Posts by MinionZero

Wonderful news!

I love using Firefox, but the UI has a number of bugs not least more than a few with drag and drop bookmarks and some have been there years!

For example try creating a folder in the bookmarks, then drag that new folder to a new place in the bookmarks, then try to drop the URL into that new folder. It won't appear. Why? ... well try this, open up a new window with CTRL+N, then look in that version of the bookmarks with this new folder and as if by magic the URL appears.

Here's another one, try dragging a URL into the bookmarks when a popup downloading complete message appears because if it does appear, you then won't be able to drop the URL into the bookmarks. It will be lost, even though you are still holding the bloody URL link icon!

Here's another one, try dragging a URL into the bookmarks with folders within folders. The bookmarks main folders get confused and close these windows.

Here's another one, try dragging a URL into the bookmarks with more links than fit in the window, the bloody folder of links scrolls and you loose your sub folder scrolling off screen, which you have to scroll back to.

Its such wonderful news the UI guy is going. Now someone can hopefully fix the bloody bugs in the UI!

More education is the answer

@"marketing practices that do not disclose they include paid-for promotions are deceptive under fair trading laws"

That's totally true, but unfortunately there is no way to enforce such a rule to stop deceptive marketers who will continue to find ever more ways to lie to people to manipulate them. There is however a way to deal with this kind of lying behaviour of some people in society.

TEACH THE ENTIRE POPULATION MORE CRITICAL THINKING!

That way, *everyone* will *FINALLY* fully grasp the idea that some people *relentlessly lie* (not just the occasional lie, they lie relentlessly) all to get their own way, because its currently an up hill battle with some people to get this idea into their overly idealistic heads. Too many people do not see the liars for what they are, because they do not use enough critical thinking, such as for example following the money as they say, to highlight warning signs of liars.

We have this lying problem with the lies of marketers, as this news shows.

We also have this lying problem with the lies of Politicians.

We also have this lying problem with the lies of the cult leaders.

All of them seek to manipulate others for their own gain. When does it end. The entire population needs to be taught far more critical thinking, because our rich and powerful will never want it and so never allow or agree to educate the population, to then be more ready to catch liars, because more critical thinking undermines the leaders ability to lie. Don't ever forget the lessons of history, where many leaders wanted to keep the entire population uneducated, just so the leaders could get away with whatever they liked. It shows they wanted to deceive the entire population and their kind still do! ... as Wikileaks keeps on showing us!. The rich and powerful are relentless liars because that helps them get what they want and so that gives them an advantage over people who don't lie, so the liars win and dominate in society. More education is the answer.

@"ASSANGE GRANTED... house arrest

Its not really bail, its basically house arrest. Some potential murders have got far less bail conditions than he has been given.

It is basically house arrest. e.g.

"obey a curfew at an address in Suffolk"

"wear an electronic tag"

"report to a local police station every evening"

"cash guarantees of £240000"

Plus you can also bet his phone conversations will all be monitored.

At least he is out of jail, but its no victory.

"drunk driving while watching porn."

"viewing of" ... anything other than the road ... "while hurtling down the highway while nominally in control of a tonne-and-a-half of car ... is driving without due care and attention.

So they will let him off, if he can prove he has powerful friends in politics, or burn him at the stake, if he is one of the little people.

As for the legal definition, its in the Wikipedia, so it must be true! ;)

i.e. "Driving without due care and attention or careless driving is a moving traffic violation. As a legal term, it is used within the United States and the United Kingdom. It is usually a less serious offence than reckless driving (also known as dangerous driving) though more serious than driving whilst using a mobile phone. It is often punishable by fines and/or endorsements on a driver's license."

But then moron wankers such as this Prime Example (Primate Example?) also often end up winning their own Darwin award!

@"Top secret payload fired into orbit aboard private rocket"

For a moment there, I thought the US government had found a more secure place to put their most secret servers. :)

Doing service calls would be an interesting experience. “Houston we have a problem, bring a new ATX power supply with you”.

Jacket icon is in this case a space suit, complete with standard issue service engineer white shirt & tie. :)

Its the right of all parents...

@"parents taking pics of their offspring kitted out as angels or shepherds is not a Data Protection matter."

Its the right of all parents to photograph or video their kids like this, so that when they are teenagers, this evidence can be used to embarrass them in front of their friends.

Sounds very much like Orwellian Perpetual War propaganda FUD

"DHS videos and security announcements will be broadcast in Walmart stores"

That is blatant fear propaganda to keep the population scared and it will keep many scared. But then I guess while they are scared, they are distracted from thinking about and hearing the diplomatic leaks news.

But then the more I see of the US government, the more I think the phrase "The land of the free" is blatant propaganda to keep the US population fooled into thinking they are free.

The problem isn't the vast majority of the US population, its their lying leaders, who have the population so fooled by their lies (and endless fear as this news shows) that the majority of Americas are kept from hearing the truth and even worse made to feel anger at any criticism of their leaders (and so whilst they are angry, that makes many unwilling to listen to anything that could highlight they are lied to, which is the game their leaders play). The people are made to feel that any criticism is of America in general. Its not criticism of America as a country or the people of America, its criticism specifically at the rampant two faced arrogance of the American politicians, which is the same problem everyone has all around the world with our own politicians. The politicians lies are their propaganda to fool everyone. But in the land of the free, its so much more shocking to finally see so clearly that they are very far from free, as all the increasingly authoritarian tyranny over everyone online is showing us all.

Any American's still don't believe me? Still think you are free?... Then the fact you are on TheReg website shows you are at least hearing some of the European news, so its worth contrasting even the government biased news we hear as Europeans with the news a lot of Americans are told by their government, because many Americans are only hearing the government friendly corporate media propaganda. Many of the American people are being blatantly lied to by their leaders, in many cases even more than we Europeans are (as I now intend to show) and its sickening how bad we are being lied to, as the leaks have been showing.

So here's a web link that provides a shocking contrast to even the biased news a lot of our corporate media feed us. This link shows the kind of government propaganda lies many American people are being deceived with relentlessly. Some of it really is shocking. Its worth everyone reading this link, no matter what your views are for or against Wikileaks, this is what some Americans are only hearing. This link shows why some people only hearing this kind of thing and so can't see the truth, which is their leaders lie to them, not least as this Walmart news shows, because they have all their people so fearful that they are under attack. Endless fear. Here's the US government's own Orwellian style “two minutes hate” broadcast... (Its one of the US leaders lying in their own words, but his rampantly lying and manipulative ways can only be seen when you comparewhat he says with what we know from reading other news sources). Here's the link, its on CNN...

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/07/hayden.wikileaks.damage/index.html

All these government propaganda FUD games are the core problem which is stopping the vast majority of everyone online (in all countries) all standing together against the arrogant leaders who keep us all distracted and so arguing against each other and them at the top, playing us off against each other. But then every war has been that game for the leaders.

Over the past decade all the Orwellian moves have been getting bad enough, even scary at times, but over this last month, if we combine the increasingly shocking levels of Orwellian propaganda as this news shows, with the relentlessly increasing authoritarian control, then its hard not to find all this getting very scary at times, especially for our long term future. This year has been by far the worst so far, so it makes me wonder what is next?!

Hardware hackers web sites

I expect the missing Taser will reappear on Hardware hackers web sites, probably pulled apart and rebuilt into a power supply for Christmas lights or maybe a new way to catch fish and fry them at the same time. :)

Bad move MasterCard

If someone chooses to give their money to Wikileaks then ITS THEIR MONEY, SO THEIR CHOICE!. MasterCard don't own people's money and can't tell us all what we can and can't spend our money on!

MasterCard (and PayPal) have stepped way beyond a service into directly dictating what people can do. That's a shocking move, as it sets such a bad precedent. The MasterCard Corporation are now dictating to us the way governments do. (Same with the Swiss post office and PayPal).

MasterCard and all these companies are highlighting how they are all part of the systems of control that have grown up around us.

Yet the more they hit out at Wikileaks, the more people are seeing how the control freak bastards in power are abusing their power and as a result making this a worse world to live in, not better for everyone the governments are supposed to represent.

At least the Interpol global man hunt can rest easy now

Assange's lawyer said people were staking out their homes watching them and trying to spy on them, just as you would expect, but the point is, the authorities knew exactly where he was. So all this high profile bullshit Interpol press releases about hunting him in the government friendly corporate media is nothing more than another act for our benefit, all helping to build him up to appear to be this big criminal who has now been caught. One more part of the act. Which just increases its likelihood of being a good old fashioned honey trap being used to discredit and undermine him. Not the first time that method has been used to discredit someone.

They have of course already decided he is guilty, its just trying to find any way to make that stick, but you can bet the best lawyers in the world have been hired to find any way to bring him down.

So now its time for the corporate media to show the government two minute hate again. :( … after all the majority of the corporate media have to show it or the government will cut off their access to future news events, which puts them at a commercial disadvantage, so the journalists working for these corporations are silenced and have to follow the company line, otherwise it will risk hurting the company profits.

But then this is one more chess move that sadly was inevitable. It won't however stop us seeing what our governments have been doing behind our backs. We now know for sure they are lying bastards, so whatever they do to him that won't change what we think of them. Plus if they take down Wikileaks more will appear. So let battle commence.

A new big Ordnance Survey maps building

Thats a big building, so I was expecting to find more direction sign posts and places of special interest markers in it. :)

WTF!

So they are showing they don't want scientific facts to get in the way of their political propaganda!

@"categorize Wikileaks as a terrorist organization"

Maybe they should get a rubber stamp made up (with "terrorist organization" printed on it) so they can then label whoever they like as a terrorist organization, so they can then twist their laws even further to take down any group or person that shows them up for what they are really like.

This attitude of "categorize Wikileaks as a terrorist organization" shows how close some politicians are to Totalitarian attitudes.

Why keep guessing, when you can have the direct link to the document. :)

Here's the link:

http://www.iod.com/Home/MainWebSite/Resources/Document/corp_gov_guidance_and_principles_for_unlisted_companies_in_the_uk_final_1011.pdf

The 14 Principles in the document are really all about control, control, control, but then like the old saying, "If you think like a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" ... in the case of directors, people who naturally seek power over others to control them (for their gain), then in their case, every answer has to in their mind include them increasing their control over everyone else.

As for this bit ... "it is important to recognise that the company is not an extension of the personal property of the owner."

Yeah right, good luck trying to convince some bosses of that one. I've worked for a number of bosses who had this exact attitude and they begrudged every penny spent even if it would earn them very good money they still resisted, unless of course they could turn it around into becoming their idea. But then that's also a good warning sign of a Passive–Aggressive Narcissist mind game pattern of behaviour, where they endlessly fear dependence on others and do all they can to seek to control and obstruct the success of others and don't even want to believe they need others yet ironically they end up undermining their chances of people wanting to invest their ideas into their company. At which point I would expect some employees get that sinking feeling, as they recognise this pattern of behaviour in their boss.

(The bosses fear dependence on others as they fear ever having anyone with power and influence over them ever again the way they suffered excessive control as a child, but unlike the Aggressive Narcissists (outright bullies), the Passive–Aggressive Narcissists bully by sulking, undermining and mind games as they don't want direct confrontations, so a lot of what they do is hidden by them).

Ultimately though its all about control, control, control. At which point its time to find a new job :) … (and a better boss . ;)

Forbidden Planet for me as well

I am sad to hear he has died. For me my earliest memories as a kid was like others have said, of him in the film Forbidden Planet, which was a major step up for scifi in both special effects and in electronic music. It pre-dates even Doctor Who for its pioneering role in electronic music, so Forbidden Planet was a major film in its day and he was the lead actor.

Its only later that I learned to appreciate and respect his great sense of humour and willingness to laugh at himself when he moved into comedy roles. Considering how so many so called celebrities these days are not willing to laugh at themselves, I consider his attitude to life very admirable.

R.I.P.

So yet another day & yet more Police State moves :(

Like others have said, the key is good parenting. That means parents have the responsibility over their children, its not the ever more Totalitarianism state's responsibility to control everyone. When is enough finally enough with these control freaks.

The most dangerous "fire" that is "burning out of control" is all the control freaks seeking ever more ways to control us all! These self important arrogant Narcissistic control freaks in power have lost all concept of freedom & privacy. Just about every day we have yet more examples of yet more ways they find to impose their arrogant will onto us. Its relentless, control this, spy on that, over and over again, step after shocking step towards Totalitarianism with them in ever increasing control over us all.

When is enough, really, finally enough!

Welcome to the Twilight Zone

Have I just woken up in some kind of alternative reality?! WTF? So Axl Rose is pissed and so throwing a Naomi Campbell style prima donna tantrum because x-GnR member Slash is also in the game. WTF?! ... kind of, "oh I don't want it in the game if HE is in the game". Get a grip.

I think I'm totally on Slash's side, after all he did also co-write "Welcome to the Jungle" with Axl.

Axl should stop now, just stop, he is seriously showing himself up.

60 year old robot :)

Is robot years like dog years?

@"after 60 years of hibernation" ... "can no longer sit down or locate beer."

That looks like real old age, fortunately I'm not there yet! ;)

Cheers George on moving into your new (retirement) home (Museum)! :)

Utterly biased and fundamentally flawed research.

@"A wandering mind is an unhappy mind" ... No it isn't. Their wandering mind is very evidently unhappy, but that says way more about them, (and their usually hidden troubling thoughts) than it does about a wandering mind.

A wandering mind can be good or bad, it simply depends upon what that person is dwelling on. Therefore the people who are distracted by their troubling thoughts (and so decree “a wandering mind is an unhappy mind”) and so then go on to mandate that others have to live only in the moment, are giving out a massive warning sign of their real core behaviour. That they can't let their mind wander, because they fear and are painfully distracted by what it wanders into. That is why these people are effectively saying, *their* wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

Personally I love having a wandering mind. I also enjoy being around people who have a fascinating imagination and I avoid the boring ones who don't have much imagination or worse still, some who refuse (for whatever real reason) to have much imagination and some even put others down for having an imagination. (Which just forces me to ask the question why the negative anti-imagination people are so insecure about others expressing their imagination and being free to explore their imagination. It leads inevitably to the question, what is so bad in the negative people's wandering mind? … which is a good warning sign of why they treat others badly).

These so called “researchers” have let their own perception of the world fundamentally bias their interpretation of any results they think they have.

Here's a fitting quote to end on: "Imagination is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein.

Every time the ICO opens its collective mouth, they put their foot in it!

Here goes ... [deep breath] ...

@”ICO boss Christopher Graham: Most of the job that we do isn’t about technology – it’s applying [data protection and] freedom of information act legislation, and so you need to be an expert in that rather than a geek.”

WTF, where do I start. So he wants expert sheep who follow legislation to the letter with a relentless narrow minded myopic focus on the details of the legislation, not technical people, who can think for themselves and see what a mess the country is getting itself into!?!. So the ICO boss is effectively saying they have no interest in technology, they only care about following existing legislation. Now we see why the country is in such a mess!. We need people who can see and understand how technology is changing and being increasingly abused and misused to create literally a Police State!

As for wanting respect for getting access to Google. WTF! The UK is behind how many countries now going after Google on this issue and yet this useless waste of space ICO boss wants some respect for finally getting off their asses and just starting to do something?! WTF!

@"Graham added that many people wanted a privacy czar, but that was not the job of the information commissioner."

Again with the narrow minded myopic focus. WTF is this attitude of effectively not my problem! WTF point is an information commissioner, if they don't police how information is used!

@"Graham is calling for any new laws which have privacy implications to be closely looked at after they've been passed." ... NO! SHIT FOR BRAINS!!! ... look at the privacy implications closely *BEFORE* .. (get that!) i.e. *** B E F O R E!!! *** they've been passed!!!!! WTF is this guy on! ... Please, oh please fire this useless shit for brains dick head!

@"Graham recommends private companies also consider the privacy implications of new products and services before rather than after launch." .... LOL!! OMG! I do not believe it!, he actually expects them to care about the privacy implications with bastards like Phorm blatantly trying to sell everyone's privacy for their profit! ... They don't care, they don't have empathy! Therefore they won't care about the privacy implications because they don't have empathy!. Wow, how the fuck did someone as stupid as this ICO boss ever get this kind of job! Did no one else want the job!?!

Why do we have the ICO?! it would be funny if it wasn't so serious. :(

This shows how the patent system isn't really working as intended.

This news shows patents these days are increasingly being used like weapons of mass distraction, to offset challenges from competitors. Company A launches a series of patent legal challenges against company B, then company B hits back with its own set of patent legal challenges. Its like a form of legal Mutual Assured Destruction, if they go to court, so the patents end up as just negotiating chips on a table, to allow them to come to some negotiated compromise.

The little guy who invents something and then gets one patent, doesn't have a hope in hell in this kind of battle of multi-billion dollar giant corporations with their own army of high paid lawyers and massive arsenals of thousands of patents to use as weapons against competitors. :(

It shows the patent system is utterly broken. Patents have morphed into a legal battle field weapon for corporate negotiating. :(

Superficially two faced meaningless changes

These superficially two faced meaningless changes are not going to make any real difference. They just want us to think they are changing when the two faced bastards have no real intention of changing. For example:

"unintentional unlawful interception" gives *up to* £10,000

"Intentional unlawful interception will remain a criminal offence"

For a start, Phorm were Intentional unlawful interception. Its their whole business plan to use Intentional interception! and they were not lawfully allowed to do it! So WTF! ... why are they not being charged!

Plus this still leaves two other options, i.e.

unintentional lawful interception

& Intentional lawful interception

So this wording leaves it wide open for the Government to continue to work with corporations to continue to build their ever more powerful Police State as the Government gets to choose who are lawfully allowed to carry out interception.

Therefore there is very little here that is really changing.

Plus (from a previous news article) the ... "CPS said (.doc) it anticipates it will have spent £5,250 investigating the case by the time it comes to a decision next month" ... so that really shows how little they are really trying to punish Phorm. £5,250 will just about pay for a barrister to get a coffee and take at least minutes looking at a few pages of paper! Meanwhile billions of our money is being thrown into building a police state, so its easy to see who will really win. i.e.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/27/cps_bt_phorm/

I see Government after Government showing endless Passive–aggressive style apathy and obstruction of any real attempt to punish Phorm. Because they don't really want to punish Phorm, they want to spy like Phorm.

Deep Packet Inspection spying on the whole population is utterly taking the piss. Its a 24/7 Police State taken to an unbelievably shocking level. It would have been utterly unthinkable even 10 years ago, so WTF more have they got in store for us all in the years to come!. :(

So now our masters are also going to decide what we can be allowed to read.

How long before political sites end up on the banned reading list.

This is moving into Fahrenheit 451 territory, banning what we can read. After all, we may read subversion against our rich and powerful masters.

Plus yet another day and yet another shocking Police State move. Its never ending. :(

I am so sick of what they are doing, this Police State isn't the country I grew up in. :(

35000 years old?

As theses axes are 35000 years old, I would guess old battle axe mother in law jokes date from a similar time period. ;)

Sounds like an Aaron Spelling style sickly sweet storyline

@"over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new-found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind."

I guess they have also seen the remake of the V Series, because that is exactly the role of Anna's daughter. Which given this weak Aaron Spelling style sickly sweet storyline helps explains why I'm so bored by the remake of the V Series, yet I found the original V Series exciting and even better, at times shocking when characters you started to get to know, were suddenly killed off and you didn't know who was next, as almost anyone could die next. Point being there was a strong storyline and suspense, and excitement. Whereas this Scarlett Johansson film sounds just like a sickly sweet episode of Beverly Hills, 90210.

Seeking the root cause

@"What's a lot less certain is which way around the causality goes: is it people being violent to control the minerals trade or is the minerals trade a way to finance violence already inherent"

I would have said both apply at the same time. After all both statements are not mutually exclusive. Also what you are effectively really saying is Power and Money, i.e.

Power : "is it people being violent to control the minerals trade"

Money : "or is the minerals trade a way to finance violence already inherent"

Both money and power can be used to reinforce each other, after all money is power over people who need money to live. Therefore money really is just another form of power. So different forms of power used to reinforce each other.

Therefore its really about the need for power, in other words, the power to control others for their gain. Ergo a Narcissistic behaviour driving the war and violence against others for their own gain.

So once again we come back to the Narcissists in society, who seek to have power over everyone else for their own self interested gain. Even if that requires them to kill others to gain power over everyone else. Narcissists exploit anything they can for power, so its not the phones or minerals causing the war, its the Narcissists causing the war for more power in any way they can.

Which is why Narcissists gaining increasing power in any society is really so dangerous for everyone else. Sound familiar? … It should do, as Narcissism is ultimately the core driving force behind every war and every social repression in history!

Big Brother icon as its really about control and control is power and this is about the people who seek power over others, the power to dictate how others must live, which benefits the self interested people with the power far more than their controlled serfs. Which is the way the people in power want it. Sound familiar? :(

So yet another day & yet another increase in Police State moves :(

So now we also have outright Thoughtcrime. Oh wonderful :( ... Prosecuted for what is said in a private online chat log? WTF!? When words can be punished by police intervention its time to seriously worry about not what our society is becoming, but far worse, worry about what our society has already become.

When is enough, really, finally enough?

At this point, I cannot believe anyone would fail to see we are increasingly becoming a Police State, therefore anyone who says we are not a Police State, must in some way really be denying our Police State is bad. So either they are profoundly ignorant of the hidden danger of the relentless two faced Narcissistic bastards who constantly seek power over others who are creating the Police State or they are one of these two faced bastards who want a Police State. Either way they are the enemy within society we all have against us. They are like two sides of the same coin so to speak, the ignorant and the duplicitous who fool the ignorant. Both are the key ingredients a society needs to allow this Police State to grow without end and both are our enemy within.

@"displaying contempt towards a public servant"

Well we are all fucked then!

What so now they have to pretend they like their own set of greedy power hungry two faced bastards! ... like hell I will.

46 billion Earth-size planets in our galaxy :)

Yet there's also an estimated 170 billion galaxies!

So much for scifi saying Earth planets are a rare resource. :)