Posts by Oninoshiko

yes

I always choose my enterprise storage because of how pretty it is...

in fairness

Facebook probably has more detailed information on me too, and I'm not a farcebook user.

@ Zippy

when pigs fl.... oh wait!

We have a live one here!

You must realize that home automation at the BULB level is just idiotic. Like I said, for the fixture maybe. I'm not even convinced THAT level is required. You really don't need anything more then to the switch.

Google is not a supplement for actually THINKING. It's an idiotic example.

Your brain is worth a try, engage it.

you WANTa browser to use more then 1.6G?

I don't know about you, but I think 1G is excessive for a web browser.

I have excessive amounts of memory for my non-web browser applications. there is NO reason that FF should ever need more then 1G.

Anyone remember the reason FF got popular? It was a slimmed down replacement for Mozilla's bloat. I think maybe it's time to put it down and start again.

now, with a word from reality:

A significant power-spike on a line-interactive USP can fry the UPS, IF you are lucky. If you are not is causes a fire. (I've seen a UPS reduced to a "Fire breathing dragon" on more then one occasion.) I suspect it's also possible for double or delta-conversion UPSes (although, I'm going to guess you probably don't have one of those)

Tapes degrade, drives fail, and so backups are not always good, even IF you tested them when you took them. (which I am sure you did, as it is a best practice.)

I can't think of anywhere (first world) that a car is more valuble then a child.

But even if somewhere has values that topsy-turvy, no loss is certainly better then the loss of the "lesser."

how sharp sould the teeth be

when they can't find any evidence of wrongdoing?

NotW may be a crap rag, but exactly how do you expect them to provide evidence that emails that don't exist weren't lost? ICO needs to at least prove the emails EXIST.

Interesting article (I must have been out when it was published).

It does contain two major problems.

1) A new publishing actually can qualify for copyright protection, even of a public domain work. This is trivially achieved by correcting spelling errors/for modern spellings, applying new art, new type-faces, modernizing terminology, annotating and critiquing.

It's no different then Hamlet: http://www.google.com/search?q=+site:imdb.com+imdb+hamlet

Many of these are nearly identical to the play written by everyone's favorite bard. Every one of them is (or was) protected under copyright.

2) It makes a lot of reference to works which are Japanese in origin. I find this interesting, and slightly disingenuous when referencing copyright law, as Japanese law (AFAIK) lacks the concept of "Public Domain," instead favoring the author's "moral rights."

But

If the CIA has a record of anything getting done, someone screwed up!

because

sovereign states always do what they are told....

Amen

I have been playing around with a site and was putting together a signup component and realized "why am I collecting people's email addresses? There isn't any reason for me to need to contact them, most of them will be invalid or one-off accounts, the only thing they could ever be useful for is to sell to spammers. Highlight. Delete."

To true,

That was probibly the next step, using the planted article as a "source."

Hello Mr. Wells,

Cobol first appeared in 1959, C didn't appear until 1973.

So either you have access to a time machine, or have no idea about the history of computing.

*shakes head*

you just don't GET it. having an absolutely byzantine legal system, where no one understands it is CLEARLY a complete benefit (if you happen to be a lawyer). (Lawyers) Want it to be hard to follow the law, that way they have a never-ending business. Hrm... this gentleman happens to be a lawyer... funny, that!

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" --Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II

no, it's better then that

It's about syncing data between home PC and other devices. HD manufacturers are downright salivating over this... they sell you one in your PC, the sell apple one for iCloud, the sell another (10) in the flash for your iDevice(s).

it's like printing money, Chris Mellor could only be more wrong if he said it harolds a new coming of Xenu.

so, let me get this strait...

because you couldn't be bothered to comment on the REQUEST FOR COMMENT, it was built in "The ivory towers of Academia?" What should they have done, beat a path to your door to get you to personally engrave your signature in a slab of the purest unobtainium? Yes there may have been things we could have addressed differently, if we could do over, but these specs have been damn successful. They have been reviewed by many, and are amended when appropriate. They have withstood many attempts to replace them with more secure by design proprietary protocols.

Just because a small subset of the population was all the cared, does not make it closed.

Im reminded of Alpha Complex...

Then enjoin the anyone from harassing the man, "noone may ask blah blah blah about any affairs he may or may not have had." Don't ban knowing about the ban. Injunctions are a fine and wonderful applications of the law, super-injunctions are idiotic.

This is the level of absurdity that made Paranoia fun. "Red citizens paint hallways. An orange hallway needs painted yellow, but a red citizen cannot know of the existance of a orange or yellow hallway, therefore cannot paint it. Refusing to paint the hallway is treason, a capital offense. KNOWING about the hallway (which is above your security clearence) is a sure sign you MUST be a spy (and a traitor, did I mention what the punishment for treason was?).

I can't understand how all but the most bureaucratic of bureaucrats can defend this, it would make Joseph Heller proud.

"BOOM," what many a Paranoia game ended with.