Re: The usual
Because Donald Trump is the master of childish posturing and that was what people were voting on.
Posts by James 51
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Democrats draft laws in futile attempt to protect US internet privacy
Microsoft's new hardware: eight x86 cores, 40 GPU cores
Murdoch will get EU green light for full Sky takeover – reports
Lenovo's 2017 X1 Carbon is a mixed bag
Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC
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Ford slurps 400 BlackBerry devs in smart car software push
Microsoft's in-store Android looks desperate but can Google stop it?
Monday 3rd April 2017 14:21 GMT
BB10, Win10, Jolla, there is a small graveyard of alternative mobile OSs out there, people for one reason or another just won't buy them and I wish they would. If there was a new 3310 with 4G and wifi hotspot build in I'd be sorely tempted and buy a small tablet for all the non-phone crap we use our phones for.
USA can afford golf for Trump. Can't afford .com for FBI infosec service
Wednesday 29th March 2017 19:54 GMT
Re: @James 51 .... WRONG!
Trump coulld have chosen to fly commercial when he was a candidate. Instead he flew on his own plane and pocketed the money. He is chosing to spend a huge amount of his time at his own golf courses instead of other peoples golf courses or goverement owned places like camp david where other presidents have gone. His family is living in trump tower instead of moving to the white house or at least a more defensable location nearby so the secert service must pay rent to trump to have the space they need to operate. There are all the security upgrades and things like helicopter pads that have added value to his commercial property that he has not had to pay for. Stuff like this has brought down presidents of other countries. The secert service has to buy this stuff. They can't say there is a building across the road, we'll go there as it is cheaper. There is another golf course it will be cheaper to operate out of, we'll go there. Trump's problem is that he never feels shame, even when he should. As for saying water isn't wet and being an uneasent twirp till every sensible person has gone home, that doesn't make water dry nor does it mean that you have won a victory. If you look back over our last few posts I have presented evidence (from the media admittedly) and reasoned arguments. All you have done is be unpleasent and told me to back down. It is going to take more than a conman's smile and a bully's swagger to convince me I am wrong.
Wednesday 29th March 2017 15:02 GMT
Re: @James 51 .... WRONG!
How do you measure flawed? All it seems you are doing is sticking your head in the sand and saying I can't see you. BTW what about the second story? Or these?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cost-protecting-jet-setting-president-elect-trump-yuge-n687336
http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/11/25/donald-trump-profit-secret-service-protection/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-profit-his-own-secret-service-detail-who-reportedly-need-rent-space-trump-tower-1593414
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/50a74442-d276-333b-82fc-c41d2e1ee33f/donald-trump-to-profit-from.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-secret-service-campaign-travel-payments-228553
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/11/26/donald-trump-profiting-off-of-secret-service-billing-taxpayers-millions
Tuesday 28th March 2017 08:14 GMT
Re: @James 51 .... WRONG!
Trump is choosing to spend time in places that he owns rather than in US goverment owned facilities. The SS (that's an unfortunate abbrev.) has no choice but to pay the prices he sets and he pockets that money. He is literally making money out of the people who are protecting him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-lifestyle-taxpayers-20170216-story.html
For Trump, the costs come with an additional perk: Some of the money flows into his own pocket. While Trump has removed himself from managing his company, he has refused to divest his ownership, meaning that he benefits from corporate successes such as government contracts.The Defense Department and Secret Service, for instance, have sought to rent space in Trump Tower, where leasing a floor can cost $1.5 million a year - though neither agency has disclosed any details. In addition, Trump's travel to his signature properties while trailed by a press corps beaming images to the world allows the official business of the presidency to double as marketing opportunities for his brand.
The White House did not address broader concerns of the costs and potential conflicts inherent in Trump's early travels. But White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told The Post this week that Trump is always working, even when he's left Washington behind.
Club members pay $200,000 to join - a fee that has doubled since his election - and $14,000 a year to belong, giving them access to the beach, tennis courts, a spa and, now, on occasional weekends, to the president.
The weekend brought the presidential entourage to two other Trump properties, as Trump and Abe golfed 27 holes at the president's courses in Jupiter and West Palm Beach. The events meant global publicity for the Trump brand - and even more security complications.
Monday 27th March 2017 14:15 GMT
Re: @James 51 .... WRONG!
Lets assume you're right but I wasn't talking about the attitude of the person in the office to the person on the door. I was talking about professionals being asked to do a job then not being given enough resources to do the job (in their estimation) but still having full responsibility for the outcome.
Monday 27th March 2017 09:29 GMT 
The secert service asked for more money due to the level of stress protecting the Trump family is placing them under and they were turned down. When the movie gets made I wonder if it will be played as all goverment spending is bad coming back to bite or with weaked security here, here and here... Though imagine the frustation of being the people who have to protect him without the resources to do it. You'd hope that Trump would golf a little less like he promised and do some work, everyone would win then (I think).
Web-app devs note: Google wants to banish JavaScript dialogues
How about a nice game of ... Tetris? Oxford eggheads slow PTSD onset with classic game
Samsung Galaxy S8: Slimmer bezels, a desktop mode – and yet another me-too AI pal
Wednesday 29th March 2017 21:55 GMT
Given how powerful modern handsets are and you can buy Windows 10 2-1 tablets/laptops for £150, why can't we have something that will run desktop applications in a dock? I am not talking big games but stuff like scrivener, the best reason I have (along with a little DRM stuff I need) to use Windows. I'd've bought a 950xl last year if continuum could do that.
Alabama joins anti-web-smut crusade with mandatory opt-out filters
Manufacturers reject ‘no deal’ Brexit approach
Monday 27th March 2017 11:41 GMT
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/753997/Theresa-May-Brexit-ECJ-influence-European-Court-of-Justice-Michael-Gove
The ECJ has slapped various UK goverments but the tories in particular around when they have abused UK citizens (just see the whole data protection saga as an example). May wants out so she can have free riegn to do what ever the hell she wants to whom ever she wants when ever she wants. Make no mistake, Brexit is being used as an excuse to destory the legacy of the post WW2 generation that put things like the ECJ in place to prevent the horrors of the 30s coming back to bite future generations. The ECHR is next on her hit list.
Monday 27th March 2017 10:51 GMT
Spain can not risk Scotland breaking away from the UK while the UK is still in the EU and might scupper its chances of joining the EU if it does become independant. There will be no extension and lots of other countries will look to expand their own industries at the expense of the UK's. Just look at Paris and Frankfurt going after the banks. This will be short, sharp and incredibly painful. Lets not forget this is not just ecomonics, it is politics and May wants out of the ECJ at any cost, UK ecomony be dammed.
Amazon dodges $1.5bn US tax bill: It's OK to run sales through Europe out of IRS reach – court
Error prone, insecure, inevitable: Say hello to today's facial recog tech
King Battistelli's swish penthouse office the Euro Patent Office doesn't want you to see
New iPad revealed. Big price cut is main feature
Google's stock rating downgraded as YouTube ad boycott contagion goes global
Tuesday 21st March 2017 14:30 GMT 
Companies always seem to have the same calculation. Will it cost us one penny more to do something or do nothing? As doing nothing is normally cheaper, nothing is done. I am just surprised that anyone was was surprised hurting their bottom line is what it took to get Google into even first gear. Don't be evil was left behind a long time ago. I do wonder if in the years to come Google will be remembered for these videos the way IBM is remembered for the machines it sold to Nazi Germany.
This AI stuff is all talk! Bots invent their own language to natter away behind humans' backs
Tuesday 21st March 2017 09:12 GMT
I am trying to remember if it was Clarke or Asimov who had a giant computer that was hidden underground in a secret location and needed other computers and technicians to translate between it and people.
Of course there is also the scene from Person of Interest were Finch reveals it took 43 goes to create an AI that didn't try to escape and/or kill him.
BlackBerry admits dying BB10 is in pain
Google's Deepmind NHS deal 'inexcusable', says academic paper
Thursday 16th March 2017 11:35 GMT
Google's business model is to get data by hook or crook and then figure out a way to make money out of it. Mostly that is to run ads along side what ever you are looking at but they should never and I do mean never be trusted with something like medical records. It's a tale of abuse just waiting to happen.
How UK’s GDPR law might not be judged 'adequate'
Thursday 16th March 2017 11:24 GMT
It is May's long standing personal ambition to get the UK out of the ECJ and ECHR so she can completely ignore human rights. She had no problems with handing people over to other countries to be tortured and would have if the courts hadn't stopped her. Brexit is the chance of the powerful to fundamentally undermine democracy and the powerful aren't letting it go to waste. Just look at laws like imprisoning journalists who print inconvenient truths.
Microsoft's Slack-slapping 'Teams' slips into Office 365
New strategy to curb officials' drone, phone and CCTV snoop jollies
Tuesday 14th March 2017 11:35 GMT
Re: Wait, what?
I don't think the fridges is a microwave/camera moment from him. Far more likely is the risk of joined up data presents to privacy (although lets not forget that there are fridges out there with cameras in them https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/04/samsung-family-hub-smart-fridge/ http://refrigerators.reviewed.com/news/lg-unveils-smart-appliances-ahead-of-ces-2015).
Signature Trump policy - H-1B visa reform - looks to be on the back burner
Monday 13th March 2017 13:42 GMT
Name one thing? Sure he has put people in place to burn the EPA and the Department of Education to the ground but they are just checking they have enough kindling to get the job done. The wall is going to be a fence which Mexican politicians can climb over with a ladder. He has bribed a few firms to not off shore production but he can't bribe everyone to do the same. The obvious racism and sectarianism of his original travel ban mean every one which follows it will be objected to on the same grounds. Until the things he said weren't to the public but to someone else?
Germany to roll out €100bn gigabit internet network
Vodafone gets less flexible on flexible working Ts&Cs for own staff
President Trump-themed escort services may soon open in China
Friday 10th March 2017 09:02 GMT
Re: More income that he won't pay Tax on???
He is extremely rich and in a position to see how the system is rigged and is further rigged for the benefit of the richest in society. Is every one who disagrees with you just a partisan or is there anything that might make you think that someone could disagree with you and also have a point worth thinking about?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
