Posts by Matt Bryant

Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids' charity

Re: Re: Unpopular opinion

"....you'd have even told them that when the machine asks for a blank cd it's because it's trying to create a back up of the website?" My wife has some friends that run a charity for old beach donkeys in Spain. Being a very small charity run on half a shoestring, they cannot afford a hosted service. They are lovely ladies with the best of intentions, but so computer-illiterate that even when I gave them a box with two stickers on - on the lid "These are the CD-Rs" and half-way down "Call Matt to order more when the level drops to here" - they still had problems! Even with written instructions - "take CD-R from the pouch with yesterday's date, place in drive with the side with the label on upwards, close CD drive and follow onscreen instructions" - I still worry they would have problems in the event of a disaster.

If you were any good you would have realised there are a massive chunk of people aged 50+ that have NEVER even used a computer, let alone tried to record a backup to CD-R, and will need handholding through even the simplest process.

Re: Re: Re: "deciding who gets to be anonymous" @Matt bryant

"....I had been living on my own feet for over twenty-five years...." Oops! Mustn't try maths whilst ranting. Make that fifteen years.

Re: Re: "deciding who gets to be anonymous" @Matt bryant

"....It is not that uncommon in Madrid for a 35 year old to be still living with their parents." Sorry, but it is tragic. It is not only a very grim statement of the state of the Spanish economy, but also how this Spaniard decided to pass his time instead of looking for something useful and productive to do.

By the time I was thirty-five I had been living on my own feet for over twenty-five years, was married with kids and was onto my second house, despite the usual cycle of economic booms and busts. Yes, despite all the wailing from today's youth, it's about time someone pointed out to them that they are not the first to hit hard times. At one of the worst points in my life I held down three pretty sh*tty jobs. Yes, some of my generation did spend a lot of time moaning about their lot and even rioting, but the rest of us knuckled down and got on with life. I don't think I ever considered anything as stupid as trashing a charity, let alone thinking such an activity might impress someone. Time for some of the metrosexuals out there to grow a pair.

Re: Unpopular opinion

".....is there something ramshackle about a charity that can't restore its own web site?" Well, seeing as I know proper companies with IT staff that have had problems restoring their websites, why is it so hard to see that a charity, probably without any IT staff of their own, would be stumped? I've helped friends who don't even know what HTML is to set up charity websites, they're f*cked if I or another of my slightly Web-lietrate mates are not around to help them.

Re: "deciding who gets to be anonymous"

OK, so "vereyone" is Anon, they have no "leaders", the "99%", blahblahblah. So who set the rules if they don't have leaders? Face it, the whole Anon thing is just one big herding exercise, with the core Anons playing at building a zombie net made up of real people.

"....a 35-year-old man who reportedly lives in Madrid with his mother...." Oh just so LOL! How typical - single male, lives with his Mom, probably a serial underachiever. Tragic.

How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m

Wow!

My most expensive coding error was once writing a program that left an ISDN line to New York up for a week back in the days when that meant a phone bill running into four digits! I don't feel so bad about it now. Anyone know if they wrote the bot inhouse or used a third party, just so I know which "geniuses" to avoid hiring?

Judge: Oracle must remain on Itanic

Re: Itanium is dead and Oracle is Evil

Wahey!, Alli is back! Where you been, girl? We though you'd retired off to the old age trolls' home.

"....I doubt any software from Oracle will be coming out in a timely fashion....." As I have pointed out before, part of the hp-Oracle agreement was that Oracle would release new versions of their products for hp-ux and Solaris concurrently. Prior to that, Sun had been Oracle's premier partner and Oracle developed new code first on SPARC-Solaris, released it, then worked on ports for other UNIX variants. This is where Larry made his mistake, as in signing up for that program (which is where hp donate lots of servers and storage gear for his development and testing centers) is what nailed him in court. In short, he has to honour his agreement to produce versions for hp-ux on Itanium as long as he ships versions for what is his now his own OS, Solaris. So updates will arrive in a timely fashion, thanks. Probably early than ones for Oracle products on AIX as IBM does not have that type of agreement.

"....Since HP-UX is decreasing in revenue for them big time..." Ignoring that not all hp-ux servers run Oracle products, you and the other IBM trolls were telling us no-one would buy any more Itanium yet the hp Itanium sales have not stopped, despite the best Oracle and IBM FUD. They still dwarf Oracle's sales of CMT or other SPARC products. In fact, some of the fall in sales is explained by customers waiting for the new Poulson Itaniums, so - along with this news - that could see hp sales recovering next year.

Re: Re: Supporting infrastructure?

".....Do you know how small $5 million is to these companies?...." Really? Please do try and ask IBM, Oracle or EMC for $5m of kit just becasue they won't miss it. Massive fail.

Re: Matt

"I admit that I was wrong, but, but, but...." No, we just want you to admit you were wrong.

".... following the same course as MS, RH, and many other ISVs...." OK, since you bring it up, now you can also admit that you were also wrong in that Oracle very obviously has a contract with hp that is different to the relationship between hp and M$, RH, etc, etc. Hey, I don't care how many times you want to admit you're wrong, but every time you post some more bumph you'd best check it first, otherwise I'll have to point out your incorrectness again, and again, and again.

/ROFLMAO.

Re: Re: Doesn't change the fact

Geez, Wunderburp, are you smoking rolled up IBM press releases!?!??!

".....Anyone who has worked on or talked to someone who has worked on a Linux on VMware (or other hypervisor, but generally VMware) environment will tell you that they just tend to inexplicably go down from time to time....." Erm, no! VMware does not tend to fall over for no reason. Neither does RHEL.

"....e.g. someone upgraded the firmware on the fiber switch...." Well that would affect anything attached to the switch then, including AIX. D'uh!

"....Maybe the x86 server vendors will get around this by pre-integrating "cloud" appliances, but it is going to be difficult for anyone to get VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft, Oracle, various hardware manufacturers, etc who all hate each other passionately to agree to Unix-like pre-integration." Just shut up and go read here: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-solutions/solution.html?compURI=1246501#.UBrIPaNgr5M

Just because IBM can't do it doesn't mean others haven't already.

Re: Partnerships?

Which does beg the question, were the hp board being obtuse when they passed up the chance to lock Oracle to them when Oracle bought Sun? Originally, Larry wanted hp to take the Sun hardware bizz whilst he took the software bits he wanted (MySQL and Java), and he wanted hp to support SPARC-Slowaris for him. Instead of locking Oracle to them, ramping down SPARC and CMT and gradually porting the installed Slowaris base to Itanium and x64, hp said "no thanks". Looking back, that seems like a poor decision.

Re: Doesn't change the fact

"....Off to the redhat academy for me." In the longterm, any and ALL proprietary and commercial variants of UNIX are doomed, it's just a matter of how long they have left. It doesn't matter if it's hp-ux, Solaris or AIX, they will eventually be squeezed out unless they can be ported to x86 and/or maybe ARM and compete with Linux and M$ Windows Server. Indeed, just porting to x86 doesn't guarantee survival, as shown by Solaris x86. The traditional UNIX market has been in decline for over a decade, being eaten from below by cheaper x86/64 kit. That's the bad news.

The good news is it hasn't happened yet and may not happen for another ten years at least. Twenty years ago, when Torvalds released the Linux kernel, I thought UNIX had another ten years and M$ Windows was just as likely to be eaten, so I started learning Linux and FreeBSD. Along the way I became a strong proponent of RHEL, but today I'm still doing more hp-ux work and still seeing more Windows than Linux projects. Whilst I would recommend learning any OS you get the chance to, especially RHEL, I wouldn't say it's time to man the lifeboats just yet.

Re: Re: Oh?

"....Now anytime any vendor issues any statement of support for a company or their products...." Oh come on, Wunderburp, just man up and admit you were wrong. You said hp had no contract, the courtcase proved otherwise, and that it is much more than just a statement of support.

RIM doses PlayBook with 4G super serum

Re: Re: Phablet!

"....Try to keep up with the times....." Being able to use Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) email is nice but not the same ability as being able to link directly and securely to a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) like a BB phone. Currently, the only way to link the new Playbook to a BES will be by BB Bridge (see here http://www.berryreview.com/2011/04/12/rim-releases-the-two-bes-it-policies-for-the-blackberry-playbook/). I want BB smartphone capability on the phablet in the same manner as a BB phone. I guess what I really want is a BB Torch with an 11in screen and 128GB of memory.

Re: Re: Too little too late.

"....Email consistently turns up on my BB faster than it does on Outlook. ...." As I understand it, that's because RIM's push technology sends a notification to you the minute the email hits the server, whereas Activesync will be using scheduled pull requests to go see if there is a message waiting. If the email arrives just after the last pull request then your Outlook client will not know about it until the schedule sends the next request, whereas the BB tech has already sent a push. The Activesync model uses data and bandwidth with every request whether there is an email waiting or not, whereas the RIM tech is more efficient as it only sends a push when one is waiting. If you use the "Reconcile Now" option in your BB email it is doing an Activesync-like pull request.

Phablet!

That's what I want, a BB phablet. I don't want a BB or Apple media consumption device, which is all either offering is currently, as Android tablets do that better, cheaper, and without any walled gardens. But a BB tablet with phone capability, 3G, and with the ability to connect to a BES as well as BIS, and then I'd be tempted. And no, adding a 3G dongle to an iPad is not the same thing.

Bradley Manning's lawyers seek to show 'cruel treatment'

Re: Re: Trial?????

"....Manning will probably turn evidence against Assange." That's the only bit I'm not sure of. So far, Manning has demonstarted a massive ability to do whatever could be the worst for his position simply to get nack at the military. It's beyond cutting his nose off to spite his face, Manning has trimmed himself all the way down to his ankles! If I was the prosecutor looking at building a case against A$$nut I'd not be banking on Manning suddenly getting a clue.

Re: Manning is accused of serious security breaches.

".....Sounds like the bull dyke he thumped was riding him, doesn't it?...." Whilst the rest of your post is amusing enough, that little bit of homophobia is very illuminating. Please do supply the information that you think shows Showman was "riding" Manning, or that she is a "bull dyke"?

Re: @Don Jefe -- Poor Guy

"....it's now OK in the US to use the Nuremberg Defense...." Usual, desperate, handwringer attempts to conflate the actions of the US with those of the Nazis. Despite an intense level of media scrutiny (unlike the Nazis in WW2, the US and allies gave unprecedented media access to Iraq and even combat zones in Aghanistan) with a host of countries desperate to find any US or allied wrong-doing, the list of warcrimes alleged to have been perpetrated by the US and allies is rediculously small compared to the Holocaust, so please get a grip, a sense of proportion, and a clue.

A key point to showing the stupidity of the "warcrimes" bleating is that no-one involved in the 12th July 2007 strikes - the actual events heavily edited in the "Collateral Murder" vid and the cornerstone of Wikibleats' paywall activities - are being investigated by the UN or any other legal agency for warcrimes. Indeed, even the headherder A$$nut has been forced to admit ".....Based upon visual evidence I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means anything.....", which just goes to show his determination to make some money out of the event regardless of the facts. Indeed, A$$nut was exposed here (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/07/military-raises-questions-credibility-leaked-iraq-shooting-video/) as looking for any excuse to edit out the weapons present.

And it is indicative of the lack of evidence of other wrongdoing that the "Collateral Murder" frame-up is the best A$$nut and Wikibleats can come up with out of the masses of material given to them by Manning. If they had found anything stronger they would have used it. Professional journalists have scoured through the rest of the Manning dump and found virtually nothing even they could inflate to make newsworthy. In short, Manning sold his own life away in a tantrum at the military, revealed nothing not already known (Reuters had been harping on about the 12th July 2007 events for amost three years before Wikibleats releaased the "Collaterla Murder" vid) or of real worth, and is now looking at fifty years in a military jail for his stupidity, whilst A$$nut is hoping to swan off to Ecuador where he can carry on living off the naivity of the sheeple.

I do have some sympathy for Manning, but the truth is Manning had a choice - he could have knuckled down and waited for a mdical discharge, or even pulled his socks up and tried to be anything but a loser. He CHOSE the course he took, with or without A$$nut's prompting, and so he has no-one to blame but himself.

Re: Poor Matt, you seem, alas, to have suffered a relapse of

Unlike you, I have to maintain a security clearance, which means I get psych eval'ed annually. You don't need an evaluation, it's obvious already you have serious issues, we just need someone to write up your histroy as a case-study for future psychology students.

Re: Bradley Manning, Credit [to the] US Army

".....Material seen as a catalyst for the Arab Spring?...." Nice claim, now please try and substantiate it.

Re: Re: Poor Guy

"....try to cover up killing unarmed civilians in helicopter attacks...." The attack had already been investigated and the chopper crew cleared before Manning went looking. Indeed, he said he found the vid in a JAG's folder, that being a military lawyer. The US did not try covering anything up, it's WIkileaks that edited the vid and tried to make a mountain out of a molehill, just for sheeple like you.

Oi, missile boffins! Stop ogling web filth at work - Pentagon

Re: a perfect example

".....why spending money on defense as a job creator...." But surely in this case it created even more jobs? Porn site admins, models, photographers....

Re: Leave them alone

"....they're not starting uncalled for wars." Take off the tinfoil blinkers and you might have read the bit about how that department works on DEFENCE systems. Indeed, it is the politicians that start wars, not the scientists.

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'

Re: Re: Quote of the week - the FULL quote

You are obviously employed by the keyboard manufacturers!

Re: Alan Firminger

"If you burn hemp, as a spliff or in any other way, the carbon effect is nil." If you burn hemp by itself, you mean, but most hippies seem to like rolling it in Rizlas, and those little papers are not carbon neutral or environmentally friendly as they are refined paper. Shame on the hippies, they're ruining the planet with their evil, polluting ways!

"....When the time comes that these carbon sinks are no longer taking up carbon...." Wow, not alarmist at all! I think we can see which side of the fence Mr Ballantyne dances on. And why will the carbon sinks stop absorbing carbon? And we're not importing carbon from outer space, it all started here in the first place.

Tony Blair bod's Gmail hack teen gets 6 months

Re:TrishaD

".....Which I would consider to be sufficiently draconian a punishment...." Well, whilst we may differ on that point, the other side of the coin is he has ruined his employment chances for a large swathe of the IT industry as he now carries a criminal record. The fact he messed with a terrorist hotline means the little moron is also going to be on the MI5 watchlist just to make sure he doesn't fall in with an even wronger crowd. Even funnier, that criminal record will even negatively affect his chances of marrying a Muslim girl from a decent family. So he's probably going to end up in some career backwater, as an IT junior admin in a school or the like, married to his Mum's first-cousin's niece from the Pakistani hills, the one with a limp and one good eye. And I bet the fool will probably blame it all on everyone but himself.

Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Re: Re: So they didn't create the name or symbolism...

"Anonymous aren't a banned organisation Matt....." Maybe not, but the actions of their "members" most certainly have included criminal activity, and anyone owning up to having been in on the orgainsiation from an early stage would be of great interest to the police. If nothing else, they could be charged with inciting criminal behaviour even if they couldn't be linked with particular criminal acts.

".....Somebody might as well tell you how you appear to the rest of the world." LOL, is that the word amongst your tiny crowd of hip'n'trendy buddies? It is so very obviosu that the "99%" is really just a small group of unemployable and unlikley to get laid skiddies, so why on Earth do you think I would be at all bothered by what you and your close cricle of fellow fingerers might think? Do yourself a favour and go find something useful to do.

Re: Er, about your banter....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Numpty

A Scottish shortening of the term "numb skull", usually applied to someone that is amusingly naive or childish rather than being vindictively stupid, with the implication that they are a conman's dream.

Re: @Matt Bryant

"Here's an idea for you...." Why am I SOOOOO not surprised your "idea" adds nothing intellectual to the thread.

"....Now you can finger me in court...." Ew! I don't know what you and your Anonyputz chums get up to in private but I have desire to finger you anywhere! Besides, it will be the cops taking you to court if you mix with the Anons. Lay down with dogs, get fleas, etc.

A quick search for "anonymous t-shirt" on eBay shows other sellers flogging items with the Anon barnd on them that look suspiciously like the ones that were on the E-Flicker website. Looks like the Anons will have to start intimidating every small-time entrepreneur that sticks his head over the parapet!

Re: So they didn't create the name or symbolism...

"E-Flicker can't copyright the Anonymous logo or slogan because they're well known orphan works...." I'm not sure that applies under French copyright laws, otherwise it is unlikely to have gotten this far.

"....there's always the chance the true copyright owner may come forward one day and sue for damages...." Very unlikely as to do so would be to admit they were in the core of the Anonyputzs from the beginning, making them complicit with a number of Anon actions and therefore liable for prosecution. Of course, if the Anons were smart (I know, unlikely, but you never know), they would get one of their members already convicted and serving time to claim ownership.

"....Also Matt, you're an odious prick." LOL, you know you're scoring hits when they start crying!

Re: So they didn't create the name or symbolism...

"....your argument is still incorrect...." Still no evidence of that presented.

"....The current situation is that there is no trademark...." Well, apart from the one on the UN logo used as part of the Anon logo, that is.

".....Anyone can stick the Anonymous logo on a t-shirt and no copyright or trademark holder is likely to come forward and stop them...." True. Why anyone would want to is another matter, but in this case the E-Flicker boyos have reaslised not only can they do it for profit, they can also legally block anyone else in France from producing items with said logo and selling them on (NOT producing for own use), and their plan will work because no Anon is actually going to make a legal challenge. Face it, this is what really gets you sheeple, the fact that the anonymity that the skiddies hide behind to avoid prosecution is now being used against them by others to make a nasty, capitalist profit. Which is also what makes it so deliciously funny to those of us that think the Anonyputzs are a waste of oxygen.

Re: Re: Do they also like

"And then the anon setup hundreds of fake ebay accounts bidding millions of pounds for teeshirts which will never sell...." So you're advocating fraud? Be very careful, a DDOS attack is troublesome but hard to put a value on the result of the crime, but fraud is very easy to prove in court and can be tied to the individual fake accounts. And some Anonyputz that gets caught might finger you as the "genius" that gave him the idea.

Re: Re: AND

".....No it's not...." How is it not? E-Flicker are simply trademarking the logo to stop other companies in France making cash from the gormless sheeple that will buy Anon-branded gear. In the same manner, companies making Nazi uniforms for fancydress are just taking advantage of Princes with too much money and too little sense (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4170083.stm). The difference is you have an emotional tie to the Anon brand due to you being a member of the herd, whilst you have no sympathy for the Prince seeing as you are probably an anti-monarchist, anit-capitalist, anti-anything-the-herders-tell-me-to-hate.....

".....Godwin's Law. You lose." You're just demonstrating your short attention span seeing as it was one of your fellow bleaters that introduced Nuremberg into the thread. I suggest you need to go buy an Anon-branded T-shirt from E-Flicker so others can spot that you aren't worth wasting intellect on.

" it's the headless suit with the ? for a head, over the UN crest"

Which begs the question isn't the UN crest a trademarked logo?

Re: Wow...

"....A trademark claim and I don't think lawyers are going to get involved...." LOL, just think of the lawyers all around the globe that are crying into their beer at that idea!

Re: So they didn't create the name or symbolism...

You could look at in the reverse by saying their actions provide a public service by helping to mark out the sheeple that will buy Anon-branded gear, in which case I say let them take some of the numpties' money.

Re: Do they also like

".... Prior use should mean that they can't copyright it anyway...." Apparently that's not correct. Someone would have to come forward and claim ownership of the logo, and I don't think that's going to happen for very obvious legal reasons. It's just like smiley emoticons, used for years before being trademarked by the Smiley Company.

If E-Flicker are smart, they will sub out the distribution and use an online retailer like eBay to handle the LOIC attacks. Then the Anonyputzs can hit the E-Flicker website all they like and it won't stop the cash rolling in. The fun bit will be if they try to register the logo in the States.

Re: Re: AND

Please don't be too silly. All E-Flicker are doing is trademarking the symbol for use on merchandise, not accepting responsibility for the action of a load of skiddies. It's exactly the same as a clothing manufacturer in Thailand making fancydress shirts with the NaziI logo on, it does not make them responsible for the Nazi's actions. What E-Flicker are doing is making money out of the appetite of some numpties to identify themselves with the Anons, not becoming Anons.

Re: Stupid or suspicious?

".....a honey pot....." Whether it is or not, expect the Web police to be watching all the Tor entry and exit points, monitoring the Anon chatrooms and tracing the usual suspects. The Anonyputzs will announce another pointless LOIC attack and the Web police will scoop up more of the Anon herders, who will grass on yet more of them. And if Anon don't do anything now after making such a fuss then they look even weaker.

What the Anonyputz "commanders" fail to realise is that this could have been good for them - the likely buyers of any Anon-branded merchandise was likely to be more sheeple, so they could have raised their profile, but instead they went straight to childish-tantrum-setting-ten and started shrieking about capitalist exploiters. LOL, what a bunch of losers!

3PAR goes all-flash, shaves hefty wodge off price tag

Re: Wunderbar1

So, all-SSD arrays are pointless except for generating benchmark figures? I expect they'll be starring in IBM Power benchmarks any day now.

"I agree with the memristor comment....." You must have missed this El Reg article whilst you were frothing on about hp releases: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/09/hp_memristor_and_photons/

".....They have relied on overpriced acquisitions, e.g. buying 3PAR...." Dell employee maybe, still bitter that hp outbid you for 3PAR? Like hp are the only player buying storage companies. IBM badge the NetApps and bought the XIV tech from an Israeli company. Dell bought Compellent. Oracle bought Pillar and Sun (which used to badge storage gear from Hitachi amongst others).

<Yawn> Back under your bridge, little troll, the adults are talking here.

Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer

Re: Letter to the editor: Sensationalism is one thing; outright lying is another

"....Most commonly built was the AK-47 style rifle...." Never really understood why when the AR-18AR-180 is just as easy to make, it's an all-stampings welded receiver design that can be made with folded steel and it fires the US 5.56mm round. It's also a gas piston design, so not as sensitive to "dirty" ammo fouling as the AR-15/M-16 direct action designs. Maybe it's because Armalite are more likely to sue than the Russians?

Re: Re: For those w/o time in the military:

Not just complex machinery, but also high-grade steel, which not everyone can come by easily. The lower receiver is also much less stressed than the upper receiver (which includes the chamber) or barrel, and the lower receiver can therefore be built up from folded metal (the AR-15 range are famous for introducing the idea of aluminium in the lower receiver to reduce weight). Personally, I always thought it would be a better idea to stamp a serial into barrel, upper and lower receivers, and wouldn't add massively to the cost of production.

Indonesia in pre-Ramadan web porn blitz

Re: Better late than never @MattBryant

".....Credible sources include: the Quran itself (available in a wide variety of languages with accompanying transliteration/commentries), bookshops/libraries with credible authors, imams/local mosques, etc....." ROFLMAO! So all your "credible sources" are just the people that fed you the one-sided narrative in the first place. That's a bit like saying anyone who wants to understand the Scientologists should only talk to Tom Cruise. According to you, the only people allowed to have a clue about Islam are the very people trying to propagate it? Monumental fail!

"...Use an actual Quran for this translated from a good source....." LOL, didn't you notice that some of your bretheren spend a lot of time going around defacing public copies of the Koran not in Arabic as they claim it is not correct if it has been translated. In fact, it always makes me laugh when Muslims claim idolatory is not in Islam but just look at the way they idolise the Koran, the way they scream and shriek if it is as much as mishandled, let alone flushed down a toilet (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4535491.stm), burned (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/asia/03afghanistan.html?_r=1) or just thrown on the floor (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3686950.stm). It seems you have no problem killing others that "disrespect" your idolic book.

"....The revelation came after he was questioned about it, as did many revelations...." Wow, how convenient! So your uber-perfect god wasn't able to predict what people might think and give Mohhamed the idea early? Do you want to buy some Florida real estate, each one reputedly blessed by Allah?

".....Also quoting an award which itself has had many contraversies which has only been around for just over a century to make your point that Islam stifles science isn't a good way, seeing as Islam is over 1400 years old....." So you can't dispute the lack of scientific work by Muslims in the last hundred years, so instead you go back and hide behind some supposed great Islamic scientific discoveries you are unable to list or provide any proof of. You supply the so-called Islamic science and I'll see if I can debunk it, otherwise I'll simply point out your inability to supply specifics as proof you are talking out of your backside.

I have a simple philosophy when it comes to religion - keep it to yourself and I will leave you alone, but if you open your trap and try telling me it is the answer to everything, or that other people are less worthy than you just because you believe in a different fairytale, then don't expect me not to point out your idiocy.

Re: Better late than never @MattBryant

"....people have interpreted this wrong..." Yes, those being Islamic scholars getting it wrong. There seems to be a lot of confusion amongst Muslims as to what exactly Allah is supposed to have said/done, which is making his so-called "perfection" look a lot less than perfect.

"....It's a simple case of maths...." OK, here's some simple maths - you're belief means the World was created in six "ayuns" tops; science puts it at several billion years. I would suggest you give maths a miss and just go do a little real science reading here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth).

"....On your point about sobering up Arabs...." I note you do not deny that Mohammed only declared alcohol verboten when he needed an army for his conquests, not earlier when he was busy telling his original followers all the great stuff Gabriel had supposedly enlightened him with.

"....Noone expects anyone to just believe, but there are many scientific proofs inside the Quran...." All the proofs you mention have long since been shown to have been pinched from Greek, Persian and Phoenician sources pre-dating Islam. In fact, Islam is noted for stifling science compared to other cultures, as shown by this comparison of Muslim winners (just six) of any of the Nobel prizes compared to Jewish ones (165) http://www.jewishmag.com/99mag/nobel/nobel.htm. Of the six Muslim winners only two were for science.

"..... I would suggest you do some basic research from credible sources before you use your opinion as fact." Your deliberate obtuseness is just making me laugh now!

Olympic athletes compete in RAYGUN SHOOTING for the first time

Re: Outraged!

What's next? Motorbikes for the cross-country running? DPVs for the swimming? Damn Nanny State rides again!

Re: A better explanation for the modern Pentathlon

".....with a box of chocolates in one hand...." Nah, I just can't think of black turtlenecks without thinking of numpty fanbois.

Re: Possibilities.

Hey, it's not like you can just go and buy the same stuff the US and allies use for their training (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Integrated_Laser_Engagement_System). Oh, wait a sec... yes you can! http://www.bpbsurplus.com/lc/cart.php?target=category&category_id=310

Well, as long as you're not called Abdul and live in Bradford.....