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Paris Hilton

The War on Terror connects cultures!

Fomalhaut?

This being arabic, I would think it should be correctly written as "fom al-haut" (which means what?)

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Re: Flawed Cosmology

You seem to have a lot of answers.

Unfortunately they come with a massive fruit loop.

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Re: it makes me feel somewhat sad

> I immediately think of gleeful hackers rubbing their hands together.

I immediately think of reaching the '05 maybe even the '95

PowerShell? Webservers? FTP? (Anyone still uses FTP??) Sigh~~

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Re: note *canned* sodas

Also, the benzoate preservative reacts with the phosphoric acid in Da Coke, which will GIVE YOU LEUKEMIA.

Coke, Mandrake. Children's Coke Cans.

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Re: Sweet Poison

The expanding Earth hypothesis is serious!

I saw it in New Scientist!11!

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Re: Workplace coffee sucks. Always.

Listen to this man!

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Re: Sweet Poison

Please no more stuff from neurotics.

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Unhappy

> Depressed all day, every day

> No Coke or Diet Coke

> Drink unsweetened coffee as if caffeine is the key to being one of the Chosen Ones when the rapture comes

> "Cutting out or down on sweetened diet drinks or replacing them with unsweetened coffee may naturally help lower your depression risk"

My Face When

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Big Brother

The new Yakuza offer you cannot refuse...

"You better pay up or our hacker will make your rice cooker EXPLODE!"

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Re: 2036?

Your last sight is something resembling a gigantic burning penguin falling from the sky!

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Re: Because *only* a nation state could run PHP scripts.

But PHP stands for "Persian Hacker Pro", nay?

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Tizzy dat him Alka-Sam Cyber Fighters?

"“There is no doubt within the US government that Iran is behind these attacks,”

There is no doubt within the US govnm't of a lot of things that just ain't so. This may well be one of them.

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Re: The (Gran) Torino Scale of Risk??

No, it has to do with Clint Eastwood and keeping immigrant asteroids off your grass.

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Headmaster

> analog technology

It has nothing to do with "analog".

You could call it "bulk technology" or "undifferentiated chemical processing", but certainly not "analog".

Dividing technology into "analog and digital" is like dividing the world into "blue objects" and "green objects".

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Re: Well done

AND "Aluminium" has been spelled correctly!

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Re: What's this article got to do with Apple?

Artful trolling is artful.

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Re: Office for Linux?

> MS is not stupid, why should they release an Office for Linux and lose OS sales?

That's the kind of thinking that will wipe the Microsoft Festering Horror off the face of the market once and for all. Carry on, Ballmer. I can't wait.

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Re: 2013: Microsofts' year of hell

Why didn't they listen?

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> Also note that xmas is paid for on plastic or via overdrafts in many families.

Then SPEND FASTER

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Devil

LOL

The public purse must get really tight.

Pucker your anus!

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Re: There are 17 BEEELLION Earth-like worlds in Milky Way!!!

Not sure.

I hope you sanitized your telephone today.

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Re: Theory is OK

You can invest a fraction of a cost into very-long-baseline interferometers that are able to resolve continents on those planets.

That would be rad.

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WTF?

These aren't the forties.

"Built by nation X" no longer has much meaning.

Except if you are ordering up a vertushka ["a dialless phone made to receive important calls, but unable to make any"] for your office and even then I wouldn't be so sure.

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Re: Why are secret content networks ...

> floppies for working data which are destroyed each night

I wonder how long that can go on past 2013.

Did they get a container of floppies on e-bay for a few pennies??

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But who is the idol of the moment?

Let me consult page 3...

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Re: One could suppose that this is ...

That would be "open VHDL" but even that might not be enough to allay fears.

Chinese are crazy prepared. Twitch wrong and they will transit a packet with a special bitpattern that will make your hardware self-destroy.

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Re: @JaitcH: When you die...

No-one cares turtle.

By the time you die you will be _happy_ that anyone still wants your stuff.

Better make the dosh way before.

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Seriously.

Anyone not torrenting this?

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Re: BYOD

Should be TYoD

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Devil

Clearly it's some version of Kill Bill

With less Katana.

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There were some cool engineers in that story, brewing up mustard gas to keep away crazed army bastards in the basement and restarting a boiling water reactor probably in a worse way than FukuMammaMia.

Additionally, sending useless beancounters into the wilderness instead of taking them into the survivor stronghold? Badass!

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Re: Sci Am had a good article on this 35 years ago

Well, a have SciAm subscription (okay, I admit they sometimes write bad stuff but their illustrations are the best) but even then their online archive is just 1993 to present....

I AM WAY ABOVE FOURTEEN AND WHAT IS THIS?

Even the IEEE has better archives.

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Re: This and many other reasons...

> It's a total mess of an OS from top to bottom.

YOUR POST SUCKS! Even your trolling is UNFIT FOR PURPOSE. GTFO.

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Re: ioctl

> the device is already open at this point, so unlinking the device node makes no difference.

Correct.

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> major public sector IT project to fail have been written in the private sector

That's because the public sector doesn't "write", it just "specifies" then "subcontracts", and I would surmise that the seed of failure is already in that activity alone.

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Re: "The temperature scale simply does not end at infinity,"

There seems to be no need to invoke THE QUANTUM. See SDoradus above.

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Re: Sci Am had a good article on this 35 years ago

Torrent, please.

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WTF?

> assaulted at a series of parties

A SERIES of parties? How? Are there many parties doing rape in town at any given night? Do they pass drugged-up girls around? WTF??

Also looks like at this point in time the evidence will be so tainted / potentially shooped that it might well be thrown out. Unless someone fesses up.

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Re: Err...

> bad management

> dangerously close to bullying

This is the age where bad crap cannot be called out, you gotta be "careful", everyone shall have prizes, a call from the union is just a cough away and every office jerk was a cool tech genius from the instant he tried to fit a square peg into a round hole at the age of three.

NO!

As long as the criticism is not "your are $X" but "your are producing $X that needs to be fixed" you gotta say what you gotta say. Right the ship's course etc.

Which reminds me that in my tender youth, I went on a sailing expedition where you got told what's what. That's a learning experience.

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Holmes

Re: "Poorly timed"

I would think the PRC might mean to get in a word sideways about a preemptive attack on one of its client states....

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Is there ever a *poor* timing?

Pretty rich that the US g'mnt speaks of "poor timing". WHO is using Nork's periodic antics for aggressive "need to do something" soundbites whenever it throws a tantrum? Presidents, senators and State Department doofuses are indulging a collective of infighting communist kleptocrats craving for attention. Good job.

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Re: Watching Hollywood movies much?

> People like you

You seem to know me quite well, Matty. Gb2 your pretend tech skills.

> Iron Dome will be sold abroad as well

Hahaha. To whom? Jordan?

> Hamas and co deliberately keep their people poor

Kinda like the guys in charge in the Ghetto deliberately kept their people poor?

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Holmes

Cut and run with Windows fun!

No need to worry.

All the blather about cutting military budget is just retarded posturing.

Via antiwar.com:

On Monday, the Pentagon issued a statement warning that a failure to avoid the cuts would put the jobs of 800,000 civilian employees at risk.

But the proposed cuts to defense budgets are, frankly, puny. The harshest scenario for defense cuts would only put budgets back at about the 2007 level, and they aren’t even really “cuts” to defense spending; they are reductions in the rate of growth of defense spending.

Illustrating how these cries are more scare stories than anything else is Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s less publicized predictions, according to the Associated Press, that “workers…will not face layoffs immediately” and that “he does not believe the Pentagon’s day-to-day operations would change dramatically.”

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Re: Libre/Open Office?

> MS Office UI was better 10 years ago than what Open/Liubre Office has today.

LOLNO

Also, learn2spell

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Turn that FUD valve!

> The establishment of Trustworthy Computing changed how Microsoft and the entire computer industry thinks about security and privacy

Implying they weren't playing desperate catch-up then, being the typhoid Mary of the whole of the industry. Serious problems remain today.

One should also not forget that "Trustworthy Computing" was in a good part about protecting the content providers from the end user, not the end user from security problems.

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Trendlabs, clear as mud.

This malware may arrive as either a file downloaded from certain malicious sites or as a file dropped by other malware.

Woah now, someone with Hollywood cyberspace sense must have written this.

What does it all mean?

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FAIL

Do you even pagan?

I sure hope you celebrated The Aramaean One's Birthday in front of Stonehenge!

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Holmes

No, for that you already need upward-balooning momentum, a nice suit and a few files on company dirt that you could "forget in the bus".

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Headmaster

Open up your box and you will find....

> Also corporation may not want the processor to be produced by Chinese or Korean fabs;

Fact: Intel has fabrication plants in China [Dalian], also Israel [Qiryat Gat], so I don't see where there is a problem. All their Assembly Test Facilities are in China, Vietnam and Malaysia.

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Re: So what do you say to Microsoft

> ARM is good at doing very little tasks

What the...? What is a "little task"? Running a web request?

Anyway, I would imagine this depends on the whole system, not on the ISA.