Posts by Ian Michael Gumby

Re: Lucy Koh again

Sure, but the judge you get is going to be based on the court (district) where you raise the case and where the judge sits in the queue and gets the lawsuit.

@Adrian, Re: Don't be distracted

"What about the snivelling excuses for government that murdered people and tried to cover it up ?"

Uhm which government are you talking about?

There are so many to choose from.

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Japan, Germany, Russia among others.

I'm sure if we wanted to, we could accuse Great Britain of it as well.

@Sebastian Re: Character assassination doesn't change anything

Dumping data en masse and taken out of context doesn't help anything.

Egypt is still a mess and if you had to ask the Egyptian people of they felt that they were better off today than when under Mubarak, what do you think they would say?

Honestly, I don't know the answer to that...

@Psyx Re: Wow

I have to agree that its attention seeking...

The interesting thing from the article is that Assange didn't want to talk about his own personal life, yet wanted a world with no secrets.

I think that what the author wrote makes one want to feel sorry for Assange. There's a reason why he doesn't want to open up about his home life and his childhood. His mum was paranoid and either its an inherited trait, or a learned behavior. (Or Both)

The dude is royal messed in the head. He seems like he comes out of a Dostoyevsky novel.

He justified his alleged 'rape' of women, in fact how he treats women.

There's more, but you get the idea.

If he were smart, he'd go to Sweden. Maybe while in jail he can start to get therapy. Of course he would first have to admit he has a problem... but that won't happen.

Re: That's who you need @hollerith

"No give him a fair trial for breach of bail conditions and apply proper legal process (probably already done) between UK and Sweden and send him back to the Swedish justice system to process as appropriate. Even dickheads get fair trials."

No trial in the UK.

He's caught... he goes to jail then cuffed as he's carted off to Sweden where he then goes in for his formal questioning, faces charges, then off to jail to await trial. (Ya think they'd be dumb enough to give him bail? That's never going to happen.)

After the shit in Sweden is done, then maybe... he might come back to the UK to face the bail jumping charges. Then back on a play to Australia... after that.. who knows. Maybe he could then apply for asylum in Ecuador, get a Ecuadorian passport and leave Australia before someone else wants to extradite him.

Unlike Snowden, Assange has been documented to be a royal prick to deal with. We have a couple editors from real journalistic newspapers that can confirm this.

One thing for sure, when this is all said and done... Julian will never be allowed back in to the UK or Sweden....

@Don Jafe Re: A++?

Do you know what happens when you get funds for non-profit, or 'not for profit' research grants, than then get diverted to 'for profit' activities?

Depending on where the money came from... it goes away.

Then there's the damage to your reputation.

Then there's the issue of theft.

The student was guilty of theft of services.

At 'Hah vahrd' there is still a concept of an honor code. This act would have been a violation of said honor code.

The point is that the student either didn't give a rat's ass about the consequences or didn't stop to think about the consequences.

I think he should have read more William Gibson.

@Ted Treen ...Re: Speak for yourself...

You may not use facebook.

I may not use facebook.

But I'll wager that you have family members that use facebook.

They put up a family photo on their 'wall' and tag the images. Now your face is on facebook. They know who you are. With Whatsapp, they have your phone number, your email, and your relationship to your family members who are on facebook.

You and I are idiots by association.

The only way to escape is to become unplugged.

You can go underground if you want to... but it means taking some steps that will reduce your exposure but doesn't remove it completely....

@ Mad Mike ... Re: @AC

I just wonder what they taught you in school.

Without the Americans, you had Dunkirk. What does that tell you.

With out the Americans, you lacked the resources for the long haul. So too did Germany.

Germany could have taken Europe and held it, except that he couldn't also contain the Russians.

What Russia did was sacrifice their Western cities and moved their industrial production further east. This made it difficult for the Germans to knock out their ability to produce weapons so they could fight.

The US?

1) You would need a 4 engine bomber from Europe to strike at the Eastern Seaboard of the US. Germany built 2 engine bombers to strike closer targets.

2) US had all the raw materials needed to produce weapons as well as factories across the nation.

(Look at a map and learn geography. The US is really a big country. It would take a train over 3 days to cross the US. How long does it take a train to go the length of the UK Island? ) [Talking 40's tech]

3) Man power. Yes, we were fighting on two fronts. Bailing the British Empire out on both sides of the world. Didn't see the Brits bombing Tokyo. Did I miss something?

If we want to look at British victories? El Alamein. That was the most strategic victories and the only one where you can give sole credit to the Brits. Note that I don't include the air battle over Britain, but I guess I should include it.

In terms of the 'tank', Lancelot de Mole was an Australian. And of course the British Government shot him down repeatedly too. That was WW I and after the war, the Germans advanced the tech, as did the Russians with sloped armor. So again to my point about the jet engine, you can add the tank to yet another wasted blunder by the British Military. ;-)

Ooops! (I'd love to do this all day... but I have a day job.)

Ok, and to be clear, as much as I love pointing out the blunders and lack of imagination on the part of the British Government, that doesn't mean that the Brits as a whole haven't done much in terms of providing advancements in tech. They have. I just started poking fun of the Brit who posted how thanks to them, they saved the scientists who were responsible for the bomb. And that just isn't true.

@ I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects Re: A stunning lack of history

Wow.

You really lack an understanding of the world history. What do they teach you in school these days?

The Lend Lease act allowed the American Government to purchase munitions and arms and give them to the Brits and Allies so that they could hold off the Germans. If this didn't happen... Germany could have invaded the UK.

The jet engine was a 'simultaneous' discover between a Brit and an Italian. With the Brit's engine a better design. The British government shot down his idea...

The real invention that helped save the day was the Turbocharged Rolls engine that they mated with the P-51 Mustang.

The point was that if the UK surrendered to Germany, you wouldn't have rescued anyone... Also my point was that the bulk of the scientists who were involved in the bomb project were already in the US prior to the start of WWII.

@AC

You do realize without the US and the lend lease act... you would haven't had the opportunity to 'rescue' scientists not to mention that many were already living in the US.

You do remember that little science project going on under the bleachers at the University of Chicago?

The one contribution that the UK could have made was the jet engine back in the late 30's.

Oh wait. British Government shot that one down.

@Bitterbug Re: 'boy toy'?

Yes, he is his boy toy.

I don't believe that they are legally married.

So they are living in sin so to speak. Regardless of their sexual orientation that's the correct phrase.

(Not that I'm passing judgement.)

Re: @That terrorist "Ian Michael Gumby"

"Do you really think embarrassing the government should be on a par with plotting to kill, injure or maim innocent people?"

Running up and putting a cream pie in to the face of one of the royals? That would be embarassing.

But you could go to jail for assaulting them.

How about snapping a photo on your iphone of the younger prince getting a lap dance in a strip club.

Now that would embarrass the country...

But taking and disseminating classified documents which hurt the national security of the country?

Yeah, I'd say he deserves to be bitch slapped around a bit. Oh wait, he wasn't. He was just detained.

He was a mule. And as a mule, when you get caught, you do the time.

Huh?

You seem to be implying that he was going to be found guilty regardless of his actual guilt.

Sorry, but the court got it right.

Were it Greenwald who was detained... then you could argue that he was a member of the press, however... that in and of itself isn't a strong shield.

I'm probably going to get a massive amount of down votes, but Greenwald set his boy toy up to take a fall. Of course because of the information. Were Greenwald carrying it, he would definitely end up back in the US facing charges. (Whether he's guilty or not of anything but being a prat.)

(Yes, I think Greenwald is a Don Quixote wantabe and a massive idiot.)

When you are going to break the laws, be prepared to face the consequences.

@AC ... Re: Meanwhile

No, the Brits pull us over because the software ideas were developed and integrated here.

When your management team is so very conservative, you'll watch your intelligent young Brits jump ship from the island and come to the US where they have freedom.

@Rambler

"Much of the widely-alleged benefit of offshoring sounds like a typical tunnel-vision fantasy of a stereotypical accountant. As with IT, there are a lot of Indians here working in accounting. I wonder if any of them are pushing both offshoring and importing--and perhaps steering their employers to particular staff sources in India. Of course I wouldn't want to suggest that anyone is taking bribes. No American businessperson--much less a government official--would ever do such a thing, any more than an Indian businessperson would offer a bribe."

I don't think you have to dig that deep to get a reason why you see companies not only onshoring staff but building technical staff over in India.

First to the bean counter who has his MBA from some school, he is taught that the secret to success is to reduce costs which will increase profits. In IT, that means reducing the cost for staff.

If all you need are trained monkeys, you go to where you can find the cheapest trained monkey. (If you don't like monkeys, replace it with seals...)

They don't understand that just because you are a FTE and have the same title as the guy next to you, that you are not equal. They also don't understand that the art in software engineering isn't just to hammer out code that works, but that not only works, but works well and can easily be maintained and extended.

Another myth is that having code that just works is ok because in 3 years, the next great thing is going to happen so they will end up replacing the system. (Only trouble is that you now have a sunk cost in your software and you want to ride it out because you don't have budget to build the next great thing.)

The other truth is that the bean counter gets promoted and a bonus for making short term gains, regardless of the long term expense.

The evidence is that I fail to see one success story here about making things work in an off shore outsourced world.

How many sites do we see that pop up with 'interview questions' and answers?

I've even seen one guy boast that he could learn enough to get the job... and I've heard funny 'horror' stories of interviews gone wrong...

But I digress...

The point is that until the MBA schools teach manager that Offshoring doesn't work... they will continue to do it.