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  1. Re:democracy on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 1

    -> and has no more control over the laws of Thailand than Queen Elizabeth has over the laws of Britain.

    LOL, that'll be quite a lot then.
    Considering in the UK the PM meets with Beth once a week, usually at 6pm on a Wednesday, what they discuss is not recorded and remains confidential. Oh, and then there's things like the "Royal Prerogative", which includes things like declaring war and peace (and you though Tony Blair was responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan) and recognizing states (why they didn't even need to run Libya past parliament).

    All this plausible deniability makes me sick, is it harmful to Thailand to say all monarchs are little more than legitimized mafia, f' them all?

    You want something really fun?
    Why do you think our troops are in Helmand Province in Afghanistan? (hint check the UN poppy survey 2001 - goes all the way back to the BEIC)

  2. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the actual paper (worth reading if you have academic access):

    Challenges can also arise when a defendant appears to be cooperative. For instance, the defendant may provide incorrect decryption details but the defense may claim that the encrypted container was damaged in some manner, which was why it would not open.

    They also list several court cases where truecrypt FDE rendered the machines inaccessible many years after the fact.

  3. Re:this is an amazing thing for Id/Carmack to do on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1

    I'm a huge fan of Carmac and ID software.

    I'm also a registered Creative developer.

    Both are big FOSS supporters
    http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/default.aspx

    and EAX is damn good.

    In short, I'm conflicted.

  4. Re:Different thing on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    Prepare? What does that require then?

    Buying some extra ski boots for the extended ski season and some more t-shirts for the warmer summers?

    I'm covered for the ski season, and catching some sun during the summer would be a nice change from the poor excuse for summers we've been having recently.

    In fact, if anything, I'd say an ice age is more likely, so if anything its our duty to protect civilisation by keeping the earth warm.

    ___
    Of course, I'm sure none of this has anything to do with China buying up all the oil fields that have any oil left in them.

  5. Re:Good enough already on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    unlimited point cloud graphics are already moving beyond proof of concept - fully interactive 3D environments using point clouds are already possible on the PC. The ticks are there in the current high end platforms but the memory isn't. 2014 should hopefully bring us fully raytraced point cloud physics. Real bullet holes, fully destructible environments.

    Stuff like this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4

    would be nice as well.

  6. Re:So little detail on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    True or not, its perfectly plausable, for one simple reason. There may well be better platforms (GPU/CUDA etc) to get the flops needed. But they already have a platform that's working, and are simply extending it to meet demand, with a load of spare capacity built in (e.g. they only expect to use 800 units in the next twelve months, but they want room to grow and 1200 won't be much difference in price than 800 so might as well get rid of the cash now, it's all a tax write-off anyway and I'd guess they're cash rich. Switching to a new codebase would bring to much delay as the code is reworked (it could be twelve months before they get a CUDA system working, and they need it spitting out answers next month).
    That said, it sounds like going with infiband is the better choice, since the latency is lower it will reduce the time spent waiting for results to propagate across nodes. That said, 10G should "just work" would infiband require further development (assuming nodes are currently referencing each other by IP)?

  7. But its still cool on Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets · · Score: 1

    What the hell is wrong with /. these days, everybody is so pessimistic and aggressive mixed in with a load of grammar nazis.

    Surely this is pretty cool? NASA have been at the forefront of modern tech for a long time, primarily an R&D department, robots in space FFS, lets send them off doing some mining. Surely humanoid robots are a good leap at getting us to Mars, not putting us further away?

  8. Re:Pathetic on EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents · · Score: 1

    There's a word for that, "corruption".
    The fix for corruption is not more corruption.

  9. Re:Dear Apple on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does that video seem like apple is promoting piracy?

  10. Brilliant! on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    Brilliant, just brilliant. Where can I buy them, I know a few people who could benefit from this.

  11. Re:Good! on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    Erm, you do know Hadley is funded by BP.

    Oh, and this information has been available from gcn for a long time.

    see:
    http://www.creditcrunch.co.uk/forum/topic/10004-the-machinery-of-climate-denial/

    For the latest warming cheerleader leaving with his tail between his legs.

  12. Re:PROFILED on TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening · · Score: 1

    <advocacy=devil>Bees provide a service necessary to life as we love it. What service do terrorists provide?</advocacy>

    Lip Service?

  13. Re:Conflicted on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 2

    Actually, I'd say you have more control over most corporations than people do over most governments.
    At least with corporations you can vote against them if you don't like what they are doing (not give them cash).
    Try that with a government and if you're "lucky" and live in the "free" countries they'll lock you up, unlucky and they'll shoot you.

  14. Re:didn't this... something did on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Does this mean there is still no answer to the Sunbeam/Brahmos?

  15. Re:Galaxy Tab has a better screen. on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    I RTFA,
    And can summarise it quite easily.

    This new tablet is better, but it doesn't have iPad apps, therefore don't buy it.

    Anyone see the problem here?

  16. Re:Global Warming is Over! on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 1

    No, they will still find a way to blame humans. Even the next Ice Age will be blamed on human activity. They've simply changed the terminology from Global Warming to Climate Change so that they can never be proven wrong, and always retain their stick with which to beat evil mankind.

    Whatever it takes to tax it.

  17. Re:Rotten Apple on Apple Sued Over Use of iCloud Name · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard of iCloud before this article (Apple or the actual owners).

    Only thing I can think of, is when Apple did their search for existing names, when they came across iCloud comms, the figured they figured iCloud comms would respekt dair Authoretair.

    Good on iCloud comms.

  18. Re:OMG, no. on Apple Rips Off Rejected App, Says Wireless Sync Developer · · Score: 1

    Then you don't get any money at all. There are only two ways to get software on an iPhone - the market, and jailbreaking. The jailbreakers are a tiny portion of the market.

    Really? The only way you know how to make money is put apps on apples iPhone?
    Poor you.
    Literally I'd guess.

  19. Re:Significance on Multiplatform Java Botnet Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Seriously for a moment.

    Do you have antivirus installed on your linux box? No? you are probably infected.

    Do you know how to find out when your linux box has been infected? No? You are probably infected.

    Do you know how your linux box gets infected? No? You are probably infected.

    Have you disabled SELinux because it was quicker than working out how to fix something it was preventing? Yes? You are probably infected.

    Linux is not the virus/trojan free utopia it used to be, and worse, they work without the "machine running like a dog" instant red flag that comes with most windows infections.

  20. Re:Good luck with that on Is YouTube Launching a Netflix Competitor? · · Score: 1

    ->Paramount, Fox and Disney declined to join

    And nothing of value was lost.

  21. Re:Head of the division, you say? on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    But that does not mean the server is inside the hospital network. It just means the hospital network does not allow him to connect to port 8443 on the external server.
    Fairly common, many firewall setups only allow outbound connections to be made to to say port 80, 443 and a couple of others like FTP.

  22. Re:Head of the division, you say? on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmmm,

    I'm going to come at this from another direction than most.

    Its not clear whether the submitter wants port 8443 opening into the hospital network, or out of their network. It actually sounds to me like the calendar server is outside of the network, and the submitter wants to use it when on the hospital network (e.g. using wifi or from their main machines).

    At least that's how I see it.

    In which case all this "unauthorised hardware" gubbins is irrelevant.

    Still, the bigger question is surely what the hell are they doing still on a paper calendar.

  23. Re:Give me good services on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    You know you can go to mp3raid or somewhere like that and Download it for free?

    But you know what, it must be about three years now since I downloaded any music via the web. My music collection is virtually finished, given there's maybe 2 or three songs worth listening to that come out a year (excluding some local artists I give a fair chunk of cash to), its not surprising its dropped off.

    The "mp3" gold rush is over, it has nothing to do with Courts, or RIAA or whatever, people just "filled their boots", and now their boots are full they are happy with what they've got.

    Limewire died when all the anthologies hit bittorrent.

  24. Re:If you really want to know more, read this... on Apple Disputes Browser Speed Findings, Says Mobile Safari's the True Contender · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone ever considered Apple charging a lot of money for a substandard piece of kit a "conspiracy theory". Branding is a well established and apparently acceptable method to con people.
    Personally I use a large advertising budget as a sign no-one would recommend it to a friend. Which I find an infinitely more useful purchasing tool.

  25. Re:America, land of the "free". on Leave a Message, Go To Jail · · Score: 1