Posts by Don Quioxte

Icelandic Pirate Party asked to form government

Tis enough to make me want to learn Icelandic!

NASA tests crazytech flying saucer thruster, could reach Mars in days

Everyone is missing the point

Everyone is missing the point. Whether or not we get a viable space engine out of this is trivial. What matters is that we have apparently broken the Law Of Conservation of Momentum by bouncing microwaves off the quantum vacuum virtual plasma (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052).

Note the words quantum and virtual and plasma in the previous paragraph. This leads me to suspect we are looking at a gamechanger here, the first inkling of a whole new branch of physics (subject to exceptional proof being provided by the scientific community as a whole).

Would any of my betters care to comment?

Google on Gmail child abuse trawl: We're NOT looking for other crimes

And if Google sells this as a service to MPAA & RIAA? (Jail As A Service)

I don't think we can see where or how far this is going to take us.

What if Google sells this as a service to the MPAA & RIAA? We will scan users emails for pirated content and report it either to them or the police...all for a modest fee of course? What if Facebook gets into the business? Do you trust them as much as Google? Call this "Jail as a Service (JAAS)".

Not to put too fine a point on it, do we trust corporations to carry out those things we screamed about when Snowden told us the government was doing them? Government versus Corporations, shouldn't both get out of the business or surveillance?

Scam emails tell people they have cancer to trick them into installing a money-stealing Trojan

"Email spammers. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

KC engineer 'exposed unencrypted spreadsheet with phone numbers, user IDs, PASSWORDS'

Simon?

Simon? You and the PFY are working for KC?

HP clampdown on 'unauthorised' server fixing to start in January

Re: There is established case law on this...

Apologies for not having the legal citation, however I worked in the 3rd party maintainer biz in California a couple of decades back (Abtech Systems) and it was a story told to all new employees (back when paper was the preferred medium of communication) about how HP tried to freeze out 3rd party maintainers, how the maintainers went to court and won big time all down the line.

This legal decision is reflected in the "HP Americas Self-Maintainer Program"

http://h20375.www2.hp.com/portal/site/publicpartner-portal/?page=General+Document+Display+Public+NA&javax.portlet.tpst=GeneralContentDisplayPortletPublicNA&javax.portlet.prp_GeneralContentDisplayPortletPublicNA_wsrp-navigationalState=rO0ABXNyABFqYXZhLnV0aWwuSGFzaE1hcAUH2sHDFmDRAwACRgAKbG9hZEZhY3RvckkACXRocmVzaG9sZHhwP0AAAAAAAAx3CAAAABAAAAABdAADZG9jdXIAE1tMamF2YS5sYW5nLlN0cmluZzut0lbn6R17RwIAAHhwAAAAAXQABzEyODQxMzl4&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

Which is the latest version of the implementation of that legal decision from 2 to 3 decades ago.

Perhaps a lawyer (or a 3rd party maintainer) with a long institutional memory has a California legal citation?

There is established case law on this...

From the LAST time HP tried this, at least in California.

Obama says US won't scramble jets or twist arms for Snowden

Obama won't twist arms for Snowden.....suuuuure he won't!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57591675/ecuadors-flower-growers-hurt-by-snowden-situation/

"The Obama administration sent a thinly veiled economic threat to this South American country on Thursday when it indefinitely delayed a decision to eliminate tariffs on imports of roses worth about $250 million a year. The move created leverage over the leftist government seen as likeliest to grant National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum that would protect him from U.S. criminal charges."

The President says one thing, then twists arms behind the scenes. I may be a Democrat, but I';m not a *dumb* Democrat!

Automatic Facebook couple pages: Nauseating sign of desperation

Ex-husbands

Ex-husbands, stalkers, ex-boy friends, shall I go on?

I just closed my FB account because there is an issue of safety with this latest train wreck. I won't endanger my partner.

Naked at 30: Osborne 1 stripped to its chips

It is HPIB, not GPIB

For those Hewlett Packard diehards it was known as the HPIB (Hewlett Packard Interface Bus) long before it was known as GPIB or IEEE-488. And if you call it by its proper name, HPIB, I promise not to tell Simon it was you that scratched his car...oh, about an hour from now.

PARIS unveils impressive box

Trust the BOFH publishers?

Why do I think that anything associated with the publishers of the BOFH articles should first have a bomb sniffing dog look at it followed by a pass with a Geiger counter and a tox screen?

Texas man cops to botnet-for-hire charges

how about...

Serving one day for each computer they infected. To be served consecutively.

Surely one day is not too much to ask?

They will get out in 60 or 70 years.

Google China uncensors verboten tank man

check to see if the tank was buried

Check to see if the tank was buried.