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5350 posts • joined Tuesday 3rd June 2008 16:11 GMT

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Holmes

So how do these error messages look like?

Inquiring minds want to know...

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Devil

Think out of the cardboard box.

“Whose problem is this to fix? LastPass did everything correctly. It's the other extension developers that developed an extension with a vulnerability in it.”

Then LastPass's approach doesn't make sense in the current setting and a sane situation is out of reach. If security depends on other developers doing the right thing, you are hosed. The browser needs to be fixed, the approach needs to be fixed or scrapped.

It's like with Social Security. You can't afford it. Cuts or more taxes? You still can't afford it. It doesn't make sense - it's economically out of reach.

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Big Brother

That's pretty sad

Man puts good time into his hobby, accident occurs. No-one deserves to be killed by his creation. Though I make an exception for the creature from Jekyll Island.

How is that different from falling off a ladder while painting the house, pray tell?

Also, is regulation now so pervasive that it's noteworthy that something isn't regulated?

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Meh

Arrr!!

"When workers no longer have the means to purchase goods"

...then prices will go down, except if someone is pumping out the fiat money of course.

"the system will crumble and many more people will be on social care programs"

which are being financed by tax money seized from what's actually left of the economy???

I know that getting a somewhat accurate feeling for the economy is about as hard as going from simple arithmetic to differential equations [and most economists are struggling with just simple bidirectional causal relationships], but try to get with the program.

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Childcatcher

"Universities around the country are oversubscribed this year"

Ohm trying to outstudy the recession, are we?

That's not gonna work. It will still be there in five years' time.

Well, I just hope people do some hard science stuff, not that financial, economy, sociology or homeopathy crap.

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Big Brother

You know that!

In Canada, slamming Israel without in the same phrase slamming random other icky fascist types in a fair and balanced way will cause you to fall afoul of the law!

Dont acte!

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Mushroom

Kick the ass of those emo liberal tweeters, I say.

"But other tweeters soon waded in, pointing out that Bannatyne was making very public illegal threats."

Oh no it's illegal!! We have to point it out!!!

What are these people doing tweeting? Don't they have to support Obama doing the debt ceiling thing?

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Pint

Invisible magic computer!

I would like to see the kind of gear that runs this in anything approaching real time. Working through 20 tera-polygons is no mean feat.

Realistically, compare with: http://artis.imag.fr/Publications/2009/CNLE09/

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Trollface

Moose Feminists

They moan all the time but all they need is ...err.... better partners.

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Maybe...but!

Undeterred by the approach being impossible? Not being transformed into a quivering wreck of fear by the possibility making the house sarcophagus-ready? Unafraid of spicing up the ramen with splattered Americium?

Hardcore.

A budding Black Mesa whitecoat, I say.

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Megaphone

More lifeless barren rock....

My inner Rockefeller demands to MINE THIS POTATOE!

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Childcatcher

Random anti-capitalism bollocks?

Listen, child: Learn2Capitalism.

It is not "rent-seeking behaviour" prodded along by members of the bar association.

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

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Mushroom

See something, say something.

Yes. Any thoughts about having a "stateless society" needs to be reported forthwith. We can't have that, who will pay our pensions? Who will give us the nice blue uniforms? Who will tell us to bomb random people in faraway lands? Who will help us transform undesirable immigrants into useful soap?

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The world is black and white. Oh no, wait, it's just lawyers!

"Those with a vested interest in the commercialisation of human genetics argue that the ability to obtain patent protection encourages investment in DNA research, which serves to further innovation. Those opposed to what is perceived to be the monopolisation of nature fear that the high cost of diagnostic testing, such as Myriad's tests for breast cancer will price many out of the market."

Then there are those that argue that patent protection discourages investment in DNA research, transforms the industry into a collection of lazy rentiers living off their state monopolies, pumps money to useless lawyers, keeps prices of end products artificially high and alternatives off the market, locks down the building blocks for further research and generally delays any advance in the field.

"This ruling has divided legal opinion and, if upheld, would be welcomed by America's multi-billion dollar DNA industry," David Bloom, a patent lawyer with Pinsent Masons said.

In other words, "bad for DNA research".

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Meh

Sleep with the dogs, wake up with fleas etc..

"law enforcement wasn't taking the informants security seriously anyway"

Well, that's par for the course.

How do I know? Umm... better not say.

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Big Brother

That's pretty funny.

The antitrust authority looking into the decision of of the REFUSAL of a non-monopolistic [definitely not a trust] database provider to furnish the goods for a hardware architecture about which every tech hack had to write at least one self-indulgent piece about how it would "take over the world". In the 90's.

Antitrust - mainly providing jobs for lawyers as usual.

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FAIL

This is getting rather propeller

Dumping dox of informants?

Uh, maybe not the best idea.

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Trollface

"What is terrorism?"

http://fff.org/comment/com1107x.asp

The definition of terrorism is incredibly tenuous and used to score political points. The Nazi regime called its enemies terrorists but never described its own actions as terrorism. The U.S. government’s effective definition seems to be: “Terrorism is an act of violence, against either soldiers or civilians, whether conducted by private or state groups, so long as the violence is not approved by the U.S. government. ”

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WTF?

"it just seems like you are stealing from websites"

No.

Take off every Xul! For great justice.

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Meh

Hmmm..

"However, the antennas may be located at random distances, it just requires more complicated processing of the waveform."

Didn't think about this at all but does "complicated processing" involve exponentially precisely located antennas and/or problems outside of P?

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Holmes

Where are those, then?

Really, I just want to know.

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Holmes

Even Moody's starts to smell the coffee

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/174447-moodys-neither-plan-protects-the-nations-aaa-rating

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Devil

I'm sure sarcasm tags are missing

You know you can't sic the Predators on the Tea Parties - they are all busy grilling random sand denizens.

"We do Oslo several times a week and no-one notices. That's hardcore!"

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Big Brother

The new tweet symbol

The chicken born in 1913, finally coming home to roost.

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Facepalm

"Tea Party extremists' control of Congress"

There is not enough Internet Explorer in the world for this statement.

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Meh

The founding fathers didn't say anything about plastic testicles on cars!

"Janet Jackson pops a nipple and America calls for the death penalty"

Actually, that's not "America", that's the vocal minority of professional busybodies. They could donate testicles for this here slightly obnoxious use.

"Free speech is more than the right to hang plastic testicles on your car"

Sure but the two are not incompatible,

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Devil

Nightclub honeytrap used in Belgian hypermart blag!

Crooks used a "nightclub relationship lure" to trick a hypermarket manager into a trap, kidnapping him and obtaining keys to the store's safe before making good their escape.

Amazingly, no social networking software was needed for this heist.

Police are totally stumped on how the perps managed to obtain the requisite "facetime" to make good their sophisticated scheme.

Politicians were not long in denouncing the increasing prevalence and brazeness of software-less heists. "Something must be done and we are actively working on a legislative proposal for next week", minister Jim Y. Mommony declared during a hastily assembled press conference. Several QUANGOs have already expressed their interest in taking this issue up.

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Mushroom

Bets! 5 to 1 on...

1) Will be laughed out of court in the NL

2) Will be awarded gazillion of damages in the US

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Happy

Can't unhear

Now I will forever read it as the LouiseBoat.

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Meh

Dirty bombs ain't nukes, dude

The former are hard to use effectively, the latter very hard to source.

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Devil

So who would want to drop dox on LulzSec members?

I mean, what's the motivation here? Paid by Scientology? Moles, Snitches and Canaries like Lamo? What??

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Mushroom

The hit-pitched sound of pork riding into the sunset

"less sensitive polyvinyl toluene portal monitors"

What's that then?

Never mind, I found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_toluene

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WTF?

Huh.

I'm sure someone is currenty tearing his hair out for forgetting to insert an by-IP-access rate limiter into the application.

Or did someone just copy the database dump?

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Meh

"Socialistic organizations, ruderless and without profit/loss calculations"

As the saying goes,

In the private sector, if your project fails, you go out of business.

In the public sector, if your project fails, you get more money.

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Holmes

If you scrape headlines...

...do the articles become zombies?

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WTF?

Die Tatze. Die Kralle.

It's not a claw, it's a paw. he claw is part of a paw.

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Flying White Elephants? Hell yeah!

But then again, come 2020, keeping it in orbit _might_ look like wanting to keep the fridge-sized 3MHz machine in the basement.

Just because someone blew 100 billion USD of taxpayer money on it [though mainly on bureaucratic wallowing and political porking] doesn't mean keeping it up would be a good idea.

It's kinda like wars in Central Asia in that respect.

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Holmes

>social responsibility

Well, then.

You are free to open up a shop that shows more "social responsibility" (whatever that is; it is not what is generally promoted as being such).

Note that those 462m go into investments or consumption by shareholders, so it's not as they would disappear altogether. In a healthy economy not foobared beyond all recognition by busybodies, politicians, progressives and Keynesians, that money would go into a bank and depress interest rates, making investment in additional projects possible. Of course, interest rates are low already because it's very acceptable to the electorate to be seen to be "ease the pain" while obfuscating the fact that the actual result is a decay in purchasing power and creation of bubbles, but hey, whatever rocks the vote.

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That guy's a jerk

Starts off by assuming that "Iran wants the bomb" (like we are hearing ad-nausean since 1993 or thereabouts with the only proof scary cover artwork by the The Economist) then proceeds from there.

And who is that "we" this guy is talking about?

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WTF?

Should... stop... programming at night

I misread as "3m glow-in-the-dark log."

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Pint

This series needs the linkfarm for easy reference

1) Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/11/a_brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_one/

2) Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation (14 July 2011)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_2/

3) Fun and games in userland (18 July 2011)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/18/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_3/

4) Virtualisation soaks up corporate IT love (21 July 2011)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/21/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_4/

5) Cheap as chips: The future of PC virtualisation (25 July 2011)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/25/brief_history_of_virtualisation_part_5/

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FAIL

The usual of the cojoined twins comic relief duo

1) Israel - You want?

2) USA - You ask?

3) ???

4) Blowback!

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Big Brother

College sit-ins?

Not well versed in history either. The Man is not easily rattled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

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Pint

Where's Tank Girl?

She wants her Booga back.

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Windows

Next headline

Utah cops baffled in case of mysterious suicide involving chainsaw in overnight jail.

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Not really

According to General Relativity, we are all long noodles stretched out in the time direction and nothing ever happens.

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Yes

Pass it through water.

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Trollface

Sounds like a plan!

Unfortunately you need to be God first. Time to get cracking on that Godwarts Admission Exam.

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Big Brother

You could patent this?

Sounds like a "method" patent. I thought these kind of patents had come only in the Clinton 90s?

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Big Brother

There sure are to be...

...logs as fat a Miss Piggy's behind.

Telcos are keeping the all Call Data Records for billing purposes.

If the /b/-tards are as circumspect with their borrowed phone numbers as with LOIC, then some forceful removal from mom's basement room is in the pipe.