* Posts by Destroy All Monsters

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Google Chrome OS mauled by Richard Stallman

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Boffin

Engineering is not science.

Wouldn't that be "anti-engineering?"

Henry Petroski: "Take this year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. No one, to the best of my knowledge, blamed it on science. Poor engineering decisions allowed gas to escape from a well in deep water, which in turn caused a fatal explosion. Subsequently, the engineered blowout preventer failed, and for months oil escaped into the environment. Poor engineering got us into the mess; surely only good engineering could get us out of it. Yet repeatedly, government and other research scientists were allowed to veto the engineering tactics needed to staunch the flow. In the end, of course, it was engineering that finally capped the well."

UK.gov braces for possible Wikileaks hacklash

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Grenade

I really would prefer a satchel charge DOS attack.

Because all this secrecy-loving, money-grubbing, economy-destroying, fat-ass-growing authoritarian-but-lecturing politician and security riffraff starts to really get on my wick.

Also,

"Assange, who faces sexual assault charges in Sweden, was arrested last week and held on remand."

This should read "handed himself in".

Grand jury meets to decide fate of WikiLeaks founder

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Big Brother

Kids and cranks often tell the truth.

US Attorney General Eric Holder has said his agency has “a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature".

It is indeed criminal in nature, Mr. Holder.

Well, if worst comes to worst Assange can still ask the judge about a few Israeli spies that have been caught basically in front of the Xerox and sent packing without so much as a shrug (and this includes Mr. Dough Feith, aka. "dumbest fucking guy on the planet"). And these were US citizens.

Paul Allen's monster patent attack hit by judge dismissal

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Gates Horns

"The allegations in the complaint are spartan"

What?

A page with "WAAAHH!" in Times Roman 50 Bold is not enough?

Gawker rooted by anonymous hackers

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Paris Hilton

But there is no "4chan" per se.

It's just a collection of diverging special interest groups with the Times Man of The Year as figurehead. Not unlike a roving Circus Collective.

Pedobear icon replaced by Teh Paris.

Oracle demands another $211.6m from SAP

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"Theft" my ass.

"With the $1.3bn in damages awarded to Oracle over the TomorrowNow theft"

You misspelled "creative reuse of resources that would be permissible in any sane economy"

WikiLeaks' Assange to be indicted for spying 'soon'

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Big Brother

Making law up to fit your goals...

...is one of the distinguishing features of raging fascist/socialist regimes.

But the saying which is applied to WikiLeaks is apposite...

"We already knew all this, it's nothing new".

Ashcroft, Yoo, Holder? Freisler is cackling in hell.

OTOH, Assange is not even a US citizen. Oh hold on, we are ALL US citizen now! Or maybe anticitizen.

Flame throwing Apache flees Oracle's Java group

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Stop

It's not _that_ kind of "legal"

It's the kind of "legal" US lawyers get a raging boner about, so not really useful to go to court with except if you want to blow a wad of cash or write a book later.

As the Reg says:

"The Apache Software Foundation [...] will finish its relationship with the Java Community Process (JCP) if its rights to a license under the group's governing principles aren't upheld by Oracle."

And in http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html

"Since August 2006, the ASF has been attempting to secure an acceptable license from Sun for the test kit for Java SE. This test kit, called the "Java Compatibility Kit" or "JCK", is needed by the Apache Harmony project to demonstrate its compatibility with the Java SE specification, as required by Sun's specification license. The JCK license Sun is offering imposes IP rights

restrictions through limits on the "field of use" available to users of our software. These restrictions are totally unacceptable to us. As I explain below, these restrictions are contrary to the terms of the Java Specification Participation Agreement (JSPA) - the governing rules

of the JCP - to which Sun is contractually bound to comply as a signatory."

Dutch police arrest 16-year-old WikiLeaks avenger

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Black Helicopters

Terroist organisation blah blah.

I wonder where all of these sudden Anonymous Cowards pulling bullshit propaganda out of their nether orifices are coming from.

It's the same as happened when Israel accidentally the whole peace flotilla. Ugly brownshirt worms crawling all over the message boards.

Some boiler-room astroturf operation, shurely?

Call of Duty DDoS attack police arrest teen

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FAIL

How the hell...

Do you become "member of 4chan"?

Back to /b/ with you.

Bloated US patent holder sues 9 tech companies

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Alien

RENT PLEASE!

I am a phys/math boy genius but now I wants my moneyyysss.

WikiLeaks payment service threatens to sue Visa, MasterCard

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Pint

You help me, I help you...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/246424

"Monday, 01 February 2010, 04:41"

C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MOSCOW 000228

SUBJECT: RUSSIAN DRAFT BILL WOULD REQUIRE ON-SHORE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

The latest version of the Russian draft law "On the National Payment System" contains several provisions that would disadvantage U.S. businesses. The draft law would set up a National Payment Card System (NPCS) including its own payment card that banks and payment card companies could join voluntarily. Most likely to be a consortium of state-owned banks, the NPCS operator would process the domestic payments for all members and collect processing fees estimated at $4 billion per year. The draft also forbids sending abroad any payment data for domestic transactions. Should international payment card companies such as Visa and MasterCard chose not to join the NPCS they would have to set up the infrastructure to do their Russian payment processing domestically.

.... This draft law continues to disadvantage U.S. payment card market leaders Visa and MasterCard, whether they join the National Payment Card System or not. If they join, the NPCS operator will collect the fees, leaving them to collect processing fees only when card-holders travel abroad -- a tiny section of the market. If they do not join but choose to compete with NPCS cards, they will have to set up payment processing centers in Russia, a very large investment in itself, and compete against a system likely backed by the largest Russian state banks. While the draft legislation has yet to be submitted to the Duma and can still be amended, post will continue to raise our concerns with senior GOR officials. We recommend that senior USG officials also take advantage of meetings with their Russian counterparts, including through the Bilateral Presidential Commission, to press the GOR to change the draft text to ensure U.S. payment companies are not adversely affected. END COMMENT.

Diary of a server failure

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Megaphone

RAID 5? In 2010?

http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html

http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

PayPal banned WikiLeaks after US gov intervention

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Big Brother

Tougher than pissing off The Third Reich

At least the well-uniformed regime did not have controlling interests just about anywhere.

US Air Force studies fruit-flies to build killer insect swarm drones

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Terminator

The "blow off" is gonna be difficult.

Not enough oomph in that package. Try a drop of VX.

Yes, Lem's Upside-Down Evolution is in progress.

Pro-Wikileaks hacktivistas in DDoS dustup with patriot contras

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Big Brother

Always happy to hear about Zionist^HSenator Lieberman

Lieberman is "hinting that Wikileaks' mainstream-media partners, collaborating on trawling and redacting files prior to public release, have violated the law also".

Would that be the law that the gerontocratic control freak makes up as he goes along?

T'was all discussed in the 70's and thrown out back then. Well, with the current itch of fascism growing every day, changes may be afoot-

Apache and Google airbrushed from Oracle's Java victory

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Happy

Seekuh diniert

This is the "death of Java" in the same way as "cablegate" is the death of international diplomacy.

McNealy to Ellison: How to duck death by open source

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Gates Horns

Wuh? Duh?

"as many patent licenses include restrictions on revealing the methodology"

Run that by me again.

It's not called a "patent" for nothing. It may be obfuscated and engineered to trap as many unwary souls as possible to generate rent, but there are no _restrictions_ on revealing anything. It's not trade secrecy.

Also, good luck on choosing the way of trying "not to infringe" when you don't even know whether you might.

Blighty's kids nosedive down global reading, maths rankings

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Pint

Unfortunately...

...being well mannered, well meaning people doesn't bring in the bacon.

Judge puts Assange behind bars ahead of extradition hearing

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Big Brother

"the case is serious"

Yeah, yeah.

Did they get the killer of Olof Palme yet?

ASSANGE ARRESTED in London - in court later today

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WTF?

Maybe this will help

Ok, this is AlterNet, but bear with me...

http://www.alternet.org/story/149100/the_9_weirdest_things_about_the_wikileaks_story?page=3

Assange's London attorney, Mark Stephens, told AOL News today that Swedish prosecutors told him that Assange is wanted not for allegations of rape, as previously reported, but for something called "sex by surprise," which he said involves a fine of 5,000 kronor or about $715. "Whatever 'sex by surprise' is, it's only a offense in Sweden -- not in the U.K. or the U.S. or even Ibiza," Stephens said. "I feel as if I'm in a surreal Swedish movie being threatened by bizarre trolls. The prosecutor has not asked to see Julian, never asked to interview him, and he hasn't been charged with anything. He's been told he's wanted for questioning, but he doesn't know the nature of the allegations against him."

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In Sweden: Burst Condom == Rape!

I think in Sweden you can insure against rape, so you can also cash in big...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/europe/19assange.html?_r=1

Anonymous attacks PayPal in 'Operation Avenge Assange'

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Grenade

When /b/ first came for PayPal, I didn't say anything...

...but then again, PayPal deserved it.

My Droid EXPLODED mid phone call, says Texan

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Big Brother

"Private US medical system?"

There are any others?

Do you think the gov-sponsored hospital down the road is _not_ going to shove you into the scanner then send the bill to the tax collector to keep the cellar nurses busy (when they don't give you aspirin to help you recover after the left side of your body suddenly signs off, that is)?

ITT: Bizarre opinions of how "public healthcare" actually works.

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Terminator

After this...

He will have a huge furry animal sidekick that carries his exploded droid in a backpack.

White House forbids feds from reading WikiLeaked cables

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Flame

Hey JimC, maybe you want to actually explain your claim?

Otherwise, go back to right-wind bullshit.

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Big Brother

Better than the Necronomicon.

Print a T-Shirt with some cables on it, maybe the one with Warbitch Hillary letting go her inner control freak.

Instant disqualification for any Fed Acolyte who lays eyes on you!

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Coffee/keyboard

Don't know what the hell you are smoking pal

...but it must have been Stalin's personal stash.

I guess you are working as sysop in a some social-support quango. Clue in: Wikileaks ain't interesed in the stuff on your RAID device.

Wikileaks' DNS pulls plug, citing collateral DDoS damage

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That sums it up.

Meanwhile, on these "rape" charges;

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange-r-pe-case-the-swedes-are-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/

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Big Brother

More like a letter from "unnamed officials" amirite?

You know Big Brother just wants to help you keep your service up.

Furthermore, there is no point in reading anything leaked, because it's all old news. Move along now.

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Big Brother

The law cannot be applied...

...because there is nothing to apply it to.

But we all know that "law" is an old and antiquated concept. "Taking off the shackles", remember?

Renta-spook: GCHQ commercialisation 'is a live issue'

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Big Brother

"If RSL had been created in the UK you'd have a bit more money to spend"

Yes, minister.

How does that work then?

Create nationalized companies that can be taxed and/or resold (presumably before being run into the ground through immobilism)?

Have governement open source top-secret stuff and private companies that can be taxed grow like mushrooms around that?

Ah bureaucracies. They always want more money to spend.

Gates: Nothing really new in Wikileaks Bradley Manning leak storm

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Big Brother

"US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has issued a stinging poohpooh"

That coming from the bureaucratic hillbilly who transformed the US intelligence community into another propaganda pump for sexed-up justification papers.

Nice.

97% of INTERNET NOW FULL UP, warn IPv4 shepherd boys

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Flame

Get of of your roach cellar

...and just use it.

WikiLeaks ousted from Amazon US

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Big Brother

That's a pretty bizzare idea.

In Nuremberg, lots of people got a fine sentence, sometimes for a lot less than what the Empire is currently pulling. In your logic, they would all have walked free.

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Big Brother

Nothing of interest there, move along

Bitte to delete ihr hosted content anyway, otherwise we shall use ways to make you comply.

For Fatherland Security,

-- Joe Lieberman

Irish chap romps off with Bad Sex award

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Pint

"Hair razored and ordered in the shape of a swastika."

Is that Krautchan's Bernadette?

Wikileaks: Berlusconi useless, Pope Catholic

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FAIL

Hurr! Durr!

The Lesterlowski twins are expecting the actual memos of Cigarette Smoking Man from WikiLeaks right now, otherwise they throw a ridiculous tantrum?

Go back to your tired Dan Brown novels, both of you.

In case you missed it, these are just the memos of overpaid government employees who are pulling us into directions unwanted by a dog leash around our necks.

But we knew that since at least Tony The Bliar, s'truth.

LHC boffins turn lead into quarko-gluotic Big Bang incrediblo-stuff

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Black Helicopters

"Radical fabric-of-time-and-space-rending experiments"

Extraordinary rendition then?

Spacetime waterboarding?

Epic fails

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Welcome

Being candid will preclude you from getting a job?

Seconding this. I also like the locker room humor and chest.thumping of "senior management" when they lower their price estimate by 30% in about 10 minutes.

I can tell you that it's harsh when one is suddenly alone on a job that requires at least 4 persons fulltime because "we can't afford it".

You can then only hope the projects kills itself before you do,

Lone hacker theory in Wikileaks DDoS attack

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"Patriot-hacker"

Also known as Juvenile Nationalistic Jerk, I reckon.

Maybe that guy and Lamo could get together for a twosome.

WikiLeaked US cables link China to Google hack

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Welcome

No secrets all right.

It's just the Americans shitting all over themselves like babies and behaving badly.

But we knew that all along.

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Big Brother

"The New York Times said it did not obtain the cables from WikiLeaks"

Unapologetic War Enabler and all-around character assassination conduit of the Imperial Capital not a darling of the leakers?

Colour me surprised.

Petabyte-chomping big sky telescope sucks down baby code

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Happy

Sir Bedivere

...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.

Yes! It's the Reg Top 5 FUTURISTIC GUNS Thanksgiving Roundup!

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Big Brother

This happens currently anyways...

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/11/murderous-us-government-explained.html

[Many residents near Kandahar] have lodged repeated complaints about the scope of the destruction with U.S. and Afghan officials. In one October operation near the city, U.S. aircraft dropped about two dozen 2,000-pound bombs.

In another recent operation in the Zhari district, U.S. soldiers fired more than a dozen mine-clearing line charges in a day. Each one creates a clear path that is 100 yards long and wide enough for a truck. Anything that is in the way - trees, crops, huts - is demolished.

"Why do you have to blow up so many of our fields and homes?" a farmer from the Arghandab district asked a top NATO general at a recent community meeting.

Although military officials are apologetic in public, they maintain privately that the tactic has a benefit beyond the elimination of insurgent bombs. By making people travel to the district governor's office to submit a claim for damaged property, "in effect, you're connecting the government to the people," the senior officer said.

Stuxnet code leak to cause CYBER-APOCALYPSE NOW!

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Welcome to the Real!

You will like it here...

Filthy PCs: The X-rated circus of horrors

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Pint

These machines have postapocalyptic soviet soul...

...you can't understand.

ISPs under pressure to control online porn

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Paris Hilton

That .kids idea sounds good...

But then you suddenly encounter teletubbies....

Gotta say, in the Olden Days, we didn't download porn but browser the lower shelves of the local comic book store for original french content. Guido Crépax was a bit much for my soft mind though.

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Big Brother

We didn't start the fire; it was always burning since the world's been turning...

"She wants tighter controls on material that is legal for over-18s to access."

That is _still_ legal to access, that is...

Motel guest trashes room to free imaginary 'midget'

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Better than the Bates Motel

...the Saw Motel