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  1. Re:Here's What's New on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows is the product of a legendary, institutional inferiority complex, fueled by twin engines of incredible amounts of capital and hubris.

    Defenders of the "Windows User Experience" serve to illustrate the concept of a consumer's "Stockholm syndrome".

    That is, until Google puts them to shame in this, for the obvious reasons stated in the article.

  2. Re:It's rocket science folks on Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I guess so....

    I never made such a joke before now, when the quote seemed so complex a way to describe a failure - like an embarrassed apology.

    Of course, to analyse a joke is to kill it.

  3. Re:Deitel & Deitel on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Charles Petzold.

    Programming Windows, First Edition
    http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/ProgWinEditions.html

    Sad. But TRUE!

  4. Re:It's rocket science folks on Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I didn't know it actually happened. I always assumed it was something that existed only for making feeble jokes...

  5. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    I can still see the pieces of human faeces, stuck between your teeth.

  6. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    "That isn't an argument, it's merely contradiction."

    "No it isn't!"

  7. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Defence is allowed to mean unlimited budgets, unopposed missions and indeterminate arbitrary scope. Globally.

    How anybody can hold the contradiction that believes this kind of unconstrained activity in the coercive arm of government may be isolated, is to me, folly, madness and delusional.

    Ultimately, I suspect that it is the result of aggressive parenting, with limited compassion and few outward expressions of affection.

  8. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    But it is Assange schismatics, detractors and critics who have executed every step of this.

    Is he such a puppet-master?

  9. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    But he didn't publish them - or distribute them - in encrypted form. This occurred because of Domshite-Berg's (Dumbshit-Borg) deliberate subterfuge and co-option of WikiLeaks.

    He's been spinning like crazy, saying that he destroyed data, because he couldn't trust Assange to safeguard it.

    In fact, this was to divert attention from the possible discovery that he had already distributed the PGP file in question, and prepare the ground for assigning blame to Assange/WikiLeaks.

  10. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    If you wring your hands over the release of the cables for THEORETICAL deaths that MIGHT happen, while not anguishing over the REAL deaths and horrifying injustice that they expose and corroborate?

    I construe that as accessory-after-the-fact. It's not even a real position. It is a jingoistic fear-mongering, to masquerade a cover-up with hypocritical false-concern for the well-being of others.

    It is defence of atrocity.

  11. Re:Mirror, mirror... on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    It is collusion, subterfuge and state-sponsored. That's my thesis - and I'm sticking to it.

    The only question is if D-B was "turned" - maybe they threatened to put his kid-sister in a grave - or if he were always a mole.

    Leigh? What a dishonest, self-serving shite. Hie refusal to acknowledge even an inadvertent culpability is a tell that betrays his essential duplicity.

    I remember the Observer and the Guardian during the miner's strike and Brixton. This man is a part of what has gone so wrong there. Just another courtier for power.

    He'll wind up dead or OBE out of this.

  12. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    I am free from your rationalisations.

  13. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Operation Paperclip.

    The Nazis were behind the successful moon landing. That's how I know it wasn't a hoax. I'm only partially joking.

  14. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    This incident occurred. It has outside corroboration and photographs.

    The cable indicates the level of collusion on this level of atrocity.

  15. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Thanks. It's now in my backlist.

  16. Re: optical drive on Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer · · Score: 1

    OH! I remember those, now. Black, with all the ridges!

  17. Re:It's rocket science folks on Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Premature ejaculation metaphor:
    "I'm sorry, Honey! Flight instability triggered range safety systems to terminate thrust on the vehicle!"

  18. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    Heh.

    I want to contrast reactions. That is one of three postings of this theory.

  19. Re: optical drive on Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is this "Audio CD" you speak of? Is it like an Audi TT?

  20. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    You are missing a key piece.

    He didn't want them all dumped un-redacted.

  21. Re:DER SPIEGEL has a much better writeup on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    Since when is PGP cycling passphrases without re-encryption?

    That was a poor mistake - but maybe D-B is the fly in the ointment, and he deliberately copied the file, before re-keying it to a new passphrase.

    He certainly owned up to other acts of subversion and data-manipulation, contrary to his trusted role in WikiLeaks. He goes all Hal-9000 in his explanation: how he had to kill Cmdr. Poole to fulfil the mission.

    Fuck the little traitor. He's either an intelligence agency mole, or a dupe.

  22. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 1

    I propose that this "leak" was the planned outcome of an operation, probably by the US Army Counterintelligence Agency. This agency has documents that revealed their plan to cause this EXACT kind of exposure, to discredit and subvert WikiLeaks.
    url:http://www.scribd.com/doc/28385794/Us-Intel-Wikileaks

    When two of the three critical players, Dumbshit-Borg and David Leigh have demonstrated themselves to be mendacious, disingenuous, self-serving and un-trustworthy? I look to them, with their insider roles, to be plausible suspects for the execution of this operation.

  23. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 4, Informative

    No "few bad apples".

    An airstrike was called in, to try and destroy evidence of the scene.

    These are beginning to emerge as "business as usual" occurrences from Iraq and Afghanistan.

    But, in history, we revile the Wehrmacht of Nazis for this same activity.

  24. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just an aside here, I don't know how relevant it is.

    I love how all the small-government types - the ones who think that the notions of commonwealth are somehow equivalent to boogieman socialism - get all righteously pro-State, when it comes to WikiLeaks. It is a curious kind of cognitive dissonance.

    I propose that this psychological maladaptation is the expected outcome of an authoritarian personality forming in the context of what is, nominally, a republic.

    George Orwell was impossibly subtle and perceptive in his fictional exposition of this as "DoubleThink". He demonstrates it as obvious, oxymoronic contradiction - a caricature of the actual mental state of those who enable and support totalitarian positions.

    "Freedom isn't Free" Christ! That's the knee-jerk truism for "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength" in one, compact portmanteau!

  25. Re:Links & hints to the data on The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key · · Score: 2

    OK. Go back to shooting babies in the head, and forget I said anything.