Posts by GrumpyOldBloke

They fenced off the grassy knoll remember. National security!

Re: So Australia is....

Don't need brown envelopes in Australia, corruption at the top is more or less legal and certainly expected. At least two state and a federal elections coming up and the worlds best economic managers haven't got any money. So come buy a piece of paradise. A (surprisingly) small political donation is all that is required.

Re: Not just law enforcement

And we haven't even got to 5-eyes and the data sharing implications there yet.

Perhaps AC got down voted for his fake news viewpoint. While flat earth is fairly easy to disprove, homeopathy - the traditional system of medicine in many parts of Asia for thousands of years - cannot be dismissed so easily. The scientific approach would be for AC to propose his theory, construct and conduct a series of tests and observations to prove his theory and then publish the results to let others pick over the method and the conclusions. One wrong step and his theory is disproved and we all go back to a state of healthy skepticism of all such claims - for and against.

Simply claiming as AC implies that homeopathy is idiotic with no supporting evidence is mere belief or prejudice - what we might call fake news - and worthy of many down votes.

Re: Evidence of vain hope ?

Unless it is evidence of the demands government is putting on the economy. Santa has a list of who's been naught and who's been nice and Dutton obviously wants that list at any price.

Did your patent describe a mechanism to remain a viable financial entity while trolling said large companies in one of the most expensive games on Earth.

Re: Thank you.

While you are waiting on Google to add your blood chemistry to the list of things it shares about you, have you seen the current shoulder patch solution?

Referring to an article from Feb-17 in an august medical journal:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4225676/Diabetes-patch-ends-pain-finger-prick-tests.html

Edit: I see Noel Morgan's comment below also refers to this device.

Re: How many orders of magnitude

Of course this is not about playing Dota. This is about playing WW3 Syria, Iran, Russia and China when the other half of the team get the robots up and running. The skills learnt here are already useful, not useful enough against teams of humans but that is useful to know as well.

Re: Bah!

That's unfair. The wall is still a work in progress.

Trump is just waiting for enough Latin Americans to arrive on US soil to build his side of it.

Re: Well, it's Microsoft

Patents, patents, patents!

Re: Hard as I try...

> and mandatory programming standards

There's your problem right there.

If you criminalise side channel attacks then only criminals will have side channel attacks.

Re: Every one

Perhaps the third one is that you can't run trade surpluses if you are the global reserve currency.

Re: Wasn't ...

And yet here is the bride again looking lovely in off-white with aging husband number two. A telco that thinks owing a media company will bring the customers flocking. Two lonely hearts whose only cultural fit is that they both remember the good times. AT&T's logo looks a bit like the little blue pill so I am sure the old boy has one last ye-haa left in hm before the hairpiece slips off, the glasses fog up, his back gives out and his shareholder offspring wonder where the inheritance went.

Re: Don't forget

> better results than his predecessors

The Chinese will have considered the costs and the benefits and will already have the workarounds and the honeypots in place. The importance of replicating rather than buying US technology has just been reaffirmed and China now has a 'clean' company to facilitate its acquisition. Independent companies to trade with Iran and Nth Korea will already be set up. This is a $1.4B donation to give the US president face in return for ... ?

Nope, not yet. After such a long time in the air have to first work out how to get them to Turkey for maintenance.

Re: Which is more expendable?

> 4-5 years, you could get a new plane a lot quicker than that.

Any other plane maybe.

Re: Meanwhile...

We haven't seen what sort of bandwidth the sexbots will need for cloud processing and updates. Always on 5-senses processing and responses. I expect those things to be hungry (or I will wan't my money back).

A conscientious ejector?

The residential evening internet peak has been known about for years. The counter to it is to diversify your customer base so that the investment required to support daytime business customers can be reused at night. However, if you don't have many daytime business customers to justify further investment or are constrained by poor financial planning or technology choices then I guess there is no other choice but to blame (implied) young people. It is what all governments in Australia do and they seem to get away with it.

Re: Cost

Opportunities: Mining the code for patents. Mining the code for good ideas that can be re-purposed for the Microsoft brand. Mining the code in order to build a better code writer AI (with patents) and attempt to lock (Enterprise) development into Microsoft tools. Copyright opportunities. Talent opportunities. Mindshare opportunities. Marketing, financial and expert assistance to projects that favour Microsoft brands.

That's the cost. If an intelligent nation had to build one would they end up with an F35.

Re: A President-For-Life Communist Country? Read Some History Please.

@ Dave 126. Not sure China is at ease with the president for life concept being reintroduced, memories of Mao and the cult of personality. There was considerable debate within China on this topic before the outcome was officially accepted. President Xi may have a different definition of at-ease than the rest of us.This inability to suffer a free exchange of ideas, the norm throughout Asia and a growing problem in the West, pretty much condemns a culture of innovation and that is before we get to the myriad of problems with connections and corruption.

Re: Found the solution. Tim Cook give me a shout if you are reading this

I read the first bit "It consists of a wire between the headphones"

And thought, yup that'll do it.

Re: A rate of 100,000 a month

- spare ntd

- book of excuses

- first aid kit

I vote for shrewdest negotiator in history, goes nicely with the stable genius theme

Though at the end of all this I expect at least half of the Earth to be glass.

Don't put the 6P under CPU load or you may discover the boot loop of death.

Re: There is a reason for no one achieving this.

The problem is Google not Microsoft. It would be easy to include RDP in the Android build, we already have Microsoft's MTP so why not one more MS protocol. RDP functions can be added to rooted Android devices so there is no great technical barrier to overcome. Google's vision for Android is a data slurping toy for selfies and cat videos.

Yup, publicity whores. They do like to be seen with famous people

Re: Be Afraid

Hopefully the work being done by Get-Up will put an end to that horror scenario.

However, the small government libs are sure to have others standing behind Peter to take up the mantle of a large all powerful federal apparatus. After all that is where the money is.

Re: America Fuck Yeah

America was never about the little guys. If you weren't in with the big guys you were prey.

I am not aware of Linux slowing down over time.

Windows, most definitely.

Linux, no.

Re: Making Non-compliant Encryption Illegal

Without constant access to the surrendered keys to try decrypt every message, by the time the government voyeurs arrive at your name on the list it will be too late to realise that you were non-confirming and past communications are out of reach. To mitigate this, keys cannot be held in some magic government assured escrow but must be on the network and constantly tested against every message.

Re: Put a stake in it

Our stakeholders are our most important asset.

Re: "Nobody uses it..."

IPV6 is supported by most major operating systems. However, if you do try to use it on your network you run into non-standard IPV6 implementations; Android in general and Samsung Android in particular.

Re: Couple of million bucks?

Why bother? Learn how to gain a political advantage over your opponents. Donation shakedown. If it can elect Trump then maybe the LNP have a chance. Help educate our politicians that the internet isn't just for pr0n. Opportunities for our ministry of everything. In short, something clever happened and Canberra is scrambling to understand it and to see how it can either profit from it or make it illegal.

Re: Only $247.5m?

$247.5m Enough to make a video, stock up the drinks cabinet, call the girls and begin lobbying for the real money.

Looking at the following site there appear to be a number of states with childhood vaccination rates lower than CA. CA already has SB277 removing personal and religious belief exemptions - with reports that drug companies donated millions to CA lawmakers before the vaccine debate. Perhaps the publicity around SB277 caused some parents to begin weighing the risks of vaccination against the benefits.

www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/immunizations/Pages/Across-America.aspx

A disaster, for who?