Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Note that word.
Knew.
Not (for example) "may have difficulty meeting" or " will be challenging without investment" but knew they could not meet their claims and instead of investing to better meet them actively hid the fact and engaged in deceptive behavior (and investment) to do so.
That's what makes it fraud.
As they would for the 7 decades.
It's not the "Acts of $Deity" that depress me.
It's the mind numbing banality of the bulk of this s**t.
As it no doubt will be when we enter the 8th decade of computing.
<sigh>
You forgot Vlad Putin as well.
So let's see Trump (Billionaire), Murdoch (Billionaire) and Putin(Billionaire) are all
a)Billionaires
b)Not UK citizens, so unable to vote in the Brexit refereundum.
Handy hint. When considering wheather to support a course of action consider who else support it.
That list suggests you shouldn't have trusted Brexit with a barge pole.
Correct.
You'd almost think the Brexiteers believe Britain still has a whole Empire to back it up.
IRL Thatcher didn't like the EU but she understood the real facts of life.
It's better to be inside a big warm tent p**sing out than outside the tent dodging random streams of p**s.
But don't worry, Brexit will soon fix that and those oppressed workers will soon be "Taking back control" of their leisure time.
Never forget this BS was all about stopping defections from the Conservative party and killing UKIP.
Everything else is just TPB* BS
*Tory Posh Boy.
A classic example being the Apollo 13 explosion.
Why? LOX tank exploded
Why? Because Kapton insulation was used on some of the wiring, which can explode.
Why? Because the voltage on that wiring changed from 15-->65v and no one altered the insulation thickness.
Why? Because the change control management system (paper based IIRC) failed to track the change.
Which tells you a) Bad things happen if change management control fails b) Checking the CMC system might find other errors, starting with any other areas that change was not made.
I requested a small UI change in some in house software once. In theory, simpler than a print button.
Four hours later still not fully done.
"We are f**king huge and can do whatever we want."
Except it seems they've met a judge who understands technology and the IP law around it well enough to call "Bu***t" on that.
Anyway, didn't Cisco start by modding a copy of the Linux kernel to begin with?
Fu**ing right.
The "cultural problem" is you have a gun related death rate like Somalia, rather than a so called "First world" country and a culture that promotes getting a gun and shooting people as the solution if you're sad/mad/angry.
You also seem to have a large number of people with an inability to separate fantasy and reality (nicely summed up by the phrase "Iron Man is not a documentary.").
Good question.
It's a very smart political move. Either they think this with no basis in reality other than "We wants it," or someone actually told them they could have this and they have to name the scam artist "researcher(s)*" in question.
*Lagos University perhaps?
that it's worth dragging them out of one gravity well and into another, rather than digging them up at home?"
Indeed.
Musk view on Mars mining was it's uneconomic even if the product was tonne pallets of Crack.
I think he's a bit pessimistic on this. It might be possible to compete for some products if the transport costs were dirt cheap.
The only thing I could come up with for this to work was a solar driven mass driver (only works during the day, so no storage needed) with on orbit collection by a string of solar sail transports.
It would have to be the full refined product, not just raw ore.
And frankly it still sounded hare brained even by my standards.
Because you shouldn't?
"Trust" any of these f**kers to not pimp your data to any Mark, Eric or Sergei?
I think not.
I'd love to see peoples reactions to how much data FB or Google can cross reference across sites and how detailed a profile they can build of you.
I'll bet it's a great deal more detailed than most people think it is.
So what?
A crooked politician is a crooked politician regardless of what party he (nominally) supports in order to get and stay in office.
The truth is to non Americans outside America it's very difficult to tell what you call Democrats apart from what you call Republicans.
So many of both sides polices seem like bu***hit to us.
Indeed.
I've never divorced anyone but it's my understanding that SOP is both sides need to set out a set of requirements and then both sides negotiate.
I also understand the common answer to "make me an offer" is "I ain't giving you s**t," depending on the level of acrimony during the breakup.
True. About 80% of the vehicles made in the UK go abroad, mostly to the EU.
That's about 800k annually, so about 15 000 a week.
The massive disconnect between the delusional fantasists of Brexit and the folk who've actually done work on this continues to deliver comedy Gold. Yeay.
And will for many years to come.
Yup.
Best of all was the UK Referendum allowed any UK citizen who'd been out of the UK for less than 15 years to stir the s**t "exorcise their democratic rights" *
Unlike the Scottish referendum, where anyone over 16 could vote if they lived in Scotland, not in some Caribbean tax haven where they've paid f**k all UK tax since they left the UK.
How many of these Aholes helped drop the UK in the s**t IDK but I'd bet a fair few.
*While "Der Heil" bi**hed that 15 years was not enough.
Throughout this whole business I keep hearing a favorite aphorism of Sales.
"Winners have plans. Losers have excuses."
I know. It's a schocky old cliche.
But, like many other cliches it's also true.
The Brexitieers have shown they didn't have a plan to begin with.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like they have one now either.
I mean who walks out on a marriage and for the settlement says "Make me an offer?"
Not at all.
Apparently HMG will use "technology*" to deliver (effectively) a "virtual border" which people will be able to cross easily but which will prevent all the smuggling and people trafficking that hard borders are meant to stop without people feeling there is a boarder.
* I have no idea what this technology will be. ANPR + EU wide ID card database + facial recognition mashup?
Unfortunately I'm not convinced HMG has a f**king clue what it will be either, like encryption backdoor that only The Good Guys (TM) can use?
Exactly.
When bad s**t happens and everyone agrees it is bad s**t and it keeps happening you can guarantee some ba***rd somewhere is pi**ing their pants at how much money they are making out of it. Think "Dicky Roper" in "The Night Manager."
Now, if someone were to remove those people from the board things mihgt improve.
No promises. Just might.
At which point the UK's access to the market of 550 million people in 27 countries (probably including financial markets, which far exceed mfg, although 80% of UK cars are currently exported) gets severely restricted.
Which seems pretty fair to me.
I may be mistaken but for many I think that would be a step up in management quality.
You seem to think Brexit is an epic clusterf**k waiting to happen.
Trouble is I don't think there's much evidence to disprove that idea.
Perhaps because that nice Mr Davis didn't ask them to?
Y'know, the old Churchillian line about "We are not interested in the prospects for defeat,"* or an impact assessment of any kind.
*Sounds very rousing, but is IRL total bo**ocks.
Impossible.
Surely everyone loves them.
After all have they not been "Taking Back Control" (C Linton Kwesi Crosby 2017)?
I'm sure that the council elections will be a landslide win for the Conservatives, just as Nick Timothy predicted a devastating defeat of the Labour party in the last General Election. *
*Forward looking statement. Majorities may go down as well as up. Majorities may disappear entirely. The DUP is not in a coalition with the Conservatives. There is no "Magic bribe money" tree. T&C apply.
IIRC it's at 44 and it needs 48 before the political MMA cage fight that is a Conservative Leadership challenge begins.
Not to mention the reports of a Rees-Mogg/johnson/Gove "Dream Team."
My first thought was "But don't you need Death for a full four horse posse?"
A "Flashlight" app that calls home and dumps your co-ordinates to a central server?
I'm thinking most of these apps should just be filed under the section of the app store marked "Trojans" since TBH that is exactlywhat they are, wheather or not they are actively trying to commit a crime with your phone. Violating your privacy for someone else profit so they can pimp the data out.
Which is
a) Quite clever
b) Very f**king scary
c) Only possible because of the clumsy security control on most phones. Phones IP address is not sensitive. WTF? I mean WTF?
And yes I think every service on a "smart" phone should be user level controllable regarding what apps can access it. If you want it to be available to "all" then fine, but the default should be "none."
Personally I'd prefer a "spoof" mode where apps that insist they can't run without access to your address book (why?) should be set to use the phones default app(s) which should then generate a limited amount of plausible BS.
Sounds like a guy who might actually know WTF he's talking about.
SSD has got cheaper and no ever doubted it was fast compared to disk.
But it's not as cheap as disk in the same that (at the right scale) tape is cheaper than disk.
Remember the first SSD? No.
Never heard of bubble memory ?
It was going to change the world. Everything was going to going to use it at every level.
Only it didn't.
Or to give it a more meaningful description "anonymous server farms in unknown jurisdictions"
Basically Google/Microsoft/Apple don't mind handing your emails to the Feds, they just wanted a law which said so.
Because then it would be "legal."
Kind of like the robber who hands a share of the loot to his (dumb) accomplice and says "That's for help in the job we just done." Then pulls a gun and says "But this one I'm doing myself.. So hand it back."
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