It's like making an AR-15 actually work, but I still like to hear that.

A move in the direction of Groovy without the full uncertainty about what the code will actually do at runtime that comes with it.

"the IPO quiet period when bosses aren't supposed to talk about how well or unwell their firm is"

Never understood this kind of stupid.

It doesn't stop people from squirting their money into a deep well. At all.

Ha Ha Ha!

The well-groomed brownshirt and his bungling arse-kissing sidekick, sitting at the terminal, doing EX-ER-CI-SES.

EPIC!

So an "animal lover" took offence?

And he was at the 4-chan watering hole?

Say no more!

Oh good

Can these guys off to the Middle East and Lybia to hoover up all the Depleted Uranium that the NATO/US/Israel fuckheads have blown all over the place in our name, causing interesting mutations that luckily stay "over there" so we don't have to face a moral problem "over here"?

Oh it doesn't work on Uranium in desert regions?

Living in the real universe and taking economics and price signals seriously and not something that is a pure invention of unnamed dirty capitalistic exploiters and can be disregarded at will?

So ... rare ... these days.

No crying_bear.jpg? Thumbs up, then.

It's not just the Prussians who know how to party

"but sometimes slightly more sophisticated tactics are brought into play"

Like, blowing up whole shitloads of civilians with Main Battle Tanks and F-16s sourced for free from the USA?

Bad, bad omens.

“These are attacks on our national interest. They are unacceptable. And we will respond to them as robustly as we do any other national security threat,”

The last one who spoke thus got run out of town, bombed by a plane, hit by a drone, pulled out of a sewer pipe, raped with a knife, shot, laughed at by Hillary, called Hitler by the UN moondude, then exposed in a freezer as a tourist attraction.

Stupid still think they can moneyprint their way out of a recession, eh?

...whereas moneyprinting actually leads the way INTO the recession.

"only one major advanced economy - the United States - has announced a national jobs plan"

Which ain't gonna work. There no longer is any money to inject into the economy. There is only paper to print. More economic bubbles like the stupid "housing boom" or "internet boom" and inflation ain't gonna help. And "taxing" just destroys employment and economic activity somewhere else. Notice that the only "national jobs plan" with serious money behind it is the military? Why isn't it enough? It employs people. It keeps the young ones from taking the jobs of seniors. (It also acts as Viagra for disgusting sh*t like McCain and Liebermann, but that's another discussion). Maybe it's a fat chunk of the causes of the current problems? But noo....

"..regulation"

Say no more. More business to destroy and economic blue-sky thinking to write into law? Why, sure. I mean, this universe is actually candyland, didn't you know that?

http://mises.org/daily/5766/Is-Economics-Worthless-Ideology

"For more than a century, American progressives have convinced themselves that they could create a world that could circumvent the long-held laws of economics simply by dismissing these laws as illegitimate creations of human beings. Now that the US economy is locked into high unemployment, massive debt, and utter uncertainty, progressives have decided that what is needed is more of the same activity that put us here in the first place. They define such actions as "pragmatic." I would tend to classify such things as falling into what Einstein labeled as insanity: repeating something over and over and expecting different results. Einstein understood theory, and he also understood that one could not buck theories demonstrated to be true and correctly anticipate results that were apart from what the theory might predict."

Is it a cellular automaton? No, it's people burning their time!

Minecraft craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPsrOmm4mQ

My face when

"Can a game - any game, for that matter - be a work of artistic merit?"

Really now.

I would imagine this question could only have been asked in a meeting of slightly aged ladies sipping tea and discoursing about the artsyness of Rembrandt, the Royal Marriage and the moral turpitude of the young ones. In the 80s.

FRACKING STUPID QUESTION!!

Is that Miley Cyrus on the pic? She looks like the *adorable* Sophie Marceau...

Mini-ITX-sized servers?

Being old-school and all I was lately surprised at the (absence of) size of the server mainboards inside of those big 19'' caissons. The biggest thing now are the power supplies (really, a server has no business having power supplies at all, not to mention dual ones, what's with this "industry"?) and the stupid fans. The spinning rust is being seized down to 4 units of 2.5'' + the unfortunately still off-mainboard RAID controller, which is acceptable.

So will I be able to have a few of the standard servers inside a 1-HU box before I ride into the sunset? I hope so.

The biggest problem for this kind of non-x86 thing is going to market and breaking down the deadly embrace of integrator reluctance and customer apathy.

Oh, and you have to recompile your Unix, of course.

(To the esteemed author: It should be "Watt" not "Watts")

Better critique...

...here: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/14/are-we-not-zombies/

>After nine-years of playing a humiliating game of whack-a-mole with a “rag tag” enemy that was supposedly vanquished after 9/11 but in key areas has seemingly more support from the people we are supposed to be liberating than we ever did, Americans are now indulging in elaborate fantasies, like World War Z, in which they regain all of the pride and strength and virtue that was lost — by fighting an even more ruthless adversary, the ultimate evil – the flesh-eating undead.

Maybe, just maybe, we can win that war, and liberate ourselves!

Sounds “fantastical,” and sure, “The Walking Dead” is nothing but a slick soap opera with lots of blood and guts, but as Vlahos points out:

“…are not zombies our former selves — hence, the most terrifying and relentless enemy of all? Are not their ranks also flush with those who had lost American virtue: The passive, the narcissistic, the cynical, the uncaring? Sacred wars are about purification, revival and redemption. By indirection, Brooks [in his "World War Z"] is making the troubling point as well, that only zombies — or a national challenge equally existential — can renew America now.”

Keep denying the truth, looser! Cain's 6-6-6 is already STARTING!!!

G-d is magnificent, then he give us magnicent signs. The times are near we all know, we can feel them. Aliens will show themselves also: watchers, the fallen angels, the annunaki..ppl will blieve in them and not in G-d our creator and father. Each one of us will be making a choice. Prepare the soul, we r free G-d made us free, is ur personal choice BUT U KNOW THE SIGNALS AND HAVE BEEN WARNED. Also check the alignment in 1994 when the cross form in sky with the 4 animals from the revelations...

"he believes that the hiring decisions will pay for themselves"

How is that even possible in taxfeed/moneyprint universe?

Here's hoping someone sneezes during dismantling.

Fracking Yanks.

Considering that the "Cold War" was mainly hype generated by the MIC, as opposed to "making the world safe for democracy" it would just be fitting.

>hacking cost the UK economy £27bn.

Seriously how does he know that?

Even if the trade secrets are exfiled, then you actually need the people on the other side to understand them, implement them and socially organize the production chain around them. And then you need market success. If it comes, it may not come at the disadvantage of the original secret holder AT ALL.

Guess yet another figure pulled out of the nether regions.

λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x))

Woah "rule of three" etc...

Steve, Dennis, John.

No hold on. Steve doesn't really fit. No rule of three then.

Ah the times when I exchanged my summer holiday for the joy of writing a Scheme interpreter in the first version of Turbo C++. I had to use overlays, too.

BEER NOW.

“The industry should step in to fix the problem so that citizens are safe and secure again. SSL is using an aging method of protecting private data which is complex, unnecessary and not fit for the 21st century.”

So who are those sanctimonious jerks who probably know only how to wreck stuff and couldn't design anything secure if their life depended on it?

Like vandals claiming they be fightin' for the freedom of the working class.

Loaded white dwarf bursts gut, spews it everywhere!

Why isn't Galaxy upholding the Dwarf Tossing Ban Act?

I am in 2011 and what is this?

> Tor activist Jacob Applebaum welcomed Anonymous' action: "Anonymous pwned a bunch of pedos; huzzah," he said via his ioerror Twitter account.

Outing himself as a man-child.

I a not-faraway future he might well be shut down himself by The Man, if not by The Drone.

Good for them

Now that "the West" has managed to throw a fat hook into the Lybian oil reserves, throwing out the Chinese, one would expect some tit-for-tat.

"create a hidden partition at the end of the infected machine's hard disk and set it to active. This ensures that malicious code stashed in it is executed before the Windows operating system is run."

Really!

Who runs the code how? The Windows bootloader?

Jail for this?

What's next? Gitmo for moldy sandwich left to fester for 6 months in fridge?

Or did the judges think he attempted nuclear transformations in his home?

> Third Reich appropriated the symbol

That would be the NSDAP.

In a similar vein, hammers and sickles are manual tools of great value until appropriated by another bunch of collectivists.

"pole dancers, schoolgirl lesbians and multiple nipple flashes"

Bored already.

"The ad regulator said it had received 34 complaints"

Oh.

Water is wet etc.

"Analysts at Gartner are prophesying a global double-dip recession that will test the mettle of corporate CIOs and squeeze budgets, but predict that businesses will continue to invest in IT."

I nearly broke my leg slipping on the consultancy snake oil.

"The second recession is about to hit,"

Yeah well it's the SAME RECESSION genius. It's happened before. As in the continuous recession-with-interventionist-nightmare going uninterrupted from Hoover to FDR (except that FDR had better public relations so he is fêted as 'great' instead of the amoral scumbag that he was). It's happening again. China is next up for big problems. Surprised? I'm not.

"His Master's Voice"

Then "steal" the EMI logo.

"Hollywood has a poor record in bringing stories about the wartime exploits of Britain's cryptographers to screen."

Why care about the personnel of a large aircraft carrier?