Posts by Demosthenese

Re: Are we a simulation?

and if we are in a simulation, is it simulations all the way down?

Re: Munich

The French Gendarmerie is another example, and is a significantly bigger deployment of Linux desktops than the oft quoted Munich example.

Re: If Google wants to limit the speed of their test cars/prototypes to 25 mph....

The Mersey tunnels have minimum speed limits.

Re: QUESTION: If you were in charge of the country,

Cut its budget.

Re: Audible?

Others report it working...

http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-q10-f272/audible-q10-899764/

Re: It's a question of trust -- @ DrXym

Are you sure those adverts aren't targeted?

Re: massive blackmail database being compiled...

Proved to happen under Hoover. Do you have any evidence that anything has changed?

Re: It's only irresponsible if we remove any tariffs....we should put MORE in place.

"I'll raise you unfair and unjust taxation without representation and the ensuing American Revolution."

Except this is a fantasy dreamt up after the fact. Taxes on tea were actually lowered to allow British companies to compete with Dutch tea smuggled into the colonies, by Americans. The actual rallying cry across New England was the far less wholesome, sectarian cry of "No Popery" - a response to the newly conquered French (catholic) fur traders being granted the same protections by the British army as the American fur traders, thus threatening the business interests that they had assumed would be advanced by the British victory in the French-Indian war that these same fur traders had engineered.

Re: Green eh?

I did read the bit about electricity sources ... 30% from 'green suppliers'. This is where an electricity supplier that has multiple sources, some green and mostly non-green, pretends that you are only supplied by the green electricity when in reality it is all fed into and out of a single grid. There is no way to transmit just the 'green' energy to a particular consumer.

Even with a notional supply of the green stuff to apple, just means the other customers, get a greater proportion of their supply notionally from non-green. This sort of smoke and mirrors does not really constitute real green energy any more than carbon offsetting does.

However thumbs up to apple for at least generating much of its own power by renewable means, even if the carbon free claims are pr bullshit.

Re: The Cost of "Business"?

If what they are doing is wrong then they should be punished ... so the fine should be bigger than the profit, regardless of the size of the profit. Otherwise crime pays.

Re: Was B7 a Fluke?...

While I was wondering when Blake would return to the show, I went on a school trip to the RSC to see Twelfth Night. Disappointed to realise that Gareth Thomas was unlikely to give up his RSC gig to go back to a sci fi show. Cherie Lunghi was in the performance too, so it wasn't all bad.

Re: slight problem

You have convinced me. I'm now in favour of compulsory real names. It will make my stalking habit so much easier. Oops, I've said too much.

<---- that is not my real name.

Re: Basic tort law ?

The ISPs would have no obligation to third parties to provide access to their websites, and can filter whatever they like, with no duty to those sites.

They do however have a contract with their customers - whether this contract requires them to provide access any particular sites or category of sites depends on the details of those contacts.

Re: Great time for a morality(?) question, Mr Pott.

Yes, you are crazy.

The advantage to the client of buying both hardware and software from a single source is that there is no opportunity for the hardware and software suppliers to blame each other for a problem and neither be willing to fix the mess.

Re: 136 years to 90 years...

" if it didn't work that way what would be the reasoning for committing one crime vs. many?"

A counter argument might be - I've committed several minor offences, but the total sentence is now so big I have nothing to lose, so from here on in kill any witnesses.

Re: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

@Stuart,

ITYM Who watches the iWatches.

Re: Servers

Including vulture central - debian web servers.

Re: We are not doing anything illegal or immoral

"Give to caesar what is caesar's"

Commonly misunderstood. The pharisees' question was designed to elicit a response that was either seditious or look bad to the jewish nationalist audience. The reply would be understood by the audience - Caesar should be given what is rightfully his - i.e. nothing, without actually saying anything that would land Jesus in hot water with the Roman authorities.

Re: "Protest the funerals"?

... for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers.

(Matthew 5:45)

Re: OTT

Just get your friend to carry your lanyard/rfid to all those lessons when you have better things to do.

Re: Tiscali will rue the day...

"I'm still trying to get my head around the reason why Talk Talk have jumped at the chance of implementing the "filter thingy"."

Well there will be savings resulting from any reduction in data download, and less need to respond to law-suits against copyright claims which will reduce admin costs.

Re: Not theft

@Velv

reprehensible

adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

I'm not sure how you stretched my meaning to include condoning and then extended your error by stooping to personal insults.