Media: On hold for how long

It is like boiling water. The temperature rises quickly to boiling temperature and then stays there until the water is gone. Then it rises again to never seen heights. The problem with all these models is that the fundamental parameters are not all known. So many feedback loops, either positive or negative. The earth will survive, whether we do is yet to be seen. The only really known is that, at some point, there will be no more fossils left to burn. The human species may be around to see that happen, but it also may go extinct way before then.

The media has made the whole thing into a fantastic headline frenzy. "We're all going to die!", "We'll be heated to extinction", "No problem, only 0.1 degree", etc... Media meddling in the discussion over fractions of a degree in one or the other way is just hype, no more. The fact is, nobody knows what exactly will happen in the long term. The only consensus is that our "previous" lifestyle will no longer cut it. Whether this is due to 1, 2, 3 or 6 degrees temperatures is irrelevant. The timescale is also irrelevant for all practical intends. It is our children and children's children who will need to adapt (and they will curse us no matter what we do).

I'd suggest that the media concentrates on reporting on (practical) solutions for the human species to survive in the long run, seen in the light of a changing climate. That may actually help us all so that our children and children's children still are there to curse us (and may curse us a little bit less if we do a good job).

It involves (new) computers, phones and wireless

Well, if the patents are granted, then all hope for the USPTO should be extinguished in one final blow. The criteria of "obvious to a person skilled in the field" seems to be a total loss for the USPTO.

I'm now waiting for a patent to be granted on "waving a hand by means of electronic communication using a wireless infrastructure". Hell, it involves computers and phones and whatever electronics, so it must be worthy.

And nothing of value was lost

No value got lost. Actually, a lot is saved with moving to /dev/null since most files are already copies from /dev/zero and gzip only allows for so much compression.

When we talk about management documents, then we can safely assume that they were retrieved from /dev/urandom (no, not /dev/random, management types are so predictable 50% of the time), so /dev/null makes a lot of sense. At least more sense than the management types do, have done and ever will do.

(sarcasm may be a part of this post, ymmv)

Psychological extortion

Plea bargain is basically a form of (psychological) extortion. You just talk up the penalty and see what happens. The plea bargain system is corrupt in favor of the prosecution.

any-Bomb

So, Belgium is out of the question then?

Multiple choice is a fallacy

"(Politically) incorrect responses mean that a user needs to wait..."

So, tomorrow the other answer is valid. And next week we need to ask with sugar-coating attached. Next month the taboo of asking about taboos is tabooed using taboos.

Next they tell you that the IP addresses are logged and traced, depending your alleged answers. What could possibly go wrong with this so called "technology"?

A prominent example is required

I vote for extremely strong enforcement of this new new law in Japan. It should first and foremost be applied to any and all employee, member, associate of the RIAJ (and their family members) and also any and all politician plus the politician's family and friends.

Let's see how long this law survives...

Guidance

How to kill yourself:

- perform a lethal action(*)

So, I guess that TheReg now will be on the banlist? Surely they deserve to be punished for allowing advice on suicide.

(*) Anything that will stop your significant body parts from functioning, using sufficient mechanical or chemical power will suffice.

The Distributed Camera

Will law-enforcement access the camera system?

That must be someone's wet dream, I guess...

No more dangers

Finally, soon I will be able to get a pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

Yeah!

Paytime

Makes me wish I got 5 quid per event. I'd be at more sunny places by now.

Belgium

And "Belgium" is allowed to be left alone?

Priorities, it is all about Fucking priorities.

OSI layers 8..10

My education has learned me that OSI layers 8, 9 and 10 are Money, Friends and Politics.

Optimism from beyond the grave

"improvements in effeciency"... Well then, give us a call when they break the laws of thermodynamics. I'm sure it is a criminal offence in some jurisdiction.

A T-shirt

It is a fucking T-shirt, who gives a fuck?

The toes must have been long on that ex, stretching from pole to pole...

Black-bar picture release

So, the next photo album of celebrity snapshots will be compiled with pictures that have placed a prominet black bar over each and every registered prick with a price-tag put on it.

Intellectual Property: an oxymoron.

You're not allowed to create content

Next bastion to fall is the creation of creation itself. You will have to get a copyright license to create something copyright-able. I guess that the bureaucratic proposals are illegally copyrighted?

Outlaw enough and there will only be outlaws left.

New goldmine

Maybe someone should send a "settlement"-letter to them? What is good for the goose....

Long time to travel, no time to develop, much time to vanish

For the 600 light year distance, it would seem rather quirky if we'd detect anything at all.

Considering that 600 years ago, the human race was meddling with burning witches and radio signals were not something considered (let alone being technologically possible). Our own signals may be detected in a radius of (optimistically) 70 light years. By the time k22b will know we exists, we may have died out of (un-)natural causes...

The living <ehm>

Insulting a (barely) living god gives you prison time. Insulting a non-existing god would result in burning (not too long ago; I think it is still practiced somewhere).

So, I hereby instate, as the only real god, that anyone mocking me, in any way or form for any reason, will we flogged and his/her entire family killed up to the seventh degree.

When we're done, we at least solved overpopulation.

Old tune

Pure bread and circus. Must entertain the people, not make them revolt.

Well then

42 (forty-two)?

Newsworthy at 3.7 death/second?

I'm sorry, but /why/ is this news at all?

I'd suggest you bring the (global) other 3.7 death/second's last words too and make some statistics on that. Then it would maybe be interesting.

NSFW?

How can such an article be classified as NSFW? This type of imagery is mandatory inventory of many workshops.

Are you trying to moralize us into something?

Revolution on the horizon

He who sacrifices privacy for security deserves neither...

This can only end in revolution.

Snake oil lubrication

I kept reading Snake Oil Wireless DILDO.

Maybe the missus will be more agreeable with this technology then.

LOHAT

Lost On Heavy Aviation Turbulence

Time to brush up on old predictions then?

Published in 1997 and getting more and more accurate and actual:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Hacking

But,... but... hacking in Germany is not allowed. I guess the offices in Darmstadt will be raided sooner than later. One law fits all and that.

BTW, I'm waiting for a pastebin of juicy database info from orbit.

Billable in digits

Well, I'm surprised that the cost involved for changing the plates is not 39.39 (in whatever currency you now want).

I guess that shopping now also shuns all mention of "that'll be thirtynine-somethings". Can't be a pimp-shopper now, can we?

Complaint vouchers

Maybe they should soon be starting to have vouchers for complaints against themselves. *That* should be a real business deal. Guaranteed turnover for decades to come.

Nothing wrong and a missing bullet

So, what is the new here? Isn't every (semi-) government spending not to end like this?

But then again, you definitely fail to take politics into account. Bullet 5 should surely read: Blame the previous guy.

Popcorn, more popcorn

I suggest that it becomes law that the filing party in a patent case is mandated to provide popcorn to anyone, where ever on this planet, be provided with free popcorn in any desired flavor to anyone who might want it.