like once every ten years or so. Hey that explains why Trump goes bankrupt about once a decade (working towards his fourth).