Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
"oh, wait, 2+2 = YOU are the one who was conned into killing yourself!"
Hmmm.
Would explain the facts.
A deep faith in the idea that a government agency will always operate within the law and never harass citizens does suggest someone with a limited ability for critical thinking or to do their own research.
He's been lured into sending his life savings to some Internet scammers and was in the process of connecting up his car exhaust to the car window when found (the scammers had given him instructions on the best way to get an air tight seal). There is no chance that those scammers will ever be caught, and chances are that eventually they'll be successful in killing off one of their victims.
Where was this reported? Where did it happen? Who said it was an internet scammer? Who told you about it?
Here we like our information to be a bit more, what's the word, informative. Not something that sounds like a more verbose section from a Donald Trump campaign rally.
That's the really effective penalty, along with deleting all copies held of the data, so you can't go on data mining the old data set.
If the NHS did that to a company or two the attitude of the rest would change fairly quickly.
Throwing away the 2nd stage every time (and they are going to do so for the foreseeable future) not so much.
The $64(m) is will their price cut be big enough to increase demand for services, so called "price elasticity."
Some think 30% will be enough. Some don't.
With zero g stuff tends to stick around in the air.
Combine that with a high(ish) radiation environment and (potentially) the crew can go down with all sorts of weird s**t.
That's of course before we get to "lifeless" planets that turn out to be more lively than expected.
Good to know this will be available for BEO missions by the time they start.
That's the "innovation premium" that investors are prepared to pay. Presumably the rise in share price has compensated for the near zero dividends.
Or not.
IIRC if you want dividends you need to go with Yahoo. :(
Like Facebook having a P/E in centuries.
People wanting remote access to "stuff."
And the people most likely to be running short code length connections?
Large businesses who got it running a long time ago and don't want to fix what's not broken.
Yes, I think quite a lot of people should be worrying.
The Americans tried this.
That's where most of the detainees from Guantanamo came from.
IIRC the reward for a "terrorist" was about 2 years average salary in the local currencies.
So if you knew a police officer and wanted 2 years pay what would you do? Keep your eyes open for suspicious behavior, or find someone you could frame for the money?
And no one will try to prove you innocent because by definition you wouldn't be there if you were, would you?
Don't forget that in addition to being radicalised without anyone knowing, and deciding to carry out a terrorist act they are in a position to carry out this attack while a)Not being in a job that requires extensive security clearance to attack their target or b) Passing security clearance.
But they can be found by a trawl of everyone's data because they do what exactly??? Some last message to an unrequited love where they just happen to explain their whole plan with enough key words to be flagged for immediate attention?
Sound like a very dumb plot of an episode of Spooks, does it not? You'd have to be dumb as a Home Secretary to believe this rubbish.
I see
Yes, we have to destroy freedom and privacy in order to preserve freedom and privacy.
Alternatively you can go Mary Shaffers comment on 9/12/01
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world."
It is inevitable as long as Western governments continue to play into the Islamists hands.
Northern Ireland lasted 38 years. It seemed it would go on forever.
It didn't.
Actually mostly found being bled off oil wells in Texas. And IIRC the US is selling it's entire strategic reserve (about 1 billion cubic metres) on the open market because they did not need that much for err strategic uses.
It''s been along time since I thought the only way you could get He was distilling air.
It's not.
Actually it's more like the naturally constant temperature once you're about about 3m underground.
This simplifies your thermal management planning
But you've missed a real USP for the French.
It's not American owned.
No PATRIOT Act applies. Although no doubt "Le Organs" will want a look
A couple of loons who should have been picked up by social services, not the police.
"Who blew up three underground trains and a bus?"
4 nobodies who seemed to think they were going to bring about an Islamic state by their actions.
The only people their actions benefited were the data fetishists and their never ending clamour to be able to spy on more data of more people for more time (ideally forever).
Who were they? Who cares ?
In the UK? IIRC about 1/3 of all US drivers demand to assert their constitutional rights by not wearing them.
Which is why US airbags are loaded with more gas generating powder.
The explosive force of which has killed at least 1 7 YO child who was in the front passenger seat of a car that tripped by mistake. It's not good if you're a small women either.
So I guess self drive cars are quite attractive in America.
Or will this drive Ford into another bankruptcy and necessitate yet another USG bail out?
"ou'll pay based upon what type of vehicle you want to use, when you tend to use it, the locations, and how long you want to wait for a car. Those that don't want to wait pay more; if you can wait half an hour, you'll pay less."
The only time I thought this had a real shot at working was the home/office/home commute. It's the most common journey and I could see you could justify a 1 person vehicle tightly tailored to your personal environment IE cup holder, decent radio, jacket hanger etc.
I figured they'd be delivered by 1 driver in a train that would drop off the end vehicle and self park ready for its driver of the day. After the driver parks it it's then collected, washed and cleaned (or used by shoppers to come from their shopping) before dropping it (or one just like it) back in time for the drive home (and recollection).
But the rest of the time I don't think people want something that anonymous. They want their vehicle, their way, in their colors, parked where they left it.
Why be reasonable or rational when you're "TAKING BACK CONTROL" as the brexit camp blathered on at every opportunity, Mr AC.
And then when they'd dropped the UK in the s**t scuttled off like scared schoolboys to hide in the wardrobe.
After all as DB Gove put "we've had enough experts," haven't we?
"It'll take years and you won't get what you want."
It is taking years and so far the voters have not got the immigrant hords (at least that's what Daily Heil and the Daily Depress liked to call them) stopped as promised.
I think I can paraphrase the report as "To regain what the UK loses in trade to the EU will a)Take a stupid increase in business with the rest of the world or b)Pay entry fees and accept EU regulations, almost certainly including the free movement of EU citizens, exactly what a lot of people who voted for exit did not want.
Not forgetting "proprietary BAE Systems design,"
So you'll be getting the BAE Systems price, not the price from the other dozen (or more ) mfgs round the world who can make SS109.
MoD procurement.
23 000 staff with a collect IQ of what?
That sounds quite paranoid.
Now.
But then Microsoft's licensing of it's OS dependent on the number of processors bought, not on how many ran it, seemed unbelievable at the time as well.
Although that turned out to be exactly what was happening.
"I hope the TLA bods that keep trying to get backdoors inserted into everything are reading this "
They are
"(and learn from the lesson)."
They won't.
Be clear. It's the management spookocrats who want back doors in everything so they don't have to have probable cause, or in fact any cause to strip mine your hard drive for "national security"
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