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  1. Re:And on the plus side... on 11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought · · Score: 1

    And with global warming that nice warm dessert could be big enough to contain moose.

    It's only a joke, or an attempt at one, so please no rabid comments about how climatology is not a "real science" like economics apparently is.

  2. Re:But but but on 11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought · · Score: 1

    Their #1 electricity use is pumping water for those farms.

    May be OT, but it seems insane to me to use the lossy chain of wind to electricity to pump when we could be pumping groundwater with those windmills that are now a lot better than the ones we used to pump with.

  3. Re:Tech angle? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    I don't get why people are so opposed to auctions

    I'm discussing an auction that was handled so badly that the PR folks had to give full refunds to clean up the mess.
    I don't know what motive you have to try to apply it to all auctions.

  4. No irony - rusty argument that falls apart on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 1

    Choices of other people do not make you a hypocrite. As I wrote above, he didn't clone the PDP-11 himself did he? His tetris is a thing he did himself. I'm not expected to answer to the shortcomings of whoever made the keyboard I'm typing on am I?
    If I am then that can of worms is huge and hits a Godwin as soon as IBM is in the mix.

  5. Re:Tech angle? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    The reputation of the company is only harmed because most people aren't economists

    Thank Christ for that.
    If you looked at the link you'd see the high prices did not become "market value" because everyone got a refund to defuse the poor reputation gained from this utterly stupid fuckup.

  6. Re:holy crap on Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars · · Score: 1

    It's an obvious attempt I'll give you that, but it's of the dumb Irishman/Southerner/Pole/Nword variety so maybe you just annoyed someone in the bunch you are making fun of.

  7. At least read before you post on Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight · · Score: 1
    It's not as if the first steps have not been done before. There's even a wikipedia page that mentions the blocked addresses in the 2009 trial. Internet censorship in Australia is the title.

    I can tunnel a VPN over HTTP traffic

    I mentioned "packet inspection" at least twice way above did I not? How did you miss it? I suggest you learn what it means before foaming at the mouth and declaring that we are all idiots to be worried about what can be done with draconian laws enforcing what can and can not go through a very limited number of routes.

  8. You just don't get it on Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight · · Score: 1

    There are only a handful of links and all but a couple are run by Telstra, which has very extensive involvement with the government.
    The technical requirements would be far less than firewalling all links into a typical US city.

  9. Re:Tech angle? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    There's an article here:
    http://www.crikey.com.au/author/stilgherrian/
    There's a quote of up to $184 for a trip to the nearby airport. It's spiked far beyond the point where most people are going to decline the service and wait for something else. That's a flawed algorithm since if it's capped at all it's capped beyond the point where it harmed the reputation of the company.
    So somebody seriously fucked up.

  10. Different not ancestor on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 1

    For some situations that's probabaly a very good fit. With some signal processing stuff we're really simulating what an analog computer could do via a digital system. If there's no need to frequently reprogram the lack of flexibility doesn't matter so much.
    With analog you get the solution within the limits of noise and not the solution digitized into a certain number of bits. They were good for some things, the last I saw was in 1992 being used to refine a fluid flow model in real time to match the experimental rig right next to it.

  11. Re:Tetris clone irony on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 1

    So? He didn't clone the PDP-11 himself did he?

  12. Re:We're so far from that now! on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 1

    We're locked out by various exclusivity deals and can only catch the crumbs when repairers sell some of their stock.
    Example: Last year (or maybe 2012) I got an unused N900 by jumping through various hoops with the remains of Nokia but the Neo900 project can't just buy the remaining stock of unused phones and parts due to various bullshit that's the nature of the industry and not just Nokia. Making an offer is ignored, you've got to have a "valid" reason even if the hardware is otherwise jsut waiting to become landfill.

  13. Re:A Godsend on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    In a fantasy world where they have their shit together this is exactly the sort of thing they would run as a "false flag" operation to look "strong" as they take decisive action. Reality appears to be a violent idiot doing something counterproductive to his cause and a government with no clue what to do about it.

  14. Re:Seriously? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    More likely than accuracy from this footy boofhead who has legal form on several occasions for being inaccurate because it makes a better story:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hadley

  15. I admit it: I'm a car and a database on How Identifiable Are You On the Web? · · Score: 1

    They've got me:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase

  16. Re:Seriously? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Its Ray Hadley on air, not Alan Jones

    So the wife beater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hadley#Domestic_violence ) instead of the guy that was thrown out of teaching twice for being a suspected pedophile (Jones - Qld State School system and Brisbane Boys College)? Class act that station and their footy boofheads on air.

  17. Re: Wolves among sheep on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    So you want to arm all those high school kids and see how it plays out? You've got to be joking or an utter sociopathic bastard.

  18. Fucking Gun Vultures circling already on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hostage situations happen far more frequently in the USA so reality is not on your side.
    Go use a different situation to push your barrow.

  19. Re:Check your math. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    And given that his demand is a live debate with the Prime Minister

    Pointless too - all he can do is humiliate Abbott in front of the world which Abbott has been doing himself when he gets out of reach of his handlers - "brave Japanese submariners in Sydney Harbour in world war two" and so on.
    It looks like a lone wolf who has shot his cause in the foot.

  20. Re:Seriously? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Ray is taking calls from a hostage (not on air)

    Do you really believe that? Illustrates my point perfectly. That's the sort of entertainment instead of news I'm talking about since the police apparently haven't been able to talk to a hostage yet.

  21. Re:Tech angle? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Then whoever designed the algorithm is purposely ripping people off, which definitely sounds like slashdot story material if it's true.

  22. Seriously? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    The Cronulla race riot station? I suggest trying the ABC, channel 7, channel 9, channel 10, sky, any newspaper website, any other radio station etc etc first. It may be less entertaining from another source but you'll get more accuracy.

  23. Re:Ok, let's hear all the stories how Seagate suck on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Then someone will lament how IBM no longer makes drives. Then the deskstar stories will start.

    The deskstar was fine apart from that exhaust port problem.

  24. Re: Helium and the density of the disc on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Since it's to the 4th power radiation moves buggerall heat unless there's a large temperature difference.

  25. Re:Just in time. on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    their Microsoft SQL Servers, their Exchange server

    That sort of disqualifies them from having a clue about having a half decent setup doesn't it :)
    OK, I'll admit that the enormous interconnected pile of applications that makes up MS Exchange has a calendar that people really like inside it. Pity about the email part. As for MS SQL - Enterprise?