"To be sure, Assad's regime has committed crimes far more serious, as the over 4,000 men, women and children killed since protests against his rule broke out in late January make clear."
Of those 4000 dead, about 1500 appear to be members of the security forces - presumably killed by the same mysterious "unarmed civilians" that magically appeared in Libya recently.
The UN designates Syria as being in a state of civil war so if you are going to use the UN casualty figures, at least try to be less transparent about massaging them.
Stuxnet did some actual, real damage, and at a wild guess people acting on YOUR behalf had a hand in making it. Go on, do the right thing and hand yourself into the Iranian authorities, dumbfuck.
"All that waste going into a landfill someplace just because some bureaucrats thought that lead should be banned in computers because of some fantasy-land ideas of babies licking the solder inside computers"
Nothing to do with rampant consumerism, insatiable demand for cheap acquisition and even cheaper disposal, then? It's been a long, long time since people wanting shiny-shiny paid the true costs of it. Go externalities!
Because neutrinos could pass through the walls of your 'fibre-optic' cable (and maybe right through the middle of every planet in the solar system as well) without even breaking a sweat.
The jackety-fuck it is. If he had visited a website that had no password set no-one would have given a toss. What's the legal difference between port 80 and port 22?
You put a computer on the Internet unprotected, public access is implied.
Eclipse being one of the major ones I use. Unfortunately it's fits right in there under "sloth". I have yet to see a major java client app that is all of nimble, usable and and attractive. And as for in-browser applets, and corporate in-house monstrosities - they are just invariably shit.
Blame the developers? If a platform can't deliver the facilities to enable developers to deliver responsive, attractive apps on schedule - that's a problem with the platform much more than the developers. Unless one thinks the very act of learning java puts one in a creative straitjacket ;-)
That's a good one! It's difficult to conceive of a more "horrible user experience" than the buggy, sloth-like, pig-ugly dinosaur that is client-side Java. Put it out of it's misery, please.
"The BCE's decision to use PDFs was criticised by Chris Taggart, the developer of citizen projects OpenlyLocal and OpenCorporates, who told GGC that publishing in PDF was of no use to people who wanted to manipulate data."
Maybe done deliberately to avoid journalists "manipulating" the data?
"The copyright-holders argue that the law hasn't kept pace with technology."
Best laugh of the day so far.
The law isn't anything directly to do with technology, anyway, it is about resolving disputes between non-state actors (tort) or between non-state actors and the state (criminal). The fact that certain actors (copyright holders) are in bed with the state at the expense of private individuals is nowhere better illustrated than in copyright so-called "law".
"We need to live in the real world and it's full of whackos hellbent on killing as many people as they can in the name of some crusade."
Eh, no it isn't. Diagnosis: you are either a juvenile, or a paranoid dupe. People or organisations, including "bogey men" have specific goals - for example, the United States - pursuant to it's "interests" desires to have military presence in all areas of the globe and will kill - and has killed - millions to achieve that goal. The documented and stated goals of Al Qaeda are to remove American military presence from the Middle East.
Now evil genius Bin Laden calculated that the way to nobble an overwhelmingly more powerful democratic adversary is to make it implode simply by demolishing a few buildings and getting them to use their own state apparatus against their own population. Job done, I'd say - 360 million headless chickens with a ridiculously powerful military is far more of a threat to me personally than some dupes with rucksacks full of fertiliser and the odd AK-47.
"true the lost sales dosent hold up completly, but if there are 100 pirate copies then maybe that represents 10 people who would have actually paid for it if there was no chioce"
Prove even ONE copy out of '$59bn of "stolen" software' represents a lost sale.
Don't Google contribute a humongous wedge of Mozilla's budget? In what way is Google then not contributing enough to free and open standards and software?
or geographical criterion to punt your angle - here's mine - Scotland has 1/3rd of the land mass so should receive approaching 1/3rd of the budget for infrastructure projects where geography is pertinent. Just another downside, I suppose of forcing people off land and replacing them with livestock
Many cancers can be treated very successfully ( early melanoma, juvenile leukaemia, among others) - ie. mortality rates of those treated tend closely towards those of the general population.
Cancer can't be "cured" - both you and I have cancer anyway. Advertising a "cure" for cancer is as fraudulent and nonsensical as advertising a "cure" for having feet.
All the stuff that stultifying Objective-C uses to get anything at all done on the machine is written in C++. It's called IOKit, and IMHO is a shining example of "good C++" - elegant, simple and ridiculously efficient.
The best way to honour the war dead is to take down the flag and wipe your arse with it. The inbred scum and old money that ran the UK never deserved the life of one pleb, and they still don't.
I always took from Albert that an arbitrary "something" travelling "faster than c" as far as an observer is concerned wasn't impossible, but rather meaningless. And if the observer itself is travelling at c - relative to an arbitrary "something" - travelling across the universe would mean the time taken would tend to zero - ie distance would become the meaningless factor - in the sense that the concept of "relative to an arbitrary something" would be nonsensical.
In the newspeak "journo" dictionary, "avoiding" means not editorialising the subject matter. The BBC in general try to avoid editorialising subjects as much as possible ( with a few notable exceptions such as the Middle East, where they are leant on - and frequently threatened with being shat on).
The Beeb cover "immigration" (whatever that is as an issue) just fine. Contrast with the NI output from the Sun to Fox News - which in common much of Andrew's, is just one long stream of Editorial.
"the real killers of the manufacturing industry in the UK was the unions."
As borne out by the fact that European countries that DO manufacture stuff instead of creaming the top off transactions of artificial debt money and calling it "growth' inevitably had and have stronger labour collectivisation than the UK.
Manufacturing, entrepreneurship and social contract ARE the foundation of stable growth - anything else is merely pissing the future up against the wall and financial sophistry punted by parasites.
The availability of high-quality nautical charts in Europe is scandalous. Mariners are forced to pay through the nose for data that taxpayers have already paid their local HGO to collect, only for it to be punted to a cartel of corporations who package it in any number of incompatible proprietary and encrypted formats in order to fleece a captive market, and to promote vendor lock-in to their partner ECDIS system integrators.
The NOAA somehow manage to provide S-57 vector charts for the whole of North America for free - why can't the European HGOs man up and do the same. For an obvious cause like maritime safety, anything else is a disgrace.
As it is, it's actually far cheaper to bring up an Amazon EC2 farm to crack the S-63/Navionics/CMap chart encryption than it is to pay these conmen.
To hell already with the age, gender, race or marital status of the driver. And to hell with insurance companies too. Insure the fucking vehicle itself or add it to fuel duty! 3rd party insurance is a legal requirement and as such should be available at cost to anyone who has demonstrated the skill to operate a motor vehicle, further it should be varied solely on the basis of distance driven. If you want additional insurance, knock yourself out with theft premiums based on location etc.
Couple that with stronger sanctions that take bad drivers off the roads for longer and everyone will gain. Works a treat in Scandinavia. None of this "named driver" bollocks here either. Any licensed driver may drive my car with my permission.
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Posted Saturday 3rd December 2011 10:52 GMT
Steen Hive
Massage, much? → #
In iPhone banned in Steve Jobs' ancestral home
"To be sure, Assad's regime has committed crimes far more serious, as the over 4,000 men, women and children killed since protests against his rule broke out in late January make clear."
Of those 4000 dead, about 1500 appear to be members of the security forces - presumably killed by the same mysterious "unarmed civilians" that magically appeared in Libya recently.
The UN designates Syria as being in a state of civil war so if you are going to use the UN casualty figures, at least try to be less transparent about massaging them.
Posted Saturday 19th November 2011 11:48 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In Clegg orders fresh review of UK extradition treaty
Stuxnet did some actual, real damage, and at a wild guess people acting on YOUR behalf had a hand in making it. Go on, do the right thing and hand yourself into the Iranian authorities, dumbfuck.
Posted Tuesday 15th November 2011 06:46 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In BSA name-and-shame tactic may have backfired
This is what RMS bangs on about. Choices. Free as in Freedom. Well done that man.
Posted Sunday 13th November 2011 23:02 GMT
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Scot-free → #
In EDF security bosses guilty of hacking Greenpeace
It's not like they are facing extradition and 70+ years in prison for terrorist offences involving browsing computers connected to the Internet is it?
See what I did there?
Posted Wednesday 9th November 2011 19:57 GMT
Steen Hive
Felony Battery? → #
In Threesome ends in arrest as wife struck by pair of TVs
Did he end up in a Dura Cell?
Posted Tuesday 8th November 2011 08:26 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In A tenth of Chinese farmland polluted by heavy metals
"All that waste going into a landfill someplace just because some bureaucrats thought that lead should be banned in computers because of some fantasy-land ideas of babies licking the solder inside computers"
Nothing to do with rampant consumerism, insatiable demand for cheap acquisition and even cheaper disposal, then? It's been a long, long time since people wanting shiny-shiny paid the true costs of it. Go externalities!
Posted Monday 31st October 2011 00:27 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In CERN boffins re-running neutrino speed test
Because neutrinos could pass through the walls of your 'fibre-optic' cable (and maybe right through the middle of every planet in the solar system as well) without even breaking a sweat.
Posted Monday 31st October 2011 00:27 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In CERN boffins re-running neutrino speed test
November 30th, 1492
Posted Sunday 30th October 2011 15:54 GMT
Steen Hive
NASA was interested in looking into their future use in space. → #
In This weekend: First ever iPADS IN SPAAAACE
Kubrick put them in space 43 years ago.
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Posted Monday 24th October 2011 04:16 GMT
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Why? → #
In Judge OKs warrantless tracking of suspect's cellphone
Why is it such an onerous task to get a fucking warrant?
Posted Saturday 22nd October 2011 16:00 GMT
Steen Hive
A good day for NATO → #
In NATO chief uses Facebook to proclaim end of Libyan ops
Chalk that one down. The longest and most expensive assassination in history completed. More pork please!
Posted Wednesday 19th October 2011 08:07 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In Blow for McKinnon as extradition treaty ruled 'not biased'
"Illegal entry is illegal entry. Period"
The jackety-fuck it is. If he had visited a website that had no password set no-one would have given a toss. What's the legal difference between port 80 and port 22?
You put a computer on the Internet unprotected, public access is implied.
Posted Saturday 15th October 2011 17:52 GMT
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"It all depends on who’s paying the judges.” → #
In Swedish court confirms jail for Pirate Bay cofounder
Yea verily. The Swedish legal establishment is rotten to the core. No yacht-hosted dinners required.
Posted Wednesday 12th October 2011 10:03 GMT
Steen Hive
No brainer → #
In Which actor should play Steve in upcoming biopic?
Meg Ryan.
Posted Tuesday 11th October 2011 22:18 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In Hard-up OpenOffice whips out begging-cap website
Our users manage to fly in the face of logic almost constantly.
Posted Tuesday 11th October 2011 08:58 GMT
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Yankees → #
In Nanotubes, sulfur expand battery storage
Colonial spelling always looks so lazy and uncouth. It's rather irksome when switching to 'en-GB' is so easy these days.
Posted Wednesday 5th October 2011 06:24 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In Apple outs iPhone micro USB adaptor
"I've got 5 micro USB chargers sitting in my drawers, what am I supposed to do with them?"
Dunno. Maybe a hemorrhoid cushion will alleviate the discomfort?
Posted Thursday 29th September 2011 13:32 GMT
Steen Hive
There are excellent Java apps → #
In Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks
Eclipse being one of the major ones I use. Unfortunately it's fits right in there under "sloth". I have yet to see a major java client app that is all of nimble, usable and and attractive. And as for in-browser applets, and corporate in-house monstrosities - they are just invariably shit.
Blame the developers? If a platform can't deliver the facilities to enable developers to deliver responsive, attractive apps on schedule - that's a problem with the platform much more than the developers. Unless one thinks the very act of learning java puts one in a creative straitjacket ;-)
Posted Thursday 29th September 2011 04:41 GMT
Steen Hive
"Horrible user experience" → #
In Firefox devs mull dumping Java to stop BEAST attacks
That's a good one! It's difficult to conceive of a more "horrible user experience" than the buggy, sloth-like, pig-ugly dinosaur that is client-side Java. Put it out of it's misery, please.
Posted Tuesday 27th September 2011 08:20 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In .Scot campaign seeks UK Gov backing
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2010/06/23103654
In the period 2006 - 2010, Scotland subsidised the UK to the tune of £3.5 billion, while the UK itself was running a £73 billion deficit.
Posted Monday 26th September 2011 14:28 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In .Scot campaign seeks UK Gov backing
"my skills will be in demand down south and elsewhere anyway."
Judging by your razor-sharp, analytical grasp of recent history regarding trams and buildings, I somehow doubt that very much.
Posted Thursday 15th September 2011 15:45 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In Boundaries Commission slammed over mega map dump
"The BCE's decision to use PDFs was criticised by Chris Taggart, the developer of citizen projects OpenlyLocal and OpenCorporates, who told GGC that publishing in PDF was of no use to people who wanted to manipulate data."
Maybe done deliberately to avoid journalists "manipulating" the data?
Posted Wednesday 14th September 2011 13:35 GMT
Steen Hive
ARSEHOLE → #
In LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed
Atomspheric Rocket Suitability Experiment Hypobaric Oxidisation LOHAN Evaluation
Posted Tuesday 13th September 2011 15:13 GMT
Steen Hive
The LAW hasn't kept pace? → #
In Hunt: We'll slightly inconvenience pirate sites
"The copyright-holders argue that the law hasn't kept pace with technology."
Best laugh of the day so far.
The law isn't anything directly to do with technology, anyway, it is about resolving disputes between non-state actors (tort) or between non-state actors and the state (criminal). The fact that certain actors (copyright holders) are in bed with the state at the expense of private individuals is nowhere better illustrated than in copyright so-called "law".
Posted Tuesday 13th September 2011 07:28 GMT → #
Steen Hive
In HTC mulls mobile OS buy – but won’t be rushed
You think it's pretty safe. I'd put money on the Finnish government growing a pair and nationalising it out from under them. Proper order too.
Posted Sunday 11th September 2011 13:19 GMT
Steen Hive
Whackos? → #
In 9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power
"We need to live in the real world and it's full of whackos hellbent on killing as many people as they can in the name of some crusade."
Eh, no it isn't. Diagnosis: you are either a juvenile, or a paranoid dupe. People or organisations, including "bogey men" have specific goals - for example, the United States - pursuant to it's "interests" desires to have military presence in all areas of the globe and will kill - and has killed - millions to achieve that goal. The documented and stated goals of Al Qaeda are to remove American military presence from the Middle East.
Now evil genius Bin Laden calculated that the way to nobble an overwhelmingly more powerful democratic adversary is to make it implode simply by demolishing a few buildings and getting them to use their own state apparatus against their own population. Job done, I'd say - 360 million headless chickens with a ridiculously powerful military is far more of a threat to me personally than some dupes with rucksacks full of fertiliser and the odd AK-47.
Posted Wednesday 7th September 2011 20:19 GMT
Steen Hive
Excellent example → #
In Much of the human race made up of thieves, says BSA
... of pulling figures from your arse.
"true the lost sales dosent hold up completly, but if there are 100 pirate copies then maybe that represents 10 people who would have actually paid for it if there was no chioce"
Prove even ONE copy out of '$59bn of "stolen" software' represents a lost sale.
Posted Wednesday 7th September 2011 12:08 GMT
Steen Hive
Truth in advertising. → #
In Christ appears in phone advert, secular authorities act
Next time they should consider an illustration of Catholic clergy molesting a young boy, being as it is a factual depiction of an actual event.
Posted Sunday 28th August 2011 08:51 GMT
Steen Hive
Hang on a minute → #
In Mozilla WebAPI: Champion of open source freedom
Don't Google contribute a humongous wedge of Mozilla's budget? In what way is Google then not contributing enough to free and open standards and software?
Posted Tuesday 23rd August 2011 23:49 GMT
Steen Hive
Some pompous, populist Tory prat → #
In Four months' porridge for 20-minute Facebook riot page
called "Darren Millar" Is already complaining that the sentence was "too lenient".
Can these fuckwits please shut up and reserve prison sentences for people who do actual harm. Like thieving politicians, for example.
Posted Tuesday 23rd August 2011 11:56 GMT
Steen Hive
It's easy to pick some arbitrary demographic → #
In Moaning Scots told 'cheer up FFS' on broadband cash
or geographical criterion to punt your angle - here's mine - Scotland has 1/3rd of the land mass so should receive approaching 1/3rd of the budget for infrastructure projects where geography is pertinent. Just another downside, I suppose of forcing people off land and replacing them with livestock
Posted Tuesday 23rd August 2011 10:13 GMT
Steen Hive
Damned right seriously → #
In Ofcom mulls smackdown for rogue religious TV channel
Many cancers can be treated very successfully ( early melanoma, juvenile leukaemia, among others) - ie. mortality rates of those treated tend closely towards those of the general population.
Cancer can't be "cured" - both you and I have cancer anyway. Advertising a "cure" for cancer is as fraudulent and nonsensical as advertising a "cure" for having feet.
Posted Tuesday 16th August 2011 10:13 GMT
Steen Hive
IOKit Fail → #
In 'Major' C++ revision receives standards blessing
All the stuff that stultifying Objective-C uses to get anything at all done on the machine is written in C++. It's called IOKit, and IMHO is a shining example of "good C++" - elegant, simple and ridiculously efficient.
Posted Monday 15th August 2011 11:46 GMT
Steen Hive
8.3% of Encyclopaedia Britannica's → #
In Wikipedia: It's not for girls
editorial board is female. Wikipedia are therefore trailblazing for women's rights?
Posted Friday 5th August 2011 13:38 GMT
Steen Hive
Stockholm → #
In 12% of UK don't carry cash
Not funny, smart - drivers were getting pretty pissed off with being robbed on buses.
Posted Thursday 4th August 2011 14:34 GMT
Steen Hive
Plebs → #
In Death haunts government petitions site
That's not an argument for capital punishment, it's an argument for euthanasia.
Posted Tuesday 2nd August 2011 17:59 GMT
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Management Bull? → #
In Toshiba launches thinner spinner
René Descartes. You may google him at your leisure.
Posted Tuesday 2nd August 2011 15:37 GMT
Steen Hive
War memorial → #
In Murdoch's PIE BOY jailed for six weeks
The best way to honour the war dead is to take down the flag and wipe your arse with it. The inbred scum and old money that ran the UK never deserved the life of one pleb, and they still don't.
Posted Saturday 30th July 2011 11:33 GMT
Steen Hive
That bloody word. → #
In AT&T: 'Eat too much data and we'll strangle you'
"Unlimited" is really beginning to get on my tits. Pros and sons of throttling notwithstanding.
Posted Wednesday 27th July 2011 08:41 GMT
Steen Hive
Oh dear → #
In Stuxnet clones may target critical US systems, DHS warns
Those pesky roosting chickens once again, eh?
Posted Tuesday 26th July 2011 10:42 GMT
Steen Hive
Local time → #
In Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction
"Local time" - at velocity c?
Exactly how much "local time" has a photon which has travelled from UDFj-39546284 experienced?
Is that photon even an isotropic observer?
Posted Tuesday 26th July 2011 03:21 GMT
Steen Hive
My relativity being sorely lacking... → #
In Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction
I always took from Albert that an arbitrary "something" travelling "faster than c" as far as an observer is concerned wasn't impossible, but rather meaningless. And if the observer itself is travelling at c - relative to an arbitrary "something" - travelling across the universe would mean the time taken would tend to zero - ie distance would become the meaningless factor - in the sense that the concept of "relative to an arbitrary something" would be nonsensical.
But I haven't had my morning coffee yet.
Posted Thursday 21st July 2011 12:11 GMT
Steen Hive
It's definitely a different BBC. → #
In Rupert Murdoch was never Keyser Soze
"***The Beeb avoided immigration ****
Eh? Eh?"
In the newspeak "journo" dictionary, "avoiding" means not editorialising the subject matter. The BBC in general try to avoid editorialising subjects as much as possible ( with a few notable exceptions such as the Middle East, where they are leant on - and frequently threatened with being shat on).
The Beeb cover "immigration" (whatever that is as an issue) just fine. Contrast with the NI output from the Sun to Fox News - which in common much of Andrew's, is just one long stream of Editorial.
Posted Thursday 21st July 2011 01:07 GMT
Steen Hive
Bollocks → #
In Apprentice runner-up becomes Greggs bigshot
"the real killers of the manufacturing industry in the UK was the unions."
As borne out by the fact that European countries that DO manufacture stuff instead of creaming the top off transactions of artificial debt money and calling it "growth' inevitably had and have stronger labour collectivisation than the UK.
Manufacturing, entrepreneurship and social contract ARE the foundation of stable growth - anything else is merely pissing the future up against the wall and financial sophistry punted by parasites.
Posted Wednesday 20th July 2011 00:04 GMT
Steen Hive
Good Grief → #
In Skype: XSS vuln fix is on the way
Did I pick this up right? Why in Jesus Hairy Christ's name is a textfield on a CLIENT app even capable of taking JavaScript input?
Posted Tuesday 19th July 2011 11:48 GMT
Steen Hive
Admiralty Charts → #
In Ordnance Survey, other gov databases move to Biz dept
The availability of high-quality nautical charts in Europe is scandalous. Mariners are forced to pay through the nose for data that taxpayers have already paid their local HGO to collect, only for it to be punted to a cartel of corporations who package it in any number of incompatible proprietary and encrypted formats in order to fleece a captive market, and to promote vendor lock-in to their partner ECDIS system integrators.
The NOAA somehow manage to provide S-57 vector charts for the whole of North America for free - why can't the European HGOs man up and do the same. For an obvious cause like maritime safety, anything else is a disgrace.
As it is, it's actually far cheaper to bring up an Amazon EC2 farm to crack the S-63/Navionics/CMap chart encryption than it is to pay these conmen.
Posted Monday 11th July 2011 12:13 GMT
Steen Hive
I agree → #
In Burg 5 watch phone
The missus can't get enough big, pink clock!
Posted Friday 8th July 2011 21:38 GMT
Steen Hive
Very naughty. → #
In Feds seize kit from Apple Store spyware artist
But I wonder how many times the average punter's picture was taken in the apple store *before* they got in front of the rigged computers.
Posted Tuesday 5th July 2011 22:08 GMT
Steen Hive
Sod that → #
In UK will obey barmy Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013
To hell already with the age, gender, race or marital status of the driver. And to hell with insurance companies too. Insure the fucking vehicle itself or add it to fuel duty! 3rd party insurance is a legal requirement and as such should be available at cost to anyone who has demonstrated the skill to operate a motor vehicle, further it should be varied solely on the basis of distance driven. If you want additional insurance, knock yourself out with theft premiums based on location etc.
Couple that with stronger sanctions that take bad drivers off the roads for longer and everyone will gain. Works a treat in Scandinavia. None of this "named driver" bollocks here either. Any licensed driver may drive my car with my permission.
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