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  1. Re:Something fishy here... on 15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState · · Score: 1

    I don't believe he was 15 either. FTFA:

    I was working on a client project back in 2009, a Craigslist aggregator which I wrote in Catalyst, and spent a large portion of my vacation in Mexico trying to get it to work on the client's IIS server. It was a nightmare....

    That would have made him about 13 at the time. What company employ's a 13 year old to work on expensive company servers. Regardless if he is a prodigy.

  2. Re:Bitcoin on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    It's very different. Bitcoin should have no value. It's not a currency. Nobody is buying anything with it, noone is requiring it as a method of payment. It's as worthless as matchsticks and should be nothing more than 'kudos points'. Gold on the other hand is rare, precious and useful.

  3. Re:Stop Big Brother on UK Government Seeking To Expand Scope of 'Voluntary' Website Blocking · · Score: 1

    No need, It can just be circumvented by not using your ISP's nameservers. Nor is circumventing it illegal. Not that I look up any controversial material I need my own recursive nameserver for other reasons. I think I'll just ignore it instead.

  4. Re:WTF? How is this right? on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    Totally. Google have been using 'Chrome' since 2008. Xi3 since 2009-2010. It's obvious they are just taking a cheap shot at google to see what falls out. The ChromiumPC is specifically designed to run Chromium (os) so how can they say that they were using the name first. Jokers. They should be counter sued.

  5. Re:Facebook Privacy Concept is Flawed... on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Anybody can post information about you.

    Sure they can, Much in the same way the newspapers can run a story on you that you did not give consent for. The difference is that because facebook potentially store a lot of information on you and are constantly attempting to make it public. Whereas a newspaper article may stop at your name and possibly an embarrassing picture of you caught at mid pose. A facebook account may go as far as to divulge everything from your current location too you being 'tagged' in the aforementioned newspaper article; oh yeah and your back catalog of relationships, your parents and siblings, your dogs name, what side of the bed you sleep on etc...

    And for what I ask you? I'm not about to write a Doctorate on what facebook is, but to me it's a load of people talking insignificant drivel (i can't believe you are still reading this :-) that most of the time struggle to make a coherent sentence. At the same time being bombarded with messages from people that want your money.

    I also quit facebook today.

  6. Re:Agree on Geek Culture Will Never Die...or Be Popular · · Score: 1

    She-geek and meatspace. Two words I have to fit in to today's casual conversation.

    On Topic: I also wouldn't like to manage someone else. Having said that though I do enjoy teaching others.

  7. Re:The problem is not the backbone on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 2

    The technologies available for backbones already are fast enough for the next decade or so....

    That's a really bad attitude to have. Progression doesn't just happen it has to be worked for. Sometime it's easy sometimes its very hard. You never know until you start.

  8. Re:Don't need it, have enough speed. on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 1

    It so will when it's 5000:1 contention. After all the speeds upped why can't the contention ratio be upped too.

  9. Re:"above best efforts?" on British ISPs Embracing Two-Tier Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It more likely means "the lines we aren't going to upgrade any more because we have people that sponsor their own lines". It annoys me. I Truly hope that no websites pay this ransom money.

  10. Re:sliding scale! on Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty · · Score: 1

    $.10 thats generous. Their two a penny!

  11. Re:I liked some of them on Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? · · Score: 1

    I think Silent Hill was the best adaptation of game to movie so far. It kept the enssence of the game, that's what counts.

  12. Re:Not very surprising historically on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    I for one wouldnt block the authorities from accessing my encrypted data. Although it would be under my conditions for example they would be able to inspect it only with my presence and nothing would be printed or copied. After all thats the whole reason that data is encrypted in the first place. It is sensitive data uaually consisting of material that if comprimised could potentially destroy a career/life/personal security/identity/reputation.

  13. Re:the organic lobby got one thing right. on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    One thing about organic food lobbists is they understand people no longer have a clue about food, and they exploit that ignorance to charge a premium for "organic" food (what ever the fuck that is supposed to be).

    it's this ignorant mind set that supports the omgs chemicals are teh evilz rubbish that's all over the internet.

    You seem to forget that these chemicals are groth hormones and pesticides. While these may be safe to consume up to a certain level their not necessary. THAT is the point of organic food - to promote genetic diversity. You will have kinds that are immune to certain diseases and others that are able to protect against certain pests all over time. Meanwhile at the same time controlling the amount of polution that comes in to contact by non-destructive means. My friend owns a cattle farm and i know the regulations behind classifying his produce as ogranic are subject to regular inspections. If even as much as a tin of paint goes within 100 meters of grazing land there could be reprocussions.

  14. Re:no kidding? on 12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam · · Score: 1

    you seem to be forgetting exactly how much 12% of 1.4 billion people is. its almost 170 million people. Thats a very big market.

    http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=internet+users

  15. Just frigging let it die! on Dutch Gov. Wants To Tax Online Media To Fund Print · · Score: 1

    Having used to provide technology solutions to the printing supply and production lines i've seen first hand how fragile the system is. Paper mills are currently making a hefty loss, Printing presses are barely scraping a profit.

    The entire industry is currently balanced on matchsticks and if one company has to fold the entire industry will come tumbeling down. I for one are pro that and i think these Gov.'s should be too what with trying to reduce waste production and C02. These are 2 things that are not a common intrest of de-foresting, newspaper printing and paper milling (have you ever seen the sludge these things create!).

    The fact is that if the entire system is on the verge of being un-economical then its going to shut down by its own choice. So why create a tax to prolong this and essentially waste the publics money.

  16. Re:I'd like to see em try it on FCC Reserves the Right To Search Your Home, Any Time · · Score: 1

    Dont you think your over-reacting a little bit? RF is very heavily policed because of the shere dependancy we have on it. Take this story for example http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article78725.ece apparently this sort of thing is not uncommon but it raises the question why was it not operating on one of the FFA bands like it should have been.
    It may seem a little heavy handed but when this happens it must be resolved in a very tight time frame and i know for certain that i wouldn't deny entry to an officer who believed some rf interference was coming from my property. I'm sure i'm like most people that don't want a mid-air collision over my house.

  17. Re:WebDAV used much? on Microsoft Downplays IIS Bug Threat · · Score: 1

    I'll concur IIS 6/7 is somewhat solid and acceptably secure that is only if the administrator knows what he is doing. Unfortunatly some if not most IIS setups are incredibly complex thus negating the security features provided.

  18. Re:Yes, please! on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    You raise a valid and well put point. At the end of the day you license all Microsoft software and these addons make the whole process a lot easier. Its not apt-get but it's a start.

    My counter-argument though is why should you have to store this data that is integrated in to your OS weather you have paid to use it or not. And if its not integrated with the OS what makes it different from any other third-party app that can accomplish the same thing? I could roll of a list of free and non-free alternatives to iis for example. What's the added value from purchasing from MS.

  19. Re:sigh... on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Parent says to child: "no honey thats not a tatoo its an identifying barcode, it keeps you safe from undesireables."

  20. Re:What happened to *nix ? on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Im supprised that something that controls nuclear warheads is connected to the public internet regardless of the operating system.

  21. Re:Its the monopoly stupid on Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs · · Score: 1

    In the same breath not only do you say
    "You can't escape the Widows lock-in without paying a lot of money and abandoning some of your core applications."

    But you finish you rant with
    "...Microsoft needs to be broken up, this is it. Its insane."

    I half agree with you but your solution to the problem is frankly wrong.

  22. Potential solution on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    After you have set up the infrastructure as in rules and a torrent server what you could do is set up rtorrent at each site to watch a directory for torrents then simply scp the latest torrent to all sites. Rtorrent will grab this and start downloading it. This leaves the issue though of potentially purging old files but thats for another topic.

    Sorry if somones already posted this solution i dont have time to read all of the replys.

  23. Re:How do they plan to power this project? on Microsoft Plans VR Simulation of Everything? · · Score: 1

    C#

    If it can run an EPOS system surely it must ba able to run the simulated world.

  24. Re:Why doesn't somebody countersue them on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 0, Troll

    freedom of speach == political correctness
    political correctness == Spastic gaytalk

  25. Re:Indie on Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities · · Score: 1

    Stop giving them ideas!