Posts by auburnman 1230 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2011
More and more hotels are wising up to the fact that easy internet access is fast becoming as expected of the room as a bed is. I would say the day is approaching where discovering the net connection is not included is looked on with the same disdain as finding out there's no en suite in your room.
If they want to keep charging for Wifi and signal jamming, I say let them and watch the customers vote with their wallets.
'James Comey went as far as to describe encrypted communications as "something expressly to allow people to place themselves above the law."'
Perhaps the companies being discussed would care to sue the FBI for slander? They've got the legal muscle from the patent wars, and this could be a rare case where public opinion would be likely to be behind the corporate monoliths. If they did get a backdown from the G-Men, it would send a strong message to the politicians determined to go down this road.
As an aside, shouldn't Cameron be sucking up to the corporate monoliths and their big coffers in an election year?* It's not like the oil companies or banks are going to have a lot of funds in 2015, I'm surprised he's still going after the internet mob.
*In terms of typical behaviour, not the right thing to do
Casinos tend to take a very dim view of you bringing a supercomputing cluster to the Poker tables. If you genuinely 'solved' a Poker variant you'd be better off teaming up with casinos to either prevent their marks from exploiting your method or putting on a spectacle game where punters line up to try their luck at beating the 'infallible' computer.
Because creating a system that can "learn" is the objective of the exercise. Sure it would be much easier to strap a decision tree to a probability calculator and call it a day, but that's not what they're after. The poker game is nothing more than a simplified field of play for them to prove their concept on. A framework for a true "learning" program could be ported to boundless applications and possibly earn someone some serious $£$£.
But they're negating that range by saying that scope of growth is over, so the broader it is the better the measure. I can infer they expect future growth to be single digit or negative (or technically triple-digit or more if I wanted to be ultra-pedantic.) It's more like saying "Below 1000 feet" as a measure of altitude.
I can see the potential for phones and mobile internet diverging again for some users - snap up an old school 'dumb' phone like this one if days of standby are important to you, and a small tablet or smartphone for your internet needs. With them separate you can hammer the battery on the internet device and not worry about losing your communication capacity.
In theory, Fundamental rights cannot be signed away, full stop. In practice there are grey areas like the ones mentioned above. The key is with these clauses being in civil contracts, all the other party has on you is - potentially - breach of contract if you sue without the agreed arbitration or break an NDA.
In the example of suing before going to arbitration, assuming you have a semi-valid sounding grievance a decent lawyer could argue this shows the other party has breached the contract first and you have no reason or obligation to honour a contract when the other side isn't holding up their end*.
Queue the legal Merry-go-round.
*However this means time & cost to construct the argument on sound legal footing & opens up more options for counter-attack in the courtroom, so you could equally argue it still serves well as a deterrent.
I don't think you're entirely right there. You can easily have a bait-and-switch where the bait was an ephemeral promise that never existed in the first place - having the bait technically available (but with the highly ineligible/tiny stock amount 'get out' of your choice) is just a loophole that stops the particular example of bait-and-switch being discussed from also being Fraud and/or False Advertising.
I downvoted, not because I'm "another angry loner who thinks script kiddies should be allowed to DDOS anything on the internet", but because the original commenter is exactly right: that kid's life is completely fucked. On top of whatever punishment the courts dish out, he has a criminal record, probably an entry in the sex offenders register, and no work experience. AT BEST his future is shelf stacking or some other minimum wage menial job, more likely a life of crime as no one will touch him with a barge pole. All stemming from some petty vandalism when he was 16? Excuse me if I can't feel good about that.
BOFH will lose the Battle, but win the War eventually. Now that Gina is his boss we may see a sexual harrassment angle in upcoming episodes, although whether or not that will backfire I couldn't say. It's even possible that Simon will retreat/resign/fake his own death (again) and leave Gina running the show while he takes an extended holiday, like the brief era of the PFY's ascendance to the throne.
Have to tack my agreement on here. Indeed if the petition really does include the phrase "The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points" then I think Rockstar could have a fairly solid Libel/Slander case.
Not that I think they'd take that route, I'm sure they just want to walk away from all this idiocy after the Hot Coffee fiasco.
Why don't you trial a flag/checkbox for the comments like "This comment contains corrections to the article?" and have those comments automatically emailed to the duty editor when posted? Much easier/more natural from a commentard standpoint. And having it linked to a profile means you could revoke the ability to submit corrections if you get nutters correcting every article with "9-11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB ORCHESTRATED BY ELVIS BECAUSE WALL STREET FOUND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MOON LANDINGS" or somesuch.
"shown to be primarily for the purpose of facilitating online copyright infringement"
Okay, that doesn't actually use the word prove, but it's strongly implied the intent is to have some due process. Of course what the law will actually say once the politicians and lobbyists finish warping it will likely be a different story.
Good Lord - maybe this is Google's long term strategy; fragment AdBlock until you wind up with AdBlock plus, AdBlock Edge, AdBlock Pure, AdBlock Super ad infinitum and no one knows which one is best to install and the coding talent is diluted between dozens of competing efforts.
I suspect the trolls would never actually initiate court action, aside from being far too expensive they wouldn't want to push their victims to seek professional representation or to put their case in front of a Judge. Either scenario would see them ripped to shreds.
The only way they'll end up in court is with a suit against them, either a class action like this or if they balls up and target someone with money or legal qualifications.
"So, like to admit you got that wrong then?"
Not particularly.
The Swedish courts have a warrant for his arrest. (which has just been upheld)
Interpol has a warrant for his arrest.
The UK courts agree that there is sufficient grounds to extradite him to Sweden.
I would imagine they also have a warrant for his arrest out given he skipped bail.
Ergo, he is going to be arrested and held as soon as he leaves the embassy, for bail-jumping at least even if the Swedish charges were to magically melt away. Questioning him in the embassy accomplishes the square root of fuck all for the Swedish prosecutors, so why would they bother? It would be bad precedent to pander to a fugitive in this way.
This has been said a thousand times and I can't believe I'm letting myself be sucked back in but here goes: It's not about interviewing him, it's about charging him with the crimes he is accused of - the interview is a mandatory part of Swedish law that must occur before he can be charged. There were warrants out for arrest years ago. Swedish officials coming to the UK would accomplish nothing and would probably actually be counterproductive.
"Gavin Patterson, BT chief executive, has previously accused Sky of "buying" customers with its special offers."
Clearly BT are incensed at the prospect of the commoners getting a benefit from dealing with a corporation. Don't Sky know you just lock the peasants into a 2 year contract (3 when we can slither it through) and ignore them until they are free to leave?
Even if they perfect the gripping operation so it is optimum for 'normal' building surfaces, I think they'll run into issues with the grip pads becoming clogged. Try it in the real world and the supergrip is bound to get clogged with dust and grit and become unable to make contact with the climbing surface. Possibly the next step in the technology will be 'switching off' the grip when it's not hugging a wall so crap doesn't accumulate.
I loved FC3, my main gripe with it was the speed of spread and deadliness of the fire. The most annoying bit was when you caught fire there was a delay between the 'oh shit I'm on fire' animation/damage and the 'heal' button switching over to the 'Extinguish fire' function. More often not I'd try to pat myself down too early and inject a healing syringe. Then I had to wait for a cooldown period on the button WHILE I'M BURNING to put myself out.
Having said that I did love FC3 and I'll probably pick this up. I hope they add some better mission replayability this time though.
'Keeping costs low' is relative. I would say £110Bn a year is a (financially) high cost but we gladly pay it to live in a society where the sick aren't left behind. It only looks like a low cost in comparison to the mind-boggling US system.
One of these days someone over there will work out you could probably fly a patient to Canada, put them up in a hotel for a week and buy a minor operation from a private practice there cheaper than the US does it. Would be interesting if someone like Musk tried to build a business model around it.
Argos seriously need to get with the times. Laminated catalogues and slow broken touchscreens aren't cutting it any more. They should have a decent Argos app and WiFi in every store so you can smoothly browse, reserve & pay with your phone whether there or at home.
Also they should be partnering with Amazon/others for the locker thing where you can have online goods delivered to a store. Their entire business is basically storing stock in a warehouse, a partnership that would bring extra revenue and footfall should be a no-brainer.
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