* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Cook's 'values' memo shows Apple has lost its soul

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"At one point during the second day of deliberations, jurors turned off the lights in the room to settle a debate about the potential influence screen brightness might have on Apple's graphics interface. Their verdict: Apple's designs were unique."

what

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Paris Hilton

Woah!

The Apple fanboy whoring here is astonishing.

Mash up with a "Google campaign" insinuation and some "I'm too cool to post here, I'm busy in a club banging chicks in a toilet stall" and serve.

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Re: This is just a disaster of an article

Also, Jobs stole USD 500 from Woz for his work on that Atari machine along the lines of "he's just a nerd, give *me* the money".

An auspicious beginning.

Neil Armstrong dies aged 82

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WTF?

Re: Stop with the angst already and go watch 2001 or something.

I'm saying the right things RIGHT. EFFING. NOW.

Whence the "great man"? He was some dude in the Air Force on an admittedly dangerous trip to the Moon.

Sanctimonious bourgoise attitude? NOPE.

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Stop

Stop with the angst already and go watch 2001 or something.

Nothing relating to the "Conquest of Space" in decline or has been lost!

There was a single good reason for "going to the moon" - it was a prestige object. That's why money poured in and the expedition could be performed.

As no independent economic reason exists to perform a repeat performance, repeat performances won't be had.

Meanwhile, we have excellent stuff like the Tevatron and the LHC, Hubble, robots on Mars and generally all over the Solar System (as we are talking about publicly funded projects). Sure, I would like to see more, but notice that 3 trillion dollars have not yet been paid for oilseizing, Israelsaving and welfare programs in the 'tans, and we are already talking about the next, bigger war with Persia, so I'm not getting my hopes up for THAT.

For those of you having melancholy pangs, may I recall that the times of the "moon race" were also the times where the US thought it expedient to kill a few million rice peasants, going so far as to fuck up their DNA forever with hardcore chemical weapons for which other countries would have gotten a nuclear death sentence (and they still give a fuck about that). It was also the time Nixon went off the gold standard because he couldn't pay for the war, thus letting loose the joyride of wealth transfer and MIC growth whose train is now pulling into the station.

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Holmes

Re: If

Evidently because it's about physical power, not computational power.

The NERVA is still in the hangar.

Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case

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Devil

Re: Today I'll make myself drunk....

Ah yes. Political Entrepreneuriat is "in" these days.

Who wants to understand anything about machines? That's so old school. Anyway, your work gets taxed away, so don't bother.

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Trollface

Innovative?

Possibly. Some will have to be shaken, some will have to be stirred. On some, rotations through a 4-D pseudospace will open a new menu. Others will work via sound cues only, staying mysteriously all black....

It's gonna be fun.

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Trollface

> seen their work stolen by thieves

It's those charvers and gypsies breaking & entering and then stealing those blueprints and that sheet music. They don't even know what to do with it! Good we have patents to throw at them once their collar has been felt.

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Devil

Re: lets hate hate apple

Yeah, but at least they do not generally pontificate like enormous faggots, then pull the 15-year-old "girlfriend" parting shot.

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Devil

Competition R not US

Seriously, lots of future mobiles just got rather more expensive, while lawyers are busy placing calls to Ferrari dealerships. And I would say this will unleash a series of lawsuits along the line "we woz copied, m'lord", as there are bound to be untriggered patents, lying in wait for the next time.

Pay up, hoi polloi!

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Re: Well what do you know!

"Try hanging around with people who have better things to do with their lives than installing hacked firmwares on their phones."

Sent from the most hipster iClub in town.

Google names names in amended 'shills' list

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Trollface

Vast left-wing conspiracy confirmed!

Was say you now, Reagan Jr.?

Court confirms $675,000 fine for sharing 30 songs

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Trollface

I suppose these songs are now considered fully paid down and public-domained?

After all they were "shared", right?

No?

Security biz U-turns on Gauss, Flame joint cyberspy hub claim

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Holmes

Re: Trust No One!

If you want hard crypto, you know where to get it though.

Mr Bank Manager, help yourself to my smartphone contents

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Big Brother

"Look, the entire system of currency and exchange is based on trust, and we seem to be hell-bent on handing that trust to organisations who have been proven time and time again to be thoroughly untrustworthy."

Sky is blue shocker? You know about those Central Banks, right?

China could penetrate US with new huge missile

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WTF?

A downvote?

Oh yeah, I forgot the focus on the Homeland. Never forget the Homeland!

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Mushroom

Yeah, you can nuke the shit out of the US. So what?

"Recognising the potential threat from China and North Korea, the US is strategically ramping up its military presence in Asia, after years of focus on the Middle East during the Bush administration."

Welfare-warfare in overdrive action, more like.

We now "focus" on the following in no particular order:

- The whole area of the Middle East (anything that irks Israel, in particular nondead Arabs and Persians).

- ...except freedom-loving countries like Saudi-Arabia and Qatar and the home of the 5th fleet, i.e. Bahrain.

- Areas around the Mediterranean where Arabs can be found, ex-friends of Tony Blair.

- All the 'tans, if they don't have a friendly Torturemeisters in charge that we can exploit.

- The newly freedomized nation of Kosovo. Stern warnings are emitted to the enemy of the quarter-century, Serbia.

- China and its dependencies. They have ships, this is dangerous!

- Russia (apparently back in "enemy #1" spot). Putin puts pussies in jail, gotta stop that.

- Anything where Russia can be baited (i.e. "countries that may become member of NATO", "countries where the NED is active", the formerly lovely Georgia. Lately, Romania where we now uphold Romania's constitution for some reason. We are also putting "Anti-Iran Missile Defenses" there.

- Yemen and Somalia and Ethiopia. Dusty countries that have something to do with something. One can send drones.

- Mexico, and the inflamed "War on Drugs" countries. Enjoy the horror.

- We "warn" and "put on notice" large swathes of South America regularly.

- Kony. Don't forget Kony!! He's bad, you know.

- Phillipines. There are terrorists there.

- Cuba.

Come on Hillary, find us new targets. We are feeling idle. How about Space Nazis?

Angry Sunfish in piscene boss battles

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Devil

Re: Me Too.

You want PUTA (People for the Unethical Treatment of Animals) to take an interest, is that it?

LulzSec sneak Sabu buys six more months of freedom

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Trollface

"An eminently trustworthy character"

Lulz were had.

Red hot chilli peppers floor Bristol shoplifter

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Re: Pah...

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Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing

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"Train crash knocks out fibre cables, delays 9/11 hearing"

A LIKELY STORY.

How's that Obamamamma "closing of GITMO" coming along, btw?

Citi rubbishes Nasdaq compensation offer for Facebook IPOcalypse

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Mushroom

"Somewhat ironic?" Unbelievable chutzpah!

This.

Basically Citigroup is a laundromat for shifting taxpayer money (directly or via inflation) to vested interests. Win across the board, except for the proles.

"Stripped of its lofty promises, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 will not backstop your 401(k), encourage lenders to crawl out of their bunker, resuscitate an economy on life support, or turn a profit for the hapless taxpayer. Its primary mission in life is to rescue "the chosen ones" — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase. The early returns are promising. On Thursday, September 18, the financial establishment was coming unhinged. By early afternoon, the combined market values of the five companies had shriveled to $360 billion. That night DC's power brokers — Paulson, Bernanke, Cox, Pelosi, Frank, et al. — concocted their shameless scheme. As of last Friday's close, the Chosen Ones tacked on $137 billion in market value for a 38% gain while the rest of the market, as measured by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index, lost $634 billion, or 5.6%." (http://mises.org/daily/3147/Looting-the-Responsible)

They whole upper porkrind should be airdropped over the Congo to fend for themselves. One AK and a diet sausage for each.

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WTF?

Re: One man's ceiling

> It's often said that every share transaction has a winner and a loser.

Can't agree with that. One wants to sell for good reasons, the other wants to buy for good reasons. Both win.

Investor pulls out of Facebook, pumps cash into pork-printing joint

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Trollface

You can't print the bacon!

Salt will clog up the print head!!

Now, how do I dial a halal piece of lamb??

China to probe black holes, search for aliens

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Trollface

In addition to OBAMA@Phone, why not have MAO@Home?

Hunt vows: 'UK will have fastest broadband in Europe by 2015'

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Meh

Politicians in "we can manipulate reality to be bestest" shocker

Yeah, I will be at the cineplex to get MY does of escapism.

Bogus Android markets seized in FBI software crackdown

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Big Brother

That's the TSA (aka Unemployable People Fingering You) - Another division ENTIRELY

More divisions, "special" sections and different uniforms than in the heyday of the 3rd Reich? Yes, we can!

Boffins zapped '2,000 bugs' from Curiosity's 2 MILLION lines of code

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Trollface

Re: Coverity ad

> I wonder what there spin would have been if it had crashed into the sun?

"Our software mines ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF DELTA-V out of the VACUUM!"

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Gimp

Re: ...to catch even simple mistakes (such as writing x=y instead of x==y) at compile time...

I have to tell you the sad truth...

if (x=y) {

}

is a reasonable statement in C.

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Trollface

"Mein Führer, I can walk!"

"We landed a nuclear powered rover on another planet, despite a buggy system!!"

You shall now picture Dr. Strangelove rolling his wheelchair speedily after the departing rover into the sunset, possibly to Yakety Sax or a song by Vera Lynn.

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Terminator

Re: Writing zero-defect software

Here's the guideline for ESA's Galileo System (a monstrous "industrial policy" effort gone badly wrong, but that's another problem)

Galileo Software Standard (GSWS) defines 5 different software development assurance levels (SW-DAL), which determine the situations in which software that has passed a given DAL can be used:

Level A: Software whose anomalous behaviour would cause or contribute to a failure resulting in a catastrophic event.

Level B: Software whose anomalous behaviour would cause or contribute to a failure resulting in a critical event.

Level C: Software whose anomalous behaviour would cause or contribute to a failure resulting in a major event.

Level D: Software whose anomalous behaviour would cause or contribute to a failure resulting in a minor event.

Level E: Software whose anomalous behaviour would cause or contribute to a failure resulting in a negligible event.

Programming languages allowed according to [GSWS-SWENG-1180]:

Ada, Assembler, C: any DAL

C++: Allowed only for DAL D and E (except if you can get a waiver)

Java: Allowed only for DAL E (except if you can get a waiver)

So yeah, C is nice. Though the GSWS also says, no dynamic memory allocation and other casualness. Also, independent validation and verification by a second team if above DAL D etc. It's a telephone book of requirements..

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Re: Misread the name...

But why that? To wait for Hermann Göring?

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Headmaster

Really! I am amazed as this impudence!

"ensuring that every software defect is found"

Every? EVERY??

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

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Re: Processing seawater

Hello?

"Even the Soviets in their day came up with things--especially military things--that garnered a reputation even in the west"

I would hope so. Unfortunately, produced by slave labor. And only for one market: the state.

I don't know why people are complaining about capitalism, then pointing to Soviet or National Socialist Reality with > 80 million dead people and burned down economies as something to emulate. Jesus.

"It is rampant, even predatory, capitalism that is at least partly to blame for today's financial difficulties."

Actually not. It's mainly due to unsound money and economic intervention of the stupid sort.

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Re: everything other than nuclear is SAFE !!!!!

But asteroids will, as well as black holes and supernovae.

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Big Brother

Re: Ural Mountains Nuclear Disaster

We have these in the West at smaller scale. Directly behind the hopital, really.

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That Butterfly stuff is interesting indeed.

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Trollface

Do we need to talk about radiation?

Why not talk about Hitler? Or better yet, Hitler emitting radiation?

Superworm Crisis eats Macs, VMware and - shock - Windows

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Ass slappage worm

There was a write up in July...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/25/mac_crisis_malware/

UK.gov's minimum booze price dream demolished

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Holmes

Re: Mumble mumble Economics mumble mumble not a Science...

> grubbing of money, which benefits only those who treat other people badly

You know there are books on Economics. Why not read up? Meanwhile, how is the eating of rocks?

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Devil

"Some corners of academia, particularly social policy research, are flourishing by presenting evidence that conveniently meets the demand from politicians, which helps stimulate future funding."

Best description of John Maynard Keynes ever.

D-Wave goes public with 81-qubit protein modeling

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Headmaster

'In nature, proteins should normally fold themselves to a “ground state” – the lowest possible energy configuration for that particular combination of amino acids'

Yeah no. Proteins do not do NP-hard computation in finite time. That would be "a locally low energy state", not "the globally lowest energy state".

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Re: iChing™

> Consciousness mentioned in physical process description

> Instafail

Creepy skull find proves Man penetrated Asia 60,000 years ago

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Lyssenko is alive?

"On the minus side, we don't seem to evolve in response to changes in the environment."

That thinking is wrong. Must be all that superhero shit in the movies.

"Evolving in response to the environment" means lots of people dying left and right before they have children due to environmental pressure but the remaining people fuck around more to keep the numbers up.

You would know if that was happening. It's when you suddenly notice that "The Road" feel.

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Holmes

"Creepy skull find?"

Stop it with the "creepy". This makes you vaguely sound like some left-wing organization trying to fan undirected anger.

> 20,000 years sooner than previously thought

The Galactica arrived earlier?

Foxconn certified as good employer, rights groups disagree

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Meh

"Labour organisations want other Apple suppliers investigated"

Isn't that "Other peoples' labour organisations..."

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6

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Re: "Steve's Infeasible Third Coming"

I just hear they want to question him because of repeated coming in Sweden.

The cooler side of the Big Bang

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Headmaster

Re: Cosmic strings

Somewhat related: How to get spacetime from the permutation group and the Ghost of Physics Future.

Merde! French Prez palace blueprints nicked from cable layer

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Just in time...

...for the release of CounterStrike: Global Offensive.

Come on guys, get these mods on!