Re: Hmmm

Agreed, most of the films in the list have at least some humour value, so you can usually find someone at least willing to grudgingly admit they don't think they were that bad. I'd even watch "Snakes on a Plane" just because it is so laughably bad, but you can at least laugh at it.

My nomination would be "Antichrist" by Lars von Trier for the simple fact I can't find anyone - not even artsy-farsty winebar-dwellers - that will admit to thinking it is good. The whole film is a complete load of cobblers, wrapped in art school "if-you-don't-like-it-you-must-be-thick" intellectual superiority. TBH, the only appeal seems to be to some women (and certain men) that want to see Willem Dafoe's big "talent", Charlotte Gainsbourg not being much of an enticement.

Re: I did not ask for a wireless card

Now that explains something that puzzled me the other day. This chap on the Tube had two of those pocket chains on him on opposite sides of his waist, one attached to his wallet and the other to a separate holder for his oyster card. Maybe the interference thing is common.

Re: It's the bullets, not the gun...

Wrong gun and wrong bullets, tbh. No-one is denying that global warming has occured and is likley to carry on happening, though some think it is a cyclical process and we're just as likely to go into a new ice age as all burn up. What the disagreement is about is are we to blame, and does our suspicion that we might have a part in the process justify crippling our development. By blaming ourselves and acting rashly we could ensure our own destruction in the case of a new ice age.

If we do slip into another ice age then it makes an even better case to build more nuke power stations as a new ice age means a definite need for lots of electrical power, if just for heating alone. And if we're actually contributing to the problem through burning fossil fuels then nukes make sense again as they will alow a much easier conversion to electric vehicles than any other option (please don't pretend wind, solar and wave generation are going to even make up half the extra power needed to replace our increasing levels of traffic).

/This is me not holding much hope of the Greens agreeing that nukes make sense either way.

Re: Global Warming is a false dilema...

".....When that runs out, the earth is cooked....." Shirley, that should be frozen, not cooked? Cra*p! Best burn some more fossil fuels to warm things up before the Sun burns out!

Re: Re: They keep repeating themselves, so I will reciprocate.

"......"Not well understood" is not the same as "Not understood at all"...." Yes, which means even you will have to admit the matter is not settled, the science is advancing but is in no way complete. Why is the Faithful can ignore any science that ge

ts in the way of their doom'n'gloom gig by saying "it's incomplete", but cannot seem to grasp the simple fact that cuts both ways.

Re: Re: They keep repeating themselves, so I will reciprocate.

Did someone forget to tell you that clouds (or the lack of) have a much more pronounced effect on both weather and local temperatures? In effect, water vapour is by far the biggest contributor to "global warming", not CO2. But the really fun bit is the scientists are still struggling to understand how clouds and the weather system interact, quote : "....Changes in clouds result from changes in the distribution of water vapor, temperature, and winds. The effects of global warming on these factors are complex and not well understood....." Marian Koshland Science Museum of the US National Academy of Science.

Re: Knock Knock...

It's always easier to get a headshot whilst they're stuck on the windowledge. Well, in CS anyway.

Re: Re: The right wing dodged a bullet

"....I swiped my thumb from left to right across my blackberry torch's screen..." It's worse trying to do ANYTHING with the awful Blackberry trackpad/button/thingummy. At least your Torch has a touch screen. Whilst I can do such things as browsing and reading/editing MS Office documents on my work BB Curve, I usually switch to my Android phone for browsing. Just think how annoyed you'd have been trying to scroll around on a Curve and then seeing my name!

/Come back, BB Flip Pearl, all is forgiven!

Re: As a representative of the tobacco industry, I would like to point out...

Once again, one of the Faithful is taking a relatively simple biological example and pretending it is similar to the vastly more complex global weather system. We know smoking causes cancer because we can reproduce the exact same effect (cancer) by reproducing the cause (tobacco smoke) in lab animals. The problem with all the screaming around AGW is that no-one can even come close to modelling all the variables that make up the global weather system, which is why we have everyone having to say they think something may happen, but they can't say for sure. Well, that is except for the AGW zealots.

Re: Re: The right wing dodged a bullet

".....using the situation to promote their own particular preconceptions...." Don't be silly, don't you know it's a fact that anyone slightly right of Mao Tse Tung is guaranteed to be gosh-darn-nasty person? I consider myself slightly right-of-center, and I eat three babies for breakfast and shoot at least four people of different ethnic origin by teatime! Who knwos what depracity the Fewnch Right get up to, it's only good that we have such caring socialist types like Mr Bloomberg to keep us informed of the awfulness associated with untrendy political views.

/Do I need the sarc tags, just for the "caring" socialists?

Re: Re: Suspiciously convenient

I think (hope) Pierre was being sarcastic.....

Re: Re: Two buttons?

"....Easiest classes to play:

Mage

DK

Paladin"

Shirley, the old, unkillable Druid should be in there? Absolute doddle to level, can play tank, DPS or healer with ease, and gets by default all the leather with INT on as nobody else wants it (mind you, they do have to ninja all the good Hunter and Rogue AGI leather too!).

Re: Scary in a good way

Yeah, it's so good I'm going to have to fake a firewall issue and block the minions' access to El Reg - can't have them learning truths like that!

On the subject of faking, we used to have a very crafty backup admin I was alwasy hearing good things about. This in itself was suspicious enough seeing as he was lazier than the average BOFH. What he did was he'd pick a bigwig to impress and then introduce a delay into the overnight backup of their desktop. Then, he'd be in just the right place in the morning when the bigwig was unable to start work because their desktop was slow. "Leave it to me," he'd say, disappear and undelay the backup, then call back in ten minutes to say; "It should be OK now, I fixed the <insert technical gobbleydegook here>." It was amazing the number of people that thought he was brilliant!

Re: Re: Preconceived agendas, etc.

"....You're either pretty ignorant...." Nope, the example was just stupidly alarmist. Ammonia is a poison, and we're not fish in an aquarium. It's so stupid it would be like saying firing a .45 bullet in the head could kill you, so we should never use any metal of any form in larger concentrations than 10.7g in ANY situation where we might come into contact with metal. Good luck building cars, trains, planes, bridges or just even a belt buckle with that kind of scientific argument.

".....or naturally combative...." Age is just making me much less tolerant of idiotic, social trendiness, masquerading as a concern for the environment, especially when it uses bad and debunked science in an attempt to justify their "beliefs".

Re: Processing power??

A valid question. You can paly WoW on an old P4, but you better have lots of RAM and a very good graphics card to make up for the lack of processing power. Looking at the iPad3, with a 1GHz CPU, it simply won't have the grunt, and that's before we consider graphics.

Then there's the storage issue - a full install of WoW, including right up to the current Cataclysm patch, is 40GB+ of diskspace. Expect the Mists of Pandaria to add at least another 5GB+. So unless you have the top-end 64GB iPad3 I'd say you'd be stuck with a continuous background download, which will kill gameplay.

Sorry, but the iPad2 is simply not going to cut the mustard unless they release a stickman version. Just stick with a PC or a proper laptop.

Re: The solution isn't nuclear alone.

"....If France had to shut down all their reactors...." Which is a pretty pointless statement - what would happen to make the Fwench shut them all down, short of Angela "green-for-votes" Merkel getting elected Prez of some new European Federal state? Please supply a realistic event that would cause such a requirement to shutdown. I anticipate a major amount of fail in your efforts.

Re: Why not..

Not a bad idea. Send him a "cease and desist" email, asking him nicely to hand over the domain name, and then watch the greedy squatter spend his money on webhosting for a year. Then go back with another "cease and desist" email, get his hopes up again, watch him waste another year's money, rinse and repeat ad infinitum. Zero cost to the Pope, much time and money wasted by the squatter.

RE: IMG

Sadly, I'm not sure being a criminal would bar A$$nut from running for the Australian Senate, and it would only take the usual "we are the 99%, I will be your voice, etc, etc" fluff being pumped into the rebellious/vacuous brains of the "yoof", and A$$nut could set himself up in office. After all, there are precedents where awful protest votes, thought doomed to failure, ended up with even nastier pieces of work winning. For example, in Northern Ireland the IRA sympathisers elected imprisoned terrorist Bobby Sands to Westminster.

I reckon A$$nut's lawyers will carry on dragging out any Swedish courtcase in the hope he can get elected before a trial concludes. Do Aussie Senators get diplomatic immunity?

Re: Not surprised either

Direct or via a reseller? Only asking because we've had plenty of hp servers in via resellers since before Christmas. Some were delayed by disk shortages but not more than a few days. If it was direct then scream at hp more and threaten them with a switch to Dell or IBM, always gets them going. If it's via a reseller than I'd suggest changing your reseller.

Re: Re: Pwned

"....Imagine the chaos that would be caused if all of anonymous had copies...." It would be a bit like giving kiddies chainsaws, they'd mostly be a danger to themselves. If they want those "tools" then they can get them a lot more safely from any number of sites.

Are you being sponsored by Rusol to make such silly statements?

Re: tkioz

Even worse, they like to claim they are the 99%! Suddenly I feel very, very, very smart.

Re: Re: Several votes for Thorium

So we can't bet everything on Thorium, and standing idly waiting for teh Indians to get it right doesn't sound like much of a plan. A more reasonable solution would be to build Uranium-based nuke stations now to give us 30+ years to sort out the Throium issues. That way, we have plenty of energy, plenty of time, and if the Thorium bugs are never ironed out we can still build more Uranium stations whilst we look for the next option.

Re: Re: Preconceived agendas, etc.

Good thing that it's not Ammonia that the article is about then, eh? D'uh!

Re: Re: The solution isn't nuclear alone.

"....if they had become as reliant upon nuclear as the French are." By reliant, do you mean "have an excess of energy, allowing them to sell that excess to the UK, and also have a viable nuke industry that can make money abroad building nuke power plants, as they will do in the UK", then that sounds quite good to me.

The Japanese problem is that they are in an area of high and severe earthquake activity, whereas the UK is not. Even then, the Fukishima plant still exceeded its design brief in resisting the tsunamii. Standard, Greenpecker, anti-nuke boilerplate whining on about Fukishima is simply not applicable to the UK.

Re: Computer Misuse Act

I'm sure the Guardian will claim that they did not use the login details themselves but merely published the content of the emails after they had been passed to them, therefore not being guilty of any computing crime. That does still leave them open to any Syrian trumped up charge for upsetting the Dicktator (sic) and his missus, but - AFAIK - seeing as Syria doesn't have an extradition treaty with the UK I'd say the Guardian juhnahleests are pretty safe. They just better not take any holidays anywhere near Syria.

Re: Re: Re:Oh, how I laughed!

"....Beer?..." Ah, if only we could solve all the World's troubles over a pint.

Re: Re: Fidelity Bravery Integrity

"I don't know or care about what beef you seem to hold against Anonymous...." Ah, nothing like an opening statement admitting your own blinkeredness. How are you ever goin to learn anything new if you simply refuse to even acknowledge another's POV? You could debate your support for the Anonyputzs, provide counters to any arguments I might put forward, but instead you seem scared of debate. That is simply unquestioning belief, one step from mindless acceptance, and probably bordering on a failth-like worship. In other words, a major fail.

"....the FBI allegedly and by their own admission blackmailing him in the lowliest of ways...." Nope, they simply pointed out to the suspected crim that - if he was tried and found guilty - his actions would have ramifications for his children. Strange, you seem to have a hard time accepting that his actions could have ramifications. I assume that you and him share a common inability to consider that all actions have a reaction, and often not the one you may have thought they would. The prisons are full of criminals that thought along those lines.

"....A traitor is always a traitor...." Whilst your use of the term "traitor" is very indicative both of your political leanings and the unquestioning zealotry with which you pursue your trendy "cause", it amuses me that you would somehow credit the crim in question with some higher standard. Sabu turned out to be just another criminal, simply a "bad" human, and given to the same weaknesses as other types of criminals. If Sabu was really dedicated to The Cause, he would have gladly sacrificed his own freedom and his contact with his children "for teh Greater Good". Instead, he folded like a cheap thief caught shoplifting. Why so suprised, or had you placed him on some sort of mental pedestal? Ain't it a bummer when your "religion" falls apart, I'm not surprised your response is furious denial in the face of simple facts.

"....As for your Disneyland colleague...." Why? In your eyes, was he undeserving of sympathy because he worked and saved? If it was the destination you found so reprehensible, would you have been sympathetic if he'd been saving to send his kiddies to some hippy camp to be taught the "correct way to think"? And don't wory about his kids, they came back very happy with their holiday. Does it pain you to think that they'll probably grow up to be happy, hard-working consumers? I hope so.

".....Oh, the tribulations of the urban middle class!...." Oh, the whining of the gormless socialist.

"....reading through your "contributions"...." I have to ask how you could, seeing as you seem to hate anything to do with capitalism? Did you steal - sorry, "liberate" - the PC you used, or the Internet connection? Or are you another one of those poor, misunderstood revolutionaries, working towards the Revolution for the Greater Good from the comfort of your Mom's basement?

Ah, choices, choices. Do I use the "Epic Fail" or the "Stop this nonsense" icon? Shame we don't have a "ROFLMAO @ your tantrum" icon. I think simply reiterating my satisfaction at your upset will do. Smiley!

Re: Awesome?

"....Microsoft will have gone the way of the dodo by then...." Amusingly, people have been predicting the death of The Beast "in the next x years" every year for at least twenty years now. Each time, M$ simply pulls out the stops, either in applications or developer support, or "openness" / embrace-and-stifle, or simply marketting muscle, and carries on raking in the cash. I'm a big RHEL fan but it doesn't make me blind to the capabilities of either Windows Server or of the M$ juggernaut. Those that undersetimate The Beast are likely to be waiting a long time for it to die.

In my business, for example, we could probably remove 99% of M$ software (and probably 95% of the UNIX and mainframe too) and replace it with Linux and OSS offerings, but the integration task is such a challenge that M$ (and the UNIX OS and app vendors) are pretty safe for now. We are beyond the low-hanging fruit, a lot of that's been switched to RHEL/SuSE, but pushing Linux deeper into our enterprise is a tough sell.

I see M$'s biggest issue as trying to overturn the dominance of VMware in the virtualisation arena. Hyper-V isn't that bad but VMware has the hearts and minds of far too many customers now.

Re: Re: Re:Oh, how I laughed!

"Oh, am I sensing annoyance from you, Matthew?...." No, that's simply a mixture of boredom and resignation, both prompted by your predictable frothing.

".....No, but I will contend that no one gave that as the reason Iraq was to be invaded...." And there we have another major failure, both in political understanding and simple reading comprehension. In political understanding, you failed to grasp that the Allies needed a legal argument to go to war, hence the WMD angle to show how Saddam was infringing on UN Resolution 1441. If you had asked me to justify the the Allied arguments around WMDs and Res 1441 then you could just bleat that standard, anti-War whines and still come across as vageuly on-topic.

"....US that sold him the chemical agents...." I think you'll find that the majority of Saddam's chemical agents, along with a lot of his high-tech coms, bunkers and other war material came from Europe, especially Germany and France. His chemical precursors came from many countries, only a tiny fraction coming from the US. Wikipedia has the following (and even a echo-chamber bigot like you should be able to find Wikipedia):

".....The know-how and material for developing chemical weapons were obtained by Saddam's regime from foreign firms. The largest suppliers of precursors for chemical weapons production were in Singapore (4,515 tons), the Netherlands (4,261 tons), Egypt (2,400 tons), India (2,343 tons), and West Germany (1,027 tons). One Indian company, Exomet Plastics (now part of EPC Industrie Ltd.) sent 2,292 tons of precursor chemicals to Iraq. The Kim Al-Khaleej firm, located in Singapore and affiliated to United Arab Emirates, supplied more than 4,500 tons of VX, sarin, and mustard gas precursors and production equipment to Iraq...."

All you are doing is displaying the fact that you have done zero original research, just swallowed the anti-US soundbites fed to you.

But what you actually asked was what reasons did I have for supporting the Iraq War, so it is a failure on your part to immediately trot out the very worn, standard, anti-War boilerplate. Did I expect you to do any original thinking and actually consider my points and maybe make counters? No, your lack of original thinking has been self-evident from your first post. You don't even deserve a trollface.

Re: We are here to help, trust us....

It's not all bad news. For one, I'm really glad to see Oracle still developing BTRFS. But does that make me want to pick Oracle's RHEL copy over proper RHEL? No. I'm quite happy to see Oracle's tweaks ported into the other Linux releases, should they prove useful and stable, but only if they work on other vendors' kit. I have zero interest in being led up the garden path to Larry's walled garden, thanks.

Re: Re: Re:Oh, how I laughed!

Oh dear. I was trying to save you further embarrassment as I predict you will simply trot out more well-worn, debunked, handwringer froth in response to anything to do with the Iraq War. I saw the removal of Saddam Hussein from power as both necessary to reduce the chances of a major Mid East war (along the lines of another invasion of Kuwait), to protect the minorities in Iraq (such as the Kurds and the Southern Marsh Arabs) from further persecution, and to bring Saddam to trial for his crimes. Are you contending that Saddam was whiter than white and had no crimes to answer to?

".....Oh, and by the way, did you see yesterdays news?...." The Guardian is not a paper I would recommend to anyone, it's the exact political opposite (and equally as brow-beating) as the Daily Mail that you and your fellow bleaters so happily ridicule, whilst ignoring the paucity of real reporting in the sources you choose to read. The Guardian's falling out with A$$nut, after being quite happy to originally work with him on stolen US documents, is simply an example of their hilariously inept "journalism".

".....UN special rapporteur on torture .... Mendez...." Ah yes, Juan Mendez of Human Rights Watch fame. An institution criticised for its focus on bashing Israel at every opportunity, whilst largely ignoring real issues such as Kashmir, and whose members like posing with Nazi war memorobilia. I'm not surprised the totally corrupt UN Human Rights Council, infamous for electing such well known oppressors of human rights as Iran to its ranks, whilst ignoring human rights violations committed by council member states, should choose a representative with such a bias against the US military. Am I surprised Juan Mendez is wasting time and money pushing the Manning "torture" rot? Nope. Am I surprised that you don't have a clue to the political leanings of the people you quote? Nope again.

".....Only rednecks think it wasn't torture now....." Only a faux intellectual bigot would tar a group of people with such an assertion. I happen to know some very clever "rednecks", one of whom has a very senior position in hp, a job no doubt way above your paygrade and requiring far more intelligence than you can muster. That is if you do have a job even. I'm beginning to think that unlikely.

Re: The "tipping point" will be when New Orleans & Miami are *permanently* under water

So what happens if we actually go into a new ice age rather than AGW? Bet you'll be wishing we had more nuke power stations then!

"....Yes, we do like to focus on the last 100,000 years. You know why?...." Beacuse your psedoscience just doesn't stack up otherwise? Beacuse seeing a nice series and peaks and troughs over those millions of years kinda spoils your little alarmist routine?

"....Because most of the species alive on the planet are finely adapted to their current ecological niches and wouldn't survive a sudden shift back to the climate of the cretaceous period....." Really? They seem to have survived quite well the last set of cycles, or did you fail to notice that life didn't disappear from teh Earth when it was at 600ppm.

Re: Re: Re:Oh, how I laughed!

".....I didn't have to look very far to see you saying the same thing...." Actually. we're totally different - I show up the holes in your arguments, you just post bleatings.

Re: Re: @ Mahatma Coat

And more of the usual nonsense from the pro-AV crowd.

"....No reasoning. In fact nobody ever gave a single indication as to why AV would be a worse way to choose your MP than FPTP....." You all keep on going on about how the anti-AV arguments were so weak or non-existant, yet you lost so badly. Gee, I wonder if it was because the pro-AV arguments just didn't resonate with all those voters that turned out to vote "no thanks".

Re: Re: yes but

"......New Scientist would have us believe that "Humanity's greenhouse gas emissions may be acidifying the oceans"....." Well, seeing as all human C02 emmissions make up a tiny 2% compared to those of nature herself, I'd have to guess that someone at New Scientist was looking for a scarey headline to sell some advertising space.

Re: Re: Could the FBI have stopped this?

".....because Matt Bryant posts many angry attacks on what people write here...." Lol, I think you are missing the bit where I'm laughing at you whilst I type!

And that schpiel was so convincing, up until you started insisting that the authorities had been embarrassed. The only people that are embarrassed are the families of these losers. The rest of us are just mildly annoyed by the losers' antics.

Re: Re: Could the FBI have stopped this?

Oh puh-lease, h4m0ny, you're little line about the US only targetting Dickileaks and Lulzsec because they felt "humiliated" gives away your real POV. The FBI were following a gang of hackers that openly bragged about committing criminal acts. Stupid crims will get caught, and tried, regardless of who you think they may have humiliated.

If proven in court that they did what the FBI says, the Lulzsec has committed crimes (and that's ignoring their own foolish admittance through bragging online). Manning is currently on trial to settle exactly which crimes he has commited. In either case, if Wikileaks are linked to those crimes, then the members and leaders of Wikileaks are liable to trial in the US, if they are stupid enough to let themselves get arrested in the US. If they are already on trial in a country with an extradition treaty (such as A$$nut will be in Sweden), then there is a good chance an extradition request will be made, IF the FBI manage to provide enough evidence to gain a warrant as a result of evidence from the Manning trial or the Lulzsec-related trials. Please note the if, as it is not clear yet how deeply Lulzsec and Wikileaks are linked. Nothing to do with humiliation, just criminal investigations.

Re: Re: How about....

"....instead of regurgitating nonsense spewed out by the Daily Mail and the Fox Network...." Hmmm, the rush to use such stereotypical pigeonholing, a constant amongst the bleatings of the lefties, only reinforces my belief that you don't use any sources other than the same ones the average sheeple thinks are "cool".

"....Ooh, reputable journalist! Where did you find one of those these days?...." The difference between the Anonyputzs and a proper newspaper (even the Daily Mail which you seem to hold in such disregard) is that the newspapers have rules they must follow, and can be sued for libel if they print lies. The Anons can massage the Stratfor emails all they like, where is the accountability? In short, a reputable journalist offers some small form of guarantee through their legal accountability. Sorry, too many long words?

The rest of your post is simply amusing, including the bit about accusations of facism (I'm sure you label anyone slightly to the right of Mao as "facist"). But I'm troubled by the line "....you spit bile and hate in every post...." I see that as well as a lack of worldy experience, objectivity, and plain nouse, you also simply don't get the fact that I take great glee in poking holes in the posts made by you and the rest of your herd. Such a shame, for you to be so naive and so bitter.

Someone needs to buy Bernie a clue AND a sense of humour! ROFLMAO!

Re: Re: Re:Oh, how I laughed!

"....I'm done arguing with you now....." What, is it time for your after-milk nap?

".....no one in their right mind...." Interesting that you are so closed minded that you cannot perceive that someone else could have a different POV without being mentally challenged. Personally, I think that says plenty about the limits of your intellectual capabilities.

".....War in Iraq is good...." No, war is never good, but it is often necessay. You may come to understand that when you grow up. Until then, I'll just laugh at the rest of the frothing, trend-du-jour, ranting points you listed.