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  1. Re:Equally instable - But Fees pays your bills on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    "Yes, contracting is scary" ... and not least because of the frightening number of new acronyms you'll have to learn ;-)

  2. Re:Great idea... on UK to Privatize Radio Spectrum? · · Score: 1

    Actually I do completely agree with you, the BBC is responsible for an awful lot of very high quality programmes and taken as a whole with the Radio and Internet branches they are a very impressive organisation and I think they do a remarkable job.

    I was just commenting on the programmes I don't like; like most of the Saturday night schedule ;-)
    But I realise there may be people who enjoy that kind of thing and that's why it's there.

    I also think the BBC has a positive influence on the other UK networks, Channel 4 for instance also has a lot of high quality interesting output ( particualry the News with Jon Snow which I think is 1st class ) and I wonder if they would be able to produce this without the BBC to compete against.

  3. Re:Great idea... on UK to Privatize Radio Spectrum? · · Score: 1

    They have a charter, every so often so they have to say what they will be doing until the next review period and if they are judged not to have lived up to their promises they will be discontinued.

    I think there is also an independant guidance commitee who can tell them off.

    However I presume the main incentive for them is the drive to do a good job and produce quality output ( in this light a lot of their output is puzzling mind you ! ).

  4. Re:A Special Message From Your "President": on BrainPort Allows People To Reclaim Damaged Senses · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dear George,

    May I start by saying you should not be scared by these problems you are facing, many world leaders have found themselves with similar issues in the past and indeed right now; so you can take heart that you are not alone in facing this.

    I am sensing some confusion about your personal direction from the term "United Gulags of America", on the one hand you feel it would be better if everyone who made fun of you was locked up by your mommy and daddy and not allowed to bother you whilst on the other hand I feel a slight urge to be liked by those who have just re-elected you, or maybe sometime in the future some kind of respect even.

    I am sorry to say that BrainPort will not achieve the results you require, not unless it directs a huge electrical current through your tongue at any rate. Instead you may have more success if you realise a few basic facts about your values.

    1) Faith can be a good thing but it is not a method of making effective decisions, in order to have faith in your administration you need to consider all the facts of the issues facing you and not just the ones which suit the personal aims of individuals in the administration. Having considered the facts a measured and effective policy can be devised to address the problem. People will understand how you are dealing with issues, see that you are dealing with them well and have faith in your administration.

    2) Family is very important to everyone but some kinds of families can be bad. The Mafia for instance is a family which looks after it's own interests and does not care about anyone elses family. People don't like it when members of their families are killed, either in the US or elsewhere abroad and will not have Faith in people who encourage this to happen.

    3) Values are important but it's important to remember what they are and that other people may have values of their own which are different to yours. Some important values you may want to find about sometime are truth and not just lying to suit the desires of your family. It is also important to remember that just because you think somethink is an important value that anyone else will. For example many people think that inventing spurious methods of looking like you are governing effectively and then lying at every turn to justify the opinion of yourself and your family are not values they would aspire to.

    My advice to you George is to maybe deal with these issues honestly and transparently without telling lies or attempting to worm your way around the truth at every opportunity.

    Regards,

    Madam Agony Aunt.

  5. Re:Ironic? on Federal Judge: Keystroke Logging Isn't Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    It's ironic that the Government are asking for a situation to be changed becuase they think it should be against the law that they were responsible for instigating in the first place because they thought it helps uphold the law.

  6. Re:What's with people? on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Why do you care about such a company?"

    First off, why shouldn't we care about companies ? They are a large part of everyones daily experience nowadays.

    Secondly I like using Google, I like the image search and I realise that if this porn company gets anywhere with this case then google will become less usefull. I wouldn't like that to happen so I am supporting google in this.

  7. Re:What's with people? on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    Oh My God ! You mean they are outside my house now watching ! Selling the details of all my searches to an eager government ( my ISP having provided them with details of my changing IP addresses ) This is Evil ! It should be stopped right away !

  8. Re:"Not to start another flamewar BUT..." on LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE · · Score: 1

    Hole punch ! Bah I slither through the dirt to my customers caves and service them there and then, backends - who needs them ? It will be nice when I evolve legs though.

  9. Re:Naming Issues on Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree it makes sense when you see where it has come from I just can't help thinking it also makes perfect sense to your average 9year old thinking of a name for his new super duper weapon with which he will smite the armies of his friends and rival gangs.

    Also I wonder where they might go from here:

    Super Wicked Space Robostallion
    Super Fire Breathing Sea Kraken Of Law
    Mad Water Monster What Can Fly
    Ultimate Storm Stallion

  10. Re:New Humvee looks like APC from Aliens on Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Insofar as they both have 4 wheels, yes it is almost identical - how spooky is that ?

    Otherwise though I can't see any similarity at all.

  11. Naming Issues on Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I think the military ought to take a good hard look at it's naming strategy.

    "The Super Sea Stallion" helicopter for example, whoever named that has issues.

  12. Re:Accurate clocks causing us problems on New Atomic Clock 1000 Times More Accurate · · Score: 1

    If there are air traffic controllers out there who are planning routes for planes which require them to miss each other by seconds then I would hazard a guess that the best solution to that problem was as lot more obvious and simple to implement than messing with time.

  13. Re:how to design against terrorists? on Lunar Space Elevator Instead? · · Score: 1

    Yes, threats like "do what I want or I'll destroy your space elevator" would be really effective wouldn't they. No doubt James Bond may have to foil that threat in a movie but the rest of us could rest easy at the utterly negligble chances of any terrorism in this area.

    Of course with the US intent on creating ever more numerous and ever more dangerous terrorists maybe in a couple of decades it will be a threat.

  14. Re:This is an interesting finding on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    He is equally as bad as Von Daniken and Hancock.

  15. Re:I think the UK should ban... on UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams · · Score: 0

    Since he is probably used to hiding in dark holes you will probably fail to capture his full glory without a flash.

  16. Re:Yeah, but how will they... on Space Elevator Prototype Climbs MIT Building · · Score: 1

    2. ...it sounds like a terrorist's wet dream to me

    People keep saying that in relation to any discussion about space elevators but I really think that terrorism is the absolute last thing you need to worry about.

    First of all this is likely to built hundreds of miles from anywhere somewhere in the remote pacific ocean so it's highly unlikely people are just going to be able to shimmy up next to to it undetected.

    Terrorists would have to be close or on the elavator too do any damage, they do not yet possess cruise missiles or anything capable of firing more than a few hundred metres, if you are talking these kinds of threats then what you are really worried about is war with another nation which is always another nation which is a) always a concern no matter what you build and b) less likely to happen if all countries have a stake in the elevator.

    If a terrorist did get close enough to the elevator with his rocket launcher he'd still have to hit the ribbon which is not exactly going to be a barn door target and would at the worst destroy the last 0.0001% of the ribbon which could easily be lowered down from above an re anchored.

    There is obviously no chance at all of anyone getting anything in the elevator which is likely to explode or damage it, I imagine the owners will be quite keen on enforcing that.

    If you are a terrorist it's going to be far easier to hit the Houses of Parliment or an Airport than a space elevator.

  17. Re:Idea! on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    Even if I accept your unlikely claims that all it takes to develop nuclear power stations and nuclear missiles or bombs is a man with a shovel and a ready pile Uranium, which I don't, there is no way a civilisation can develop advanced rockets, aeroplanes and spacecraft without a massive industrial infrastructure.

    Making an aeroplane is a good deal more complex than getting a shovel and making a pile of metal ores and hoping it turns into something which can fly. Almost every component of aeroplanes and spacecraft is the result of a huge distributed manufacturing and research base.

    We can clearly identify Bronze age sites used for metal working and there is no doubt whatsoever future Archaelogists will easily be able to identify our current cities, factories, mines, roads, airports, schools, ports, shipyards, railways, container depots etc etc etc etc.

    There is no doubt at all any ancient civilisation capable of manufacturing spacecraft would need a similar infrastructure and the fact that not one single trace of anything like this has ever been discovered is a very good indication it has never existed.

    Lastly, what are these people going to be using their flying craft for ? You would imagine it would be to explore and spread out throughout the world identifying sources for their raw materials ( Uranium, Mercury, whatever ) and therefore signs of their existance would be found worldwide.

  18. Re:Idea! on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid I'm just not convinced, first of all not having read the original texts myself I wonder how much of what they purport to describe is influenced by the translation.

    Number 1 could just as easily be describing some kind of iron meteroite which impacted somewhere and killed a lot of people, that is certainly a more supportable conclusion than assuming evidence of Nuclear weaponary - maybe the people were washing themselves to wash off dust which was thrown up by the impact etc etc.

    People have imagined and dreamt about powered flight long before it was ever invented so if indeed this is what these texts are describing then I'd look for some physical evidence to back up the text and indicate they're not just flights of fancy.

    Archaelogists have discovered a lot of things and can piece together a fairly coherent story of past civilisations and the route civilisation has taken to get where it is today, as we know from modern times Nuclear power doesn't evolve in a vaccuum and requires a massive infrastructure to manufacture the equipment and provide the necessary learning and research to know what to do with the equipment.

    The general solution to this problem is that "oh, the aliens brought all that stuff" which is entirely unsupported by any evidence so in the absence of any archaelogical discoveries of factories, spare parts, power cables, generating plants, food supply and any remains at all of anything which could have been a plane or a spaceship I have to think it's entirely unlikely that any of this is true.

    It's much easier to believe that the stories are just stories and the ornaments are just ornaments. Also isn't it weird how 'they' only developed things with roughly equivalent functions as todays society and science fiction tell us can or might be possible.

    Even if all this stuff was here and real then where did it all go ? You would assume that with aeroplanes and spaceships the spread of such technology would be worldwide and very hard to destroy completely.

  19. Re:Idea! on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're just ornaments, there is no way any of those big solid metal things are going to fly anywhere.

    When I read things like this on that site

    "There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvajy the Wise refers to no less than 70 authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity. These sources are now lost."

    It's easy to dismiss the whole lot as gibberish and gobbledegook. If you are making theories based purely on a series of suppositions then I am disappointed the conclusion isn't even more fantastic !

  20. Re:Map on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not invisible to us Lizards you insensitive clod.

  21. Re:Atlantis? on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    If they have found remains of a city or whatever in this area then it is likely to be the remains of Mycenean civilisation which lived on an Island in the Med which at some point in the past of was wiped out by a very large volcano.

    In their day they are thought to be a very advanced ( for there time e.g. no lasers, spaceshuttles etc ) civilisation but after the eruption ( or possibly earthquake ) wiped out alot of it without trace there is not much for archelogists to go on.

  22. Re:Atlantis -- antarctica? on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    It also could also be out of Lord Of The Rings if you chose to spell it like this

    A T'lant Is

    Honestly !

  23. Re:uses... on A Projection Display For Your Pocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    George, don't treffen keinen Stier Maßnahmen. Was Sie getan mit ihm haben. OH-, Mamma, Mamma, Mamma! OH-, stoppen ihn! Stoppen Sie it!... OH-, OH-, OH-, sicheres, sicheres, Mamma, usw.. Ist es in irgendwelchen anderen Zeitungen gewesen? Hören jetzt Phil, Spaß ist Spaß. Aha... Bitte! Papa! Was geschah bis die 16? OH-, OH-... er getan ihm? Bitte... bitte... John, bitte. OH-, kauften Sie das Hotel; Sie versprachen Million... sicher. Gehen Sie hinaus! Ich wünsche, daß ich wußte. Bilden Sie es bitte schnell; fasten Sie und wütend; bitte... schnell und wütend. Helfen Sie mir bitte hinauszugehen; I'm, die meinen Wind zurückbekommen, danken Gott! Bitte bitte; OH-, bitte. Sie werden müssen, zu gefallen... erklären ihm daß, "You kein case." erhielt; Sie erhalten voran mit dem Punkt- und Schlagsystem. Didn't I sprechen dieses mal gestern Abend. Wer Zahl ist die in Ihrem Taschenbuch, Phil? 13780. Wer war es? OH-!... Bitte bitte... Reserveentscheidung, Polizei, Polizei; Henny und Frankie... OH-, OH-, Hundekuchen und wenn er er glücklich ist, doesn't erhalten snappy... Bitte tun Sie bitte dies! Henny, Henny, Frankie! Sie didn't treffen ihn; Sie didn't treffen mich sogar; der Handschuh paßt, was ich sage... OH-, kayiyi, kayiyi! Sicher, interessiert sich wer? Wenn Sie durch sind! Wie wissen Sie dieses? Gut dann... OH-, Kakao; kein... denkt, daß er ein Großvater wieder ist und er herum springt. Nr., Hoboe und Poboe, die ich denke, daß ich die gleiche Sache bedeute. Nein. Sehen Sie, George, wenn wir den Ring brechen wollten. Kein... bitte, erhalte ich einen Monat. Sie taten ihn. Weg angegangen, sagt Schnitt ich und daß Sie nicht im Begünstigten von diesem sein sollen werden. Ich werde und für mich bitte zu ziehen überprüft und doppeltkontrolliert. Ziehen Sie? Ziehen Sie? Diese gebürtigen Kinder bilden dieses und verkaufen Sie die Verbindung. Wieviele gute und wieviele schlechte! Bitte! Ich hatte nichts mit ihm; er war ein Cowboy in einem der... sieben Tage ein Woche Kampf. Kein Geschäft, keine Kneipe; keine Freunde, nichts; gerade was Sie aufheben und was Sie benötigen. I don't wissen. Nr., don't setzte jedermann nahe dieser Überprüfung; die Überprüfung. Sie konnten haben; OH-, bitte. Tun Sie es bitte für mich. Lassen Sie mich aufstehen, geehrter Herr, heh? Dieses ist Connie's, isn't es? Uh heh. An den alten Tagen warteten sie und sie warteten. Geben Sie mir einen Schuß bitte. Bitte. OH-... OH-... ist er von der Fabrik. O.K. Sure, das füehlt... gut, OH-, gehen voran schlecht; das geschieht für das Schreien; I don't wünschen Harmonie; Ich wünsche Harmonie. OH-, Mamma, Mamma. Wer geben ihn ihm? Wer geben ihn ihm? Tony? Lassen Sie mich im Bezirk; ... Feuer... Fabrik, daß er nirgendwo nahe war. Sie smoldered. Nr., Nr.! Es gibt nur 10 von uns und es gibt 10 Million irgendwo kämpfend vor Ihnen, also erhalten Sie Ihre Zwiebeln hoch und wir werfen herauf die Waffenstillstandmarkierungsfahne. OH-, lassen Sie mich bitte oben; Löwe, Löwe! OH-, yeh! Nr., Nr.; I don't... bitte! Verschieben Sie mich bitte. Polizei ist hier; communistic... Schlag... baloneys... bitte; ehrlich ist es eine Gewohnheit, die ich erhalte; manchmal gebe ich es und manchmal I don't. OH-, nicht; Aller ich bin innen; dieses Sagen... Settles es. Sind Sie sicher? Bitte ißt er wie ein kleiner baloney Wursthersteller. Bitte lassen Sie mich innen erhalten und essen. Lassen Sie ihn zu Ihnen sich bedrängen und Sie dann stören. Bitte... Don't bitten mich, dort zu gehen; I don't wünschen zu. I ruhiges don't wünschen ihn im Weg. Bitte Löwe, Löwe; Ich suchte jemand. Treffen Sie meine Dame, Mrs Pickford, und trauriges I'm fungierte ich so so bald, bereits. Sicher, ist es keine Notwendigkeit, einen Aufstand zu inszenieren. Der Bürgersteig war in der Mühe und die Bären waren in der Mühe und ich brach sie oben. Bitte; OH-, Mam

  24. Re:Can you qualify some of this stuff? on Building/Testing of a High Traffic Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    I am not qualified at all for any of this but I'll have a go at answering your questions.

    "What does it mean to not scale vertically"

    I think he means that if you need more capacity you can just should just be able to add another web server say, or another database server and not have to add one of each each time you need more capacity. Not 100% sure of that myself though !

    "dropping in an extra server when needed without a lot of reconfiguring"

    He means that you should just be able to image another server and stick it in there without making any changes to any of the existing servers to accomodate the new one. Your infrastructure and applications shouldn't need to really know or care much about anything in any of the tiers beyond the fact they are communicating with another tier.

    "Concerning the pseudo static data regeneration, what if the thing that was being updated was only accessed once every half-hour on average? I am assuming then that generating the page on demand would be better?"

    No, definitely not. If something is only changing every half an hour then it much better to regenerate new static content once each half an hour than have every request you get regenerate the content it's self on the fly.

    Actually I think I misunderstood your point slightly - things only accessed every half an hour wouldn't exactly be causing any kind of high load but even there it's better to use static content. You are going to have to regenerate the content anyway so you may as well just do it once at a time and place of your choosing that do it an unknown amount of times.

    "MAKE YOUR WEB SERVERS STATELESS"

    He means your webservers should just be sending off the pages to people and that's it. Once the page is sent they should not be expecting anything back from the user. This is because in a load balanced system there's no guarantee any requests from the same person are going to end up at the same web server - maybe between requests it has blown up in which case you wouldn't want to rely on anything which has just been destroyed in the fire to carry on dealing with a particular user. In practice if you require any information about where a particular user is in your ordering system or whatever make sure his client has any necessary order numbers etc and sends them back in his requests - do not keep track of them on the webserver.

  25. Re:The other kinds of Indians on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    When you're asleep.