Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Well my team and I really concerned ourselves fundamentally with a statistical analysis of violence as a whole in tandem with and related to a psycho-chemical and broadly speaking a behavioral analysis of over a thousand individuals and we've come to the inevitable conclusion that the one course of action
that the authorities must take is
to cut off their goolies facial recognition carpet bombing
(A newer Garmin said I had done 24,000 miles in about twenty minutes between Impington and Dry Drayton.)
< nasel anorak voice of man in pub> what you did was take the wormhole at the back of Fenstanton, go through the galactic center and turn right at the spiral arm - it cuts out the whole junction at nether wallop. Alternately you can take the stargate at the little side road off the 3rd turning at the Fen Drayton roundabout
No the trick is to keep it vague: That way you can prosecute a photographer at a protest march or ban an image of a politician caught in-the-arms-of-a-damsel. And of course you need to make it an offence not to turn over all any phone or camera to the police to investigate.
There is a funny talk by a law prof (LSE?) about whether lady Godiver should be prosecuted for public indecency or Peeping Tom for peeping.
In an example of "Everything that's Wrong with the Modern World" another obit piece (probably in the Garudian) said something like "in the light of this behavior we must reconsider the value of his work"
NO, if the work is good it doesn't matter if he fed puppies into wood chippers or used emacs. The value of the work is unchanged. Blackadder II doesn't become bad when Ben Elton becomes a Tory peer.
Even worse, Amazon co-mingle stock. So if you buy a Casio from a totally reputable retailer on Amazon you are just as likely to get the fake one shipped to their warehouse by Dell Boy as you are to get the genuine one if you buy from Trotters Independant Trading Fulfilled by Amazon.
That's why nobody buys sd cards or (non-amazon brand) batteries on Amazon anymore
The problem is that they have also put their brand name on a bunch of cheap rebadged rice cookers, wifi switched light bulbs and other crap that got a plain white box and an unjustified 300% markup
If you go to your favourite cheap-chinese-crap.com site and put in Xiaomi it looks a lot more like Aldi than Apple
Microsoft buying an OSS repository is questionable because of their open hostility to openness.
Microsoft of 10years ago would buy it to shut down the open source cancer.
But Microsoft of 10years in the future isn't a software company - it's a services company.
They are charging / month for Office, Visual Studio and Azure - they aren't selling shrink wrapped copies of software.
Github model is perfect, you use the free version of VS + Git = your code is public.
If you want to keep it private = you pay $X/month. No arguing about licensing, student versions, introductory offers etc
If their business model allows people to do illegal stuff unchecked then they should treated as accessories and prosecuted in the criminal courts
Then so should the network companies that carry it.
that's why we need to ban encryption so that Cable & Wireless can check all the packets going down its fibers. We also need the post office to open all mail to check that it isn't illegal
Germany exports about 1 in 7 of the cars it makes to the UK. Post-Brexit, absent a relevant deal, tariffs could kick in
Except that it would then switch to exporting cars to the UK from its US plants.
Or was Britain's plan to introduce 25% tariffs on American imports as part of the goal of global free trade
True but it is still important that people know what a computer does
Most people don't become professional physicists but it's still worth teaching everyone that you perform experiments, see how changing one thing affects others, change your mind when you see the results - rather than just believe what some ranting idiot says
How much examination and debate is this one likely to have though?
That's why it's a perfect law to slip in a little clause giving police the power to seize all devices that could be used to take rude photos in public or any system that could be used to process images.
Wrap that in a bit of latin, put it in a sub-paragraph on page 432 and you can grab any phone or computer without a warrant.
You can't possibly complain - it's being used to catch perverts. You aren't pro-pervert are you ?
Whitehall do have professionals, but when their minister tells them to contract out some vital public infrastructure to a private company from a list of one there isn't much you can do.
At least in the old days there was a small group of companies who could compete by offering bigger donations to the party election fund, or more remunerative directorships to ministers - now with all the mergers you have only one UK company able to bid.
Surely your location when in public is in the public domain?
As is any book you buy in public or newspaper you read.
Or anybody you meet and talk to.
If you don't want the apparatus of state security following your every movement in public -just stay at home with the curtains closed. Think how much lower crime would be if everyone spent all their time hiding under their beds !
Definitely everyone should be allowed nuclear weapons, it's just those that have most to fear from an oppressive armed government should rush out to buy them first.
So should school children, mutually assured thermonuclear destruction is the only logical alternative to escalating school shootings
