Posts by Matt Bryant

RE: Mature way

"......If you know how please do enlighten us....." Well, I'd suggest something that doesn't draw attention to the cause of your upset! Few people outside of the US would even know what PBS is, let alone that there was a documentary that upset Anonyputzers being broadcast. From what I recall from trips to the States, PBS doesn't exactly have massive viewing figures. But I bet there are now many, many more people in the States who didn't see the original showing, plus many abroad, all looking for a copy so they can see what the Anonyputzs are getting in a lather about. Way to go, morons, you just made your own problems bigger! What a bunch of buffoons!

RE: Lamo by name.

In Lamo's defence, try looking at it from his viewpoint. He's probably living with the knowledge the FBI and other agencies are watching his every online move, and that some gubbermint types thought he got off too lightly for his hack of the New York Times. Then some guy contacts him, saying he's a military analyst and wants his advice on leaking secret documents? It would look like a sting to me, I'd be straight on the phone to the FBI!

It's also interesting that the same people now bashing Lamo make all kinds of excuses for hacker Gary McKinnon.

RE: I too would like popcorn.

Maybe I should ask Julian Assange how to set up a paywall, get it out on a subscription basis, and start making some money out of Manning's misery?

RE: Lamo - a publicity seeking piece of scum out of the ...

Ah, so funny! Look how quick you can go from hero to zero in the eyes of the nutters. Old Lamo used to be the toast of the "revolutionaries", when he was "sticking it to the Man", but now he's presenting evidence he's a "turncoat"! LOL! The funny bit is Lamo probably only went to the cops because he wanted to avoid getting dragged into the mess, he's probably been living under a microscope for years.

Some answers (alright, not really answers, just poking fun at your ranting moral outrage):

"......(1) How much has he been paid or will he be paid;...." I expect he will be recompensed for expenses incurred. Does it matter? You've already predetermined that he will say whatever Uncle Sam pays him to say. Strange how you lot demand that Manning is "innocent until proven guilty", but are also happy to broadcast all types of accusations against those not on Manning's side.

".....(2) During this much touted Washington trip will he be advised or coached into what to say:...." Hey, maybe we should use the same excuse to stop Manning talking to any pesky lawyers, after all they might "coach" him! The feds have the right both to review Lamo's testimony for accuracy and to advise him on what tactics/smears the defence are likely to use against him.

"....(3) How does he reconcile the varying accounts of what transpired between himself and Manning;...." Could that be because all the "accounts" are third-hand at best, and then much-twisted and rehashed to suit the political viewpoint of the repeaters? At the end of the day, the only version that matters is the one in court.

"....(4) Will the prosecutors try to get him to include Wikileaks in his 'disclosure'." Well, if Manning was stupid enough to admit to a crime in the first place, it's highly likely he blabbed the lot and did mention Wikileaks. Either way, it's hearsay evidence unless Lamo recorded the conversations, what Unlce Sam needs is concrete evidence of file transfers and planning on Wikileaks' part (such as in those Twitter records the US was after).

/who's got the popcorn?

RE: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Ned, the idea of waiting until the trial is both sensible and salutory. However, we don't like sensible here, we prefer flaming the nitwits that insist on posting their vacuous bleatings, so I'm afriad I'm going to have to ask you to take your Killjoy sensiblities elsewhere so the rest of us can have a good laugh!

RE: There are more deatails about p8 than Kittson

"IBM has more information on its roadmap about Power8....." IBM's non-public roadmap just has a box marked "Power8" with no details and no date. Half the customers out there are getting that and nothing else, and a few of us enterprise customers, under NDA, are getting some airy-fairy waffle with "subject to changing market conditions" after each sentence. From here, it appears nothing is decided about Pee8, which casts a big shadow of doubt over whether Pee7/7+ to Pee8 will be the usual IBM forklift upgrade complete with a new revision of AIX. On the other hand, even Wikipedia tells you Kittson will be socket- and binary-compatible with the new Tukzilla blades, meaning current kit and apps will carry over nicely, and is due around 2014/15.

RE: Numbers don't lie

Well, it would be nice if your post had some numbers of interest rather then. Let's try some simple maths:

Average unit price for one of IBM's UNIX sales = $64k

Avergae unit price for one of Snoreacle's UNIX sales = $32k

Average unit price for one of hp's UNIX sales = $75k

Considering you're always yammering on about how hp's Tukzilla kit "doesn't scale" (yawn), it seems that hp are still selling more of the top-end boxes than IBM, which means hp must be still leading in the more lucrative enterprise end of the market. The high-end sales would probably also drag through more services and associated sales such as high-end storage, etc, so the high-end sales are where you want to be. The Snoreacle figure doesn't lie - half the average unit value of even IBM? - but speaks volumes. Either Larry is selling his kit out at a loss (a tactic which killed Sun) or he's just churning the Slowaris webserving base with smaller Slowaris servers, which will mean very little associated sales added in, low margins, and very little cash to re-invest in further development. How long will Larry let the Slowaris and SPARC development jaunt leach money from more profitable Snoreacle products is anyone's guess, but probably a bit longer than sensible due to his ego? But he doesn't need either for Exadata, and even Exalogic runs on x64.

"....What I find interesting is Oracle is dropping Itanium support because it is being phased out by Intel after Kittson, but won't admit that there is no 45nm, 32nm or 22nm SPARC64 chip..." So where's the IBM public roadmap with any detail about what comes after Pee8? Or any public roadmap with real and concrete details on Pee8 itself? By the (low) standard you set, that must mean AIX is dead in a few years. Allipoos, can I suggest people in glass houses....

RE: Yet more Fanboism...

"....some kit is better at some stuff than other kit..... You are no different to Matt B...." Strange, because I've been known to say exactly that, so are you disagreeing with yourself or just admitting you don't actually read my posts before frothing up?

"....How on earth can they get accurate linux figures?...." These are from IDC's vendor figures, as in servers shipped from the vendors with Linux licences as part of the deal. The reality is a lot more get Linux installed seperately, but how many of those also go onto support agreements and generate revenue for either the server vendors or the Linux disties is hard to gauge, so the real Linux picture is probably even sweeter than the tasty $2bn reported. The interesting bit is the UNIX and mainframe sector did $4bn, which means it is likely Linux as a whole generated more than any individual flavour of UNIX (Slowaris, AIX or hp-ux).

RE: Unix and mainframe growth....their demise was greatly exaggerated

"IBM is hitting on all cylinders...." Well, maybe some cylinders, but not in blades, where hp has handed them their a$$ on a plate yet again! TPM says there is no mainframe on blades and the reason is because IBM know that would kill the margins in their little mainframe monopoly. Whilst hp might argue that the NonStop kit does the same job on blades, the real mainframe-on-blades option was killed by IBM when they bought PSI.

Fot those that don't remember them, PSI (platform Solutions Inc) had a neat idea of taking the old hp Superdome and running new firmware and an emulation layer, and then plonking IBM's mainframe OS and apps on top. The result was a system that was faster than an IBM mainframe at a fraction of the price, so IBM bought up PSI and killed the product. The same PSI tricks would have made the current SD2 and blades a real IBM mainframe killer.

RE: Blades

"For non X86 blades, HP has replaced all of it's lowend and midrange servers with "blades"...." Almost correct. There's one new gen rack server - the rx2800i - and you can still buy the previous generation of racked servers if you wish. But there is no way you can pretend the massive lead in blades held by hp is all down to Itanium blades (and the SD2 chassis is a different part to the general C7000, though they share many components, but you can't put general blades into the SD2 chassis). I remember when hp and IBM were running neck-and-neck in blades, not sure how long a go it was, but for the last several years it seems that IBM have lost large amounts of share to hp blades. I'm not surprised TPM skates over that to concentrate on IBM mainframe sales.

I'm curious as to which areas Fudgeitso have lost share - was it x64 specificall,y or are they seeing a drop off in SPARC64 and/or CMT kit? Be interesting to see if the Snoreacle pick up is churn of Fudgeitso bizz or is truly incremental, but 13.6% growth is hardly "eked out", even if it is a smaller cash amount than IBM or hp.

Big thumbs up for the Linux boys - $2bn! Who said that no-one would ever make money out of that "hobbie OS"? Oh, that would be a certain Scott McNealy.

RE: Dear Matt ...

Dear Deluded,

"In case it wasn´t clear - I´m not actually selling anything...." Yeah, I can't see a career in sales in your future if that's the best pitch you can come up with.

"....I have an opinion which is based on previous experience and what I know of the human condition...." So it's based on paranoia and preconceptions, and completely ignores scientific facts. Me, I prefer the whole scientific facts thing to the wild and unsubstantiated ranting trip.

".....This of course does not make my opinion correct...." You are perfectly entitled to your own opinion, I'd even defend your right to think whatever you like as long as you don't inflict it on others, but if you chose to make it public in a forum visited by people that can think, don't be surprised when you get laughed at.

"What is clear and undeniable is that the people of the world have been lied to by successive administrations the world over on a plethora of issues....." Which roughly translates to "I don't like the gubbermint, so I'm going to think the worst even when facts show otherwise"? Please, it's getting to the point where all you're doing is making a great argument for the need for eugenics!

".....Anything that encourages debate with a view to finding a system that is better than the one we currently have can only be a positive thing......" OK, let's hear how you think spreading widely debunked 9/11 conspiracy theories is going to help in "finding a system" for better government? All it seems to be good for is spotting the potential Darwin Awards candidiates - "Dude, do you believe that 9/11 was a setup?" "Why, yes, I do!" "Hey, bro, wanna do some planking out on the balcony?"

"......Because I promise you that if you don´t ... someone else will surely take that choice from you." I, in turn, can assure you there are no black helicopters heading your way, but probably plenty of interest from people in white coats.

RE: @Reasoner

Please, you're just embarassing yourself, just go read http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/1227842.

RE: Thank goodness we know it's true

Tom, I'm sure if even the SEALs had stumbled into the room to find Bin Liner with his tool up a goat whilst watching gay porn, and managed to catch it on their helmet cams, you would still insist it was a setup, trick photography, etc. Bin Liner liked a bit of porn, so what? He wasn't as holy as he made out, but that's hardly surprising as most of these religeous types turn out to have feet of clay.

RE: Nothing to do with religion

"Muhammed Atta (the 9/11 pilot) was motivated by a US/Israeli bombing mission that killed civilians in Lebanon....." Atta had pronounced anti-American feelings long before he made his Islamic "will" on 11th April 1996 in an Hamburg mosque. He was already noted to be following extreme Sunni practices, have zero ability to interact with anyone not in his tiny band of fellow Islamists, and was convinced his own inability to progress his career was the fault of his family "not being politically connected" back in Cairo. The oft quoted "US/Israelli bombing mission" (the Israeli attack on Lebanon was in response to prolonged Hezbollah artillery strikes, all aimed at Israeli civillians) was just a tiny fraction of the diatribe in Atta's "will", and by that point he was already in contact with known AQ sypathisers and activists. To pretend that this was the sole reason for Atta falling in with AQ is to be blind to the facts of both his background, upbringing and socio-religeous views.

RE: DIsgraceful Kerry slur campaign

"There is no credible evidence that any of John Kerry's many decorations were anything but deserved...." Erm, yes there is! The commanding officer on the night in question, Lt Schachte, says he thought the wound was inflicted by Kerry firing a grenade launcher at too short range and taking his own shrapnel. Either way, the pushing of the Swift Boat attacks on Kerry, and the subsequent number of websites that sprang up to defend Kerry, are perfect examples of what I'm talking about - both sides saw Kerry's military career as vital to his election chances, and both (alledgedly) threw plenty of money and press time into attacking or defending him.

"....the incredibly right wing bias of the US media...." Strange, but during Obama's campaign we had the Republicans complaining about the easy ride Obama got from the press, about media left-wing bias. So it seems you can't please all of the people all of the time!

".....I am not even american and do not support any US political party." But your leap to bash the press for right-wing bias does speak volumes for your political sympathies.

RE: But how do you *really* feel about Obama?

"....Obama: 2 years. Got bin Laden...." All the work was set in place under Bush's term, all that happened was Obama inherited the results. As with most things Obumbler, he's quick to blame Bush for anything he can, but anything good that came out of the Bush years is "all Obama". Hilariously, the raid is the result of work done by the CIA prior to Obama's election, an agency Obama spent plenty of time kicking the minute he got elected.

"....If it was all about "the election cycle," this would have happened a lot closer to the election, don't you think?...." It seems that, in the US, the new election cycle starts the minute the results of the current one are announced. If you look at American sites a week before the raid, there's lots of chatter about the possible Republican nominees and how they might do against Obama, but that got swamped in the raid news. The frenzy to link Obama with the success has been immediate and obvious. Does Obama routinely sit in on drone strikes? I doubt it. But only the day after the raid the World is swamped with shots of Obama, Biden and Hilary watching the raid in progress. Obama's team have certainly milked it for all their worth, following it up with Obama's trip out to Ground Zero. Why did he have to go to Ground Zero when the ten-year anniversary is only months away? All part of the milking process, kiddies. Obama had zero involvement in the intelligence work, wasn't even elected to senate when the process was kicked off by Bush, but his followers are happilly giving him all the credit. "....Obama: 2 years. Got bin Laden...." - I think not.

For me, the interesting bit of the current US political dance is that Obama thinks he needs to make such a show of the Bin Laden raid. His traditional base don't like this kind of thing, there's already grumbles from the handwringers about the killing being "illegal", an "assassination", so I have to assume Obama's dairy work is trying to appeal to middle-ground voters, or those slightly to the right that think the Republicans are going too far to the right. Or maybe Obama's team are just hoping they can make a "man-of-action" image for Obama in case he has to face non-military opponents like Newt Gingrich. "So, Mr Gingrich, you have no military experience, but Obama got Bin Laden...."

RE: Military service

".....Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Wilson, Heath and Callaghan...." I was thinking more of our current crop of politicians, rather than those from a period where two World Wars meant it was compulsory to have done some form of service. In fact, IIRC, lawyers and juh-nah-lists are more likely to become politicians than any other profession here in the UK. The lawyers bit explains why politics seems to be 50% pointless blather, and the journalists bit explains why that 50% seems to entail nothing but hot air and hype.

RE: Oh god, I'm about to defend Dubya!!!

Here in the UK we don't expect our leaders to have done any form of national service, in fact we hardly expect them to have done anything of real worth at all prior to entering politics. Apart from Paddy Ashdown, I can't think of a UK politician that has real and extensive military experience. But in the States it can kill your political career to be dubbed either a draft-dodger or to have lied about your service. After Bush Snr used his military career as a WW2 naval bomber pilot to great affect during his campaigns, the anti-Bush crowd set out early to try and discredit Dubyha's service record, leading to the infamous Rathergate forgeries. The Bush followers got their revenge in kind when they slated John Kerry's dubious claim for a Purple Heart from Vietnam, and much was made of the fact that the closest the Obumbler has ever got to active duty was "mixing with bomb-makers like Bill Ayers".

Obambi's recent actions are interesting - his Whitehouse team are claiming he doubled the number of SEALs on the Bin Laden raid to avoid them possibly getting cornered by Pakistani forces. The driver may have been that criticism of the failed Op Eagle Claw was a big nail in Jimmy Carter's presidential career. Looks like even non-military types want to look like assertive men-of-war going into an election cycle.

RE: Quantico official issuing the order responded, "We will do whatever we want to do"

".....they think they are above the law...." Which neatly avoids the fact that a review already decided that Manning's incarceration was neither unusual or unnecessarily cruel, so the USMC were acting very much inside the law. Don't believe me, go check the Amnesty International link supplied above.

".....Little wonder they are behind so much of the excess cruelty in Iraq and Afghanistan." So all those bombs set to kill civillians in both Iraq and Afghanistan (and Pakistan) are not "excess cruelty" but perfectly acceptable to you? Can I suggest you seek professional help ASAP?