Posts by Sam Shore 29 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Mar 2025
"well 'this person once visited a gay bar so obviously."
Yes, because that kind of thing really does sway the courts I made reference to......
Ok let me spell it out for you. The closets I want exposing are the ones with skeletons in them, the smoking gun as it were. Apple have been found guilty of illegal conduct in multiple jurisdictions by multiple courts. Apple individuals have been named by the courts as lying in court and engaging in illegal conduct. Proof if this will exist somewhere. Named individuals will not have been acting alone, they will have got approval from seniors, the courts need to know who. Actions will have been ran by lawyers and approved. Proof of this will exist in the form of emails, MacWord documents, MacPowerPoint presentations, databases and meeting minutes. All this dirt needs to be unearthed so the courts can hold people accountable.
Apple are not being punished for being successful as you argue, they are being punished for illegal activity.....
Apple have already been ruled against by courts in multiple jurisdictions, so it's time for Epic to get personal and to start digging up dirt on individuals at Apple, that it can submit to the relevant courts worldwide, and get real physical people thrown in jail and/or fined into bankruptcy. The moment upper management start to see inside of cells or lose their homes, is the moment other management members turn and walk away, leaving Tim Cook on the hook for all the activities these courts are finding illegal. Even Bill Gates is on record as having said (and I paraphrase) "If there's one word of advice I can give to anyone, it's don't end up being sued by governments".
As the former owner of both the Abit BP6 and VP6 with dual Celerons I can confirm the performance was anything but junk, tho at the price, you may have thought you were buying junk.
IIRC each chip was roughly half the price of the Pentium it was based upon, and benchmarked at 90% of the speed.
No windows software at the time supported dual processors, but, running 2 apps that could each max out a CPU was very doable.
Linux users were quite fond of it. I sold many systems to a software house that used them in a linux based compute farm they developed and sold time on.
“insist on having your name and writing it on your cup regardless of your wishes seem to offer.…”
Thats where you have your memorised phrase ready “aaaah surname Hunt, first name Mike”
Come up with something like that and practice it so it’s second nature, and you’ll be surprised how easily many people fall into the trap.
"have they ever triggered apart form the static shocks?"
Not outside of testing no. We got close in the 4-6 weeks of summer, but that was taken care of when one of us had the idea of a process that polled the temperatures once a minute, and if the temperature started to creep up past 25 we'd slow down the processors to compensate. Without that the temperatures would skyrocket in summer. A heat feedback process was taking place, hot air coming out the back, would circulate round, go through the machine again and come out hotter. We had dual air-con systems, the idea being one was a backup for the other, but during summer, even having them both turned on we would still get the heat runaway, so for 4-6 weeks each year we just processed slower, and lived with it.
The funny thing is the thermometers were rated for -25 to 145 degrees, but they always reported 3000 with the electric shocks. Seemed a weirdly arbitrary value for it's dev to put a hard limit on. If it had been 32767 degrees etc I'd have accepted it with a smirk.
The 40 degrees email goes out when all other alerts have been exhausted, it literally emails all directors and managers and not just the IT dept because something must have gone drastically wrong to reach this point. We're thinking possible fire. The room is set at 19C. We also have a caretaker function that starts to slow the CPU and GPUs down if the temperature keeps rising.
I have a couple of server rooms that have ethernet thermometers installed, that are set to email all the important people in the business if the temperature exceeds 40 degrees C, the idea being at least one of them can investigate and solve the issue, before the server room melts down.
On 3 occasions now, someone has been working in the server room, myself included, and brushed against the metallic surface of the thermometer, discharging static electricity in to it, resulting in over 20 people receiving an urgent email to tell them the temperature of the server room has reached 3000 degrees.
which can be fooled in amusing ways...
Unfortunately a good number of humans would also be fooled by the same amusing ways, so perhaps it's not a good metric of failure. Even if Tesla had the LIDAR, the same anti-fanboys would be frothing at the mouth over something else. Musk is too much of a polarising personality not to be followed around by controversy.
Statistically speaking is FSD safer than humans? This is the deciding question, and one which will be made by the insurance companies, not fan-boys.
I never followed up on this afterwards, but at one time the WTO decreed that US copyright doesn't apply in Antigua, so technically at the time anyone in the world could source copies of any US copyrighted IP from Antigua.
The US at the time started threatening Antigua if it ever started mass piracy efforts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-wto.html
Smarter Every Day did a couple of YouTube videos about the JWST that are well worth the watch. His dad worked on the sunshield.
Why there are holes in the sunshield
Interview with Dr John Mather Senior Boffin over the JWST
We looked at new outlook a year ago-ish. It wasn't a standalone application, it was the Outlook Web HTML app wrapped up in a front end that would run locally. However, if you wanted to do anything besides start it up, say send or read emails, it was online only, with no local cache or storage. It also didn't do IMAP, POP or SMTP. I don't know how much it's progressed since then, because it was pretty much useless as a business tool, for a company that heavily uses the features of real Outlook.
The cynic in me says that all this is intentional. Switch people to new Outlook, force everything to upload to the cloud, and because there's no user-accessible export-to-pst facility, you're locked in. You want to keep your old emails, keep on paying the MS tax. Want to keep your old Outlook add-ins working, shame, you need to get the authors to pay a developers tax, and buy another license. Office 365 already reduces your "Security Score" if it detects you are using Outlook add-ins, if you tie that in with Insurers who are already asking for copies of your Office 365 score now, in addition to PCI DSS conformance etc for cyber insurance purposes, things are about to get expensive. You want to maintain your insurance? MS Office 365 all the way, with approved add-ins from licensed developers and a whole range of additional licenses.
"instead of FEMA destroying them, the GSA sold them to people who could use them" "Our government could have done this direct to the needy themselves."
Not sure from your comment if you support the idea that the government should have fed people, or sold the meals to groups that would feed people.
Using glue to bond metals is a time proven technique, up until about 2017. If the correct glue is chosen, lifetimes of 30+ years can be achieved. Looks like here someone scrimped on the glue, and or they didn't perform sufficient weather testing to identify the appropriate amount of glue for the job. I mention 2017, because that was the time of the Grenfell Tower fire. The Grenfell Tower had been covered with a metal cladding, that included in it's materials glue to bond stiffening rods to the inside of the panel, glue we now know to be flammable. As a result insurance companies in the UK all started to decline insurance for buildings that used glue bonding in it's metal cladding panels. The solution for the industry was to adopt stud welding to weld a threaded pin to the metal plate, to which the stiffening bars were then fastened in place using nuts. The problem of corrosion in the weld is mitigated by using similar materials, i.e. if your plate is 304 stainless, then weld a 304 stainless pin to it. 316 to 316, and steel to steel and so on. If the stud and the plate are similar materials, then you don't get the galvanic corrosion issue occurring.
There's a youtube video showing the stud welding process they'll be using here https://youtu.be/SIU6YkmnSAY , and it's to be hoped that Tesla perform the necessary weather testing to determine how many studs are required to hold the panel in place without it blowing off at speed, or we'll be back to reading an article about the panels falling off again in six months time.
No, I'm saying the Executive Branch can ignore the Judical Branch to it's hearts content, as long as Congress is willing not to impeach Trump. Impeachment is the only process to remove The President when he will not follow the will of either Congress or the Judicial Branch. 2 attempts at impeachment later, the republicans are not willing to remove him. The checks and balances are only a gentleman's agreement, made at a time when leaders had honour. Trump has no honour, and until he is either impeached, or his term ends, he is king, and can do as he wishes, including it seems, pardoning himself for all eternity.
As https://www.youtube.com/@LegalEagle has pointed out in most of his videos since Trump was re-presidented. The job of enforcing congresses laws, or judicial rulings falls to the Executive Branch, who are in no mood to play ball at the moment, and can stonewall anything Trump wants.... for at least the length of his term.
I did that with our Chinese sourced printers (3d, fabric, plastic laminate etc), but then I found the next generations of devices had the official NIC you could configure, and block, but the firewall logs were showing that the devices were also requesting IP addresses from any DHCP server that would respond, and start nattering away from the new IP address instead. I started to put our China sourced printers into it's own LAN with strict limitations on traffic going to and from the PCs in the main LAN, and nothing in the printers LAN could get to the internet.
"If I was Apple I'd cut off all support to to the UK to teach them a lesson."
We've been through this before. Apple is not going to cut itself off from a £26Bn market, to keep a fanboy happy.
If Apple lose, then just like they did in China, they will do as they are being told, and the cash will keep rolling in.
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