Posts by anonymous boring coward

Re: "over a hundred states paid billions of dollars for their state secrets to be stolen"

The new owner should go back to the seller and sue their arses off.

Re: Something they don't teach in Norwegian schools...

Lol! No "saving the planet" in Norway, then? (I remind you that 1 kWh is the same regardless of price)

Re: Remote access

Hello? Why don't you define "trans crap" so at least I know what you are talking about?

Re: Dumb, dumb, dumb

I think criminals should use their normal phones. And their own cars.

Don't see why I should wish they got better at crime?

Re: What's new?

"Is that not exactly the same way..."

Well, no, not exactly.

Re: Lack of imagination?

"There’s backdoors that are wide open, and backdoors that are actually pretty difficult for a third party to open."

You should worry more about the abuse these backdoors would get from the FBI, CIA, etc.

Re: Ah, Git ...

I don't recall a lot of innovation from MS, however?

Re: Huawei has advantages

Apple?

The best bet, if you really want a smartphone, is probably Apple. Too expensive for me, but I'd have one if I was flush.

Re: The problem is not Oracle (for once)

"This is like the case in the UK where water companies tried to claim ownership of all water falling from the sky and prosecuted people collecting rainwater."

Oh, dear oh dear! This actually happened?

Re: Ironically

"As a result of all the additional scrutiny, the Max will become the safest plane in the world."

Now you are assuming that the kludges Boing did are acceptable. To me they seem unacceptable, and should never have been allowed in the first place.

3) I'm almost certain that there are very many versions of Linux distributions?

Re: What you measure

Boeing is useful as competition for SpaceX, so I guess they still serve a function. Not that SpaceX seems to need much competition, anyway, with the overall goal of going to Mars before Musk is too old.

Re: Interesting discussion

"If this is mainly about employers being denied the ability to have a permatemp disposable workforce, I'm all for it. "

Doubt it's about that. Employee protection is very poor already in the UK. It's probably more about maximising tax take, and making it simpler for the IRS to track the money (going all digital any time soon now).

"Boeing are not having a lot of luck with software these days."

Seems that's part of the problem: Relying on luck...

Re: @NeilPost

"but we headed towards virtually full employment, and one of the highest standards of living in the world'

Really? You can't have been to many places then.

P.S: Most nations have plenty of tax financed services. Doesn't make them socialist. No more than the NHS makes UK socialist.

Define "a lot".

Re: Post Jony Ive, maybe Apple products can work again

Not to mention ports...

To a beancounter this can become reality! Nice one!

Re: "My turn for a 100 Grand bung next, I suggest."

She's a bit on the lardy side though.

Re: Dont save credit cards on site

I'm not downvoting you just because I disagree.

But I you send your card details to someone they are likely stored, even if you aren't able to recall them for your own usage later. I don't have a problem with actually seeing and using my stored card details on, for example, Amazon, Paypal, eBay, etc.