Posts by Chris G

Re: Ball crud

Not only mouse balls but keyboards too, I saw a guy selling old PC stuff at a flea market recently that would make a fortnight in Chernobyl seem a lower health risk than ownership of said items.

The keyboards looked particularly rich in biological samples.

Re: No comment

Sounds like they want Colin Furze with an electronics degree. But no interest in a decent wage.

Re: "has little chance"

While cynicism is entirely justified, I think it is a good thing to have a moral, ethical and possibly legal framework written down somewhere.

If nothing else it would provide standards to illustrate just how far past acceptable action some people/states will go.

Re: As the building is in the UK

Shirley it should be ' descender'?

Re: One big flaw with your plan

@FF22

I think you are correct, Apple are just using CP as the thin end of a potentially very large wedge.

Perhaps they have been leaned on heavily by TPTB to find a less obvious backdoor for them and this is a toe in the water.

Personally, I think it may turn out to be a big mistake depending on how the media handle this.

"It was all the way back in 2010 that the Archbishop of New Orleans decided that alligator is considered to be in the fish family.

One should never allow science to get in the way of a religious loophole.

Re: Lets do the maths

Due to climate change and convection in the oceans changing, I read an article that posited the possible reversal or disappearance of the Gulf stream.

That would leave the UK in a much colder state even with global warming.

Re: Why do I suspect ...

Since Wotsit was purchased, it has always seemed clear to me that FB would at some point try to break or enter the encrypted messages between it's users.

After all, FB bought it so everything in it belongs to them, stands to reason encrypted content of something you own should be open to you.

There must be a 'Rule of acquisition' that covers it.

@NoneSuch You really meed to get out more.

The earlest music I remember paying any level of attention to was 'Whistle while you work' on the beeb, my mum usrd to listen to it.

I can honestly say that the seven decades of music I have direct experience of, and a few I have the recorded evidence of, alll have examples of utter tripe as well as those of absolute genius, plus everything in between.

I thought the 80s were a bit of a wasteland but if you look around a lot of good stuff was produced them.

Now I am thoroughly eclectic in my tastes, in my workshop, I have 400W of potential volume in the system and I listen to everything from medieval to the currebt hits of today on Spanish radio.

Quite keen on Reggaeton at the moment as well as Mongolian rock ( The Hu).

I would want a reeaally long peice of blue touch paper if it was me lighting it.

Going back to the Bezos and Dynetics complaints, do they honestly expect the world to hang around while they play catch up?

I can't decide whether it is jealousy, arrogance or ignorance that drives the complainers.

Re: I envision a fix...

Personally, I find Vogon poetry superior to the content of Feacebook, based on my memory of the time some years back when my daughter showed me something on her Feacebook page.

So considering the content that zuckerborg's creation produces and contains, I doubt Vogon poetry would have much effect on him, on the contrary, I imagine a Vogon viewing an hour of Feacebook would have the Vogon reduced to a vat of sludge before the hour was up.

Perhaps they go so far fighting unions because they don't want to pay a fair wage, provide reasonable benefits and regard their employees as anything more than a resource to be used, abused and discarded at will. In a similar way to the same company's attitudes to paying taxes to the countries that host them.

An attitude, unfortunately that is becoming more prevalent throughout the 'free world'.

Re: Gaming

I came across a couple of RT documentries on youtube a while back, worth a watch.

Will that be on porn hub?

Asking for a friend.

Re: Moon race 2.0

"If NASA don't go to the moon in 2024 SpaceX will.

That leads neatly to my opinion of Bezos; If he believes BO can do it, he should go ahead and build a lander to go on top of the blue dick and just go to the moon anyway.

It's not like he is doing anything else important with his money.

The judge has based his decision on his knowledge of the law without any understanding of what am AI, or indeed what this particular AI is.

Whether the product is the result of programmed input from a human or is a truly randomly inspired creation form a smart machine that discerned a need for it's invention, something I strongly doubt.

It seems likely the guy who brought the case in the first place is testing the legal water with a view to automating patent trolling.

Re: ... to be continued ...

I sincerely hope that marmite is not going to be wasted coating a laptop.

The minimum ought to be a tactical strength cattle prod.

An ex-boss of mine was a Doctor of Divinity, I can't knock a qualification like that, he would believe anything I told him.

Re: Cartel

I am willing to bet certain members of Mexican society and a few billionaires in SA and China are having no problems accessing their money.

Re: What is a "Lache"

In common law legal systems, laches is a lack of diligence and activity in making a legal claim, or moving forward with legal enforcement of a right, particularly in regard to equity. This means that it is an unreasonable delay that can be viewed as prejudicing the opposing party. Wikipedia

Re: "As a result of being drunk, Mr Cooke did not fully comprehend"

That was an incredibly lame excuse for a number of reasons, he was drunk for two days, the campaign was carried out over a two month period, being drunk is no excuse for anything and being an ex-cop means he should not only have known better but should have had the ethics and morals that ought to be part of a law officer's character.

Re: It Depends…

Ultimately on what works to achieve profitability, no matter what you wish for, whether or not you get it comes down to money for the bodses and investors.

Sure, staff can walk but only to the next job, if the job functions well with WFH staff, fine, if not what are the choices? Keep walking?

I don't think there are any permanent and settled answers as it is too soon to see where things are going.

Re: Search engine revenues

Does anyone here know much about Neeva?

I saw something but haven't followed it up yet, it's going to be a subscription based, privacy centered search engine according to the blarb.

I would consider it if it delivered the promised goods and was at a reasonable price point.

Bezos talks about 'competive' although he has already lost to SpaceX who won because they competed better, i.e. produced the goods in time.

Blue Origin now expects to buy their way back into a competition they have already failed at?

Sounds like a recent president who couldn't accept the election results.

If Bezos had any class he would stop bleating and develop and perfect his kit in spite of the competition, thereby proving his kit is a winner.

You know, like putting some money where his mouth is.

If Blue Origin is genuinely good, perhaps there are other private investors who would like to be a part of it.

Re: AI to program

From the sound of their blarb they are a little short on hard manufacturing experience.

Maybe they could start with a pick and place pill packer before bringing an entire factory to a halt.

Re: Fortunately for the rest of the world...

But 6PM is Shoe Time!

As for the Bag o' Crap I was wondering if perhaps Jeff had cornered the market in some way on the dog walkers on the country trails in these parts, they bag it up and hang it on a tree branch instead of taking with them to a receptacle, not sure how such a thing would be monetised but then I am not a billionaire entrepreneur.