Posts by John Smith 19

The old archer says

"I'm still Awesome"

"three times more time allocated to it for hearing on that day than could possibly be heard."

Also AIUI a popular tactic with the British NHS outpatient clinics.

A British friend was scheduled for one at 9am.

Never saw a consultant before 2pm.

Day totally wasted.

AFAIK this is about closing courts --> reduces costs and basically nothing else.

I've never not had trouble with an HP printer

Paper sensor f**ked

Cartridges drying out when you need them to work.

Cartridges report near empty when you can hear fluid sloshing around inside them.

Just my personal experience but I had an old Cannon bubble jet that never let me down till some skel stole it.

Data release on production of a search warrant. Yes. Wholesale fishing expedition. No.

And Oh look the classic "There was a 13 YO girl was abducted" Blah blah.

What's more callus, my characterization of the case, or its cynical TOTC use by the data fetishists* promoting this law?*

Because we all know that's not it's going to be used for.

Due process.

They've heard of it.

*And I guarantee they'll have had some hand in drafting this. Not for clarity. For ambiguity. Lots of vague BS that can be interpreted as they see fit.

Not clear if arcum or johnson is a "Friend with benefits"

Presumably regarding the fast tracking of grants that is.

Just saying.

Is anyone minded of Mr Francis Boyle's dinner party method?

"There's a vegan option."

"You can f**k off."

Lots of Gammon posting AC.

That's if they really are in the UK at all.....

For writing low error software...

Do what IBM Federal Systems did when they wrote the Shuttle software.

1) Institute a no blame culture. It's about finding the bugs, not calling people stupid.

2) Make sure you have clear instructions on what the code implements before you write it

3) Document what variables are called and what they do.

4) Do structured read throughs of code sections with the developer.

5) When you find a bug a)Work out what it does b)Work out why the current system didn't find it in read through or testing c)re-scan the code base for similar examples.

IBM FS was the model for CMM level 5 organizations. They did it mostly manually, without a SoA source code tracking system that can track who changed what lines and when in a code base. Shuttle can't fly without the software and it never ever failed. It was estimated to be about 10x the cost per executable LOC of most "normal" code.

"is adequate to ensure the appropriate and non-arbitrary use of AFR Locate,"

Let me guess.

The relevant section of the snoopers charters says basically "The plod can do what they like when they like with this data."

Data fetishist law written by data fetishists is very data fetishist friendly.

The law itself is not fit for purpose and should be dealt with.

"a two thousand character string"

Hmm.

Their Americans so assume ASCII characters.

I'd say what 2^16000 is but Googles calculator fails above 2^1010 at 1.097225e+304

So yes I'd say that "annonmyization" fig leaf is Boris Johnson grade bu***hit.

Let's be clear here.

The root cause is that most people won't pay for stuff they see on the internet.

Defense decides not to call defense witness for defense

Isn't that a decision of the defense team?

If HPE want them AFAIK they can call them and IIRC not showing when asked is contempt of court.

You're not disrespecting HPE's legal team by doing so.

You're disrespecting the Judge.

That is never a good idea in a British court. Y'know "I am the law" and all that.

Could a group be set up just for the bots to talk to each other?

Just a thought.

I haven't time for a detailed business appraisal but...

"F**k right off" seems a reasonable (non) purchasing stance for this investment.

Or in the words of somewhat well know business show "I'm out."

No, really, I'm out.

"it would affect their graduation from school. "

Especially if you keep falling asleep in lessons during the day.

""I find myself in the position of eating my hat.""

Including the corks?

Poor jokes aside this may be a recognition that smaller ELV's are not quite as cheap to make as people think.

or

Turns out there's a report that describe year on year performance growth of Li ion batteries. It's about 10%/year.

So cost push meets meets technology pull to move reusability along. Note also their size of stage is viable without a custom built chopper to carry it. The jokers are the severe jerk loads (parachute deployment, capture by helicopter) requiring significant mounting hardware --> substantial weight increase.

Exciting times, eh?

Not good, but then again....

How long has this bank been in business?

The UK banking sector needs some diversity.

The way the Big Four bi**hed about credit unions opening up their membership restrictions before wholesale branch closures left sub post offices holding the baby for physical access to depositing (not getting) cash into peoples accounts.

She seems an ideal host for whatever the Home Office inserts in the brain of their so-called masters

An authoritarian with a fondness for taking un reported meetings with foreign powers.

No doubt entirely ignorant about what she's actually asking for and why it can't be done in the way she want's it.

Because all that matters is "We wants it."

So looks like you need to get the MP's to accept there is some nasty s**t going on her

And this y'know, important.

That's a tough sell with all the Brexit nonsense they've managed to stir up.

You can bet BS Boris is not bothered about civil rights (except perhaps his right to privacy about who he's sleeping with).

The choice is a bit more complex than it looks.

Option 1. Well understood (but annoying) procedure that must be run on a regular basis

Option 2. Single uploading of software patch.

But.

Does the hardware architecture support uploading and verification (packet corruption being sent through network to end box)?

If not it's a box removal exercise or a direct connection to a box deep in the bowels of the aircraft

How well has the patch been tested?

Has it added some new failure mode?

IOW from the airlines PoV the risk assessment is not quite as straightforward as it seems.

Of course if we assume that all software patches are perfect and have no unintended side effects then the course of action is obvious.

Anyone here who's written software believe that assumption?

As Tom Cruise put it in "A Few Good Men"

"It's not about what I think, it's about what I can prove."

I might think that Lynch looks a bit shifty and probably would cook the books of any company he was involved with, especially if someone like HPE was sniffing around to buy. That's my opinion and as such carries f**k all weight in any court of law.

But

It's HPE who bought the company and are unhappy with the results and it's up to their (no doubt very expensive) legal team to prove actual illegality.

Given HPE's internal finance people were twitchy on the deal I'd say Lynch was quite smart and HPE were quite dumb, or just arrogant. It's there shareholders who got it in the neck when that value was wiped off their stock price.