Posts by Mark 85

Re: Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton

Would wrapping it in bacon be a good thing then?

Outrageous indeed. Yet, Tim W. used to postulate that increased access did work for such things as weather reports, fishing reports, comms in general among the farmers and hunter/gatherer societies. The difference was/is as far as I can tell... Worstall was pushing a free or limited Internet. This "service" of Zuck's wouldn't allow for what Worstall was pushing.

Re: Anti-Trust suit impending.

I would hope there will be a lawsuit at some point. If this is game they're playing, there had damn well better be "non-OS'd" machines available. I wouldn't want to buy a new PC, pay MS their duty and then load up a non-MS OS. This almost smells like what they pulled a long time ago... lock up the OEM's and you end up paying MS whether you use their OS or not.

Damn twatdangles.

Re: Desparate or Greedy

True, except for the ME-163, the rocket plane. It used hydrazine. Quite a few went "boom" on launch.

It's not just the UK that have them. We have our share over here in the States and the crop coming up for election... let's just say that pesticides applied to the swamp where they breed failed.

Re: Bah!

then treat the people in it as valued human beings?

You obviously think that master/slave behavior no longer exists. The only respect the higher ups have is for the bottom-line or anything else that's self-serving. The rest of us are mere wastes of profit.

Re: Waste

But...but... they look cool.

Have an upvote anyway... you're right, this does seem to be another folly.

Re: It's a pyramid scheme by design

I can't comment on the validity of your statements as they sound reasonable. The bigger stumbling block down the road is the finite limit on the specie. I've been reading where some rather large institutions are attempting to gather as many as they can. If the coins are, in essense, locked up and not circulating, then they become nothing more than a version of grandpa's money hidden in his mattress. Unusable, basically. Given the limit on the number, we're back where the world was a couple centuries ago with money in circulation being finitely limited.

I'm not saying "unlimited" currency is an answer either. I have no answers, just observations and questions.

Re: Meaballs through the looking glass

Religion started as a way for humans to "explain things".. sun rising, setting, etc. Then it got a dose of "I'm important.. 'cause <SDIETY> loves me or promised me a better place. If we look at today, FB and Twatter are in many ways replacing religion since everyone can be self-important and just know that their followers love them.

Yes, the Pastafarians are taking themselves way too seriously although the colander on the head is a wonderful protest statement, it falls under the "hey, look at me! I'm important" thing. I one person does it, it's part of the joke. If more do it... it's the "hey.. I'm important". thing.

Given the size and nature of the universe.. all lives don't matter except to those close to them. I'm not even sure planets matter in the overall scheme of things.

Queue the DV's for affronting religion and those who think they are important. But before you do, think about this... every "leader", either of government or industry, who thought they were important and had the answers in the past are all dead. Their world is a part of history for good or bad. In the end, they didn't matter either. The current "leaders" are facing that same prospect in the long run.

<kicks philosophical soapbox to the corner>

Re: 1st

With US pilots, you can tell the difference as to who was Air Force and who was Navy. The AF pilots land gently and us up every bit of runway. The Navy drop the thing on the threshold firmly and brake hard.

Anecdote.. back in the early 70's I was the tech writer on project for the USAF for automated flying as well as take-offs and landings. They had C-140 that had what seemed to be mainframe for computer control. Fascinating project. It could actually land, back up or turn around and go to the end of the runway and take off again on it's own. And this was before GPS.

Plus the whole point of the cloud is multiple locations for redundancy.

If the cloud were as the marketing types paint it... that would be true. But this was a data center...not the "cloud". Which, if we look behind the marketbabble... is theoretically a redundant data center.

Re: Painful reading

We're trying, dammit. We're trying...

I was thinking that also. Kind of makes you wonder what the survey takers were trying to find out and for who. This would seem to make every business a target and there's a target rich environment for the miscreants to hit. Some might even be worth hitting several times.

Re: Accountants are the issue

Well... they also have lobbyists to ensure that nothing like this ever happens. If a CongressCritter or other elected official even suggested it, their career would be over in a flash.

I was wondering who was going to write the "letter".. now we know.

Re: Very Interesting...

If the courts allow this, it could get very interesting. popcorn anyone?

Re: IofT

Maybe they expect a post to their FB page from the thermostat telling everyone how nice and warm the house is?

You've got a very valid point and have me wondering the same thing. I guess I don't get it..I must not be hipster enough.

Re: Families divided over police support

And neither will Anonymous. Given that it's Thailand, the powers that be probably aren't worried about a few websites being knocked about. On the other hand, if they defaced the pages with slurs against the King, the crap would hit the fan....

Re: Just like the Great Lakes between US & Canada

Let's not forget the zebra mussel which is spreading the other way. Ships discharging water ballast in the Great Lakes deposits those little bastards and then they (politicos, etc.) changed the direction of the flow of the Chicago River....

Maybe he does... depends on who's yanking his strings. The catch is, whether he gets it or not, you'll soon be "getting it" if this thing passes. We have the same situation here in the States. All our comms and data via the Internet belong to someone else.

No that would require a degree of competency.

Actually, PassiveSmoking is pretty much spot on... Prior to the focus on security via Snowden and a lot of high-profile intrusions, both the spooks and miscreants were happy. Either by design or ineptitude, they had access. By ineptitude of the management types via profit motive, paperwork, etc. the spooks still get what they want as do the miscreants.

What we have here is a classic.. the lawmaking authorities demand privacy, etc. to prevent the miscreants getting what they want and yet, these same lawmakers don't want security so the agencies can make us safer (for some value of "safer"). Given the maths, etc. involved, you can't have it both ways.

Re: Attack on free speech?

Of course legislating for sense is never going to work...

There it is in a nutshell. People have no discretion, no thoughts about anyone else. This is trying to legislate that. If it does bring about discussion as Mr. Carney would like, it still won't change anything.

Common sense. Respect. Discretion. Thinking of others, victims families in this case. These have all but disappeared. The world is a sadder place because of it.

Re: RDP with no login?

It does make you wonder why they set that as default.. but given the Win10 is being pushed, maybe there's a method to the madness.

Re: Injecting their own info?

You will obey in the USA

If not already, obedience will also soon be demanded in your country. It's big freakin' virus. Starts in one place and infects them all. Mutates, starts in another place and goes around the chain. Rinse, repeat.... the only thing changes is the names of the politicians, the companies, and the letters for the agency.

Re: Would have expected 7 arrests

Would the suspects all have to be female and related by birth? Just asking.....

Re: AI problems and solutions

Given the two speakers mentioned in the article, I suspect that AI Solutions for world problems relate directly to a) advertising sales and b) their own corporate profits.

Re: Popcorn time

Faceborg doesn't strip that info from the photo before posting it? I thought they were doing that but only after tucking the info away into their product database.