Not that different from Belgium, really.

In a country where guns are outlawed, only criminals have guns.

Good ones. Provided free of charge by Uncle Sam.

By Chromis Pasqueflower Bowerbird's cube!

"NASA's efforts in putting the famous plaques on them may well be wasted"

D'Oh!

Hoping that someone finds these plaques is like hoping that this EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PIECE OF PAPER ON THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SECRET IRANIAN PROGRAM TO BUILD NUKES AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD that I have in front of me and will now throw into the loo will somehow arrive on the desk of POTUS.

Not gonna happen.

One really has to invest a bit more seriously in local marketing efforts.

Profs in disconnected from political realities shocker

I don't know where the idea comes from that now when the strongman is gone, there will suddenly be safe access.

Get ready for archaelogists moaning about being blown off dunes / gruesomly drilled by freedom fighters, resurgent Wahabbis now in Lybia's govnmt financed by Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda franchisees, bandits of various couleur, Duty platoons and Xe operatives looking for a good time. And possibly a drone or two controlled by the the US Peace Lovers International Corporation.

Also, in before mention of Abdul Alhazred etc.

Java: just say no

> Provides 4 links to sites

> One from 2011 basically moaning about people not updating Java

> One from 2007 that is actually about a Quicktime bug

> One by Krebsonsecurity.com, which uses Google Analytics to check the readers' goodies

> One from 2010 where Microsoft complains about Java

> Calls is "unbelievably broken"

My face when.

The best I can get out of this is a citation by Microsoft:

"[Microsoft] said that Oracle, which is now ultimately responsible for Java after its Sun acquisition, should collaborate with competitor Microsoft to automatically distribute Java patches"

Yes, good idea. Please implement.

>all of the cells on death row popped open

>correctional facilities

Yeah...

Typical bureaucratic stupidity

Leaving aside the frankly bizarre antivaxer panic....

"More to the point, he reminded needle-phobic parents that sending viruses through the mail is against the law, and could result in a federal prosecution."

I wonder how that's supposed to work? Shall I get a Cobalt-60 gamma ray sterilizer for my mail packages??? Oh wait, it's probably against the law to have that either.

The Surgeon General recommends to commit at least three federal felonies against random shit a day!

"he said the observations might need years to gain acceptance"

It's good that alpha is not 1/137.00000000000000012121... measured to 10 decimal places otherwise everyone would be offended that someone would doubt the elegance of "EXACTLY 1/137"

Not new, actually.

I remember something like this from NewScientist back before Gulf War II.

Too lazy to check and I no longer have a subscription....

Aha! Certainly an Inhibitor sphere.

The only question is, does it have Earth's name on it?

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.