Posts by Mark 85

Re: g+

It's the "added benefits" g-spot....

The cultural one is the bigger issue. After WWII, here in the States, the women who had been working in the mills, building tanks and airplaines, etc. basically were told "thank you.. now go home so the men coming back will have a job". That mindset got established hard in their generation and it still prevails.

Re: And the point of this article is?

Indeed, it has the feel, but he makes valid points. Why should we have to reset everything on IoT? Power failure? Turn of the switch? Unplug it and move it? It's all connected so it should boot back to where it was.

Having said that, no I am not buying any IoT item. Lights, toasters, refrigerators, etc.... no...no... and no.

Re: Next ...

While you are correct, my brain registered this as a food product here in the states, "ice cream" has a specific definition. As I recall, it's "ice cream" with a certain percentage cream, then "ice milk", then "frozen confection" or something like that.....

Once upon a time, McDonald's called a certain drink a "milk shake". When they took the milk out, it was still called that. Due to the uproar, the FDA got involved. So.. if there's no milk (or below a certain percentage, it has to be called a "shake".

I too, have had some remarkable things called ice cream in other countries but how they regulate this stuff, I have no idea.

Re: What they didn't mention...

Does this mean we'll be able to order one through Alibaba? There were a lot of interesting and fun games from back then...

Re: Not mentioned in the article...

Ah.. the reality... this will not sit well with the "thinking of the children" and "my god, we need to do something about terrorism" crowd who will suddenly start screaming in the media and thus "guide" the appropriate legislative types. The gas cloud that remains after the "boom". It has to go somewhere...

I'm wondering if these tech will be turned into clothing to handed out to all passengers to contain the results of exploding underwear?

Re: Its because the US is broke...

It's a very sad state of affairs. I'm not sure it's because we're broke, but more from politics. There's some very influential people running amok in Congress who base things like funding on their own, shall we say, twisted view of the world. At this point in time, I'm surprised NASA hasn't been done away with just from the sky fairy botherers in Congress.

Re: Tragic

It's called politics. Many countries, including the US are still pissed about the deposing of the Shah... who was an all around nasty guy like Saddam, but for those pragmatics, they did keep the balance of power in the region under control.

As for the daesh now running amok.. our buddies the Sauds are responsible that nightmare. That bit of history way back when the royal family consolidated their power and started funding them points the direction this is headed. Regime changes in the mid-East are never a good thing in the long term.

Re: "Got the decorators in"

The place I work in is NOT blue, white, or glass... it's known as the pastel corral. There is no blue in the carpet. The corral part because it's a call center and the worker bees are the cattle. The pastel part because every wall is a different color... green, yellow, orange, blue, and then there's the infamous "Barney walls" by the brass offices.. purple. Yes, some are known to hum the Barney song on the way into see manglement.

Re: So he accessed a computer system without authorization?

Misread it, withdrew my post. I was under the impression he did use the ill-gotten passwords.

Looks like someone drank the corporate Kool-Aid. or is on the corporate payroll

FTFY

Re: "pay for development of the annotations using state tax dollars"

Take it a step further... if the laws are "copyrighted", then if you know the law without having a legal copy, you're guilty of a copyright/piracy law.

If you are arrested, you can plead "not knowing" there was a law because the law is "protected" and not freely disseminated.

Ah....this could be fun to watch.. pass the popcorn please.

Re: I wish more commentards were interested in this

Apparently our fellow commentards don't care as much as we do.

I'm not sure what you mean.. about the domain or the antics of ICANN. Domains are pretty much meaningless in the overall scheme of things unless you're buying one or own one or will profit from the buying and selling of them. And then there's cybersquatters and the way domains being used and abused.

However, the ICANN show is a different can of worms. Corruption on top of a no accountability.. decisions made in the back room. These are the ethics issues and need to be addressed or ICANN needs to go away. FWIW, the UN's WIPO running things probably wouldn't be any better.

Re: Problem is simply

that people that makes cars have no idea about IT.

Or about making cars. Remember when Lee I. took over Chrysler the second time.. he fired a whole lot of beancounters and asked for people who wanted to make cars. When he left, the company hired beancounters again... and the downward spiral began.

Re: If politicians have nothing to hide...

Even when they are 'thinking of the children'?????

Re: Smidgeon as a unit of length

RCH...Royal C*nt Hair

Around these parts where I am, it's Red C*nt Hair. It's more precise as different royals have different colored (and thus thickness) of hair. Need more research and beer verify......

Re: lamar looks up

I think you're right. He's had a grudge with them for a long time. Not sure if it's because of his religious beliefs against science in general or maybe because the lab isn't in Texas... or he wants to pass a law to show the good folks back home that he's doing "important" stuff.

Re: 1400 light years

Time and space are no match for us mere mortals. Those two will kick our ass every time....

Re: Zero-G Bacon

The smell od bacon would go well with the smell of freshly made espresso, don't you think? The coffee part is solved (unless it's been returned to Earth)... Onward to bacon!!!!!!

You need to do "legal beagle" math... the courts in many countries aren't in session every day. One needs to find out how many session days per year for a given offense, in here in the States, some days, they only deal with vehicular issues... other days, more serious stuff. Since there is no reference to session days, etc. the number is basically bullocks.

Re: Enforcement?

If you release any source code into the wild, how do you enforce usage and payment? How do you know? The answer is "you don't". You're relying on the integrity of those who use the code.

Remember "shareware"? Great idea, great concept, but humans killed it because they didn't live up to the concept. Very few people, if any ever paid anything to an author.

Re: Not a bad idea on the surface but reality stinks.

What you say is very true. Our CEO thinks he's smarter than anyone else. Sets up deals for outsourcing without consulting anyone. Our CIO, after 5 years of stomping out the CEO induced fires has had enough and leaving. Luckily, I'm only there for 2 days every week and it will soon be 0 days. I could tell stories to curl one's hair... like signing an outsource deal with the mainframe company for "support" and letting all the devs, techs, and operators go. Or merging several disparate systems (again outsourced) and after spending about $250,000,000 the damn thing didn't work. He insisted on going live and it damn near brought the company to bankruptcy.

No, it's not a public traded company as all the shares are held by the board and it's a 'good old boy" group who thinks he's a god because there's profit and bonuses every year.

What you say is true about "codes". But if you feel like you won't get caught, what's to stop you? Like speeding? No cops... feel free. If there's cops, mind the speed limit. Not condoning this behavior, but that's the way it is.

Law is only valid if it's a) enforceable and b) if it is actually enforced. How many times have we read or heard that something bad going on is ignored by LEA's because it's too minor, even though there's a law against it?

There was/is a saying that the stock market doesn't react to real world issues, but to the emotionalism of the brokers and traders. Put them in a good mood (maybe dinner, some wine, some hanky-panky) and the market goes up. Put them in a foul mood.. (angry spouse/BF/GB, traffic ticket) and the market goes down. Algorithms only react to the market, they don't really control it. Well.. maybe they do now, but the trend up or down starts somewhere.

Re: Giant jelly bean?

It possibly is a giant Jelly Belly jelly bean. Resembles the strawberry smoothie ones.

I guess it depends on one's definition of "angels"... Looking over the client list, takes the concept of "angels" to a new low.