* Posts by storng.bare.durid

135 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2007

Geeks whup Marine ass in Call Of Duty 5

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nitpick

last line of article..

divide by zero is either infinity or if you're silicon and count in binary, usually an error or undefined.

US Navy hacker avoids Romanian jail

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Ambiguity of title

"US Navy hacker avoids Romanian jail"

I leave it to you to decide how ambiguous the title is. Is this an American avoiding jail on foreign soil or...

Study clears cannabis of schizophrenia rap

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Preliminary scan of story

Bullshit flag set.

Relevance flag cleared.

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curiosity flag...set

damn... This means i probably will get drawn into reading it. You see. the OP either got it wright (but my BS flag set immediately, reading him talking thu' his method of interpretation). The paper may welll be dodgy, but so may be the reporting of saidpaper.

Till I get that paper and criticlly analyse,

I offer you a thought experiment.I would suggest that mind altering sutbstaces are literrally what they are. They get neurons going in one particular way. This just a hypothesis - the more your brain likes going a certain way, its' morel likely to want to reinforce this.

What I believe is these devices bet it THC or even trance music , heavy metal etc.. tehy do change your brains subtly. I have a belief exposure to excess may make such changes more lasting.

In other words becareful what you bomb your brain with as you do this consciously or unconciously (TV adds etc)

Apple opens Macbook front in iPhone jailbreak war

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FFS Apple...

Just _UNLOCK_ the damn phone platform already.

Then .. even I would probably buy one, unreplaceable battery, glossy shiny (but vulnerable) screen and all.

WoW accused of turning man's mind into 'living video game'

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Errr.. WoW's not real?

Funny, lately I've grown horns, a tail and a whole lot of fur.

Porn breath tests for PCs heralds 'stop and scan'

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Epic Fail

To the person who instigated this lame project,

I hope you are reading this. Kudos on your intentions - stamping out child pr0n and abuse etc... These are all very noble. But you fail at thinking it thru'.

This is stupid, for the myriad reasons mentioned.

1. IMPLEMENTATION

Netbooks with no optical drives (do you think even if usb optical drives were supplied the overworked people at customs could figure out how to boot the machine or mount it in a reasonably decent practical timeframe).

machines with non-standard OS's - as above. Who's to say that linux live CD will work.

Encryption

Non x86 machines. as above. They do exist. I swear.

What happens if the scan process mucks up your hard drive?

These are all issues I believe that limit this invasive and potentially damaging (to your data) means of 'scanning'.

**** How slow do you expect queues at customs to go?

**** How much grief will it cause the average innocent Joe Q Public travelling with a laptop?

This is just it, dear sir, I hope you are reading this, I don't think you bloody well understand the situation.

Plus it really will not catch the people really smuggling stuff like that as I would expect they would not carry it on their hard drives in the first place.

2. PRIVACY

Your noble intentions are muddied by invasion into privacy of the individual

Where does one draw the line?

You travel, you get everything potentially private at risk of being copied by the customs. Journals, corporate data, personal information. Identity theft anyone?

The implications are staggering.

Slippery slope argument as this is, one could argue along the lines of the philosophy your approach entails, scanning HEADS (consciousnesses, souls whatever) were it technically feasible or possible, would not be beneath you.

So I suggest, dear sir, dear brilliant innovator, you go examine your own @#@$ head before you come up with some lame-brained scheme like this.

Do not con the unwitting powers-that-be ie Customs that this is a SOLUTION for all the above reasons.

Make no mistake.

This is a PROBLEM.

OpenOffice 3.0 - the only option for masochistic Linux users

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Outliner

Does this thing have a good outliner built into the word processor?

Northrop offer supersonic robot stealth raygun cyber-bomber

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Dead Vulture

RoTM

SkyNet etc. Yay!

AI's FTW.

Fugitive spammer in murder-suicide

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This is indeed a tragedy.

Ponder upon:

1. Gun laws

2. Risk assessment and appropriateness of punitive measures.

3. The stretched prison system (what part of the world is there where this does not exist).

My thoughts:

1. Banning guns altogether would make scenarios like this less likely - but not inevitable - as knives etc still do exist and frankly it would be quite senseless banning kitchen utensils. Some common sense should still prevail. Shooting sprees in countries where guns are banned _are_ less likely.

2. There should be some sort of risk profiling of convicted criminals

3. There could be other punitive/corrective measures which could be more effective than just plain prison but I am no criminal psychologist

Nike pulls Air Stab trainers

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zomgwtfbbq?

Please ban stuff like the canon powershot as well.

Sony builds hot-swap GPU tech into ultra-portable laptop

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hmm... how good does the os actually cope with this.

Great idea

But how good does windoze do this?

Can linux cope with something like this as well?

Anyone know?

Available to buy: your own frakkin' 7ft Cylon

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Tricia Helfer

8k for this, life-size fully functional model, I will pay :P

Granite Jesus, blessed be thy gneiss

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Pirate

Actually...

If you look closely, it's actually a photoshopped screenshot of my level 70 shadow priest. You can see my imba l33t epix staff in the foreground and the menacing thing in the background on the left is my shadowfiend.

Devil dog laughs in the face of Taser

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@Charles Manning

Too true.

But seriously, the London police are not really known for trigger happiness. After all, it takes a lot; you _actually_ have to be suspected of being a terrorist first before being pumped full of lead in public.

Judge Dredd ftw.

CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC

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@ Snert Lee

"What will the customer service department to do remedy the situation when a user calls in to say she has a busted Cherry?"

Err... gratz?

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Go Power!

End the x86 domination. Now.

:)

( Now if only someone would continue to develop desktop ppc64 type chip and build some machines and sell em. Don't worry about the OS, we'll linuxify it or something! )

Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition

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I'd get one...

Looks like it will be fun. My concerns are basically hardware/driver related. Hopefully I might be able to run a stock debian on it without any major renovation.

I don't know if we'll have or want to recompile stuff for this new chip to minimize the certain performance drop. It'll mean new compilers. I'm not sure in-order execution is really the way to go for an x86 though in all fairness.

... but I guess it saves die area and power consumption. This is the fundamental reason why a lowly in-order pentium III or celeron will spank the atom at benchmarks (cache-misses will hurt) but... I expect it should be quite usable, when you think about old 486's running linux with x...

Disgruntled admin gets 63 months for massive data deletion

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While I think...

...Large corporations and companies are usually impersonal and at times evil... trying to get back at whomever offended this guy the way he did (if true) is far worse. There could have been other ways. Nuking the payroll computers for one. Involving innocents is totally unwarranted.

Shame on him and credit goes to the law this time. Well deserved.

British pilot makes first supersonic stealth jumpjet flight

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Stupid imported crap...

What's the matter with you Brits, you have shown in the past you can make great aircraft and now you're thinking of buying a compromise yank solution. Build your own! Or have you not learnt from the TSR2?

Windows Vista has been battered, says Wall Street fan

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thank god for vista.

It made me switch completely to *nix's... :P

Haven't looked back.

Navy sonar dolphin 'massacre' - the facts

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Dammit guys, Dolphins are our allies.

The critters involved in innsmouth were decidedly piscean, not cetacean, ffs.

Dolphins and whales are our allies in our struggle against this Ctulthu menace. Kill all tentacled and scaly oily fishy scum.

Don't piss our cetacean colleagues off or they'll just leave.

You all know what happened the last time they left with nothing more than a 'so long and thanks for all the fish'...

EU project scans air passengers for terrorist tendencies

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no more mile high club?

Are they going to video the toilets as well?

Paris, cos she'd probably still do it irregardless

Want a 1TB optical drive? Call/Recall me

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my needs are modest...

If the media is robust, this'd be ideal for backups I guess.

A reading from the second book of Codh

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garbage..

sorry. but this ph4ils.

Asus to release desktop Eee PC as Ebox

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Most importantly...

Is there going to be an Ebox babe?

Vista on your iPhone - almost 'perfection'

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Must be a prank

Good prank to play on a gebus phone owner though.

'Experimental' Linux distro Exherbo eyes serious developers

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I'm not very clever...

So I use debian stable. CBF with anything else tbh.

Does what it says on the tin.

And when I want something special I can always build it.

Asus throttles back Eee PC WiMax drive

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zomg guys..

Where's the girl?

Asus' Atom-powered Eee PC spied on web

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I wonder...

If the 901 will come with a curvier 'friend'.

Let's keep posting pix of the current one till we know, eh?

USAF Colonel goes on the offensive with botnet destroyer plan

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Zomg...

Better check every single line of source and rebuild your systems now :)

Web cam images undo MacBook thieves

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Stop

Big brother is watching you...

See that tiny black lens on top of your monitor?

Toshiba to ship laptops with Cell-based GPUs this year

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One small step...

Who here does not lament the demise of the PowerPC architecture from the desktop?

Why oh why did IBM abandon ppc64?

It would seem (at least for the moment) we're stuck with IA-32/AMD64/EM64T for the forseable future, at least on desktops.

If there's anyway to end this domination now let's do it. I still live in somewhat despondent hope that one day there will be multicore ppc64's (or even cell derivatives) cheaply available for desktops. BSD/Linux whatever.

And no, the ps3 at the moment just ain't good enough.

Local mag claims Aussie Eee PC buyers will pay extra for Linux

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Stop

STOP

errr... lads, I'd wait for the atom on.

But I guess that's easy for me to say seeing I've already a 701.

DARPA wants Matrix style virtual world for cybergeddon

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IT Angle

This must be some kind of joke...

But I just looked at the calendar and it's not April first... wtf?

NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant

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wow, I wonder how much their electricity bill is...

How much is one xeon? 50-100w or around that magnitude? let's say 100w

20480 / 4 = 5120 xeons x 100w = 5.12 x 10^5 watts... or 0.5 megawatts...

And that's not including the other bits...

How to destroy 60 hard drives an hour

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I vote for the thermite

More impressive display as well.

Added green burden could ground flying cars for good

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Safety issues...

Flying cars are not a good idea when you think about it.

If people can't be trusted to drive simple cars which are a lot easier to control and do not fall out of the sky when they lose power...

What about flying cars?

I vote no flying cars till if and when we get anti-gravity technology like those cars in that film "Fifth Element".

And even then, our wonderful friends in the US may deem them too much of a potential terrorist risk.

Asus Eee PC 900 Linux Edition

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zomgwtfbbq?

No girl?

sigh.... u ph4il !

:P

Delayed Debian developers get thumbs up

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Thumbs up for Debian.

You may be slow at releases, slow to check out new whizz bang thingies, but heck, you're not getting paid for it, and you're doing it out of your own time, and with the laudable goal of stability.

In hindsight, there are always

(a) Good decisions

(b) Bad decisions

(c) Safe decisions

I think you should be applauded for mainly doing (c).

And yes, I run Debian stable. I admit I am not good enough to roll my own linux and satisfy myself with its stability.

But possibly, and probably like most other people who run Debian, I also run something else for messing. Lolz.

Best of both worlds, really

Windows Server 2008 is better than Vista, but why?

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@spitefulGOD

"Microsoft OS's are the all round best, with them you can work and play on the same machine."

zomg, are you serial? super serial?

Ballmer bitch slaps Vista

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@Brent

people who run as root.... err.. deserve to get rooted?

seriously, mate, what are you running lindows or something? =)

please please please, tell us you're kidding.

Paris... I suspect she probably gets rooted pretty freuquently no matter what privileges she has.

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sad ol' gits

That's who we are ... wtf are you doing here reading crap like this?

Anyways I couldn't agree more with Brent's last comment.

Now's the time to look around and see.

GNU/Linux / FreeBSD are likely to remain the only 'free' platforms, but we should wait and see if M$ will give us an OS that sucks less and also see how Mac OS X develops. (leopard sucks way less than vista, agreed?)

I hate DRM personally speaking and I don't like the direction these 2 commercial OS's are heading but I have a nasty feeling I am going to have to work 'with them' and not stand alone in isolation in FOSS land.

Unless linux or BSD really zomgwtfpwnz0rs in the rest in terms of market share.. which I personally wouldn't mind.... but again is a situation that hardly seems hardly likely ....... except perhaps in China.... wait for the dragon lolz...

Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play

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Lolz... wintards mactards...

zomg, these days with large capacious machines and multicores you can virtualize and/or multiboot.

Do yourself a favour and have a look at what the other side has to offer. Heck, you can even make a dell boot leopard. Sorta... but I'd recommend tiger instead.

(I accept however Vista is a piece of cR4P that's best stuffed back up M$'s arse. One day however we'll get a decent direct X 10 OS to game on, but I reckon vista ain't it. And apple does incredibly stupid stupid things, I won't go into because there are WAY too many to list. )

L2diversify. Open your minds. Look around. Who knows. may make you more $$$

Commodore goes titsup (again)

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TITS UP!

English English ftw.

Bravo to el reg for maintaining its glorious heritage.

No longer shall we stand for missing u's, z's into s's and c's into s's...

/dig

/troll

/incite yankee wrath

This DVD will self-destruct in 48 hours

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No...

Just...

No...

Seriously.

No.

Dell readies Asus Eee PC, HP Mini-Note rival

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Yay...

EeePC and friend. ^_^

Asus releases application kit for Eee PC coders

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I find it offensive..

... to read any article anyway connected with the Eee and NOT have the obligatory 'friend'.

By the way, syntax errors are fine. I/O errors are not. Don't play offside.

ECS spills more beans about 'super 3G' Eee PC rival

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zomg...

where is the obligatory 'Eee PC and _friend_' piccy?

Famous Five film lined up

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zomg

...

...

...

/speechless

/PH

Desktop Eee PC spied on web

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I like consistency.

Nice to see the obligatory 'Eee PC and Friend' yet again.

Well done, Reg. Keep it up.