Obviouslt, only having a PhD and not being a regulator, I fail to understand the following basic question.
Microsoft+Yahoo = regulator.
Microsoft+Yahoo<Google (in terms of ad revenue)
Google != regulator?
In other words, if the Microsoft-Yahoo tie-up needs regulator approval because it would stifle competition, how about Google, which is twice as large as both companies put together?
To cement the absurdity of the police's stance, if a few thousand people set up pretend parties on Facebook in fields around the country, I wonder what would happen? Would they arrest you for false advertising?
"It's a very sad day when we look to france and think 'why cant we be more like them' in the uk the english nazipolice would have already shot them calling them terrorists."
That's because it is terrorism. What's the difference between them threatening to blow up a factory unless they get €10m and a terrorist threatening to blow up something unless they get money/prisoners out of jail/etc.?
You just have to remember that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is whether or not you agree with the reason that they want to destroy and kill.
1) These are going to end up in other people's hands, and then this will be fun, because we'll have people making others puke up from a mile away. There'll be no way to find out who it is.
2) Innocent bystanders? If this has to hit eyes, then it either has to be very accurate or have a wide dispersion field.
3) Sunglasses/spectacles/goggles? What do they do to this. If the glass in spectacles causes a refraction, is that going to seriously mess up this device, perhaps turning it into a blinding ray? My bet is research not done.
4) This will be a new (and quite untraceable since it leaves no output) way for the police to torture people. Anyone who thinks they won't use it to do that should read about the way the police act, in news stories for example.
"After all the various nuclear accidents that have more or less flooded the whole stratosphere with radiation how do these self appointed gourmet boffins claim to be able to pick out these things? Next thing you know they'll spot Sputnik or Mir flying over the distillery. So, they can tell the difference between Bikini and Chernobyl? If they truly can I guess it's a whole new way to market vintage whiskey to yuppie idiots with more money than sense. You can glow in the dark with your favorite flavor of nuclear fallout."
Hmm. I think the following saying is useful here.
"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
Why do people feel the need to comment about things when they have not the slightest clue about them? Oh sorry, I forgot that I was on the Internet.
“The UK’s freelancers will be asking where are the helpful measures such as the repeal of IR35 and other distorting tax laws like s44-7; they will be sorely disappointed again by the lack of answers.”
---->
“The UK’s freelancers will be asking where are the ways for them to pay even less tax and shove even more of the burden of paying for this country onto other people; they will be sorely disappointed again that they have to pay some tax, however little it may be."
Perhaps before criticizing Nominet for being a bit crap, one should think about what would happen if the government got its tentacles into it. Compared with the true horror of the current government having control over Nominet, I'll take 'not amazing' any time.
"Swearing in on a bible has never been required in the US - that would be unconstitutional; the practice is generally considered archaic and not encouraged in these modern times."
I think it's terrible that every time there's a police shooting, there's normally a policeman involved. Now there's no proof that all police are violent thugs that kill innocent people, but surely we should ban all police, because “when a chance to remove a probable cause exists, it must be used”.
While we're at it, every hospital I've seen is full of drugs. Now drugs are bad, mmmkay, and so while there's no proof that hospitals are evil, etc. etc.
STFU until you work out the difference between A implies B and B implies A.
What the Australian government needs to do to make sure that they'll be able to trace these people without asking for help from Sweden is, say, build a big firewall, which they can use to monitor all communication on the internet leaving Australia. Since they have that anyway, they could start blocking sites that they don't like.
When it said that the proceeds were going to charity, I was thinking Macmillan, a hospice, maybe something like the RSPCA -- not a phone line. I can see how being sacked might not be the greatest thing ever, but I'm wondering what the person on the other end of the phone is going to tell you that would help, except for 'thanks to a guy from Woolies, we're hiring'.......
If the Italian courts say you're guilty, aren't Google simply going to shut down its Italian offices? Because a ruling against Google would mean that every website is responsible for the content it posts. That would include, for example, search engines, Wikipedia, and any website whose content is against whichever random Italian law they think applies.
Also, a quick check on Youtube's website confirms their address:
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
NOT IN ITALY! Do you people who think that Youtube can be sued by people from a different country need to be hit with a clue-by-four, or something? It's bad enough the US thinking that all of their laws apply globally, without the bloody Italians getting in on the game. Remember, if all countries' laws apply globally, then for example we need some mesh of Chinese, (stupid) British, and Saudi laws on what can go on. You'll love that...
I'm ambivalent about this: certainly, the person to head up the taskforce should be at least mildly competent at mathematics, and Carol Vorderman is, not to put too fine a point on it, useless. There is a place for her in such a thing, but not leading it.
However, the country is at war with stupidity, and at the moment, stupidity is winning. Every year, the cohort of students arriving from school is worse than the previous, every year they know less, have fewer ideas, are more accustomed to being told that they are great when in fact they are terrible. I think we could do with every advantage we can get, and this mouthpiece, while vapid, could help.
I've never bought an Apple product. I thought I'd get that out the way. Now: There is not a person alive that should feel ill will toward anyone. Clearly this is not reality, as we see in the Middle East right now... Anyway, I just thought I'd wish him well, and a speedy recovery,.
So far, more than two years has passed since I found out that the government thought I had lived in Scotland, assigned me a temporary national insurance number while they sorted their shit out, then found that they screwed up the temporary number assigned to me because they screwed up the file the first time round. They lose the letters I send, can't decide what my name is, or where I work.
They are a bunch of useless fucks. This is not libel because (a) it's true, see case in point as proof, and (b) it's certainly in the public interest...
Not anonymous because I'm fed up to the back teeth with their complete incompetence, and they know that I'm fed up.
This is fairly similar to shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theatre. If you did this is real life, you wouldn't expect it to go down very well. What makes you think the Internet should be any different?
"Major plays in the MMO space also follow Atari's recent public venting about the used game market - which the company said is "extremely painful" for the video game publishing industry."
If your market no longer provides the profitability that you want, change your profession. It's called capitalism. Get over yourselves. Fuckers.
But seriously, if you want to change the basic rights of people to resell property that they own because your company keeps going bankrupt, maybe you're just shit at what you are doing and should STFU and get a new job.
(Maybe I should apply for a job writing Fail and You........)
Let me get this straight: a minimum pricing of 40p/unit would mean that beer (2-3 units) is 80p-£1.20/pint, wine (~12 units) is about £5/bottle, and a 700ml bottle of spirits (28 units) is £14. That's fairly close to what you pay for spirits, a bit more than the minimum price for (bad) wine, and about the price of cans in shops. Nothing in pubs would change, since we're way over that price, and things would be slightly higher in supermarkets.
A few weeks ago I posited the theory that supermarket alcohol is a Giffen good; that is, the higher it's price (up to a point) the more people will buy. Here's the theory: I want a certain amount of alcohol per week. I can buy cans at a shop for £1 or beer in pubs for £2. (Numbers changed and simplified for illustrative purposes.) I have £30 and I want twenty pints/week, so I spend £10 in a supermarket and £20 in a pub, to get my twenty pints.
Now suppose that an interfering government sets minimum pricing of £1.50, and so the pub remains unchanged and the supermarket price increases by 50%. I won't increase my budget (we're in a recession after all) and so I switch, and consume all twenty pints from a supermarket.
Net result: all pubs shut, supermarkets boom with increased profits. Well done, Labour.
"...a threat from The X Factor's Simon Cowell to buy the rights and take the show to the opposition."
Well, that's not a very good threat then: if you let me do it, I'll buy your programme from you and give it to somebody else. Hardly a threat when it requires you to agree, is it?
@people saying I got Godel's Incompleteness Theorem wrong
OK, so I was assuming that the axioms for which you have your model is complicated enough for one to embed arithmetic, because otherwise why bother?
And I am a pure mathematician, just not someone studying the foundations of maths, because they are silly and we laugh at them. They do occasionally produce interesting results, and I have had to use model theory every now and then.
In conclusion, I could fish out my set theory notes from my bookcase and write down the theorem, but I was offering a more accurate version of the story's version. We can keep making subtle changes, as I didn't describe what 'embed arithmetic' is, so someone will blah blah blah bored. I'll go and do some actual maths now.
This is slightly wrong: what Godel actually proved is that you can't ever *prove* that it's consistent. If set theory (the branch of mathematics in some sense underpinning all others) is inconsistent, then we should be able to prove that, but writing down a logical fallacy. (This happened before to some attempts that people made.) However, if it is consistent, and there is no contradiction, you won't be able to prove that.
I suppose that for the purposes of journalism 'negatively' is sufficient...
Standard IANAL disclaimer here, but isn't it the fact that it is fine for anyone to take pictures of a public place for non-commercial purposes, but for commercial purposes, you need the permission of those people appearing in the photograph. Also, there might be an issue of implied consent: if they have pictures of, say, a corporate headquarters, that it might make people think that the corporation is involved with Google.
The last time Germany considered itself in charge of everything going on in the world look what happened. There's something about new bosses and old bosses...
"Before the "big bang" there was nothing, not a single electron. Yesterday, the worlds best super-scientists "pretended" they were looking for a "god-particle". Unfortunately those super-scientists started with matter in this "so-called" experiment. RETARDED! It's ridiculous to think you can duplicate the big bang with matter, when in the beginning, there was no matter; I repeat: "not even a single electron".
Some scientists have no idea what they are looking for, because they don't know how to ask the 1st question. SAD REALLY!"
OK, yeah, whatever. I don't really know where to start...
There are two people in the UK called Ivan O'Toole, according to www.yournotme.com so even if that guy isn't him, there is someone who isn't him who has his name.
"This visual gap is not perceived normally because the visual field of each eye overlaps the blind spot of the other."
Nope. Close one eye. Big blind spot anywhere? Didn't think so.
The reason that you don't see the blind spot is that the brain knows there's a blind spot there and resconstructs what it reckons is there by following lines. To see this, draw a circle on a piece of paper with a pencil, and then rub out a small portion. If you position your head in the right way (and close one eye), the circle will appear unbroken.
To people above who suggest having to type in the details and the computer returns yes/no (and not to those who say that they should ask for two letters), if it's the correct password, doesn't the cell centre person still have your password anyway?
"Vitton does not allow reselling of its products."
How does that mesh with the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts legislation? Surely forbidding resale is against the law? (Especially of something physical...)
"I think the people who should feel fools are the ones that set the precedent with the dismemberment of Serbia, hmm?"
Well, Russia-Chechnya anyone? The Russians are even worse. Now Serbia was a little bit different; Russia managed to mobilize it's army within a couple of hours. Does that not strike anyone as strange?
"To be fair the Russian Tanks rolled in after the Georgian tanks rolled in."
Important point: into Georgia. And now the Russians are invading Georgia itself, not just South Ossetia. And bombing all over Georgia. Feel a fool now, hmm?
"Along with the data processing framework, Doug Cutting also included a fault tolerant, replicated, distributed file system with Hadoop just because fuck you."
If I were drinking coffee right then, you'd owe me a new laptop.
Erm... watershed? Right... that works if there is a 'world time zone', but not in this pesky thing called a 'real world'. (Or are we looking at IP-based locations sensing, or possible a Great Firewall of the UK?) And Google-owned Youtube is an American company, so they can -- and will -- tell the UK government to feck itself.
IT? because the government should put a question mark after each of its uses of the abbreviation; e.g., the government has a handle on issues in IT?
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Microsoft+Yahoo<Google
Obviouslt, only having a PhD and not being a regulator, I fail to understand the following basic question.
Microsoft+Yahoo = regulator.
Microsoft+Yahoo<Google (in terms of ad revenue)
Google != regulator?
In other words, if the Microsoft-Yahoo tie-up needs regulator approval because it would stifle competition, how about Google, which is twice as large as both companies put together?
Break Google up?
70% share = monopoly = destruction?
@callmeshane
Excellent work there. As a comment to an article about Microsoft and Yahoo!, you did really well to work in a rant about Australian TV.
Fake events?
To cement the absurdity of the police's stance, if a few thousand people set up pretend parties on Facebook in fields around the country, I wonder what would happen? Would they arrest you for false advertising?
@Citizen Kaned
"It's a very sad day when we look to france and think 'why cant we be more like them' in the uk the english nazipolice would have already shot them calling them terrorists."
That's because it is terrorism. What's the difference between them threatening to blow up a factory unless they get €10m and a terrorist threatening to blow up something unless they get money/prisoners out of jail/etc.?
You just have to remember that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is whether or not you agree with the reason that they want to destroy and kill.
@kain preacher
"The hole process can take up to 3 years."
Fnarr fnarr.....
Competition commission...
Surely either Vodafone or Telefonica buying T-mobile would have the kybosh put on it by the regulators. They haven't become that toothless, have they?
Hang on a second...
They don't know what the technology is yet, but they know how much it will cost?
A few problems...
1) These are going to end up in other people's hands, and then this will be fun, because we'll have people making others puke up from a mile away. There'll be no way to find out who it is.
2) Innocent bystanders? If this has to hit eyes, then it either has to be very accurate or have a wide dispersion field.
3) Sunglasses/spectacles/goggles? What do they do to this. If the glass in spectacles causes a refraction, is that going to seriously mess up this device, perhaps turning it into a blinding ray? My bet is research not done.
4) This will be a new (and quite untraceable since it leaves no output) way for the police to torture people. Anyone who thinks they won't use it to do that should read about the way the police act, in news stories for example.
Comedy Google translation
Apples Klage gegen die Mobiliar hat wenig Chancen ----> Apple's lawsuit against the furniture has little chance.
Mine's the one with the German dictionary etc.
*Cough* Sweden?
Would have thought that would have featured on the US's 'we don't like you because you don't give our companies enough of your money' list.
Hmm
"After all the various nuclear accidents that have more or less flooded the whole stratosphere with radiation how do these self appointed gourmet boffins claim to be able to pick out these things? Next thing you know they'll spot Sputnik or Mir flying over the distillery. So, they can tell the difference between Bikini and Chernobyl? If they truly can I guess it's a whole new way to market vintage whiskey to yuppie idiots with more money than sense. You can glow in the dark with your favorite flavor of nuclear fallout."
Hmm. I think the following saying is useful here.
"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
Why do people feel the need to comment about things when they have not the slightest clue about them? Oh sorry, I forgot that I was on the Internet.
Fixed that for you
“The UK’s freelancers will be asking where are the helpful measures such as the repeal of IR35 and other distorting tax laws like s44-7; they will be sorely disappointed again by the lack of answers.”
---->
“The UK’s freelancers will be asking where are the ways for them to pay even less tax and shove even more of the burden of paying for this country onto other people; they will be sorely disappointed again that they have to pay some tax, however little it may be."
Nominet vs NuLabournet
Perhaps before criticizing Nominet for being a bit crap, one should think about what would happen if the government got its tentacles into it. Compared with the true horror of the current government having control over Nominet, I'll take 'not amazing' any time.
In the ballot...
... they'll need some way to make sure that people are who they say they are, and don't vote twice. How about fingerprints?
@Peyton
"Teddy Roosevelt was not sworn in on a Bible. Not saying 1/44 is significant, merely that it's not required."
I didn't know that, actually. You learn something new every day.
And there was a missing Joke Alert icon, which perhaps hid my real intentions...
@Peyton
"Swearing in on a bible has never been required in the US - that would be unconstitutional; the practice is generally considered archaic and not encouraged in these modern times."
Unless it's for a president, of course.
@ 10 fingerprints?
"That's discrimination against anyone who has lost a finger."
And against people with thumbs...
Gamer calls for 'killer police' ban
I think it's terrible that every time there's a police shooting, there's normally a policeman involved. Now there's no proof that all police are violent thugs that kill innocent people, but surely we should ban all police, because “when a chance to remove a probable cause exists, it must be used”.
While we're at it, every hospital I've seen is full of drugs. Now drugs are bad, mmmkay, and so while there's no proof that hospitals are evil, etc. etc.
STFU until you work out the difference between A implies B and B implies A.
That is all.
Way to stop this in the future
What the Australian government needs to do to make sure that they'll be able to trace these people without asking for help from Sweden is, say, build a big firewall, which they can use to monitor all communication on the internet leaving Australia. Since they have that anyway, they could start blocking sites that they don't like.
Oh, wait...
@Steven Jones
My thoughts exactly. And to the other posters that thought it was good, come on...
And as for
"... are getting as arrogant as the Yanks, thinking that *their* laws should be applicable all over the world..."
No, they just think that their laws apply in their country. They can't prosecute the journo, but they can prosecute the (Australian) source.
Slightly non-charity
When it said that the proceeds were going to charity, I was thinking Macmillan, a hospice, maybe something like the RSPCA -- not a phone line. I can see how being sacked might not be the greatest thing ever, but I'm wondering what the person on the other end of the phone is going to tell you that would help, except for 'thanks to a guy from Woolies, we're hiring'.......
Erm?
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, but:
"SourceTool.com claims to the internet's only business to business search engine"
and
"He also claims the search giant has an anticompetitive deal with business.com - which runs a similar business directory"
seem difficult to reconcile...
I don't get this
If the Italian courts say you're guilty, aren't Google simply going to shut down its Italian offices? Because a ruling against Google would mean that every website is responsible for the content it posts. That would include, for example, search engines, Wikipedia, and any website whose content is against whichever random Italian law they think applies.
Also, a quick check on Youtube's website confirms their address:
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
NOT IN ITALY! Do you people who think that Youtube can be sued by people from a different country need to be hit with a clue-by-four, or something? It's bad enough the US thinking that all of their laws apply globally, without the bloody Italians getting in on the game. Remember, if all countries' laws apply globally, then for example we need some mesh of Chinese, (stupid) British, and Saudi laws on what can go on. You'll love that...
Difficult question
I'm ambivalent about this: certainly, the person to head up the taskforce should be at least mildly competent at mathematics, and Carol Vorderman is, not to put too fine a point on it, useless. There is a place for her in such a thing, but not leading it.
However, the country is at war with stupidity, and at the moment, stupidity is winning. Every year, the cohort of students arriving from school is worse than the previous, every year they know less, have fewer ideas, are more accustomed to being told that they are great when in fact they are terrible. I think we could do with every advantage we can get, and this mouthpiece, while vapid, could help.
Never wish bad on another
I've never bought an Apple product. I thought I'd get that out the way. Now: There is not a person alive that should feel ill will toward anyone. Clearly this is not reality, as we see in the Middle East right now... Anyway, I just thought I'd wish him well, and a speedy recovery,.
Like mine, for example
So far, more than two years has passed since I found out that the government thought I had lived in Scotland, assigned me a temporary national insurance number while they sorted their shit out, then found that they screwed up the temporary number assigned to me because they screwed up the file the first time round. They lose the letters I send, can't decide what my name is, or where I work.
They are a bunch of useless fucks. This is not libel because (a) it's true, see case in point as proof, and (b) it's certainly in the public interest...
Not anonymous because I'm fed up to the back teeth with their complete incompetence, and they know that I'm fed up.
@Hikaricore
This is fairly similar to shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theatre. If you did this is real life, you wouldn't expect it to go down very well. What makes you think the Internet should be any different?
World's smallest violin...
"Major plays in the MMO space also follow Atari's recent public venting about the used game market - which the company said is "extremely painful" for the video game publishing industry."
If your market no longer provides the profitability that you want, change your profession. It's called capitalism. Get over yourselves. Fuckers.
But seriously, if you want to change the basic rights of people to resell property that they own because your company keeps going bankrupt, maybe you're just shit at what you are doing and should STFU and get a new job.
(Maybe I should apply for a job writing Fail and You........)
40p/unit?
Let me get this straight: a minimum pricing of 40p/unit would mean that beer (2-3 units) is 80p-£1.20/pint, wine (~12 units) is about £5/bottle, and a 700ml bottle of spirits (28 units) is £14. That's fairly close to what you pay for spirits, a bit more than the minimum price for (bad) wine, and about the price of cans in shops. Nothing in pubs would change, since we're way over that price, and things would be slightly higher in supermarkets.
A few weeks ago I posited the theory that supermarket alcohol is a Giffen good; that is, the higher it's price (up to a point) the more people will buy. Here's the theory: I want a certain amount of alcohol per week. I can buy cans at a shop for £1 or beer in pubs for £2. (Numbers changed and simplified for illustrative purposes.) I have £30 and I want twenty pints/week, so I spend £10 in a supermarket and £20 in a pub, to get my twenty pints.
Now suppose that an interfering government sets minimum pricing of £1.50, and so the pub remains unchanged and the supermarket price increases by 50%. I won't increase my budget (we're in a recession after all) and so I switch, and consume all twenty pints from a supermarket.
Net result: all pubs shut, supermarkets boom with increased profits. Well done, Labour.
Am I the only one who is confused?
"...a threat from The X Factor's Simon Cowell to buy the rights and take the show to the opposition."
Well, that's not a very good threat then: if you let me do it, I'll buy your programme from you and give it to somebody else. Hardly a threat when it requires you to agree, is it?
@people saying I got Godel's Incompleteness Theorem wrong
OK, so I was assuming that the axioms for which you have your model is complicated enough for one to embed arithmetic, because otherwise why bother?
And I am a pure mathematician, just not someone studying the foundations of maths, because they are silly and we laugh at them. They do occasionally produce interesting results, and I have had to use model theory every now and then.
In conclusion, I could fish out my set theory notes from my bookcase and write down the theorem, but I was offering a more accurate version of the story's version. We can keep making subtle changes, as I didn't describe what 'embed arithmetic' is, so someone will blah blah blah bored. I'll go and do some actual maths now.
@Alistair
Speak for yourself: some of us are pure mathematicians!
Answered "consistent" negatively...
This is slightly wrong: what Godel actually proved is that you can't ever *prove* that it's consistent. If set theory (the branch of mathematics in some sense underpinning all others) is inconsistent, then we should be able to prove that, but writing down a logical fallacy. (This happened before to some attempts that people made.) However, if it is consistent, and there is no contradiction, you won't be able to prove that.
I suppose that for the purposes of journalism 'negatively' is sufficient...
Commercial versus non-commercial
Standard IANAL disclaimer here, but isn't it the fact that it is fine for anyone to take pictures of a public place for non-commercial purposes, but for commercial purposes, you need the permission of those people appearing in the photograph. Also, there might be an issue of implied consent: if they have pictures of, say, a corporate headquarters, that it might make people think that the corporation is involved with Google.
@Incredible
"It is incredible that you Brits still persecute people this way. Small wonder your govt watches every move you make."
Will...not...feed...troll.
There, that's better.
Germany =/= world
The last time Germany considered itself in charge of everything going on in the world look what happened. There's something about new bosses and old bosses...
On the other hand...
If he wants a unified organisation, why shouldn't the (independent) BBFC take over all video game classification for all of Europe?
@AC
"Before the "big bang" there was nothing, not a single electron. Yesterday, the worlds best super-scientists "pretended" they were looking for a "god-particle". Unfortunately those super-scientists started with matter in this "so-called" experiment. RETARDED! It's ridiculous to think you can duplicate the big bang with matter, when in the beginning, there was no matter; I repeat: "not even a single electron".
Some scientists have no idea what they are looking for, because they don't know how to ask the 1st question. SAD REALLY!"
OK, yeah, whatever. I don't really know where to start...
And another thing!
There are two people in the UK called Ivan O'Toole, according to www.yournotme.com so even if that guy isn't him, there is someone who isn't him who has his name.
Nobody called that on the electoral roll...
... according to http://www.yournotme.com
Why not a bike then?
Cocks.
Correction:
"This visual gap is not perceived normally because the visual field of each eye overlaps the blind spot of the other."
Nope. Close one eye. Big blind spot anywhere? Didn't think so.
The reason that you don't see the blind spot is that the brain knows there's a blind spot there and resconstructs what it reckons is there by following lines. To see this, draw a circle on a piece of paper with a pencil, and then rub out a small portion. If you position your head in the right way (and close one eye), the circle will appear unbroken.
Am I missing something?
To people above who suggest having to type in the details and the computer returns yes/no (and not to those who say that they should ask for two letters), if it's the correct password, doesn't the cell centre person still have your password anyway?
Just wondering...
From above (something I hadn't heard before):
"Vitton does not allow reselling of its products."
How does that mesh with the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts legislation? Surely forbidding resale is against the law? (Especially of something physical...)
@someone, can't be bothered to scroll up
"I think the people who should feel fools are the ones that set the precedent with the dismemberment of Serbia, hmm?"
Well, Russia-Chechnya anyone? The Russians are even worse. Now Serbia was a little bit different; Russia managed to mobilize it's army within a couple of hours. Does that not strike anyone as strange?
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@AC
"To be fair the Russian Tanks rolled in after the Georgian tanks rolled in."
Important point: into Georgia. And now the Russians are invading Georgia itself, not just South Ossetia. And bombing all over Georgia. Feel a fool now, hmm?
Class.
"Along with the data processing framework, Doug Cutting also included a fault tolerant, replicated, distributed file system with Hadoop just because fuck you."
If I were drinking coffee right then, you'd owe me a new laptop.
What time is it now?
Erm... watershed? Right... that works if there is a 'world time zone', but not in this pesky thing called a 'real world'. (Or are we looking at IP-based locations sensing, or possible a Great Firewall of the UK?) And Google-owned Youtube is an American company, so they can -- and will -- tell the UK government to feck itself.
IT? because the government should put a question mark after each of its uses of the abbreviation; e.g., the government has a handle on issues in IT?
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