* Posts by Matt Bryant

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'Brit Bill Gates' Lynch: Only Mad Leo Apotheker understood Autonomy

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Re: Anyone ever heard of due diligence

"....The set of circumstances required for this to truly be a case of fraud on this scale are simply beyond the plausible....." Well, surely the right people to decied that here in the UK are the SFO, CPS and judge and jury. Until one of those says otherwise I would suggest it is you that is only seeing what you want to be "plausible".

Operation Hunt the Hunter: Anonymous targets 'revenge porn' man

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Re: Good

Whilst he certainly is a money-grubbing oik, his site was taking $20k in advertising hits, which suggests the problem was not only his site but the large number of people going to it. In essence, he is no more culpable than those sites that put up pics of nudists or public topless sunbathers as pr0n. Distasteful as his site is, he hasn't actually commited a crime, and trying to link his site to an unrelated bullying suicide is in itself a debateable tactic.

You also have to question the stupidity of people that give their partners nude pics - why are they so suprised they might be passed on? I am seriously amazed that people still do this even after years of stories of jilted lovers putting their sex vids etc online! Either they are seriously clueless or actually enjoy the exposure. Whilst I do think the clueless ones deserve some sympathy if only out of pity, it is also not illegal to ridicule them, and probably not illegal to link their nude pics to their other public material such as Facebook accounts. I suppose the only possibly illegal area would be if he linked to the wrong account, whereupon he could possibly be sued for defamation of character, but as long as he links to the correct accounts he would seem to be legally clean even if he is a gigantic scuzzball.

In the meantime, I'm sure Hunter is not only laughing at all the free publicity the Anonyputzs are giving him, but is happily working with the Feds to trace all the LOIC fodder. I just feel sorry for the FBI agents that will have to work with him.

Assange: Google, Facebook run 'side projects' for US spooks

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Re: Re: It doesn't harm to give neophytes a head up now and again ...

"lol you really believe that AQ was a conventional organisation don't you....." Oh, I'm feeling pretty confident I know more than you do about AQ, its structure, its alliances, and the hangers on it garners, expecially amongst impressionable twits like yourself that want to appear all hip'n'rebellious. Exactly the same type of twit you see wearing a Che T-shirt whlst being unable to even spell his surname.

".....OBL stayed 'lead free' cos that's the deal he made with the great satan...." Seriously? I'd like to think the tinfoil is so tight it's cut off the circulation to your brain, but it seems your brain was so damaged by what you thought was an education that the tinfoil is irrellevant.

"....then leadership changed, all deals were off....." Yes, because Obambi stopped buying any weapons, right? Oh, except that didn't change at all. Indeed, drone strikes were increased under Obambi's watch, the F-35 program swelled to even bigger scales, and the USN got approval for even bigger carriers. The Reg's pages have been full for the past few years with tales of Yank projects including laser-toting Jumbo jets, USN railguns, microwave "crowd control" devices and secret shuttles aka Aurora. Yeah, Obambi really shut down that whole military complex, didn't he - NOT!

".....in so far as I've seen....." Your comprehension issues are not my problem, probably just your family's embarrassment.

".....so that's US 0 - Islam 2 by my reckoning....." Your reckoning would be much improved if you managed to convey you have even enough mental ability to count to three.

".....yeah they hate us cos we're free!" Ironically, it gives me a warm glow inside to think that our freedoms mean even twits like you can spew such frothing rants.

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Re: It doesn't harm to give neophytes a head up now and again ...

"....Bin Laden and Company are well versed in secure communications...." Bin Laden thought he was, right up to the point where he got some really bad lead interference. Now all he's good at it is being crab bait. Surprisingly, Bin Laden still thought he was going to live a lead-free life long after many of his fellow communicators had been tracked down and sent to Gitmo or received drone fly-byes due to the holes in their coms. But don't let a little reality intrude in your ranting.

Anti-Israel hackers leak nuclear watchdog email addresses

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Re: Re: Grumpy Grumpy

".....Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg...." LOL! Local Dupe, after all your rants against the establishment and The Man, don't tell me your going to make crocodile tears over the nephew of King Gustav of Swden! Or is it just because he serves your cause that you're quick to mention him? Beyond hypocriticial! You also seem not to know that on the day Bernadotte was assassinated, September 17th 1948, his convoy had been attacked by an Arab sniper at Ramallah. If the Arab had been a better shot then Bernadotte would have died by Arab hands and you'd no doubt not be mentioning him at all. Dwelling in the past isn't much fun when you run up against someone that knows more history than you, is it?

".....He probably would have liked to see his wife one more time before he died...." I'm sure the twelve Americans I listed as victims of Fakeistinian terror attacks in Palestine since the Oslo Accords would have liked to have seen their families again.

"....He was working for peace between the Arabs and the Jews....." Bernadotte's recommendations were rejected both times by the Arabs who preferred the idea of slaughtering all the Jews and stealing their lands. The ironic part of the story is that Ben Gurion had decided to accpet Bernadotte's second proposal only the news had not filtered through to the Lehi. Ben Gurion's acceptance of the UN plan led to the state of Israel whereas the Arabs rejected it and that led to sixty-four years of Fakeistinian hardship.

"....You probably have had the cilice on a lot since the vote in the UN last week....." A hair shirt? No thanks, you're the one with religion. Me, I've been laughing at the hype and froth. The UN popularity vote was a bygone conclusion. But, it is in breach of the Oslo Accords that states a Palestinian Arab state can only come into existance by negotiation with Israel. So that means Israel is also no longer bound by the Oslo Accord in any way. If Israel really wants to play hardball, they can ration the supply of electricity to the West Bank, re-route the majority of their water, and re-occupy Jericho - all covered by the Oslo Accord. Then Bibi just has to wait for the inevitable rioting that follows and declare the whole West Bank a "military zone" again, as he said he would back in 1997. Abbas will fold because he knows Israel is less of a threat than what happens if Hamas gains control of riots in the West Bank. Face it, threatening to build in the E1 area is just Bibi giving Abbas a wake-up call, he could do a lot worse. And if he does then the UN General Assembly can shriek and rage all they want - without the UN SC agreeing there would be no action, and it is unlikely the US will allow anything other than empty condemnations. The US will insist on negotiations, Bibi will happily go along knowing that Abbas cannot deliver and then Abbas will walk out, same as he always does, and we're back to square one, only it's square one 1993 style. The Arab states will turn the volume up to ten but do nothing because they're actually more worried about Iran's meddling and need the US around to keep them safe. Oh dear, did I just pop your balloon again?

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Re: @ Matt Bryant

"Who or what are these "Fakeistinians" you keep referring to?....." Under Arafat, a deliberate policy of the PLO was to use the term "Palestinian" to only apply to Palestinian Arabs, so as to imply they were the original and only rightful occupiers of all the Mandate territories. The usage was taken up by the PLO's friends in Arab countries and insisted on by them in the UN, despite it having ZERO historic accuracy. This has been so successful that you will find many a clueless Westerner that will assure you that all the Israelis were not from the area and were dumped there by Europe under UN supervision in 1947/48. It is all the more ironic as the Arabs cannot actually pronounce the word Palestine as they have no hard p in their language,instead they have to say "Falastin", the old Arab name for the Philistines. Hence the parody term "Fakeistinian" to show up their lie.

Historically, the term was originally coined as "Provincial Palestina" by the Romansin AD135, a corruption of the term Philistina or, as we call them today, the Philistines. The original Philistines were driven out over many centuries by other groups. The Romans in AD135 were in the process of putting down a Jewish rebellion in the area and wanted to de-Judeaise the name of the region, hence they made up Palestina. By the time the Crusaders and Saladin arrived on the scene the area referred to then as Palestine stretched from the borders of Egypt right up to the majority of Syria and across eastwards to Iraq. Then the Ottoman Turks conquered the area and it was unchanged until the post-WW1 partition between the Brits and the French. The majority of old Palestine became the Mandate Territories of Palestine whist Syria, the Levant (Lebanon) and Iraq got split off. Up to this point there were many people living in the area, despite the Muslim Arabs' attempts to drive them out or subjugate them, including Palestinian Jews, Palestinian Arabs, and Christian Arabs, and all have just as much right to refer to themselves as Palestinians if they wish.

"....I'm finding it hard to take you seriously...." We'll, seeing as the majority of the posters here seem to be prepubescent or simply missed history classes I was merely trying to keep the discussion at a level they could comprehend. Since it matters so much to you please do feel to actually express an opinion from up there on your moral hobbyhorse.

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Re: Re: "The statement, written in wobbly English and typed in all caps,"

"I'm certain both are Mossad agents....." So, you have no evidence of that, but you are convinced it is true? Belief without evidence is called faith, and being reflexively anti-The-Man and anti-Israel does seem to be more than a bit of a religion with you.

".....Mossad is dedicating a kosher Ladies and Gents in Jonathan Pollard Park....." You'll whine on about Pollard but at worst he sold USN secrets to Israel, he didn't kill any Americans or even want to kill anyone. And that's the big difference. Unfortunately, when the Fakeistinians target Americans they not only do it deliberately but as often as they can, regardless of how they are supposedly "looking for a peaceful solution". Ignoring the attacks abroad, ignoring how Fakeistinian jihadis turned up in Iraq with full PLO support, but just looking at Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, Fatah and Hamas are DIRECTLY responsible for killing at least twelve American citizens since the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, a treaty that was supposed to see the Fakeistinians swearing off terrorism as a key part of the agreement. Below are the incidents I can find but it wasn't a particularly thorough search, there are probably many more:

Apr 9, 1995 - Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 21, 1995 - Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus, suspected to be an Al-Aqsa Brigade (Fatah military wing) attack.

July 31, 2002 - Hebrew University massacre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem - nine killed, included four American and one dual-nationality American-French, all visitors. Bomber was from East Jerusalem, Hamas claimed responsibility.

Oct 15, 2003 - Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats. Ironically, the diplomats were there to help establish the PNA police and other peaceful economic structures.

So forgetting for a moment the massive number of Israelis killed by Fakeistinian terror since the Oslo Accord, and restricting it to just areas where the Fakeistinians had complete control of and responsibility for any terror groups, and AFTER they were supposed to have given up terror, the Fakesistinians have killed at least twelve Americans. I'm sure the families of those twelve Americans would be quite happy to go to an event at Johnathan Pollard Park.

"......I have the best theory of the events that day...." No, you just have rambling, anti-semite-fueled conspiracy theories.

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Re: "The statement, written in wobbly English and typed in all caps,"

Is BIG DUMB GUY related to Rage Boy? http://snappedshot.com/ghost/i8j

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Re: Re: Faggots

".....the state of Palestine....." Oh Tom, you know there is no such place as the state of Palestine, even after the recent UN vote. Until the Fakeistinians sit down and negotiate with Israel there will be no state of Palestine. Of course, who gets to sit down and negotiate is another matter - Abbas who has over-run his mandate and has no legitimate claim to be President, or Hamas, the elected representatives of the Fakeistinians, the group who just refuse to accept the two state solution? Maybe Israel should start insisting on a few pre-reqs to talks, like the Fakeistinians sorting out their own issues first. That would delay talks for at least another twenty-odd years, plenty of time to build the rest of Maaleh Adumim and the Barrier. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure the Israeli scientists will be feeling pretty safe, it's not like the skiddies have access to drones tech and guided missiles.

HP lunges at EMC's midrange with new 3PAR StoreServ 7000s

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Re: Re: Oops!

"....if 3PAR was called EVA Gen 6 (or whatever)." TBH, I think they should have. The new 3PAR 7x00 series are obviously meant to replace the EVAs and the F-series 3PARs but they don't seem to use the disk magazine idea of the big 3PARs, simply disk shelves like the old EVAs.

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Re: Re: Oops!

"That is not the case, at least in IBM's redirect on write. The redirect is a time based differential on the master....." OK, just so we're clear we're discussing the same terms, I'll define copy-on-write and redirect-on-write, then you tell me if you agree. Probably best seeing as the storage industry, like servers, often uses similar terms with slightly different definitions.

Copy-on-write has the following three process steps for each change in data:

1. Read location of original data block (1 x read I/O).

2. Copy this data block to new unused location (1 x write I/O).

3. Write the new and modified data block to the location of original data block (1 x write I/O).

Copy-on-write puts the data in contiguous chunks on the disks but you actually have two copies of the data, the original (safely stored in case you want to roll back) and the changed, and any time you want to read the data you already know where the latest up-to-date copy is because it's where it was before, all contiguous. That makes subsequent data read operations on the stored data faster, and we all know it's a race to get data OUT of the array to the CPUs, whereas pushing it back afterwards can be handled by cache.

Redirect-on-write has two steps:

1. Read location of original data block (1 x read I/O).

2.Write modified data block to new location (1 x write I/O).

NetApp WAFL and the copycat Oracle ZFS use redirect-on-write in an attempt to push up immediate write performance. Please note that, as you state, the snap is a PiT (point-in-time) copy and the actual whole data picture is the unchanged original data PLUS all the changes. This introduces the big problem with chuck-it-anywhere filesystems - the data is not contiguous but is all over the place. As the filesystem fills up the heads are dancing all over the place as to read that data requires them to go get all the redirects, meaning that the CPUs do not get the data out as fast for subsequent data operations. When you want to delete your snap you will lose all the changes, which the redirect is the only record of, unless you write them back into the main copy. Thus redirect-on-write is a save-now-but-pay-more-later solution that leads to chronic performance issues which worsen as the array fills up.

Now, I understand IBM try something slightly different with XIV where they use a dedicated savvol and write the redirects to the savvol rather than scattering them at random. Whilst better than pure redirects-on-write, this still leaves the problems of the heads jumping between the two spots to get the full data set, and also brings up reservations - XIV by default saves an extra 10% for for any volume for the snapshot. If your data changes at a high rate you will need to allocate more space for the savvol or run out of room in that 10%. Which is why XIV admins end up scratching their heads and saying "I was sure I had more disk left than that?" They also have the problem of having to reclaim data and space by writing the changed data from the savvol back into the contiguous disk after deletion, it's juts they pretend it happens in the background with no overhead (yeah, by magic pixie dust!).

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Re: Re: Oops!

".....a complete rip and replace of everything?" What a tragically stupid thing to say! You're replacing an old array with a new one, what do you think will happen? If it's an old EVA and you get a brain injury and decide to replace it with a NetApp device you still have to rip out the EVA and replace it with the new NetApp. Same goes for a new EMC device, only you're probably less likely to be accused of having brain damage. The only difference is hp have implemented a software solution to make sucking data off the EVA onto the 3PAR a lot easier as they can plug into both bits of their own software a lot easier than NetApp or EMC.

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Re: Re: 3PAR File Services? @ Man Mountain & AC

Googoobaby, I think they meant to say "yes, it's a Win Storage server or cluster of such servers in front of the array", it's just it came out in defensive mode. Personally, I don't know why hp are so defensive over the whole NAS-header thing, at least I can do anti-virus directly on the header, unlike NetApp.

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Re: Oops!

".....which HP has bolted on EVA as a stop-gap...." Whilst I'd argue the "stop-gap" bit, seeing as LSI build the controllers for the EVAs IIRC, but I see you don't try and argue that it is not a working thin solution.

"......Continuous Access is pretty bad on EVA......" Oh puh-lease! Just go and look at the vast number of EVAs supplying mission-critical levels of availability all over the World. It is a very trusted, easy to implement and popular solution and one I have worked with at several companies in the FTSE 100. It may not be fashionable with hp's salesgrunts (I suspect they get more commission for flogging the all-hp 3PAR rather than the EVA with its OEMed components), but I suspect I won't be the only customer that misses the old EVA when it does finally get retired.

".....Snaps still are copy on write, which is way more" reliable and gives better data integrity. I forgot to mention earlier with the thin bit that EVA can also create thin provisioned snaps, thanks for reminding me.

".....way more disruptive and storage intensive than the redirect on write from IBM and NetApp." Except when you delete a snapshot, which is when you have to reconcile the original data with all the changes you wrote into the redirect space, i.e., the original data has to stand still whilst ALL the writes that have happened since the snap was taken have to be written back into the main copy - very disruptive and intensive, much so than write-on-copy. Oh, did you not have that bit in your FUD guide?

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Oops!

".....For those customers who are familiar with HP's EVA arrays, which are missing the thin provisioning, remote copy, peer motion, and other functions that 3PAR arrays have...." OK, I know the hp salesgrunts want to tell you EVA is not dead but 3PAR is the answer, so what's your question, but I think you should stick to making announcements about mainframes, TPM, or do some background reading first. Thin Provisioning has been available on EVA for a while, and Continuous Access (equivalent to Remote Copy) for as long as I can remember. EVA 6000 software details can be found here to get you started (http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13905_div/13905_div.HTML).

Oracle suffers premature remuneration: Spaffs $900m on shareholders

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"Discussions"?

"....Oracle’s single largest shareholder is chief executive Larry Ellison, but Oracle said in a statement its alpha-male boss had not participated in discussions or the board vote on the matter....." That's because there was no discussion - when Emperor Larry says jump the board don't even bother to ask how high! After all, MiG fuel and yatchs are expensive.

Bradley Manning to speak in public for first time in two years

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Re: Re: " Manning is all about attention"

"....And you're the first dude to say it....." Sorry, but A$$nut's narcicism and god-complex have been commented on plenty by many others, just obviously not on your steeples' approved reading list.

".... I can't believe you're faulting him for that....." I'm not faulting him, it's just a indicator of his mental condition. I am faulting you and the other Faithful that insisted the suicide watch was not .

"......TORTURE...." What, they made him sleep naked for a week because he'd already made a noose once? I think it's time you and your fellow numpties went and read about real torture:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Houses-of-torture-found-in-Fallujah-Bloody-2634289.php

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/03/syria-torture-centers-revealed

http://www.hrw.org/node/82359/section/4

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Re: Re: " Manning is all about attention"

Manning wants to belong, just not in the military, and wants people to tell him he is smart and valued. His problem was he could not modify his actions and outlook to what the military norm required, despite thousands of other gays not finding this a problem. A$$nut is different, he just wants everyone to say he is God.

Oh, whilst you're bleating about Manning, did you see the item on the Beeb where Manning admitted he made a noose whilst in detention in Kuwait, prior to being put on suicide watch? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20563539. Looks like you'll have to withdraw all that squealing you and your like-minded chums posted about the suicide watch being "unjustified torture".

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Re: Re: 1980's

Knew a grunt who fractured his cheekbone doing the same.

EU joins Google, hippies, Uncle T Cobbleigh in fight against ITU

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69?

Definitely a non-discriminatory policy built around give and take.

LOHAN's mighty orb launch live NOW

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Re: Always "Late Delivery" !!

"No much good reading of this (regrettably) epic fail....." Who knew the University of Southern Indiana had a department in China!

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Re: Re: Bad Planning

So, apart from the unfortunate splash down due to unpredicted high winds, a first rate success! Congrats to the team. The unpredictable nature of high altitude winds over the UK at this time of year have led even groups of piloted planes to disaster (http://www.4thfightergroupassociation.org/the-morlaix-show.html).

Assange needs to get some sunlight and fresh air, say Ecuadoreans

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Re: Re: I'm Doctor Matthew Bryant

".....I can diagnose anybody by watching a BBC video of them....." Local Dupe, it's very obvious he neither looks at all ill or suffering, and has none of the symptoms associated with a "chronic lung infection". Oh, sorry, couldn't you see that from you position with your head up his ar$e? Please do keep on posting prime examples of the blind and unquestioning support of The Faithful.

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Yeah, he's just so ill!

Except this clip of him spewing his usual bile and garbage at the BBC has no coughing, no shortage of breath, and no shortage of male bovine manure (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20563539). What a lying little egomaniac.

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Re: Re: Are the Ecuadorans planning on smuggling him out?

Cry more, this is my "honest I do care face". As with the majority of A$$nut groupies, you just hate it when your lack of knowledge and blind faith in St Jules is exposed.

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Re: Re: Are the Ecuadorans planning on smuggling him out?

".....evidently I haven't been paying the close attention that you have...." This is my surprised face, honest!

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Re: Re: He's the first person...

"....they haven't managed to do ANYTHING yet...." Well, they haven't NEEDED to do anything yet. Apart from laugh. A$$nut has been happily destroying his own rep and credibility. As I've posted before, we need to see what information regrading the pre-leak communications between Manning and A$$nut comes out of Manning's trial, and then what type of deal he cuts with the US authorities to help them gut A$$nut. Manning is the stepping stone to A$$nut, and whilst he's locked himself away in the Ecuadorean "hellhole with no light or fresh air (whimper)" they don't exactly have to run very far to find him.

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Re: Masked Ball

"Is not the solution a masked ball...." It's not actually a big building, it's just a few rooms in a converted flat. Anything more than six or so people and they wouldn't even have standing room, so any seventh guest exiting the bulding would be suspicious.

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Re: Psyx

"....conspiracy loons...." Shush! Stop ruining my fun, I was just about to suggest to them they should check his keffiyah for polonium.....

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Re: Simon Harris

and he won't leave the poor cleaning lady alone!

Saucy Star Wars strip show - sorry, burlesque - to tour Down Under

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Is nothing sacred?

Think of the children, etc, etc. Of course, the more jaded might wonder if Carrie Fisher's outing in the gold bikini wasn't an effort to sex-up the franchise.

El Reg Movember lads sprout mighty Unix beards for cancer charity

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Re: On the occurrence of beardie-wierdies

".....I usually wore Levis & a T-shirt, barefoot, to the office. Bill and Dave had no issues bringing customers in to talk to me...." Bill & Dave let you serve coffee barefoot? I'm shocked!

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On the occurrence of beardie-wierdies

An old colleague that used to work for IBM in the '60s explained it as the self-reinforcing split between sales grunts and nerds. Nerds wanted to have "special" status whereas the salesgrunts resented losing any control of the sale to the nerds. IBM at the time, in common with many upstanding Yank companies, had a very strict dress code for those even likely to come into direct contact with customers and growing beards was definitely outside the norm. Nerds wanting to remain hidden away in the labs grew beards to express their "special" status, and salesgrunts used it as an excuse not to take them onsite. Many sales were made at the time on the golf course, without any real technical representation on the customer's side, and most nerds didn't play golf, and the salesgrunts were happy to keep it that way. Amusingly, as the "beardie" culture spread to include ponytails and other items and means of dress unacceptable to the standard set for salesgrunts, and as the nerds began to have more of a say from the customer side as well, the customer's techies started expecting the salesgrunts to bring along similar techies, to the point where you would hear such conversations as : "we know it's true because their beardie said so, not their sales guy."

Israeli deputy PM's social media hacked by pro-Palestine group

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A new version of the old saying.

Winners have drones, jet fighters, jobs, an economy and webservers, whilst losers have... well, skiddies.

House passes, Obama disses 55,000 visas for educated immigrants

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Re: So I guess immigration into the U.S. is only OK...

Gosh, you wouldn't be trying to suggest there could be a reason for the Dems wanting to keep or grow the 47% who will never vote Republican are you?

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Re: Re: Of course migrant workers don't take away american jobs in the long run.

"The conservatives in America are more basic than that. Now that they have busted the labor unions and have artificially kept wages low for the working class, they are only trying to flood the market with these highly educated workers in hopes of driving their wages lower." LOL! So if they don't support immigration of foreigners then they're just racists, but if they support immigration of employable foreigners that won't be a burden to the States then they're just anti-unionists? Loosen up the tinfoil, otherwise there's a good chance you'll convince yourself breathing is just a Conservative plot to keep you alive and paying taxes.

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Re: Of course migrant workers don't take away american jobs in the long run.

".......Apparently it's an offence to leave the country while your citizenship application is being processed !....." So, smart enough to work in nuke physics, just not smart enough to understand the basic immigration rules which are explained to every applicant? Or are you saying he expected (and got) special help because of his role? One of the reasons the rule is in place is to stop rich foreigners just buying citizenship by buying an US firm and then not actually taking up residence, just using the citizenship to dodge the laws in their home countries. So you're complaining about a rule that stops rich people abusing the process?

NASA: THE TRUTH about the END OF THE WORLD on 21 Dec

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Re: Re: not the end

".....What if they're kids?" Then take comfort in the thought that in this highly competitive, dog-eat-dog World, your offspring will have a few less competitors to worry about.

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Nibiru

We have a ndecommissioning project kicking off in December, looks like you've just supplied the prefect project name!

PCs punch HP in the gut, servers knee it in the jewels

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Re: Re: The future is bright, the future is Oracle.

And how long does Larry have to keep providing guaranteed support and development of his software for hp Integrity? That's right, for as long as hp say so.

Anonymous attacks Israeli websites over Gaza bombings

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Re: @MB"<Yawn> Again, this has nothing to do with the current daily warcrimes commited by Hamas.

"....How can you say that an Admiral who may not have seen any service since '45, was in a better position to see the battle plan, both by air and sea, the Israelis perpetrated against the USS Liberty, than OFFICERS of the Navy on board the ship?....." Because the USN Court got to look at all the information after the incident, got to examine it from more than the point of view of "Fuck! They're shooting at us!" You do understand the whole idea of an investigation is to look at all the evidence, not just arbitrarily take the word of the first hysterical witness? Oh, so you don't understand how courts work either. More reading for you!

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Re: Re: I decided not to drop it.

"......Did you say Liberty's senior Naval Security Group officer, Lieutenant Commander David Lewis and Lieutenant Commander James Ennes, a junior officer (and off-going Officer of the Deck) on Liberty's bridge at the time of the attack....." Whilst it's amusing watching you SCHWING off in another desperate attempt to avoid the topic of the thread, I feel it is only fair to explain what happens in a "friendly fire" or "blue-on-blue" (no, that's not Dem on Dem action). To put it simply, the bod on the receiving end - if they survive - will get the fright of their life, and will insist that the attacker was deliberately targeting them. Even people that were close friends, in the aftershock, will insist their former best bud was gunning for them. As they see it, there was NO WAY the attacker could not have seen they were friendly. Yet even in the much higher tech battles in Iraq and Afghanistan, FF incidents happen. I'm sure every member of the Liberty bridge crew sincerely believed they were being deliberately targeted by the Israelis when the reality was that it was just their unfortunate POV.

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Re: "the bloodbath in Iraq after Bush had Saddam killed."

".....You MB are full of hooey." If you say so, whatever. You are off topic and debunked, yet again.

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Re: "The eventual partitioning fo the Yugoslavian union was both inevitable and a good thing..

"There was only one thing more inevitable than the partitioning of Yugoslavia after the death of Tito and that was the bloodbath in Iraq after Bush had Saddam killed....." WHAT!?!?!? The Iraqis tried and execute Saddam under their law, in their courts. The subsequent fighting between ethnic factions in Iraq was totally due to inter-Arab clan and Arab-Persian tensions, and exposed the simple truth that Arabs, whether they are Sunni or Shia, just can't solve their problems without violence. Truly a fail of epic and hyperventilating levels of self-delusion and denial.

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Re: There's a ton of this shit, Matt. I just want to regurgitate this on you and then drop it.

SCHWING, SCHWING, SCHWING! Already debunked, get back on topic or face even more ridicule.

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Re: @MB"<Yawn> Again, this has nothing to do with the current daily warcrimes commited by Hamas.

"....How many times can you find the word 'Hamas' in the two sentences above by Matt?...." That was another topic introduced by you in another avoidance of the main article. You spewed random propaganda, I debunked said propaganda and pointed you back towards the original discussion which you then avoided again. You're doing the same now, again because you lost the main discussion.

"....I didn't know you were so sanguine about Mohamed Morsi....." Israel has a window of time whilst Mursi sets about building his empire. During that time they need the US, EU and even Russia and China to convince Mursi that making money is more important than jihad. Israel's best weapon is not Iron Dome, Maverick missiles or Merkava tanks, it's consumerism. If you can keep the average Egyptian off the topic of Israel then they generally tend to tell you how they aspire to have a good life, make money, buy that 32in flatscreen TV, the Mercedes, etc, etc. Why else do you think Hamas deliberately keeps the population fo Gaza so poor and underemployed?

"....How about a junior officer on the bridge of the USS Liberty...." Like I said, compare to the experience and training of the USN Court. And please also remember the USN Court had the time and access to all the information regarding the incident, whereas your candidate only saw the result. By your argument, the bridge team of the USS Vincennes believed they were shooting down an attacking Iranian fighter when they SAM'd Iran Air Flight 655 on 3rd July 1988, and I bet there is no way you'll accept that!

"..... Captain Ward Boston, JAGC, U.S. Navy, senior counsel for the Court of Inquiry, claimed that the Court of Inquiry's findings were intended to cover up what was a deliberate attack by Israel on a ship it knew to be American.... he and Kidd both believed the attack was deliberate....." And that's the whole point of an inquiry, to make a decision based on information, not what they believed to have happened. Despite what they believed to have been the case, the Court could not PROVE that to be the case or even SUBSTANTIALLY LIKELY to be the case, otherwise there verdict would have to be otherwise. The USN Court decided the available evidence and information regarding the situation, of which there was plenty, did not show that Israel deliberately attacked the Liberty in full knowledge it was an American ship. That judgement has withstood legal examination and challenge, so it's about time you and the rest of the tinfoil-attired anti-semites get a clue too.

Oh, do I detect antoher SCHWING coming soon? Another of your evasions has been debunked and you won't want to be proven wrong again in the original discussion, so I expect next you'll start hystericaly claiming that Israeli soldiers eat babies?

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Re: "....." Shamir was a commander in the Lehi, not the outright leader."

"I suppose you know which of the three...." <Yawn> Again, this has nothing to do with the current daily warcrimes commited by Hamas.

"....Have you noticed it's starting to twirl out of control....." How is it "out of control"? Israel has killed many of Hamas's rocket crews, leaders and jihadi buddies, still has complete control over the borders and airpsace and seafront of Gaza, and now has Egypt publicly tied to a commitment to stop weapon smuggling into Gaza. Iron Dome has again shown it can handle the worst of the rocket strikes, making Hamas largely a toothless hyena even if Hamas wasn't now commited to stopping rocket attacks. And their rocket resupply route from Iran via Sudan is under public scrutiny. Egypt just took a big "development" bribe from Shrillary and another from the EU and so can be expected to behave for now as long as Shrillary lets Mursi make himself the new pharaoh. What, you think it was a coincidence he started giving himself all those powers after Shrillary left and with virtually no more than a window-dressing of condemnation from the US government? Maybe you were too busy reading Gilbert and Sullivan to notice.

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Re: Diplomacy is not your long suit, Matt. And it isn't Israel's either.

"Diplomacy is not your long suit....." Correct. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then I tend to call it a duck. Unless Chuck Norris says it's a chicken. Sorry, the latter ref is probably a bit too modern for you, I'd try to look for something in Gilbert and Sullivan but I just can't be bothered.

"....(why there?)...." Because that's where they routinely post public notices of the approval or rejection of such applications.

"....Isn't that line a parody of "Taken from a "County Jail" from The MIkado?....." I'm not surprised you know nothing about Israeli processes but plenty about comic opera, yet feel that somehow you are qualified to pass judgement on the former due to your ability to regurgitate quotes from the latter.

".....Here's what the Secretary of State said...." Would that be the Sec of State that was somehow more qualified than the USN Court to judge on a maritime war incident? Please do tell what service in the Navy or Air Force, under wartime conditions, allowed him to somehow have superior insight to a group of men who had been specifically selected due to their legal, maritime and military training and experience?

"....You want to cast your lot with LBJ about the USS Liberty...." It seems the USN Court did, and they would strike me as probably a lot more qualified than you. Maybe not on Gilbert and Sullivan, but then I don't really see how that could apply in the situation under discussion. If you feel different please do entertain the readers with you startling insights. And while you're at, exactly what does the Liberty event have to do with the warcrimes commited by Hamas on a daily basis?

Annual reviews: It's high time we rid the world of this insanity

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Re: How to beat the dreaded review!

"....How many jobs have you been invited to leave?" You should always be PAID to leave a job....

IDC: A year of server revenue declines

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Cookie-tray breakdown, please!

Be nice to see a breakdown of the "density-optimised" server market.