Comment Re:Can't wait till google makes it way onto that t (Score 0) 168
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Comment Re:meanwhile, in Germany (Score 0) 168
pretty much every cable ISP in the United States I can think of does this, as well.
Comment Re:Can't wait till google makes it way onto that t (Score 0) 168
why would Google make it onto the test when EPB doesn't? this obviously has naught to do with "fastest ISPs," whatever that would even mean. really they mean residential "broadband" access speeds over international common carriers.
sadly, they would probably include Google among this list just for political reasons.
Comment Re:Look at ninety percent of the effort towards go (Score 0) 459
How about having NO ONE control them?
.. law
are you.. retarded?
Comment Re:Dear Rogers (Score -1) 244
not posting as "AC" because no one cares--myself included. you could be right. or perhaps Rogers just really wishes they hadn't the misfortune of being born in an utter shit-hole.
Comment uh, of course it does. (Score 0) 244
why wouldn't it? holy crap. the sensationalism in that title.. the obvious political slant coloured with righteous indignation. it makes me feel en garde, as if I'm being trolled, and sometimes I may be, but really I'm not, because it seems most people actually think the way the headline implies. people want the government to take control of everything. 10 trillion new laws a month, or get out of Washington. you're not doing your job!
holy god, man. it's like I like in bizarro-land. it really, truly is. is everyone insane?
Comment Re:Republicans are burning in the Hell they made (Score 0) 605
the bit I love is people not knowing what the hell they're talking about.
I'd wager that people keen on using the "word" statist are probably 'anarcho-capitalist' libertarians. they aren't constitutionalists. you're really confused.
more importantly, the word state does not mean what you think it does in this context. "states rights" in the United States refers to a particular form of federated government, which has been instituted and is guaranteed by a living constitution. the word statist refers to a tendency to favor an elite class of governing rulers. it has nothing to do with constitutional republics. further, those who defend states' rights do so not out of some fascination with state governments, but with respect for the document upon which this nation was made significant. you have to take these things in context, or you're just being ignorant.
further still, you misunderstand what states' rights is and how it applies. it has nothing to do with giving the government power. in fact, it has a lot more to do with reducing government powers, by marginalizing their scope. it is a process, not an end.
Comment Re:could there possibly be a bigger load of bullsh (Score 1) 605
I didn't do anything for you. read it if you want to? it has no "scientific" value, because it's not science. I don't need to read something like that. I don't read Harry Potter, either.
Comment Re:Republicans are burning in the Hell they made (Score 1) 605
in the US, the conservative politica party is called the Libertarians. republicans aren't opposed to big government nonsense at all. you're confused. but, yes, of course true conservatives don't want to politicize the environment and take taxpayer money by theft to spend on their pet projects, under the guise of "progress."
Comment could there possibly be a bigger load of bullshit? (Score -1) 605
The change is so drastic, the paper says, that scientists can claim with near certainty that events like the Texas heat wave last year, the Russian heat wave of 2010 and the European heat wave of 2003 would not have happened without the planetary warming caused by the human release of greenhouse gases.
yeah, ok. thanks for isolating those 1.0 * 10^23 variables for me and forming a conveniently packaged political conclusion. what's next? this kind of "science" is a joke.
Comment Re:no, only Obama appeals to real people (Score 1) 461
Obama appeals to real people? uh, sure. he's incredibly appealing with the way he wants to increase taxes and the size of government, while shitting all over our civil liberties, assassinating American citizens, and continuing wars--traditional and ideological both.
Romney has tons more cash than Obama? hah. you are so uninformed and deluded that I don't even know where to begin. Obama has $80 billion for his presidential campaign, and that number alone ought to tell you idiots who are so adamant about meaningless sound-bytes like "campaign finance reforrm" that the whole political/electoral system is nothing more than a rigged game, a facade for crony capitalists to keep funneling money to their corporate buddies. how much more obvious do you need it? you wouldn't see such insane figures in the first place if that weren't the case. this entire regulatory environment, this welfare system--it's nothing more than theft from taxpayers for the benefit of rich banksters and scumbags, which, newsflash, is comprised of Obama and Romney both.
Submission + - Dropbox Admits Accounts Hacked For Spam Campaign (techweekeurope.co.uk)
twoheadedboy writes: "When Dropbox customers started seeing a load of spam in their Dropbox-associated email accounts, it was clear something was up. After calling in outside help, Dropbox has now confirmed that a number of accounts were hacked. A “small number” of accounts were compromised, whilst one stolen password was used to access a Dropbox employee’s account, which contained a project document with user email addresses. The cloud storage company has now apologised and promised to improve security."
Submission + - Google Goes 'Zerg Rush' on its Search Results (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: Do you what ‘Zerg Rush’ means? Well if you don’t just type it in Google search and see what happens! Zerg rush is basically an online gaming term used in real time strategy games to signify an overwhelming scale of attack carried out by one player against another. The origin of the term ‘zerg rush’ can be attributed to the race Zerg in Starcraft, which is known for its ability to overpower other players by producing a large number of offensive units with a very short time period. The game requires players to choose one out of the three races: Terran (humans), Protoss (humanoids) or Zerg (insectoids). Google has put forward a similar fast-paced attack on its own results page with quite a lot of ‘O’s coming in from every direction attacking the search results one by one. Users are given the chance to attack these ‘O’s to counter the ‘zerg rush’.
Submission + - Rackspace 'expects to steal customers' from Amazon with OpenStack (computerworlduk.com)
DerekduPreez writes: "Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it has said that ‘expects to steal customers’ from market incumbent Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The public cloud offering will include servers and databases, but also files object storage with a content delivery network, cloud sites, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for .NET and PHP, load balancers and monitoring.
Nigel Beighton, vice president of technology at Rackspace, told Computerworld UK that although this is will be the first public cloud launched using the open source technology, other big vendors are soon to follow, which will give users the ability to spread applications across a number of clouds.
“I do expect to steal customers away from Amazon, because I think that some of the functionality in OpenStack is better than what AWS has. Also, in reality I don’t think people will move over one little widget – major cloud users don’t want to put everything in one cloud, so what you will see is an awful lot of people that are on Amazon starting to try stuff in OpenStack,” he said.
“Cloud is such an emerging and growing market, especially in the UK where we are about 18 months behind the US in terms of adoption, that I think we will grow just as much as Amazon will.”"
The public cloud offering will include servers and databases, but also files object storage with a content delivery network, cloud sites, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for
Nigel Beighton, vice president of technology at Rackspace, told Computerworld UK that although this is will be the first public cloud launched using the open source technology, other big vendors are soon to follow, which will give users the ability to spread applications across a number of clouds.
“I do expect to steal customers away from Amazon, because I think that some of the functionality in OpenStack is better than what AWS has. Also, in reality I don’t think people will move over one little widget – major cloud users don’t want to put everything in one cloud, so what you will see is an awful lot of people that are on Amazon starting to try stuff in OpenStack,” he said.
“Cloud is such an emerging and growing market, especially in the UK where we are about 18 months behind the US in terms of adoption, that I think we will grow just as much as Amazon will.”"
Submission + - South Korea to restart its oldest nuclear reactor (nature.com)
ananyo writes: "South Korea’s oldest nuclear reactor is set to restart after a four-month closure, despite strong opposition from local residents and activists. The Kori-1 reactor in Busan was shut down on 13 March, after it was revealed that the reactor and its emergency generator had temporarily lost power during routine maintenance the month before, causing the coolant temperature to rise.
The power failure did not cause an accident, but a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna discovered that senior engineers from Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, which runs the reactor, had neglected the safety problems for more than a month after the loss of power. In June, after a safety check, the IAEA gave the green light for Kori-1 to resume operation. Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) approved the restart on 4 July, but activists and local residents remain strongly opposed to restarting the reactor. At first, the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, which oversees energy policy, had said that the restart would be delayed to alleviate anxiety. But the government changed its mind as a result of a nationwide heatwave that has put a strain on the country’s electricity supply in recent days."
The power failure did not cause an accident, but a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna discovered that senior engineers from Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, which runs the reactor, had neglected the safety problems for more than a month after the loss of power. In June, after a safety check, the IAEA gave the green light for Kori-1 to resume operation. Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) approved the restart on 4 July, but activists and local residents remain strongly opposed to restarting the reactor. At first, the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, which oversees energy policy, had said that the restart would be delayed to alleviate anxiety. But the government changed its mind as a result of a nationwide heatwave that has put a strain on the country’s electricity supply in recent days."
