Posts by Jason Bloomberg 2754 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2008
Surely the copyright exists on "the work" which the human author created, no matter what that work includes. I could create a book with photos of movie CGI in it and there should be no problem in granting me copyright on that work.
you are obviously a moral vacuum.
And you are obviously a complete wanker if we are descending to that level.
But as long as we agree that if you try to release your Cure for Cancer as open-source software, you’re going to f*ing jail for the rest of your life, and good people will piss on your grave, we’re all good here.
No, I don't agree with that. You are talking out your arse.
if you give someone a tool that is used to destroy lives, you remain fully responsible for all consequences.
I guess I won't be releasing my Cure for Cancer any time soon because I'm not spending my life in jail when someone uses it to murder others.
Thankfully we have the concept of mens rea - which you acknowledge yourself - which determines whether those involved in any chain are actually responsible for an end result or outcome.
The radioactive contamination will be restricted to the immediate area, and this can be cleaned up, but at considerable expense,
Though, rather than see it cleaned up, I would expect to be seeing endless government ministers trying to convince us "it's just like winter flu" as they convince us "living with fallout" is just fine and dandy, as they have with covid.
I would have loved to have added a Joke Icon, but ...
Are these "experts" using the same playbook that predicted total chaos in the UK if we didn't immediately lock down last Christmas? And when we didn't, and there was just a mild wave ...
According to the government data I was logging there were 8,100 covid deaths in Jan 2022 compared to 4,720 in Dec 2021.
I guess "mild wave" is in the eye of the beholder but I don't consider the experts to have been wrong nor have anything to apologise for. One reason things weren't as bad as they could have been was because people heeded advice of the experts, imposed self-lockdown, kept themselves safe, avoided becoming part of that wave.
My official USITT DMX512 specs show the original as 1986 and later as 1990. The revision was to extend the 'Mark after Break' pulse from 4us to no less than 8us which made it easier to generate and receive using microcontrollers of the time without needing external hardware logic.
As someone who still has an official printed "MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification", bought direct from the MIDI Manufacturers Association in 1990, on my bookshelf you can put me down as some kind of fanboy.
Whenever I have had to implement any kind of UART API I have always ensured 31250 baud is made available if the hardware supports it.
My only complaint is, as the official spec was only available to paid-up members, is "no reproduction", it means a lot of example receiver implementations out there don't handle Running Status correctly or fail to accept that some MIDI messages can be inserted within others. They mostly work but not always and aren't actually spec compliant.
That answer is better than you will get from a science journalist, a philosophy professor or even most computer science PhDs.
Probably. From what I have seen, answers are a mash-up of what everyone has had to say, presented in a form which isn't easy to attribute to any particular source or sources.
It is impressive and I'm not fundamentally opposed to what it's doing. But given it's plagiarising many to form a more comprehensive or extensive answer than exists elsewhere doesn't make me feel more comfortable with it.
I would feel better if it provided references and acknowledgements to where it was getting its knowledge from
The fact it responds as it does is clever, the content is not and doesn't bear deep scrutiny from a grown up. Humans do that too (as per your argument), but they're usually under 5.
Or down the pub, or a politician who has opened their mouth, or a typical rabid tabloid or propaganda media outlet.
The under-fives are mostly harmless. It's adults with agendas who aren't.
"We hired a policeman and it's going really great" wasn't the best announcement they could have made.
I'm a Brit so 'ex-cop and surveillance' instantly brought to mind hiding cameras in plant pots to nab the bad guys. And "hurrah for that; someone's got to do it", and I wasn't much fussed.
But that's a rose-tinted view. He may well be a Good Cop, but there are plenty who aren't, as many have found out, especially certain members of Britain's communities, and those who have ended up on mortuary slabs for no good reason.
And it's even worse in America, so its not surprising some were triggered by the announcement. In truth I can't blame them, even though they are perceiving things from a different perspective than I and other Brits would.
From an American perspective it seems it would be easy to read it as "We have employed a cop who uses our kit to spy on people. Fuck yeah".
The real failing is in how the outraged were responded to. This is probably going to become a text book case of how not to respond to people you have inadvertently triggered. It's not the first time Raspberry Pi has responded in such a manner - Element 14's forum in the early days had a not insignificant number of members who had been banned from the Pi forum because their attitudes weren't appreciated - but this may be the most consequential.
I imagine Liz Upton, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Raspberry Pi Limited - "if you see our company producing anything with words, pictures or video in it, my sticky fingers have had some involvement." - is rather busy this morning dealing with what's happening, the shit storm that's been provoked.
My British ‘you gift the mailman at Xmas…. Seriously WHY!!’ was not particularly appreciated.
I have never received a satisfactory answer to "why?" - only outrage at daring to ask and for challenging the tradition or practice.
I am not sure anyone could convince me tipping workers is anything but a means to address an otherwise morally repugnant situation which I am therefore obliged not to support nor indulge in.
When I do tip workers it is not so much to benefit them but to avoid criticism from those who believe I must.
I would probably also keep my thoughts to myself if I were worried by forum downvotes.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30110-7/fulltext
An early study with a very small sample size but 86%.
That is the number of deaths in that instance. But there appears to be no evidence they died because of being ventilated, would have survived if they hadn't been, or had been ventilated without good cause.
Sometimes people are so far gone that no amount of treatment will save them. As the detailed report notes most subjected to ventilation, invasive and non-invasive, were "critically ill", older patients, with most having "organ function damage".
At the time there were few, if any, alternatives available other than to not treat patients.
Medical staff who would act to deliberately harm a patient, who will indulge in invasive or extreme intervention except as a last resort and with best intent, are thankfully few and far between.
All the people who were forcibly ventilated due to the WHO initial treatment guidelines and likely died as a result.
Putting aside my dislike of your phrasing - Any stats on that?
I am grown-up enough to accept there probably were people who died as a result of being ventilated who may have survived if they hadn't been, but how many were saved because they were ventilated who would have died if they hadn't been?
I will lament all deaths but am not a fan of 'we mustn't do it if it kills some people' if it means many more will die as a result.
Seems Musk's notion of Free Speech is just as everyone predicted and he's determined to make Twitter an echo chamber for liars, propagandists, racists, fascists, nazis, supremacists, misogynists, haters and assorted scum.
I really can't fathom what's going on in his head but it seems to me there needs to be an intervention for his own good.
I wonder how much longer the US and the UK can bang on about security before people see it for what it truly is - stopping China from surpassing the US in terms of economic "power"
Quite some time I imagine as most people will accept whatever propaganda gets fed to them by those running the witch-hunt, the media who support them, and the echo chamber they get their fake news from.
There are plenty of people who aren't gullible sheeple but it never fails to amaze me how many are. I don't see that changing any time soon.
"Oracle and Inoapps have so far declined the opportunity to comment".
And when they do it will probably only be to tell us their number one priority is to ensure the perfect on-time delivery of everything they have failed to deliver.
It seems to me the only people who have to say "our number one priority is..." are those who have failed to meet it.
It seems to me this is a typical 'per user' licence where only licensed users can use the software, but can install it at work and home, or on any computer they use, but must only use it in one place at a time.
Figuring a user could be using any of the navy's computers they can install it on all, entire legitimately.
The challenge is in ensuring only licensed users are using the software and only on one computer at a time.
It appears the software suppliers woke up rather late to the inherent risk of what they were allowing with no means to ensure only licenced users were using it and only one install at a time, but couldn't prove there was abuse, and were arguing it as if 'per machine' licensing.
When I was involved in security, before mobiles were a thing, we used to have 'key stations' which guards doing their rounds would need to activate.
We were the 'guards watching the guards', but purely for their own safety to ensure there hadn't been a 'man down' we didn't know about. But yes, it enforced doing their job, protected the company and guards against accusations of not doing their job, and there was shit to pay if they weren't keying-in when and where they were expected to but there was leeway
So it's not a new thing, but the underlying motivation for doing it can vary.
If I had been responsible for the care home genocide, had repeatedly failed the health service and the people of Britain so badly, I would be ashamed to show my face in public.
But Hancock has no shame. Nor Boris Johnson who knew Hancock was "totally fucking hopeless" but wouldn't sack him, whose own dithering and lack of caring was responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
In my opinion Angela Raynor should never have apologised for her 'Tory scum' accusation; if anything it was rather too generous.
A more entertaining tale to tell would be the one about an engineer in our ''R&D Lab who was tasked with checking a prototype lighting dimmer product was working as expected.
Instructions: Disconnect power, daisy chain the triacs, connect mains live, connect to mains neutral through a light bulb, set faders to zero, turn on, move the faders up, check bulb comes on.
Set-up done, power turned on, faders move up. World's Largest Bang (TM), lights go out, silence descends across the building, I was off my chair and under the desk like a ferret in a war zone, wondering WTF and what damage had been done behind me.
Thankfully engineer intact, albeit 'surprised', and no damage done except to the triacs whose tops had blown off. Turns out the whole lot was accidentally wired as a live to neutral short waiting to happen, the light bulb not in circuit.
Power back on. Cups of tea all round. "Shit happens" the most severe recrimination. "Power through local circuit breaker" and other safety advice added to instructions. And we all lived happily ever after.
There's been a lot of bans handed out to those who criticise the jump towards the alt-right that has been made.
What has utterly confused me is that you have labelled things the left and liberals have done, or would be ideologically inclined to do, as alt-right ideology.
While willing to accept the very-far-left and very-far-right are as bad as each other at the extremes of the political spectrum, the things you complain about are simple left-wing leanings which you label alt-right. The shift you perceive towards the alt-right is actually what I would call a shift to the left.
Criticise the left all you want but labelling them alt-right is ridiculous.
It's a mash-up of monikers and usernames. An imagined search could easily turn up stuff which makes it hard to tell what's real or invented:
Chicago Police @chicagopolice : It's our annual outreach programme this weekend
Chicago Police @chicagopd [verified] : Pleased to welcome David Duke to the CPD community
Chicago Police @real_chicagopolice [verified] : Supt. Aherm to discuss CPD failures tonight
Chicago Police @chicago_police [verified] : Record black kill rate this month
Chicago Police @chicago_cpd [verified] : CPD backs Trump for 2024
I always say: C is high-level assembly language and as such you need to handle it with care. Using it as a Application Programming Language is foolish.
That's been my view as well. Being unsafe is baked into the language. It was and is appropriate for what it was intended for but not in applications where no end of effort has been - and has to be - expended trying to mitigate its unsafe nature.
I can understand why people ended up using C for everything but it was foreseeably walking a path to the inevitable nightmare. "Don't use C for applications" has been said for decades but mostly ignored.
Mine's the one next to the growling lion holding a flick knife and a bottle of Novichok. No; it's perfectly safe if you approach it right.
True, for now. I imagine it's much easier to build a plane then start replacing imported parts with home-grown variants, much like I'll use other people's libraries to get an app working before I start coding my own replacements for those.
Even if they have to use inferior or sub-standard parts, strip it to the bare bones, they will have something which can fly which is better than having nothing.
China won't become self-sufficient overnight but they are moving towards it incrementally.
I doubt China is building it to secure western customers, more building it to guarantee a sovereign solution which doesn't require Chinese and allied airlines to buy from western customers.
China has read the tea leaves, knows what's coming their way, are preparing for it. And they seem to be be doing a pretty good job of doing so.
My first car was a VW Polo ... God it was hard work
I could have done with that knowledge some time back.
I got loaned one while my own car was in for servicing. Turning onto the road as I pulled out I found myself pulling on the steering wheel like I was wrestling King Kong to the ground while exclaiming "fuck, fuck, fuck" as on-coming cars in the other lane were racing towards me.
No other car I owned without power-steering was ever as heavy on the steering as that.
100ppi makes each pixel 0.254mm. I'm not sure my eyes have ever been that good and they've not got better with age.
Scrolling LED displays, departure boards and the like, are perfectly good at 5ppi. Typical text LCD displays are about 40ppi. It's all about use case.
I've been talking to colleagues to get to the root of the issue, but it was just one on one talking.
That seems to have been the problem. Could a virtual meeting of all parties have solved the issue as a physical meeting did?
I don't know. It seems to me you have demonstrated meetings can be better than one-on-one but have not proven that meetings need to be physical rather than virtual.
I am not convinced 'work from home doesn't work' based on just a few specific cases.
Musk has floated the idea of making Twitter's ~400,000 verified account holders pay $8/month to retain that status as a revenue-raising measure to supplement advertising revenue
My reading of Musk's tweet - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274 - "Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month" - is that he's not just proposing the verified pay for that privilege, but it can be purchased by anyone.
Musk seems to have a complete misunderstanding of what "verified" means.
Do you know of someone on left that was suspended/cancelled ? Or that has their tweets removed..
Not me. But I don't recall anyone on the left posting the sort of things which got those on the right suspended and cancelled.
The right presumes "acceptability" is wherever they stand and thus inevitably feels persecuted because it isn't.
Being able to vote in the UK is taken as evidence of having a democracy which allows the so-called democratic system we have to persist. We focus on making voting easier, increasing turnout, to that end - who wins is only of secondary concern.
That's not so in America, and our recent governments have been trying to move us in that direction.
Me neither.
"Partygate", "Kyev" - Yes, lots.
"Carolean" - A few times, but not widely heard, and not new.
"Warm Bank", "Sportswashing", "Quiet Quitting" - Only a couple of times.
"Permacrisis", "Splooting", "Lawfare", "Vibe Shift" - Not once.
"Kami-Kwasi" would have been my offering but perhaps too short-lived to have gained traction.
If you can /speak/ over a phone connection, you can send a fax over a phone connection.
I was thinking that, modem too, but I also recall there's clever processing in audio-to-digital encoders which can filter stuff out to enhance voice audio.
I presume the current rules are 'fine, you can do that, but it must not bugger up fax tones' and the proposed change will remove that requirement. It doesn't necessarily mean fax won't work, but there will be no guarantee that it will work, no requirement for it to work.
But if a computer does it, it is different for reasons.
I guess it comes down to perceived skills and talent when performing in someone else's style, against those needed to get a computer to do the same.
I don't personally understand the vitriol directed at bg_5you. Nothing wrong with reasoned "you shouldn't do that", explanations as to why "that's not a good or appropriate thing to do", even "that's crap", "an insult", but the backlash goes far beyond that.
IMO there's far too much "with us or against us" polarisation and tribalism these days. We are increasingly losing our tolerance of others and that's not a good thing.
Not just Braverman. I was - perhaps unwisely, prepared to give Sunak the benefit of the doubt, but the appointment of so many from the hard right, ERG members and sympathisers, Tufton Street worshippers, ended that quicker than I expected.
It's basically Truss 2.0 with a "but don't crash the markets" poster on every wall.
Bugger! I've been hacked! - Please let it be known that I for one welcome our fasci^W compassionate overlords and their ankle-bracelets for dissenters.
most are saying what crap and nonsense. Remember when the Internet arrived the same thing was said.
I don't. I remember people saying it seemed pointless and they couldn't see what possible use it could be to them. The internet then took off as more people began see how it could be of use to them, how it could be useful in general, thought 'if it can work for that then maybe it could work for this'.
I can't see Meta delivering that. The potential gains for "Immersive FIFA" and other games are there, even "Immersive Virtual Holidaying", but day-to-day "Immersive Business", "Immersive Social", I just don't see it. Like others I suspect it will follow 3D TV; a minority sport.
Just checked and I can still have 'a jolly good wank' (TM) with my eyes closed, just imagination, no tech involved.
I can see VR might appeal for some kind of gaming, maybe the odd hand-shandy if you already own them, but can't see the point or justification of cost for what Meta imagines we'll be using it for. "Fully immersive" sounds great but the last thing I want to be doing is lifting goggles off so I can find that sausage roll on my desk or take a sip without knocking my mug of tea everywhere.
I just can't see the gain over what we already have, not even for an hour a day.
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