xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that. xxx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy" xxx: You're gonna love this xxx: smack-my-bitch-up.sh - sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login. xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time". xxx: hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well/gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am. xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk. xxx: holy sh*t I'm keeping those Original: http://bash.im/quote/436725 (in Russian)

Ok, open up the demand for strict image management on the internet and the internet as we know it is dead. A uk judge ruled that the theft of Zynga credits (for farm ville) constituted a real theft of real property. In that sense the reuse of an image online is theft. But the deeper point is ownership, If you put an image online to be served to the public you no longer own it period. It is on the server, it is on every computer that views it, you gave it away. All rules about copyright are simply extortion schemes, if you want to earn money from it show it to a closed audience at some auction site.

This is old stuf, but the metals originally proposed are not rare and the patent has expired. I did a piece about it here.. http://www.greencheck.nl/index.php?/archives/279-De-Rare-Earth-Mythe.html It shows the patents and the reactions proposed. Supressed technology is reintroduced as an invention. Cerium spiked up 600 perscent last august..

optic fiber becomes opague when there is a nuclear explosion nearby. So these planes build in a major vulnerability to tactical nukes on the battlefield..Its just the military wanting to make more money..

Its called glaring incompetence. But in today's society we are all kept alive with energy we don't replace. We have lost our mutual value and GM shows how disgusting the theatricals can get about the 'imposibility of the transition'. Oil = money and we all need oil because of freaking moronoic lying scumbag companies like GM. We need a localized energy, food and skill autonomous patchwork of commuities to develop asap. That or we will all run into the peak oil wall of death in our massive Chevy Volt.

If sun em whas anything as powerful as rf em then radio would not work would it?

Any real problems today? Oh, yes, pensions are invested in oil. Good way to enable climate action isn't it?

It is sickening how technologists assume the best in people while taking precautions for the worst all the time. We are approching a time where everything anyone has ever learned or been exposed to is known. Grooming and vetting, unexcidental experiences etc. can all be arranged if needed..We may be past the point of no return, and may only become witness to the consolidation of basicly autonomous techonolgy determining our lives..

Complexity in these algorithms is only to hide the fact that the are FRONT RUNNING trades, they have servers that are directly next to the ones performing normal trades and using the speed that affords they put themselves between buyers and sellers. Goldman Sachs steals 100 million USD every day. To hide this theft they claim sophistication. Same story with derivatives, they are FRAUD. to hide the fraud they are made 'complex' using the work of so called Quants. It is thieving and it is nonsense.

Why would you lose momentum if forces cancel out? Nothing that moves will stay at a lagrange point. They are not sinks, the sources of gravitational force are the sinks..

Do all rocks collect on the mountian ridges? As fr as I know sattelites do not end up in the Lagrange points, or those points would already be taken by millions of years of dust collected..If you start there you won't move, but to my knowledge those are unstabile equilibria, so if you are not there, you fall to either the Earth or the Sun or the Moon..

It should work both ways, and is at best extortionist. The net work has a capacity limit which every paying user now experiences, in the new scheme this fixed limit is cut in two tiers, one subscribed to, the other for extra pay. In the end people pay more for the same service, and the service is made artificially scarce to the benefit of people that don't pay extra. There should be a law against this type of arrangement. You dont'go to a restaurant and get served to little for the menu price to then get offered the extra you want at double the price. Shit, you do in some cases..

Yes, it is sooo expensive to make news..Who cares, it is the MSM, it is all weaksauce propagande anyway.

Check out the recor from GE where man made climate change is explained in all detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuV0crHDkmY#t=7m38s Support me http://www.rincker.nl/index.php?Page=147

I is not an argument that because private enteriprses violate privacy, government shoudl as well, also the argument that that mekse them more efficient is nonsense. Our government can automatically look up our personal data data in Holland, with consent, and that shoul dbe enough Any resoning based on the premis that it is gong so well is a complete lie, the US is broke, both government and private sector..