Posts by Adam Inistrator

Dropbox cuts cloud storage prices $10 per terabyte, matching Google and Microsoft

Re: Don't shoot the messenger!

The simplicity of the overall dropbox experience is the attraction for me and most I suspect. They have no other job to do but please you on storage.

Brits stung for up to £625 when they try to cancel broadband

Re: Broadband, Fiber Optics and ISP's & Cancelations

"Only one thing I cant stand. Cultural intolerance ... and the Dutch!"

Cracking copyright law: How a simian selfie stunt could make a monkey out of Wikipedia

Re: It really doesn't matter

You are projecting. Also you are an ankle-biter.

Pedals and wheel in that Google robo-car or it's off the road – Cali DMV

turing test?

can an inspector tell if it is driven by a human or not after being in a car with a blind between driver and passenger for one hour - or something like that.

also autoautos to be bright orange initially. over 10 years we will adapt as we learn

SpiderOak says you'll know it's secure because a little bird told you

Point of weakness

Oak can be nobbled by US forcing its citizen NOT to sign the page. I wonder if that could happen.

Sit back down, Julian Assange™, you're not going anywhere just yet

Re: Couldn't the UK and Swedish police solve all this?

"Then he can offer himself up for justice for his sex crimes"

seems you are a uk/us gov shill since you willfully ignore the fact he has not committed any sex crimes. Ever heard of INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILT you primitive?

fcuk the law

since uk has adopted european laws we need to adopt european attitudes to the law which is fcuk it instead of respect it.

Dubai to get huge climate-controlled domed city and giga-mall

Re: bilious commentards

Bullshit. Slums in india are VAST. Slums in UAE are non-existent. And emiratiis are no more hypocritical than most of the world. You wanna hate arabs? Pick on any other than the emiratiis esp. Dubai who are golden by comparison with the primitives in the rest of the region. You have no ffing clue.

bilious commentards

I think most of the bile here is based on incomprehension, ignorance and fear. For example the prat who has so much to say about the subject but is so clueless as to think the country of Bahrain is one of the states of UAE. If you want real shockery go to the slums in India. Nothing like that exists in UAE. Even Islam is relatively tolerant in UAE. But I guess people will just hate on all Arabs regardless.

Source: Lived and worked there on and off for 20 years.

SHOCKER: CIA CIO CAN confirm that AWS cloud safe for big government

Buy off

Buying them off or compensation for loss of real business basically.

Assange™ makes fresh bid for FREEDOM from Scotland Yard's 'physical encirclement'

state shills

as we know from snowdon, the state engages in social disinformation big time. hence all the helpful shills presenting their "opinion" here

Tor is '90 per cent of the net' claims City of London Police Commish – and he's dead wrong

"Bitnet, The Tor"

probably he was trying to say bittorrent .. which is a big wack of the net

Snowden's Big Brother isn't as Orwellian as you'd think

Boiling frogs

This article is trying to settle down the frogs ... jostling uneasily in the pan as a rather hot bubble wells up.

Docker blasts into 1.0, throwing dust onto traditional hypervisors

More a VVM really.

It virtualises the local kernel not the local hardware so it is more a virtual virtual machine. Cant run another OS though.

It's Google's no-wheel car. OMG... there aren't any BRAKES

full marks to subeditor for clickbaiting

wheel-less car indeed.

Crypto-guru slams 'NSA-proof' tech, says today's crypto is strong enough

implementation implementation implementation!

nuff said

Users folder vanished after OS X 10.9.3 update? Here's a fix

Re: I find Apple hardware extremelly good...

ubuntu buggy? - bullshit

Oracle vs Google redux: Appeals court says APIs CAN TOO be copyrighted

Re: Probably the death knell of the "industry"

actually google said something like "java api is industry standard therefore we can use it" ... it appears to be the judge who spun it into "popularity voids copyright". The judge here looks like they have "owner instinct" not "user instinct"

Net tech bods at IETF mull anti-NSA crypto-key swaps in future SSL

Privacy for the masses including thinkers and whistleblowers is mor important than catching bad guys I think. Police think everything is a nail.

Report: Climate change has already hit USA - and time is RUNNING OUT

Re: Starting point of graph is deceptive to unscientific brains

True what happened a million years ago is irrelevent. What happened OVER the last million years IS relevent because it shows to the common man that any correlation in the last 100 years is chance. But you are a believer and in denial over the lack of warming in thr last 20 years so you willfully missed my point.

Starting point of graph is deceptive to unscientific brains

Move the starting point of the graph to 1 million year ago and you will see how ludicrous it is to conclude co2 causes warming. Warmists are in denial over the lack of warming in the last 20 years.

Most Americans doubt Big Bang, not too sure about evolution, climate change – survey

Re: atheists are experts at NOT following consensus

@dan ... I dont ignore any evidence at all neither recent nor past ... there is loads of historical evidence about huge climate changes before modern era that cannot be ignored and the changes is massive compared to recent changes which also cannot be ignored. but your smarmy sarcasm is typical warmist bile

Re: atheists are experts at NOT following consensus

"GW = science, belief is irrelevant.GW = science, belief is irrelevant."

the style of most warmists indicates that that they are fervent followers of a cult

Re: The takeaway . . .

"The point is that all these positions, including those around climate change, are the positions held by the majority of scientists in those fields."

arguing that most people believe in something therefore it is correct is circular logic. the same goes for warmism and for evolution. for example ... 100 years ago if you were an atheist going against the trend that nearly everybody believed in god. THINKING atheists are skeptics. FOLLOWING atheists are just credulous believers of another type.

atheists are experts at NOT following consensus

I dont believe in god and I dont believe in warmism ... both crocks of shit ... historical cycles in earth observables dwarf those in the last 50 years.

Kim Dotcom extradition: Feds can keep evidence against Megaupload mastermind a surprise

Re: No news

Buy his way out? Who is he paying? His lawyers? Whaat a sneeaky trick!

nsa's role

could be blackmailing the decision makers ... in this case either the judges or those who control them

Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony

surveillance isnt about the average person

please remember that all the domestic spying is only to target whistleblowers or other contrarian influential people of all kinds. what kind of a society we end up with if the historical influence of such people is severely curtailed is anyones guess.

'Polar vortex' or not, last month among the warmest Januaries recorded

Re: Doing the Warmist shuffle

why start at 1970? look deeper. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png

Facebook turns 10: Big Brother isn't Mark Zuckerberg. It's YOU

fb has a file on everybody

clever joining of data from places you wouldnt believe means they really do have a file per fleshy body and you even if you are not on fb. and fb is just one collator for the nsa and friends. info is power

Tell us we're all doomed, MPs beg climate scientists

quibble

It isnt climate scientists who claim 99.9% of climate scientists believe in agw ... it is warmist activists -a big difference.

Boffins: Antarctic glacier in irreversible decline, will raise sea levels by 1cm

Re: How commentards do science: word analysis on a writeup by El Reg

you think the reg should take a position on gw agw? I dont. I want info.

Developer CEO 'liable for copyright infringement' over unlawful tool

Re: Exclusive rights

you ARE a servile twit arent you?

French gov used fake Google certificate to read its workers' traffic

I have stated before that this is a failure of my browser software to help me decide who is the certifies that the HTTPS connection is valid. FIREFOX IN PARTICULAR I AM LOOKING AT YOU!

Can you trust 'NSA-proof' TrueCrypt? Cough up some dough and find out

"If you REALLY have something to hide from the NSA et al, you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. You DO have a right to privacy, and that should be taken seriously, but you absolutely need to get into perspective what the real threats against you are."

True, the average man has no need of protection against NSA/GCQ but whistlenblowers DO need it. For example we have the apparent suicide of a government employee in UK over leakage of damaging information about our governments involvement in Iraq. OUR SOCIETY DOES NEED PRIVACY!

Washout 2012 summer, melty Greenland 'nothing to do with Arctic ice or warm oceans'

Re: Global climate "science" isnt science

I think you missed the point.

Re: Global climate "science" isnt science

Actually a lot of astronomy is hypothesis. It has made a lot of predictions which can and have been tested with further observations. Climate "science" predictions from the 1990s on the other hand have completely failed. viz. lack of any global warming over the past decade.

Global climate "science" isnt science

because you cant experiment on it like you can with tadpoles and atoms and god help us if they could. climate science is just observation really.

Obama faces off China's prez: We can't be pals with all this cyber-theft

I think China has vastly more to gain by spying on American corps than vice versa. Much US tech has been developed because of their strong capitalism and legal system. China is a primitive pick pocket by comparison regardless of their economic boom. If and when China starts generating new tech then they will have our true respect.

Google's Schmidt calls climate-change deniers 'liars'

Re: And Eric Schmidt's climatological background is ... What, exactly?

model != machine and climate scientist != physicist

Re: @hplasm

"

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article

We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus.

"

They are spinning ... lying. The study actually found that 97% (of those who expressed any opinion) had an opinion that humans are to blame for SOME global warming. ***SOME*** COULD BE ANY TINY FRACTION.

Degenerate dwarfs tear neighbors limb from limb

asteroids dont spiral down

asteroids like anything else in free fall are satellites that orbit ... and orbits are ellipses not spirals. the only way for something to spiral down would be for it to lose kinetic energy somehow but that doesnt really occur in space.

Another negative climate feedback: Warmer plants cool the planet

face saving formulae

a raft of face saving formulae to enable the mass of non-activist scientists to jump the bandwagon in some partially dignified way before it crashes will speed the demise of warmism.

More and more likely that double CO2 means <2°C: New study

whats next after AGW

AGW will not die out until the next stupidity can be invented and implanted in the masses brains. Be careful what you wish for.

Dubai splurges on 700hp, 217mph Lamborghini police cruiser

when you hear a dog talk, you dont criticise its grammar

Actually the standard of driving in Dubai compared to the rest of the Arab world is fantastic. Slip out into the other emirates and the standard plummets. Rulers want Dubai to be the Singapore of the Middle East and really have done miracles over the past 3 or 4 decades to civilize the place - partially by using western, often British in older times, consultants in key government positions. Hats off.

Swedish judge explains big obstacles to US Assange extradition

Re: THE HONEY TRAP

you seem o so well informed about how to slant the case against assange. probably part of some US social ops team.

Great Firewall architects fingered for GitHub attack

if you have some control over "your" browser

I would like to be able to tie https sites to specific certificates in my browser. Then I wouldnt have to check the certificate every time I visited the site to be sure that one of the zillion other root certs installed in my browser wasnt being used. eg I should be able to tell my browser to only say https hsbc is valid if it is signed verisign not any other root cert like neverheardofthem.com. i couldnt get firefox addins to do that on all platforms. any tips?

Nokia decrypts browser traffic, assures public not to worry

so somebody can watch every detail of your internet banking transactions?

Should people be able to communicate in private? I think the answer is yes.

Drop that can of sweet pop and grab a coffee - for your sanity's sake

post hoc ergo propter hoc

often abbreviated to just post hoc