Posts by Charles 9

Re: Not quite

No, he's right. Cameras are overhead (a lot easier to maintain) and not prone to less-metallic or miniature vehicles. If a road had an induction loop, it hasn't been upgraded yet.

Re: Meanwhile....

No, it was even better. You call up the shop, tell him what you wanted, and they had boys who did a runner down to your place, got the payment, and gave you your groceries. Mind you, this was also in the days that doctors did a little something called house calls.

Re: Meanwhile....

"So while "PHYSICAL stuff STILL needed TO be TRANSFERRED", the bulk of the work is done for you and you only need to drive in and open your doors, or go home and meet the deliverer."

I recall that did happen once before...BEFORE the Internet. In fact, at the time, television was still in its infancy.

What's betting they just change the laws (Congress MAKES the laws, after all) to insert exceptions for them? It's just like with tax codes: there's no way to stop them inserting exceptions. Even if you tried to make it an Amendment, they'll just push to Amend the Amendment.

Re: No! Do Not Want!

Are you willing to submit YOUR code to the same scrutiny, even if it means losing trade secrets or even possibly breaking confidentiality laws?

Re: Flash ah aaaahhhh!

That'll get "fixed" as soon as it becomes a performance bottleneck.

Wanna bet? Many places are now without brick & mortar presence in a lot of things...including banks and government services. Worse, the closest one's still open are too far away, have wonky hours, and because of them usually have overnight campers in an age where missing a day means losing your job (your replacement's already here).

Re: wasm

"If a site breaks, I go somewhere else."

If the site that breaks is something with no alternative like a government website, meaning the only somewhere else you can go is away and not get anything like benefits and so on?

"Want Another Shite Meal?"

If there's nothing else, what's it gonna be? Shite or starve?

And if you're masked, especially by religious tenet?

Re: Fuck China

"They import loads of their metal, quite a bit of coal and almost all their oil."

You assume they do this because they lack the capacity to extract their own when it may simply be cheaper to import. The math of this can change quickly if import prices jack up. It's like with rare earths: China's simply the cheapest option, but if they overplay their hand, expect logistics changes.

Re: No Internet for You

Including the US?

Re: Fuck China

Sanctions may hurt, but China has historically had an independent mindset. Look what's happening with Huawei and all. Don't be surprised if you push China away and they decide to go it alone. It's been part of their mindset for centuries. Like I said, they got two billion people (a good deal expendable--remember Korea), plenty of internal resources, and a decent number of outlets that can't be readily controlled by the West (think Africa et al). Let's just say China can still play a longer game than the West, especially today.

Oh, and sneaky folks exploiting the status quo usually are already versed in money laundering techniques and other ways of getting around pesky little things like targeted sanctions.

Re: Fuck China

What CAN be done that would have much effect on a nation of some two billion (most men) with an aggressive mindset...and nukes?

Re: No Internet for You

What terms? Besides, they're not likely to be in a position to know what's what. Furthermore, China holds sovereign authority within its own borders.

Re: I Can't Stop Myself

"The twat in the RV activating cruise control and making a cuppa is solely the responsibility of that twat."

You DO realize that's just an urban legend, right? No one actually did such a thing or it would've made the national news long ago.

Re: Ok but how much tax is fair?

Besides, if dividend taxes go up, they'll just change tactics and use non-dividend payments like stock options and so on (capital usually doesn't get taxed until transacted--thus Capital GAINS Tax--but some simply hold and borrow against until they die--Tax Planning 101--and let the heirs dodge taxes via the carryover basis).

And if they just go crazy, riot, and tear down the camps? I'm reminded of a certain prison in France where it showed people DO have a breaking point.

Never force anyone to do anyTHING. Or the outrage becomes bad enough the thing ceases to exist. Do you REALLY want to threaten Radio 4?

Re: Ok but how much tax is fair?

One of the problems is that big corporations and their lawyers make it so that their capital (the primary source of their revenues) is highly mobile. As long as the capital is highly mobile, there's no simple way to capture taxes based on that capital as they are transnational in nature and can outpace governments in their shell games. And due to international competition, there will always be countries out there willing to cheat to get more revenues (and it's hard to beat tiny countries like Ireland and the Cayman Islands that have an inherent advantage of low operating expenses).

It's kind of a dilemma. How do you extract as much as you can without them deciding to take their ball and hightail it to another country? As I've put it, "Better 10% of something than 100% of nothing."

Re: Spare a thought for the struggling Private Equity companies.....

"Think of that when you vote in the next election."

What's there to think about EVERY candidate on the ballot will want their say in which door they screw you: front, back, or attic? Otherwise, they wouldn't be on the ballot. We're already at the One Rich Guy stage, or close enough that unless you can become The One RichER guy (kind of impossible as the One Rich Guy has everything unless you can break the laws of physics), you're just plain outvoted.

We're seeing the endgame of the human condition: humans will cheat to win, to the point of cheating the anti-cheaters if necessary. What can you do when the least-evil option is still TOO evil?

Can you find the actual document that stipulates this, as well as the means by which they'd be able to enforce this, especially across sovereign borders?

Re: In case you wondered "WTF is rust"?

And it should be noted that it's not always the driver at fault. No software in the universe can solve for when the actual hardware suffers a real physical glitch (common example being a drive controller failure--sudden and usually permanent). Hardware like this is untrustable--physics gets in the way at the metal level.

Re: In twenty years...

How does a micro kernel balance the needs of control with performance, especially for throughput-sensitive functions like high-speed low-latency networking?

Re: Get over your Filesystem operating systems

"Its all about data and coded, the two are separate."

Oh? What about a compiler, especially a JIT compiler, which CAN'T work in a strict Harvard architecture?

Re: Nixon speech

Just start going, "No, the the recording of the fake is a fake. Meaning everything's a fake of a fake of a fake of a fake ad nauseum. In which case, is all of reality fake?" Answering that will force them to decide on all of reality, one way or the other.

Re: AI Go.

Not really. It's probably not FUN anymore. And if it ain't fun, what's the damn point?

Re: I know this is article just part of the anti Russia propaganda

Because often the unacceptable turns out to be the inevitable. I mean, most people hate death, but it happens anyway.

Re: Icann

Thank you (in all honesty). You made my very point by your response. Does "OK Boomer" ring a bell?

Sometimes, less is more because the context of those words convey more than the words, kinda like how a picture is worth a thousand words.

The point is, Man is imperfect and prone to corruption. Thus, anything issued by man is imperfect and prone to corruption. This includes any attempts to correct the corruption that naturally results from our initial attempts. "It's a Work of Man" means it's always going to go to pot. That's how we are, sadly. Thus why no civilization on earth has lasted for very long.

And BTW, if it isn't immune, it's hopeless. Corruption of this manner is like the start of an avalanche: it starts small, yes, but it can use that small start to grow rapidly until it might as well have been tainted from the start. That's how it tends to work in reality: starts small, eventually becomes too big.