Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Re: Errmm
Do is look like it has been written by an infinite amount of monkeys?
No
Does it make sense?
Yes
Does it make a lot of sense?
Yes
Do YOU make any sense?
No
NEXT!
Re: Genius
Considering that their shirts are currently being transformed into Obamacare and Sandpeople-BBQ, they should be proud!
Re: Meanwhile, 42 light years away....
Excellent. I seems everyone is looking for jobs in their centrally managed economies. Prepare a standard Galactic Forces Recruitment Flyer Package.
These mammals are really good for one thing only.
Re: This is where physics meets theology via IT
> Indeed, we don't yet know for sure whether consciousness is a wholly classical phenomenon.
Seeing that most people cannot even hold half a thought at any one time, let alone infinitely many, odds aren't good.
Re: lest they give you a Therac-20
Alzheimer strikes again
Re: So....
0/10 would not troll with. Or maybe has a defect in logic sequencer? Can't tell.
Jesus Christ slow the fuck down!
There is no need for a Spherical Cow right now. I'm just getting used to F17/KDE, having performed a destructive reinstall from F15. This death march speed gives me the willies.
Trying to meet Wall Street expectations?
Looks like they want to try to close some additional sales before the end of the year and damn 2013.
Re: ESA is not EU
Correct. It will also flow back via the "geographical return" redistribution which consists in dishing out contracts to member states in proportion to their pay-in (frankly an economically bizarre idea)
Still, what's it with politicians wanting to command that future technology come to their neighborhood, when they are quite incapable of even comprehending major economic upheavals?
Hold on, the ghost Freddy Hayek is at the door...
Nein! Nein! Nein! Nein! Plan 9!
"A pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT 'professionals' who wouldn't recognise sound IT architecture if you hit them over the head with it"
Woah, I am relieved that I am not alone in the WTF reaction I had when I checked what happens underneath "./configure".
Also, the original rant (a bit over the top, and dated August 15, 2012 but then again this is El Reg) and the comment section is of paramount reading importance. The commentariat is often better than the rant, but then you have things like this:
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metageek | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:11:54 UTC
This is a typical engineering point of view. Engineers like to think that the world could be designed, however Nature shows the opposite. Any sufficiently complex system cannot be built out of design, it has to be *evolved*. Evolution is messy (anarchic?): pieces that work get reused, pieces that do not are lost. There must be something good about autoconf that has enabled it to survive and eliminate those awful "designed" makefiles that needed manual tweeking even though they did not check for 15 different Fortran compilers (the status quo of the 1980s). Does it matter that autoconf looks for those now extinct compilers? No, but it gives it robustness which is why it has survived. Someday a new, less bloated, alternative to autoconf will appear and it will slowly overtake autoconf. In the meantime we are doing very well with it, thank you very much.
Software is the most complex construction that mankind has so far created. It is so complex that it can only be evolved much like Nature's products are. Engineers can continue living in their nice little artificial world of linear systems and planned devices. Those that venture in the real-world of complexity and are successful will take up Nature's ideas.
Goodbye Unix of the 80s. Linux is here to stay
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These is exactly the kind of person you actually want just carrying the boxes in the basement lest they give you a Therac-20, again.
KILLING ADS KILLS TV! YOU WOULDN'T NOT WATCH AN AD!
Product placement by the ad industry in El Reg? Discussions about TV contents in 2012? The broadcaster's bleeding hearts unable to feed the starving artists of "CSI" and "Homeland" exposed? Really, now.
"Author would never consider downloading a pirated copy of a film - as that would make him a freetard too."
Also uncalled-for advertisement of good, religiously correct, IP credentials.
Lighten up. Take a good pull on a bong, it won't kill you.
After this message...
Re: That's not how patents work.
Correct assessment. Who's downvoting? iPhone wielding IP lawyers?
Re: I shall-
Unfortunately resistance to flow is not a linear function of the size of the pipe ... This is why heart attacks happen. A small fan and a small jack may well not be able to compete with a standard heat sink.
Well, needs MATLAB I guess.
Re: EE 'Doc' Smith? Larry Niven?
You understand SciFi at twelve? I don't think so.
Sellafield - the British attempt to go further than NUMEC, Pennsylvania?
Yes, yes, yes. However, I do hope that no-one is going to vaporize 2t of Cs-137 just for the hell of it. It will not be in concentrated form, and I hope they transformed it into salts. Reactors accumulate it as vapour in the Zyrcalloy tubes, IIRC.
Having a 30-y half life, [which is why it has such a high Bq number], vitrify the hell out of it, then off to the pits for a 300y wait. Problem solved.
Re: I can believe it too
We read:
....However, this evening, Cox tweeted: "As @daraobriain pointed out, we did the "health and safety" aliens story live on air last year as a joke. Not really news!"
Tossers. They only got themselves to blame. OPEN THE AIRLOCK!
Re: I can believe it too
"The BBC is a fantastic institution. IMHO something to be proud of, as a Brit, like the NHS."
Oh my god. Fainter praise can only come via radiowaves from outer space.
Re: iFail using LOOSER
0/10, would not troll with.
Re: What's the problem with the picture?
Don't know what the problem is either.
I would probably be picking my nose, too.
It's just Obama on the other side. Guy falls down stairs, plays the clown, rips the constitution, prints money, has fun grilling sandpeople ... swell person. Always ready for a laugh.
Tough shit.
...pricing oneself out of the market like that.
Re: Why...
"Hmm.... this primate civilization is being overtaken by dumbasses and lawyers - Oh hell. Prepare Krytonic Rays, we don't wanna stay any longer than necessary."
Re: Can't go on forever
Holy shit, I have used this... I have been a pirate all the time!
That's kinda cool.
Yeah yeah yeah. "Very specific", huh?
Seeing as what happened last time with the "design patents" on the similar-if-you-had-a-bong-and-squinted Samsung device, I won't bet that sanity prevails...
"Oh hey, that's nearly the same as OUR RECTANGLE .... call my IP ATTORNEY!!"
Re: Should be interesting
Behaving like they do is certainly contrary to established manners.
I could also be that the lawyers of each actor are in collusion and are having a gas making the various companies sue each other.
I'm all for SPACE ---
But is this really the moment? Has anyone looked at the debt numbers? Does everything really believe that things get better by printing money? How about cutting back the military first? Yes, there is talk about "draconic cuts in defence" by Obama. Turns out he actually means to increase spending by just 10% over the next decade instead of 20%. Which is nice....
Oh well, Israel is sure to start a little war, with the Prez then feeling obliged to pile in. This will occupy us for the next few years.
"using a shared seed value"
Must be an Apple seed.
Re: About that picture caption: "Super-Earth HD40307g alongside its host star"
Nah. When the planet's other side comes into view, you will see the addy for the local McDonalds. It's pretty realistic.
Re: Too cheap to meter
> H-bombs went out of fashion
When did they go out of fashion? "Having enough Pu" is not the same at all...
For example.... refurbishing totally useless airplane-carried nukes? Yes we can: Billions more needed to refurbish B61 nuclear bombs
It's just a stupid file transfer app
Comes with all the problems of file transfer.
As for the people reflexively yelling "child porn" and "ratings" in here that are not doing so in a cynical way but are actually Pennsylvania-level pants-on-head retarded:
1) Go down to the newspaper stand
2) Grab one of them magazines on the upper shelves
3) ???
4) You are now feeling better
Then reflect on how FTP can be used by your daughter/son to pump around nudies of themselves.
Re: As a programmer, I say..
> Java only has it because it usually runs in a VM which is in effect a mini OS
LOL no. Completely different concepts.
Re: As a programmer, I say..
> Can someone tell me why they used Java
Because lousy programmers. Primadonnas who think they can handle C/C++ then shit all over themselves are the worst. But even so anything employable at market rates these days is lousy even with Java.
If programming needs to be ghetto style, I would rather they do it in Java.
Re: Not surprised
> Use a statically typed language and decent framework
Oh I agree with that. It's just that rather often I barf in anger as I have to write the exact same code for different types or must enter the infinite verbosity torture chamber of boilerplate code (which introduces bugs in and of itself) that you don't need with Groovy.
Indeed, look at it like this: things that are errors in the statically typed language no longer are. It's like moving from a language without class templates to one with class templates. It really helps. Generally.
Long Wave is Long!
1) Isn't AM actually "long wave"?
2) Submarine communications are around 50 kHz. I don't think the BBC is involved and many people have the required numbers of meters in their garden to span the antenna for that...
68000 m³
Thus a cube of 41m on each side equals about 1 Sellafield?
Re: Meh
Please get in contact then, of hallowed AC one. Fame and fortune awaits.
Re: Not surprised
Well, "Grails" is actually "Ruby on Rails using Groovy", and Groovy essentially _is_ a scripting language on the JVM.
I really prefer it to Java, too (though Clojure is sitting there like a nice cake that I cannot have ... hmmmm) and it can be used without much pain. It's slower but certainly not painful for maintenance if you stay reasonable. And you always should stay reasonable.
Yeah, but what if Hitler appears live, opening the Olympics?
What the hell is "Threapleton Holmes B"? Where does that name come from?
Re: AMD chaos
And then they are getting hit by an Obama Tax Bill, closely followed by QE4.5 and the demand to raise wages across the board because purchasing power has degraded. Then comes an Apple Patent Lawsuit, an IRS audit because the the money paid for the democratic campaign was a tad low, increased energy costs because of a cakewalk with Iran, demands that they replace Silicium by Unobtanium because it's greener. Then union activists riot hard as they have discovered that work is being "exported" to faraway lands. Finally an accusatory film by a fat filmmaker with a baseball cap puts the company under for good.
Seeing how AMD likes to have its processors in cluster applications which like to run Linux, with the competition on such clusters not Microsoft but Intel/NVIDIA, I tend to agree.
Re: Dear theregister.co.usa
I, for one, welcome our democracy-exporting drone-dispatching grammatical hegemon!
Re: There is no reaction image for this
Yeah yeah, it's probably just been done a few hundred times before.
There is no reaction image for this
Apple gets hit, but ... a patent on VPN setup? A patent on "security problems in DNS"? Really? Babby's first inventions?
As for "not paying attention to patents", AFAIK, you MUST NOT pay attention to patents because if it comes to a lawsuit and it turns out the infringed patent was known about, it's "double damages" for you.
It may be available on DVD but for GBP 125 ... I thought there were laws against price gouging of essential goods in the wake of Hurricanes?
Torrent, please!
This can only end in penetration.
Re: Absentee ballots, pen and paper problems...
Can't be reached. Greg Palast is pretty solid AFAIK, but isn't this this "sharp practices" story from 2005 (so long ago already...) by Chris Floyd:
The copious documentation of the Bush fraud keeps growing. Last month, experts using actual machines and returns from the 2004 election showed Congress how a lone hacker could skew a precinct's results by 100,000 votes without leaving a trace. More than 40 million votes in 30 states were cast on such computer systems, BlackBoxVoting noted.
Late last year, Congress heard sworn testimony from Florida programmer Clint Curtis, who created vote-rigging software in 2000 at the request of Tom Feeny, a Bush Family factotum. Feeny wanted Curtis (a fellow Republican) and his employer, Yang Enterprises, to produce untraceable programs that could "control the vote" as needed, investigator Brad Friedman reported. Feeny also told Curtis of Bush plans to "suppress the black vote" with "exclusion lists." This is exactly what happened. BBC investigator Greg Palast has shown that tens of thousands of legitimate African-American voters were deliberately "purged" from the rolls by a private Republican-controlled corporation hired by Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Afterwards, Feeny -- who had been Jeb's running mate in his first gubernatorial campaign -- was rewarded for his dutiful service with a plum congressional seat.
In 2002, Raymond Lemme, a Florida state government inspector, took up Curtis' charges, which included other corruption allegations involving Feeny, Yang Enterprises and a Yang employee charged with peddling military technology to the Chinese. In June 2003, Lemme told Curtis he had "tracked the corruption all the way to the top" and that "the story would break in a few weeks." On July 1, 2003, Lemme was found dead in a Georgia hotel room, just across the Florida border.
Local police ruled that Lemme, a happily married man eagerly planning his daughter's wedding, had suddenly decided to slash his wrists. At first they said there were no photos of the death scene; but then the pictures turned up on the Internet and were confirmed as authentic by the embarrassed police. The photos clearly contradicted the original suicide report on several points -- presenting evidence, for example, that Lemme had been beaten before his death. The investigation was reopened after Curtis' Congressional testimony -- and then abruptly shut down after local police spoke to a never-identified "someone" in the Florida state government...
Re: Voting Machine Company ..
Yeah but so what. It's not as if an investor suddenly loads his voting code into the machine.
Re: proprietary software the US Government isn't allowed to see
Well, it wouldn't really be the "purchasing body" that would review it in this case. It would be posted on an FTP server and IT Security departments all over the world would then have a go. A reasonable step to take.
That would only be the first step - after that you have to be sure that the operational procedures are correct and secure and reliable and traceable, that the code on the machine is the correct one, that the overall tabulation is correct etc. etc.
I remember the Diebold voting machines barfing all over themselves ... well, I fear there may be overall shameful code, possibly a shared codebase with who-knows-what (ATMs, maybe?) which the companies involved don't want to see aired. At all. Because lawsuits might fly.
Maybe not.
The latest "IEEE Security and Privacy" - "e-voting security edition" has this to say in the article "Electronic Voting Security 10 Years after the Help America Vote Act"
(That article is paywalled here but apparently free here. IEEE show really start to gets its act together).
"Merle S. King, executive director of the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University, and Brian Hancock, director of voting system testing and certification at the US Election Assistance Commission,
discuss e-voting security 10 years after the Help America Vote Act."
The Help America Vote Act was ratified in 2002, dumping millions of dollars into the voting system market and resulting in a major shift from mechanical to electronic voting machines. Shortly thereafter, several academic studies on the security of these e-voting systems emerged. What’s your perception of e-voting system security in the first few years after HAVA?
Merle S. King: In general terms, the e-voting security movement wrapped too much around the security issue. Don’t get me wrong; security is very important, and e-voting introduced new challenges. But if proper procedures were followed, the machines were safe—we now have a history of thousands of anomaly-free elections conducted on DREs [direct-recording electronic voting machines].
Brian Hancock: I agree. The voting systems that caused the most fuss weren’t network connected, and the attacks that succeeded and were reported happened in a laboratory environment. I would like to have seen more realistic testing conducted in operational environments, with the normal electoral protections in place. As it was, exceptional security weaknesses were portrayed as normal, and situations that rarely occur were represented as common. DRE voting systems remain in wide use, and we still don’t have any reported incidents of confirmed security breaches with them.
Re: Wet blanket time:
Do we have antivaxers here tonight?
Re: Hollywoods next big sequel
Ironman needs dumbing down?
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