Posts by Chris G

Re: I have a blueprint

Does the plan allow for bringing the coal mines to the surface for easier access or are they going to stay where they are?

Re: Fingers crossed

Absolutely!

Moves for the better are happening slowly but at least they are happening.

Re: Can anyone explain ...

As far as I know, regardless of who currently owns the company, it is based in and largely operares from the UK.

That, like any other merger or purchase in the last 40 or 50 years puts it under scrutiny by the UK government.

Piss Poor Planning

Provokes pissing pennies up the wall.

It sounds as though the Uni' needed to make a plan of how to make a plan to replace the old plan.

Re: We fixed an issue...

" We fixed an issue that meant we had to keep fixing things that aren't broken."

Is what I would really like to hear, one OS that works reliably and only has updates to keep up with advances in work practice.

I also want a flying car, a robobutler and a cold fusion plant for my workshop.

I had assumed the PFY had traded the bent servers for those in the offender's server room.

Re: The Justice system

Absolutely the best place to be if you are a lawyer, even if you lose you win.

The lawyers guild badge should be a winged dagger slicing through a cash bag, motto; Who cares who wins?.

Re: Insecure gear

National security for the US nowadays is overwhelmingly about economic ascendancy.

"This is part of our ongoing efforts to responsibly manage the competition between our countries,”

The above from the article is an example, the West is trying to limit markets for China as well as trying to throttle energy supplies in the hope that continued Chinese expansion can be slowed but I doubt it.

Re: idiots

Considering they run nine different computer systems or engineering courses for undergrads, perhaps they should get some inhouse help.

Re: "... because of all the sand which is there"

Those parts of the Sahara that are not full of sand dunes are nevertheless extremely dusty and not kind to machinery.

Re: Goo: "[ads help] people find the products they are looking for quickly and easily ..."

Exactly!

Whatever passes for search algorithms as far as ad delivery is concerned are as broad as possible in scope so that any ad that is even remotely related to a query can be fired off. It is about maximising the potential for revenue not getting the right ad in front of a searcher.

Re: National Infrastructure

If it ever gets off the ground it will crash back down with ransomware or some other nasty, given the UK government's propensity for digicock ups.

Re: Then again

If you tell a joke to a Russian and it doesn't make them laugh, they will call it 'English humour'.

Re: Digital rights

The government has both my index fingerprints on record for my ID card, beyond that nobody gets any of my biometrics if I can help it, certainly not a phone made by a known data slurper, it's bad enough using Android even with most the obvious slurperage shut down.

I unlock my phone with a password, not that it holds anything of value or sensitivity, I just like to be difficult and cantankerous.

Re: Adverterse...

I think you can get that down to its lowest common denominator; Adverse!

Re: What's the best end result Meta can aim for?

I think the Whatsapp case is just highlighting NSO's business approach as an amoral company that will sell its software to anyone.

Including nations and organisations the US does not necessarily approve of, that's why the sanctions.

NSO's alleged contractual obligations are hardly likely to be enforceable by a relatively small company against foreign government agencies.

Re: "you're also paying to be part of Samsung's global TV advertising network"

Absolutely, they should be paying you.

I think it is time that ownership of anything you buy/pay for, should be redefined, including rights and reasonable expectations.

If I have bought anything but still don't have the ability or, apparently the right to insist that features I dislike are able to be disabled, what is it I have actually bought?

The only thing I know of is INMARSAT who are involved with marine sat's.

Judging by the increasing numbers of constellations and the size of the constellations, it would seem to be time for a genuinely international body that can oversee the use of near space to the overall benefit of humanity and the planet.

Of course it would need some legal teeth that can't just be ignored the way the UN and the International Court are when it doesn't provide the results the some require.

Re: Yet more junk

Now is probably a good time to start thinking about how to clean up local space while making money out of it.

The good news is, in the near future there will be little chance of waking up one morning to discover vast alien ships floating over every capital city, they will have to navigate the maze of junk first, maybe blast some out of the way and give us time to phone Will Smith

Re: Hardware Outsourcing

If it turns out to be a hardware fault, NASA could send up a small robotic maintenance craft equipped with a high precision hammer.

Re: What a crock of shit

It's enough to make one suspect that WinD'ohs has a plan to sell SaaS already installed on Devices as a Service in the future, and are testing the water.

Re: Once again

Out of that 29% some 40+ million live below the poverty line, or about 12% of the total population.

In 2018, 27.5% in the US had no health insurance so generally the drug companies who supply their drugs underwrite their while recovering the cost of drugs from the government.

Re: it expects 6G to be deployed starting in 2030

Never mind 5 and 6G, 4 bars of 4G all of the time would nice before they go flogging the next shiny.

It seems that making a generation work seamlessly everwhere ought to be the aim, rather than making a generation obsolete just to keep the marketing boys happy.

Planning for new, improved generations makes sense but talking about rollout dates before they even know if it is going to work is just hype.

Re: The cold wind of experience...

Tells me that any service whether it's IT, car mechanics or drain cleaners, is only as good as its last success and always as bad as its worst cock up.

It doesn't matter if you single handedly saved the world from the Y2K bug if you were merely involved in a system out, people are more likely to remember that.

End of the world

Judging by the comments on some of the Youtube videos following some of the eruptions around the workd, there are a lot of god botherers who seem to think a CME will turn volcanoes into hell mouths and will herald the coming of the four horsemen.

It must be great to have such a vivid imagination.

Strapped to an IBM would do, just shove it out of a Hercules.