Posts by Eduard Coli

Raygun dreadnought project reports 'remarkable breakthrough'

Nice but just so

Outside sable rattling, impressing the locals, etc. a missile cruiser can do pretty much everything a carrier can do for less. It is the politics that keep carriers operational.

Microsoft explains Windows 7 Phone phantom data cockup

M$ glibness

Will M$ ever learn.

First the endure NSA key and now if you use W7 mobile you have to consider how much of your life billwg&Co. are stockpiling away to trade with the gobberment when thy get caught again for trade practices or when Bill wants to push up the VISA cap.

Why would anyone believe what the M$ app site has to say about what an app needs or wats access to? M$ has been caught out in the open lying about what data it is farming before. so why would things be different now?

US job market still limp

Doubtful

Take the figure reported by Uncle Sam and double it and you've got something cloe to the real unemployment figure.

The corp. payola must be nice because despite the jobs crisis no one on the hill or in the media talks much about some of the biggest causes of unemployment in the USA, outsourcing and VISA abuse.

EU law not tough enough for online piracy, says Brussels

For the love of BB

We all know the real purpose of this kind of talk is to erode away any remaining privacy rights and justify budgets for the police part of the police state.

The PRC runs the largest piracy service and they do not care about Brussels or any of it's stupid rules.

FCC dubbed 'Ministry of Truth' over net neut rules

Flan

The FCC gave over the Internet to the telecoms monopoly not the people.

Facebook sells equity: Reportedly valued same as Tesco

This is legal?

Along with graft they must have changed the insider trading laws in the US to make this legal too.

Microsoft ARMs Windows for iPad assault (allegedly)

No surprises then

Another day another mobile OS from M$.

Yet, somehow Ballmer and Gates like to claim that Linux is splintered.

Microsoft says no to Kinect sex game

You'll go blind

And here we thought the agents of MiniTru liked porno to keep the proles quiet.

Scientologist overlord declares victory over Anonymous

Another reason

Perhaps Miscavige is looking to shield himself from becoming a martyr or is it that he is being setup to be one?

Only Xenu knows for sure.

Assange: Text messages show rape allegations were 'set up'

War on taxpayers

Perhaps they are afraid one of Assanges leaks will confirm what is suspected by many.

That the various wars since Grenada and onward have been tremendously profitable for a select few

Gmail's daddy predicts Chrome OS assassination

Captain obvious?

Why go the M$ route and create a bloated OS for big hardware and another for phones et. al.

If they do though G will have to watch app bloat. What runs acceptable on tablets may not on phones.

Olympians threaten ICANN with lawsuit

Great job

The IOC, the same people that chose Rio over Chicago over security concerns.

While some might say Chicago does have security concerns, in Rio the police regularly lose battles with the gangs.

Immigration caps won't touch tech transfers

Sense and sensibility

"Skilled foreign workers" if there is such a thing, as it seems many states have jumped on the misrepresent skills sets for the people bandwagon. They may pay sales taxes or in the case of a transfer where they are hired in abroad and brought here may actually pay other taxes but must head shops have schemes where their taxes are reimbursed or in the case of Tata, not so.

We could all learn from the PRC and like they do kick any company out who seeks to damage the economy, in this case by off-slaving.

Tech firms warn Ireland on bailout

So it is

This is what happens when capitalism is used as foreign policy.

Those govt cuts - slasher horror or history-changing brilliance?

Capitalism on the way up, socialism on the way down

Reads vaguely reasonable but strong reaction of government cuts is well deserved.

The middle class gets the cuts while government was there creating money out of thin air and emptying coffers of funds real and imaginary into the banks. This helped wealthy insiders got their money out or took advantage of investments unheard of and the bankers involved were able to score record bonuses.

They really need to bring back the guillotine!

Calls for US nudie perv scanner 'opt-out day'

One more thing

The story was missing a major TSA boner.

If you decide that your privacy is more important than your flight and tell the TSA pervs to get their pron elsewhere by sticking their people nuker and their grope down where they belong you can be subject to a $10k fine and imprisonment.

The fine is not so bad, 10k dollars is something like 30 EU since the rich folks in Washington robbed the taxpayers to pay the rich folks in the banks fatter bonuses but going to jail for saying no is a tad too far.

Robot wars break out on poker sites

Law?

Online gambling is supposed to be illegal in the US.

Though I suppose they have an app for that too.

So did Windows Phone 7 'bomb in US'?

How does M$ spell Trust?

M$ should have known and I'm sure that they did that many M$ phonxors are quite fed up with version locking and other stupidity that seems to emanate from the land of Bill.

There were too many 1/2-ass supported versions of the Os and worst yet M$ tried to shake down developers for a mixed up new platform.

So assuming that is all behind them why should M$ be trusted to act differently now?

$8.9m poker prize up for grabs - humans only please

Math be darned

Poker is supposed to be about playing the person not the cards.

Sure, there are things to quantify what to do when a potential hand is showing and chip stack size, etc. but it comes down to tells.

Perhaps they can make a computer to pick up in tells, twitches, thermal imaging, the works.

Gates matters more than Jobs, says Forbes

Important?

Jobs (for regular folk) are more important than Jobs, Gates or even Larry.

Public sector tech jobs still plummeting

It's in the game

We see this also across the pond.

Demanding ridiculous requirements for some slave-wage job.

Here they do this to use as "proof" to Uncle Spam that they searched for a qualified candidate and golly geez couldn't find one so now they have to hire a VISA maggot or send the job to an offshore out-slaver.

Will the cloud mean joblessness for you?

Same old, same old

If outsourcers could just finally convince security and the public at large that their personal details are safe outside of the company and country (or at least obscure the insecurity). Then this cloud thing could let them send most of what is left of IT in the West to far off destinations (where the BPOs roam) and the CEO can get another zero in his bonus.

China takes HPC heavyweight title

China's new national anthem

China's new national anthem should be "The Beast is Red"

It must be great having nukes, having a navy again, having 8% growth and yet being considered "a developing nation" by the UN. Free money is good I suppose.

Man enraged by sagging pants pops cap in teen's ass

Unprepared

The baggy style came from the gangsta need to pass a pat down while carrying firearms and/or drugs for distribution.

One could perhaps hide an AK down ones trousers if need be.

Perhaps these two should have?

Kiss frontman gives file-sharers tongue-lashing

Blaming the victem

Perhaps Mr. Simmons might want to throw some vitriol towards the music monopoly.

They were ones price fixing for years, sucking artist dry on any kind of album sales and lastly caught trying to extend their copyright while saying they were just trying to protect musicians.

If the music monopoly had played ball and used the networks as another sales channel then things might be different. What they were afraid of was losing control. Milking albums by putting 1 hit track with more "experimental" material.

Simmons should recall how popular Lars and Co. are now not that it matters, his career is not going much of anywhere, anyway.

£1bn+ Royal Navy destroyer finally fires 'disgraceful' weapon

Big deal

Industrial-military complex, Eisenhower mentioned something about that.

Everyone knows anti-ship missiles are really saber rattling as small underwater nukes are do not need to be aimed, are hard to detect, harder to stop and can sink a whole fleet for much less cost.

Aircraft carriers, more saber ratting kit, they have and should be replaced by missile destroyers.

Crew of 50 versus 1500 and you can buy 4 of them for 1 carrier. They can replace the pilots with cruse missiles or drones.

Larry Ellison comes out fighting against HP Apotheker 'madness'

Samurai Larry

Larry thinks Hurd was better?

All Hurd knew how to do was have mass layoffs for the folks who did stuff and give huge bonus money for those that did not.

Microsoft sends in the tanks against Motorola, Android

Old news

This is how M$ works.

Next, if they have little success with this a down and out company in this industry will find itself the recipient of a pot of money from an anonymous donor to try and carry a bad lawsuit to the bitter end in order to scare executives away from the competition.

Does Darl McBride own a cell phone company?

Everything Everywhere axes 1,200

Right

Wonder how many redundancies were made in the boardroom or even on executive staff?

US.gov set IPv6 upgrade deadlines

Stupid

Yes, originally IPv6 was going to save us from running out of addresses amongst other things but since the beginning the feature creep(s) have seen that it can remove anonymity and helps with packet identification and control.

Microsoft claims state first with Minnesota cloud

Yay

Now rather than risking private data by outsourcing support of the actual server they can make it more easy for data thieves by putting everything on server that reside who-knows-where (read: India).

Flying gyrocopter jump-jeep gets $3m from DARPA

Dumber

Excluding how open and slow moving these are sure to be I'm sure the Tali-whomever will like these more then the grunts.

Software re-sale restricted by US Court of Appeals

Autodesk licensing a judge

Exactly what kind of EULA do judges have?

If you accept judgement does that mean you have to abide by the EULA?

Someday we will all find out how this judge was paid off, does he own stock or was it cash on the barrelhead?

Why else would the court blatantly ignore how every other type of transaction assumes right of first sale and decide this way for software?

Hurd to take $950,000 salary after Oracle pay cut

Why Hurd?

Hurd and his predecessor Carly Fiorina were overpaid.

The brought no value to HP and left the company poorer than when they came.

Hurd and Fiorina are regrettably typical of American management these days.

Get into a company using your network, cut and outsource while collecting obscene remuneration, and when the company starts to sink from the brain drain out the bottom and money drain out the top, repeat as necessary.

Oracle stock holders, you have been warned.

NASA buys cutting-edge Cornish robot

It's the money stupid

The lit may be from everywhere but the paycheck is Welsh!

Ellison taps ex-HP CEO Hurd as Oracle co-prez

The Axeman Comeith

Why would the samurai need an axeman anyway?

Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room

Some things never change

M$ up to the usual FUD and flond campaign, oh dear.

HP pays to end fraud probe

US = Plutocracy

HP may have paid a larger fine and would have had to pay the lawyers thus the payoff.

We as measly little plebs would still have to plead guilty and pay the fine.

This is an example of what it wrong with business in the US.

When it suits them corps act liek individuals and demand rights and when it suits them they stand apart as entities immune from prosecution and held in special favor.

If a corp is going to buy off a probe then they should have to admit guilt or face the the beak.

Fear as motivator: why Intel acquired McAfee

Telling porkies

Who is Otellini trying play the phool.

He wants McAffee for the patents.

This way Intel will have a steady revenue from the lawyers as well as the chip monopoly.

Apparently the man also believes Intel invented the microchip???

US puts $30bn of IT projects up for review

Giving it all away

Dumping a 100B on foreign outsourcing and US visa abuse head shops to buy Chinese hardware is no way to run a government.

Shareholders sue HP over Hurd's sex scandal probe

But if Carly could why can't I?

Stuff like this just shows how badly the antagonistic relationship between company executives and the board needs to be restored. While they are at it they also need to restore conflict of interests rules to restrict board sharing so when one of these thieves is done scamming stockholders of one company they can not go on to scam another by using their hooks.

Microsoft delivers dedicated 30-minute big Fail support

Give it over now

So M$ gets to charge you an unspecified price for the right to beg them to fix bugks that they themselves placed in your already expensive M$ software?

So how much is it to get them to stop blaming other vendors when and given M$ product craps itself?

Ellison blasts HP 'idiots' for Hurd's exit

Axeman Hurd

As did Fiorina the butcher so goes Hurd the axeman.

Like Carly he will get a platinum parachute too.

Clinton barrels in to BlackBerry brouhaha

Lost in translation

Hillary has forgotten that she is Sec. of State in the US and not North America.

Judge trounces Register.com in Baidu.com hijacking case

So that's why

With Baidu being another arm of the CPC it's no wonder why the PRC is flaunting their anti flattop rocket.

Navy SEALs to deploy armoured dogs in A'stan

Not something a mog would do

A mog would not be cause dead literally and figuratively in this kit.

They will just stay at home and reap the billions being made off of slogging kit at inflated prices to Uncle Spam. That what this war is for now is it not?

Microsoft should starve on radical penguin diet

Ego

M$ should adopt open source at lease using BSD style licensing.

They should consider replacing NTFS (DOS) with something akin ZFS and gain scalability and robustness.

The problem is the ego of the top brass.

For all of the talk the money did not come so much from innovation but from business hardball/illegal monopoly type activity.

Apple fanbois not as data hungry as Big Phone says

Flond

The difference could be attributed to the spies on the wire but that would be a state secret ( and they would have to kill you if they told you).

Government goes after outsourced staff T&Cs

Turnabout is

How would you feel if your tax money was going to pay for some maggot who got his job because he and the head slaver lied about his creds and because the head slaver was making sure the kickbacks were good enough to cover your incompetence?

Hitachi hides Magic Wand vibrator under a bushel

Flaming lips

What, no allusion to The Flaming Lip' W.A.N.D. or to the Dell commercial that uses the same tune and giant robot legs?