Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Australia day

Death by cosmetics is now regarded by many as more gruesome than crucifixion.

Come on. Can't be any more gruesome than the Australian wildlife.....

.....or the soap operas.

Re: Drone arrests

and it seems all they were guilty of was having a photo of a model helicopter posted on Facebook

Cardinal Richelieu would be proud of the British Constabulary.

Fred Colon detective work at it's finest.

Re: "No longer suspects"

The suspects have now been released. But there's a considerable amount of information now about them in the public domain which is very concerning. Makes a mockery of the "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument.

Their mugs splashed all over the red-tops. Peoples photos should be withheld from the papers until charged I think - but that's not conducive to selling trash news.

'If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' has already been long mocked, just ask Cliff Richard.

I think it's 'if you look like you've got nothing to hide, you must be hiding something really nefarious.'

Re: A dumb question about Alexa, Siri &c

I presume all these devices work by shipping audio to a backend where all the processing is done, right? That is, there's very little local processing going on and really a lot of opportunity for snooping / data gathering.

Yes, but it's not so much 'a lot of opportunity for' as it is 'the sole reason for'

Quite a few Smart devices I would have no problem with except that they bundle everything off to some data centre for processing and back which requires a net connection and it's generally revealed that assurances that the information is deleted once the data transaction is complete are bogus.

And you can include speech recognition in that.

Re: No one else has so...

"voice of Take That, or a boyband – the best thing Britain ever gave to us"

Are you absolutely sure you didn't forget the joke icon?

Re: "Google settled the case out of court"

Anyway, they had nothing much to lose. It's just a couple of results removed from Google, and they were fighting the removal for principle more than anything.

The principle I doubt, that includes the assumption that Google has some sort of moral standpoint - they are fighting the inevitable flood of other requests they'd have to process otherwise, nothing else - which would cost, and add to complexity of their search system.

Re: EMP gun?

Taking out the whole of London with such an "EMP" wouldn't be a bad idea - make the epicentre somewhere near parliament.

Bugger the EMP, drones are the least of our problems....if you had access to some form of THX1138 style brain-shunt to aim at Westminster that would be far more effective at restoring some form of peace and quiet.

Re: The First day of Christmas

Or if you go by the dates the shops use, Christmas starts at the beginning of September. At least that is when I saw Christmas decorations for sale in stores near to me.

Christmas decorations for sale can be easily ignored - it's when the xmas loop tape gets dug out, dusted of fluff to be played instore constantly from then on.

Re: Dear Mark

there's plenty of companies that would pay him handsomely simply to be associated with his name and his "talent".

It's a wonder, when it comes down to it, he is probably merely a one-trick pony.

Might make a good fit for executive for 'weaseling out of things' though.

Android was designed for sandboxes from the outset, every installed user application has its own user account that is isolated from everything else.

However I suspect they are simply too thick to understand it.

Maybe, but how come Android apps demanding too many permissions is still a thing.

Re: Not much to brag about

Daft in the extreme

I easily gave up after twenty plus years of smoking by switching to a vaping product.

No support groups, texts or regularly posted positive aphorism by Louise L Hay through email or snail mail.

Re: The wrong culprit

Everyone else is still hoping it can be stopped, with the ignoble exceptions of the dodgy nationalists on the continent, and that idiot Corbyn at home.

You must be the most ill-informed troll on the planet.

Re: An opening is here - but not 'Linux?

a little like saying a coal fired steam turbine is a better way of making electricity.

My network is now air gapped and happily running on Windows 7pro

That's your not steam age solution?

Sounds a lot like 'let's turn back the clock, give me my software on 8" Floppy disk or reel tape please.

Re: Old boss same as the new boss

Old boss same as the new boss

Time for a cliche, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.

I always thought Frank Herberts adjusted version of that Dalberg-Acton quote (in God Emperor of Dune. I think)

”Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”

Re: Very, very nice

So you'd prefer what, Tizen? Sailfish? Linux?

yes

But something not as slurpy and with better battery usage would do even if not quite as featureful.

not a huge green van with latest camera tech stuck on top like a fucking fairy on a Christmas tree

I'd not be surprised if there was not a rise in TV licence applications in the locality with such a van parked there for long enough.

There'd be no point going to too much effort at concealment when the local wildlife have less sense of being wary than the large bird species that used to live on Mauritius.

I expect not a fair few specimens are queued up hoping to get an interview for the next Big Brother.

Re: Theft

In French, a dog says "waouh" and in Japanese, they say "wan". Onomatopoeic words are all really in the ear of the beholder.

Snowy from Tintin used to really confuse me as a kid, I often wondered why he was always trying to get horses to slow to a stop.

Re: 'Murica never ceases...

/me notes that if EVERYONE has a firearm, criminals will be a LOT more afraid to use them to commit crimes...

If Everyone potentially has a firearm, the Police will remain jumpy on the trigger when confronting members of the public, criminal or otherwise.

Or does this come under positive herd-thinning as well?

Re: TBF...

In the 60s, 70s, 80s etc it was a good way of getting your legs blown off in Belfast

Troubles didn't kick off until '69

Re: Very disrespectful

the sacred state of matress

You mean like sleeping with his second wife on his first wife or sleeping with his third wife on his second wife....

Very patient of them to keep still, even if the act took mere seconds.

Re: Why Dublin?

In any week wandering around Dublin you will hear at least twenty to thirty languages spoken (not by tourists). Not one will be Gaeilge.

Possibly rare case then, of that Aer Lingus Dublin to Bologna flight I once caught where the safety message was in English and Gaelic only - no Italian, despite hearing conversational italian spoken on board from passengers.

Re: CCTV

Good analogy but eventually with time, the man in the tower will be ignored once the newness wears off. People might notice the town and be wary so at some point having the man in the tower becomes meaningless.

Didn't happen in the border regions of Ireland in the 80's over border towers. Or the ones on top of flats in cities like Belfast.

The resentment just continued to simmer and bubble.

Re: Waste of Electricity

It's not generally possible for legislators easily to ban arbitrary activity on grounds of electricity waste.

At least for another generation and a half when we'll be closer to Soylent Green levels of the decay of civilisation.

Up and coming requirement for waste food caddys...How soon will this include a requirement for grannys corpse to go in there too....?

Re: Tigra 07

Set them up an Arch Linux machine and you won't hear a peep from them...They'll never manage to get online to complain.

What? When netctl can connect to your wifi automatically for you at boot time?

Do the frog chorus 'useless' where you live?

Also Arch linux is nont the sort of distro you should set non-tech relatives up with in the first place.

Re: The new paradigm

will the new paradigm be personal data centers connecting to remote clouds. I am just asking for a friend.

I think the new paradigm will dumb personal devices connecting to remote cloud.

Google Facebook and the like will like it as they get to keep everyones info and mine it to their hearts content, apple for the subs and they can charge the same for a simpler cheaper device and MS for both the mining opportunities, the sub and surface devices that aren't much more than a screen connected to a net(sometimes)work chip.

Re: Let them eat cake

1) not cake but brioche, which is more a sweet bread than cake, and

2) never said by Marie Antoinette. In fact, it dates from at least 50 years before she was born

1) As a recovering brioche addict, it really depends how much butter is in the mix as to how fattening. But still not healthy to try to live on it.

2) Whether MA said it or it was merely attributed to her is of little note in this case. Whether it was an actual sentiment shared by the moneyed or the poor merely suspected that was the sentiment is another entirely - and going by the bad example set by Bombastic Bob I'm inclined to believe it was the former.

Re: Google it

What business is it of Google to censor the web?

Even if Google do curate their results, it cannot be thought of as censoring the web, unless you think the Google search portal is the web.

This the same issue that came up recently with users of Facebook complaining of facebooks practices.

If you don't like how a company operates - don't use them! Find a different search engine.