Posts by Nightkiller

Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

Re: I don't understand

Because the Chinese can't complete enough espionage fast enough to be able to deploy properly.

Ten serious sci-fi films for the sentient fan

Re: Silent Running

Er..Aren't you thinking of The Night Porter with Dirk Bogarde? She never did a nude scene after that one.

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

Re: Glaring omission

Time after Time (1979) with Malcom McDowell and David Warner

'SHUT THE F**K UP!' The moment Linus Torvalds ruined a dev's year

Gives new meaning to the Open Source mantra of having many eyes reviewing the code. Sure beats reviewing and simply rolling your eyes in disgust.

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei 'likes' Facebook despite ban

Re: In the words of his own Prophet

Can we get an opinion from Ali on this?

Re: Assumptions, assumptions...

Meet the new boss - same as the old boss

China's robot population to lead world by 2014

Isn't this ironic?

The world's most populous country and even they are being replaced by robots? The government might as well start distributing suicide pills for either the prols or the patricians...

Mystery virus attack blows Qatari gas giant RasGas offline

Arab Spring?

Seems to me to be just another round of tribal warfare in the good ol' Arabian peninsula.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

China could penetrate US with new huge missile

Re: 21st century warfare

And by that time there will have been plenty of sovereign defaults. The U.S. will just be another one on the pile. When that happens, it will be the source of Chinese economic implosion as well. Wait! The Chinese are the largest buyer of Gold today. Do you think they've figured this out?

Going viral 9,500 years ago: 'English descended from ancient Turkey'

This is news?

Jared Diamond, in his book "The Third Chimpanzee" wrote about this in 1993-1994 and this was a "popularization" of the research available back then. Are these guys looking for a holiday in Turkey?

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

The Sea Shepherds at work

Typical. You ask an intelligent question with implications of helping to clean up the mess we've made and you get downgraded for continuing to focus on nuclear energy. True believers would never consider the idea.

Arctic ice panics sparked by half-baked sat data

Re: @Lee

More correctly, Jesus not have anything to say about the dietary laws. He simply observed that what comes out of a man makes him unclean rather than what goes into him (Matt. 15.11). More relevant is the episode in Acts 10:10ff where Peter has a vision that made him realize that the dietary laws were no longer applicable. That was further reinforced at the Jerusalem conference where the only dietary prohibitions for non- Jewish converts to Christianity were using blood as a food source and eating animals killed by strangulation (Acts 15:29).

The 'experts' who never see BBM will never understand RIM

Re: Anecdotally...

My sons chucked their IPhones after 9 months to get back BBM functionality. They wanted something that was robust instead of chic.

Greens wage war on clean low-carbon renewable energy

I like Ben-Gurion's response in the Movie "Cast a Giant Shadow": "We will listen to all of the reasons why it cannot be done and then we will do it."

Brit cops manacle another journalist in computer hacking probe

Re: George Dawes

Don't know about that, but the state of the Fifth Estate is bordering on criminal anyway.

Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows

Enough with Aboriginal Land Claim Settlements

Millions and perhaps Billions of dollars at stake, where "First Nations" are claiming vast swaths of territory in North America. With further investigation, it can be established that they too need to pay for the land they are occupying.

Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits

Re: Rules of investing

In this case, the issue is M. Zuckerberg's own inflated perception of himself. Everyone else just drank the koolaid because he said so.

China hits back at US cyber snooping allegations

Re: Now hold on!

... so you could write this left wing, History distorting, out of context response.

Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar disc

When...

Will they just shorten the name from "BuckministerFullerene" to "fullerene"? No one refers to Einstein's theories as "AlbertEinsteinian". We already know that both were geniuses in their own right.

New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

I'm so glad you pointed that out. I was thinking that the water was actually flowing up hill.

Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH

OK, everyone

take a Red Bull and wait for the next study which highlights the details that the first study missed.

Legendary investor scoffs IBM stake, nibble by nibble

Good News

He will not be demanding that the company be broken up in order to create more value for the shareholders.

Hadoop: A Linux even Microsoft likes

But

...it still puts on a great race.

AmEx 'debug mode left site wide open', says hacker

Same old, same old

These are the clowns I did battle with 3 years ago because they insisted on having customers log into their accounts through http. Needless to say, the well meaning person answering my call in that far away place had no clue either.

Computer sim explains why hippies became extinct

@Arctic Fox

...and why in the egalitarian society everyone is looking at everyone else waiting to find out who will pick up your shit. After all, once it's left your body it society's problem.

Google settles illegal drug ad probe for $500 million

Good One

Creative Way found by Bureaucrats to use the Internet to help pay for the deficit.

'Missing heat': Is global warmth vanishing into space?

Agreed

Jared Diamond points this out in his book "Collapse".

Back to gaslight, coal and steam power - it's the future

Too fast on the draw

Excess electricity is a relative term. It's only "excess" if there is no demand for it. You could use electrical plant off peak capacity to produce Hydrogen from water if you wanted to but it's not very efficient. Petroleum is still the best way at present to store and distribute portable energy in relative safety.

German boffins win prize for 'MP3 for phones'

Ahem

I'm with YAAC on this one. "...MP3 wasn't anything special back then"? Maybe. Maybe not. It solved a problem for a lot of people when dialup at 56K WAS something special.

Save the planet: Stop the Greens

What I want to know is

If the author's thesis that the Green Party is all about bringing back Henry David Thoreau's Walden is true. Butchering our own animals on our own patch of Heaven? Using Laudanum for any and all aches and pains? Get Real.

Fukushima's toxic legacy: Ignorance and fear

As well as

to the engineers who integrated multiple redundancies to the system in the first place. Whine all you want about doing better. Hindsight is your specialty. They've done their best, and it shows.

Iran to attend Olympics, despite 'racist' logo

No No NO!

It's Lisa and the Secretary

No 'tipping point' for Arctic sea ice - latest science

Tell that

...to Al Gore and Michael Moore. And they don't believe in the Creationist stuff either.

Dubai assassins used email trojan to track Hamas victim

You are murdering the English Language

The US is in Afganistan with the sanction of the United Nations to get rid of the people who sheltered the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks. These are also the people who turned artillery on thousands of year old Buddist carvings for the sake of the purity of their vision of the world. In your terminology, these people murdered art that had been declared a World Heritage site.

Murder is not a relative term unless you are steeped in relativistic reasoning. Murder is the willful act of terminating another person's life when the other party has shown no such intention.

Even in war, killing takes place that is not murder. Machine gunning prisoners of war is an act of murder. Israel chose to kill a man intent on murdering its citizens. That they should have done it is another question.

MOSSAD SPY VULTURE seized in Saudi Arabia

Rewriting History Again?

As I recall, the creation of the State of Israel was sanctioned by the United Nations. The pen signing the declaration, which transferred land under British Mandate, barely lifted from the document when the Arab Legion, trained by the Brits, launched an attacked on the Zionist Palestinian Jews, also known as the 1948 War.

Woman admits she helped sell bogus chips for military gear

Well, people we have a tie

If both sides have been conned, then there is no advantage for either. Seems that the race for superiority is not a race to the capitalist bottom.

The coat is a hat's off to the obvious pick-pocket.

Glacier boffins rubbish IPCC apocalypse claims

The Bigger Picture II

The bigger picture has been found to be photoshopped by IPCC. We cannot even tell what the original was.

Bechtolsheim races Arista to zero latency

Where do these guys come from?

Here's a guy who runs a company that supplies product that is 6 times faster than the competition and you are whining about what? That its too good? Latency is cumulative and Mr. Bechtolsheim is lending his expertise towards a solution to part of the problem. If other manufacturers had the vision to strive for the best like Andy, we'd be a lot better off. Globally.

Spare us your pedantic ministrations.

Windows to Linux defections to outpace Unix shifts in 2011

That's because....

They can get a return on their investment in less than a year. It's the salaries, benefits and reduced whining (OK, whigneing if you are British, Weinen if you're German) and fewer explanations about why it didn't get done, stupid.

Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun

Sorry, there is only one truth

There are, however, gazillions of interpretations based on incomplete knowledge and intellectual laziness. Please, let's get past this Post Modernist propaganda. It's a disease that's crippling us from the inside.

Kiss frontman gives file-sharers tongue-lashing

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Yes, yes yes. We know all of this.

However, with the advent of do it yourself recordings more gobsheit than ever before s being released. The fact that it's released doesn't mean that people are going to actually earn a living from it. Totally the opposite. Too much content and nothing worth the money.

Canada prostitution laws pulverised: politicians apoplectic

Not if

you mean Conservative as preserving the foundations of what society has acheived and using that as a foundation to build for the future. This is different from Communist philosophy which prefers to build a new foundation by killing everyone who disagrees with this policy (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot anyone?) or Socialist Philosophy which assumes that the only people fit to think are those in Government bureacracies.

Baby Boomers committing suicide at unprecedented rates

As opposed to what?

The new religions

Communism? Fascism? Totalitarianism? Consumerism? PostModermism? Go ahead. Pick a power trip from the list. I dare you.

Microsoft punts HPC Server 2008 R2

....Just too cynical

Yes.

Microsoft gets Speedos in a twist over half-naked 'Meter Maids'

Objectify?

What is this? Australia? Have their techies turned into feminist idealogues?

Linux kernel purged of five-year-old root access bug

So how come....

None of you guys reported this to SCO?

Hurd snubbed HP board to settle claims

There's a DSM problem here

Clearly, Mr. Hurd is suffering from multiple instances of "closely related person disorder". Perhaps there are grounds for a discrimination suit against HP based on bias against indistinguishable personalities.

Turkish groom accidentally sprays wedding guests with bullets

Quite Possible

I was a a fireworks display on July 1, 2001 or 2002 where the crowd was allowed to be within 50 metres of the firing area. There were bits of plastic from the assemblies and slag from the burned metal that were raining down on the spectators as the wind had changed direction. Got some very small specks in my eye and saw some pieces land close to me. Frightened those with small children. Rightfully so.

Thanks for the tip.

At least you're not a party pooper.

Myth? Maybe

I have a friend who was serving with NATO in the Golan Heights and he reports an incident that injured a fellow soldier from just such a situation. Lethal? Maybe not, but it sure hurts like hell. Especially when it falls on your head.