Posts by Matt Bryant

Intel forced to shoot down viral 'Israeli boycott' whopper

Re: b 3 Re: @Hans1

You could much more easily argue that the whole idea of Islamism is stupid and the sooner militant Islam is dismantled - and it would have to be violently as Islam is very obviously not the 'Religion of Peace' - the better. The idea that Islamists can justify trying to kill 'infidels' the World over just because they think their 'prophet' said a sky-fairy said they should is verging on lunacy. Oh, does that idea upset you? Don't worry, you can ask a mullah to proclaim a jihad on me if it makes you feel better.

Re: Anon Cluetard

".....but we really havn't seen much evidence for the "empires" of king david or soloman, do you know of any??....." You could start with the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, site of the ancient Jewish temple that the Muslims - in their usual attempts to eradicate all trace of prior religions - built the Al Aqsa mosque on top of (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque). They tried the same trick in Constantinople, 'recreating' the Greek Orthodox Hagia Sofia basilica into a mosque (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia). You'll find plenty of ill-educated Muslims who insist on pretending the Hagia Sofia was always a mosque, I assume you are probably one of them.

Re: b 3

".....after the 3 racist settlers who were operating against international law and harassing palestinians in the west bank (so no sympathy from me!)....." You mean the three kids that were hitching home from school?!?!? Wow, so all you have to do to harass 'Palestinians' is to go to school - what you really mean is all you have to do to harass Islamists is to be an infidel and live in an area the Islamic hordes previously claimed as theirs by conquest. I bet you're the type that thinks baby-killer Samir Kuntar was a great 'freedom fighter' and Einat Haran was 'harassing' him, right? You are not just ignorant but willfully ignorant.

Re: b 3 Re: Stop Lying

"there is no people on earth that would tolerate having it's entire land stolen off of it in order to house a peoples whose origins never were from that land and who were not entitled to it...." You are passionate but ignorant, a poor combination. I would suggest you do a lot more reading on the history of the area, especially the large number of Jews that had been living in the area prior to the 1948 events (some in villages which had had a continuous Jewish presence for thousands of years). The UN Partition Plan was based on areas with a predominantly Arab or Jewish presence, not a wild carving up of the land to fit in Jewish refugees from Europe.

Re: b 3 Re: crap'n

"before the zionist invasion...." What 'invasion'? Do you mean in 1948 before the Jews accepted the UN Partition Plan and were promptly attacked by all the neighbouring Arab countries? Do you mean before Transjordan invaded the West Bank and seized Jerusalem, eventually killing or driving out all the Jews in the West Bank? The Egyptians did the same to the Jews left in Gaza in 1948.

".....i'm not aware of jews living in gaza...." Read and learn (try to suppress your instinctive desire to deny anything from a Jewish source): http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/gaza_settlements.html

"......most of the people of gaza today are refugees or descendants from refugees fleeing zionist terrorism in the rest of palestine...." There are many South Syrian Arabs and Bedouin Arabs (so-called 'Palestinians') that ended up there as refugees, along with a large contingent of Gazan natives of Egyptian Arab ethnicity already there. The majority fled nothing, they simply got out of the way of the invading Arab armies in 1948 at the request of their own mullahs, expecting the Arabs to win and then allow them to return to plunder the homes of the dead Jews. The reality was the Arabs lost (mainly due to greed, political infighting, and poor military judgement/performance). Despite the Jews then integrating an equal number of Jewish refugees ejected from surrounding Arab countries (apparently, as far as UNWRA are concerned, there are no Jewish refugees - how convenient!), the Arabs went to great lengths to keep the 'Palestinians' as refugees, despite their UN obligations.

"...... and they DO NOT SUPPORT HAMAS...." Except when the majority vote for HAMAS, you mean? Or when they help HAMAS by hiding weapons, letting them dig bunkers and tunnels under their homes, schools and hospitals? Or when they flock to provide human shields for buildings when asked to by HAMAS? Yeah, sure, no evidence of support there. The Gazans wanted HAMAS to rule them just as the Germans voted for and supported the Nazis, and they both got what they asked for. If the Gazans are now realizing their stupidity then where are the public demonstrations in Gaza calling for HAMAS to give control to Fatah?

Re: AC Re: Britain's response to bombs

"Is anybody questioning Britain's (and it's allies) fierce response to the bombing of London by the Luftwaffe?....." The big difference was both the RAF and Luftwaffe were the uniformed forces of sovereign countries. That and the fact the Luftwaffe didn't strap women and kids to their bombers in an attempt to hide behind them.

Re: Anomolous Cowshed Re: De Tchooten!!! Again!!!

Not sure it should but that did make me laugh.

Re: Seth Johnson (yeah, right!)

"....The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians....." Really? It seems to be progressing at a snail's pace given that the Israelis have the weaponry to completely level Gaza and kill every living thing in there. And it does beg the question why the Israelis send warning texts, phone calls and even use warning shot missiles without an explosive warhead before actually hitting a target? Try thinking for a change.

Re: AC Re: Well at least we've learnt one concrete fact from this heated discussion...

"....how much is the regime paying you Matt?....." Oh, I enjoy exposing your ignorance for free, in the hope you and the rest of your ill-educated chums will go have sexual intercourse elsewhere and this can get back to being a technical website for technical people, something you obviously are not.

Re: James Micallef Re: Anon Cluetard

"......There's only 2 long-term solutions....." Wrong. The UN already has a long-term solution enshrined in UN Security Council Resolutions, which state that the 'Palestinians' have to give up violence and complete negotiations with Israel over final borders for a two-state solution. The 'Palestinian National Authority (AKA the PLO) have tried everything they can to end-run round their obligations, including attempting to get themselves recognized as a member state at the UN. HAMAS, the other main 'Palestinian' political entity, has rejected the call to give up violence and they do not recognize Israel, let alone the idea of a two-state solution - their charter commits them to the destruction of Israel. For them, any negotiated solution is just a temporary truce to allow them to build up for the next attack on a Israel. It would be suicidally stupid for Israel to concede any loosening of the current import restrictions on Gaza unless HAMAS has been disbanded and their forces completely disarmed. Which brings us to the most likely long-term solution you didn't mention - nothing changes in Gaza, Israel periodically goes in to degrade their terrorist capability, and any actual 'Palestinian' state gets created in the West Bank only at best. Israel has had to fight to survive and made so many sacrifices in the face of Arab aggression for so many years that they will put up with it, whilst the 'Palestinians' will continue being the real long-term losers.

Re: AC Re: If only...

"....The surprisingly extensive list of top US Senators and Congressmen that hold dual US/Israeli citizenship gives direct evidence of who's really calling the shots." Yeah, and that 'extensive list' is where? Oh, just in your imagination. Does it have a Schlomo Obama or a Barrack Hussein Obama on it?

Re: Hans 1

"And you forget the repeated bombing over the years of Gaza and the west banks, where they destroy infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, sanitation systems, bridges which were built with funds from around the world, most of which comes from the European Union....." Didn't you ever stop to think it strange that tiny Israel, the only Jewish state, could build a modern infrastructure and World-leading scientific community, whilst the Arabs built diddly-squat other than a war machine to attack Israel? All those Arab and other Muslim states with so much oil money, yet the EU had to build stuff for the 'Palestinisians'? Ever wonder why the Arabs can produce so many suicide bombers but not one Nobel Prize-winning scientist? I dare you to overcome your ignorance and go check out how many Israelis have won the Nobel Prize for the different sciences. Please do try and pretend it's all due to American money, ignoring the vast sums the Arabs have earned (and wasted) from oil.

The fact is Israel was willing to accept peace and the much smaller state of Israel as set out in the UN Partition Plan for Mandate Palestine in 1948, and it is Israel that has gone on to build a First World country, whilst the Arabs rejected the UN Plan and have wasted decades of development aid and their most precious resource - their children's futures - on the rabid insistence on destroying the one Jewish state in the whole World.

".....One day maybe, the EU will say...." It is far more likely that one day the EU will be welcoming Israel as a full member of the EU - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–European_Union_relations. Enjoy!

Re: crap'n

Strange then how there are Arab Israelis, with full citizenship and rights, still living in Israel. How many Jews are there left in Gaza, despite there having been a Jewish presence there for thousands of years? Gaza used to be a major port in antiquity, with a prosperous Jewish merchant quarter, yet the 'Palestinians' have not only driven out all the Jews but have attempted to rewrite history to deny the Jews were even ever there. I suggest you try reading more history books rather than Islamist propaganda sites.

Re: TheVogon

".....If you look at the recent Gaza statistics, Hamas killed over 96% Israeli soldiers....." Because the Israeli soldiers fight to prevent the death or injury of Israeli civilians, whereas HAMAS simply don't give a shit about civilians - any Gazan that dies, whether by an Israeli bomb or by one of HAMAS's rockets falling short, is processed into a media martyr for the gullible like you. HAMAS wants their own people to die so they can be paraded for the foreign press. When not enough are dying they re-use dead or injured kids for photo ops. Just go on the Web and look at how the Islamists use photos of the people killed in Syria and Iraq as fake 'victims of Israel in Gaza' and you might begin to understand how you have been duped.

"....80% civilians...." The majority of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad fighters in Gaza wear no uniforms, so when they are killed fighting Israel they are simply recycled as 'innocent civilians' for the foreign press. Even the UN is duplicitous in their counting as they do not include the HAMAS-run Gazan police as 'fighters' but as 'civilians', despite them being an intricate part of the HAMAS machine, being armed, and involved in attacking Israelis. The worst is UNWRA, which refuses to even admit the number of their own employees that have been killed fighting for HAMAS, even after they have been caught storing rockets and other arms in UN buildings. Any UN employee killed in Gaza, no matter what they were doing at the time, is automatically classed as a 'civilian'. Then there are the large number of kids that HAMAS uses as messengers and lookouts, despite Israeli warnings to send civilians out of the fighting zones - what kind of people deliberately keep kids in danger and use them as human shields? Is that your idea of 'brave'?

"....The Israelis are cowards who would rather just bomb innocent peopel than fight Hamas directly on the ground." LOL! The Israeli soldier goes forward to stand in front of Israeli civilians to protect them, whereas the HAMAS cowards go to hide behind their civilians to use them as protection. Even when the Israelis are forced to go underground, where they are at a massive disadvantage in the tunnels, they still kill more than fifteen jihadis for every Israeli soldier lost. In the tunnels the Israelis lose their technological advantage yet still wipe the floor with the wannabe jihadis! Not only are HAMAS criminals and cowards they are really bad fighters.

The really tragic bit is that HAMAS and their Islamist chums continue with these regular spats, wasting time and materials on building tunnels and rockets (over THREE THOUSAND TONS of concrete were wasted by HAMAS on their tunnels and bunkers, when ordinary Gazans were complaining of not having enough building materials to rebuild from the last HAMAS tantrum!). And it all gained them nothing, in fact it made the lot of the average Gazan considerably worse than before, let alone compared to how they were before the First Intifada. HAMAS have achieved nothing yet again, how long before they give up their childish insistence on 'destroying Israel', grow up and let the more mature Gazans talk peace?

Re: Anon Caliphater

"....It's much much lower than that. All time total civilian deaths from Hamas rocket based resistance to the occupying Israeli forces are in single figures." True, the number of Israeli citizens killed by HAMAS rockets is actually far less than the number of Gazans killed by HAMAS and Islamic Jihad rockets that fall short and land in Gaza, an irony that makes the 'resistance' (actually the war crime of attempted murder of civilians) by HAMAS and co all the more tragic. But then the Islamists terror groups always kill more Muslims than infidels.

Re: Anon Cluetard

".....Israel's origins...." The origins of Israel were the historic Jewish kingdoms that were the thousands of years before Islam even existed, let alone before the Arab Muslim hordes that swept out of the Saudi Peninsula in the Middle Ages. Try reading more history and less Islamist propaganda.

Re: samlebon2306

"I already boycotted Intel many years ago." As a consumer in a democracy, that is your choice, and I would support your right to make that choice. I only hope it was on reasonable grounds and not due to you being ill-informed.

AMD's first 64-bit ARM cores star in ... Heatless in Seattle*

Re: Charlie Clark Re: Why compare it to a Xeon?

".....112 is pretty good but I think we might be looking at twice that density for final systems....." Unless you are running software with a per-core charge (such as Oracle). At which point you will ditch the ARMs for traditional, hefty cores in CPUs like Xeon, as the savings in license costs will be much more than the ARM savings on datacenter cooling and power.

Why hackers won't be able to hijack your next flight - the facts

Re: Bob Wheeler Re: Step back and thnk about this.

Agree with the majority of your post except the bit about the de Havilland Comet, where the fault was an unverified production process change, not a design issue. The square windows and door apertures on the Comet's fuselage had been designed to be bonded with glue in the same manner as had been proven with the wooden Mosquito. But, in the politicised rush to get the aircraft into service, the production line switched to using rivets instead of gluing around the windows, doors, and several other apertures without checking with the design team. Although the square shape of the windows generated concentrated stress points, if they had of been glued it would not have been an issue. As it was, the first three Comets were lost due to pilot error, and the fourth (G-ALYP, the first production airframe) was lost due to structural failure caused by tears originating from the rivets around the aperture for the ADF. The resulting bad publicity (amplified by competing American manufacturers) killed the Comet as a commercial airliner, though it went on to have an excellent service career as a military aircraft.

Re: AC Re: AC "almost always mechanical backup for critical ... components."

"Where do you get the "not connected" idea? Modern passenger aircraft engine control systems frequently have the VLAN-like connectivity mentioned in the article (AFDX, ARINC664, etc)." Yeah, that would be the interfaces the article mentioned as being very difficult to impossible to hack.....

Re: AC Re: "almost always mechanical backup for critical ... components."

".....a modern passenger jet engine's fuel system is computer controlled with no mechanical backup...." They are talking about the flight instruments and the control interfaces, not back-end systems that are not connected to anything that can be hacked.

DIME for your TOP SECRET thoughts? Son of Snowden's crypto-chatter client here soon

Re: Pete 2 Re: One Tip...

".....We already know that a degree of intelligence can be obtained simply by knowing that there is a message being sent (and who the sender + recipients are)....." That is metadata, which is what the NSA and chums already collect, so if you're stupidly paranoid (or criminal) enough to think the NSA are already watching you then you have gained nothing by using this service other than a false sense of security. Once the sender and/or recipient are identified they can simply move to either a warranted search or a hack of their computer, where the unencrypted messages will be sitting. One little backdoor later and they will be reading all your coms after/before you decrypt/encrypt them. For the real nasties there might also be an involuntary holiday flight to a black site followed by a bit of decryption by waterboard.

".....Multiple that up by (say) a million users and the surveillance soon becomes too onerous and too costly......" Even if there were that many paranoids in the World, as soon as the authorities identify the service, if they get bored they can either monitor or block it. Useful idiots that sign up to 'stick it to The Man' may then find out that The Man has plenty if legal options for dealing with those attempting to waste police time, including conspiracy charges in the States.

Oracle Database 12c's data redaction security smashed live on stage

Re: Destroyed All Braincell's Re: I want to go back

"Why did Sun have to get bought by Oracle?" Because all the other big players wouldn't touch the SUN carcass with a barge pole.

But, but, but....

....didn't Larry assure us it was 'unbreakable'? ROFL!

Edward Snowden's not a one-off: US.gov hunts new secret doc leaker

Re: RandiO nullum crimen sine lege

"Don't shoot the messenger...." Then try researching your sources before passing them off as either unbiased or professional.

Re: RandiO Re: nullum crimen sine lege

"....Bassiouni....." That would be Cherif Bassiouni, linked by the FBI to 'Palestinian' terror groups and blocked from serving on the UN war crimes panel for the former Yugoslavia because he was described as a 'Muslim fanatic'? Not exactly a shining example of impartiality then.

".....Sami Zeidan....." Is a 'news' anchor on the pro-jihadi, Qatar-funded Al Jazeera network. It's a bit like saying Joseph Goebbels was a scholar and diplomat when presenting his views on the SS.

".....The Taliban and Osama bin Laden were once called freedom fighters.... ". The Taliban were not labelled terrorists when they took over Afghanistan. They were not labelled terrorists when they fought the other Afghan Mujahadeen. They were even not labelled as a terror group when they ethnically-cleansed Shia tribesmen. The UN and groups like the EU even gave them development aid and tried to help them set up a state. They were labelled terrorists when they refused to denounce and stop sheltering AQ, who were indulging in terror attacks outside of Afghanistan, including 9/11. They have remained labelled as terrorists as the Taliban have employed terror tactics against Afghan and Pakistani civilians.

".....Today, the United Nations views Palestinians as freedom fighters....."" So, please do show an UN statement classing any 'Palestinian' group as freedom fighters. And please note the recognition of 'Palestine' as a non-member 'state' is dependent on them agreeing borders with Israel in a final peace agreement - no agreement on borders means no state of Palestine.

"...,struggling against the unlawful occupation of their land by Israel....." So please do show which international court has passed any such judgement. It hasn't happened because the 'Palestinians' threw away their chance to have a state of 'Palestine' and their sovereign legal rights when they rejected the 1948 UN Partition Plan, unlike the Israelis. There is no such sovereign country as 'Palestine' and won't be until they sign a final peace treaty with Israel. And please also note the UN recognition is for the Palestinian National Authority, that being the old PLO, and NOT HAMAS, which has zero standing in the UN.

Re: Eguro Re: Might just be me,

".....It's all those lovely cases of "I really just need that one file - why the hell am I not allowed in there without Keith watching over me"...." If you work in secure government environments you accept it as part of the job and just get used to it. I have worked on contracts where I not only had a technical escort to monitor which files I accessed on a system (on a couple of systems I was not even allowed to touch the keyboard) but also had to be accompanied at all times onsite by an armed guard. After a few days it was routine.

Re: Anon Cluetard Re: "Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald"

"Shows the intellect of someone when the sum total of their post is throwing childish name insults...." Shows your inability to argue the fact that Greenwald is funded by Omidyar and is a professional, paid-for journo, not the crusading holyman of truth you very obviously think he is. Oh, but it would take a measure of intellect to actually debate the point....

Me, I'm off to buy some Polish apples.

"Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald"

Well d'uh - Greenwald is backed by a lot of cash and can pay for leaks, whereas A$$nut and Dickileaks are just about broke.

Snowden is FREE to ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA, say officials

Re: AC Re: Pootie's playpen

Why is it so many of the Yank-haters that post here haven't bothered to do even basic research before posting complete male bovine manure?

"......Based on the numbers provided to Sir Scott Baker’s panel, under this treaty, 130 extradition REQUESTS were submitted from the U.S. to the UK. Of those 130 requests, the UK has refused 10. Of the remaining 120, 77 individuals were extradited from the UK to the U.S.; the other 43 cases remained pending in the UK system, or the individuals returned to the U.S. on their own, or other circumstances made the extradition no longer necessary. During the same time period, the UK submitted 54 extradition REQUESTS to the US, of which none have been refused. Of those 54 requests, 38 resulted in extradition of an individual from the U.S. to the UK. In the remaining 16 cases, the individuals either returned to the UK on their own or other circumstances made extradition from the U.S. to the UK no longer necessary....." - http://london.usembassy.gov/mobile/gb176.html

Good thing you posted AC considering how clueless you now look.

Re:KjetilS

".....When has the US ever made an effort to give requests in compliance with international law?" So you've never heard of Gary McKinnon? I suggest you try a lot more reading in the subject, possibly starting here http://london.usembassy.gov/mobile/gb176.html, to help you deal with your groundless preconceptions.

The whole 'legal extradition' thing works best when there is a proper and legally-independent judiciary at both ends, so the chances of anyone being extradited by the US from Pootie's Playpen with the current state of relations are zero.

Snowden latest: NSA targets Gaza, pumps intelligence to Israel

Re: Jimal Re: Gis Bun Hmmmm

Seeing as my prior post got rejected, I'll break it into three parts to try and work out which bit upset the PCness of El Mod.

".....Israel designates Hamas a terrorist group because Hamas stands up to Israel (same with Hezbollah)...." I assume by 'stands up' you mean 'stands behind a human shield of women, kids, and do-gooder UN personnel, to fire rockets at Israeli women and kids', right?

Re: Jimal Re: Gis Bun Hmmmm

".....the US/Israel never push Jordan to make democratic reforms....." IMHO, Islam (just like any other absolutist religion) and democracy are incompatible. Look at the mess the so-called 'Arab Spring' has left across North Africa. Turkey is either going backwards or standing still, depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you are. Syria and Iraq, especially the chunk under ISIS control, faces a return to the Dark Ages. The whole region is about five-hundred years behind Europe in social development but trying to integrate modern technologies, knowledge and business practices, whilst attempting to balance the independence of thought required for the democratic process with the robotic submission require by Islam. Europe had to go through the protracted Enlightenment to throw off the yoke of the Catholic Church and get where we are now, it seems the Middle East (minus Israel) needs to do the same for Islam before there is any hope for lasting peace. Until then, I would want and expect the NSA to be working very hard to keep an eye on the Islamists.

Re: Jimal Re: Gis Bun Hmmmm

".....as though the Royals who run the country have a mandate from their population...." That's the ironic bit - the ruling family are effectively Saudi Bedouin Arabs, whereas the majority of 'Palestinians' are actually South Syrian Arabs, and the Hashemites used to raid and steal goats from the very people they were put in charge of! Even then there is the same clan issues that divide even those two main groups, with family loyalty coming before clan loyalty and then a long way before national identity. But the real start of the problem was how Jordan, just like all the Arab countries, did nothing to integrate the 'Palestinian' refugees from the 1948 and subsequent wars. Even then the Jordanians were all very happy to have a strong Jordanian leader until the PLO started rocking the boat. The Hashemites have also been trying to root out Saudi-funded Islamists like Islamic Jihad and HAMAS for years because they have learnt that they cannot trust them.

Re: Jimal Re: Gis Bun Hmmmm

".....The US is run by AIPAC....." Are you posting from Dearborn or the Balti Triangle?

Re: phuzz Re: The Soviet Propaganda Department

Greenwald's one rule is to make a living off the gullibility of the useful idiots.

Re: Gis Bun Re: I am shocked!. Absolutely Shocked!

".....Israel doesn't have spy satellites...." Not only do the Israelis launch satellites from their own soil, they have also used commercial services from countries like India to launch spy sats.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Space_Agency

http://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Israeli_spy_satellite_launched_by_Indian_rocket

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TecSAR

What they probably do not have is the taps on undersea cables that the 5i partners do have, and which the NSA can use to pick up chatter between HAMAS in Gaza and the West Bank and their leadership in places like Qatar.

Re: Gis Bun Re: Hmmmm

<Yawn> And Greenie tries again with the Leftie Popularist bogeyman of Israel. To the US, HAMAS is a designated terrorist organisation with links both to other Sunni Islamist terror groups and Iran, and 'Palestinians' have been quote happy to travel to both Iraq and Afghanistan to attack US troops, and are currently involved with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. So anyone not expecting the NSA to be keeping an eye on them is simply too stupid for words. Sharing info with the MOSSAD is just common sense.

The Jordanians have a troubled history with the 'Palestinians'. The Jordanian monarchy were effectively the losing side of a power struggle to rule Saudi Arabia, and were given Transjordan (originally a chunk of the British Mandate territory) as a consolation prize by the British. Initially they backed the Palestinian Arabs in their attempts to eradicate the UN-mandated state of Israel, happily seizing Jerusalem and the West Bank and driving out the Jews from the area. But the Palestinian Arabs didn't complain when the Hashemites annexed the West Bank - apparently, it didn't matter as long as it was Arab Muslims doing the occupying, ethnicly-cleansing Jews and annexing 'Palestinian' land.

Then the Jordanians made the mistake (in 'Palestinian' eyes) of talking peace with Israel, so the Palestinian Arabs killed the Jordanian King Abdullah I in 1951 (and nearly got the 15-year-old Prince Hussein at the same time). From then on, despite siding with the 'Palestinians' in wars against Israel, King Hussein kept a close eye on the PLO, eventually leading to the open war between the PLO and the Jordanian Royal Forces in the Black September of 1970, when the Jordanians defeated a PLO attempt to seize control of the country. Hussein ejected what was left of the PLO to the Lebanon (where they made even more trouble for the Lebanese) and made peace with the Israelis, dashing any 'Palestinian' dream of seizing Israel by force. Since then the Jordanians have been quite happy to work with the MOSSAD on keeping the 'Palestinians' in check.

MPs to sue UK.gov over 'ridiculous' emergency data snooping law

Re: Erroneous Cowherd Erroneous Cowherd Contempt

"Let us dissect your latest diatribe...." I'm betting the 'dissection' will fail to address any of the points I raised, and merely degenerate into the usual denials that any POV other than The Truth should be heard.

"....People may work on a sewage farm, but they certainly wouldn't live on one (hint: It's not a real "farm"), and I image the last thing a sewage worker would think as "normal" would be taking a swim in a settling pond. As an analogy that is pretty ineffective....." So rather than trying to counter that environment limits the ability to see other POVs, and that deliberately limiting your environment by denying all other POVs have any value is merely denial, you want to concentrate on whether people would live on a sewage farm?!? You are the poster child for desperate denial.

".....How long did you spend writing all of those ill tempered replies?...." LOL, more egotistical denial from the sheeple! For a start, despite what you want to baaaah-lieve, I am not raging, I'm usually laughing my arse off at your denial! Does it help you to imagine that anyone that would dare to challenge The Truth must be 'raging'? And sorry if it bruises your ego, but debunking your drivel takes mere minutes at most, so the effort is trivial. I assume your confusion stems from your needing hours of 'deep thought' to come up with your posts?

".....So why bother trying to convince us "sheeple" that we are wrong....." Apart from the fact that it's fun watching you lot twist yourselves up in balls of denial, this used to be a respected technical website, so making it uncomfortable for the large number of non-technical sheeple that seem to have flocked here of late is a very good reason to continue. Hopefully you'll go away and the rest of us can get back to technical articles.

"....If I were you..." Gosh, a link to the Daily Mail - how original! Not. I appreciate that for you that was a truly gargantuan attempt at originality and wit but it's very staple sheeple fare. I would suggest you simply try a lot harder on the originality. Oh, and is that the predicted insistence that only the sheeples' POV should be heard here? You lot are so predictable and so boring.

Re: Boring Bernie Erroneous Cowherd Contempt

You'll have to speak up, chap! I couldn't hear what you were trying to say due to all the whining subtext drowning it out.

Re: BleatingGreen Boring Bernie Erroneous Cowherd Contempt @Plump & Bleaty

<Yawn> So the continued (desperate) diversions mean you don't have anything to say on the subject of the thread. Not really a surprise, TBH.

Re: BleatingGreen Re: Boring Bernie Erroneous Cowherd Contempt @Plump & Bleaty

Only five minutes into the thread and already BlueGreen is trying to divert off into another thread rather than admit he cannot counter the points raised in this one! I would have to suggest he knows he's already lost any argument, hence his early diversion. Even as a forum stalker he's an abject failure!

".....Easy to 'debate' if you do it your way....." Yes, it is easy if you post facts and reasoned arguments, which is why you never win and why you're diverting off into denial again. Oh, BTW, if you want to revisit one of your many previous drubbings, please do show me the 'harm' from the NSA's activities you claimed you had proof of. As I recall, you failed to show it in several threads.

So, do you actually have anything to say related to the thread, or are you just going to rotate through your usual forum fluffing routine?

Meet Solaris 11.2, where SDN means 'Software-Defined Net profit'

Larry finally realises....

.....he should have bought Juniper or Brocade rather than SUN.

HP storage revenue downturn? It's just a 'kink', says exec

Re: tape

"The IDC figures don't include tape." Do the IDC figures include server-based storage such as the P4000 and VSA products? When we got rid of quite a few old EVAs we replaced them with P4000 clusters instead, I imagine quite a few EVA owners will have done likewise seeing as it provides very cheap yet highly-available storage.

Pentagon hacker McKinnon can't visit sick dad for fear of extradition

Re: Anon Cluetard

"The US need to grow the fuck up and stop acting like the self absorbed teenagers of the world and threatening our citizens...." No, people like McKinnon need to 'grow up the fuck up' and stop,thinking they can commit criminal acts with no resulting comebacks. This current round of whining by McKinnon and co has NOTHING to do with the US, they have not said they plan to extradite him, it is just a publicity stunt on McKinnon's part.

Senate introduces USA FREEDOM Act to curb NSA spying excesses

Re: AC Re: Don't make me laugh....

".....In short, there's no way to prevent your data being hoovered up!...." True, but you fail to supply even the slightest reason as to why you or your data would be of interest to anyone, let alone the NSA, which suggests your metadata would be flushed with the rest of the unwanted crud picked up whilst looking for rest threats.

Re: Otto is a bear Re: Not to worry.. there's a backdoor...

".....the rest of the 5i's external intelligence services put together wouldn't have enough resources to do that....." Not wanting to fan the paranoia, but I'm afraid they do. What happens is the systems and data stores are shared, with search tools like XKeyScore at the front end to do the sifting for the analysts. When spying is needed on a foreign entity it is an American analyst that runs the search through XKeyScore, and when spying is needed on an American citizen in the US it is passed over to a partner (such as MI6) to run the search. If the Yanks (or a partner) need deniability then a separate database instance can be set up, nominally not under US control, but available to all via XKeyScore and such tools. Now, I'm sure all the partners, including the Yanks, keep some parts of their data troves hidden from each other, but when the 5i partners do errands for the Yanks they do so with the same capabilities as the Yanks would have because the Yanks give them access to the data and tools.

Mozilla keeps its Beard, hopes anti-gay marriage troubles are now over

Re: Hollerith 1 Re: Mozilla Lost Me

".....but if you are going to be a leader in any organisation, you have to demonstrate that you are 'for' your employees, that they will all get a fair deal, that they all have the same employment rights and the same career progression, if they merit it....." So please do show even one example of where Eich let his personal and legal choice of years ago affect any of his actions as Mozilla boss? If you are going to fire people because 'they might do something' then you're not going to find anyone to do the job - fire all women because they might decide to have kids; fire all men because they might promote a female worker to gain sexual favours; fire all lesbians because they might hate men or might harass/promote women; fire all gay men because they might hate women and harass/promote men; fire all blacks because they might hate whites; fire all whites because they might hate blacks; fire all Catholics because they might victimise Protestants. Etc., etc. if Eich had been a bad boss or had been shown to be prejudicial in his treatment of gay staff then fair enough, but the truth is he was booted for expressing his opinion in a legal and democratic manner years before becoming boss, and only because others outside the company had an axe to grind.

SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon's deflationary cloud

What about the smaller players?

This article is only looking at the Big Three and doesn't consider what this price war will do to the smaller cloud companies. They don't have alternative business lines to supply money for a cloud price war, in essence they are already competing at a disadvantage because their smaller size means they do not get the advantages of scale as AWS, Google and Azure do. This is like arguing over who will win in the out-of-town supermarket wars whilst not noticing the little family shops on the highstreets are all struggling and dying.

Put down that Oracle database patch: It could cost $23,000 per CPU

MemFS/TmpFS?

Does the Oracle DB know what is "RAM" only by the SGA size? If so, does it know memory being presented as an in-memory fielsystem by tools such as memFS or tmpFS is actually memory or does it think it is "disk"? If so, could you get round the memory tax by creating a memory filesystem, thus getting the speed of RAM without the added licenses? You would need lots of memory to ensure the memory filesystem didn't eat too much shared memory, but RAM is cheaper than Oracle licenses......