Posts by Voland's right hand

Re: Stazi

One partial explanation is that extreme right and extreme left ideological views are currently leaving a vacuum in the sensible centre ground.

Not quite. The "sensible middle ground" stopped being "sensible" and became utterly corrupt in both the moral and the literal sense of this word. Clinton, Blair, Schroeder, Barrosso and Co have tainted the middle ground so badly in the eyes of Joe Averag voter that he is happy to give his vote to a Nut( with or without al).

Yes, we definitely have a vacuum in terms of middle ground, but not vacuum of morally corrupt Fast Tonies (of the Ice age and British politics fame), but people who have a middle ground policy (not middle ground market stall in the temple).

Until we have any people will vote for the Witch of the West or various Nut(al)s.

Re: Better build more ships, Britain!

Better build more ships, Britain!

No. Better arm them.

Britain is the ONLY top-10 military/naval power that has NO OFFENSIVE NAVAL ARMAMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. At all.

1. The Russians have invested ungodly amount into that and probably are the clearly leaders in this field with the various Sunburn/Onyx versions (in addition to the electronic upgrades to the old Granit/Basalat).

2. India has the supersonic Brahmos developed jointly with the Russians.

3. China has bought and copied the Sunburn and has some indigenous development of missiles that go supersonic and evasive in final approach.

4. France is building next generation of anti-ship missiles. So is Germany, Sweden, Italy and all other weapon export manufacturing usual suspects.

5. Even Iran is developing these as fast as it can and some of its latest stuff does not look like wet firecrackers.

Even minor powers are looking at what they can cobble together in this area.

Britain has f*** all has f*** all planned and does not even have ships designed to be able to accommodate anything in the future. It is not developing anything either.

Re: Good luck getting a CM ROM on this

All Bananas are mediatek and this one looks like using the same SoC as banana M3. So the source for this SoC is available. Now the firmware for the baseband, etc - you might as well forget it.

Re: Do they still sell "Conservative Party Manifesto" during Elections ?

They do.

But they do not sell Mein Kampf and Stalin's speeches so you cannot verify where most of it is plagiarized from nowdays.

Re: Well...

It'll take some time for the concept of a VPN to trickle into the minds of the gubbermint.

Nope - it has trickled already. It was in the original act.

And then they will ban them.

A ban on VPNs for non-business use was in one the first drafts and early inter-department consultations.

So, what were you saying once again?

Re: Spam them?

Why SPAM? Send ransomware back. Most of us get 2-3 samples a day so getting a kit to send back should not be an issue.

Re: You don't mention...

Regardless......what FUCKWIT thought that giving any phone full control of a near $100,000 vehicle was a good idea?

Worse than that. Full control authorized by a remote 3rd party which is @ Tesla central.

1. You do not own your 100K+ car. Elon does. He HOLDS the keys - he issues the auth tokens.

2. Consumer phones have had a crypto module and support for storing there strong keys since some times around Nokia N95 - mid-90es. Business specific stuff like the early XDA - since earlier. It is possible to create a secure channel between a phone and another device. F.E. Car. Even over the internet. If you DO NOT INVOLVE A 3RD PARTY. This is the design flaw here. Elon's Oauth server is the odd man out. It does not belong. It may provide you with assistance on where your car is, what it reported ONE WAY about itself, etc. It should not be the entity which authenticates you. Ever. The authentication should be simultaneous with establishing the secure channel to the car and use something which is proven to be secure and not sniffable by anyone. It should also be done mutually - the phone must authenticate the car and the car must authenticate the phone. It is a trivial RSA exchange where Elon should not be included. By design.

Re: And on, and on, and on, it goes

All you need in a remotely-controllable TRV head is, effectively, a solenoid

Nope - will not work. Working fully functional solenoid "cut-off" off flow if installed on all radiators may mean a potential full flow cut-off, overpressure and a leak or damaged pump. In fact, even if you cut-off all but one you may damage your pump - depends on what is the flow setting. Also, a good pump will push against the trv valve so much that you cannot against that with a solenoid and batteries - you will drain them in 10 minutes.

This is why programmable TRVs (I have ~ 6 of those in the house and they make quite a bit of difference on the gas bill) use a small step motor. The motor turns a very conventional scew which pushes the valve on/off.

Re: When you've done the penalty, that should be it.

Not even that.

1. Clean criminal record was not a mandatory condition of employment and part of the contract. WTF?

2. The chap asked (rather pointy) questions on this to verify it during his interview and had that confirmed. WTF?

3. Disclosure of criminal record was not part of the contract. WTF?

The employer fired him not for having one but for "not having the integrity to tell about it" while not having this as a requirement.

I suspect he would have won an employment tribunal in most countries and/or a contract law lawsuit.

Oh, and Murdoch's media can go suck a sour one here. He would have won regardless of what legal recourse did he chose for the purpose. The f*** fascist little sh*ts are not the law and they need to learn that they should abide by the law just like everyone else. In every country where they have a version of the Volkisher Beobachter.

Re: "The report does caution that the bots may not be very intelligent."

My exact thought.

It does not take a lot to teach a bot to gyrate (or thrust) its navel to comply with the entry requirements for a music video channel. +/- some leather pants.

So the fact that the bots are nowhere as intelligent as needed for other industries is not an issue.

Yeah... Can't touch this.. gyrate ... Can't touch this... gyrate... Hit me baby one more time...gyrate...

Re: This is payback time

Yeah not really. A 25 year old carrier should have all such issues long since sorted out.

Yes and no. It has had the propulsion system candidate for an overhaul and replacement every effing time it was in dock including a drop-in replacement by a modified nuclear unit from one of their subs.

It was postponed every time for budget reasons up to this time. This time it was postponed for political reasons as it was pulled out of dock on the Syria voyage one year ahead of schedule and the propulsion replacement postponed once again (for the 6+ time) until next time.

Re: Spanking or caning that leaves a visible mark is out, as well as anything involving urination

Do not think so: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/secretary-2003-3

In any case, what do you expect to happen when a soft porn newspaper + video peddler whose business is on the wane becomes a major political sponsor. I would not expect anything different.

Re: Obligatory HAL reference

Given that the Nazis sterilised deaf adults

Most likely same as the Soviets. There were different rules inside and outside the house. KGB ran full scale research on radiology and genetics while officially supporting the party line that this is an invention of the Capitalist propaganda.

The Gestapo employed a small number of deaf people who had professional lip reading ability exactly because the best lip readers are deaf. I have come across references to this in both Soviet and Western historical works so I have no reasons to believe it is not true (Soviets were lamenting that they had a couple of agents in Poland picked this way). It's been a while - I came across this 20+ years ago so cannot remember the exact source.

Re: Well...

Trump won with an extremely low marketing spend

So the nasty adverts sponsored by Thiel, Luckey and other people who are on the boards of other corporations are just figments of our imagination. Nice to know that we are living in an illusion. Where is the blue pill?

Re: Blimey!

At least there, there's rarely a surprise

Hehe... you never had to experience the results of throwing a pack of activated yeast in one. It used to be one of the fav "national park pranks" during in my youth.

No

No, A+/- shows if a file has been backed up or not.

Other filesystems on other OS-es have support for backup selection attributes (if memory serves me right VMS is one of them), DOS does not.

Re: oh yea..

It is important to remember that English is a second language for many people.

You sorely missed @DavCrav's point.

The original poster pretended to be an American worker. With all due respect, if he has _THAT_ level of English he should be replaced. Like it or not English is the standard technical communications language in 90% of the world. If you are _THAT_ illiterate you have no right to complain that someone more literate than you has taken your job using a program which is supposed to bring QUALIFIED labor

Now, does that program bring in QUALIFIED labour - that is an entirely different story.

Re: Does that include advertising?

If China suppresses all the fake news,

You never lived on the other side of the Iron Curtain and it shows.

The trick is not to provide fake news, the trick is to provide selective news. Example: A leaflet circulated during Andropov's days in Schools: "Откуда исходит угроза миру" (Who is Threatening World Peace"). I still keep it for an essential lesson for my kids on how the world works.

Said leaflet had a very detailed breakdown on state of the art USA weaponry at the time - Ticonderoga missile cruisers, B1-B, etc. And how they "threaten world peace". What it missed is that Ticonderoga Mk 1 is pretty much a 1:1 equivalent with Slava class and Frunze class nuclear Battlecruisers (Peter the Great is an example) will wipe the floor with it. Ditto for B1B vs Tu-160. But you do not put such things in a news item. You FILTER them - you see, here is the threat to world peace and we are not threatening it, no, really no, no.

Xinhua is a fine example of said approach - it usually does not openly lie. It is just very selective on which truth the proles can have access to.

Re: 1000 real people

involve more than creating new posts

You do not alter reality by creating new posts. There are enough people out there to do that already.

You do that by selectively deleting or promoting them.

Re: Yarrgh

Want the latest episode of The Grand Tour? £1 direct from the production company.

You are misunderstanding how such "premium exclusive content" is marketed. It is not something you will get from the producer. Ever. It was commissioned specifically as a leader for a large content bundle by a content bundle seller and it will not be made available on a PAYG basis.

Re: Quality research

Previous studies in the area had datasets in excess of 100000 - the whole "bio-measurement" (as it is incorrect to call it biometrics) database from criminal identification using the Lambroso method has been fed into statistical analysis a gazillion times.

Each and every time the idea that "this persons shape equates to increased probability of criminality" has failed to pass more detailed statistical analysis.