Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
To Zuckereality, his demos are childish and pointless, if Zuck and his disciples really believe in this rubbish, there will be no need for monopolies investigations and dismantling, because the whole thing is going to implode, leaving mothing but but a nasty stain and litigation from distaught investors.
"It appears that air may interfere with Boeing 737s"
And while tin foil may limit 5G signals from penetrating your brain, they may be less effective protecting you from a 737 attempting a landing.
It seems there is not much communication between federal agencies when it comes to managing mutual resources.
The fact that human rights are not respected ny multiple actors and agencies does not mean that you should write them off.
Human rights ought to be innate, individually, as well as within the state and society and the simplest way to determine whether or not your rights are being maintained or eroded, is to have them written down.
Having your basic rights documented may not protect them but it provides a benchmark that enables one to see to what level your rights have eroded or maintained.
Simply announcing that rights no longer exist is defeatist and falling directly into the hands of those who oppose the ability of society and the individual to exercise their rights.
I am a boomer, I grew up with the notion that my parent's generation had sacrificed and risked millions of lives to defend basic human rights and I have no plans to lose any rights I have lightly.
Why should private individuals have to encrypt their communications prior to transmission, when in most democratic countries they already have rights to privacy enshrined in their laws?
In addition what is to stop overreaching governments from taking that extra step to criminalise all forms of encrypted communication other than those they licence with backdoors and where does Joe public learn about and acquire the ability to easily and reliably encrypt their comms?
Government needs to be educated and stopped now from eroding privacy and natural rights now.
Ordinary citizens should be respected and not subjected to authoritarian overreach.
The motion as written is a question of our expectations, allowing for the fact that so called Western democracies are all signatories to various international declarations that supposedly guarantee privacy from commerce as well as overreaching governments.
So, yes we should expect those we have voted for to respect and protect our privacy as a part of the implied mandate we have given them when voting for them.
The problem is such mandates only carry any weight with politicians while campaigning for our votes, the moment they have a seat, mandates are thrown out of the window until the next election.
My 1992 Discovery only does what I tell it to, has never tried to kill me via any alleged autonomy or driver aid, it does have an annoying habit of refusing to go if I haven't put any diesel in it though.
No irritating beeps, bleeps or bongs, it starts instantly and goes fast enough, is reasonably economic, plus I recognise everthing under the nonnet and elsewhere and can fix any problem without plugging in diagnostics.
I am the diagnostic system.
@ConsumedByFire
That is why Darwin has placed so much street furniture on our roads.
I wish I had video for every time that I have seen an engrossed idiot walk into lamposts, traffic signs and benches, there would be enough for a TV season.
My favourite so far was a hoverboarder crossing a road with his face in a tablet...... didn't see the kerb, he managed to go face first into the pavement with only a tablet as a cushion.
I had to pay up and leave the cafe where I was sitting with tears in my eyes.
Am I a bad person?
When I lived in Sacramento (1999), I used to drive down to my mate's factory in Oakland to go for lunch, my first time down there my mate was stuck in a business meeting so I went for a walk.
I managed about a couple of hundred yards before a cop car stopped by me to ask what I was doing, when they heard my English accent they took pains to explain it was a dangerous area, then one of the cops said 'If you are walking in the street the locals might decide you are too dangerous to mess with but don't count on it'.
In the suburbs where I lived, anyone walking would often get the cops called on them.
I doubt any of them would have liked Lewisham or any of several other parts of London at night, you could get mugged by an old lady in some places.
Madrid is my favourite capital city, I have been involved with a few art exhibitions in Europe and three of them have been in Madrid.
Good food, nice people and a great atmosphere, even better now I am retired, I live only 3 hours away by car.
Plus now they have started cheap high speed rail twice a day.
The best business trips I have been on, others have varied from ok down to spending a night on a cold plastic seat in Frankfurt airport in February after all flights were canceled.
Yes!
Or no!
As far as I know, the UK was obliged to continue fully with GDPR but many UK sites that I visit seem to think it no longer applies to them.
Though, to be fair, quite a few European sites ignore it too or at least do not follow the guidelines fully.
GDPR needs to be taken more seriously by site owners as well as ICOs across Europe, while the ICOs do not actively look for and prosecute rule breakers, there is little incentive to take it seriously.
The process for reporting transgressions should also be made simpler.
Since I first began to follow politics as a kid in the sixties, the UK Goverment, at least as far as scientific research is concerned, has never put it's money where its mouth is.
Successive governments since the war have talked loudly about British science excellence, waved vague promises around and then forgot all about it.
Look up 'The brain drain' from previous decades.
The masts on this thing are not stayed in the conventional manner so unstepping may not be as relatively simple as on conventional modern sailing boats.
The filthy rich are not that bothered by other people's historic bits and pieces, so dismantling a bridge and disrupting the local's is all a part of floating their boat.
I was expecting.the masts to have a bulbous bit at the top though.
For the first Metaglasshole to wipe out innocent people with their allegedly autonomous vehicle while immersed in their metaspace.
The Project Aria sounds at least as creepy as google glass was regarding the first person capture in real time of sound, vision and location.
I can see more than a few privacy issues with that as there were with the google item.
In the unlikely event such a thing happened, it would create an economic bloc with huge spending power and access to eqally huge resources that would not require use of the dollar.
One of the reasons the US is happy with the current unrest in Europe and lack of cooperation with the Russian Federation.
"Brands… can personalize ads at scale and use video ad sequencing to tell powerful stories," he said, adding that advertisers can target connected televisions "which means users get a more helpful viewing experience and brands get to drive more online sales and/or leads."
I am looking forward to Google sending me my new Googlgoggle box, so that I can have a helpful viewing experience.
How much will they pay me to watch endless ads while recording all of my viewing habits through their Telescreen.
NB: Need a ssrcasm icon!
I don't use a pen, I find the abrasive character of the slate blunts it too rapidly.
Besides the ink doesn't show up that well.
I was wondering who laid the foundations and developed the the tech that has become modern electronics and computing?
No, I have never heard of Wordle as I don't have time for word games that probably use incorrectly spelled words.
I think what most of the detractors of Muak are missing, is "In the future", he didn't say 'the near future' or even soon, who knows what may or may.not be possible in 'The future'?
Even Musk has the right to dream and imagine and you never know, maybe once in a while he might come up with something useable.
At least he seems to make a better effort at looking forward than Bezos and one or two of the other billionaires.
When did he become the richest man? A few months back he was trailing JB by tens of billions.
I don't know about where you are but the bicycle bells here are about an inch (25mm) in diameter and the tiny 'ding' they make is not discernable in traffic and city noise.
Particularly when at speed by the time you can hear the bell you are about to be wearing it and the rest of the bike/scooter.
I quite fancy one of the off road scooters for the trails where I live, with 70 mile range and plenty of power, I could explore further.
In the city the they should come pre-packed with a Darwin award.
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