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Posts by markfiend
63 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system
Doomsday Clock ticks one minute closer to annihilation
Has UK gov lost the census to Lulzsec?
I'm fighting a losing battle I know...
...but I wish people would stop referring to script-kiddies and black-hats as "hackers".
Hacker: A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
Back to gaslight, coal and steam power - it's the future
Super-injunctions 'unfair' cos of Twitter gossip, says Cameron
Star Wars: From dream sci-fi bride to perfect Blu-ray wife
ASSANGE GRANTED BAIL
New NASA model: Doubled CO2 means just 1.64°C warming
Do we really still have to put up with the denialism arguments?
So you think you've suddenly thought of a problem that the climate scientists haven't? OK, fine, get it published in a scientific journal and wait for the Nobel committee to come knocking.
At this stage of the game, trying to pretend that CO2 *isn't* driving anthropogenic climate-change is pretty much on a par with creationism: you're denying that the evidence exists because you don't like the conclusions.
"recently a leading climatologist ( one could hardly say scientist) claimed that the laws of thermodynamics ( a part of science more completely proved than any other) must be wrong because it did not tie in with the AGW theory." In the immortal words of wikipedia... [citation needed]
Modelling *is* Science
From Wikipedia: "Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the natural world."
These testable explanations and predictions are also known as *models*.
Lost ancient civilisation's ruins lie beneath Gulf, says boffin
ASSANGE ARRESTED in London - in court later today
DDoS attack, sex warrant won't stop Assange's leaky discharge
Sarah Palin calls for US to stand by North Korea
Police to get greater web censorship powers
Most coders have sleep problems, need 'hygiene and care'
Christians vs metalheads in FB flame war
Has CERN made the VATICAN ANTIMATTER BOMB for real?*
MS freebie anti-virus scanner auto-downloads provoke more anger
Alien Earthlike worlds 'like grains of sand', say 'wobble' boffins
Sony hits stop on Walkman tape players
Steve Jobs in iPhone bitchslap to creationists, Tea Party
Yahoo! boffin scores pi's two quadrillionth bit
Ubuntu man responds to GNOME 'coattail' claims
Oracle forms new 'axis of evil' against open source, claims Adobe
ASA: You can't say 'f**k'
FCUK
As it happens, I believe that French Connection have been told off a number of times for FCUK and derivatives. But "told off" is pretty much all the ASA can do, so French Connection pretty much get away with it.
On the wider subject, there's very little advertising I don't find annoying. Can I claim offence at Direct Line's ads because I'm sick of the sound of Stephen Fry's voice?
Secret ancient code, basis of all modern civilisation, cracked
The Reg guide to Linux, part 3
The Reg guide to Linux, part 2: Preparing to dual-boot
Dual- or multi-boot...
...is also an ideal setup for a dedicated distro-hopper.
My partition layout has swap first, then three partitions for the / (root) of three different distros (currently Mint, Arch, Debian sid), then a /home partition shared between all three, then a big f***-off data partition filling the rest of the drive.
The Reg guide to Linux, part 1: Picking a distro
Pakistani lawyer petitions for death of Mark Zuckerberg
Usual "atheism just as bad as religion" fail...
...but at least you didn't try to claim Hitler was an atheist.
Stalin and Mao: atheists maybe*, but humanists? You need a new dictionary mate.
Humanism is a secular ideology which espouses reason, ethics, and justice. Stalin and Mao fit this how?
* in so much as they suppressed rivals to the official state "religion" -- the cult of personality based on themselves.
South African Bill to block all porn
Reading comprehension fail
Daggersedge: did you actually bother to read my post before springing in with your "Aha! Gotcha!"?
I am very much in favour of free speech, and I am offended by your accusation that it's merely for appearance's sake. (But your freedom of speech is more important *to me* than any offence I might feel. If we were only to protect speech with which we agree, that's no freedom at all.)
I do not accept censorship. I accept *moderation* from the Reg because it's their site, their rules. The comparison between private entities and governments fails because *a government does not own its country*. If you refuse to understand this basic point then I see no point continuing the conversation.
Having said that, would you be happy if I came into your house and kept shouting in your face "Daggersedge believes in censorship! Nya nya nya!"? Or would you prefer to "censor" me? Your continued refrain is starting to sound like Dennis in Monty Python's Holy Grail: "Help, help! I'm being oppressed!"
Moderation is NOT a form of censorship
You are quite wrong.
Freedom of speech means that the government aren't (or oughtn't be) allowed to tell me what I may or may not say within their jurisdiction. It does NOT mean that the owners of this site aren't allowed to tell me what I may or may not say *on this site*.
There is a difference between the public sphere (of the internet in general) and private property (individual web sites). If you don't like what you're allowed to say (or not say) on this forum, you're quite FREE to go and set up your own. You're even free to set up the rules so that no-one is allowed to post dissenting opinions on your site.
It's a bit more tricky for South Africans to go off and set up their own country...
Biz Linux needs Office license to run MS web apps
Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin
Minor nitpick
Ironic that you can accuse people of having "holier-than-thou attitude with open source software" and "forcing everyone to install worlds of unwanted Mono programs". In my experience real FOSS evangelists want as little to do with Mono as possible.
So either (a) you're talking about two different sets of people and I've got confused.
(b) you're talking about one set of people and they're confused
(c) you're confused.
And now this post to confuse everyone even further. Hope that helps.
UK pol touts canine chip implants
Got to agree with most of the comments
Responsible dog owners, for the most part, already chip their animals. Irresponsible owners (and with "aggressive dogs" it's almost always the owner that's at fault, not the dog) will ignore any legal requirement. Just like they do with car insurance.
This government really isn't very good at joined-up thinking is it?
Intel: Just 3,000 employees run Windows 7
Open source - the once and future dream
Slight nitpick...
...but freedom of speech (in the USA's constitutional guarantee) only means that the government may not restrict your speech. It doesn't mean that corporations may not.
For instance, a cinema would be perfectly at liberty to have you removed from the building if you kept yelling "fire".
But like I say, it's only a nitpick.
UK.gov unmoved by Internet Explorer 6 security concerns
MPs frozen out of super-secret copyright talks
UK.gov moves to block Hamas kids site
Eh, yes.
By any reasonable definition, our last common ancestor would be classified as an ape. Modern cladistics don't you know. "Apes" is a group consisting of gibbons, chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans, and everything descended from the last common ancestor of all of them.
Humans *are* apes, and primates, and eutherian mammals, and tetrapods, and vertebrates, and animals, and metazoa, and eukaryotes.
Record labels seek DMCA-style UK takedowns
Paramount prepares to scale Dune
Monty's 'Save MySQL' mudsling gets 15,000 backers
Atheists smite online God poll
Plods' 'extremist' sheet included BAE mole
@Matt Bryant
Painting with a very broad brush aren't we? A lot of people are vegetarian for all sorts of reasons. Please don't associate us all with the ALF loonies.
Other than that your dismissal of anti-arms-trade protestors as "noisy morons" just sounds like you're yet another wannabe-authoritarian: "sit down, shut up, obey the police, it's for your own good." You'd have been on the side of the cavalry at Peterloo.