Posts by Jason Bloomberg 2912 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2008
My local Sainsbury's has had 'self portrait' displays for a while on the self-service checkouts. I like to think they allow for expressional "for fuck's sake!" feedback to the powers that be for "unexpected item" frustrations.
I usually stare into them while scanning on the off-chance someone is watching me, watching you, watching me.
Oddly I can't remember if they are mirroring or non-mirroring.
This isn't a case of a bankruptcy ... As the article noted, Apple has ~$190billion in cash, not illiquid assets, but actual cold, hard cash on hand.
But "Apple UK", or whatever the company is for tax purposes, probably only has 75 pence to its name.
I don't really have much sympathy for either side, capitalist bastard landlords versus capitalist bastard corporations.
I'd grab the popcorn but I'm boycotting the capitalist bastards who manufacture that.
The one with the Socialist Worker rolled-up in the pocket.
All this data is useless
Not if you can flog it to someone believing otherwise.
It seems there's a long history of people trying to find hidden correlations which reveal an undisclosed truth. Some seem reasonable, some complete nonsense, but I guess you never know unless you put it to the test, can figure out what the correlations are.
I recall when the loudest argument for making the change was huge cost savings for the tax payer.
I guess I get no applause for having said the cost savings weren't that great anyway, would never materialise, it would be over-budget, late to arrive, not perform as expected, likely never even completed, because any fool could have predicted that with a good degree of certainty.
It's not having done brexit earlier which I blame. Once brexit is done Britannia will again rule the waves and the British Disease will simply disappear. So I'm told.
Most likely we'll just buy Chine^W American. Or keep spunking money up the wall and flushing it down the drain.
But as one of the worlds richest people, he has put is money to good work, saving millions of lives across the globe. (Fact, love it or hate it)
Fact? FACT!?! Its all about MIND CONTROL. 5G. deepstate. COVID. "Foundation". Obama. Soros. Clinton. SleepyJoeBiden. OBL. Pizza. BLM. Follw the $$$. Do not be fooled (((folks))). This is B-I-L-L-G-A-T-E-S. M$ Windoze was de(s)igned to take over the world. Wintelvision made us MELISSAS and BILLZ SHEEPLE. Its CON-spir.acy. zOg. No denying it, FACT - "love it or hate it". LOLLUMS. Your the PRODUCT. Theirs NO escape. Smart PEEPs know the true facts. MAGA.
$CONSPIRACY_THEORY is a lie propagated by the deep state to distract you from $WHATEVER_ELSE_THEY_CAN_BE_PERSUADED_TO_FEAR
That doesn't work, and would readily be accepted as truth, because it still confirms that deep state is evil. It doesn't matter what the allegations are, even if utterly contradictory, so long as it furthers the deep state is evil narrative. You've only added to the conspiracy.
You need something to turn it on its head; something which suggests deep state is simply an invention or a scapegoat, by way of some distraction or other. But deep state would claim that, wouldn't they?
It's insidious.
the rest should go to the people who made the domain name valuable: the previous owner.
Surely it has little to no value or they'd never be dropping it, would have kept it or transferred it for a wad of dosh.
That the potential purchaser can see value in it doesn't mean the previous owner created that value.
What it really needs is a huge 'rubber stamp' overlay which plainly and clearly stamps "LIAR!" over offending posts.
But social media companies are too afraid of Trump and his Trumpette followers to do it.
They are such spineless sacks of shit that they won't even stand up and call out lies and liars.
The UK principle is "evidence is evidence" no matter how obtained; any illegality is a separate issue.
However proving that something such as a recording or a transcript is indeed evidential, not simply faked, can be challenging.
It has always seemed odd to me that the American system would treat evidence which actually proves guilt as inadmissible due to the way it was obtained.
I do wonder how much of this is the tories. Public health england has so far been found so badly wanting I would be interested to know if any heads will roll there.
The staff on the front line at PHE were doing an absolutely wonderful job when it came to tracking and tracing. It's the paid-for government shills at the top who are giving it a bad name. Of course their heads won't roll.
If the government let competent people do the jobs they are good at we wouldn't see such incompetence. But that doesn't suit an incompetent government preparing scapegoats for their incompetence and failings.
The reality is that there is no RISCV. It's just a collection of PDF's.
Not true at at all. I actually have a $5 commercial RISC-V chip on a breakout board ready to use.
There are quite a few silicon implementations out there and available commercially. I even recall some sort of Arduino clone based around RISC-V.
True; things have not reached industrial scale yet but likely will given the hype it has managed to generate, pressures on countries not to be reliant on foreign entities, and higher license fees and royalties for ARM will help.
If charity rules don't allow them to hire developers... maybe they don't qualify as, and shouldn't be, a charity?
They could remain a charity and add a commercial arm which can take money in and spend it.
That's how Raspberry Pi stepped around the problem in the UK; keeping the charitable Foundation while adding the Trading Ltd company as a subsidiary, which oversees commercial activities.
China has effectively illegally annexed Hong Kong
Or: Legally taken control of Hong Kong prematurely.
I'm not defending China, but, at the proverbial end of the day, Hong Kong's fate and new found status is an inevitability.
America doing now what she would likely have done in thirty years anyway does little more than equally prematurely accept that.
I expect China will do little more than shrug.
Arguing over whether something should have been banned or pulled is one thing, having to comply with some diktat through gritted teeth is another.
But it's something else to be banned, suspended or have an app pulled, while not being told why, no clue given as what needs to be changed, with no easy path to having that decision reviewed or rescinded.
The only 'appeals process' these days seems to be to kick up a huge fuss on social media and hope that works.
If companies won't do better of their own accord it's up to others to force them to do better. If it takes laws to create some modicum of 'due process' then so be it.
Missed the edit window while engrossed in this...
http://paintedsignsandmosaics.blogspot.com/search?q=True+Form
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"TRUE-FORM"
That seems painted over something earlier.
The cost of getting Huawei out of 5G for any of the big networks is no more than half a billion each, from starting to strip it out to equipping with non-spyware-compromised kit.
You seem to be suggesting Huawei kit already installed is stuffed full of spyware. I am not sure I agree but my Kool Aid deliveries have been disrupted by lockdown.
I don't actually blame BT and others for somewhat exaggerating the costs and inconvenience of unnecessarily doing something which could easily be avoided by telling Trump to fuck off.
But, yes, I know; we voted for brexit, we need a trade deal with the US, we have to jump as high as Trump tells us to, have to bow to his trade war terrorism, his America First ideology, be a dutiful Vassal State of America, have to live on our knees doing as we're told - It's what the people voted for.
whether you agree with J K Rowling or not, she is allowed an opinion and is allowed to voice it without people being personally hurtful, spiteful and abusive to her in return
The tabloids have been doing it for years so it's no surprise many do the same when the internet for them is little more than a 'letters page' with little moderation, when there's an 'anything goes' attitude, when hate is considered a legitimate part of free speech.
"He notes that he has “never had a Black person evaluate his performance or determine whether he should be considered for a promotion.”"
What a racist.
I disagree. I would question if racism were at play if I were only ever evaluated by people of a particular race or there were no other races in a position to do such evaluations.
There is a significant difference between 'Why am I never evaluated by a Black person?' and insisting 'I must only be evaluated by a Black person'. I don't see that he is demanding the latter.
It seemed clear to me the 'culture fit' aspect is more about people being able to select 'people like me'.
It's tribalism, and often accompanied by some sort of supremacist perspective. If you don't tick their boxes you won't be getting in no matter how suited for a role you are. Those who do get in will inevitably be happy with how things are.
This is what makes systemic discrimination such a tough nut to crack.
Almost everyone needs money or can benefit from having it.
I don't have a problem myself with making money from LibreOffice - or anything else - so long as the product remains free, isn't a reduced offering. It's the perception of a tightening licensing, "for individual use", it feeling less free and open than it was which is the problem here.
The change seems to have been directed from upon high, with little engagement with those in the community and that's always a recipe for disaster, complaint and resentment.
Of 27,000 infected, 20,000 provided details of 153,000 people who needed to be contacted, of which about 132,345 were contacted.
That suggests on average every person infected generates 7.65 contacts.
If all 27,000 had provided 7.65 contacts; 206,550 need contacting.
Overall they are contacting about 64% of all those who need contacting.
About 36% who should be being contacted, haven't been contacted; 74,000 people.
If someone decides to link to a file and you switch it to a different file, that's their problem.
I'm in agreement with you, and on this, unless you switched the file with malicious intent, meaning to cause harm, inconvenience, punishment. Intent, mens rea, is a key component in any potential case against someone and would probably play a part here.
Swapping a linked image to something non-offensive most likely okay; merely embarrassing rather than harmful. move towards obscene language or a porn image and it's riskier though mostly just offensive, kiddie porn and you're in a world of shit.
They seem perfectly willing to give HK the DPRK treatment. Which is yes, horrifying and theoretically unacceptable, but, let's face it, no-one is going to go to war with China over HK.
Especially as their fate was sealed 20 years ago and complaints boil down to China prematurely doing what they are only allowed to do in another 30 years.
Still, I guess we could have a 30 year war which ends with us walking off the battlefield with a cheery "okay; now you can do whatever you want".
I do feel sorry for the people of Hong Kong who were 'sold out' decades ago, but there's not a lot anyone could do about it then nor now.
The UK isn't willing to let everyone who wants to leave come here, and what appears to be on offer is far less it could be. They're on their own. I wish them luck but this is their 'new normal'. It's 30 years earlier than expected but it was always going to happen.
There'll be some supportive noises, but in the end they will do nothing, I think.
Especially when one looks at what is actually proposed, who will be offered it. It's a long way off "come on in" and automatic citizenship.
The wonderful people arriving on the Windrush also thought they had found a welcoming new home.
@ PhilipN: I mostly agree with you but I believe there will be blood, or at least a bloody good battering for those in Hong Kong who try to resist what is an inevitability. Hong Kong's fate was sealed two decades ago.
@ Pascal Monett: I also agree with you. I don't think any last gasp efforts to save Hong Kong from her decided fate will have much of an effect. Those who don't like what they can see coming would be well advised to get out now, before it's too late.
a citizen wide vote - and a non-vote counts against it
One can't take the non-votes of people who "don't care", or are "happy to have what those who do vote choose", as votes against. That's no more sound than letting the other side have it the other way.
We need credible and rational argument against AFR which goes beyond hoping to tilt things in our favour.
Most people consider having more cops on the beat a good thing; keeping an eye out for ne'er-do-wells, imagine Robocops would be better at that, and see AFR as the easier, cheaper and practical option.
That's what we are up against.
If it's the same for the tube as it is for overground, these displays will use the same or similar publicly accessible API and datasets as everyone has access to and it would likely be an error in the data rather than a display malfunction. The data is not safety critical and errors do occur with inconsistencies between data fields. The order of departure seems correct even though the time was way off.
As for "an error... which we worked to fix as soon as possible" - I find that hard to believe given it would have auto-fixed itself in around 5 minutes, as soon as the scheduled departure was no longer displayed.
That's just another 'by rote' response. Honesty really doesn't seem to exist these days.
I presume it's mostly to have some leverage against automatically becoming the 51st State. It allows us to suggest we'll go with China if the US don't limit their demands of us and grant us some of what we want, and we won't have burned our bridges if it does turn out we can't survive with the America First deal the US actually offers.
It's standard 'play one off against the other' fare.
Seriously, it's a home service. You want redundancy? Go sign up for 2 ISPs and use one as a backup.
^ This. Some companies I know provide business-level SLA-backed and resilient backup services for their home workers by default, have temporarily provided that for those working at home during the current pandemic. Others just relied on residential services seeing them through.
Ultimately one has to accept the consequences of one's choices.
As another VM customer, I would rather keep it as-is.
Me too. Yes, it's bloody annoying when it goes down and I am forced to realise how unhealthily important always available access has become in my life, but one has to accept that bad things sometimes happen.
For when those bad things do happen, take too long to fix, there's always free to call customer services and polite requests for a little compensation. At one time I was saving a fortune through that but it now only serves to remind me how much better VM have become since that rough patch.
They aren't perfect, but no one is, and they aren't the worse.
It has absolutely no appeal to me, seems to be so limited that I can't see any use for it whatsoever, so I guess I'm not its targeted audience.
Free to use MIT App Inventor (AI2) for Android, with its in-cloud Blocky-style graphical drag-and-drop editor, is a much better approach to app development, giving a reasonable balance between ease of use and useful and usable app creation.
With a few more features that would be even more useful for casual app developers who want something quick and simple.
I believe there is a review into making them legal on roads in some places/circumstances.
Given Shapps (Transport Secretary) was waxing lyrical about out of town bus parks with people riding eScooters into town as if they were already legalised at a recent Coronavirus Briefing it seems clear the government will be legalising them.
"RIP. Dodged Covid-19. Not quick enough to dodge the eScooter"
Make all porn have a .porn file extension and all .porn files include an embedded flag which labels it porn, and preferably a ranking which shows how worth watching it is. Make it illegal for content providers not to comply, make it illegal for browsers not to implement filtering.
Will it work? Will it fuck.
But it's something which can be done, which won't impact on anyone who actually wants to watch porn, so let's all get behind it being done, demand the government implement it, rather than tell them it won't work.
112 - the UK and EU harmonised emergency services number - is embarrassingly close to 111 for the NHS non-emergency helpline.
I have never understood why they reserved the entire 0112 block to avoid accidental calls but then allowed that 'stubby fingers' mistake to happen.
Stop pretending that the violence is police initiated. You look silly.
I have numerous videos from the Good Old Days of Stop the City and other London protests where hours long peaceful protests would mysteriously flare up as police provocateurs moved in and the BBC rolled the opening credits for the 6 O'clock News.
It was as regular as clockwork; 17:50 the cue to find a safe vantage point and film the mayhem provoked. Funnily enough, at 18:25, as "and now the weather" echoed out of portable TVs, the riot would end as quickly as it started.
Coincidence, obviously. And I've still got a couple of bridges to sell.
The Truth is out there....but it was easier to try to fit up an innocent couple.
And it did it's intended job, allowed the airport to be opened through the police pretending they had caught the culprits, had removed the threat to flights, even though they had not.
They needed a fall-guy to get themselves out of the mess they'd got themselves in and, as is often the case, any innocent victim will do.
master with main across its services
Can't you replace with a PIC ?
I had thought of that, and it's still on the list of possibilities, but figuring out the hardware drive for the AC coil which magnetically holds the plunger down and power on is a little complicated, outside my current skill level. The pot ADC reading and timing is easy.
Having rewired it as a quick fix it's not yet bubbled up the to do list.
Besides; I might get tempted to turn it into an IoT device :)
I raise a glass to Sunbeam despite my beloved toaster going "bang" and letting the magic smoke out in a most spectacular way.
Ah well, 40 years of daily use is a good run. Cover off and the single controller chip has clearly cracked in two. Sob. Never mind; a quick bit of rewiring and it still toasts, providing the plunger is held down - a mere inconvenience.
But it wasn't designed for minutes of sustained finger pressure a day so the nice knob of the plunger snapped off.
So it's out of its casing, operated by a length of wooden dowel. It looks deadly but isn't, is still working wonderfully, has many more years of life left in it, and it hasn't once groused me up over the internet or made any complaint.
Any lawyer worth his salt ...
Please don't presume the victims were let down by their lawyers. This is a part of the terrible tragedy; that the courts chose to believe evidence which was in fact false, chose to believe lies and reject truth, found guilt where there was only innocence.
There was a systemic failing in the justice system which let down, not just the victims, but all of us.
This goes far beyond any one group being severely hard done by. This could have happened to any one of us.
I understand that we can't have lockdown as it has been for ever more but what worries me is the rush to lift lockdown, and to lift so many restrictions all on the same day. This doesn't feel "slow and cautious" to me; dipping a toe in then waiting to see what happens before making the next move.
It seems to me the government have had to invent a whole new "transitioning to level 3" category to facilitate what still being at level 4 would not allow.
I have seen problems caused in circumventing software testing regimes and we are talking real bugs not software bugs here. People's lives are at stake.
I will be waiting to see how those taking advantage of the relaxations fare before deciding if it is safe to go out there. I'll be following the science even if the government doesn't.
I guess the answer is the COVID virus has already taught the government that they have a compliant population, that accepts draconian restriction to their lives...
The government may believe that but please don't mistake people taking entirely sensible precautions to protect themselves, their families and loved ones, from a very nasty contagion as being gullible and compliant sheeple.
I would rather say it will be those being coerced out of lockdown prematurely, with only the magical protection of a home-made face covering, who will find themselves to have been the most gullible and compliant.
I'm staying in my cave until I consider it safe to come out and fuck whatever the government says.
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