Posts by Mark 85

Re: Great Idea -- Cutting the internet, building a wall, etc.

Since I'm in the States... maybe just do this around Washington, D.C. instead of the whole country? Ok. maybe most of California, and Texas too...

Re: "Vacated their mind bowels" - a lovely phrase

Go look at the CIPA vote today and what both House and Senate and both parties agreed to. Both sides want our butts in a sling... or maybe our data in a labeled box, sitting on a shelf, that they can peer into anytime they like for whatever reason they like.

Yeah.. this article is partisan since it's about the GOP debate. The Dems turn is coming up. So far, the only literate voice I've heard on either side has been Wyden (R-OR) but he's also beholden to big data via the lobbying. So.. no matter who wins, we're screwed. The bigger debate will be over do we get kissed while this happens. </rant>

I think it has to be "double, secret, encryption"...

Re: Pre Show Ads

Let's also bring back the two cartoons (one of Roadrunner) and a newsreel shall we? I do miss the opening cartoons. The newsreel, not so much.

Re: Curious

Take a step back for a minute... replace "gravy train" and any reference to money with "power". Any TLA/FLA worth it's budget is also watching the government higher-ups as well. Not just for budget and favorable legislation. Everyone involved at high levels is power mad. Just like corporates. Money is the result of the power.

Now if we, citizens had a mind to, we could toss monkey wrenches (spanners) into the system. Have a day or two with no phone, no internet. Have a day or two of discussion using key phrases and words. Have normal days with phones and internet. It will create confusion amongst those watching the proles but not those watching the higher-ups. It also might drag a few would-be terror types, etc. out into the sunlight since patterns do come into play when analyzing trends and data.

Go have your smoke... turn off your cell and computer while doing it. If someone is really watching YOU, they'll get nervous is suddenly you drop off their radar.

Re: How is this an article?

Read the fine print at the bottom left... "This article was first published on TheConversation.com. " Thus, not an El Reg article.

Shucks, I hoping he'd get a Vtech board member for company. Oh well... if wishes were fishes....

Re: Has the Flat Earth Society ever explained this?

You forgot: Six - Being a Republican CongressCritter from Texas.

Re: It all evens out

True, except your flying in one class lower than coach, the food is probably not that good, and the flight attendants are none existent. But what a ride....

@someone else -- Re: Kieran-

Back then, I knew a lot of folks that never bothered with the license for their CB as who was going to go to the trouble to arrest them.

I predict this will end the same way. Why bother to register it? If it crashes, no one will come to your door since your name isn't on it. The FAA isn't come down your street and check your house, etc. for a drone. Why bother?

This whole thing smells of theater... and maybe a power grab for some value of "power".

Re: Jackson might have a different agenda...

Exactly. His plans are pure profit for himself (oh... there's other investor also). By doing what it looks like Yahoo is doing (selling off the core and keeping the Alibaba investment) they'll be implementing everything he wants. Just a few employees left, small real estate footprint, etc. Oh... and no free lunches for staff.

Personally, I think "activist investors" ought to be shot on sight as all they ever do is strip a company down to the bones and let was is left rot as the investor gleefully count his/her profits.

Re: Write your line of business apps to be browser based

Well said, but in this day and age, it's cheaper to outsource such a project and call the result "development" or an "app" rather than to write (or pay for) a real progam that doesn't need a browser.

Re: But freedom...

No, our governmental leaders* are all about their power.. both personal and political. We don't have a thinker in the bunch. Trump might be the closest thing but he's so busy screaming for attention and making inane comments, his thoughts are lost. Come to think of it... he's just like the rest them. About as useful as.. boobs on a nun.

* Leaders in this context is sarcasm. To me, a leader is someone I'd follow into combat and the only place I'd follow any our "leaders" is through the minefield, providing they make to the other side.

Re: If Curiosity can scoop sand...

It just needs to find lots of water and then it can make the sandcastle. Cowabunga... surf's up!!!! Oh wait...

Re: Jack Ma can't make the paper more "independent" even if that is his wish.

And yes, CEO's and billionares have been known to disappear in China. There was an article in, IIRC, Forbes recently where a CEO and two board members left the building and weren't seen for a week. Seems they were "helping" with an investigation. Picked up by whatever LEO in China without warning, no notice, no answers to the families. At least these got to return to work eventually. Sometimes, they stay "disappeared".

I suspect that Jack Ma is very beholden to the government and knows his place and how to word things and not get to big for his britches (Americanism).

Re: no winners yet?

Google shows me both.... <sigh>

Re: US public "want safety over privacy".

Go a step further.. someone should show us statistics on this. I keep hearing these asses preaching it but no stats to back it up.

Goebbels was right about preaching a lie long enough and everyone will believe it.***

*** I'm not invoking or using Godwin's law... just quoting a past master of propaganda.

Re: Do No Evil?

Nah.. they just broke a few fingers. The screams of pain and him/her walking around the office wearing a cast got the point across.

Re: If anything can go wrong...

Murphy is one mean bastard.

I thought I had, and then noticed it was sitting there in my outbox.... I'll go do penance before heading to the pub.