Posts by Scott Broukell

Audit

Did anyone even bother about, or even fleetingly consider, conducting a brief audit of the premises/facility/company into whose hands this sensitive data/equipment was being passed? No, thought so, dumb all over. Next time why not post it all on t'webs and ask some passer-by (browser, if you will,) if they would kindly do the edit in Moviemaker and post the results back to same said web site, thanks awfully.

Erm . . .

I know a certain ISP in the UK who could do with some encryption right now - just saying.

That would also explain . . .

What the 'Dark Web' is - it's a web site where you need to turn the monitor brightness up to 11 in order to see it.

What if the red meat comes out of a petri dish then, is that ok? Is that were this is going? Whilst I would welcome the complete loss of huge feeding lots for cattle, no more steroidal and antibacterial injections, no more GM grain feed, just vast led-lit factories, powered entirely by green energy, pumping out prime cuts if iSteak ("designed, dimensioned and imaginered by u and for u, with our app"), I am not so sure about eating locusts and beetles as an accompaniment - pass the sauce please, lots of it.

Support call

As has already been pointed out above she can quite clearly be seen using a smart phone in the colour photograph supplied. Well I don't mind telling you, and in no uncertain terms, I am now fuming and very much at the end of my tether! Why? (I hear you ask), because I put in a support call to her nearly 200 years ago and there she is blatantly chatting away to some supplier or other no doubt. Well, these difference engines don't just fix themselves you know, and yes, before you ask, I have tried, several times, dismantling and re-assembling the entire device and to no avail whatsoever!

Acronym

D - Dysfunctional

O - Over budget

S - Shite

Historically . . . . . .

there is documentary evidence (and yes I have seen the videos with my very own eyes), that show this sort of thing has gone on since the dawn of time, I mean just take a close look at the underside of Fred Flintsones car - yes, there it is, Da Feet system. (I'm here all week folks)

I have patented a similar, though more secure, system for my larder, I calls it the Internet of Tins.

Consume, consume, consume, again and again, and all the while take everything for granted. We, in the developed western nations, are at the top of the hill – it's all there for our taking. In general we seem to think that we can insulate the walls and lofts of our homes, stick in a few energy saving light bulbs and then be fully justified in placing a heated jacuzzi in the back garden! It seems to me that we might do well to ponder the plight of many millions of folk around the world whose own electricity supplies are anything but regular. I think that if we were to truly imagine dealing with such interrupted supplies ourselves we might begin to re-assess our habits of consumption and appreciate the absolute pure luxury that is, e.g. the drive to a superstore, the freedom to fill trolleys with all manner of globally sourced produce on display in chiller cabinets, freezers or just lit up with enough light bulbs to get 20 more overs in at Lords when bad light is declared. I therefore submit that we need to look very hard at and re-assess all our consumption patterns, not just energy, before things start to go a bit dark! It is a much, much, bigger problem we face than simply whether or not the supply data from alternative energy sources adds up to anything significant at this moment in time. Very reluctantly I am coming around to the view that we in the UK will need increased reliance upon nuclear generation for the next 30 years or more. But I can only find myself agreeing to that if we absolutely ensure that in those 30 years we expand/develop alternative sources of supply and storage to work alongside nuclear generation and seriously address our patterns of consumption and energy use all round, thereby diminishing the grand total that is required to feed into the grid in the first place!

Historical Note:

The use of 'Psycho-active' drugs really mushroomed in the mid to late 1960s.

Ha!

The only 'Entertainment' systems in my car are a somewhat dog-eared copy of "Eye Spy Lorries and Motor Cars", a rather tatty box of wax crayons and a Woolworths foolscap writing pad (price 3d).

First Amercians

Did they come Bering gifts?

Name

So, will it be called the Peel electric car, (geddit hehe), or maybe the iPeel. I dunno, I wonder if it will have any aPeel at all.

<gets coat>

I myself am gladdened by the initial results from this project, I had my fears that it was going to be a Micky Mouse affair.

Irony (or stainless steelery in this case perhaps)

Meanwhile the bosses and upper echelons continue to just stuff their snouts at will into troughs that seemingly never empty, funny that.

42

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Obvious innit . . .

I find this hardly surprising at all, I mean have you seen the sheer numbers of lunch-time courses, blatantly on offer, freekin everywhere I tell you, for those people who want to become airplane pilates !

How about 'Britains Got Telnet'

Each week you could have two opposing teams of four peeps on a TV show, drawn from say; pub quizers, gamers, librarians, IT folk and, of course, ordinary working people (TM). Each team has seven days to find out as much information about the other team members as they can. Categories could include; Hobbies, Health, Finance, Sports and On-line shopping etc. Methods could include your more traditional sifting through the contents of bin bags, intercepting mail and binocular focused observation. Tactics could involve calling the other teams bluff by threatening to reveal something really juicy, even though no such material exists. As the competition progresses the time period allowed could be reduced. In the later, more difficult stages, the teams might have to follow a randomly selected tourist from say a major airport hub and determine his/her identity and reasons for travel without drawing attention to themselves. You could even have all manner of diversionary tactics and double agents!

No, no maybe not.

'Britains got Telnet'

Watching, on a prime-time TV near you?

So what goes in the map box now?

Oh, of course, it becomes a charging dock for the gadgets I suppose!

Shirley . . .

Just build robots that ONLY play golf, invest in more operating theaters/staff/equipment, and yer consultants can concentrate on applying their considerable skills to surgery and catch up with Robo-Golf progress on their E-Scorecards via smartphones when they take a tee break.

Just Keep Banging Those (very, very, very small) Rocks Together Guys

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"... future voice services..."

So something like - 'You will be called next month by the mother-in-law, press the hash key to divert the call to Saga Very Long Round the World Cruises, or press the star key to use the AI Automated Prerecorded Conversation system.'

Machines leaving earth - Yes / Human Meat Bags - No

I can only envisage AI machines, originating from Earth, and perhaps carrying sufficient biological material to replicate humans (when time/conditions permit), traveling through deep space in order to colonize anywhere at all. In missing out the 'meat bag' problem such travel to the orbits of other stars could work and replicated humans might find a niche in this way. Such migrations would therefore proceed in a 'stepping-stone' manner.

Why not . . .

Fill that little old electric slow-cooker up with seared and seasoned diced pork/chicken/beef strips etc., add some stock (and/or ale - whatever), to taste, plop in a few diced vegetables (peppers / onions / toms etc.), set the timer accordingly and then pop off dahn the boozer for a few hours, safe and smug in the knowledge that a wholesome hot meal awaits you on your return. Simples.

It would appear that there is not a hole lot of difference twixt Swiss banks and Swiss cheese.

So, erm . . , if I have understood this correctly, this 'ere ancient light of the cosmos was one of them energy saving thingies was it, took a little bit longer to come on and that?

I for one

Would like to see what they can inject into the proceedings.

Only intermittently connected.

For the moment at least, my car can only be described as 'connected' when a tow rope is making that connection twixt it and any given recovery vehicle.

It needs to be asked . . .

Upon arrival at the terminus, will the gloopy mass of body parts, fluids and mashed internal organs that constitute the remains of the luckless passengers, be poured directly into vats destined for the Soylent Green factories?