Posts by ElReg!comments!Pierre 2711 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
"Interestingly, the authors note that this finding was contrary to their expectations."
Yep. Thats the scientists's way of saying "I'm not biased, honest". You can find the same (or equivalent) in every other scientific paper. Though it's a good thing when it's true, it has been faked so much that it doesn't mean anything anymore.
Ah, the joy of correlating correlations of correlated guesswork...
I guess you could publish a paper on the colour of your turd in Nature or Science these days, provided you shoehorned a link to climate change.
Come to think of it, me an the vast majority of my mates were considerably slimmer in the eighties. We tended to eat less, too. So the evil "global warming" made us fat, which made us eat more, which pushed towards a more destructive food industry, back-fueling the "global warming" and thus making us even fatter, etc. Not to mention the increased production of methane-rich human wastes. May I have my Nature paper now?
Kayak works, whereas Bing doesn't. (more specifically, it uses some kind of dodgy redirection hack and is -rightfully- blocked by my firewall.)
Other than that, when I bypass the firewall, the sites seem to work in exactly the same way*, the layout is identical, some clever and rather unique features have been lifted, ...
Obvious plagiarism. The only difference is the rather more intrusive Bing banner.
As for the innards, it doesn't look like MS has been lifting code from Kayak, they just reverse-engineered it.
*Someone particularly clueless suggested that Bing shows the results only after the search has been completed. It's wrong.
Shurely the "restricted" stamp is there only to keep the Sun and friends interested? If they marked it "press release" instead (which would probably be closer to the intended use), no-one would even look at it...
If you had a kid (or a journo) at home, you'd know it's the best way to get their attention!
Don't say it too loud, it's a secret (see icon)
"only the French do this it has always outraged me"
You're right, it would be outrageous that only the French did. More people *need* to benefit from this fine meat. Which is good, as half of European country do so.
But coming from the owner of the "where the cats are supreme" website, I was not expecting an encouragement to hippophagy. I was more expecting some kind of "eat cat supreme, not horses" kind of comment... by the way, is that cat supreme recipe of yours legal in the UK? Do you have to breed the cats specially, or can you just gut your neighbour's fleebag? If so, do you have to share with them?
Eat horses (and cats), not beef. Moooo!
I used to have a nice piece of roast horse every other week in my young days. Not bad*. I wouldn't have eaten a saddle or work horse though. The meat must be awful.
Methink the regulation is intended to stop intoxications with vet medicine. Though I've never heard of anyone even thinking about eating their saddle horse, so it's a rather pointless piece of legislation. Maybe we should have every dog owner sign the same kind of pledge? I can't help but point out that some people might have rats or ferrets as pets. Or spiders, while you mention it. Where do the EU stand on eating these?
*Before the frantic self-called "animal rights" whinger get in, I do own saddle horses, and I was raised with them, so to speak. But eating fish'n chips is not exactly the same as swallowing Nemo alive in front of your kids, is it?
I don't think Google could serve up kiddie porn results in the US, could they? So why should they serve up illegal porn in China? Maybe the merkins should stop thinking that US laws apply all around the world. Reminds me of how TPB keeps few examples of American lawyers threatening an -obviously- Swede company under the DMCA.
Attention Chinese gov: please be advised that your decision is probably in violation of one or several US laws! Might also not be fully compatible with one or a few laws from Malawi. Who gives a feck?
And about Iran, well the whole media coverage looks suspiciously like the inflating run-up for an invasion... because to be honest, I know of a country where all the election in the past years have been occasion for demonstrated irregularities, a country ruled by religious nutters who have nucular weapons, a country where the evil police kills unarmed and non-threatening citizens* on a monthly basis... I believe this country is located somewhere between Mexico and Canada. And I believe this country needs to sort its sh*t out before spreading it around. ta very much in advance. (It's also valid for Ol'Blighty since you ask. Though arguably a bit less so.)
Google *is* evil when it suits them, that's obvious. But abiding by the local law can hardly be seen as evil. The parallel with they Farsi translation service is stupid. I don't think there is any law anywhere in the world forbidding the translation to/from Farsi.
* preferably black or latino ones
"I tend to think putting basiji snipers on rooftops to shoot kids down in the street means the Iranian government is not especially concerned about public relations at this time."
Why, Israel have been doing that a couple times per week for the past 20 years, and their PR strategy is still very efficient... maybe -just maybe- it depends on which images are shown?
A bit disappointed I am. Funnier Ted's articles used to be.
Not to mention that the http://pornbox.teddziuba.operaunite.com/photo_sharing/ link is apparently a con. Shame.
I know what your sound problem was, by the way. You need to turn on the sound on your laptop btw. I know it can be a bit tricky, with Ubuntu being so unfriendly and hard to use... to turn on sound, you need to open a root console and create -with ed- a text file named sound.conf in /usr/lib/share/soundsystem/beep/speakers. The file must contain the following C instructions (beware of the line breaks):
#include <stdio.h>
main(t,_,a)char *a;{return!0<t?t<3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,
main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):1,t<_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)&&t==2?_<13?
main(2,_+1,"%s %d %d\n"):9:16:t<0?t<-72?main(_,t,
"@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l,+,/n{n+,/+#n+,/#\
;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/'r :'d*'3,}{w+K w'K:'+}e#';dq#'l \
q#'+d'K#!/+k#;q#'r}eKK#}w'r}eKK{nl]'/#;#q#n'){)#}w'){){nl]'/+#n';d}rw' i;# \
){nl]!/n{n#'; r{#w'r nc{nl]'/#{l,+'K {rw' iK{;[{nl]'/w#q#n'wk nw' \
iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%'l##w#' i; :{nl]'/*{q#'ld;r'}{nlwb!/*de}'c \
;;{nl'-{}rw]'/+,}##'*}#nc,',#nw]'/+kd'+e}+;#'rdq#w! nr'/ ') }+}{rl#'{n' ')# \
}'+}##(!!/")
:t<-50?_==*a?putchar(31[a]):main(-65,_,a+1):main((*a=='/')+t,_,a+1)
:0<t?main(2,2,"%s"):*a=='/'||main(0,main(-61,*a,
"!ek;dc i@bK'(q)-[w]*%n+r3#l,{}:\nuwloca-O;m .vpbks,fxntdCeghiry"),a+1);}
Then recompile your kernel, and you're good to go.
Also, @ fontaine: "maybe Opera 10 is good at acid 3 tests but the activeX support is seriously lacking" surely these are both positive points, so why the "but"?
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