Posts by Cipher

John Sweeney: Why Church of Scientology's gravest threat is the 'net

What about the clams?

No one mentions the clams in the volcanoes and the H-bombs dropped on them to kill the Thetans.

Yeah, $cientology has all that and more...

http://www.xenu-directory.net/opinions/lindsay-19990117.html

Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE

Re: Data Utilities

Yeah, more Government intervention into the net, that's the ticket. It'll be freakin' perfect after the bureaucrats mangle it, censor it and tax it to death.

Remember when Clinton wanted copies of our encryption keys? Obama is writing Executive Orders right now to give him a "Internet Kill Switch" in the name of national security.

I don't know about where you live, but here in the USA, anything the Government touches turns into crap. Expensive, censored, politically correct crap...

This what happens...

...When you stray from your core business seeking a new revenue stream and you don't, apparently, know jack about what you're doing.

Official: Cloud computing invented by two technophobic old geezers

The only secure cloud, IMO, is a private cloud. Oh wait, that's exactly like off-site data storage, a concept that has been around quite a while.

Will these cloud providers be here in 5 years time? What guarantee do you have, really, that a copy of your data will always be there. And that it won't be subjected to nosy eyes? Cloud storage is a risky business...

Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? Debian? We'll find you the right Linux to swallow

Re: @Mr C Hill - "Comfortable with the terminal"

This is a major reason Linux is at 2% market share. This attitude and the elitist nature of most forums. "Learn Linux BEFORE you ask for help." I have heard many new Linux users complain that it seems that the linux gurus of the world do not want a broader user base, as they seem to go out of their way to make it as hard as they can for the newbie to use it.

And the "free" part of Linux means nothing to consumers until they can buy a computer at a big box store and hear: "OK, that will be XX$, now what OS do you want loaded on it? Windows costs ZZ$ extra..." Another thing is the endless squabbling over desktop choice in Linux. Utter BS, you run apps, right? Far too much concern with look and feel. Libre Office looks the same no matter what desktop schema you run...

I feel that Microsoft inhibits innovation, is a security nightmare and is way over priced for the quality it delivers, yet Linux is going nowhere in the current environment.

Down vote away boys and girls, "The Year of Linux Desktop" isn't on the horizon now, nor will it ever be if things don't change...

Wikipedia's Gibraltar 'moratorium' - how's it going?

Just Say No to Wikipedia

All of the submission guidelines for the paid writing I have done share the same caveat: Thou shall not quote, cite or use Wikipedia in any way. They are clearly Agenda Driven (amongst other shortcomings):

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/The-Top-10-Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia.html

Brand-new black hole found in supernova remnant

"Careful with the dates: NASA says it’s a thousand years old as seen from Earth - which means something slightly different to “it happened in 1013”. "

A better explanation is in order here. If it is 26k LY from us, then what we are seeing is 26K years old. If it is 1000 years old as seen from earth, then it is 1k LY from us. Unless the speed of light doesn't apply here...

Poorly written article...

Swartz suicide won't change computer crime policy, says prosecutor

Re: 4 Simple Points.

Agree. The taxpayer funds most of these articles and then has to pay a private party AGAIN to read them. The authors must pay AGAIN for their own work. The entire university publishing system needs to go in the ash can...

Expect more of this...

We in the US can only expect more of this for the foreseeable future. The Obama administration has expressed the desire to continue to continue the transformation of the US into a Stalinist Worker's Paradise. A completely unnecessary TSA is expanding its reach to train stations and the highway system. Drones, on the order of 30k of them, will soon be over our skies. Selective prosecution of anything the regime doesn't like is our future here.

Our indoctrination continues, we will be taught to obey. We must not question Beloved Leader, for he alone knows what is good for us. Heil Obama!

PGP, TrueCrypt-encrypted files CRACKED by £300 tool

Re: Useful at all?

And thermite is incredibly easy to make, none of the ingredients are on any control lists either. Once it starts burning, it isn't going out easily either...

FCC urges rethink of aircraft personal-electronics blackout

Re: " that has nothing to do with electronic noise issues."

Like I say, this has nothing to do with aircraft safety. It has everything to do with making sure that nothing goes unsurveiled. These planes take off, land and fly thru all kinds of electronic clutter as is. Nearby TV transmitters, Ham operators, radio stations, cell towers, etc. all near airports. At 30k feet, they're what, 6 miles from the sources of these transmissions? IF this stuff was a hazard, surely we would have had at least one incident by now, yet there are none... Petraeus goes off the reservation, Bingo! the FBI exposes his affair. Allen's emails as well. Apparently the new Gestapo in DC had been sitting on these for a while and waited until after the election to use them ala Nixon enemies List style to rid themselves of opposition. It is the Chicago way, Obama twice had court records unsealed to derail opponents in his early days in Chicago when running for the US Senate. Divorce details magically show up to sink a candidate in one case.

Much easier to track and record data if the devices are turned on and fully operational...

I don't beleive that there is any other reason other to facilitate NSA/FBI scanning...

Windows 8 fails to revive world CPU biz

What we want ...

Could be that the world is not in love with Win 8? That the "Death of the Desktop" mantra is wrong? That people want mobile AND desktop as well? I wonder what the popularity of Win 8 workarounds is...