Posts by Marcel Esser

'Zombie bullets' fly off US shelves after wave of undead attacks

Re: Did nobody spot this?

Storing bullets is about 10,000 times safer than storing, say, turpentine.

As a matter of fact, stand still, and I will throw bullets at you all day long. If one of them goes off, I will give you my house.

NZ government makes software 'unpatentable' (for now)

So, basically...

...New Zealand is the only western democracy that listens to reason. Sort of makes me want to live there.

FLYING CAR, full hover, fairly quiet, offered to US Marines

SAM target practice

This thing is basically a target-practice drone for man-portale surface-to-air missiles. Except, that it doesn't allow you to do fancy maneuvers to evade the missile after it's been launched at you. Way to go.

NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system

Time to fight the good fight

Time to use more encryption.

Azerbaijani donkey bloggers face seven years' jail

Things like this

Things like this make me ashamed to be a member of the human race. We haven't evolved much.

Handset makers, the criminal's friend

They have no business with it

Nobody, including the government, has any business viewing information that I have encrypted unless I give them the password. MY data, MY encryption, MY device. If they want to be able to read what I write, they can pay for the device in the first place - then they have a right to it. I will assume that they do not, in which case the phone should work for nobody else but me.

Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun

Good PHP programmers...

...are just as plentiful as good Java programmers. Conversely, bad Java programmers are just as plentiful as good PHP programmers. The difference being, bad Java programmers are 2nd year CS students or working as codepeasants at monlithic corporations, which bad PHP programmers are photographers and design majors.