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  1. Re:"java" on UK Controllers Say Air Traffic System 'Not Safe' · · Score: 3, Informative

    This can be true but a language doesn't design a bad system, a software engineer does. Many reliable systems have been built using Java and reside in hospitals, transportation, and power infrastructure. I can't blame a language or runtime for piss poor design. Also keep in mind not all Java applications or runtimes are the same.

    Searching for more on this issue I found a post on how ATC insiders view it on the PPrune forums (UK site for professional pilots): http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/427001-efd-scottish.html

    Kind of an interesting behind the scenes look.

  2. Re:Good! on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    And who leaked the Pentagon Papers again? Yeah I can't remember either.

    Is there an opposite of Godwin when someone is compared to Jesus?

  3. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    I've been saying that for a while and here is why

    1. Information like this is compartmentalized and a IT guys is not going to be in a position to intercept all diplomatic transmissions _and_ decrypt them. Anyone that knows the details out how an agency such as the Dept of State compartmentalizes these and ensures their integrity throughout the chain of custody knows that this is very unlikely, if not impossible. But these same people can't ever speak publicly on the matter.

    2.Hardly any of the information truly damaged the US or it's key allies like Israel, only it's "allies" that have played both sides of the fence have been damaged by the information leaked.

    It's not evidence, just a conspiracy theory. It's most likely not true given the ineptness of large institutions to coordinate these things, but it just doesn't make sense to me. How can one man be in control of so many diplomatic wires? The systems in place simply don't allow this. Only the very top of the intel tree sees everything, and that's at the level of the administration. Hillary Clinton having access to _all_ of these would make sense. Manning? Not so much.

  4. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    If that happens then everyone should receive the message they are trying to send loud and clear - don't fuck with the US government. When push comes to shove they will do what it takes to maintain power and control. Right or wrong, however you view that doesn't matter. It's a fact.

  5. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    But that doesn't mean they won't be punished right?

  6. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Even if you do believe he had a moral high ground there are still consequences that he must face. When you pluck a tiger's tail don't be surprised when he turns around and swipes your face off your skull, no matter what the Tiger has done up to this point or what your intent was. The sad truth is he went up against the most powerful state in the world and he lost.

  7. Re:Why not port to C on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Web 2.0 is cool, but when C walks down the street the bitches step aside. Fuggedaboutit.

  8. Re:So thin you could break it in half... on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    Yes it is. Does it come with fairy dust that makes you believe that bullshit though? Because I can't have one without the other.

  9. Re:iPhone still looks wise comparatively on Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Sorry I didn't pick up on some definition you made up and instead used the actual fucking definition. Apologies my liege.

  10. Re:iPhone still looks wise comparatively on Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Jailbreaking and rooting are the same thing my friend ;)

  11. Re:Box my Brain on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 1

    I'll buy your brain image for $500! I want to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed brain map.

  12. Meh I'll pass on How Cyborg Tech Could Link the Minds of the World · · Score: 0

    Plugging into some hive mind so I can share my thoughts with 7 billion fucking idiots? No thank you. I'll take the mortal route and hopefully check out with the average 75 years behind me. If I live to 100 I'm jumping off a bridge. Shit just roll me into the pool if I go limp. If I go demented then just tell me there's ice cream on the train tracks. Do whatever is needed to rid the world of my weakness.

  13. Re:who? on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 1

    Hairy Back Gary, that guy that lives in your mother's basement. The one she calls your uncle.

  14. Re:Countdown to Kookery on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    I was referring to people taht think HAARP is an earthquake weapon. Search Google for earthquake weapon Haiti and you'll see the true tragedy. People need a bogeyman I guess.

    Not questioning fracking's relationship to earthquakes, I have no clue honestly. It seem logical that it would disturb the ground, but I'm not a geologist.

  15. Re:Wow... on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    So Alex Jones is now a conservative and on the side of corporations who want to drill using fracking?

    Ohhhkay..

  16. Re:Canada and Europe are hostile? on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    I think he meant the middle east. You know, the world's largest fossil fuel producers. It's a logical assumption.

  17. Countdown to Kookery on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 0

    Mention of HAARP in 3..2..1

  18. Re:Create a brand on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 1

    Looks like we found a use for the domain name.

  19. Re:Create a brand on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 2

    Today's Open Source programmers seem to be really smart at marketing, making nice sites and logos and selling the idea. I wrote, and still write, GPL'd software but never really tried to hard to market it having just a CVS database and a page on source forge. All info was in a README.

    Honestly I'm very impressed. Some of the projects look very professional. You go guys, you're making it happen.

  20. Re:Who? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Oh okay. No need to continue this bullshit conversation then. Write your fucking congressman.

  21. End result? on Tiny Transistors Could Be Used To Track Cash · · Score: 1

    The found conclusively that It almost always ends up at strip clubs.

  22. Same as every other network (TLC?) on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    In other news, The Learning Channel won't teach you anything not in the following categories: Midgets, Quintuplets, Midget Quintuplets.

  23. Re:Caprica? Seriously? on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    It's modern steady-cam drama bullshit just like 24. I was half expecting them to break out Jack Bauer for Cylon interrogations. I can only take so much intensity, I need some humanity and hell a laugh here and there never hurt anyone. Shit even guys in war zones chuckle from time to time. If any crew was really that intense all the time they'd all die from stress related injury.

  24. Re:Who? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm not okay with it at all. My point is everyone else is. I've spent months in 23 hour lock down with1 hour out by myself for "recreation" which amounted to sitting in a sealed yard and seeing the sky above. See this is how we treat everyday criminals, I didn't commit a heinous crime.

    It's screwed up big time and people are completely cool with it. It's only when people want to make a political statement with an inmate that they care.

    Another point I was trying to make is - be prepared for this if you do a crime. Jail is really messed up and you should avoid it at all costs. This guy obviously didn't understand the consequences but this is what awaits anyone who goes against the US government or it's states. They'll let you know real quick who is really in charge and right or wrong, you'll be fucked.

  25. Re:Who? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    What you described happens in prisons every single day. Where is the outrage for that?