Posts by Colin Tree 215 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2008
It's no trade secret Facebook make their money from selling our data.
So why has everybody got a problem.
Facebook is "too big to fail" now that so many other businesses have their marketing tied to the platform and business model. So the FTC is reluctant to upset the big end of town.
Until the physical layer and protocols are trustworthy and auditable nothing can be trusted.
Assuring authenticity has to be built into the physical layer.
Cryptography works until it is broken, then we move on to a longer key or different cypher.
Everything added to try and create trust is only a bandaid over a broken system.
Start again.
Jeez, how many times have I said "people are the economy"
company profits and trickle down, phooey
dunderhead economists and business dudes are simplistic, cut costs, increase profits
how about pay people more, they'll have more money to purchase expensive shit and all companies will make more profit
they don't look at the larger circulation of money, only their own limited self interest and profit
the economy is a big machine which fails if all the wheels aren't greased sufficiently
This is just for stupid fish who can't remember the milk.
I never remember phone numbers, they're in my phone. The numbers have been verified because I talk or text with the other parties. People are names not numbers.
I would pre verify a new number putting them in my contacts then talking with them before transferring funds.
The banks have it round the wrong way. Their app has to verify with my contact list.
Love the Corporate Plan-2018-2021 cover picture, woman working with medical imaging in the bush
I'm paying for 50 Mbs, getting 30 Mbs --> 6 Mbs
My customer experience = mediocre to fail
They've given us a placebo, under-provisioning puts less strain on the network while taking more money, the masses are happy with their (not perfect) streaming 'Happy Days'. How many people are continuously logging their internet performance and would know just how bad it gets ?
If they made a proper network, gave everyone top speed and charged a flat $40, everyone would connect, they'd make friends and money at the same time. That would rise with inflation to what they were expecting. But no, the fat cats had to fuck with it.
They want to sell top dollar to the server market.
Want to get economy of scale ?
Putting Xpoint memory in embedded processors would simplify both hardware and software by replacing registers, eeprom, flash and sram. Slower than sram, but embedded isn't chasing peak performance.
One memory to rule them all.
No, I don't think that is what the judge said.
Morton was protected because " the campaign owners have to perform any promise to contributors. "
In this case " it says 'this order'. Not 'this pledge' but 'this order' has been successfully added to your campaign, said the judge "
I'm very dubious about crowd funding.
A developer should have a prototype product to show that they are fair dinkum. Fine tuning plastic mouldings, etc and doing a production run are worth funding and you might reasonably expect something back for your money. And it will help the fledgling company get up and running.
"....the NBN....experts to use their discretion to choose the most appropriate technology to ensure the network is rolled out as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.”
Cost-effective has to include long term maintenance.
Quickly has to take into account time to correct sub-standard connections.
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I'm waiting for three-state memory
+ve -ve zero
true, false, don't care
true, false, maybe
true, false, stop bit
Especially as a stop bit, serial storage, variable word length,
a true or false flag could be stored as f+1,
a very long number could be stored in n+1 bits,
variable length instruction, execute
how much redundancy is there in fixed length words ?
I've used my tech skills to create cad/cam high tech wooden surfboards and try and encourage the surfing community away from plastics into a sustainable future.
Now I've just got to make a buck out of it.
I've got negative earnings, so tax breaks are useless, used my super to fund development.
You will find artisans, innovators and creative people living in lower cost regions.
They are focused on creating, not making mellions to pay inner city London rent and hanging around with tossers partying. They congregate in stimulating communities, feeding off each other's passions and sharing. You can't make it happen, just create the environment for it to coalesce.
Next come the trendies who like to be 'in the scene', then the rich tossers come to party with the trendies, then the artisans piss off somewhere else more conducive.
Society has to take the money away from the clueless businessmen and give it to innovators.
They are just stealing your ingenuity and fresh thinking because they have none.
It is sad that money rules the world, because they are just festering maggots, sucking goodness, taking and not giving back.
Part of the click wrap agreement is all ideas submitted or developed are owned by them, and they don't have to give you squat.
Talking to universities is just the same.
Incubators want a saleable product, or a quick path to release and profitability. Basically they just do the marketing, again a clueless bunch of businessmen.
These days, tech gear and development systems are pretty cheap and your solo development path isn't so steep. Do some yourself, align with like minded mates and do it yourselves.
Get a product ready then crowdfund it to get production up.
Pity you don't have the balls to do it anymore.
Home page reads like newby Linux boys trying to flog their services and provide professional business support.
If you want to mention security, you need to talk about no Micro$oft security support for older OSs on older boxen and how Wine is the only safe place to run your legacy Windoze applications.
If you want to talk about legacy Windoze boxen, they might also run legacy Windoze apps, doesn't get a mention till documents... available Q40S applications... down the page a bit.
Trinity based on KDE3, forked, get real boys, shows their inexperience, not a stable base.
KDE shite is never fast or light, if they had any experience they'd use anything else.
Mitch wants to give the domain registration to some prick company which donates to the LNP, so his mates can put prices way up and make lots of filthy money and donate more money to the LNP.
It's a synergistic - all the mates get rich and screw everyone else. Why not, it's what they've done with everything else.
fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds
in theory,
read the article, they're low level, physical, real world problems,
but clouds are so ethereal, each level of abstraction increases complexity.
If you didn't use the azure cloud, you wouldn't have a problem.
KISS
oh, azure is the colour of a clear sky, nothing to do with clouds,
MS cockup again
and being the bumhole, we got FTTN.
We're a forgotten corner of the Gold Coast, and as I feared, we got the bum deal NBN connection.
I will stay on our old ADSL as long as possible, see how the early adopters go and if it fails in the first good rain.
Is there anywhere we can find the CVC for each ISP ?
While we have a piss weak captain at the tiller, we'll just go from problem to problem with no resolutions. He is too gutless to stand up to companies, even the government owned NBN, just let them self regulate, the marketplace will sort out any problems.
Listening to Shorton on Q&A, he said they will not replace existing copper installs, but, at one point said they will install more FTTP. But he was dithering a lot through the show, so I don't think even he knew what he was saying. He was pushing slogans, when he could have been selling quality fibre.
The financial windfall will be savings in future maintenance. There will also be increasing efficiencies as they install more fibre.
I'm sure there will be efforts in the future to bring the whole network up to a good standard. Maybe some gold plating before selling it off for a loss to private enterprise.
If it's money laundering from crime, they don't mind to make a loss. Throwing dirty money on roulette, 1/2 red, 1/2 black, guaranteed get back nearly 50%, never loose, but comes back clean.
The value of Bitcoin is going up because of investors/opportunists.
Traditional currencies only go down because of inflation.
$$$ to buy a house 20 years ago would only buy you a shithouse today.
I would rather use a currency which is stable, "what goes up must come down" Newton
(ii) is not issued by or under the authority of a government body = none of their bloody business
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
So the retailers take the cream off the NBN profits to do what precisely ?
They provide a router/wifi and a poor service.
If a retailer came to our street and offered us all a fibre upgrade from the box to the premises, then I would think they were providing something worthwhile.
Think it was an extra $200 dollars difference between Turdbull moron NBN and the real NBN ?
It has now come to The Well but the copper in the ground is fully forked. We can tell when it rains by the depth of water and the number of Telstra techs repairing connections.
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