Posts by Someone Else

Yup. It's all fun and games until the stock price is affected...

Re: Just a thought ...

But...but...but...it's shiny....

Which just goes to show you what's in that trough...

Nice -- thanks for the link. However, that doesn't support your assertion that

If you adjust for passengers carried - a huge risk factor - the stats are entirely the other way around.

...in other words, that 17-19 year olds do not have some 6 times higher rate of fatal or serious accidents.

Re: Nice

Beat me to it... but agreed.

This is why I read El Reg (even if it is a bit much for a Monday...)

Re: Google?

Yes, that Google; the company is seriously infected with NIH syndrome.

Given your understanding of "agile", you'd be right.

Re: The mote in JWSTs eye

You know - a starship circlin' in the sky - it ought to be ready by 1990

They'll be buildin' it up in the air ever since 1980

_{Hijack by (the original) Jefferson Starship}

That sucker is waaayy behind schedule!

Re: Nothing so severe

No, no...classic country (e.g. from the 50's).

Re: Bank of England notes.

Funny how you only hear stories about idiots in white collar crime

Well, yeah...they're the ones who get caught.

Re: Gosh, really ?

Maybe if you stopped murdering journalists who are just doing their job and face reality, things might start going for the better ?

No, no, no, that would never do. You see, journalists have this annoying tendency to point out, in minute detail, that the Emperor has no clothes. And well, we can't have that, now can we?

_{Ewww!, now that's an image I can't un-see...}

Re: Pretty much on the nose

That said, due to the fact that it keeps getting abused, we should get something on the books that makes it clear that strong privacy rights are guaranteed to to private citizens and that government agencies and political figures need to held to a high standard of transparency.

Were you to do that, you'd put Google, Twatter, Faceplant, and all manner of Big Data analytics firms out of business.

_{Sounds like a plan!}

Re: Raise the Jolly Roger!

Rush's "Red Barchetta" comes to mind...

Re: Loopholes

[...] and if SCOTUS is populated by justices that actually care about the Constitution, [...]

Who you crappin'? We've already seen how that works in post-millennium America.

Harvard, that well-known font of computer science excellence....

Re: Burn

The other thing is that people out there actually willingly follow some bots because they provide useful information don't know not to.

There, FTFY

Re: While the prospect of toothpaste that DOESN'T taste like mint is appealing

I guess MRIs are out of the question, then...

@Kev99 --

Not sure why you didn't mention the Foxconn¹ fiasco fabrication plant in southeastern Wisconsin.

_{¹With the emphasis on the last syllable...}

Re: WTF???

But...but...but...the Emperor(s) already don't have any clothes, don't they?

Beat me to it (by 15 minutes).

Agree completely!

[...] they're probably quietly shitting themselves over how it is possible to have an analytics business without running the risk of being the smoking gun that ends up getting women murdered in the name of "justice".

No, they're not.

If they're making money, they're not shitting anything. And besides, those self-same Neanderthals will quite likely mount an effective "four-corners" type defense of delay, obfuscation and legal (not to mention moral) shenanigans to insure those info brokers can stay in business profitably.

Re: IBM =. Logan's Run

Perhaps IQ?

Re: Bouncy space junk?

And don't forget about the 50-50-90 rule: If there is a 50/50 chance of choosing a desirable outcome vs. an undesirable outcome, you'll choose the undesirable outcome 90% of the time.

_{Not sure it applies here, but we're talking probability, so...}

Re: elon to the rescue?

Thank you, sandwich.

Most everyone (fatasses specifically included) seem to forget that, as this is a consumer-oriented economy, potential consumers have to have disposable income to consume the various gadgets and geegaws that Amazon wants to foist on society. If a large swath of said society doesn't have sufficient disposable income, they ain't a-gonna be buying Amazon's (or anybody else's) wares.

Re: Gatekeeping

Maybe you should devote your pie-in-the-sky ambitions to solving the Flying Car problem? There is much more pent-up desire for that than my being able to create my own Z-80 in my basement.

Re: This is what US Progressives want

That's difficult. I mean, how many reasonable Righties are there with whom you can have an intelligent conversation?

(Ref. Tejas GOP convention)

_{Note: There are some -- I happen to know a couple. But they are clearly in danger of becoming extinct.}