Posts by Mark 85

Re: It's actually not _that_ dangerous

So the equivalent Stateside would be the "Blood Runs Red on the Highways" driver education films?

That's evil and it sounds like a like delight but I wouldn't want to go jail to get one.

"And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee..To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee.."

Maybe whip them until frothy?

Re: Aw

What am I going to do with all this popcorn now?

Hang on to it as you'll probably need it for the next lawsuit/IT drama/etc.

Re: Wrong penalty

The problem, as such, is that corporations rule and government does their bidding. To some extent, since most of those elected to Congress are lawyers, another special interest group is being pandered to. Yes, the penalties are way to too low for the mega-corps but the mega-corps write the rules and sway things just because they have the financial clout. For a company like Google, their settlement was pocket change found under the chairs of the exec boardroom. It's probably the same situation with other mega-corps.

One can almost guarantee how this will go depending on the make up of the Supreme Court if they chose to hear it. It's politics (and the corporate masters) all the way the to bottom.

Yeah... I'm not happy with the state of America at this point. I'm seeing too much power being given to the greedy wealthy because they own politicians.

Re: Let me just say

Lazy and cheap from what I see. Costs money and too much time to do things properly. That and many SCADA sytems could be considered legacy types that were built back when the "net" was a fun place and not a threat. The owners haven't wanted to cut profits by upgrading and redesigning their control systems to meet the threats.

Re: How about delivering a working patch first

Go a step further... instead of "naming" the processer, tell us what we will find on the "label". My Gateway says "Intel inside".. a quick check tells me it's an i3... How does this relate to the average person knowing WTF a Skylake is? Same for the Dells and Acers we have. I have yet to see anything that correlates what they call it and what's on the boxen.

And then there's the problem of getting the info and patches out to Joe-Average User who hasn't a clue but knows that Winders does updates without him/her doing anything.

Truly a fluster-cluck.

And if Musk should die? Then no one will ever be sure if that teapot is there or not, or... both.

So it's Schrodinger's Cat and Musk's Teapot?

Re: I'm Impressed!

This roadster is going over 54 million km on a single charge.

And setting some speed records for cars also. Not sure if they'll actually be accepted by the major speed organizations for the record books, but they should be, IMO.

Re: Buy Bitcoin / Buy Snapchat

I guess if I was a venture capitalist and had stock in Snapchat, I'd be jumping up and down and screaming "buy it...buy it now... it's a great price!!!" also. If lucky, I'd make a small profit, if unlucky, I'd cut my losses.

Seems the VC's use a different set of rules and verbiage than the us mere workerbees.

I would think that the UK will play by the rules of EU if they want to do business with the EU. A mild or harsh (depending on point of view) variation of the old "the customer is always right".

This sort of thing happens with any cross-country business. Do business in China, you follow both the rules at home and in China.

Edit:

Phil O'Sophical's take on this is probably spot on.

Am I the only one wondering how these are going to be used for deliveries with current drone flight times of 30 minutes and 1.5 miles?

It's still tech in search of a use. Those you mentioned are the small hobby drones. For delivery, something bigger is needed. It might just be to that a delivery truck with say 10 drones, goes to a set point and starts launching and recovery operations. When all the parcels in the truck have been dispatched, the truck goes either to a new waypoint or returns to the depot to be reloaded for the next waypoint.

This is definitely a "pie in the sky" thing right now with lots more work and thinking needed. So far, the only thinking has been from some who think "profit".

All of this combines to factors which if you want true equity between the genders, meaning women need to get paid more per trip.

Not buying this. As they are paid by the trip, then the pay is equal.

Re: Flat Earth Heretic

Who said anything about windows? Open "air" with no glass, no screens, nothing to get in the way of them seeing. The only problem is that oxygen will get out. Maybe that's not a problem in reality?

Re: "raise property taxes slightly"

No sir.. not trolling. The I-5 corridor has two areas that I know of and there's another one on Highway 1, the coast highway. Might be more on the coast though since it's a heavy tourist route. The speed limit on I-5 is nominally 65 mph and being rural, it's mostly ignored by most folks who will run at 9 mph or so over the limit. Where these "traps" are, is at the extreme edge of the city (small town actually) limit. The cops lie in wait at that borderline. One of the cities does drop it's speed limit to 50 mph and just after (maybe a few yards) there will be a radar car sitting in the bushes.

The difference is with other towns, they usually have a "50 mph ahead" sign on the highway to notify the drivers of a speed limit change.

@Prst. V.Jeltz

A little common sense isn't too much to ask surely?

This has been said by many people: "Common sense isn't common", Seems to be pretty true.

A sign with "Save early, save often" should have been hung on his monitor. We actually had some printed up on card stock and hung on the developers/programmers monitors.

Re: onefang

Why the huge resistance to learning to cook in this forum, anyway? My mind absolutely boggles.

It must be a bunch of newbies who never read Lester's creations which usually were pretty darn good. Damn I miss the Post Pub Nosh....

Re: Actually, NASA has the code.

Since it's been a "dead bird' I would expect that all the project management and team have been scattered to the far winds. Probably harder to do than Jake and Elwood getting the band back together... but possible.

Re: How to get rid of fleas on your dog

And, from (y)our vantage point, how do you distinguish smoke from fog?

True, it could be either/or and even both. Thus, it needs to be investigated. I think the most FBI types are open-minded and impartial professionally. Person opinions may cloud things, but with a number of eyes, both side will counter each others pre-conceptions and reveal the truth. We're still a long way from knowing the truth at this time.

I'm wondering more how these cars would fare in say, New York City or even Los Angeles. My suspicion is that around Silly Valley, the traffic is pretty decent and well-mannered compared to those two places.

Disclaimer: I've driven in both those cities but haven't had the pleasure yet of visiting Silly Valley.

Re: Some Sympathy here

It's the collision of two bureaucracies and that never ends well. Each assumes the other is dealing with an issue when neither aren't. Those employed by them, don't dare open their mouth to question anything. And so it goes...

The problem using Walmart as an example is that Walmart is running scared. They're losing business to Amazon and closing stores already. They're getting lean and mean by reducing employee counts, employee benefits, etc. OTOH, Walmart has increased it's online presence and also their stocks of goods using other suppliers.

As for Target, we'll see. They're a bit of wild card but have closed stores.