* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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11-YEAR-OLD code wizard hacks Greedy RuneScape geeks

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Re: Hacking ?

> Social engineering is hacking.

No. Social engineering is Social engineering.

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> This was 20ish years ago though, when this sort of thing was harmless fun.

Right. I remember people getting booted from uni for that. Not so "harmless".

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Re: Suckyou Raven He'd better go into hideing then.

Forgot your pills AGAIN, Matt?

Bioshock Infinite, Devil May Cry, SimCity

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When you have played Dishonored, not a minute earlier!

Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer

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Re: I can't wait for...

But horsemeat tastes good!

Every single Internet Explorer at risk of drive-by hacks until Patch Tuesday

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Re: @Gray

> You were saying ?

What are _you_ saying?

Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth

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Re: Performance

> The joy of Ethernet was the ad hoc doom party

Oh no, memories!

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Re: Ethernet is the Ayn Rand network?

Ayn Rand was a neo-fascist

Downvoted from the incursion from the left-winger's pigpen.

Ayn Rand was not a good writer and crazy radical, but had all the normative ethics written down for analysis. She detested socialist leechers and failures, in particular the socialist failures resorting to violence, so how can she be "neo-fascist"? What does that even mean?

Hold on, are you trolling?

Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock

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It begins

To me it looks like a door handle to an underground vault.

The whole audience: Just don't pull that door handle, Curiosity!!

Remember that Xeon E7-Itanium convergence? FUHGEDDABOUDIT

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HP was ... Big Leo

Just call it "The Pharmacy".

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Re: Please No..

That would be like Batman expensively tooled up and ready to rumble with ANTHYING ... then falling down stairs.

2e2 cloud cash fiasco puts NHS IT and biz 'over a barrel'

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Re: What if?

Everything would suddenly become more efficient!

Tennessee bloke quits job over satanic wage slip

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Devil

The Three Stigmata of Contech Casting in Clarksville

"Contech Casting in Clarksville", eh?

If you take the first letters, you already get 333 ... yet another sign, but I don't know of what?

EU: We'll force power plants, Apple and pals to admit hack attacks

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Holmes

Re: Point Missed: More work for Mr Jobsworth

Correct. But it will also mean that more mechanisms for "plausible denability" will be put in place internally.

Of course, there are laws coming down the pipe (actually there already are) mandating full control & surveillance of all modifications to and consultations of data by company personnel or unwanted guests ... HOWEVER! While the employer must generate and keep the logs, he is not allowed to look at them, because that would be surveillance of the employee, which is a no-no. What do? Lawyers start to say that it is now impossible to be compliant to the law, so you have to take a risk approach even here ... reduce the risk of running afoul too hard and having to go to jail as opposed to handing over some cash from time to time.

The time of the small ICT company is coming quickly to an end I fear. Time to read books on how to make and sell sammich.

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Unhappy

Come back when the criminals are out of the parliaments!

Well-meaning discussions, furrowing of brows and exhortations by the bureacracy, as well as new laws, shall improve data security, deter criminals and fend off Chinese hackers?

This is like believing that monetizing debt is a good idea or that printing money will make us wealthy and ease the depression in a jiffy. Who would believe that? Oh wait...

"During a 30-minute press conference, Euro bigwigs were grilled on what they were doing to end corporate espionage"

Yeah, with that kind of attitude we are on the right track. What *can* they do, Einsteins?

Stricken 2e2 threatens data centres: Your money or your lights

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Re: I love it!

So is it like outsourcing making lasagne?

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Devil

Whirr..... WHIRRR!!!

That will probably drive the spinwheel in Brussels another couple of rounds.

Ready for the Cloud Directive!

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Re: Hey! We're Having a Bankruptcy Party

Is this Enron?

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Re: Sounds fair to me ...

Yeah well, that STRONGLY depends on the SLA.

Does it stipulate that in case of wind-down operations, customers may have to pay to defray any running costs plus VAT, may have to wait weeks to exfil their data from servers that belong to HP and to which they have no physical access and generally be up shit creek without a paddle unless they have a second cloud on retainer? (An even then they will probably want to nuke their first cloud by wiping disks etc. but that is another matter still)

Can anyone verify?

200 million office workers gagging for a... Microsoft Surface?

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Re: Arrrrgh this is a bad change

I agree. It's a METRO-tier change.

THROW A CHAIR! FIRE SOME PEOPLE!

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Forrester surveyed 9,766 information workers globally to compile this research between September and October 2012.

Before anyone knew what was coming and gave up?

British games company says it owns the idea of space marines

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Childcatcher

We are up against a legal xenomorph whose bad ideas hatch in people's brains!

Yes, the rules would be different.

If it were called "Space Marines ®"

If it's "Space Marines™" or just "Space Marines", it will just be "Fooock Ouuufff!".

A quick look.see at the USPTO (is there something like that for the UK)?

"SPACE MARINE" registered for "video computer games; computer software for playing games"

and

"SPACE MARINE" registered for " board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith."

both registered to

"GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM Willow Road, Lenton Eastwood Nottingham NG7 2W5 UNITED KINGDOM"

as a TRADEMARK

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Mushroom

Nuke the site from orbit!

"These values are Honesty, Courage and Humility."

Looks like they forgot about "Mo' Money" and "Asshattery".

They would probably stoop to hiring Carter Burke to look after IP rights in a stricken space colony.

FLAMERS ON!

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Re: Marines?

Possibly.

The "U.N. Spacy" is of course the armed space of the UN in Macross.

Can't remember whether the grunts were called Spacies...

Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet

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Re: Anhd where were ...

"Tax avoidance schemes"

aka.

"Robbery evasion", amirite?

If only one could valid aircraft for all the robbing. Instead, one gets served with talking airheads.

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Re: "The crack unit..."

More briefly, "The Krokodil"

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Angel

Re: chalk one for the good guys

> We'd be pillorying them if they did nothing.

Yeah, they taxed us already, so they better get their asses in gear.

Earth-like planets abound in red dwarf systems

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Coat

Härter rangehen, Manfred! FEUER!!

But if you go that far, a "battleship" does not actually exist, as the name comes from a perversion "a ship of the battle line". Do we need it to be wooden, too?

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Holmes

Re: Entropy: Big Problem!

> photosynthesise through red light

Physically impossible due to Quantum Mechanics, it should.

But there are organisms that use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycobilisome

in order to harvest bluish light that penetrates water and re-emit it a lower but more interesting frequencies, it seems. Any specialists?

Actually, I found this:

"However, purple bacteria perform photosynthesis with NIR radiation and produce no oxygen, and lichens do not have a strong red edge. Scientists still puzzle over why plants are green, because it seems this wastes the light where our Sun produces the most energy."

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kiang_01/

So it might work.

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What does the Admiral Graf Spee have to do with interstellar distances?

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Paris Hilton

Entropy: Big Problem!

They are red.

How about some photosynthesis? That's gonna be a tough one.

I suspect that there is no solution in nature to using long-waveish light to construct useful stuff, otherwise it would exist right here, would it not?

The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder

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Re: Actually, if BAe built the Death Star

Yeah but the main destroy-o-blast cannon would have been "left out" to be "fitted in once the design has been finished at some future date".

"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed - it was made by BAE"

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Re: Splutter

> No, but we don't even have 12 destroyers, each to take 1 F35 jump jet

Flaming pieces of crap, I hope to see that in my lifetime on live TV, that would beat Battlestar Galactica action!

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Re: Petition, anyone?

> I often wonder how effective and value for money all these BAe jobs are.

They just bring negative value to the economy.

> How much against that is the taxpayer subsidising that wage?

130% of course. The other 30% are for expensive swimming pools and mansions for the well-connected ones. Where do you think the money comes from. And you get for this... some unusable boondoggle. Not anything that would bring in the bacon in the future.

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Re: Chocolate Teapot

PEACE ... through mutually inadequate firepower!!

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Boffins find 17,425,170-digit prime number

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>> I'd rather be wise than intelligent any day.

I feel with you.

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Re: an i7 ?

It's also because in the meantime someone realized that

PRIMES is in P

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Re: My imaginary number is....@Benchops

Indeed, they are very useful to represent rotations in 3D space.

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Re: Why are we paying for this research?

Because your mom does primes!

Stricken 2e2 sacks 627, winds down, retains a few data centre caretakers

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Re: Last one out the door ...break it

Okay.

So what's not right here?

Ex-ICO: Draft EU privacy rules will turn every citizen 'into a liar'

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There are some really cool things in that regulation.

I also know for a fact that there was a kerfuffle about some section that would have made it hard for the US to hoover up stuff with a wink and nod. It was quietly dropped under the table at some point. Muah.

Anyway... I think I shall take up a law degree.... because:

Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority

"In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 24 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. The notification to the supervisory authority shall be accompanied by a reasoned justification in cases where it is not made within 24 hours."

You have to have the lawyers all lined and on retainer PERMANENTLY for this to be even possible.

"The controller and the processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where:

(a) the processing is carried out by a public authority or body; or

(b) the processing is carried out by an enterprise employing 250 persons or more; or

(c) the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects.

The controller or processor shall designate the data protection officer on the basis of professional qualities and, in particular, expert knowledge of data protection law and practices and ability to fulfil the tasks referred to in Article 37. The necessary level of expert knowledge shall be determined in particular according to the data processing carried out and the protection required for the personal data processed by the controller or the processor."

Hehehehe.

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Holmes

Re: ... rogues, not businesses ...

You must be state-employed. How is life in the tax-feeder club?

Socket to 'em: It's the HomeGrid vs HomePlug powerline prizefight

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Alien

Yes, Great Galactor! Jamming of Earthlings' communications *will* proceed soonish.

We have several so-called "companies" working on this. No-one suspects the horrible truth.

All is going to plan.

GNOME project picks JavaScript as sole app dev language

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Re: *ç%&!!

HAH! Downvote me about "turing complete" all you want, Sir Bedeveres of "Computer Science" with your O'Reilly books. I laugh at your puny onslaughts and your bizarre rabbit-shaped logic contraptions.

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Holmes

Don't laugh so laxatively

Hmm. Node.js presumably works just great on big data for quick development and testing, right up until you actually have real big data coming in.

Node.js seems to follow where Erlang was a long time ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2206933/how-to-write-a-simple-webserver-in-erlang

Now, Erlang is a language that has no mutable datastructures and is thus a very long way away from the fears, trepidations and buggery engendered by C and their associated "spiky" { } - adorned offspring.

Webservers in Erlang run pretty well

So a good JavaScript framework and compiler might well succeed too. If you throw enough time and money at it.

P.S. There is not even a meme description for the Garma Zabi utterance "Don't laugh so laxatively". WTF?

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*ç%&!!

Yes, yes,

But can we PULEASE absolutely INTERDICT the use of the ugly "Turing-complete" marketadjective.

It sounds more retarded than "cyber" and means even less. Once you have a WHILE loop and string concatenation (plus substringing and length maybe), you have an Universal Turing Machine. Great, so what.

I can only imagine this ... expression ... was born by people who initially thought that HTML was a "programming language".

IMHO, people typing that ... thing ... into textareas should automatically be presented with a strobing screen so that they get epilepsy and drop under the table. Maybe on can get the browser developers to integrate this idea.

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Re: Really, guys?

JS makes writing tests far, far easier than, say, Java or C++

Explain!

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Re: For goodness' sake

> I'm sure JS on it's own is an elegant language.

You are actually not right.

There are people writing books like "JavaScript: The Good Parts". That's telling.

Crooks, think your Trojan looks legit? This one has a DIGITAL CERTIFICATE

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Re: CA who?

Exactly.

Bug-hunters: They're coming outta the goddamn walls, aargh!

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Re: It's game over man!

I say we take off and debug the site from orbit. It's the only way to stay clean.