Posts by TeeCee 9539 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
...preset contractual terms for mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers for three years...
Ah well, three years before the party stops.
That's the real reason for the buyoutmerger. When there are SIM only deals to be had that provide 100Gb with rollover and unlimited txt/voice for a tenner a month, Vodafone's best evuh price for an iThing or similar on a two year contract starts to look very, very shit indeed.
(Hint for the hard of thinking: When you are effectively paying the very thick end of 30 quid a month for 48 months just for the handset....!)
My favourite variation on that is to have a "best demonstrated practice" system. A place where business units can publish their home grown crap while extolling how wonderfully useful it is. Other BUs then pick it up and stick it live themselves.
It took me quite a while to work out why shite, bug-ridden, insecure crap software was virally insinuating itself into our systems globally at random.
I have to suspect that anyone reduced to tears or suffering heart palpitations as a result of a 90 second glitch probably isn't cut out for the job anyway.
ATC is the absolute bollocks of high-stress jobs, careers are short and the burnout rate is high. This sort of thing comes free with a job where you know damned well that one cockup will result in hundreds of corpses and possibly, your execution by gangsters. It doesn't help that nobody ever notices or remembers the ones that don't fuck up.
1) Non-profit proposes license.
2-99) Blah
100) Government mandates licensing.
101) AI mobs buy licenses.
102) AI mobs charge for services to cover licensing cost.
103) AI mob in (for the sake of argument) China says that decadent westerners can shove their licensing regime up sideways and carries on as before with leeching and free service.
104) Chinese AI pwns the world and everyone else goes titsup.com
This is the inevitable result of some bunch of idealistic twatspanners attempting to stuff the genie back into the bottle wth the sink plunger.
In base 13, you see, six multiplied by nine is 42.
Maybe so. But more importantly, on the prehistoric Earth (notable for the copious and oft-mentioned trees), Arthur got a caveman to pull letters from the scrabble bag in an attempt to discern the Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe And Everything.
W-H-A-T-D-O-Y-O-U-G-E-T-I-F-Y-O-U-M-U-L-T-I-P-L-Y-S-I-X-B-Y-N-I-N-E is what emerged.
"Six by nine? 42?"
"I always knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe..."
He doesn't have a chess set, so he's using draughts.
He also doesn't have a chess board, so he's using a piece of paper.
He's been told that there's a gulf in class between the games, but he ignored that as nobody could tell him what the gulf was called.
(No, the world is not laughing with you...)
Or, in other words, the easier and more convenient it is to use, the more vulnerable it is.
Trouble is, people like the convenience of all their disparate pieces of shit being able to talk to each other. The upshot is that if you do produce rigidly secure, tightly scoped, siloed systems, you'll get arseraped in the market by some bunch of trendy "workflow" friendly swiss-cheese-security products.
NASA is also the very definition of soft power..
Which means that he's going to have to really fuck it up to give Roscosmos the lead.
I'm afraid that it's becoming obvious that the ex-Soviet guy who outed Trump as a KGB asset the other day was telling the truth. Fortunately for Putin's little bitch, he's already made sure that any organisation that might investigate this is now run by one of the most lickspittle of his toadies.
...used to be based in Breda before going out of business.
Company goes bust, receivers flog off any assets, creditors and shareholders get almost bugger all back. There usually isn't much by way of handover of the assets concerned and the process tends to be along the lines of "auction it off and ignore any objections".
Looks like there may be a bankruptcy shaped loophole in the legislation governing data destruction.
So getting your code optimised by people who have a deep understanding of the language, know how the hardware works and know what they're doing makes it more efficient?
I'm afraid this missive from The Department of Stating the Bleedin' Obvious is going to go down like a cup of warm sick in India.
I found myself underneath one when it was at high angle of attack on final to land, while I was sat in an MGB with the top down.
Once it got to about a mile ahead of me, I got pressed into the seat by the confined sheet of air producing the additional lift effect off that ogee wing. Very impressive bit of work that, making it produce waaaayyyyy more lift when it's most needed without resorting to variable geometry, like everyone else did.
They apparently have to have competitive tendering. This means dragging other companies into the design / build process and pissing a load of time and money on the wall.
Then they go with the lowest bidder, which makes no difference as the project will come in waaayyyyy over budget anyway like all public-sector crap.
It'd probably work out cheaper and quicker to just pick some mob who chuck a decent bribe or whose CEO's kids go to school with the minister's and give them the job.
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