Tell Me Something Stupid

So I'm bored, right, and it's three a.m. here on the West Coast of Alto Mexico, so there's even less to do.

But troll Drvdge for the latest in the online jewspapers.

Jackpot!

James Lockhart, director of the government agency which oversees Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, whined to Senator Barney Frank about Frank's machinations to cease the payment of bonuses to executives at those two financial disasters.  You're gonna like this, gang:  "They received no bonuses for their 2008 performance. The value of their stock holdings and options are worthless. We are taking actions to ensure that these retention payments are not excessive," Lockhart wrote.

Uhhh... management at two companies which didn't flirt with insolvency so much as as turn around and drop their panties... expect to be paid for the most lackluster performance of their lifetimes?

Guess it's not as much fun when the bad guys get their A.G.

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Love,

Ainandil

Couldn't Help Myself

I know, I really shouldn't have, but... vita brevis, asinus longum.

Application Performance Measurement Systems for wireless data applications

I am doing research on applications for monitoring application performance for wireless data applications and would like to hear what the operators and data app providers are using?

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My reply:

I typically rely upon a tall antenna for wireless data.

Hope this helps,

Ainandil

Sniffity

Bits.

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Ainandil

Slashdotting our way to Stupid

It is quite seldom that I will claim to have all the answers, but I always know what the goddamn question is.  Here we go.

Gary
McKinnon, a skilled computer dumbass from Britain, hacked into United
States military networks nigh on a decade ago, and got caught. 
Extradition procedures followed:  extradition was granted in 2006.  But
wait! ...it's 2009, and Homey the Fuck is still in Britain.

God, we're stupid.

He's
been given permission for a judicial review to appeal the ruling for
extradition.  His lawyers state he as a suicide risk should he be
extradited, and mention that he was recently diagnosed with Asperger's
syndrome.

Wonder how much they bribed the doctor.

http://ibtimes.com/articles/20090123/hacker-wins-court-review.htm

So I had to chime in.  You're welcome:

Can We Get Any Stupider?

"Hacker Gary McKinnon, 42, who had been diagnosed recently with
Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism..."
So everyone with even the slightest form of unusual brain chemistry,
far above average intelligence, and stunted or impaired social
development is no longer responsible for their actions? I can
understand why the wallaby jury here in Southern California let the
CalTech graduate student who moonlighted as a serial vandal take a
walk, but aren't Britons supposed to be at least slightly more
insightful than twelve smog-breathing cretins who couldn't talk their
way out of jury duty?
Depressing stuff, folks.

-- Ainandil

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Back in Chartreuse

Hello, boys and girls,

Welcome to our regularly scheduled fart.  Oops, sorry.  I loused it up; let's start again.

SLOW:

O, that the Banquet of Chaos might begin!

STUPID:

O, that the Banquet of Chaos might begin!

SCHIZO:

Let the Banquet of Chaos begin!

(All rise.  Hell breaks loose, but is quickly caught when carded for attempting to purchase laudanum.  Slow conveys him to Exiletown, where he is forced to watch television until he gets better.)

Love,

Ainandil

Yes!

Today's contestant wins in style:

Phil Lauro

Information Technology Manager/Consultant

What's your view on newly discovery and dangerous heavy element?

http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/saydrah/archive/2008/11/25/scientists-discover-new-element-the-heaviest-yet-known-to-science.aspx

[Don't bother clicking it, it's lame.]

My parry-riposte?

How long have you been stuck on stupid?





Ainandil