* Posts by Disco-Legend-Zeke

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High Court: Moderate user comments and you're liable

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Does This Mean...

...that our beloved Moderatrix might face unemployment?

AOL to sell or shutter Bebo

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Oh, What...

...the AOL-Time Warner merger could have been had it not been for the clash of cultures.

Skewing statistics: Booze, money and sex

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There Are Three...

...kinds of falshood. Lies, Damned Lies, and statistics. Variously attributed.

Nuclear synthi-jetfuel plants wanted for US Afghan bases

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If Global Warming...

...prevails, we can use carbon as a carrier, and only burn the hydrogen. Presumably the carbon coud be reused.

In las vegas, gasoline is cheaper thasn water. 500 Ml water = $8 (in the bughtclubs.)

Italian toads predicted L'Aquila earthquake

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Toads Are Grounded...

...having a large contact area. This would make them sensitive to any electrical disturbance.

Humans dance in the temple position (hands together, elbows spread) because this forms an antenna that connects them to the Universe. It is interesting to note that dancing did not originate with Humans, but rather with vertibrates, even fish dance for each other, but probably to exhibit good genetics, rather than to attain attachment to God.

Heading to the refregeration device for more aluminum clad (211) grain product.

Why the Newzbin ruling helps web hosts

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Somehow...

...it's illegal to teach morality in US schools.

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Google DOES...

...or at least did, index newsgroups, but certainly not exclusively.

Newsgroups are more or less the Youtube of Open Source. Like IRC, they have taken on "underground" status, probably because there are no profits seen by the bean counters.

Newsgroups are a very effecient distribution mechanism for low traffic and archival material, since the ISP only downloads once. For high demand content, some form of cascade distribution, such as Microsoft's Avalanche or Bit Torrent, bypasses the ISP

There is certainly a business model in spam filtering an index to all this, directing it toward freetards fukkered up a great idea.

Tonight someone handed me a glass of something called Hennessey Black. Served in a deep glass with heating cube instead of ice cube. Brandies are the only legal Sniffing Intoxicant, hence snifters. There being no snifter icon, ill use the pilsner glass. There being no top shelf brandies in my house*, I'll have another 211. Hmmm, I wonder what color it is.

ISS ready to work with Elon Musk's Dragon spaceship

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There Is Nothing...

...wrong with being filthy rich, as long as you didn't enslave, cheat or kill anyone to get that way, and you keep the money flowing by buying ISS passage, etc. I think Bill Gates revives the spirit of Dale Carnagie, etc. in terms of payying back

And for those of us who are not, there's 211.

Mammoth patent troll holder snags smartphone threat

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It Is About...

..covering their backsides.

Suppose someone injurse their back playing WII. If the accelerometer patents are held by a separate LLC, the other members of the portfolio are prodected.

OR:

You are only allowed to have 35 partners in an LLC. Each patent owner got his own LLC deal, each Cash investor got part of an LLC deal.

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Samuel Clemens (A/K/A Mark Twain) Said...

... "Any country that does not have a patent office can only move in two directions, sideways and backwards."

From a PBS Ken Burns Documentary.

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One Man's...

..."extremely broad" Is another man's "Basic Patent."

ISTR some motion input projects long before this century, althiugh they were based on using cameras to pick up hand Gestures (A sign language to voice converter.)

Probe spots Pac-Man on Saturnian Death Star

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One...

...explanation is that the leading edge is preferentially warmed by frictional heat as minute objects impact.

Tinfoil Condition Red! LHC 7 TeV mega-blasts today

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Greatest Atom Smasher In The Universe,...

...ever!

Carphone Warehouse splits with self

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If Best Buy USA Is...

...is any indication, they are pretty knowledgable and helpful. That said, if they can suggest a Dish contract over a $39 OTA (FreeView) antenna, their need for commissions kicks in.

Although we are lucky enough to have a Fry's Hyper Box here in Las Vegas, We still visit BB and make purchases there.

One policy i particularly like about the USA version, returned merchandise is clearly marked as such, and nicely discounted.

Is iFlorist the greatest website in the universe, ever?

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This Must Be...

...annoying the crap out of Google AdSense fraud guys.

There are clicks worth $78.00 to a webmaster. Over $5 is not the least uncommon in certain categories.

Actual quote from human, "Damn AdSense, I was up to $23,000 and they cancelled my account."

That's a lot of 211.

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It's Not So Much...

...that they hired fake reviewers, but more that they seem to have outsourced the work to India.

It's too early for a 211, but I'm heading to the fridge now!

DNS glitch sends surfers to China

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Youtube Was Possibly...

...frozen by my face appearing in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7CThfve_k

After seeing it, I really needed a 211

Kit attacks Microsoft keyboards (and a whole lot more)

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echo

(quote)

no beer icon, i still 211, but im ashamed of it

'Switch to Century Gothic to save the planet'

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If You Ever...

...had to read through several paragraphs of sans-serif type, you just know it sux.

The reason the brain likes a serif is that the optic nerve pre processes the retinal pixel map into wavelets representing "roundness," "pointiness," "triangleness," and other higher order constructs. Serifs introduce more information at this level.

This is especially important when peering through 211 filters.

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Re-usable Paper Is Easy, Just...

...turn off the fuser.

Don't forget the microparticle breathing filters.

Chattanooga devil dog eats cop cruiser

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I Watched A Cop...

...put a .45 through the head of a pit bull. All it did was tick the dog off.

Third of UK students would strip their way through college

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It Would Be Interesting...

...to see the results of a similar study in Las Vegas.

The "entertainer" market is huge.

Plenty of 211 about also.

Vast 'Cloud 9' sky-wedding balloon destroyed in Vegas prang

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Take One Giant...

...gasbag. Add 50 MPH wind gusts. POP!

Because Las Vegas is a giant bowl surrounded by mountains, winds twist and turn unpredictably. On that particular day, several airliners aborted landings at LAS, where the balloon is stationed.

Lacking a hangar, a $10 Million (DPFA*) upsell to the balloon, the operators need a method of deflating it and storing the expensive helium when wind is forecast.

I'll just have another 211, please.

*Data Pulled From Arse.

Intel online software stores set to conquer world

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Pr0n Free...

...at chip level.

MIT boffins on track of portable 60-watt seawater desalinator

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Solar Distillation...

...is cheap for small capacities. Any enclosure, clear on top and black on the bottom will do.

Once past the "emergency" application, systems must be in place to backflush, sanitize, dust, and otherwise maintain* a working system.

It's not just the oceans, many wells in the southwest yield very salty water. Solar pumps can bring the water up, and solar distillation** can make it drinkable. The biggest user of solar pumping is the cattle industry, when you need water the most, there's no wind, but plenty of sun. I would imagine salty wells exist in many areas of the world.

Scaling this simple technology up will benefit from creative engineering and intelligent control.

Earth seen from space is "The Water Planet"

Water, #1 ingredient in 211.

*If you don't do all that, the water get's really nasty.

**Water distilled by solar collectors is VAPOR DISTILLED. The $.75 per gallon stuff is STEAM DISTILLED. Using a Sears Still, i consume $.25 2.5 KWH of power to make 1 gal of water.

Train rebrand costs us dear

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Turning Public Service Into...

...cash cow.

20 years ago there had been a move by (an anonymous US) state to close a local state park. I suggested at that time to add an admission charge, which saved the park.

Flash forward to last week, and again a move to close down parks. I happened to talk to one of the congressmen from the state and i asked how the parks could be broke. He replied, "The parks make money, we [the State] just stole it all."

Not only had they turned the parks into a cash cow, they wanted to kill it and make hamburger.

I don't think the US government is doing much better, AMTRAK is a quasi government operator and its virtually impossible to get a train. The little tourist lines do better.

Senate bill seeks crack down on cybercrime havens

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Perhaps...

...it is _because_ so many US citizens are infected.

As seen in El Reg, the white hats now have the tools to detect and map botnet control structures. In juristictions where we have legal friendliness, there have already been meaningful takedowns based on court orders..

Having criminal processes around the world should help reduce spam.

Unlike the War on Drugs, which is attempting to stop a product that people want, and has already killed 14,000 people in North America, the War on Spam is attempting to stop a product which nobody other than the criminals wants.

Bill Gates goes (mini) nuclear

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Small Reactors...

...or even a waste canister could heat my house.

When im at the disco, the glow would be a plus.

But can it cool my 211?

Virgin Media downed by thick Leeds 'copper' crooks

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We Had SimilarCopper...

...thefts here in Las Vegas. Thieves would create $10,000 worth of labor for telco workers in order to get $500 worth of copper. The other value reducer was chopping the copper coils from air conditioner units.

The problem was brought under control by requiring ID at recycling centers. At first this was not extremely successful, but a few sting operations weeded out the dishonest scrappers.

ISTR in Texas a hundred year old state law makes POSESSION of over 1500 feet of copper wire prima facie evidence of theft.

A few minutes ago the price of copper was $3.75. Up to the minute prices are here:

http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/copper_historical_large.html

So i have a choice, 12 ounces of copper, or 12 ounces of 211.

Botnet pierces Microsoft Live through audio captchas

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If They Can Decode...

...static masked voice, they could have made more money selling the technology to DARPA.

I'll have another 211 while we ponder that.

WiMAX Forum begs for speedy spectrum release

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OK... I Know That I've..

..been spouting off for a long time about spectrum, especially the 700 block.

Let a consortium of chip and radio manufacturers buy the spectrum, and agree on an interoperable, GPS-ROUTED, self forming mesh standard, with on chip details like First Responder Priority. This was Google's vision, but they tried to sell it to the carriers instead of Hardware Makers. The last mile is not free, you merely need to buy a radio to tap in, and there may be a small cost in DC* consumption.

For first responders, only a self building mesh can scale exponentially and heal around any disaster.

CISCO (AFAIK) was the first to manufacture into the geographically routed model, and notably at the highest end of information flow. As the number of nodes on the global network climbs, the overhead of managing and maintaining routing tables consumes resources.

Let Any Provider or Content owner offer access from this GeoCloud. Right i can sell a 7M DSL connection for $19.95** a month, but QWEST bills an extra $35 or so onto your phone bill. So the comparison is $350 a year or one-time $150 for a mesh modem.

Just another option, if you like it, go do it, ill be sipping my 211.

* Keep Battery and outdoor connections at 24 volts. 48 volt systems may be ok in dry clean places like a phone switch, in real life, grime and moisture create leakage paths. Meanwhile, DC power also requires special care due to electrolytic action and arcing.

**Or $20 for those of you that hate fake prices.

And now - new stealth jumpjet makes first hover landing

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If You Love...

...drag racing:

**Jet engines lose thrust when sucking hotter air. So do internal combustion engines.

Some dragsters use ice bath to cool engine input air.

Better use of ice bath... chill my 211.

US broadband seeks ISP speed stickers

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The Carriers In The USA...

...are just as dishonest in their ads.

The Las Vegas local voice carrier Sprint^H^H^H^H^H^HEmbarq^H^H^H^H^H^HCentury Link advertised a $24.95 "price for life" but the fine print mentioned that price was only when part of a $57 bundle.

Not to be outdone, Cox advertised their $99 bundle as having full featured phone service, the fine print and sotto voice over mentioned that this was the first year only and long distance was 5 cents per minute additional. It's not till you sign up that you discover the "full featured" phone did not have call forwarding.

This is not to demean either service. On the tech side they both do a great job. It's on the business and advertising end that they cheat and lie, though when i whined enough about the phone bundle, sprintembarqcenturytel gave me a phone number that spelled my name!

IE9 - the big questions and Microsoft's half answers

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I Finally Gave Up...

...on IE8. Actually it was Flash that tormented me so, every time i opened a new browser window, i was forced to re-download.

In chrome it was a non problem.

Will Flash please die?

Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown

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If Only Microsoft Could...

...use the bot to force the user to run Microsoft Update.

At least the authorities are actually participating. Time to reread Necromancer.

So at the end of the first period, MS 1, Botmeisters 476

Zeke 211.

The $20K iPad

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It Is Now Rather Easy...

...to lay a diamond coating on optical plastic.

Besides your pixel presenter, this would kick major diopters as scratchproof eyeglasses.

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When We Had Our...

...little shop alongside the Old West Highway, we would frequently mis-input prices by leaving out the cents (00) when inputting even dollar prices to out cash register.

Ending prices in .95 forced us to enter the proper number of digits, although not necessarily the correct digits.

Twitterati swarm on malaria campaign

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Gin And Tonic...

...please.

Since i started drinking it i have had no problems with malaria.

Crooks plant fake payment card terminals at multiple stores

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In The USA...

...211 is the brand mark for Steel Reserve, a very cheap high gravity (8.1% ABV) beer.

It tastes really nasty.

Another, please!

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This Is A Failing Of...

...the authentication system. Terminals should be polled, and all downtime logged/accounted for/investigated.

You can do it while i swill my 211.

Hmmm can swill be a verb?

Battle lines drawn in Apple-Google warfare

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Nothing Like Watching...

...your rivals duke it out.

and a box of peanuts, please.

.com celebrates 25th birthday

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I Remember...

...getting my first .com back in 1994. It was free, but took several weeks to get. Then Verisign took over, it cost $100 but only took a couple days.

These days domain names cost $9 (wholesale) and start working a few minutes after registered.

Happy birthday Dot Com. Have a pint.

'Twitter gives voice to the voiceless' - eg the US President

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Big Brother

Perhaps A Government Run...

...by Twitocracy. The Leader wears a Glasses Cam, and Citizens can watch his stream 24 hours a day.

A nice comment system and a live real-time vote on any issue. Because the cam is on 24/7, there's reduced risk of secret deals or non-married-and-missionary sex.

Kinda like 1984, but we would watch big brother.

ICANN delays decision on pornography domain

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How Will I Ever Find...

...exercise videos?

GCHQ loses Top Secret laptops

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They Should Take Lessons...

...from Lower Merion School District.

Though bedroom snaps of security wa^Honks might cross some line.

Body of James Brown disappears from family tomb

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When You Are A Legend...

...everyone wants your body.

Former model sues Universal over 'x-rated prop' outrage

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Think Of The...

...old guys!

Mutated genetic supertrout developed in lab

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Now I Know How...

...Mr. Burns was feeling when Marge fed him Blinky.

Just eating chickens full of estrogen made American girls start "blooming" at age 11 or 12. I think much of the overweight problem is also animal feed additive related. This is the same problem but from a gene splicing way.

This is basically a gene that makes steroids. Yeah that's gonna be healthy.

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Not Sharks...

...electric eels would be a good start!

Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test

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£252,000? Heck, For A...

tiny fraction of that, you could buy a pair of radios good for 60Mb/s or so.

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