* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Wireless performance will collapse, prices rise: Deloitte

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Captain, we are detecting huge physical limitations. I recommend we increase shield strength.

"The prediction would be music to the ears of Australia’s Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, who has been criticized for setting too high a floor price for this country’s upcoming spectrum auctions."

Right.

So riddle me this...

1) Scarcity of bandwidth shall be economically allocated through adequate pricing, as any non-progressive intellect will agree, makes sense.

2) For some reason, this resolves the totally unrelated problem of the government setting a high price on the spectrum. Setting a high price on the spectrum ultimately means heavily taxing the end users (that's you, btw.) as the phone companies' investment in the spectrum needs to be recouped, so it will be passed on, it will not magically be paid through a money hoard held by evil one-percenters with crooked noses.

It's magic! Or is it?

The Spherical Cow lands, spits out Anaconda

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Re: Won't try it until they get rid of yum

> doing nothing for several hours

You are doing it wrong. Just type "yum update". It's not hard.

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Holmes

Re: Well, that's Anaconda worse then

> The disk partitioning section is now actually far worse than the old...

Always has been the Angry Leprechaun. I don't know who codes this or what the design decisions are that go into the high-level goal of "Anaconda, work out what the user wants", but the end result has been consistently horribly surprising, wrong and annoying.

When you find out how to do it, write it down! Myst without the pretty graphics....

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Re: Debian user here...

> copyright-encumbered codecs

Don't exist except if someone pilfered the source or wrapped an opaque .dll.

You mean "patent-encumbered" codecs, yet another cancer of the Internet (YACOTI)

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Re: Give up on Gnome!

This!

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Well, yum and rpm are kinda connected.

"yum is an interactive, rpm based, package manager. It can automatically perform system updates, including dependency analysis and obsolete processing based on "repository" metadata. It can also perform installation of new packages, removal of old packages and perform queries on the installed and/or available packages among many other commands/services (see below). yum iis similar to other high level package managers like apt-get and smart."

"rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files and meta-data used to install and erase the archive files. The meta-data includes helper scripts, file attributes, and descriptive information about the package."

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Megaphone

This is how we do design in German!

Oh no, the Designers from Metro School have gone all bauhaus on the poor Anaconda. WHY!

> Spherical Cow, however, proved to be a difficult beast - it is nearly three months late.

So what! Not frantic enough, is it? Have some ritalin.

Happy birthday, Lisa: Apple's slow but heavy workhorse turns 30

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Re: 1983 - A good year for Kev!!!

You can see his trademark way of answering the phone - resting the whole upper body weight on the elbows...

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"Thank you, HAL"

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Angel

Re: Understand the Lisa for what it really is!

> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/

DAT LINK!!

Cash-ravenous Sony will flog Manhattan HQ for $1.1 BEELLION

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No.

> on the balance sheet the real difference between an investment and an asset

The balance sheet has assets ["stuff"] on one side and liabilities/equity ["whom the stuff belongs to"] on the other side. Hopefully most of the stuff on any side is an investment for someone.

> Put another way one side is the stuff that makes money and the other side is the stuff that takes money

That's not how a balance sheet works, hon.

> A corporate HQ is just like your house and it shouldn't be placed on the asset side

Being an asset means it will be placed on the asset side otherwise the good ole governement will whip your arse for tax evasion

For the remainder of the problem, see "fair and prudent evaluation", "deprecation" and "write-offs".

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Devil

Re: Am i reading this correctly?

Where is the inflation

High prices seem to be the norm. The US stock and bond markets are at, or near, all-time highs. Agricultural land in the US is at all time highs. The Contemporary Art market in New York is booming with record sales and high prices. The real estate markets in Manhattan and Washington, DC, are both at all-time highs as the Austrians would predict. That is, after all, where the money is being created, and the place where much of it is injected into the economy.

This doesn’t even consider what prices would be like if the Fed and world central banks had not acted as they did. Housing prices would be lower, commodity prices would be lower, CPI and PPI would be running negative. Low-income families would have seen a surge in their standard of living. Savers would get a decent return on their savings.

Of course, the stock market and the bond market would also see significantly lower prices. Bank stocks would collapse and the bad banks would close. Finance, hedge funds, and investment banks would have collapsed. Manhattan real estate would be in the tank. The market for fund managers, hedge fund operators, and bankers would evaporate.

In other words, what the Fed chose to do ended up making the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. If they had not embarked on the most extreme and unorthodox monetary policy in memory, the poor would have experienced a relative rise in their standard of living and the rich would have experienced a collective decrease in their standard of living.

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Devil

Good plan

Apparently the real estate bubble in NY and elsewhere is back in full swing. Now is the time to sell before the next big pop and wealth destruction bonanza.

Microsoft to end Windows 8 discounts on January 31

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Alien

It's inflation, Jim, but not as we know it.

Microsoft's ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA

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Big Brother

Re: How many people, so much money spent...

> Not even governments fuck up that bad.

I challenge you on this!

As of March 2006, approximately £4.5 billion had been spent by the United Kingdom in Iraq.

All basically tax transfers to well-connected people, so one might actually consider this a "just as planned", but still.

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

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Re: What's the point

Longdog is long!

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WTF?

"50 patents"

1) Go to: USPTO search

2) Query: in/Bak-Lars (where did they get that syntax?)

3) ???

"Method and apparatus for reducing memory usage by encoding two values in a single field"

"Mixed execution stack and exception handling"

"Method and apparatus for performing byte-code optimization during pauses"

"Method and apparatus for concurrent thread synchronization"

"Method and apparatus for implementing fast subclass and subtype checks"

etc...

Sigghhhh~

Black holes bigger than first thought

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Re: I wonder

Correct.

Black holes may still be involved in darkmatter, but they would be of the "supersmall" variety:

http://phys.org/news/2011-09-primordial-black-holes-dark.html

AV-Test boss dismisses Microsoft criticism of malware test results

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Headmaster

It's like in the final chapter of "The shockwave rider"

AN ALARMING ITEM TO FIND ON YOUR PREFERRED SOFTWARE PROVIDER'S QUALITY ASSESSMENT:

"94 percent of the malware samples not detected during the test didn't impact our customers"

This means:

1) Hide how many malware samples were deteced, how many were not.

2) Of the ones not detected (alarming), a full 6% impacted the customers (very alarming). What did the rest do? Probably just hoovered the disk and pumped it to russian servers will not delivering pornpopup(tm) to "the customers" who were just presenting an Excel(tm) sheet to unsuspecting underage pupils.

Good job.

Web firms drool as ballgazer spies $11bn mobile ad spend in 2013

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Hahaha LOL

Well, all the cash printed up in the Bernanke The Evil Gnome's Subterranean Workshop that is being pyramided out via fracres banking to the hoi polloi has to end up somewhere, right.

You won't have a pension later, but at least you will get ads now. Enjoy.

VIA bakes a fruitier Rock cake to rival the Brit Raspberry Pi

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Holmes

Re: The CPU is mounted diagonally?

Standard. You don't have to make the wires do awkward angles to reach The Other Stuff.

Now, if someone came up with the idea to open up wormholes on the mainboard...

Cryptome escapes Thales' attack dogs in bank security row

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I said, lawyer, when you're short on your dough .... It's fun to splurge a D-M-C-A....

The information concerned, as has been noted, has been available since 2003 and is in fact obsolete. It also does not reflect the current Thales payment hardware security module.

Then deliver the up-to-date manuals posthaste to Cryptome, you state-financed killtool deliverers and frigates-for-Taiwan (not to mention submarines-for-Malaysia) corruption scandal overlords.

Obama calls for study into games ‘n’ guns link

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Re: Plan B? Plan C?

There seems to be this massive divide between the people who think that the constitution is important ("but the prez cannot send me to Gitmo on a whim, what about muh constitution") and those who think that it doesn't ("well, you know, 'arms' are not really 'arms'"). Amazingly they are often the same, Moaning Progressives.

Shifting the problem to the bullets is trillion-dollar-coin level stupid.

Another Apple retail chief crashes out the door

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Devil

Re: Company

Sounds like it's getting a bit Kremlin in Cupertino.

Surprised? Old Java exploit helped spread Red October spyware

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Headmaster

> refuses to remove Java

> not even talking about the plugin

Maybe you are not entirely sure what you talking about, son?

Security audit finds dev outsourced his job to China to goof off at work

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Devil

"Killer BOB (or simply BOB) is a fictional character in the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He is a demonic entity who feeds on fear and pleasure. He possesses human beings and then commits acts of rape and murder in order to feast upon his victims."

Turns out he also outsources.

Viruses infect vital control systems at TWO US power stations

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Re: Why are they backing up to a Flash Drive in the first place?

Not a bad idea IMAO.

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Trollface

It's like the AR-15 direct impingement system!

Latest Java patch is not enough, warns US gov: Axe plugins NOW

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Trollface

Re: Java

> 2013

> Still not into Griffon

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Pint

JavaScript has nothing to do with anything (though it had, and still does, have problems).

Additionally, why not use NoScript? No autostarting Applets anymore.

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Big Brother

The next governmental announcement

"Uninstall TSA! Groping, probing, stealing and fondling (plus possibly cancer-installing) by uniformed nontrustworthies perfoming security theater will take years to fix. Additionally, the effectiveness of TSA is marginal. We recommend that every tax-paying citizen no longer deal with this product."

Bet it won't come.

Hyperspeed travel looks wrong: Leicester students

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Pint

Re: What the hell...

It's the same as a standard bronze falcon, only made in China.

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Holmes

Re: "go fast enough & rip electrons"

> Please (somebody) correct me if i'm wrong.

You are not wrong but what is the problem?

> I believe light is red shifted not due to a celestial body moving rapidly away from us, but rather due to the expansion of the intervening space.

Same thing in the end.

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Re: Cone of light

More likely their visual cortex going a bit crazy due to lack of oxygen. Tunnel vision of death.

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Re: They don't travel at near light speed. It's faster.

> which is entirely possible

Urban legend.

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Re: Kessel

You would get really old though doing 12 parsecs waiting for hyperspace.

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Re: "A Slower Speed of Light"

Lorentz 'shrooms! Now with increased apparent mass!

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Because I heard it on The Nerd Channel...

"The Kessel run was an 18 parsec long route, which Han Solo cut down to less that 12 parsecs."

YES! HE ALSO SHOT NOT FIRST!!!

Long-delayed Fedora Linux 18 arrives at last

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Re: Meanwhile - at a conference room in Raleigh, North Carolina...

MULTIMEAT!

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Holmes

How now, spherical cow?

> Long-delayed Fedora Linux 18 arrives at last

Hell yeah. But this clearly is somehow connected to that psychologist's "Internet Causes Mania" warning, I can't put my finger on it though.

> On the minus side, the default desktop for Fedora 18 is GNOME 3.6

KDE spin, then! Although my liberal side is dismayed at all the good work on Gnome that will be of no use for me, my Hobbesian side rejoices.

Empire says ‘primitive’ Earth not ready for Death Star

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Pirate

Re: hmm

Then you can just smuggle in a raider party with a porta-nuke or an Apple-carried virus via an old spice freighter. Nobody will notice anything until too late.

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Trollface

cat Release.txt | sed 's/Earth/Iran/g' | sed 's/Death Star/Nuclear Bomb/g'

Immediate State Department Press Release

Unbelievably vast quasar cluster forces universe-sized rethink

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Re: Can't make sense of this article

Finally a good explanation:

You, Andromeda, And The Largest Structure In The Universe

Google denies smacking Botswanan ass

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Re: OMG!

Why do you want to spend money on HIV, Aids, Malaria and starving children?

The world is already bad enough. And now we have drones, too.

Scientists spin carbon nanotube threads on industrial scale

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Re: @Denarius - "Penny for your thoughts?"

> Are you actually thinking about P K Dick?

Jeesus. Mixing up John Brunner and PKD?

Really, now.

NASA snaps pics of China's 'Airpocalypse' pollution disaster

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> The waste from nuclear fission.

Your troll-fu needs improvement.

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Devil

Re: natural sources would be classified as polluting

So? Just reingeneer the outer room as a clean air room! How hard can it be! Think of all the Eloi who need to live on a pure surface!

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Paris Hilton

Like the smog scene in "The Difference Engine"

> Kyoto Agreement on reducing pollution.

Wasn't that about reducing greenhouse gases?

Air pollution is actually GOOD in that sense, reflects more sunlight

IBM brains ponder universe, say kids will go nuts for STEAMPUNK

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Holmes

Re: Vampires are now soooo 1830s, dear!

Anti-Ice is not particularly hot compared to Difference Engine, really. The plot device of "frozen stuff that becomes antimatter when thawed" is a bit contrived. It sure helps to heat boilers though.

YMMV.

Dr. Gunn's Organic History Supplement for The Difference Engine, a novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. May also be administered as Dr. Gunn's Patented History Restorer.

UK falls behind in global graphene patent race

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Big Brother

Dont worry.

On this side of civilization notices that the only thing it can produce is yoof, greenery and pieces of paper with make-believe wealth on it, a long hard look at Intellectual Property will reveal that we didn't "mean it that way" and suddenly it's okay to relax the state-granted monopoly a bit. "Stealing" will suddenly become "Sharing" again.