Posts by T J

They run WINDOWS !!!???

You have GOT to be joking. You have GOTTTT to be joking. They run Drone control software.....on mswindows !!!!????

Geeeeee

Timely reminder. I really MUST get rid of all my gmail accounts as soon as I find somebody else who can do IMAP without stuffing it up.

Oh and preferably who supports client-side encryption (yes you can do it with mail now).

Not a hope

Not a hope. A phone that stands even a chance of getting viruses, let alone one that Will, Definitely, No Doubt About It get viruses, does not stand a snowflakes chance in an autoclave.

Everything down to a pencil will be running Android by the end of 2013.

How do you kill a corpse?

It was already dead. However this is a giant liberty by pretend authorities just the same. USENET could have one last USE on the NET - cause these idiots to tie up all their time and money chasing ghosts.

In the meantime - why not just move your leaf server/s to a non-treaty country (Ie. one owned by a different Kleptocracy to yours) and be done?

If you just close up shop it gives the wrong impression - it makes them think they can win (they can't) and it makes them think they understand the new status quo (they dont, and never will).

Just sayin.

A total incoherent mess

Speaking as an active programmer with over 25 years experience in EVERYTHING from embedded all the way up to high level mush like the current markup ("Pick a random word and stick ML after it, then mention XML so you sound like you know something, and THEN get the word 'stylesheet' in there somewhere too) mess (folks, its a mess, its a real, real mess and I dont care if it pays your mealticket, its not comp.sci its just shyte):

Speaking as that - FB's interface always was a complete, unintuitive pile of dogs vomit and continues to be. This usually doesn't matter, people get used to interfaces no matter how bad they are (Apple's ancient crappy desktop, Blackberry's godawful GUI, the total mess of GNOME, the dreadful changes in KDE 4, etc etc).

But familiarity doesn't imply quality - FB's interface is very low quality. And its app API is a joke.

But - what do you honestly EXPECT from a giant mass of javascript????

His Generic Holiness...

There is no such thing as 'generic clustering', so this is just hype.

Only established things like content-serving can make use of any sort of clustering solution 'out of the box', everything else must be tailor made.

This is a Holy Grail matter, ie. not really solvable and it will make big CompSci news if it ever is.

Why do I keep saying 'cluster' instead of 'cloud' ? Because I'm a computer scientist and I call things what they are, I don't care what some coked up exec calls them.

Satan

So.... they've basically reinvented Satan? Ie. the tool that along with Gabriel became Nagios.

Nagios can already perform this kind of attack. And defend against it too.

But then again a lot of idiots run that m$ rubbish as webservers, so until that is exterminated from the face of the web - not long to go now - it will remain fairly easy to penetrate and take down a lot of sites.

Legendary

Altruism is not dead. Yes this has been in the news here for a while in Oz. It looked like the woodchipping scumbags were going to win, but then out of the blue these two heroes rescued the situation.

We thank them.

In the CLOWN!

Spell it RIGHT. Its IN THE CLOWN, its all IN THE CLOWN!!

(Mine's the one with the purple rye fungus traces)

Stringing.

So... the thing is to string them along till the very last moment, then completely change your details.

Eg. churn to a different provider, use a VPN with a different exit point, turn your modem off for a day so when you get back and restart it it DHCP's a different IP address, etc, any combination of.

Man, you could even write plug-ins to do this for you in bittorrent clients!!

We could send the big recording labels broke in no time with this approach! Go NZ!!

Oh, and yes I download heaps. I just don't regard it as illegal as it's information and outside of anyone's jurisdiction (it just is, so don't bother arguing). If its worthy, I'll buy the product down the track, if its not I wont, they dont have an inherant right to make money from producing rubbish and they never did, it was just the mechanics of things meant they had an artificial scarcity monopoly. Now that artificial monopoly is gone, forever.

Yup, this is insane

Pretty much what everybody above said. These utterly ridiculous patent cases are also casting a shadow over themselves: They will all be retrospectively undone, because there is now no way that they cannot be.

Masterpiece

Its only the web so ultimately who cares. But this is still funny!!!!

Follows logically

Obvious. Follows logically from the problem. Not patentable.

I hope when the 3 monopolies crush this that it starts an avalance in the patent office.

Why an Economist?

Why is an Economist commenting on physics? Shall I go and ask a Lawyer to explain Biochemistry?

Wont work everywhere

In Australia, there are almost no legally accessible databases that this thing could use. It could be a handy tool for a licencsed Private Investigator but they have tools like this already.

So it is only creepy if the society the software operates in is sufficiently creepy to allow it.

Start charging Microsoft

Since its all Microsoft's fault for producing the only 'OS' that can get viruses almost effortlessly, they should foot the bill for all the wasted time, bandwidth and the accrued aggravation. Oh, and loss of money by the gullible though then again, thats something m$ thrive upon isn't it.

No

No. No its not coming together.

Mines the one with the actual vision of reality glasses in the pocket.

Rebadged, Renamed, Recycled and Ret*rded

Its just clustering, it always was clustering, and always will be clustering.

This is just clustering for the masses, and it has all the same problems, including problem-domain specific code requirements, fair sharing, live migration, and network availability.

This, as hardware becomes almost free so you can do it all in the basement at a fraction of the cost of using an external entity.

I like the term 'Clown'.

Data storage in the Clown.

Virtualization in the Clown.

Clowning in the Clown.

Its all utter bunkum

Its all a load of complete bollox. SaaS is a marketing executive's coke fuelled pipe dream and so is 'The Clowwwwd'.

What exactly is the advantage SUPPOSED to be?

Offsite/outsourced infrastructure? - yeah, see how far that gets you, its been an unmitigated disaster for everyone over the last 2 decades. Unless you are a 'Consultant', but those leeches win every time (I should know, I was one).

Affordability? Use the open source gear and stop mucking about. They are mature products now and work more or less perfectly. Besides, this rubbish has nothing to do with open or proprietary code - buy what you can afford and use it well. Dont listen to reps.

Consistency? Pffft, you can kiss that goodbye right from word one. No matter what you do, the owners of the servers will rationalize a way to f**** you up. Be it a configuration change, or an upgrade you dont want (because THEIR security/whatever is at risk - whats that got to do with you?). And I'm not sure where they're going to find this network that stays up forever, I dont think anyone has developed one yet and it sounds expensive due to the tons of fairy dust required.

Server load? Come again? Hardware is FREE now, and networks are just about too.

Why would you need to run anything externally? At all? Ever?

Well.....you wouldn't, won't, and don't.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEOTZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!

Oh god oh god oh god we are de-evolving, DEVO was right!!!!!

Web 2 died, when will this?

WonkToooo had the decency to fade out and stop insulting us, when will this rubbish follow suit?

Dont use Exchange

Simple. Any questions?

Mine's the one with the non proprietary mail spool that works.

Gods bless you people

And preserve thee! Having watched a Dame Maggie Smith play get nearly ruined by a phone going off ..... words cannot express my desire to smash!

Um, and you can choose for me .... because?

I might want to watch that. (I wouldnt, I watched the original and horrifying though it is its basically 90 minutes of my life I'm not getting back).

I have the right to watch that.

YOU dont have the right to stop me.

Idiots? Yes we have those.

Yes, sorry everybody, we have some real idiots here in Oz, some absolute tools.

Put it this way - we only JUST banned live exports of cattle overseas, and in at least one state we still don't have a rail link to the airport.

Hit the porch and resume whittlin', where's my banjo......

Nothing needs speed cameras.

Bad analogy. Are you suggesting the internet too needs unwarranted surveillance? Because there are many who think that also and they are not well looked upon.

agile methodology

Well, that about takes that idea out before its even off the ground. They are going to have enourmous fun sticking little notes all over the walls, annoying the shit out of one another by 'pairing' when trying to program, shuffling all the erroneous code off to one side, delivering a piece of shyte early or an approximation of the target late (very late), and then there is the joyous fun of Planning Poker.

Agile: A Methodology For Ensuring High Staff Turnover.

Nobody knows anything.

And they're all idiots.

Honestly, this distributed storage/computing thing has been bashing around for decades and several fundamental problems were never solved:

* Yes, security, and all the complexity thereof

* A wonderful MAGICAL network, Lisa! That never fails and is always available!

* How do you do generic coding? Clusters can't, they need specialized daemons written to be purpose specific? Java? Pffft. Yeah right. Python? Ok, viable, but how do you sandbox it without a million programming caveats? What is your distribution model in this 'cloud'? Are all services cluster....oh! sorry!....'cloud' aware? No? What do you do about that?

Let's all just put our suits on, turn up and give a 1 hour presentation of utter, utter bunkum to some morons from rich families in more suits, say 'cloud' a lot (and maybe 'paradigm' and 'leverage' a few times), collect our $2000 fee and head home to the spa and ho's. Who's with me!

BFPI now targetted.....

......in sights......awaiting strike command.........

Must be a very robust government

Must be a very robust government indeed. To imagine that it could survive this with the voters.

Always hated phones!

Speaking as a Gen-X'er, I HATE PHONES. If its not a convenient moment - it goes to messagebank. If its from a number the phone doesnt recognise - it goes to messagebank.

No they are doing their best.

No, its several things.

Users are getting stupider.

Managers are getting stupider and more disconnected from the tech at hand.

The technology itself is going BACKWARDS rapidly and a lot of it isn't actually "New technology", its old tech rebadged or its just a tiny rearrangment of something marketed as a Product[tm].

I think IT's position is nearly impossible now. And the cloudy cloud is going to make things worse, as now you have to rely on some other idiot's infrastructure as WELL as matching apps and services to your requirements.

I urge the entire industry to rethink and start from scratch, but you know how likely that is.

Your own router?

You can't use your own router? Or does BT have some stupid clause insisting on using theirs?

FOOOOOOOOOOLS

You fooooooools. You poor, mad foooooooools.

1. Dont use Exchange.

2. Learn how IMAP works you IDIOTS.

3. Run a decent redundant cluster.

4. Dont use Exchange.

5. Dont use Exchange.

Simple really!!!!

Why is this still being argued?

Why is this still being argued? It should be more DIFFICULT to take the samples in the first place, and NO, they should not be retained except for conviction of VIOLENT CRIME.

Start sanding your Telescreens, for humanity's sake.

Competition++

Well, now there will be an explosion in VOIP operators! Get on it people!

A timely article

This is a timely article and thank you for raising it. I have almost given up drawing attention to the Telecommunications Act and what constitutes breaches of it, and half the time it seems to go unenforced, possibly due to lack of information. And now there is a 'culture' developing of leaking information like a sieve to go on top of that pre-existing 'culture'. I think its time for some hardball.

Will it suck?

It is a Design Requirement of all Fedora's that they have unfindable bugs, strange interoperability issues with common apps and protocols, and a jungle of homegrown libraries that provide nothing the reference versions don't.

I presume in the name of goodwill to all the Fans[tm] they will be adhering to these principles with this release?

Bye guys

Bye!