Posts by Hate2Register 168 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2007
"You could fire both barrels of a shotgun simultaneously, claim they'd gone off a half-millionth-second apart, and say you'd doubled Metal Storm's record."
You could do that, but it would bring a whole new nightmare dimension to the term "meaningless stat". Metal Storm's figures are actually pretty impressive. If 36 barrels fire 180 rounds, rthat equates to each barrel firing 5 rounds in 1/100 of a second. That's pretty impressive, even for a jaded old hack?
Killjoys at Warhammer! Who cares if they are worried about their copyright. Anyway, it was kind of foolish to shoot the film without agreeing copyright terms first.
But Warhammer is boring, and the company should be showered with tomatoes for banning a fan film.
Indeed, after a veritable season of references to 'stealthdroids', 'killbots', and their 'fleshy slaves', what other conclusion can be drawn, other than Reg tech writers regularly plunder the vocab of kiddie comic 2000AD for those oh so gripping Terminator comparisons of new 'battletech'. The armed forces have made several clever (?) additions to jargonese, such as 'modern battlespace', 'integrated technologies', and even 'socio-political topography', which must be hard to say while you're shooting enemy ragheads.
But assuming soldiers are not in your primary readership demographic. Who does read the Reg's battledroid series? As any interlligent life form will already know, comics are like porn for kids, (right?). So using their vocab will define your readership, who I suspect are getting all excited by the Star Trek stuff.
Which makes the Reg like porn for nerds..
Hehe
While it's mildly funny watching governments racing to catch up with advances in communication, it proves they're a bunch of useless b@r$t@rds. I though the Echelon surveillance program might already be happily watching packets all over the net, watching what people download. If that doesn't already happen, our poor beleagured spooks are not as in control as the rumours they spread about themselves would have us believe.
And this state sanctioned malware. Should we accept Chinese malware because it's state sanctioned? Russian? American? Austrian? British? No, I don't think so.
And the public interest argument should apply to government computers. Governments have proved so incompetent, self -serving and crap, that they can't be trusted to hold secrets at all. So while they infest our computers with malware to try to "protect us", our clear duty is to infest theirs, to protect them from their own incompetence. So, malware may yet save the world.
And governments who overstep the mark in privacy intrusion should be chucked out, or at least have eggs thrown at them. Bye bye labour, it was quite nice at times, but I am finally sick of your bollocks, right to the back teeth.
The absence of intelligent life on earth should temper your earnest, though naive, quest to find recognisable life on Mars or elsewhere. Intelligence can be defined as the ability to think about how great one is. Ego and intelligence (in our crappy human sense) go hand in hand. Excuse my cynicism, we don't even know what life exists at the bottom of the oceans, but here you go getting all excited about life in space.
David Bowie wrote:
"Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?"
Hope you're getting paid as much as Bowie to write your prose.
Even if Terry Pratchett's Discworld didn't beat you to the (not very advanced) world-on-a-turtle creation, you have now entered the realm of mixing fact with fantasy. "Insanity" might be an adequate description of the Vulture's desparate ratings scrape. "Bottom-feeding" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
The only thing which could possible cap this sort of Muppet writing, would be a series of articles on Harry Potter.
But I shall ignore you. It's not adult, clever or interesting, or rather, it's not you that's being adult, clever or interesting.
Google is no more guilty of the libel than me. If I report a libel as being true, then I can be found libellous. But linking to a libel without attesting to it's truth or fabrication is merely prooving it's existence. If the plaintiff was a bit more hardworking, he'd go after the real libellors.
My idea of using a Seti@Home approach (see Boinc) in conflict scenarios has merit. Imagine, the terrible waste of war blunted by the efficient use of massively networked volunteer computers managing our war effort. Before long, wars will only last minutes, as the dastardly enemy are swamped by metal spiders and genetically engineered bugs which eat gunmetal.
To push the boat out: download a "MOD" screensaver which uses your spare computer power to model conflicts the world over. Our Queen would reign supreme again, albeit a metal version with rocket launchers instead of arms.
Sometimes you guys are just WAY behind me.
Paris's descent into the real world. Where will it end? Perhaps a stint in the jacuzzi with Tommy Lee Jones. All she needs is a bit too much cosmetic surgery and she could be the next P. Anderson or A. N. Smith. And God knows we need one. The more "bad" Paris gets, the better I'll like her. On the other hand, perhaps I would be happier indulging in sour-grapes moralising.
Google should be allowed to get on with scanning books that have had their copyright lapse or opened to the public domain. But authors who retain copyright don't want to wake up and find their recent works available for nothing on-line. I would suggest that users could choose 6 pages to browse of a copyrighted book. Then it's essentially a marketing bonus.
And finally, when will we see a google PeopleSearch, and CreditSearch. Those of us wishing to find a missing human rights activist, or those wanting to break the legs of a bad debtor, would then find Google indespensible. It seems you can take Google from the geek, but you can't take the geek out of Google.
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