Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Or more accurately the pockets of their customers. All the little old ladies pension funds,your life insurance, etc. Remember bankers don't own companies, people with savings own companies.
If the bank feels that el'reg's favourite Bond villain is wasting shareholders money on a vanity project to buy back a company he founded - they have a duty to say so.
> Surely, there was no crime before the 1980s, when the Internet became a reality. :P
Yes but in the 80s it was because of video nasties, In the 90s it was computer games
In the 70s it was cinema, in the 60s drugs, rock music in the 50s
In the 40s they blamed it on the rise of facism and the invention of aerial bombing and nuclear weapons
The net is the easy part - but you need to make the rocket out of something strong enough to survive being dropped into a net. Cast iron would probably be good.
Unfortunately it is difficult to make cast iron look nice and shiny for the promotional photos so very few rockets are made out of it.
But if it had been a "proper subject" that you learned at school you would all have been in rows chanting the table of Sinclair basic commands and memorising memory addresses to regurgitate in exams.
That would probably have put you off about as effectively as times-tables puts people off appreciating maths.
Even worse in Canada. A PhD physicist working for the government I wasn't an exempt (ie professional) employee, so I had to be in the union, had to have fixed working hours, had to clock in an clockout, couldn't sign off on the reports / expenses / HR stuff of the team I was running.
Yet a 21 year old "environmental engineer" with a degree in sustainable development is automatically my boss.
There is an exemption to allow professors who aren't engineers to supervise PhD students but it expires and the engineers are fighting it in court.
>"I forget, who is paying the FT to print that "advice" these days ?"
>OK, please tell us, since you're so smart. Who?
Like all newspapers it prints "those prejudices of the proprietor which don't upset the advertisers."
I looked it up, the FT is owned by the Japanese stock exchange, so possibly more reliable source of news than being owned by Murdoch, but still an organisation with an agenda and "skin in the game" as they say over here.
But it is a small place.
I want to move a bank HQ, I need to hire 100traders, 200 derivative quants, 300 programmers, 400 cleaners/rececptionists/HR/etc. I need a choice of 10 corporate law firms, 10 accountants, 10 auditors.
In London or NY I can do this 10x over. In Paris or Frankfurt It is harder, in Dublin / Amsterdam almost impossible. The real reason London will remain as a finance hub is the same reason you open a software startup in SF rather than take the cheaper rent of Idaho.
If the only "corporate infrastructure" you need is a brass plaque then Dublin is fine.
If the UK leaves then a majority of the financial institutions HQed in London will need an Eu subsidiary to deal with Europe, and perhaps will need to move their HQ to Europe.
In either case it will mean a brass plaque in Dublin, the workers continue to be in London and the corporate tax that used to not be paid in London will now not be paid in Ireland.
Zeros and Ones for computers are a silly southern invention by the southern nancy (in the purely soft southerner sense) Turing
Proper Yorkshire Quantum computers operate on the appen/mebbe system which allows all possible answer states to be considered simultaneously before arriving at "reet reckonin"
That's a ridiculously old fashioned attitude and a complete misrepresentation of the political process.
No politicians or Machiavellian ministers negotiated this deal.
It was written by a bunch of corporations and their lobbyists and then given to the politicians to sign if they wanted funding for their re-election campaign and some nice directorships after they retire.
PEs also require that you are supervised by a PE.
So great if you are a mechanical engineer at Ford, trickier if you are at a startup.
Although it works great for us. It neatly divides each new graduate crop into those that eventually want a nice safe job in local government (where professional status is required for all managers) and so go and work for whatever large utility will tick all the PE boxes. And those that actually want to make something new and interesting.
>Out of date? If it still makes phone calls and sends texts, it won't be out of date.
If it has a security bug which means that anyone in the world can access all your data on it or can charge premium rate calls to it - and your supplier doesn't offer an update.
So it can make calls and send texts but you daren't turn it on - then it is "out of date"
Factory farmed chickens cost $3 in an Aldi in Europe or America with a transport infrasturcture - they are a lot more expensive in Africa.
The big advantage of chickens is that it is harder for European/American farmers to dump capacity in Africa and depress prices. It's not much fun trying to scrape a bit of wheat from your back garden African strip of dirt and have a bulker arrive with 100,000T of subsidised Kansas/Canadian wheat.
democracy - a system where the 5% of the population living in marginal constituencies get to decide which privately educated Oxford graduate gets a free house in London to promote exactly the same policies as the previous lot.
You can keep it
Then it should be subject to FOI requests, in fact it should be public.
What possible objection could each of the presidential candidates have to a list of everybody they talked to on the phone, everyone they met with and everyone that emailed then, along with all they and their staff's web site visits - being published ?
>The police arent trawling the internet looking for things that have been said
The case of the Robin Hood airport it was tweeted - the internet equivalent of shouting in the park.
The airport claim to have found it by doing a search, ie they were monitoring Twitter for references to "Robin Hood"
The case where a musician texted clash lyrics to a friend and the police showed up, the police weren't able to adequately explain how they had "discovered" a private txt between two people who weren't the subject of any sort of investigation.
You hire a bunch of Americans, you check that they all have pickup trucks and know at least the first line of star spangled banner.
But a couple of them look a bit Chinese, do they also have Chinese passports? Could they apply for Chinese passports in the future ? Can you let them look at data ?
Itseez are the maintainers of the OpenCV library, which was originally created by Intel's RD division to show that you could do this image processing stuff on PCs rather than needing workstations and FPGAs
Then they threw it out to concentrate on core stuff (like Itanium) and it went through half a dozen hands before ending up with itseez
