Posts by Edward Amsden

Microsoft: keep your sticky mitts off our language runtime

@amanfromMars

"Can you think of any good reason why it should not be a case of 'embrace, extend and extinguish' for anyone who would pimp 'embrace, extend and extinguish'."

Did you almost just make sense?

AMD pitches latest Opterons at swollen boxen

@amanfromMars

amanfromMars commenting on Paris Hilton...

Wait... they're both on crack

Revenue admits another IT cock-up

@Paul

A government cannot survive without taxes. Doing it fairly, now that is another matter.

Here in the U.S. we spend <i>billions</i> every year in "tax compliance" costs, because of our huge tax code. There is a proposal in the House of Representatives to replace the tax code with a 23% inclusive sales tax, removing all corporate and individual income and capital gains taxes. A monthly prebate will be sent to every family for taxes on spending up to the "poverty level", i.e. the amount of money that must be spent on necessities.

I hope this goes through. Income tax is a really bad way to do things...

User-friendly black hats debut Crimeware as a Service (CAAS)

I wonder...

How many people would try to hit Microsoft with that...

Hmm... If the site runs Windoze...

I could take over the CAAS site and get the money for myself!

innovation...

Wikileaks judge gets Pirate Bay treatment

harsh?

Even if the penalty is successful, isn't it a bit harsh? One "libelous" document that is probably true anyway results in a domain name getting shut down?

Wow, shutdown all the websites where I have stored and posted signatures with an unflattering quote of her Shrillaryness.

Microsoft warns on Home Server bug

Home servers

Again, Microsoft gets away with releasing alpha-quality software that isn't even compatible with their own applications. My servers at home have never lost a single piece of data.

They run Linux, and it took me two minutes to set each one up. Anyone who says that setting up a Linux anything is difficult (certain hardware issues aside) should be forever banned from using computers. Something like a court can declare someone insane and take away their voting rights.

Oxygen pollution began earlier than we ever thought

Re: What will the creationists think?

The methods NASA (and any other agency) use to date samples etc are based on evolutionary assumptions. Dating these samples at 50-100 million years does not "prove" that the earth is millions or billions of years old because the dating method is based on the assumption that the earth is millions of years old. That's called "circular reasoning."

Net bride Aussie kidnapped in Mali

look below...

Check out the google ads at the bottom of the page. Mine read: "Russian Brides", "Nigerian Dating", and "Russian Visa"...