Posts by Mark 85

Re: Rule Britannia!

Planning on putting HMS Victory back in the water and setting sail to wave the flag are you?

Re: Human-To-Vehicle communications

I'll pass on having a tracking device installed on my person thank you very much. I don't like being tracked on the web, via my phone, and soon definitely not by my car.

While I see the need for it or maybe something different and better, what with all the tracking and surveillance that happens just from the government side of things, this might just be over the line.

Re: And they WILL get an education

That education they'll get from this is probably money better spent than on partying. Some will be smart and use any proceeds to payoff the loans. Others, who knows.. new car? Those that loose the money via this "investment" will also have something to show for it... discretion and thinking things through.

Re: Let's all "hack" each others elections.

More like 1984... "Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me," .

Re: "You are always in control"

Reports lately suggest that even if you have never had an FB account, they have some of your data (maybe more than just "some"). By having contact with a FB user/product, they got your info but claim it's only the metadata. Much like Google, they just keep slurping and storing and using what they slurp.

I do believe that one can not have too much paranoia with the likes of FB on the loose.

Re: Really enjoyed that one Dabbsy

Indeed you are in the middle of the age wars: "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance." Give yourself a few more years to learn the craft and kids won't stand a chance.

Re: Why didn't the woman see an approaching car, which was traveling <40 mph with headlights on

The news reports "claim" she had emotional issues and drug issues. So did she see the car? Who knows. If she saw the car, why didn't she react appropriately? Again, who knows.

Re: Feeling Old...

Bloody kids today. They won't believe that the first IBM PCs and compatibles didn't need an 8/16 bit differentiator because they only had an 8 bit bus.

They'd howl and scream if it were even a 16 bit and had to wait a few milliseconds for their computer or cellphone to do something.

Re: Omnibus

And for those 60 years (me too) there pops up at least one a Congressional session about "allowing line item vetoes" which hasn't happened yet as just about every CongressCritter doesn't want their pork to the voters cut off.

Tossing out the "bums" won't work as there's a new bunch waiting in line. And all backed by lobbyists with deep pockets of course.

Ah... but the Boss understands and apparently has decided to go along with the BOFH's operational policy. I wonder how long it will last before he to is out the door... err... window?

@thames --

Youtube's problem here is that they are reacting to public (ie: media) pressure. I'd be very surprised if they had someone on staff who has an understanding or an interest in this (weapons) context. I daresay I'll bet we start seeing videos of fighters and bombers being deleted because well... weapons.

Re: I liked your deliberate emphasis on this line

Well.. they slurp everyone else's data and you're job will be to keep the slurped data safe from the prying eyes of any law enforcement, investigators, etc..

Re: Fake news is not fake data

Quite clearly someone was sleeping or playing pocket tennis in history class.

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.". Well, history isn't being taught in depth anymore in schools so if we look at where we are now, the destination is a foregone conclusion.

Well, since crap runs downhill, they'll blame all their woes and failed delivery on him.....

Re: Wait wut?

I hope someone responds. This got me wondering also. And then I Googled.... more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banavie_railway_station

I would think it more likely to be in a bigger fishes stomach... without a side order of chips.

"For a slight fee, we'll run some ropes from the top of it and tie them to some space grade steel beams driven into the ground over there. If they need tightening, give us call and we'll seen out our service team."

Re: Compact Fusion Reactor

Lockheed Martin announced that they would attempt to develop a compact ...F35 software release... that would fit "on the back of a truck".

Since they didn't mention the size of the truck, that's pretty open-ended, don't you think?

Re: royal connections?

Popcorn is in short supply right now due to that actions of your government (east side of pond) and our government (west side of pond). Please be patient as the suppliers are working overtime to meet demand.

Re: How long can Zuk Perpetuate all the lies...

FB lies to users that it exists to 'connect them', when everyone else knows this is solely about high-targeted advertising (commercial & political).

We might know it but does the average user know it and understand the ramifications? I seriously doubt it. We could replace FB with "smart phone" and the same would apply. Users either have no clue or don't care.

Re: Remember back in the day...

Here in the states there is a charge (and it's printed on each bottle) that they call a "deposit". But returning them is not easy as dropping them off at the grocery store since the places (supermarkets) we used to drop off the bottles have closed and "centralized" out in the boondocks. Takes some effort to find the place.

Some of us have questioned "who gets the deposit" on the unreturned bottles? I'm sure if we follow the money, we'll find out why they've made recycling more difficult.

Yes, you did. And now see what has happened? Do you want to do that on planetary scale?

Re: Rather far fetched...

I suspect the good doctor is feeling loss and guilt over this. If the locals know where the hospital is/was, than it's pretty straight forward for someone to go there and get the coordinates.

Re: An opportunity here

Doubt it. Venezuela was buying oil from the US at one point (not sure if they can still afford it).

Well, if Americans bought the Petro (only the Venezuelas can mine it as I understand) then they could use the proceeds to buy more oil. A shell game, if you will.

Re: Eliminate any pedestrian humans

We already eliminate any pedestrian humans from the taxiways by having big jet engines to Hoover them up

The problem with that is that it just doesn't suck them up and out of the way, it chews them up and spits them out the back. No disposable bags for the vacuuming on a jet engine.

I still am unsure as to why MP's are angry.

Oh.... lots of reasons and you did a good list but there's one more...

There's the implication and apparent evidence that Cambridge Analytics interfered big time in the US election. If they held data from FB's British users, there could be worries about your elections being tampered with from them. FB might not have a hand in election tampering but the data leak could certainly be shown, if used by a firm like CA, to sway an election.

There might be a connection between all this and your elections.... for example Brexit.

FTR, we should all be pissed about data theft, be it from FB, any business, and/or government. Yet, most people aren't unless it affects them personally, like the resulting bank fraud or screwing up their credit.