lutze | 12 years ago | on: Wozniak Says `Lot of Things Wrong’ With Jobs Movie [video]
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lutze | 12 years ago | on: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
Look at it from the other way too.
A foreign agency is secretly funnelling money into an institution that's supposed to be looking after my (as a UK citizen) interests.
I think it's well past time this incestuous charade was exposed.
lutze | 12 years ago | on: The History of Ctrl + Alt + Delete
I'm stuck in a cycle of continuously rediscovering this, then forgetting it again almost immediately because CTRL+ALT+DEL is so damned ingrained.
lutze | 12 years ago | on: Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work
See: Woz and Jobs.
lutze | 12 years ago | on: Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’
See this? This is part of the problem, stop being so stereotypically blinkered.
The rest of the world doesn't care if the US government is spying on its own citizens. The US government is ACCOUNTABLE to its own citizens (well nominally, but hey...), so if they don't like it they're in a position to do something about it.
As a none US citizen, I care that the US government is spying on ME, unilaterally and without any accountability.
This is what the rest of the world cares about. Stop pissing away what little sympathy you have by moaning like a spoiled child about the bad shit your government is doing to YOU, and open your fucking eyes to what it's doing to EVERYONE ELSE.
lutze | 12 years ago | on: All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters
Children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised, full stop.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: “Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves
This is remarkable, I initially thought you'd typo'd your typo and had to do a double take to spot it.
Isn't the brain a wonderful and scary thing.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: Erdogan says social media 'danger to society'
"There is now a menace called the printing press. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, movable type is the worst menace to society." -- some fucking Pope or other.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: Jack Vance, in memoriam: 1916 - 2013
Gone to the great Rumfuddle in the sky. RIP.
96 isn't a bad innings all told.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: Eleven people across UK arrested for racist comments on Twitter
Yeah, this article's blinkered, hyperbolic and frankly smug tone is pretty amusing when you take things like the above into context.
He even sticks a "literally Hitler!" on the end for good measure.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
Not an expert, but from what I understand it's a trade off. Super-capacitors hold much less charge than batteries.
There was a very interesting article about them on HN last year IIRC.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: How To Use Social Media To Effectively Destroy Your Business
There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Wrong.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]
It's also easy to not see stuff when you're blind drunk.
Both of these things are illegal, it's no excuse.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: 'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special
It's not just better writing though, it's the difference between laughing with and laughing at.
BBT isn't just "not funny", it's actually rather obnoxious.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: 'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special
Is it bad that I can still recite that number from heart?
Rhetorical question, of course it isn't!
lutze | 13 years ago | on: My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
Just write a script that outputs "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" for 40 hours, see how that tickles him.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Military Secrets
'“When it comes to cyber security QinetiQ couldn’t grab their ass with both hands, so it cracks me up that they won,” Bob Slapnik, vice president at HBGary'
I love the smell of irony in the morning.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
Good answer, thanks.
I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program, I assumed the first stage had already reached orbital velocity.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
Right, excellent.
Except the first stage doesn't run out of propellant does it, because it has to LAND again. Hence my puzzlement.
I know why multi-stage rockets are used... I'm asking why this rocket needs them, since they solve a problem it doesn't have by design.
lutze | 13 years ago | on: SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
I don't understand the need for the intermediary stages, couldn't the main rocket just deliver the payload and then land?
As it is in that video, it's having to carry engines and fuel for 3 separate stages, for no apparent reason.
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There would be no Apple.