Posts by Mark 85

Re: Just wierd

Well they do subsidise tobacco

You have tobacco farms in Blighty?

Re: Age check = ID

Even the verifying third-party doesn't actually need to hold on to any personal data, they can just check your age when you sign up and then immediately delete anything -

There's the fatal flaw. "immediately delete anything". In this day and age, your details are worth more than fee you might pay for this service.

Re: It's Dark out there.

So the Dark planet is hard to see, it is probably composed of dark matter, runs on dark energy

Maybe Planet 9 is black? Very black? It would explain a lot so maybe made of pure carbon. Who knows....? <shrugs>

Re: Three months in jail?

Even a year is just a slap on the wrist.

Seems like no matter what side of the pond you're on it's the same everywhere for these "members".

Re: So how is this any different?

The advantage is no meatbag flying it. Just saving on pilot training alone will save some money.

Re: '..the closure of the latest firm should serve as a "strong warning" '

Add: "and take their profits..." to that and it might just work but only if they actually follow through. A slap on the wrist does nothing and many times even jail time. Take away the money and that should do the trick and deter others.

Re: "Rant"

Hopefully this will teach him to wind his neck in, grow up and understand that with great power comes great responsibility.

Possibly.. snowball's chance in hell though. Megalomaniacs know no boundaries and see themselves as prophets and visionaries that are above the rest of us mere mortals.

Re: Simple explanation

Ok... but I find your post wrong at so many levels. In certain communities, I'm a "honkie". In others, I'm a "round eye". And the list goes on. Racism goes both ways whether it's intentional or not. Among friends and in private, the racial things get tossed about back and forth. In public, we chose our words differently so as not to offend those who don't understand our friendships.

I note from acquaintances and travel that Brasil is probably the least racist country in north or south America. Race just isn't an issue.

I think he understands perfectly, the cloud game is being won by Amazon & Microsoft not Oracle & IBM.

In other words, he knows more than he lets on? Or is it the cloud game is just a massive shell game?

Re: If they are REALLY worried about this kind of thing ...

There's something to be said for not "connecting to the Internet". There's a lot of equipment being sold that doesn't use it but instead communicated via the power lines they are controlling or monitoring which has worked very well for quite a long time. But then, TheIntraWebTubes have become part of the buzzword/hi tech generation.

Re: This sort of thing can seem amusing but can really bite you

There's an implication that management decided a test team wasn't important for their product quality. It sounds like the test message was genuine customer feedback.

This seems to apply to a large number of companies these days who should have the slogan: "Our customers are our testers."

Re: In a galaxy far, far away, aliens may have DNA-like molecules

When humans eventually come across extraterrestrial life forms, whether that's inside this solar system (Europa, Enceladus) or externally (a long time away), the precise composition of the building blocks of those life forms might differ but the underlying nature of the biological processes will be instantly familiar.

Maybe time for a new "Rule #1": Don't kill anything just for it's DNA as the rest will get really pissed off.

Re: I'm going to speculate...

I'd guess that a balance issue would show up at the beginning of the flight and not near the end. Given the weather situation lately... a violent downdraft?

Re: Every language and culture

Beer? Why not a horse? Maybe one of a different color or with no name.....

Re: Strangest sounds ever heard from the head...

From the use of "head", it came across as the teller of the tail was former Navy or Marine. I still use the term (former Marine) without really thinking about it.

Re: Liability ?

Sarcasm? I think you're closer to the truth than you realize. Government types (who actually write the laws) haven't a clue....

Re: Beware the bugs

That would seem to be typical MS behavior: Left hand doesn't know or care what the right hand is doing or supports and vice versa.

I think I need to expand the design brief to include something disruptive to microphones as well.... maybe something loud in the >18kHz range? sure, it'll annoy the yoof but my ears are past annoyance in that range!

Go for it. Maybe some sort of a small, guided missile or something more powerful to destroy such devices. Knowing how things are though, there will be videos of incoming destruction taken by the targets.

Re: Hirzon angles??

The early GPS plan back in the '70's was for only 3 birds, as I recall. They quickly found out about coverage being restricted by all sorts of things on the ground like cities and terrain. I suspect that the people proposing this might have access to the early plans and other paperwork. Having worked some on this back then, I don't remember what the timeline was for de-classification.

Re: Drip, Drip, Drip...

Add to that, consider all the lawsuits by companies against Oracle going on.

Re: Pattern?

Here's your pattern. Kaspersky caught the 5 eyes tools, while *all the rest didn't*. Hmmm.

The "rest" didn't because the worker bee working classified material on his home PC only had Kaspersky. So this looks more like a kneejerk reaction on the part of some government official.

Re: I did that once too...

So where did one learn the BOFH skills back then? Mine came via training as a PFY.

Re: Maybe...

If it's FB style it's only "like".

Re: Once upon a time...

The lesson I learned was "test early, test often" using the butt-set. Great fun back then and what was learned has helped over the years (like actually looking at code and testing then test again).

There was a BBS I used that went under and the phone company re-issued the number fairly quickly for some reason to some unsuspecting family. I shudder to think how many calls they got from modems looking for the old BBS.