* Posts by lambda_beta

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US rapper slams Earth is Round conspiracy in Twitter marathon

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Who is the fuck is BoB?

Is this the lost MS interface??

Forget infrasound, now it's ultrasound that's making you ill (allegedly)

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Old News

Nazis tried this in WWII. They had some success with it.

NSA spying on US and Israeli politicians stirs Congress from Christmas slumbers

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Mushroom

Why is this news?

This crap has been going on for centuries. Wake up .... nobody trusts anybody. You are my friend because I can use you.

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42

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Re: Condolences

Well put.

RIP

GOP senators push FCC to kill support for local broadband

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Re: verbatim, from ATT...

That's absolutely correct!! People who are capitalist don't work, and require slave states to make more money. This is the absolute nature of capitalism. That's why we need to regulate these people with laws, just as we need laws for murderers.

How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered

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Re: Surreptitious DMTF?

Agreed ... depends on the sound system and amplifiers. Most cheap TVs can't even go up to 12K. Another thing is the microphone in the tablet has to pick up these frequencies.

'Shut down the parts of internet used by Islamic State masterminds'

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Re: Well that's a good solution

We really don't have to go to these extremes, just plug up the internet tubes that go to ISIS. The tubes are labelled, aren't they?

Web giants, Sir Tim slam Europe's net neutrality rules on eve of vote

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Re: People who want to be politicians should not politicians.

The problem with politicians is that are clueless and useless; their only drive is to get re-elected. Paying them more for doing nothing is stupid because they wouldn’t do anything differently.

How do you create an SLA and status page for the whole internet? Meet IANA: Keepers of DNS

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Re: What is a SLA?

I thought that the RTM of FUD was now GHY of KLU. In the same sense that the SERT is OPM. LOL I've SDE in vain. Do not EWQ my CZX anymore, since all the DVBV are OIPM.

THIS is MASSIVE! Less-Masslessness neutrino boffins bag Physics Nobel

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Re: Makes particle physics sound like climate science

Again another useless comment!

You probably meant that the argument for climate change is cause by people, since climate science is a real branch of physics. By the way, there is more evidence that the climate is changing than for neutrino oscillations.

The Steve Jobs of supercomputers: We remember Seymour Cray

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Re: Seymour Cray's accomplishments

How can you even mention Jobs and Cray in the same article? Jobs was, at best, a marketing guy, and had nothing to do with any computer technology or innovations. Even the Mac was a rip-off of the Xerox Star. Cray was a true pioneer in both innovation, design and implementation.

Woman makes app that lets people rate and review you, Yelp-style. Now SHE'S upset people are 'reviewing' her

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Why is this news??

Why is this surprising? ... This is what the internet is, full of $hit.

SIX MILLION fingerprints of US govt workers nicked in cyber-heist

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Re: What I want to know is

The government will be issuing new fingerprints for all who request them. Not to Worry!!

Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows: The spirit of Clippy lives on

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Bring Back Bob

Bring Back Bob!!!

Sysadmin ignores 25 THOUSAND patches, among other sins

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Re: 25,000 patches sounds pretty bad, but...

25,000 patches is about right ... because software really really really sucks!

Want Edward Snowden pardoned? You're in the minority, say pollsters

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Texas

Isn't that the state where the governor (Perry) rented a stadium (with public funds) to hold a prayer meeting for rain during their drought a few years back?

However, it didn’t work!

Just ONE THOUSAND times BETTER than FLASH! Intel, Micron's amazing claim

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Re: A MAJOR breakthrough,

he article specifically states that the elements are *not* memistors.

No ... the article states "The cell material has its resistance changed between two levels". I believe that's called a memistors.

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Re: A MAJOR breakthrough,

" A MAJOR breakthrough"

No .. if fact this idea was conceived back in the 70's by Leon Chau at UCal Berkeley. And in 1980 HP (Stanley Williams) produced memory elements that could shift resistance and hold their state and was reported in the magazine Nature. They were called 'memristors'. I wish someone would report the research from scientists and engineers rather than the companies which make the money from these ideas.

As a side note, people are working on 'memcapacitors' and meminductors'.

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One of the greatest computers made for home use!

MORE Windows 10 bugs! Too many Start menu apps BREAK it

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Not to worry!

No to worry - by the time Window 13 comes out, all these issues (and other we don't yet know about) will be resolved.

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crackup verdict: Pilot error

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"Likewise the FAA should have been more insistent in its controls - ensuring a sufficient safety culture existed in the company."

And you know what would happen ... all the aholes would cry 'too much government regulation .. let the maket pace decided about safety.

Five data centres you can't live without

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Re: Headline?

Actually, life as we know it would go on without any of them.

Ballmer's billion-dollar blunders: When he gambled Microsoft's money and lost

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Re: Repeat after me...

Bring back Microsoft Bob. It was way ahead of its time!

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Re: Furniture ?

You mean deck chairs on the Titanic.

Sixty-five THOUSAND Range Rovers recalled over DOOR software glitch

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Re: Experts?

You mean the same "experts" that design this crap?

Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue

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Re: Dear El. Reg.,

Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to withdraw my reply to edit my reply " Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to edit my reply which stated "Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to post a reply to the comment which stated ' "I would be grateful if you allow me to post a comment to this item."

Thank you

lb'

Thank you

lb"

Thank you

lb

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Re: Dear El. Reg.,

Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to edit my reply which stated "Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to post a reply to the comment which stated ' "I would be grateful if you allow me to post a comment to this item."

Thank you

lb'

Thank you

lb

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Re: Dear El. Reg.,

Sirs, I would be grateful if you allow me to post a reply to the comment which stated "I would be grateful if you allow me to post a comment to this item."

Thank you

lb

Smartphones are ludicrously under-used, so steal their brains

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Re: "Why would I want my phone connected to the washing machine or cooker?"

Now what if your 'smart' phone ends up in the washing machine, will it be 'smart' enough to shut off the washing machine and let you know you've screwed up? Or will you have to wait for the rinse cycle to find out?

Chromecast gains wired Ethernet dongle

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Re: Go wired!

You're confused by simple words. I did not mention mobile devices - which is almost by definition never connected by wires.

And, judging by your comment, my brain should go wireless. Who needs all those neurons, synapses and hard-wired connections anyway?

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Go wired!

Not often more reliable, but just more reliable, as well as, safer, faster and easier!

Why SpaceX will sort out Sunday's snafu faster than NASA ever could

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Re: NASA inefficiency: The hint is in the name

It's so easy to discredit NASA because it's a government agency. But what the fuck has SpaceX ever done? Could any private company have pull off a walking on the moon in 1969? I think not.

Get READY: Scientists set to make TIME STAND STILL tonight

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Re: Time is an illusion...

If the 'flow' of time is an illusion then time is an illusion, since time is only measured by the 'flow' of events.

JavaScript creator Eich's latest project: KILL JAVASCRIPT

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Re: Does that include Welsh?

My vote is pig latin. It will probably have as many bugs as any other language and has the advantage of built-in encryption (for a little while).

Climate change alarmism is a religious belief – it's official

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Re: If we want less hot air in the world...

We should just ban all religion...

We can't do that, because that would reduce the number of wars we have. Now how can the military justify it's budget?

LastPass got hacked: Change your master password NOW

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Why did anyone think it was a good idea to have all your passwords stored online?

Why did you think storing anything online is a good idea??

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What does LastPass mean?

Is is the last password you used?

is the password that might last?

is the last time the password was hacked?

is it the last time you'll use LastPass?

US mega-hack: White House orders govt IT to do what it should have done in the first place

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Re: Well, THERE'S your PROBLEM....

Please, you cannot compare, bugs are things that don't make the product work or not work as advertized. Drying of pets in a microwave is not the same, it's not a bug. Having the microwave stop working for certain foods made by certain manufactures is a bug. Mileage varies on how you drive and where (city or highway), it's not a bug.

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Re: Sounds like a bad case of....

The interesting thing about the neutrons in this element is that, instead of being made up of the usual up and down quarks, it consists only of bottom and strange quarks.

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Re: Well, THERE'S your PROBLEM....

Let's not forget the REAL problem ... software, it sucks. It's a house of cards with no solution in sight. We have patches with fix patches which fix patches etc. And nobody knows which pieces fit with other pieces.

In order to rush out the latest and greatest to make that almighty buck, we've sacrificed stability and common sense in design and testing. It's the only product you buy which comes with a 'known list of bugs' and nobody cares.

Denon delivers low-cost DTS:X AV kit. Finally Dolby Atmos gets some competition

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Re: Blimey!

How about Dynaco or Ampzilla and Phoebe?

Screw you, ISPs: Net neutrality switches on THIS FRIDAY – US court

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Re: Since when did ISPs own the Internet?

Unfortunately, you have no idea of what you are talking about or any history of technology. The government spent more than a "few millions of dollars" on the internet. The government not only funded the initial project of communication between computers (early 60's), but funded many companies, universities, colleges and think tanks throughout the the period (and still does). This is all direct funding. I worked for one of these firms (mesh network technology) and 90% of all out money came from direct military, DOD or NFS grants, but we we were considered a private company. Every under-graduate, graduate and post-doc student in the sciences is usually funded through grants from the government.

If fact the federal and state governments have recently made money available to expand the internet to rural towns by providing infrastructure and cabling to expand fiber outside the major markets. The cable companies would not do this because they would not make enough money for their investment. In my state (Massachusetts) we have a project called 'Broadband 123' in which the government is funding approximately 1,200 miles of fiber-optic network connecting 123 communties in western and north central Massachusetts to high-speed Internet costing $89.7 million. In order to get connect you still go through a cable company in which they charge you for the 'last mile' of the connection and they make the profit.

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Since when did ISPs own the Internet?

"Today simply marks the beginning of a protracted legal fight over the legality of the FCC’s takeover of the Internet,"

This is an absolutely amazing statement. ISPs are the recipients of one of the greatest hand-downs by the government. The people (through tax dollars) paid for and delivered the internet so that many companies could get rich on technology which was handed to them free of charge. What BS!

One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...

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Re: Argh!

You're missing the point. How else can they sell lots and lots of cables that sort of look alike and you have to pay premium price so you won't go out of mind try to connect things together? It's a plan that works.

Hardcore creationist finds 60-million-year-old fossils in backyard ... 'No, it hasn’t changed my mind about the Bible'

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Re: Don't be hoodwinked by 'science'

And now ladies and gentlemen some facts:

Popper isn't a scientist, but a philosopher. And in fact, many other philosophers have had strong criticisms of Popper and his arguments, including Kuhn.

Popper does not say "Any 'science'" that cannot produce observable, repeatable, verifiable results is a pseudoscience".

But he does say "A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified". So according to Popper, there is no theories which are true, only theories which haven't been proven false.

The statement that "Therefore Evolution and Creationism fall into the same category as Pseudosciences", is such bullshit, I don't think even Popper would subscribe to it.

Wi-Fi was MEANT to be this way: Antennas and standards, 802.11 style

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Re: 802.11 ay?

The picture sure looks like old McDonald with E-I-E-I-O!

So why the hell do we bail banks out?

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Re: And the Perpetrators @lambda_beta

I really don't have a hardon for bankers. Maybe a lepton, but not a hadron. The point is that none of the other groups you mentioned - footballers, or the musicians, or the z-list celebrities etc., ever get bailed out by the government for screwing up. Not only did we bail out the banks, we put people in charge of the bail-out who originally screwed it up. Wasn't that the point of this discussion?

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Re: And the Perpetrators

Counting only the pool of bonus money (not salaries), employees of the New York security industries in 2014 earned almost twice as much as the total income paid to all employees in the US who worked full time at the minimum wage ($7.25). - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Ricoh rolls out electrifyingly exciting RUBBER!

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Re: question

Yes it is reversible. In fact it's been used in loudspeakers for years.

The Internet of Things: a jumbled mess or a jumbled mess?

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More Crap

This is another way to sell crap that nobody really needs. So when a tree falls on your house, you be able to watch it on your, flavor of the day, smart/i/android/something else device. Another black box which needs a monthly fee to operate. Or when your refrigerator stops working you can cancel your vacation and take out all the spoiled food and throw it away.

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