...and as a member of the Australian scientific community I for fear of spending a decade in prison wholly endorse our new beach drones!
This article would definitely violate the new Australian Science and Defense gag law. The Aussies are building a new defense system to protect their citizens from shark attacks . . . and much worse . . . and now the word is out to all potential enemies of Australia.
Only the other day, I was drawing up plans for an amphibious invasion of Australia using a specially trained force of frogs. Now I know that the drones with lasers would be a threat to my frogs, so I can adjust my plans accordingly.
I can't believe this went on for so long. What is it, 14 years?
Oh, now, you're making me feel old! I remember getting an email from the Chief Counsel from IBM, instructing me that I would have to give a sworn deposition concerning this case. This was because I had access to the AIX source code, and also did some work for the the IBM Linux Technology Center. CSI: Austin, Texas!
The lawyer assigned to me had a Park Avenue address in New York City. I'm normally not the best friend of lawyers, but this guy was really good. I explained to him that I did some work with the AIX TCP/IP stack, and later did some device driver stuff for Linux, and he understood it all.
It was all still pretty creepy, but the lawyer told me that SCO was just grabbing at straws, and trying to intimidate folks.
Wow! Right out of the "Theater of the Hard to Believe!"
he had a supreme judge bumped off just so he could ensure the majority vote on this issue.
. . . and I thought that Obama was was going to nominate himself for the empty seat on the Supreme Court . . . maybe now, Obama might nominate Tim Cook as on of the Chief Justices . . . ?
Pisses me off when a billionaire can't afford common sense.
Da Zuck has plenty of common sense . . . he sits back, and asks himself . . . "How did I get to be a billionaire?" . . . "Oh, yeah! Facebook! The more users the better for me!"
I think Da Zuck is going to pull the whole drug dealer trick in India: give out free samples, and get Indians hooked on Facebook until they determine that they cannot live without Facebook. Then start charging them for it. Facebook will even be able to pin the blame on the Indian Government: "Facebook: We would like to keep continuing to provide a free Internet service, but we are now required to charge a minimal token free for it."
How many folks live in India these days? Around 1 Billion? Facebook could charge them 1$ a month, and probably still make a tidy profit.
In the coming Zombie Apocalypse, you can use those "$500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills" to wipe your ass. I would not recommend using poison ivy or poison oak.
The only things that will have value, will be canned goods, weapons and ammo. Maybe a bit of clean drinking water on the side.
Hmmm Dinky Dee dog food for breakfast . . . yummy!
Yes, hallelujah, praise the Lord! Sir or Madam, you are preaching to the choir. I notice a disturbing behavior in industries of all flavors from senior management to "blame a serious business failure, on a single programmer." This is clearly not the real truth. A simple programmer has an Atlas weight of executives on his or her shoulders. What are all those folks doing . . . ?
My favorite recently was an interview with the new boss of Audi and VW . . . he blamed the whole manipulated emissions scandal on, "a couple of rogue programmers." If he was Pinocchio, his nose would have grown to the size of a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Oh, wait. Scratch that. Does anyone appreciate the size of a California Redwood?
I work in the IT industry (although, I am American). The employees in the German auto industry that I work with, complain that they can't scratch their butts without getting three levels of manage approval. A "couple of rogue programmers?" Bullshit. The quality assurance organization in Audi and VW should have flagged this . . . unless it had been approved by a bunch of executives. I say the same thing when a "Rogue Trader" brings down a big bank . . . if the executives had down their jobs, it shouldn't have been possible for a "Rogue Trader" to place the bank in impossible positions.
I'm thinking, that the same thing happened at Atari. Their executives were not on the ball, and didn't realize that the industry was due for a correction. It's a tough thing for an executive to say that they failed in their job. It is a lot easier to put the blame on a simple, lowly programmer.
FWIW, I have heard that once they know the rules, engineers make excellent lawyers.
My father would have made a terrible lawyer . . . he was way too honest.
A cousin of mine works in Calgary, Alberta in Canada as a lawyer in the oil industry. He told me that I would never need to worry about being sued. He said, "You just don't have enough money to be interesting for a lawyer." For example, if a female colleague accused me of sexual harassment, she wouldn't sue me . . . she would sue my employer . . . because they have cash.
Depending which way the wind is blowing, my cousin sues evil oil companies, for abusing innocent land owners with oil. Or he sues evil private landowners, trying to abuse innocent oil companies.
That's sort of the way that my father described it. Both attorneys were trying to get jurors who they thought they could "manipulate", and not think for themselves.
If the prosecution had won, and the defendant was actually innocent, it would be unfair to the defendant. If the defense had won, and the defendant was actually guilty, it would be unfair to the victim.
A high school friend of mine was caught by the police drinking beer with some friends in a parking lot. His father knew a good lawyer. He took a quick look at the police report, and determined that the policeman had charged him with the wrong crime. The policeman noted a law against drinking while *driving*. He was parked at the time. The judge tossed it out.
Hell, yeah, he was guilty, but the policeman made a mistake. My friend commented on it . . . "I got lucky" . . .
My father got called up for jury duty once. He was asked what his profession was. He said he was an electrical engineer working for RCA. Both the District Attorney and the defense attorney wanted him tossed out. My father told me that anyone with half a brain got tossed of the potential jury pool.
Because getting complete diatary and lifestyle control of small lab animals is much cheaper and faster than doing so for humans. And dissecting to examine their intestinal walls, in detail, is something most human study guidelenes would prevent.
Ah, just put it in the small print when you buy a rack called "Skrollan" from Ikea. In the small print, it will say that there is not enough of the small screws, and too many from the big screws, and that you accept to: "dissecting to examine their intestinal walls".
I always wondered what was in those small, Swedish meatballs that they serve at Ikea . . .
You can take your mice, wrap them up in duct tape, and shove them somewhere, which will give you an auto-erotic adventure.
Why don't these scientists study some humans who live in cold places? I think it would be way more interesting to see how humans cope with the cold, and how their body fat deals with this.
Great... lets just make it our kids and their kids problem for 5000 generations
Problem . . . ? I'd call it a legacy. In about a generation or so, we will learn how to "frack" nuclear wastes dumps for energy. I think the powers that be should sell off nuclear waste to private folks. I'd take a ton or two for safekeeping in my backyard. When I'm long gone to meet my maker, my great-great-grandchildren will be making a fortune selling the nuclear waste, which will then be raw energy.
De Beers would like to try to convince me that I should buy diamonds for my children. Nonsense! Nuclear waste is the stuff to buy!
Why bubonic plague, an organism that is transmitted by fleas?
Why even bother with the bubonic plague? Just genetic engineer some fleas to grow to the size of a German Shepard. They would then bite and suck dry the human victim of blood.
They saved Hitler's cock, They hid it under a rock.
I discovered it, last night. I couldn't even, believe my eyes.
If Hitler's cock could start to talk, it would say: To kill today.
If Hitler's cock could choose it's mate, it would ask, for Sharon Tate!
They saved Hitler's cock. They stuffed it in Mengele's sock.
They saved Hitler's cock, and now it wants to talk.
Now it's starting to get hard, I found it in my backyard.
Every night it kills a dog, and now it wants, some night and fog
Hitler's cock is on the move, and now I'm scared of what it's gonna do!
Obama is not going to nominate anyone, since that would be a road to nowhere.
Instead, he is just going to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice with an Executive Order.
Just skip all that Senate approval shenanigans . . . it just devolves into counting pubes on cans of Coke anyway. That's the Senate's version of a Godwin: counting pubes on cans of Coke.
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...and as a member of the Australian scientific community I for fear of spending a decade in prison wholly endorse our new beach drones!
This article would definitely violate the new Australian Science and Defense gag law. The Aussies are building a new defense system to protect their citizens from shark attacks . . . and much worse . . . and now the word is out to all potential enemies of Australia.
Only the other day, I was drawing up plans for an amphibious invasion of Australia using a specially trained force of frogs. Now I know that the drones with lasers would be a threat to my frogs, so I can adjust my plans accordingly.
We can't buy it if they won't sell it.
Oh, they'll sell it . . . folks will buy it . . .
. . . but the ISPs won't deliver the speeds that they promise . . .
An Xbox is already a low end PC. The OS is now Windows 10.
Oh, well that's grand then. Your Xbox now spends much of its CPU and network bandwidth on phoning in your gaming data to Microsoft.
Game producers would pay a lot of $$$ know who potential high roller gamers are.
The recent rash of anti-science and pro-military actions of our government.
It sounds like you are an Australian . . . did you get a government permit to post your comment . . . ?
Otherwise, it's off to prison with you, we'll all see you back here in 10 years.
I can't believe this went on for so long. What is it, 14 years?
Oh, now, you're making me feel old! I remember getting an email from the Chief Counsel from IBM, instructing me that I would have to give a sworn deposition concerning this case. This was because I had access to the AIX source code, and also did some work for the the IBM Linux Technology Center. CSI: Austin, Texas!
The lawyer assigned to me had a Park Avenue address in New York City. I'm normally not the best friend of lawyers, but this guy was really good. I explained to him that I did some work with the AIX TCP/IP stack, and later did some device driver stuff for Linux, and he understood it all.
It was all still pretty creepy, but the lawyer told me that SCO was just grabbing at straws, and trying to intimidate folks.
Wow! Right out of the "Theater of the Hard to Believe!"
he had a supreme judge bumped off just so he could ensure the majority vote on this issue.
. . . and I thought that Obama was was going to nominate himself for the empty seat on the Supreme Court . . . maybe now, Obama might nominate Tim Cook as on of the Chief Justices . . . ?
"It's a Small World" clocks in at 10:30.
The Euro-Disney version of the Belgium Kiddie Porn Industry was a lot better . . . "It's a cruel world after all . . . "
Pisses me off when a billionaire can't afford common sense.
Da Zuck has plenty of common sense . . . he sits back, and asks himself . . . "How did I get to be a billionaire?" . . . "Oh, yeah! Facebook! The more users the better for me!"
I think Da Zuck is going to pull the whole drug dealer trick in India: give out free samples, and get Indians hooked on Facebook until they determine that they cannot live without Facebook. Then start charging them for it. Facebook will even be able to pin the blame on the Indian Government: "Facebook: We would like to keep continuing to provide a free Internet service, but we are now required to charge a minimal token free for it."
How many folks live in India these days? Around 1 Billion? Facebook could charge them 1$ a month, and probably still make a tidy profit.
In the coming Zombie Apocalypse, you can use those "$500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills" to wipe your ass. I would not recommend using poison ivy or poison oak.
The only things that will have value, will be canned goods, weapons and ammo. Maybe a bit of clean drinking water on the side.
Hmmm Dinky Dee dog food for breakfast . . . yummy!
I doubt "one bad game" brought down the industry.
Yes, hallelujah, praise the Lord! Sir or Madam, you are preaching to the choir. I notice a disturbing behavior in industries of all flavors from senior management to "blame a serious business failure, on a single programmer." This is clearly not the real truth. A simple programmer has an Atlas weight of executives on his or her shoulders. What are all those folks doing . . . ?
My favorite recently was an interview with the new boss of Audi and VW . . . he blamed the whole manipulated emissions scandal on, "a couple of rogue programmers." If he was Pinocchio, his nose would have grown to the size of a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Oh, wait. Scratch that. Does anyone appreciate the size of a California Redwood?
I work in the IT industry (although, I am American). The employees in the German auto industry that I work with, complain that they can't scratch their butts without getting three levels of manage approval. A "couple of rogue programmers?" Bullshit. The quality assurance organization in Audi and VW should have flagged this . . . unless it had been approved by a bunch of executives. I say the same thing when a "Rogue Trader" brings down a big bank . . . if the executives had down their jobs, it shouldn't have been possible for a "Rogue Trader" to place the bank in impossible positions.
I'm thinking, that the same thing happened at Atari. Their executives were not on the ball, and didn't realize that the industry was due for a correction. It's a tough thing for an executive to say that they failed in their job. It is a lot easier to put the blame on a simple, lowly programmer.
FWIW, I have heard that once they know the rules, engineers make excellent lawyers.
My father would have made a terrible lawyer . . . he was way too honest.
A cousin of mine works in Calgary, Alberta in Canada as a lawyer in the oil industry. He told me that I would never need to worry about being sued. He said, "You just don't have enough money to be interesting for a lawyer." For example, if a female colleague accused me of sexual harassment, she wouldn't sue me . . . she would sue my employer . . . because they have cash.
Depending which way the wind is blowing, my cousin sues evil oil companies, for abusing innocent land owners with oil. Or he sues evil private landowners, trying to abuse innocent oil companies.
Oh, well.
That's sort of the way that my father described it. Both attorneys were trying to get jurors who they thought they could "manipulate", and not think for themselves.
If the prosecution had won, and the defendant was actually innocent, it would be unfair to the defendant. If the defense had won, and the defendant was actually guilty, it would be unfair to the victim.
A high school friend of mine was caught by the police drinking beer with some friends in a parking lot. His father knew a good lawyer. He took a quick look at the police report, and determined that the policeman had charged him with the wrong crime. The policeman noted a law against drinking while *driving*. He was parked at the time. The judge tossed it out.
Hell, yeah, he was guilty, but the policeman made a mistake. My friend commented on it . . . "I got lucky" . . .
My father got called up for jury duty once. He was asked what his profession was. He said he was an electrical engineer working for RCA. Both the District Attorney and the defense attorney wanted him tossed out. My father told me that anyone with half a brain got tossed of the potential jury pool.
There's your fair trial for you . . .
Because getting complete diatary and lifestyle control of small lab animals is much cheaper and faster than doing so for humans. And dissecting to examine their intestinal walls, in detail, is something most human study guidelenes would prevent.
Ah, just put it in the small print when you buy a rack called "Skrollan" from Ikea. In the small print, it will say that there is not enough of the small screws, and too many from the big screws, and that you accept to: "dissecting to examine their intestinal walls".
I always wondered what was in those small, Swedish meatballs that they serve at Ikea . . .
. . . that they sold and delivered a 20K server to the NSA . . .
You can take your mice, wrap them up in duct tape, and shove them somewhere, which will give you an auto-erotic adventure.
Why don't these scientists study some humans who live in cold places? I think it would be way more interesting to see how humans cope with the cold, and how their body fat deals with this.
Great... lets just make it our kids and their kids problem for 5000 generations
Problem . . . ? I'd call it a legacy. In about a generation or so, we will learn how to "frack" nuclear wastes dumps for energy. I think the powers that be should sell off nuclear waste to private folks. I'd take a ton or two for safekeeping in my backyard. When I'm long gone to meet my maker, my great-great-grandchildren will be making a fortune selling the nuclear waste, which will then be raw energy.
De Beers would like to try to convince me that I should buy diamonds for my children. Nonsense! Nuclear waste is the stuff to buy!
Why bubonic plague, an organism that is transmitted by fleas?
Why even bother with the bubonic plague? Just genetic engineer some fleas to grow to the size of a German Shepard. They would then bite and suck dry the human victim of blood.
No need to transfer a disease.
They saved Hitler's cock, They hid it under a rock.
I discovered it, last night. I couldn't even, believe my eyes.
If Hitler's cock could start to talk, it would say: To kill today.
If Hitler's cock could choose it's mate, it would ask, for Sharon Tate!
They saved Hitler's cock. They stuffed it in Mengele's sock.
They saved Hitler's cock, and now it wants to talk.
Now it's starting to get hard, I found it in my backyard.
Every night it kills a dog, and now it wants, some night and fog
Hitler's cock is on the move, and now I'm scared of what it's gonna do!
-- The Angry Samoans
Obama is not going to nominate anyone, since that would be a road to nowhere.
Instead, he is just going to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice with an Executive Order.
Just skip all that Senate approval shenanigans . . . it just devolves into counting pubes on cans of Coke anyway. That's the Senate's version of a Godwin: counting pubes on cans of Coke.
Like, really! Most despots just shoot folks who have fallen out of favor with them. Kim Jong-un kills them with mortar and anti-aircraft fire.
This is one endorsement that I doubt Apple will pick up on:
"Apple: Our technology helped bring North Korean ICBMs and H-Bombs to your front door in America!"
So which candidate is the Neanderthal Caucus going to endorse . . . Bernie or Hillary . . . ?
Trump, Busch, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio . . . ?
Actually, the Spanish Inquisition and an IT Data Center would be a nice fit. There are plenty of "racks" to tie people to!
Although, there might be shortage of "comfy chairs" . . .
"Siri, please shift into park, please." "And open the pod bay doors, while you're at it."
Well, now that the FBI employee directory is out. Concerned citizens can call or email the FBI Director directly, to voice their concerns.