Posts by Gordon 10

Unconvinced by this article

Oracle is the 800lb gorilla and will be until the day it is asset stripped and broken up.

It will continue to crush anyone who tries to offer 3rd party support. The only way for any of these 3rd parties to profit is it to quickly build a business big enough that Oracle themselves or someone with similar clout (the usual suspects) will prefer to buy them before Oracle sues them into oblivion.

Hell hath no fury like a Database vendor scorned.

So glad I don't have to write the test plan for that bad boy.

It took me 3 googles to find this apparently famous email.

http://www.techinsider.io/jack-dorseys-layoff-letter-to-twitters-staff-2015-10

I've seen much worse - it doesn't have that much MBA BS in it.

If he had dropped the first 3 paragraphs it wouldn't have been half bad.

Someone should be exempt

Probably the judiciary and the home sec - then we would get to understand if our Home Secs have always been authoritarian fascists or just become that way after a visit from the Gmen with a file on them.

Although on general principles I should state that I am against exceptions for Teresa May for anything.

Or hows about just stopping bulk collection GCHQ? I rather suspect if you dropped it down to soley 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon on known loons + some fairly targeted keyword collection you would get almost the same amount of good intel as you do with the current "get everyone" policy.

Doing this far too often

Says Security consultant that probably wants a finger in some pie.

Not to belittle these offenses - the person doing it is a nasty piece of work - but if its 175 reported cases then even if we assume a couple of orders of magnitudes more going un-reported I would have thought that the Police have more urgent matters to deal with.

In other words - whats the point in passing a specific law for such a statistically small set of complaints - it smacks of knee-jerk politician-ing.

Rather than creating all these specific offenses cant they just create a generic offence of being an ARSE on the internet that covers this, cyber-libel, cyber stalking etc etc ? It would probably pay for itself in reduced FOI requests.

So

Did either Dan or the Register have the courtesy to wait a day or so for Freelancer to respond before publishing this?

They say it like those 5 things are bad

Since most them seems to lead to ICANN not existing - clouds silver linings etc.

How can it be a fig leaf

If it pre-dates the Safe Harbor legislation anyway and is also a standard approved by some EU rubber stamping body - as per the previous article.

What it does seem to is extend safe harbour style protections to the US companies at the expense of making them more open to customer lawsuits if they abuse it - so it sounds like a partial win-win to me. They may have to tweak their replication/sharding strategies and build out a bit more capacity but I suspect that most have the basic infrastructure to cope. Given MS'es statements and the current US lawsuit - there's reason to suspect that they are pretty much ready for this. If facebitch hasn't done the prep for this already they are just clueless.

Also I doubt very much the big boys are going to feel much pain from this. Reams of data already has geographical boundaries - the ruling just adds a set of new countries/regions to it - so they already have the infrastructure to cope.

The ones that are gonna hurt are the S&ME's who are restricted to onshore US processing - payroll outsourcers and the like.

Fail

Err if you want VC cash - do something VC's are interested in. Perhaps something <airquotes>social</airquotes> Otherwise dont whine about it.

Additionally what was the autonomy buy go to do with VC's any way. As I recall both Autonomy and HP were public quoted companies at the time of the deal so any VC's originally involved would have been long gone with their pound of flesh.

Maybe he just has a "me-too" product in a swamped market? Or maybe like many technology related markets there is only room for 1 800lb Gorilla.

Prices are more reasonable than the Nexus 6

5x £339 compared to £329 to original 5. 32gb.

But I feel a trick has been missed now that there are several Chinese flagship phones out that are still better value.

When was the last time

That MS didn't fusck up an acquisition in one way or another? it sounds like for this one they spent 200m spondoolicks on something that was flashier but less competent than the thing it replaces.