Re: Let's hope not
Greenpeace is, via backchannels, promoting Grand Inquisitor Vincenzo Maculani to head the new Science Committee...
Posts by Cipher
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European Commission decides it won't have a science advisor after Greenpeace pressure
Philae healthier: Proud ESA shows off first comet surface pic
Bible THUMP: Good Book beats Darwin to most influential tome title
Is your kid ADDICTED to web porn? Twitter? Hint: Don't blame the internet
DAY ZERO, and COUNTING: EVIL 'UNICORN' all-Windows vuln - are YOU patched?
Wednesday 12th November 2014 11:42 GMT
Re: Hopeless...
What percentage of Windows users run their machines with elevated rights, i.e. admin acounts, 24/7/365? How much damage is done by a mentality that cannot cope with having to manually elevate rights when needed, say a couple of times a day at most?
These are the same folks who, when trying Linux on, bemoan the fact in forums that the *nix distro they are using doesn't boot to root automatically. Or the *buntu sudo model which has enough holes in it one could drive a fleet of tractor trailers thru it...
The problem is not in our OSes, rather it is in ourselves..
Groupon flees from army of angry GNOMES: Trademark bid for 'Gnome' tab scrapped
Patch Windows boxes NOW – unless you want to be owned by a web page or network packet
FCC to Obama on net neutrality: We work for CONGRESS, SIR, not YOU
Firefox decade: Microsoft's IE humbled by a dogged upstart. Native next?
Home Depot: Someone's WEAK-ASS password SECURITY led to breach
The Imitation Game: Bringing Alan Turing's classified life to light
Sunday 2nd November 2014 13:00 GMT
His death?
Officially suicide, murder by the conspiracy theorists.
Maybe an accident, the man was known to experiment with odd things, cyanide included...
Me give you $14 squillion gadziddly-dillion
Saturday 1st November 2014 11:42 GMT 
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It seems he left you the entire bulk of his estate in his will. Please send me the details of the bank you wish to have this princely sum deposited to via an unencrypted email as soon as posible and I can have the funds transferred forthwith.
I shall need all your various bank details to include account numbers, PINs, credit/debit card numbers, all passwords associated with these accounts, and the brand of laundry detergent you currently use.
Looking forward to hearing from you, just hit Reply To...
Verizon set to pay $64 MEEELLION for overbilling customers
Friday 31st October 2014 10:19 GMT
Re: Not a problem...
" They will just raise current rates to pay for it."
Exactly.
Which is why increasing corporate taxes is also ineffective, the tax increase is passed on to the consumer. Coporate taxes serve the purpose of an additional tax mechanism to drain the consumer, much like state lotteries are a tax for people who don't understand math very well...
Brazil greenlights $200m internet cable to Europe in bid to outfox NSA
Friday 31st October 2014 10:04 GMT
Re: Another reason it might be pointless
" And moving everybody away from Microsoft spyware to linux"
Systemd, aka Lindows, will soon make that option moot for most. Slackware/*bsd/minix are the rebel base now, but I fear the PoetteringBorg will assimilate all soon enough...
I hear the Linux registry is moving along nicely...
Apple CEO Tim Cook: My well-known gayness is 'a gift from God'
Thursday 30th October 2014 16:57 GMT
Re: 2014 and
Haku:
Exactly. You are expected to voice a negative so you can be properly labled a "hater" or express your approval to demonstrate you are "enlightened."
Reminds me of when Ellsworth Toohey confronts Howard Roark and says, "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me?" To which Roark replies, "But I don’t think of you" This type of response confounds them no end...
More Microsoft staffers shown the door in Round 3 of job cuts
Thursday 30th October 2014 10:29 GMT
No R&D?
"OK, Apple have never had an R&D department, true."
Men who sleep with lots of women lessen risk of prostate cancer
IT JOB OUTSOURCING: Will it ever END?
Wednesday 29th October 2014 10:21 GMT
After last week...
...wherein attacks and attempts to pigeonhole your politics played out in the " About that self-professed rational liberalism" thread, you deftly pivoted this week with a " plutocratic bloodsucking capitalist bastards" reference or two...
Well played Mr. Worstall, well played...
Yes, Virginia, there IS a W3C HTML5 standard – as of now, that is
FBI impersonated newspaper to finger school bomb threat suspect
Tuesday 28th October 2014 19:46 GMT
Maybe now...
...the Seattle Times, and all media outlets, will start really hammering government abuse of power and stop soft balling it when an administration they agree with is in power. Secret Courts, privacy abuses, hell all government abuse of power hurts real people regardless of whatever ideaology they advance.
Go after ALL of them!
Canonical rolls out home-grown Ubuntu OpenStack distro
Tuesday 28th October 2014 15:51 GMT
Re: I want to hear it straight from the (dead) horse's mouth.
This is the core reason for systemd: One Linux to rule them all and make the Year of the Linux Desktop a reality. Make RH the defacto standard, with little shit coders like Poettring acting the false prophet.
Linux will never rule the desktop, it will be for us geeks, never for Joe Sixpack. The dominance in embedded sytems, servers and the like may crash with the introduction of this Lindows that systemd is migrating to. Why have a Windows wannabe when you can have real Windows? Systemd *is* Embrace, Extend, Extinguish whether Red Hat/Debian see it or not.
FFS, now Gimp will depend on systemd... I predict a Linux registry to manage all the binary globs in a year or so...
HUGE SHARK as big as a WWII SUBMARINE died out, allowing whales to exist
Tuesday 28th October 2014 13:45 GMT
Re: Correlation does not prove causation.
I just did an admittedly quick read on "Optimal Linear Estimation" and came away with the faint odor of Snake Oil. Phrases such as "equivalence and duality concepts for the solution of several related problems in adaptive filtering, estimation, and control." and "These features are generally absent in most prior treatments, ostensibly on the grounds that they are too abstract and complicated. It is the authors' hope that these misconceptions will be dispell..."
Another thing I find a tad amazing is that there are, apparently, at least 10,000 guesses as to Megladon's extinction.
Boffins snap first pics of hot white dwarf nova bursting out of its shell
Tuesday 28th October 2014 09:12 GMT
Re: I'm sure the pictures are very interesting...
Here's how it should work:
1) Scientist gets funding to do Science from NSF or other sources
2) Writes up paper
3) Since the taxpayers have paid for this, it is provided free to the public!
Enough of this publication scam, where ultimately the taxpayer pays again, and then a third time to actually read the work. Surely the NSF can publish results of results themselves or just put it online...
Painfully trendy: Someone just spent $200k on ebola.com
SHOW ME THE MONEY! Ballmer on Amazon: 'They're not a real biz, they make NO cash'
Whisper. Explain this 'questionable' behavior – senior US senator
In the next four weeks, 100 people will decide the future of the web
Adobe spies on readers: EVERY DRM page turn leaked to base over SSL
RUMPY PUMPY: Bone says humans BONED Neanderthals 50,000 years B.C.
It's Big, it's Blue... it's simply FABLESS! IBM's chip-free future
Wednesday 22nd October 2014 10:03 GMT
Krugman...
...has gone from being a Keynesian fanboi to Nobel Laureate to comedian. Or is that laughing stock?
NSA approves Samsung Knox for use by TOP SECRET g-men
UNIX greybeards threaten Debian fork over systemd plan
ISPs handbagged: BLOCK knock-off sites, rules beak
Microsoft to enter the STRUGGLE of the HUMAN WRIST
The 'fun-nification' of computer education – good idea?
'LulzSec leader Aush0k' found to be naughty boy not worthy of jail
EU Competition chief: So what if I didn't tame Google? You're all 'irrational' anyway
Space exploration is just so lame. New apps are mankind's future
Are you a gun owner? Let us in OR ELSE, say Blighty's top cops
Sunday 19th October 2014 14:55 GMT
Re: Democracy? Republic? Where?
What? You're kidding, right?
In the US, for now, the police need a warrant to come inside a dwelling they are not invited into.
Safety inspections of gun owners? No way, with so many private gun transactions they don't even know who we all are.
I had no idea life was so repressive in England...
'George Orwell was an optimist. Show me a search history, I'll show you a perv or a crook'
Weekend reads: Neil Young and Brian Cox ponder cars and universe (in that order)
Saturday 18th October 2014 11:02 GMT
One out of three ain't bad...
The Human Universe sounds like a must read book to me, and I shall.
Neil Young? Love his music, don't care to read his take on life or cars.
Frey? If this had been a true original idea, maybe, but given his past willfull lying, no thanks.
Excellent reviews by Strongman and Diston!
French 'terror law' declares WAR on the INTERNET itself, say digi-rights folks
Careless Whisper? Anonymous messaging app accused of stalking users, blabbing to Feds
FBI boss: We don't want a backdoor, we want the front door to phones
Thursday 16th October 2014 21:36 GMT
Comey:
Doubtless you're getting an executive summary of this and other internet discussions of your bullshit.
You *are* scare mongering in your quest for a totalitarian state. Phone taps solved ONE kidnapping?
Now there's justification for massive data slurping...
And by the way, how did those Boston Bombers slip right past you, even with advance warning? What? They didn't discuss their plans on the phone?
You sir are either an idiot or a New World Order thug...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
