So how is that gonna work?

"Clarke said that many nations had offensive cybercrime capabilities, arguing that some form of arm control talks on cyberweapons might be needed."

I would like to see talks at the UN would preclude nations-states from developing some kind of software to be used as a weapon (though Clarke does not seem to mention how this Kuang Grade Fantasy is actually related to the Real World) while the same talks do not preclude nations-states from developing and hoarding nukes and giving the two-finger salute about it to all & sundry (and I'm not talking about Iran but the perennial wailing victim on the Mediterranean)

In the end, I guess this just boils down to a book tour.

Looks like "aggregate demand" will take a hit then.

Shouldn't be a problem though. Trivially, tax reductions made possible by less gummint spending should leave more money in the private sector, thus those jobs will reappear elsewhere.

What, no tax reductions? Borrowing from the future, were we? Someone ate the cake already, in a sense.

Well then, prices (including prices for labor) will have to go down. Cue union bosses smelling a good occasion to raise their notoriety.

Attention Schneier: YOU value privacy. People do do NOT value privacy.

"There's no [commercial] market for a Facebook privacy add-on but if Facebook added extra privacy controls people would want it,"

People would also want a free pony if you delivered it to them.

And they would probably tend to the pony more than they would to their "privacy controls".

Oh yeah?

“There is no reason why Government should not be as efficient as any good business."

One of the most fracking STUPID things I have ever heard.

Of course there is a good reason. It's the Government. If someone messes up, he gets a BIGGER BUDGET instead of a roach lodge under an underpass.

Hey, let's vote ourselves a pay rise. Hell yeah, that would be the ticket.

Obama this and that.

He can decide all he wants, it's really out of his hands.

How's the next round of "quantitative easing" coming?

Arbeit macht frei!

Or at least cheap.

Big Brother because some people in the Party and/or the Gov are sure to be enablers.

Scanning now...

"It is at the heart of government that the most serious threat to social order is to be found".

HOLY COW! SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH DETECTED!

A Mark IV?

What Ausführung though? These came from in anything from A to H, with continuous improvements along the way.

I would pay for it to be put in my garden with the main hose suitably pointed at the neighbor's window.

A very stylish machine.

"And so now we're left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs."

Wow. I didn't know that the western educational system creates hundreds of thousands of people whose sole possibility of gainful employment, whose very purpose of life even depends on whether there is a plant in China that spits out shiny round pieces of plastic.

Let Social Darwinism cleanse this, I say!

I forsee people in tailor-made suits...

...throwing glasses of expensive Ouisky into each other's faces at the next club meeting.

Must be Lamo

(body)

"Yale Professor David Gerlernter."

That's GELERNTER.

Also developed the "Linda" programming language, basically agents coordinating over tuplespaces. Tuplespaces must have been patented, too, then I reckon.

So he has patents and been so wronged that 600 million dollar are coming his way?

It's amazing that people still work. If everyone was filing patents and sueing each other, we could actually push the economy into miracle land.

Oh yeah?

"Everyone acknowledged that these systems pose ethical and strategic problems especially with regard to their effect on civilian casualties and their rapid proliferation."

If anyone has a problem with that statement, maybe he needs to have his head examined pronto.

Currently whitey blows up and barbequeues sandniggers' kids, goats and wimmin's from Langley, USA using remote-presence tech (Illegally - and that's only US law, btw. But with a Peace Prize Laureate in the Driving Seat, nothing can go wrong, eh?)

Any dumbfuck cretin who has been within a hundred miles of military-machine-empire of the West knows that the feedback loop will close ASAP and that "Ho, Ho, Ho it's just collateral damage. Shrug." pronouncements will only get worse.

Luckily I never pay for porn.

Handing money to these guys would be too much.

But will the face blurring algorithm work on dead citizen?

...and will it then be a corpse blurring alorithm? Questions are left unanswered.

"A centrifuge in a uranium processing plant"

But what would happen? That centrifuge is just throwing UF6 around (UF6? UFOs? Hmmm.. a possible link here?). Could the system make it rev up? Slow down? More action could be had by connecting the Siemens Control Machine to a mixer filled with frogs.

"Centerum Censeo" that Iran is fully within the rights granted to it by the NPT to build and run an Uranium enrichment plant for civilian purposes. Said purposes being verified by the IAEA which continually fails to find any diversion of nuclear material for military purposes etc. etc. etc.

Awesome quote

"Until developers get that through their head, we're going to have to live with lots of XSS holes."

This shall be saved for ..err ... posterity.

Gov in arrogant fascist parrot mode, as usual.

"Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson claimed that it is for government to decide how best to protect prostitutes and local communities"

"I and myself in my infinite benevolent knowledge shall tell you how to lead your life and death."

Anyone care to explain...

...what the minimum wage is actually for except as a social feel-good measure?

Do employers actually hold a monopoly so that they manage to avoid their employees drifting off to higher-paying jobs?

Now, if those employees were illegals, or unable to read the job offer pages or if they were actually doing a job that generates rock-bottom additional value (below the minimum wage), I would have an explanation. But otherwise??

Note that minimum wage legislation kills off those rock-bottom additional value jobs, in other words some things you have to yourself, or hire students at 0/hour.

Welcome to the real...

...where failover systems don't.

Now, for some editorial logic. We read:

"Alternatively, why didn't it run the system off the remote data centre holding the SnapMirror data? The implication is that, because it didn't do this, the Snapmirror process of sending OLTP data to the second data centre was useless."

The deduction goes the wrong way and should be replaced by an *induction*:

Instead of saying

"Navitaire didn't run the system off the remote data centre, therefore the process was useless."

one should mean to say

"As Navitaire didn't run the system off the remote data centre, that process was presumably useless."

The 21st century...

Where people try to tell other people which of the cretinous soundbites they expose themselves to 24/7 to actually believe. Using soundbites.

Then everyone gets asked to vote for Palin, Obama, McCain or some other cancerous dreck.

"Must do something" activist politicians in no result shocker!

But hey, it keeps the cops and bureaucrats alive and well-fed.

I still don't know

...whether it's Quad-Chan or Four-Chan. Or maybe Yon-Chan?

"armed with legal wiretap orders under federal legislation"

Pffff.....

Ridiculous.

No-one asks for any of those anymore.

Even the phrasing is quaint. "Legislation?"

Hawking is a troll

“I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet."

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I saw that movie too.

Maybe talk about religion? Oh wait!

Weapons pod

“What I'm hoping to do with this case is to really reach a lot broader of an audience and make it so entrepreneurs and small businesses can use the English language as they see fit in branding their products”

I'm sure an Armalite 15 would reach that goal far quicker than a doing the "case" song-and-dance.

That's actually an act of terrorism.

Disrupting a perfectly bog-standard civilian nuclear power plant under IAEA inspection is NOT friendly. Then again, the Land Of The Chosen Ones is not above copying passports for some wetwork or braining people in belgian hotels when they feel like it.

This also has nothing to do with Iranian "nukes" as El Reg subtitles - as every fule knows, these don't exist. Does Tony Blair have the remote control of the editor's vibrator by any chance?

"There's no problem that requires a solution with anything like software patents."

But there are:

1) Fatcat lawyers hard hit by the recession and unable to afford a third Lamborghini. Ditto for "IP consultants" and other riffraff.

2) Large corporations that want to have a state-guaranteed monopoly on Idea Space and that also want to have a cheap way to preventively kill off any scurrying competitors.

3) State looking for arbitrary extensions of power to pull in the taxpayer dough and gurarantee the pensions of another batch of people that "need work". In lucky cases, the antitrust division can be activated to look into problems created as per point 2)

They are not problems that have anything to do with "driving innovation", but they _are_ problems.

The geezer duo is at it again?

These two never find a bill to enlarge federal powers that they don't like. Except if they didn't table it.

Of course, one knows where that is going. After all the certain actors certainly have copyright claims to documents found on, say, Wikileaks.

Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act.

"COCOA", I'm sure.

But monkeys luuuve porn!

And thus so do I.

"has the effect of depriving the film industry of revenue"

...and we can't have that, can we?

The only other institution that has a similar delusion of being entitled to hoover change from your purse must be State.

A phone with an "integrated Facebook experience"?

What the...? What the hell does this mean? A LOT of unmentionable thoughts come to mind. This will roll around my mind for the next few hours.