Re: You are all wrong !
My thoughts exactly and I am of the hated faction that Jasper calls a fanboi. If anyone thinks I am going to trash a perfectly good Omega watch in favour of something that looks like a designer hospital band then sod that.
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Knowing how the state works it is probably not an index per se. More likely to be an apathy index of how likely the cops are to deal with your reporting that you,
1) Lost your mobile
(response: can't help - try your operator)
2) Had it ... err .. stolen
(response: can't help - try your operator)
3) REALLY, truly had it stolen
(response: can't help - try your operator)
4) Someone hit me in the face with a baseball bat, raped my budgie and stole my iPhone
(response: can't help - call 999 for an ambulance then call your operator and would you like the RSPB emergency budgie counselling line?)
I would love a really good version of Office on Mac now. I have Mac Office 11 and yes it does the job but it lacks decent sync with iCloud for contacts and calendars ... albeit that is Apple's fault for constantly changing the sync method. I used Surface 2 which I actually quite liked (and that coming from someone who has been using Apple since 1979), unfortunately not enough to buy one as an iPad replacement but more as a lightweight Windows laptop.
Heavens forbid that Julian Assange should forego any publicity at all. I rather suspect that the whole story is contrived simply to provide him with a vestige of publicity. Shame he couldn't have done that 2 years ago and saved his backers the bail money and the taxpayer the cost of (as I hear Chelsea police refer to it) Operation AssEgo.
If I even thought of giving a PoS like this to my kids I'd probably find I had just been reported to Social Services for abuse and neglect soon after they had opened the box. Have no problem with the Bill Gates Fan Club buying whatever they want - just don't expect me to buy the sort of garbage Microsoft are outputting these days.
I just had a similar situation in France where the electrics went off. An electrician came and sat in the bedroom turning the light switch on and off 40 times until it worked, and then charged me €400 with a gallic shrug to suggest that it can only be fixed by an electrician doing this - mere foreigners doing this just do not understand the subtle play in switching on and off that many times.
This is supposed to be 2014 ... can't Apple/HP/Compaq/Dell etc get up to speed and make a computer with a blasted reset on it? You know, like routers have? Too hard maybe?
I am sure that everyone who worked there was amply deserving of the accolades that only a few were given but this is not centred upon Enigma, nor Bletchley. It is very much focussed upon Alan Turing, his mathematics and his personal life or, as Hodges puts it, 'to overcome the twentieth-century chasm between scientific thought and human life,'.
Terrorism: criminal or illegal acts of violence at randomly chosen targets, in an effort to raise fear.
Disambiguation: lawyer, tourist [see George W Bush: pronunciation of 'terrorist'],
Usage:
"I knew he was a terrorist, he's a Muslim/Irish/Cat Lover/Putin Supporter".
"I knew David Cameron was a lawyer from the moment he shook my hand and I saw 2 of my fingers were missing".
See also: ISIS, Putin, Anthony Blair. Arafat, HAMAS, Al Queda
Very simple, Vienna Convention Article 27. The host country must permit and protect free communication between the diplomats of the mission and their home country. A diplomatic bag must never be opened even on suspicion of abuse. A diplomatic courier must never be arrested or detained.
Make Assange a citizen of Ecuador and give him a package to deliver to Quito - he becomes untouchable.
That does indeed show some responsibility. We do things a little differently now. Very boring since the level of security is rather inhibiting but my own security staff told me that this should be the only way we should operate online:
Tier 1
Signup for free offers, free stuff. one-time registration required for forums etc.
Username: Always use a hotmail address - its spam anyway so it does not matter and, while you can access it (if you must) nobody else is going to worry
Security: minimum 8 character password with capital and numeric - Wibblew0b, for example
Tier 2
Facebook, Twitter other Social Media where personal information will be marketed
Username: own email address or username (NOT a part of email address)
Password: minimum 10 characters combination alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric W1bbl€W0=b, for example
Tier 3
Anything involving credit cards
Username: own email address or username (NOT a part of email address)
Password: Randomly generated 20 characters userlogin password, wrritten down and stored so that I/wife can go in and delete card or personal details if necessary. 1758399%^rtjY80910£$, for example
Tier 4
Banking
Not permitted from normal computers. We have an Ubuntu laptop with Firefox which can only access permitted bank/building society URLs. The firewall will reject URL requests which do not originate from that computer.
Wait a second (geddit??).
1) Tag already DO make a mobe via ModeLabs and branded by them.
2) Tag's design team is actually British, albeit under Christoph Behling.
3) Tag now uses a number of Seiko parts in its watches
A bit fairer to say "Assembled in Switzerland", rather like the fruity firm has "designed in Cupertino".
"But the judge said the indictment went further, alleging that Silk Road was "specifically and intentionally designed" to create an "expansive black market" for drugs and malicious software and laundering money."
Good luck with proving that one in court. He just has to deny it and make them prove that from day one he wanted to deal in drugs and malicious software, which I doubt they can.
"She said the allegations, if true, would distinguish Silk Road from websites such as Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc, which are intended for buyers and sellers to complete transactions lawfully."
Except that like it or not both Amazon and eBay do permit the conduct of illegal transactions, such as fake branded goods or illegally copied software.
And they have that on the Phantom drones. The GPS has a restrictor on civil aviation designated fly zones - the drone would not take off close to Heathrow, for example, and would only go up to a certain altitude within a radius of the airport. But I bet someone could re-engineer that.
Anyhow, they would probably ban the use of the drones in London anyway. Most aircraft are flying at well under 2,000 feet over London when they start their letdown into Heathrow or City Airport (I think it is a minimum 1000ft safe clearance over the tallest building with 500m side clearance). I am still getting used to seeing people in the Shard looking down on the aircraft as it comes into LCY ...
"My email did not send, can you come over and see why not?"
"Is your computer switched on?"
"Yes, of course it is, don't be facetious."
"Can you connect to the internet?"
"Yes, its just the email is not sending."
"Have you tried shutting down your email programme and re-opening it?"
"Yes, still no joy."
"Err, did you actually click the 'send mail' button?"
"Ah, you didn't say I have to so that. One other quick question - do I have to pay postage on emails?"
< sound of phone being put down>
Well most Linux distros are free of charge so users can't really complain. But tell me, how long has Windows been around and has it ever been free of anything excepting credibility?
Please do use small words .. I'm a Mint user so I don't really understand long phrases like "have you tried restarting your computer?".
Its just that it is so hard to concentrate on the 'subject at hand', so to speak, while at the same time Norton is screaming "do you want to update your antivirus definitions?", Windows is telling you to run Windows Update and IE is telling you that it thinks it has found a porn site.
Maybe so, but I think you missed the observation that having got rid of Jobs, Sculley then proceeded to 'do a Ballmer' and just started spending the cash reserves.
I agree that Jobs had to go, his ego had got in the way of his vision and it did take 12 years in the wilderness to cure that. However even with his ego issues, surely Jobs could have done a far better job than Sculley, Spindler and Amelio put together?
We can almost guarantee that the design will be completely useless, will cost well over €1 billion to develop, will be delivered 10 years after the deadline and by that time the EU will have forgotten about it. The only people who will remember this will be, as per normal EU fantasies, the poor bloody European taxpayer.
Actually they most certainly do have the 'muscle' as you put it. Some of the guys working at Cabinet are major-league backend devs in Python, PHP and Ruby. GDS' CI system puts just about every commercial company (and I have worked at a lot of them) to shame - take a look at their GitHub structure for a start at https://github.com/alphagov/government-digital-strategy