Won't work.
Human greed (which is what caused those failures) will always find a way.
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"[Note:He was a ham radio operator and we know those guys are, let's say, a breed apart. By 'breed apart', I mean nuts.]"
You should probably avoid women mountain climbers as well. *
Watching the movie "The Descent" I kept thinking "Not bad, but not quite crazy enough."
*Especially the Dutch ones.
Let me be clear.
I won't touch Apple or Android either.
Had a frantic call last week from a friend.
Had Android phone, lost Android phone. Wanted to locate it but hadn't used his Google account since he set it up, because he lives on his phone and doesn't like computers.
Couldn't recall his password, hadn't written it down and hoped I could help him out.
Had to tell him, no password, no help.
It's not the sharing I mind. It's the coercion.
Get this. You don't own those products. They own you instead.
"Is not the critical issue whether has handing over government critical functions to private sector reduced costs, improved performance and given a faster response time to implement change ? If not stop it. When in a hole, first, stop digging."
True.
But you also hand over all the pension responsibilities of the govt from the civil service.
That's even bigger
It's a study of past papers and not real field work but it's interesting.
As always I hope this will be fed back into the climate change models ASAP.
IMHO climate modellers seem to have a bit of trouble with a fairly simple idea.
"When the climate data does not match the model, the odds on bet is the model is wrong (and if you're model architecture is poor it never will)."
"@Schultz, >> The fact that we humans rapidly change the atmospheric composition
we have ? "
Yes.
Because CFC's were a patented set of chemicals that do not exist in nature on a large scale the exact date of the planets exposure can be be looked up.
And "large scale" in this context means ppm.
IOW Humans can a)Change the global atmosphere using chemicals b)Do so in a human lifetime c)Do so with concentrations on the same order of magnitude that semiconductor engineers use to change the conductivity of Silicon by orders of magnitude.
"Which drugs are legal and which are not and the whole illegal drugs classification thing has bugger all correlation to.
a) How addictive the drug is
or
b) How dangerous the drug is.
Note that even 'How dangerous the drug is.' is a misleading statement as it give zero idea as to dosage or other activities performed while taking the drug."
True.
I'd be prepared to bet that neither Alcohol nor Tobacco (two of the biggest public health problem causing drugs) would pass modern product licensing.
I once saw 2 brain slices side by side.
Heroin addict Vs alcoholic.
Heroin addicts brain looks normal.
Alcoholic's has holes in it where the brain cells were killed. IE sponge.
Yet one is a class A drug and the other has a legally sanctioned network of govt approved taxed dealers.
"Rep. James Sensenbrenner, one of the fathers of the USAPATRIOT Act, which made all this possible (read: probable) has now come out and said the NSA has gone too far and, with Sen. Patrick Leahy, has crafted the USA Freedom Act,"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah,
I doubt both statements. In fact I doubt he even read it, along with most of the other members of the Senate.or H of R.
"Of course we all know why McCain feels Snowden has told them all he knows, because I believe that is exactly what McCain did. Isn't that right John? What ...Silence.... Well John, Judge not, least ye be judged."
I've always felt there's a market for a Vietnam theme holiday.
The PoW experience. Taste life as a true US PoW. Option of VC or NVA captors. Full pre medical included. No refunds. :) .
I'd wager most (I mean 95%+) people wouldn't last a week before they broke.
Any military that does not expect its soldiers to talk (and fails to plan accordingly) is delusional.
For the captive the trouble starts if they have nothing to tell their captors.
Really the `only justification a data fetishist ever needs.
I'll note a couple of points for our American friends.
This greatly expanded (along with it's "legal" approval) under shrub Bush II.
So McCain actually fought in the Vietnam war and got captured.
I'd take that experience of the "military option" over some substance abusing ex frat boy
any day. And maybe finishing the job in 91 would have stopped the estimated $13 000 000 000 000
looted "lost" from the Iraqi economy following the invasion.
We will look back on this as the time when Google got in on the ground floor of stripping peoples privacy for marketing purposes and the yoof were too dumb or uncaring to do anything about it.
The question is will the parasite get fatter and fatter off it's hosts (or "users" as they are politely called) or will the hosts institute "parasite control"?
Will Google be the Smallpox or the Malaria of the 21st Century?
Pretty shocked VM only covers 48% of the UK.
More shocked they will leave 2 of 20 (20?) properties uncovered. That's just weird.
And no I strongly doubt those speeds will last for much of any given day.
Seriously. there are about 400 UK ISP's.
The top six will continue to f**k you deeply until people start dumping them.
"Just to pick up on reliability of Lovefilm, I couldn't watch any film for more than 10 minutes before it started buffering every 30 seconds using a PS3 wired into the super hub. Lovefilm requires just a few mb according to their documentation, so you'd think 60Mb connection would be ample (no other devices being used either).
It drove me spare and after many wasted hours on their technical "support" line I bit the bullet and invested in my own router to take over wireless responsibilities, having heard about problems people had with the anything-but-super hub. Now I can love my films once more and the annoyingly frequent wifi dropouts my phone & tablet suffered from are a thing of the past. It was worth every penny."
Interesting story.
So their router can't do buffering properly but a 3rd party can.
Care to share the name for other Vermin sufferers?
"You just know that this thing is going to be so expensive that it will be installed in the managing director's office, where he will use it to train his philodendron, rather than actually having to work very often."
Actually I'm thinking more around a typewriter by 1890. A common (if expensive) piece of "office equipment."
"Baudot was a Johnny come lately in telegraphy (not to mention that what we know as Baudot is actually Murray's later version),"
That's tougher. My real core requirement was "No electricity."
"I'm beginning to think that a "practical" machine would benefit from your notion of phototypesetter, where only one master copy of each glyph is present, but with a pin-screen to store the image."
Possible. A spinning (or 2 in parallel for upper and lower case) with glyphs that could be pushed out would work provided you can work out how to push the individual glyph into the back of the pin board and index it to the next location.
"Of course, one of my favorite notions would stuff clear or opaque marbles (small as possible) into the bottom of a frame with translucent front and back, and perhaps an optically dense fluid. As each row of these "pixels" is "rendered", it is shoved up in the frame, with older lines emerging from the top. If the opaque "marble" were iron, the two types could be sorted magnetically. for reuse Of course, even a 24x80 screen of 5x7 (in a 6x8 cell) characters would need 92160 of each (actually fewer of the clear ones, unless we do inverse video) ."
Not quite sure I get you but the idea of (micro) sized beads, 1/2 black, 1/2 white is actually the core of some eInk displays IIRC from 3M. The correct term is "Electrophoretic."
eInk breaks the "No electricity" rule, but magneto optic (in the loose sense of the term) would be OK.
What's that you say?
The reality is they have an army of sub contractors and 1 man companies who do the work and all they really provide is the "client management" (IE Schmoozing senior civil servants and Ministers and of course billing services).
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.*
* And that will continue while the civil service continues it's addiction to the monster everything-and-the-kitchen-sink contract with no cancellation or penalty clauses.
Basically what does YT have?
1) Name recognition.
2) Lots of content
3) Adequate UI
Pretty much in that order.
Google bought it because it has 1)Lots of users to data mine 2)No sorry, can't think of a 2.
The question is will Google do a Microsoft and strangle at birth any attempted entrants to the market?
Including subordinates, co workers and supervisors.
Depending on your personality and their hiring practices you might like most of people and you may enjoy your work, but that is the exception.
Yes, I do view all jobs remarkably like working for an "escort" service. :(.