Comment I assume (Score 1) 149
I assume there is a component to this called Snappyd.
Comment Huh? (Score 1) 772
How about Bush, is this enough to put Bush in jail?
Now, why should DICK Cheney's lap dog be sent to jail? That's like convicting Pinky and letting The Brain walk free.
Comment Bin Laden Playbook (Score 1) 218
That shit is all on you, and has been publicly supported by your own politicians and much of your citizenry. If anything, America has been putting on a clinic of how to erode and undermine civil rights, and then exporting that everywhere else.
America ignored her own Constitution on her own terms.
This is what I refer to as the Bin Laden Playbook: he gave it to us on 9/11, and our political parties and their cronies (and future employers) in the Surveillance Industrial Complex have been profitably running them ever since that day. Pavlov's Dopes, indeed.
Comment More accurate: PoT (Score 1) 196
the Panopticon of Things.
Comment Wow (Score 2) 74
Youth is not a real asset here. He is going to destroy systems with years of business logic in them and try to replace all that work in a short period of time. Good luck with that.
Just another half bright kid who doesn't know what he has just proposed.
Yikes. Proof that Ageism goes both ways.
Comment Morphine (Score 1) 83
"Someday, they'll be a Cure For Pain.
That's the day I throw my drugs away." RIP, Mark Sandman
That's the day I throw my drugs away." RIP, Mark Sandman
Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case 152
Bennett Haselton writes A judge rules that a county has to turn over the IP addresses that were used to
access a county mayor's Dropbox account, stating that there is no valid
security-related reason why the IP addresses should be exempt from a public
records request. I think the judge's conclusion about IP addresses was right,
but the reasoning was flawed; here is a technically more correct
argument that would have led to the same answer. Keep Reading to see what Bennett has to say about the case.
WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator 90
Zothecula writes: Scotland's Albatern is putting a new, modular spin on renewable energy generation. WaveNET is a scalable array of floating "Squid" generator units that harvest wave energy as their buoyant arms rise and fall with the motion of the waves. Each Squid can link up to as many as three others, effectively creating a large, floating grid that's flexible in every direction. The bigger this grid gets, the more efficient it becomes at harvesting energy, and the more different wave movements it can extract energy from. Albatern's 10-year target is to have 1.25 kilometer-long floating energy farms pumping out as much as 100 megawatts by 2024.
Comment Re:Aerial or underground ? (Score 1) 516
No - it's not even a question. Bury the lines and you will remove a large number of causes for power outages.
I can only assume there is never any storm / flood water in these utopian locales, or that it remains so pure as to be incapable of conducting electricity.
Comment Dependency (Score 1, Insightful) 143
It gives us a foundation on which to build our economy. It gives us hope.
, said the addict.
Comment The final nail (Score 1) 267
I think the final nail in the anti-system movement [a proud member] was Torvalds' non-chalant, I-can't-be-bothered-with-such-trivialities response when asked about this virus. I can't be the only one that was stunned by his attitude, assuring the rapid takeover of Linux by the Red Hat / NSA consortium.
They will be coming for your kernel one day, Linus, but there will be no one left to speak up.
They will be coming for your kernel one day, Linus, but there will be no one left to speak up.
Comment Who's gonna freak out more? (Score 1) 81
Ricky or Bubbles?
Comment Follow the money (Score 1) 550
It appears RedHat has realised that, through systemd, it can readily provide preferential support for its own projects, and place roadblocks up for projects it does not control, thus extending its influence broadly and quickly. By using tenuous dependencies amongst its own projects it can speed adoption even faster.
And who is one of Red Hat's most lucrative customers?
The National Security Administration
Comment Internet 3 (Score 1) 54
Maybe it's time for FedGov to build their own Internet that is intentionally incompatible with the foundational building blocks of the Internet (except at well-controlled, secure interface conversion gateways).
Comment Don't be thick in front of me, Al. (Score 1) 150
"Can I build around 50 miles of Tehachapi mountains?"
