Posts by Rev. Ignatius Killfile

Codethink jumps into the ARM server fray with Baserock Slab

$10,000

Nice Piece of hardware. $10,000? Cough.. Did I read that right? QEMU maybe slower but it is $10,000 cheaper and I am in no hurry!

Google Chrome OS mauled by Richard Stallman

Err Because

Err, Because I don't want to live in a homogenized society where Google can second guess my every move and intention based on demographics and my deviation from Statistical Norms. At 47 I guess I will be receiving a subscription for SAGA magazine some time soon. Oh well. Grump

Your data is valuable to us.

It is not about privacy or freedom, it is about 'free'. By using Chrome OS you are giving your data away for free. Chrome OS is not designed for local file storage and I would not be surprised if the production Chrome appliance came with a read only file system.

Google are not benignly offering free online storage, Google has an insatiable appetite for all data.

The contents of your hard drive, your data, your pictures emails and documents may have no value to me, or to Joe hacker, but what if you had access to every hard drive on the planet?

What if that (suitably anonymized ) data could be analyzed and correlated statistically?

Would that data set have value to you?

Think about it.

Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractals, dies at 85

So long Beniot

So long Benoit, and thanks for all the images. You were an interdimensional explorer. z=z2+c

Philip K. Dick's kid howls over Googlephone handle

Andriod

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Sorry to be picky, but the nexus 6 bunch were 'replicants' ; a kind of clone or genetically engineered organism,. Not an Andriod. A cryptic nod to Dick for sure. Well you would wouldn't you.

Windows 7 Ultimate product activation hacked?

They give it away.

Microsoft will never get this WGA or DRM key thing right, it's not in their interest. Sure they what to sell you Windows.. Sure they want to tax you on your new PC. Ultimately they want MS Windows running on your PC whether or not it's a genuine copy. Think of the massive discounts they give to OEMs to keep windows on the desktop. Think of the massive discounts that they gave to governmental departments when the latter were thinking of switching to Linux.. Market share counts for too much.

I'm a PC, I'm. a Mac, I'm a Slacker.

New attacks exploit vuln in (fully-patched) Adobe Flash

OMG! SWF? WTF?

Seems a lot of web designers are using Flash to produce animated banners and the such like for advertising. Great eye candy, but wouldn't the creative use of animated GIFs be more apropos?

Sledgehammer and nut spring to mind.