Re: Hang on...
But... Can you see the strings?
mines the one with a copy of Andy-Pandy in the pocket.
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A few major employers to up sticks and move (lock stock and smoking gun) their US operations out of the USA and cite the moves by the President as the reason. These companies would already have operations outside the US.
De-listing on Wall St is not enough. Closed and levelled industrial plants would be a clear sign that the USA is heading for 4th world status under their current Administration (The VP will be worse but won't fluff his lines as often).
IMHO, that is the only sort of message that Trump/Pence will understand.
Them were the days all right.
Running RSX-11D on a very early PDP-11/40 with 56Kb of RAM and three 2.4Mb RK05's
We developed a flight simulator to test aircraft avionics. We could run the Real Time simulation while others could compile Fortran. All on a 200KHz machine.
So nowadays, we need a 4GHz PC to answer emails? [redacted]
Not sure if things really have got better
One you pay for on a monthly tithe basis. Fail to pay and you are suddenly 'sans data'.
The other one is free (or almost) in cash terms.
Both will either directly or on the sly slurp your data and sell it on.
Personally?
A plague on both their houses.
LibreOffice and Thunderbird do me nicely thanks.
The NHS and others will just engage Crapita (and their ilk) and send it all to India.
After all, all the call centre jobs will be there. I guess to some beancounter somewhere having the development teams in Mumbai/Bangalore/Chennai/Kolkata/Pune/etc will save them money, shed loads of money that will go towards their end of year bonuses.
What could go wrong eh?
Given the battles that Apple has had and is continuing to have over Wireless patents, FRAND and all the rest, my guess is that Apple wants to be in on the ground floor and get some essential patents to the tech needed to make this all work nicely.
They are advertising for chip designers and they recently hired an engineering VP away from Qualcomm.
If they get in on the ground floor then cross licensing will be a mere formaity.
Well, that's my worthless 2p on it.
Now you can have a thief sitting in the comfort of their own home monitoring tens if not hundreds of houses.
IOT becomes a tool for 'remote casing' of properties.
And people will still want to and do install this crap in their homes.... {mind boggles}
None of this stuff will be allowed in my home.
Thanks for the list of Domains that some of this TAT uses. I'll be adding them to my firewall later today.
but they don't want to. Perhaps it might prove a tad embarasing.
Other Tech Companies can do this and do it every year so why can't google? Don't they have the mother of all AI systems that apparently holds all the data in the world on each and every one of us.
Or isn't it the best thing since sliced bread that they claim it to be?
I can't even get updates to the maps on my '15 plate car. If I could it would cost the same as a cheap TomTom with lifetime updates.
What planet are these people living on.
As for the UI etc being crap... Same here. AFAIK, the only ones worth a toss are the BMW iDrive and the Jaguar system.
I bought a TomTom Rider for use on my bike. Lifetime update and they included a car kit as well.
I rarely bother with my in car SatNav now. At least the Entertainement system can take an SD card.
even when say a Tesla[1] that got hacked and the driver was suddenly unable to control the vehicle and someone died as a result.
[1] Other vehicles that allow Over The Air Updates are/will be available.
surely it is better to NOT allow OTA Updates to things like this?
Even if the update is encrypted and everything, there is an attack vector present in every vehicle by design.
IMHO it is better to only allow updates to be done by a dealer.
script for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World" that was rejected for being too far fetched.
As each day goes by he seems to be morphing more and more into the George C Scott character from Dr Strangelove.
"Do as I tell you and F**k Congress and the Senate, I'm the effing President and what I say goes or else....?"
This does not bode well for the future of the planet.
To me that is one of the biggest questions. There are things we do that are very much based upon experience, skill and intuition.
How much salt is enough when seasoning something? 6.4g or 7.9g?
You taste the food and judge. The strength of other ingredients can affect how much salt you need to add.
Can you write an algorithm to describe that? Can you programme that? Can an AI learn that?
Touch, taste, feel and everything else all go together and our complex brain sorts it all out and we come up with an answer.
I think we are a long way from everyone being replaced by robots.
Besides, there is a lot of other social issues that need to be addressed in society before this can happen.
If no one has a job how will we be able to afford to buy/rent/hire/lease all those things that are made by the armies of Robots?
Will there be a Robot/AI version of a P.45?
systemd
-free Devuan hits stable 1.0.0 status
IMO, systemd is a cancer that is growing out of control, and needs to be cut out of Linux before it infects enough of the system to kill it permanently.
Sadly, that ship has sailed. systemd is here to stay apart from niched like this fork of Debian.
Personally, I thought that it was a problem that didn't need fixing but what do I know eh? Zilch.
but I grit my teeth and get on with it.
shutting the stable door now won't get it back.
No encryption means no use of the internet to fill in tax returns, VAT forms, No internet banking. No ordering things online because you can't make payments in a secure manner.
It could mean no ATM's (they are all connected to the internet these days)
and no funds transfer between banks thus forcing Companies having to pay workers in Cash again.
etc
etc
Then there are the plethora of VPN's use by companies to allow their staff to work while on the move..
As usual, the civil servants are too timid to point this out to their political masters (Yes Minister!)
Back in the 1990's, France banned Encryption apart from banking use.
but sorry the encryption Horse has bolted and this move won't get it back in the stable.
Strange that I've found more issues with Windows and printing (And especially scanning) than with Linux or OSX/MacOS over the years.
Lets take the case of my Brother Laser PRinter.
Point Linux or MacOS at it (on the LAN) and that's it. IT is all connected and works and not a driver to load.
With Windows, I have to download and install a driver to get duplex printing.
Then with Scanning...
I have a perfectly good Canon EIDE 20 Scanner. There is no windows 10 driver for it. It works without issue on Linux (CentOS) or MacOS.
YMMV
Have an upvote from me for remembering that link.
I suggest that people read PJ's last post http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 and reflect on what little has changed in the almost 4 years since she signed off. Ok, it is not directly relevant to this case but to security of what we do on the internet in general.
As the SCO case it still occassionaly popping its head up above the parapet after more than 14 years, I think that this one (Oracle vs Google) has a long way to go yet. The supremes will probably have to consider it and the implications if Oracle prevail.
{the raft of tech companies leaving the USA will become a tusnami according to one article I read a few months ago}
But is seems that Microsoft has decreed that laptops shall have a touch screen like their Surface things.
The doids in PC-World will be flogging the hell out of any device that has touch even if like my, you want a matte display and certainly no fingerprints allowed. Greasy fingers stop me from doing real work.
The smaller devices have lots of pixels so why did they revert to HD for the larger device?
Could the cost of an equivalent his res 15in screen be too expensive?
Is the bios locked (Secure boot) so it can only run Windows? Otherwise a nice bit of kit but too expensive IMHO for a Linux netbook.
Could not have said it better myself.
One part of me wants MS to wipe the data. Then it will set a precident that I hope makes ALL CIO or whoever is responsible for the decisions to go to an external cloud provider think long and hard about that decisions.
Here today, gone tomorrow. That is what clouds do in real life. IT Clouds are really no different.
The other part wants MS to be forced to keep the data and the access to it until the Chapter 11/7 is resolved.
many sites won't do a thing.
I'm already not using a number of sites that insist on Flash. Yes, I'm voting with my feet and not spending money with them. Perhaps a diminishing value of online sales might get an FD or two to get things done but somehow I doubt it.
Die Flash Die and your execution won't be a day too soon.