* Posts by itzman

1946 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2011

DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research

itzman
WTF?

and the answer is....

forty-two?

Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan

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Pirate

Re: If I was a terrorist....

Steganography is likely to be the big growth industry - even simply to protect commercially confidential information. Along with one time pad techniques.

These government measures will simply catch the innocent and the stupid. Particularly since we know exactly what they are likely to be.

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It's very easy to separate content from communications data???

you say really? I say bollocks.(not to you obviously)

Its ALL communication and its all content and its all both.

I post a picture of a nude with a photo shopped tattoo saying 'plan B'..is that content or communication.

Who knows?

Apple unveils tightened Mountain Lion requirements

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Re: Mountain Lion? Pass

Lyons corner house..the austerity edition.

HP patents teleprompter-esque transparent screen tech

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Re: Hate to burst your bubble...

I was working on avionics 'head up displays' as long ago as 1973..

its all bollocks really.

Global warming: It's GOOD for the environment

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Re: It doesn't matter

Proof by assertion?

If it were that unstable it should flip between sweltering and an ice age very few years.

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No teh cilmate is not getting more extreme..

you are just too young to remember 1847, 1948,1852..1975...etc etc.

And to green to read up on thematter.

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Re: warmer sea temperature

You forgot the bit where warmer wetter air rises, forming clouds which radiate energy to space and reflect incoming sunlight thus cooling the earth and making it piss with rain.

Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player

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Re: Die, flash, die

Odd. I have perfect flash 64 bit mn my linux.

Or as perfect as flash ever gets...

Lithe British youngsters prioritise fun over privacy and security

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Oc course...

..sine the economic collapse of the West is going to mean lithe cocky youngsters don't have any money cos they don't know anything except Facebook,. it scarcely matters who knows their details.

US East, West Coasts face fast-rising sea levels

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Happy

but that wont stop us ..

...making alarming but very PROFITABLE predictions of doom, will it?

Renewables good for 80 per cent of US demand by 2050

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Facepalm

Nothing works better than a convenient lie

When its surrounded by sufficient mumble blather and called an inconvenient truth.

No doubt after the fully renewable grid has been built and on the coldest February night of the year with not a breath of wind stirring, neap tides on the turn and zero sola,r wind and wave on the grid, some renewable energy wonk will say 'we must build more solar farms: its lack of investment in renewable energy that has causes this blackout '

Renewable energy lobby claims have over the last few months deviated from exaggerations and truth economy into outright lies. There is simply no other word for it. I have done many many calculations in a sincere effort to make renewable energy deliver a reliable grid - and I can't even achieve that, let alone at a sane cost.

My most spectacular conclusion was that an all wind grid could be achieved if all of the country and most of the north sea were covered in wind turbines and pylons at a cost magically just shy of £10 a unit. (wholeseale electricity costs around 5p a unit at the moment).

It almost beggars belief: a friend said to me 'don't sent me that climate skepticism stuff: I have met James Hansen and seen ice melting'

The sheer inanity and illogic of that reply has left me speechless and depressed for days..

I can only conclude that people are simply in love with an idea to such an extent that they cannot bear to step back and consider the fact that it might be totally and fundamentally wrong.

On the industry side, of course, the reasons are clear: why have to compete with efficient and difficult to design and manufacture technology when a stroke of the legislative pen can make any old mediaeval rubbish plonked somewhere in someone else's back yard instantly massively profitable?

Beats working for a living anyway!

EU's 2020 CO2 target 'will add a year to economic slump'

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Re: Stupid Sheeple

Since I paid off my mortgage years ago, I can only wish that my electricity bill matched it..

I am not sure what you mean by 'blink first'.

China and the USA never signed up to Kyoto. They pay only lip service to 'carbon reduction'. Only in the EU where Germany makes serious profits out of supplying wind turbines and solar panels have 'renewables' any real traction, and now the Chinese are making them cheaper than the Germans can, you may expect a policy U turn as well. Especially since they are completely nonexistent on the cost benefit graph of 'things that save carbon emissions at reasonable prices'.

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There was one by MCKinsey.

But its largely ignored because it shows that renewable energy is utter pants.

See here

www.templar.co.uk/downloads/cocu07.pdf

EU gives Google till July to offer fix for search dominance

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Mushroom

Anyone want to place a bet?

On whether Google will comply before the EU itself is history?

Global warming helps Arctic algae suck CO2

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Well whoda thunk it?

Something in the ecosystem that teas carbon dioxide flourishes when carbon dioxide gets a teeny bit more prevalent.

Dangerous. If we stop emitting it they will be so ''mammoth" they will gobble all the CO2 and plunge us into an ice age.

Climate scientists see 'tipping point' ahead

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Global tipping points..

Have always been just around the corner, just like commercial fusion reactors.

Tell you what, I'll take the tipping point if I can have the reactors as well.

Small banking Trojan poses major risk

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Re: Browsers alone will always be vulnerable

no. My browser wont be. Its got root write privileges only and cannot be patched by a user process, even if that user process knows that it was compiled from source and running on Linux.

This is a windows specific trojan that relies on the fact that firefox etc and users have the complete ability to write and modify anything in the windows systems folders.

Oz has to go nuclear, says Adelaide U scientist

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Re: Build More Nukes

well its one third to one fifth the cost of 'intermittent renewables' when all the holistic costs are taken into account.

But then so are gas and coal..

1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster than today

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Re: This is interesting

e.g.

http://www.clarewind.org.uk/events-1.php?event=39

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Go

Ad hominem attacks

..are the last refuge of the factually challenged.

Keep at it Lewis. I for one am fed up with these denialists who simply cant accept that the world is not getting any warmer and certainly not fast enough to even remotely support IPCC projections. :)

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Re: Industrial Revolution

..though sadly not with renewable energy, which doesn't reduce emissions overall measurably at all.

Earth bathed in high-energy radiation from colossal mystery blast

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I wonder too.

Although a 1% jump doesn't sound so massive really.

And of course since its creating carbon from nitrogen.. which would rapidly oxidise to CO2... ho hum.

Al Gore pumps $12m into cheapo TLC flash upstart

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Is the writing on the wall for green technology then?

Obviously Al has realized the game is so totally up.. its time for a new scam..

Study: The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate

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Linux

Re: Seems a bit like....

That's not how climate ' science' is done. When the results don't fit the model, you discard all the data points that are out of whack and tweak the constant a bit and lie about everything else.

Knowing you are right means the science bit is a mere formality. Like the man in the soap powder adverts in an astonishingly white coat, who tell you its scientifically proven' to wash whiter than white'

Japan to get Android phone with built-in radiation dosimeter

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Re: The Terminal Beach

I think when I read up on this its some kind of solid sate scintillation counter.

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Re: Could be a dummy device

I think the radioactive tracer they made me drink and the CAT scan was the highest dose I am ever likely to encounter.

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Black Helicopters

Re: This gadget is a good idea

I see more that they will wander round randomly poking it up their bums and in their fannies and into piles of bananas and start panicking 'hey the world is like er, totally RADIOACTIVE man! They never told us that!!"

Super-powerful Flame worm could take YEARS to dissect

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Linux

Re: Dissection already performed...

I cant find any of those files on my Linux system Should I be worried?

'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback

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Re: Amusing

The optimal way would be to do the equivalent of a CCGT power station. Blow coal dust into a compressed airflow and ignite it on a continuous basis and run it through a turbine, and then through a secondary steam cycle.

BUT the point remains, why bother?. Better to drive a genny in a fixed plant and use leccy locos instead.

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Re: Efficiency on a par with diesel??

thermodynamic efficiency is very much a function of the ratio between working fluid (steam) peak temperatures and the exhaust temperature (in degrees absolute).

A steam power station struggles to reach 36% with supercritical high temperature steam and heavily condensed low pressure turbines at the arse end.

From memory no steam locomotive ever achieved much more than 20%, and most were less than 10%.

Gas turbines - jet engines and so one - get to about 37% by dint of higher combustion temperatures as do some high efficiency diesels.

The best place to burn coal or biomass is in a power station where the bulk of the condensers is not a drawback. And likewise the scrubbers to remove ash and other noxious elements from the exhaust.

Its an amusing project, but its not a serious contender:

Virgin Media wipes out websites with routing blackhole

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yes..

all the small independents have good service and relatively open and transparent contractual arrangements. And dont throttle or shape or inspect your deep pan pizzas.

The do charge a bit more tho. And restrict how much data you can shift before paying extra.

You wont get virgins fibre services from them though- ADSL only.

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FAIL

Re: No problems here

routing is not DNS.

Massive DDoS attack blasts 123-reg offline

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Re: Just cancelled my 123-reg hosting

Why not run your won hosting servers on a virtual machine? I have one that costs a couple or hundred a year only.

All I use 123 for is DNS and the A***holes cant even do that properly it seems.

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Re: No problems here

Then you cant have actually used them. Their nameservers were unreachable for a couple of hours.

MAYBE you had lookups cached, but I lost every single 123 domain because my slave nameserver follows the rules of timeouts, which in my case are quite short.

They didn't answer the phone to me, either,

Time to do domain names directly with nominet methinks.

BBC shrinks Red Button: Loses 8 channels after the Olympics

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Reasons not two watch BBC?

Ok, we have digital transmission and every single channel comes with subtitles.

SO WHY do we have to have sign speak lunatics gurneying in the corner of the screen?

The amount of money saved by getting rid of these would be enough to cover the cost of sacking them, easily..

Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

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Holmes

Re: What am I missing?

what you are missing is that the malware would not point them at your router, but at somewhere else.

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Re: Moar options!

"blocking direct SMTP from the average customer is a no-brainer and best practice."

So how, unless they are using a webmail, are the sods supposed to send email AT ALL.

Really!

Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!

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Alert

Re: Renewable energy a possiblity

No. are you an engineer who has spent three years determining if this is remotely possible? No?

I am. If we are generating all our energy from renewables that will be the 100 million of us hunter gatherers left globally scouring the crumbling landscape of a collapsed civilization looking for a tin of beans that someone else missed.

I am sure it will be great for biodiversity, but the main species at risk will be homo sapiens.

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Re: "Extremist green campaigning group WWF"

since about two years ago.

Why not read what they write. And judge for yourself.

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Angel

Re: The problem being...

No, actually WWF are doing us a service by showing just how desperately dire a 'renewable' world is.

Wittingly or unwittingly they can alert is to the fact that the greatest danger the human race faces is from people like the WWF and the renewable energy lobby.

Europe must shift R&D from car gizmos to infrastructure, honks wonk

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Trollface

so: a million ways to know where you are...

...but no way to leave. :-)

Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM

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seriously, what are they ON?

Frankly its just another reason to to install WinAnything in the first place.

Did dicky power supply silence climate-change probe Envisat?

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Black Helicopters

Re: You Izz Optional

A close relative of Austin.

Anyway we know it was sabotaged by the renewable lobby when its data set looked like it was proving there was no global warming and indeed never had been.

GCHQ's spy death riddle shines light on UK hacker war

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Re: Nice idea, but...

well, possibly, if they wanted to divert attention away from something else.

Cameron hardens stance on UK web filth block

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its trivially easy

When I set up a virtual host I had a choice on which country I wanted it sited in. I could proxy anything ..if I cared to.

Study finds water cycle accelerating with warming

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And of course the water cycle is the planets thermostat. Hotter=more vapour=more cloud carrying heat up to radiate to space = more cold rain falling to cool planet surface and sea and more cloud shielding the earth from the sun.

Completely obliterating the effects of and CO2 change by and large.

Wind farms create local warming

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Re: But cooling elsewhere

Now this is in fact interesting

if you regard the air as an insulator at night, allowing ground to get very cold while air is somewhat warmer, then destroying that insulation layer will keep the ground warmer. And mixing cold low level air with warmer upper level air will in fact lead to global warming overall, as it will lower the upper air temperatures slightly and decrease nighttime radiation from the high level atmosphere.

Of course during the day the reverse is true as it will toss hot air higher.

Sow whilst it will affect local microclimates a lot, the effect on global temperatures is less easy to state with certainty - the same goes with clouds which can both insulate at night, and block sun by day depending on the types of cloud and their altitudes.

Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft 20 more years at the top?

itzman

Does anyone think microsft will exist in 20 years time?

Because I cant see it.

A rather deficient and expensive operating system tied to one hardware platform and not easily portable to others.

A rather poor bloated and buggy set of office and internet and media applications.

a consumer world that actually isn't interested in operating systems any more - it just wants to run 'apps' on its fondleslabs.

a corporate world that is more interested in value for money than ever before.

servers have by and large gone or are going Linux,

Consumer toys are broadly Linux

Apple went BSD with some eye candy.

The only reason to have Windows is because you have a WORKSTATION and that's the program launcher your BigApp runs on.

But porting that to Linux is not a wildly impossible dream either.

Telegraph website falls over in outage riddle

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Alien

it was off for me

from two entirely different networks

the fashion and dates pages always worked tho.