Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

They all doth protest too much...

"Johnson has been accused of sexually assaulting a 17 year-old"

Why doesn't this surprise me. It's seemingly the same for all fear based religions that try to repress human nature such as Catholicism and Islam that all we seemingly get is report after report after report as to how these scared and socially inept scumbags seem to have taken advantage of their "trusted" position, and how they just can't seem to keep their grubby sleazy hands off of the children or the vulnerable.

Ala Gwyneth Paltrow...

There is nothing more romantic than a conscious uncoupling.

No no no, you all have it wrong...

The future of application development is the delivery of containerised minimal viable product (who the hell cares if that "minimum" isn't actually viable or productive) and then agile DevOps and continuous delivery will magically take care of the rest.

Simple. At least that's what the salesmen are saying, and surely they can't be wrong, right?

Yes, but...

"Reasons for such sluggish speeds can vary and can include a user's distance from the nearest exchange or difficulties with the property itself – thickness of walls, for example, can affect wireless connections, he said."

True. But mostly it is because of a shit WAN connection. I'm sure someone from an ISP will be along in a while though to explain why it's not their fault, despite being given a LOT of public cash to resolve it.

An updated maxim...

Supposed experts and their Bitcoins seem very easily parted.

Keep on rollin'...

Top work little chap. Good work NASA.

Erm...

"owning and driving the car had a net benefit on the environment taking into account its full life cycle"

Sorry, but this pure marketing and PPE educated bullshit. I'm not sure how ANY car or thing can have a net benefit to "the environment" when the US and China et al are still spewing tons and tons and tons of shit into the air and oceans every single day.

Umm...

Don't let the name of the town get stuck in your throat, you may end up with a stiff neck.

Alternatively...

Considering that systems like this for large companies are mostly based on workflow with approvals required at key points of the engagement, it could just be (A) a missing interface between the DXC/Expiris and Allegis systems, or (B) key user approval hierarchies not being set up and/or tested, or (C) a data migration issue.

Or yes, of course (D) some deep dark conspiracy or collusion between DXP et al to shure up their shaky quarterly finances...

"critics worry that such an approach will effectively allow tech companies to decide what is and is not legal speech."

Really?? I'm finding it hard to find any "worry" here at all, and I'm astonishingly surprised that anyone with any modicum of intelligence really cares, or takes anything on FB with anything other than a very large pinch of salt. Facebook started life as a platform for us just to connect with each other on a personal level and if it disappeared overnight then I'm pretty sure the world would keep turning. What its become IMHO is a platform that believes in its own self apportioned grandeur and hype, and is now just a gutter level platform for all manner of meaningless and banal drivel that masquerades as news, information or value added content that can easily be found on more reputable sites.

"Least worst option"

Yes, that's all we seem to get from our elected "leaders" these days isn't it. The "least worst option".

Lazy bunch of shysters with not one ounce of gumption or willing to see if there is a better option than what is currently in place. So I made my own decision... I willfully haven't paid for a TVL for four years and don't intend to... and to be honest, I don't miss broadcast TV one bit.

To be honest...

The pic looks more like a Sperm whale that has suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature has very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then has to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

Burn baby burn...

"The Register contacted the Tezos Foundation and a lawyer for the Breitmans for comment."

Yes, and I guarantee that the Tezos response will be something along the lines of "we consulted with our legal council and we believed that we were operating within the current regulations for Bitcoin offerings..." and then went on to add that "but when we found about out the vast sums of money these idiots are prepared to stump up we decided to do away with any further legal council knowledge and just hoped that no one would really notice..."

*cough* Yes, sure... *cough*

"The Internet Archive isn't so much concerned with preventing the spread of misinformation as with making sure information of all sorts remains accessible."

Sure, because in 500 years from now when the domestic cats are evolved into our sentient upright overlords, and when we are slavishly subservient to them (even more so than we are already), it's good to know they'll have somewhere to go to revisit their own historical records.

It's such a regular occurance...

This is seemingly such a regular occurrence now that I have heard rumours that the International Telecommunications Union will be moving away from UTC as the global datum for time, and using the Lloyds bank service availability metric as the new one.

Perhaps, but...

"Who knows, but it would strangely fitting if a constitutional crisis was caused over something so shallow as a Twitter account."

But isn't that primarily how a lot of major crisis' occur and evolve; not primarily from massive ground shaking events, but from smaller innocuous and seemingly tenuously linked ones that take time to garner any serious traction; but then end up like an irremovable cyst and having considerable long term unintended ramifications?

Eh?

"It is unknown at this time if the Tesla driver was using any self-driving technology when the incident occurred. We have asked Tesla for comment."

Should you be asking the actual driver instead?

I guess...

I guess the only career advice any UK IBM'ers on the technical delivery front line need is "leave IBM".

There is plenty of work out there at the moment. Both permie and contract.

Actually...

I disagree with the sentiments, there seems to be a lot of growing momentum (albeit not quite a concerted effort yet) and a groundswell from a lot of different people and areas that are now starting to take a long hard look at Google and asking some fairly straight questions about their operations. I think over the next couple of years there will be some fairly direct action against them and I'm not sure they will be able to buy their way out of it.

On Google maps...

Out of curiosity I just had a look at the airport on GM and it looks as though they have a Vulcan parked outside on the grass. Upon a second glance I noticed that said Vulcan is situated on "Vulcan road".

plus ca change indeed...

"Volvo said a few years ago that it would “accept full liability” for crashes involving its autonomous cars."

All well and good I assume until you actually need to pursue Volvo for settlement of that liability; at which point no doubt you'll need all the legal protection insurance you can get your hands on to pierce through their shield of lawyered up scumbags... just like current insurance company practice.

Plus ca change indeed!!!!

£7Bn Pensions defecit?

Yes that sounds like a very healthy business model. One that Phillip Green would be very proud of.

Not a chance mate...

"On a philosophical level, if we understand how we became, and where we came from, it may provide solutions to how we should move forward and where we can go."

Not a chance mate. Too many cat videos to watch.

So...

Answers on a postcard... best home / home business broadband supplier outside of the normal fucktards at BT / VM / TT et al? I require a fast 100mb('ish) link.

I was thinking of going with A&A but they seem a bit pricey.

I always thought...

I always thought that they could do "Middle Earth : The Sixth age".

Basically where loads of tired and bored looking commuters are late for work due to a dragon or a Balrog on the line.

At least their Social media team has a sense of humour about it.

Like most Councils, they should use it as a form of planter for flowers on a roundabout.

Whoda thunk it...

Comms company is full-o-shit. Who knew eh?

What I guarantee you won't hear...

What is this... the fourth or fifth TITSUP occurrence for this bunch of cowboys this year? What I guarantee you won't hear from their shoddy PR department is this...

"This outage was caused by our strategic decision to lay off all of our experienced UK legacy technical and integration teams to save costs and improve shareholder dividends by farming this all of this out to cheap Indian university farmed resources whom have all of the theory and certificates, but none of the experience, context or communication skills."

Collective noun...

Do eight Apple data halls on one single site an orchard make?

Wikileaks

"This kind of attitude I would submit is not acceptable to a large majority of Americans"

I find it very interesting and revealing that the US Government views a service which tries to publish the truth about major invasive surveillance and all manner of underhand and shady practices against its own constituents, as an enemy of "America and its people"; and then goes on to suggest that all of those very same constituents would find the publishing of those truths "not acceptable".

Totally fu**ed up. All of them.

Dodgy as f**k...

This is just one major racket. Just outlaw the whole ability for any companies or supposed subsidiary arms under the same corporate structure to be able to buy (or "license") anything from the other.

Riiiiiight...

Because the US Administration has never interfered or tried to subvert the elections in any other country has it...

Pulling the sword from the stone?

Completed it mate.