* Posts by Tjalf Boris Prößdorf

5 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2010

UK arms industry 'same as striking coal miners' - Army head

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf

Get over it ...

The Belgrano was a swimming museum that could indeed outgun any early 80ies british vessel that kept still for long enough. Very likely.

Camps: did I miss sth.? I found no mention of him serving on the Belgrano.

However, all's fair in war and love.

May I remind you that after the valiant defense of 40k sheep from a 3rd rate military power there was not even a whimper - much less a bang - when red china took over Hong Kong? I'm still wondering why that might have been ...

Two years later, Apple Safari still open to 'carpet-bombing'

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf
Big Brother

Ha!

One of these days I will put my old Cube on the net without a firewall and look how long it takes for s/th bad to happen. In nearly 20 years of macking around, I only caught one virus - and that came from a colleague who wrote an article about it and was quite careless ...

Apparently, nobody cares for us poor apple users.

Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf
Big Brother

Not to speak of iPhoto ...

that stuff is working fairly well even on a layman's 'puter, and all you need to do is to send someone to take care of those brazilian electricians once you have your false positives.

'Gossips' say Apple will acquire ARM

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf
Jobs Halo

Its not called control freakery,

its called vertical integration.

Which is perfectly legitimate and in the days before the outsourcing mania (much of which now turns out to have been exploitative or even fraudulent) was seen as a business goal to strive for.

Blighty's first home grown war robot takes to Welsh skies!

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf
Thumb Down

Historically,

the french laid waste to western germany from the early 17th century up to the early 19th century with depressing regularity. You might want to look that up, they managed to push their borders eastward quite a bit. My home town was burned down 6 times by the french during that period, another time in 1870 and a last time in 1945 while the place where I was born was only burnt down thrice.