Re: Outer Limits
[insert over-used slogan about voyage, destination here] - the more you know, the more you realize what you don't know - but that's what keeps it interesting!
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[insert over-used slogan about voyage, destination here] - the more you know, the more you realize what you don't know - but that's what keeps it interesting!
one of my pet peeves, useless analogies. Although there are analogies, that have an almost Zen-like quality about them.
Which makes me think: is there something like a digital analogy?
Okay, this is from 2009, so maybe you've already seen it - still a good start for the weekend:
1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem
I have suggested it elsewhere (BoingBoing) before: we should start calling this sort of stuff 'Transistorpunk'.
"An Independent Commission on Freedom of Information is currently gathering information for a 10-year review of the Act. The introduction of charges have already been flouted as a way of making the act less expensive.
All the panel of the Independent Commission are on record as being hostile to the Act, including former Labour Cabinet Office minister Jack Straw."
See how it's done, children?
"In his biography Blair wrote of Freedom of Information. "Three harmless words. I look at those words as I write them, and feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders. You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop."" I do actually like the last three sentences in that paragraph.
"This is a very clever attack on Honda, who also make bikes, and robots, but don't do anything as exciting as a robot riding a bike. Disclaimer - I ride a Yamaha :)"
Mine's the battered XRV 750 over there... but when you're right, you're right! Have an upvote! (No pint though, don't drink and drive! I mean, you'd spill most of it anyway...)
This just for context, emphasis by me: "On 23 May 1940 Mosley, who was then mostly focused on negotiated peace advocacy, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B along with most active fascists in Britain. [...] His wife Diana Mitford was also interned, shortly after the birth of their son Max; they lived together for most of the war in a house in the grounds of Holloway prison. [...]
The Mosleys were released in November 1943, when Mosley was suffering with phlebitis, and spent the rest of the war under house arrest. On his release from prison he stayed with his sister-in-law Pamela Mitford, followed shortly by a stay at the Shaven Crown Hotel in Shipton-under-Wychwood. He then purchased Crux Easton House, near Newbury, with Diana. He and his wife were the subject of much media attention. The war ended what remained of Mosley's political reputation." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley (sorry for that)
"Pity they didn't shoot him" Aren't we bloodthirsty today... On what grounds would they have shot him? Wartime Britain wasn't like Nazi Germany.
"Worth remember that the tactic du jour was highly targeted surveillance, rather than the endless fishing trips they seem to so enjoy these days.
Now that you mention it - it does come across as a bit uninspired and lazy... what to do, what to do... Oh yes, let's thow EVEN MORE money at them!
"Can you imagine what would have happened during WWII to a journalist who published an interview with a member of the SS?
Someone from the British Free Corps perhaps? They didn't stop interviewing Mosley, AFAIK.
This. Exactly this. I'm not scared by terrorists, on principle, because that's what they want.
Hell, it's far more likely - by orders of magnitude - I get killed on my daily commute on the motorway by an outsourced, underpaid, overworked and sleep deprived lorry driver in an accident. That's the 'sleepers' you must watch for.
As far as I know, Bristol is moved on a regular basis. But it is possible I have been misinformed. That aside, I agree with you, putting yourself outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom can't work like that.
"Pryvate from Criptyque" - they should have used the "detunnelizer" on their marketing people first, that is the perfect name for a perfume.
"The Insurance industry encompasses a very odd paradox: it wouldn’t exist without risk, yet does everything in its power to remove any risks for its policy-holders. Insurers only make money if they don’t pay out, and they won’t pay out if they can keep you from doing any of the things they’ve identified as risky."
"We’re already seeing how the drive to autonomous vehicles will be spearheaded by insurers, simply because - on current evidence - a self-driving car gets into at least an order of magnitude fewer accidents than a human-operated automobile."
Well... if any risk is truly and completely removed, there is no need to buy insurance anymore. I can't see the insurers invalidate their own business model. The trick is
a) to lower the risks to a sort of break-even point where the risk of 'something bad happening' is still high enough to be an incentive to buy insurance - but low enough in terms of 'times something bad happens' and 'size of damage' so that the odd payout doesn't cripple the insurer (also, there are insurance companies that sell insurance to insurance companies)
b) understanding the risks involved, i.e. how likely it is something will happen, how large will the damage done be, etc. Insurance companies usually have the experts they need for that, including the mathematicians. For example, companies selling life insurance have a pretty good read on life expectancies.
All these factors (plus some others, like running costs and ROI-targets, etc.) eventually determine the price the customer has to pay.
There is a market for insuring 'cyber risks' (whatever that means). Insurance companies will want to tap that market. So they will buy or rent the expertise they need. (Trivial, really.) They will not invalidate their business model (which has been working for a couple of centuries by now), they will merely adapt it.
"The first prototypes of the new bomber won’t take to the skies until 2025 at the earliest, and is unlikely to be operational for years after that.
20 EUR say:
- rollout of mock-up: 2027
- first prototype in the air: 2030
- start of deployment: 2035
- first sighting of chinese dead ringer: 2023
... any takers?
The device formerly known as Raspberry...
I can't help it, every time I hear 'raspberry' I think of this
Sounds a lot like "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." to me.
Berlin 1961 (A Freudian slip if ever there was one)