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  1. Re:Guess i'll be the first in saying... on North Korea Angered Over Ghost Recon 2 · · Score: 1

    Go look up propaganda.

    Not saying the games are being used in that manner, but rather like films they could be.

  2. Re:Torn between... on Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bollocks. Switzeland, Iceland have a different way.

    Of course if you see violence as a solution then I guess thinking might be a bit of a novel concept.

  3. Re:Public on Top 500 Supercomputer List Released · · Score: 1

    I doubt this.

    Over time secrets leak out. I've never heard of a goverment having more computing power than that commercially available. Maybe Moores law makes this impossible.

    Think about whatever the fastest cluster is now in 18 months it's probably going to double. 18 months is shorter than the usual procurement cycle for goverment!

    If there was some black op to produce goverment only HPCs where do they get their engineers? Somebody would have talked by now.

    I've no doubt that the NSA is making good use of clusters and probably some one off DSPs. But I seriously doubt they could stay ahead of moores law.

  4. Re:No love? on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sir are sick. Beloved RPG, an oxymoron of the highest order.

    It looks like assembler but works like COBOL. The red headed step child of programming languages.

    With each subsequent release it becomes easier and harder at the same time. Dysfunctional personified.

    I use it on a daily basis and not once have I found anything to like about it.

    And yet...there's something so right about being so wrong. It's survived for decades on a single platform. It does the job. It's easy to learn. It pays the bills.

    Now if only some fool would relase an AS/400 - ISereis - I5 emulator my world would be complete.

  5. Looks nothing like ORAC on Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod · · Score: 4, Informative

    Really,

    it's a very nice case mod, but has no link to Blakes7 other than the name.

  6. Advanced Driving + Race Track on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Investigate advanced driving courses, road safety. Try and find an advanced driver to take him out as a passenger, road commentry, go/no go decisions etc.

    Track day, take him to a race track and pay for him to have a days instruction. Also pay for him to be driven round at speed.

    Buy one book for him. Roadcraft: the police drivers handbook. Quite simply the best manual for driving. It's a UK publication, has been going for 80 years with revisions.

    Make him buy the car and pay for the insurance. If you are going to pay for this make sure it goes through his bank account, so he has the money and has to write the cheques.

  7. Re:as a scientist... on Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work? · · Score: 1

    For papers the review can be seperate from publication.

    In my mind journals will morph into review boards. That is they publish a list of links to the best papers out there. There is no need for a review board to be linked to a publisher, none!

    So there will be sites that just store published papers, hoepfully all of the papers ever written. Then there will be other sites that index the best papers.

    The issue becomes, how much are reviewers paid? By whom?

  8. Re:3-5k? No probelm. on Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative Niche · · Score: 1

    They don't buy Macs either.

  9. Re:The straw that broke the camel's back... on Soundproofing a Cubicle? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's worse than the crap posts being allowed, it's the good posts being rejected int he last year I have had 2 rejected. the first is an alternative to light guns for panel monitors, the second is fault tolernant clusters. Either of these two are geeky enough for /. of course they do require thought so prehaps that's why they were rejected.

  10. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    So you cannot find the links? There is a whole line of zen tied in with Bushido, this seems to be the only line that does not follow the first precept. I'm also not sure where the immolation thing came from during Vietnam, that would also seem a violation.

    Gnosticism ties in with the idea of love as taught by Jesus, but not with the idea as dictated by the roman catholic church. This also ties back with why the history of gnosticism is so hard to trace. Why would the RCC exterminate all disenting views on the teachings of Jesus?

    Your summary bears little relation to reality and none to the info posted so far! Good to see we're back to the personal insults, for a moment there you strayed.

    I feel my original statements were entirely rational. I ask again, are you able to entertain the idea of not killing? Or do you feel the it's just part and parcel of life. I do feel that not killing is axiomatic but I can uderstand how others do not.

  11. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    So nobody in history has said that killing in all forms is wrong? I made it up all by myself. If only I had that level of intellect/compassion. LOL

    Show me some links to Zen where it does not relate to Buddhism? My understanding is that Zen grew out of Buddhism as the monks gave up on the importance of material things, scriptures, and favoured experience.

    Show me some links to the idea that Zen Buddhism says nothing about killing? Even better show me links were killing is approved of? I'm genuinely curious and unable to find these links myself.

    There are numerous cases were enlightment was experienced outside of meditation. That's not to say the people that became enlightened did not meditate, just the moment of enlightnement does not always come under meditation.

    Zazen is not the attainment of enlightenment, go sit down and concentrate :-)

    Preaching, explaining would be a better word, although the strident statement of your postion makes that rather difficult.

    Having read your posts/journal I can see how the idea of not killing people might be an avenue you do not wish to entertain.

  12. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    You showed me a case were killing is taking place ergo to my mind it's not moral. It matters not if you are trying to lessen the numbers killed you are still killing. To my mind it's very simple any killing is immoral, that includes self defence.

    I do not follow a religon but it's very possible that I am aware of religous traditions.

    Zen, being a buddhist religion, has very clear directions on the taking of life. Zen eschews doctrinal teaching in favour of direct experience, it matters not wether you experience enlightenment while in zazen or you experience it while climbing a mountain.

    Gnosticism http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm Not definitive but a pretty good explanation of both the beliefs and history.

    I'm not looking to come clean or be rescued. It is apparent we are both entrenched in our own view, I'm happy with that.

  13. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    Where are my morals non-rational? I'm not saying they are rational, just wondering what I've posted has caused you to think they're not? Becareful your own prejudices are not blinding you.

    My morals are based on religous tradition. I do not follow any organised religion. But that's not to say I do not believe things that religous people do. Take a look at Zen and Gnostic, they're probably closest to my experiences.

    Wrong/Right, once again I'm visiting you in a self constructed prison.

  14. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    How can I be wrong about my own sense of morality?

  15. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    "...killing is not inherently immoral..."

    We dis-agree.

  16. Re:Constant corruption.... on Will Providers Provide Equally? · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can take your union and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

    I'll do what I think is right, you do what you think is right. If everybody did this we'd have the equivalent of a union with no need for elections, donations or politicians.

    I will not be a party to anything that is going to speak on my behalf. We need variety not lock step conformity.

    So take your bleeding rhetoric and piss off back to reading mein kempf or des kapital.

  17. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    I'm not a philosopher but...

    IF Killing is immoral.

    IF Lesser killing is still killing

    THEN Lesser killing is still immoral.

    How do your statements dismantle the argument that killing is immoral?

  18. Re:Interesting... on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    You mean like AIDs?

  19. Re:A few flaws on Anti-Missile Laser Weapon Successfully Tested · · Score: 1

    So if the laser becomes that portable, powerful and accurate what makes you think troops are going to be slinging lead at each other?

  20. Re:Not my data, but work's... on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    Who do you think you are?

    The whole team working out your system. Hah. More like put the jnr on it when it flakes and only if anybody notices it's down.

    If it's code then it's easy to figure out. Sure they may not be as quick as you but they're only going to do the bare minimum to get it running.

  21. Re:you know... on India Starts All-Electronic National Elections · · Score: 1

    No tax without representation?

  22. Re:Ideas are easy, deeds are difficult on Open Sourcing Innovation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So what _original_ ideas have you come up with then?

  23. Re:Train My Replacement? on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    Did Neville get taken in by Adolf or did he realise that blighty was in no position to fight a war and needed time to mobilise?

    Diplomacy is neither easy nor obvious.

  24. Re:Drivetrain on Real 'Akira' Motorcycle · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh you clueless idiot, mods as well.

    Most bikers are killed/injured/generally fucked up by sudden impacts, either with other vehicles or the scenery. The chain failing is just not an issue.

  25. Re:Books? on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    CS != IT

    If the info was outdated then it's doubtful you studied CS.