* Posts by BPeterF

8 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Dec 2010

UK security chief: How 'bout a tax for tech firms that are 'uncooperative' on terror content?

BPeterF

Good idea as long as its prospective implementation does not spill over into increased opression and persecution of people who are keen to encourage voluntary emmigration (or, if such a prospective policy would fail, then forced removal) to insane Islam/Sharia infested nations of all devotees to the 1. most politically oriented 2. most oppressive 3. most controlling, and 4. most instructive of violence, of all the world’s most widespread theistic ideologies.

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

BPeterF

Am I the only one who thinks that to with incognito/unannounced surgical precision "cut off of the dragon's head" would be the best (or most humanely radical) way to remove a tortured nation's top dog domestic torturers"?

Vanished global warming may not return – UK Met Office

BPeterF

Re: IceAge

The weasel-wording "climate change" is a convenient way to keep a backdoor open for all wary believers in the weather-related, most recent and biggest, religion to backslide out through, as need be. ;-)

Samsung takes Google into third dimension of flashy storage

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Re: Raising the bar

Natural selection at work right in front of our The Registet relayed eyes! May the best technology win in this case - and win without much delay. Let's hope something similar to the blind spot in our (and many other) eyes is not becoming simulated in silicon by the microchip industry, or, if it is, not for very long!

IBM boffins stuff 16 million-neuron chips into binary 'frog' brain

BPeterF

Re: Not Neurons

I appreciate your relatively realistic sketching of your position on this topic, but aren't you under-emphasising the fact that alongside the 'freqency-spike and rhythm-spike patterning aspect' of any contents of (not least our) largely unconscious (including selectively unconscious) brains, there is also a '9-dimensional spatial patterning aspect'? ;-)

Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

BPeterF

What some call fragmentation can be viewed as speciation in the evolution or phylogeny of software. So cheer up! Because It's only natural that some mutants don't "make it" well enough to contribute to a lengthening of their lineage.

Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being

BPeterF

Great funny writing - with a little tiny bit of interesting reporting thrown in! :)

'ALIEN' LIFE FOUND in California

BPeterF

"'Alien' life found in California"

Am not surprised in the slightest.

I already knew California to be a Mecca for strange (and alienated) creatures - especially such people.

;-)