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  1. Re:We have to! on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your wife is dead, BluBrick. Its time to move on.

  2. Re:Hrm on Users Report Foul Play In App Store Rankings, Purchases · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meh, every online store is going to have its weaknesses. Unfortunately, most of the time, the greatest weakness is the users themselves.

    Not trying to justify iTunes - I hate it. Just saying that I doubt its any more 'hackable' than the next online store.

  3. Re:Wow. Just... WOW! on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1

    This article is so old. Like, ancient. I remember the same mirror thing from over a year ago.

  4. Re:Anonymous Coward on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. Different lengths for different needs. =)

  5. Re:Anonymous Coward on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    True, that is the point of SSL / TLS. But you'd be surprised at how many cert issuers are in the pocket of agencies like the NSA or DSD. The root certs are only as secure as the original issuer is.

  6. Re:Windows Phone 7 is great on Windows Phone 7 Lacks Copy-and-Paste · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what am I missing?

    You're missing die-hard fanboyism for Apple. Duh.

  7. Re:Anonymous Coward on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    Encryption won't do diddly-squat. It hasn't for quite a while now.

    Whats the use of an encrypted connection when you're being mass-MITMed by the very lines you're going through?

    Security through obscurity is the first step. Once you've got that down pat, then encrypt it.

    Someone's going to punch me in the face for saying that.

  8. Re:Makes sense on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 1

    So, in two sentences you've kind of proven many of the points made above. I think its quite obvious that you don't understand the Christian religion.

    But, your belief is your belief - I just don't think its helping you.

  9. Re:FP on Symantec To Buy VeriSign's Authentication Business · · Score: 1

    Imagine you could hack one company and control a large chunk of endpoint security software and the bulk of the Internet's public key infrastructure.

    Similarly, Imagine how easy it is for governments and security agencies to get access to all this stuff when its from the one compromised company.

  10. Re:I'm just dying... on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 1

    If I didn't see the funny side, I would have buried parent's comment.

  11. Re:Hmmmm on Researchers Restore Youthful Memory In Aging Mice · · Score: 1

    You could say that its lifestyle related - but having sleep apnoea doesn't help.

    I eat, on average, 3 pieces of fruit a day (not sure if that is insufficient or not). Normally an apple, banana or two and a mandarin.

    Broccoli? Not so much... Vegies? Yeah, normally when I have tea (evening meal).

    Exercise? Two-hour BJJ sessions twice a week and also Futsal once a week (45 min fast paced game).

    Sleep? Never enough.

  12. Re:Resistance is futile. on New Hotmail Integrates Office Features · · Score: 1

    All your Words are belong to Office.

  13. Hmmmm on Researchers Restore Youthful Memory In Aging Mice · · Score: 1

    I'm not in my 40's yet and I already need this done to me...

  14. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing that its stabbing in the dark because I haven't heard or read up on these things. I in fact dispute the logic behind these theories because every last one of them rely on taking measurable items or construcs inside our universe to try and explain its origin through these constructs. It doesn't work. It doesn't explain anything because you've already created your own loop where (for your theories to work) you need your tools to have already existed. Be these geometry, quantum mechanics or other mathematical laws.

  15. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    Membranes aren't inside the universe.

    Yet they exist?

    The Big Bang only involve the creation of the universe and has no concern for anything outside of it.

    For the Big Bang theory to exist it does have to concern its self with its own existence. You can't theorize about it without it being borne out of prior existence (being mathematical theory - based subjectively on our measurable universe).

    The argument that 1+1=2 is subjectively based on the assumption of disparity. There most certainly is a need of disparity if you want to convolve these theories based on complex quantum freak events, but this disparity requires existence.

    Next, you assume all of these things are stabbing in the dark. Suggest you read up a bit on geometry

    Yes, yes you still are stabbing in the dark. You're still requiring the rules of our current universe to apply outside its boundaries - requiring prior existence of said rules. Be those geometrical, quantum or anything else.

    Furthermore, M-Theory is for p-branes. (That was a joke...)

  16. Re:Not a star ... on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Repeated Oral Raucous

  17. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    This is where our logic is separating. You can't account for structures, membrane, quantum mechanics and fundamental laws without them having already existed. The first two paragraphs of what you said are still assuming essential ingredients in the creation of space+time - all ingredients that can only be measured in our existence of space+time. To say that they have happened to exist in their intricate structures and fundamental laws throughout 'all eternity' outside of the bounds of time+space is a leap of faith and separation of logic that has no foundation - for without this blind leap, the whole thing falls apart.

    Fundamental laws are as much a construct and existence as the wooden desk I'm sitting at. Without their reality in these theories, we can't be - much like a human won't live without its parents having created it. To assume that these laws have always existed in all eternity outside of time is again a blind leap of faith. These fundamental laws are constructs and protocols just like quantum mechanics are.

    The conjecture of their existence outside of existence is such a stab in the dark - not to mention a circular logic bomb.

  18. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    There is nothing "predating" the Big Bang

    Yet you allow for the existence of intricate quantum rules, protocols, foam and energy - even if it equals zero, you've created it.

    By advocating an event like the Big Bang you immediately create sequence. Even if not material or energy, you are creating intricate mathematical rules and protocols from nothing.

    Despite your attempts to dismiss what I'm saying with the absence of time (I happen to agree with time+universe), the reality is that you cannot create your rules, protocols, time and foam without it having already existed. It is equally correct to say that without Universe+time there is also no maths or quantum rules. You can't justify the universe with the sudden and inexplicable introduction of the most complex protocols and rules in existence (pun intended).

  19. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    What is stated is that there are a wide range of possibilities, including a foam multiverse, colliding membranes or even a freak quantum foam event. Regardless, you only need a high enough energy density. After that, Inflation and Hawking Radiation is sufficient to account for everything else.

    All of these theories require the pre-existence of one or more of quantum rules, matter and energy. This goes nowhere to explaining anything at all. The theory of the Big Bang is based on the hopes of what 'predates' it - because without what 'predates' it, the Big Bang didn't happen.

    So what then is the Big Bang based on? Its based on energy and 'freak' quantum foam events? So, uh, where'd they all come from? They were just there? You know, just happened to exist in their intricate forms and rules?

  20. Re:Intriguing. on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    The Big Bang is entirely in compliance with empirical observation.

    The whole premise of the Big Bang is not in compliance with logic. The whole theory stops dead when you think logically about it.

    The entire universe was created with a colossal explosion? Out of what? Where did the nothing that created the 'big bang' come from?

  21. Re:but... on Hacking Vim 7.2 · · Score: 1

    Careful. His nerd cred is forfeited because when he was involved in face-to-face communications he failed to mention vi or vim.

  22. Re:Brilliant! on Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Brilliant! on Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    h4rr4r, you seem to love the ring. =)

  24. Re:The more stuff you own... on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Your view on 'owning' is accurate in my opinion. But it does boil down to the subjects view of their possessions.

  25. Re:re AMD on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope they do well. Many of my systems run AMD too. They do represent great value. Plus, I would hate to see Intel as the only desktop CPU manufacturer.