Posts by 's water music

Re: Lying is always bad propaganda, because it deceives and misleads the people

Au contraire, Lying is the best propaganda isasmuch as it is the only propaganda. If it isn't some sort of lie it isn't propaganda by definition

Re: OBAKA

[Obama] created the WORST replacement for a previously working industry (medical industry and insurance)

Certainly appears to have interfered with your meds today. I'm with @dougs, the awsome powah of your irregular capitalisation tends to make your best posts too much like your worst ones.

Re: time to Tax the Robots

Then how will all those unemployed people be able to afford to buy all that 'tat' from the likes of Amazon?

Time to invest in the supply of machine oil, nuts and bolts, fancy battery packs and decals etc

Re: a powerful black bulb lighting up black against a black background...

Sounds like a Disaster Area.

Smells like a glove to me

Re: Maybe just change your name?

Or change their name to "The Good Uber".

Best Uber (Juche IT Services)?

Not the Uber You're Looking For?

ISIS?

New Uber?

Sellafield?

Re: "Plus public sector IT has been an easy target for cuts for years"

strange how the surveys were during the summer and in Cornwall/West Wales

Shirley someone who decamps to Cornwall/West Wales for weather based treats/gravy deserves more sympathy than opprobrium?

Re: Seems some commenters here....support quitters.

A mob pulls down/destroys a historic statue on government property and that criminal act is supposed to project love/respect/tolerance? ISIS did similar acts not long ago

I assume you are referring to this but ironically your description would equally fit this

Here's one I prepared earlier

function EmojiTranslate(StrInput,intSubjectAge)

'Emoji translate function. strInputString:Unicode string for translation.

'intSubjectAge:age in years of translation requester.

'Returns unicode string

If intSubjectAge<30 Then

EmojiTranslate=StrInput

Else

EmojiTranslate="meh"

End if

End function

Re: "Ensure systems are secure over their lifetime"

... any given model of car is likely to have a road presence that goes largely beyond the decade, meaning that the manufacturer will be responsible for keeping the updates available for that model for however long there are still cars of that model running. In other words, it would be very badly received if a car maker announces that support for a given model will be retired because it stopped making it a decade ago

Well I suppose they could announce a service life before the model goes on sale. Fleet operators and contract hire providers wouldn't care if they went into the deal with open eyes. There would come a point when it would be cheaper to compensate the remaining owners. Again not really a problem if the cutoff date and terms were declared prior to first sale.

How do we know lifeforms don't exist in the Sun but we're too dumb or insignificant to communicate with them ?

Let's fire some rockets at one of it's satellites to destroy it. That ought to be enough to provoke them into making contact. I cannot foresee any possible fiascos that could arise from this course of action.

a Pi Zero W would be a much more capable device.

Yes, but I think that one of the points was that a shedload more Micro:bits have already been handed out to 12-13-year-olds

Re: the elephant in the room

false positives would significantly out number true positives. The conundrum of Positive Predictive Value that makes medical screening dangerous.

That is a big problem in a population screening program but less so if the diagnostic test is applied to people who have presented with problematic symptoms and a doctor is looking for decision support in deciding on a course of action. Of course the prediction algorithm will simply have encoded the subjective diagnoses used to classify the training subject cohort but there may be some room for improving some diagnoses.

Re: Extra-territorial control

@donn bly the distinction that your beer/Saudi analogy fails to capture is that extra territorial judicial rulings are hardly unique and hardly an issue without extra territorial enforcement unless the subject of the judgement wants some sort of quid quo pro with the judicial authority. If Saudi were to issue a judgement forbidding, say, Diageo from beer sales worldwide then Diageo are quite free to say Fuck You unless they also want to sell soft drinks in Saudi in which case the Kingdom has some leverage over them and they face a commercial choice..,

It is a tricky issue for sure as international law (whether formal or speculative) relies on a combination of custom and practice, community standards and culture but is ultimately underwritten by the threat of force

Re: Windows 3.11

That's Paintbrush.. NOT Paint.

although 'pbrush' is still aliased to paint

Ah, but does your broadband go up to 11 on the dial?

Insanely fast broadband unboxing. You won't believe what happened next

In the 1980s and 90s I was in much the same situation. I found that sexually harassing myself was terribly boring...

I refer the PP to my previous response

Au contraire. Showing a man as a baffoon is perfectly realisic. Cromulent even.

More woody than tinny

Wow, that's quite a lot of one star reviews.

Maybe it's not worthwhile after all.

Well, one person with a Slavic sounding name left an English language review which could explain it..

This app requires a code that you get only if you're a crowdfunder or if you apply for a bank card

It's all about suspension of disbelief...

:)

Well that's all very well but with the majority of the story lines revolving around the Doctor's cock and balls you can see why some of the fans are worried about how that is going to work now. Wait, wat?

No icon to allow readers to project their own interpretation-->

Re: "Showing their age"?

Yeah - the point ...

Yeah - the point with a joke is... ...wait was I just meta-trolled?

Re: Government staff: need I say more?

"Been a while, but when I was working at the Uni, one of the lecturers (might have been a grad student, can't remember) emailed the support staff asking "Is email working?" I replied with something like "seem to be.."

maybe he didn't get your email...

if only the OP hadn't been too glib to add "...let me know if you don't receive this."

Re: Caveat emptor

"Taking the F-35A price rises as a guide, the price per airframe of each F-35B could now be $131.4m each".

It has to be asked: with or without engine?

Do you want woofers and tweeters with that sir?

Re: Where's the monolith?

well it's black and full of stars so it isn't going to leap out from the background is it. Those trippy, multi-coloured graphics were always going to make much better desktop wallpaper.

Re: It will retail for just $35,000

...diesel generator.

Dinosaur compost bin?

Re: intellectual masturbation

This type of work is an exercise in intellectual masturbation (useless process that just makes those doing it feel good

I call Category Error. Masturbation is never useless.

Re: Holy crap - I saw it!!

Didn't this bums-to-the-wall mentality disappear after leaving school?

Depressingly no. I just witnessed a light hearted joke progress through exactly this stage.

The better trick would have been to have the lion ride pillion...

Better for whom?