Posts by Christoph

I trust that they have tried to make sure that data only flows one way on these links?

Have the US government explained how they would react if, say, Andorra decided it could enforce an order to grab data from a server in the USA?

Hang on, make that Grand Fenwick.

So what happens when the Attorney General orders him to reveal who has access to the information, and the NSA have ordered him not to reveal that they have a tap implanted to grab every bit of data that enters the system?

Did anyone seriously believe that the US were not doing things like this?

If they have the technical capability then they will do it. Questions of law or morality are simply ignored. Anything that they can grab they will grab.

Even worse if they'd taken the explosives out

Suppose they'd removed the explosives, then later gave her the bag.

Then a long time later the security people somewhere else swab the bag for explosives residue and get a positive.

How is she going to explain that? People have been convicted on the basis of microscopic amounts of explosive.

Same problem with that one a few years back where the French planted explosive in a passenger's suitcase and then lost it. Even they didn't know whose the case was. And apparently that's a common tactic. How many people are carrying suitcases with detectable explosive residues and no possible way to explain them?

We need a country with a highly educated population and a healthy economy, that doesn't want anything to do with the Thatcherite rubbish that all the big three parties spout.

And in a couple of weeks time we may have one. Just not in England.

So you can play various tricks with these - does that include being able to switch the headlight direction over when you are in in a country where they drive on the right?

Remember that this is the country where someone can have you declared dead and can then inherit your property, even if you are standing there objecting.

You should only watch nice, safe, authorised, approved videos.

Like videos of innocent people being massacred wholesale by people on our side. That's perfectly OK.

The only problem with Universal Credit is hiding its true intent until it's too late.

The eventual target is to shut down all benefit payments and leave everyone who has committed the crime of being sick, disabled, unemployed, or just paid too little to survive, to starve and die.

If they hit it fairly soon and break it up, the pieces will have a long time to spread out - all that will hit the Earth are one or two ordinary meteors.

What puzzles me is how it got created in the first place. If it was already spinning rapidly, any impacting material would have bounced off. Probably knocking other bits free at the same time. So how did the various bits of rubble assemble into the asteroid? Unless it assembled first and then got spun up later (there's some odd effects that can do this)?

That works fine in a tank of still water. But they seem to generate the wave patterns by moving a block in the water. What happens when they try to collect oil in the open sea? They have to somehow allow for the existing waves when moving their generator. Not impossible but very tricky, especially sensing just what those waves are doing in time to modify their generator's movements.

"long hours, inadequate pay and punitive systems that discipline workers by docking their pay or stopping them from taking breaks. "

Who do they think they are, Amazon?

"expand liability beyond carriers to ensure that entities like Universities and even search engines can be held liable for users' activities."

So why are they stopping there?

What about the teachers and parents who didn't teach those users to avoid infringing copyright? Surely they can be sued?

What about the electricity companies that supply the energy to run their computers? They are obviously guilty.

The supermarkets that keep them fed while they infringe copyright?

Seven fingers?

There's an Inigo Montoya here to see you.

So nice to hear the USA roundly condemning people who shoot down unarmed civilian airliners.

Would have been even nicer if they'd done the same for Iran Air Flight 655 - or even admitted liability.

Same as in the USA - they refuse to release the source code for voting machines.

Meanwhile in Las Vegas if you want to run an electronic fruit machine you MUST make the source code available.

So it's perfectly OK to fiddle elections, but no way do they let you fiddle money.

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit (To boldly go)

But after all that work, it might turn out to be:

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus

"The mined materials would then be considered private property under US laws"

And exactly how do US laws apply in space?

Especially when they are so emphatic that US laws do NOT apply outside the US in places such as Guantanamo Bay.

Clothing labels

Is this just for stock control up to point-of-sale, or do they expect to use them for smart wardrobes and washing machines?

Because it's likely to last about as long as the ink on those washing instruction labels - about 3 washes.

We asked IDS what would happen to all the people left starving and destitute by his department's incompetence.

We'll get back to you with his answer once he's stopped laughing long enough to give it.

We are a democracy

We have the free right to choose how we are governed!

We can choose between a party that is gong to bring in draconian laws, a party that is gong to bring in draconian laws, or a party that has no hope of getting in but will bring in those draconian laws anyway if they do.