Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> and Surrey would be the first to benefit from state aid clearance
Thank god - finally somebody is doing something to help the impoverished hell hole of desperation that is Surrey.
Hopefully this will end the tragic cycle of unemployment, crime and despair that has for so long blighted the home counties since the pheasant mines were closed.
But if you are using OO internally and mandate open formats (which as an Eu govt you are supposed to do) then incompatibility with MS isn't really an issue. It's like claiming that they should stop using German because it causes problems for English visitors.
There is probably a real (and profitable) market for a Word processor with fixed headline/sub/etc styles and only 2 fonts. A powerpoint clone that doesn't do dissolve/fade animations or fscking sound effects. And for many users - a spreadsheet suitable for doing expenses claims.
I wonder how many Billions have been wasted by people in offices reformatting Word docs - especially idiots that can't use styles (or us geniuses that can't work out how to apply modifications to styles since Office2003). Making fancy powerpoints which include 6 obligatory slides explaining the history or departmental organisation of the company before you get onto the actual info.
It's not the auditors job to say you are an idiot for paying $12Bn for this company.
It's the auditors job to say that their sales/costs/profits are what they claimed.
In practice there is bound to be some detail of non-transferable license revenue counted under the non-reccuring monthly account instead of the semi-deprciated (I'm making this shit up) pre-tax forecast .... to allow them to claim that they were misled.
>... if ever employed by a company being taken over by ANYONE, run away.
Unless it's purely a parent company level "Marathon is now Snickers" thing you are screwed.
After all, the new owners must be better/smarter/etc than you because they were the ones that took YOU over.
So unless you are a senior CXO at the victim with some golden handcuffs you are automatically at the bottom of the pile in the new organisation.
>the likelihood is that they will be able to recover very little so the impact of the negative publicity / >embarrassment if this is exaggerated or manufactured would far outweigh any remedy they might get.
Given a choice between, "those Brits lied to us and it's all the accountants fault" and "
the former CEO, that we the board put in place, went on a mad spending spree for anyone that could spell cloud because we have no idea how to innovate anymore"
Which is goign to sound better in a report to Wall St?
So another way to put it - lots of Taxpayer funded government research over the last 60years has been rolled up and turned into something you have to pay for?
Actually I worked with people from TWI and they are very helpful and profesional - unlike the similar setup at QinietiQ
This foreign video game shows fake CGI people having fake CGI sex with other fake CGI people = ban it.
We want to export these cluster munitions to blow up kids in this foreign country - but the country can't afford them = no problem we will give you an export credit guarrantee and the tax payer will pay for it
>Since when has violence in games/TV/film been more acceptable
Since it was easier to answer - why is that man sticking a knife through the other man's eye?
Because he is a no good Commie/Kraut/Terrorist/from another cave
Than it is to ask, why is that man doing that to a women?
The difference is that when it was just some ordinary bloke contracting the government could bring in IR35 and make you pay employee and employer NI contributions, could hand down decisions that you WERE really an employee when it came to tx but WEREN'T when it came to redundancy.
When it's big companies with lots of lawyers they suddenly can't do anything,their hands are tied etc
The previous poster said you wouldn't evolve a rat population that was immune to the poison because no rat could eat any amount and survive.
But you could effectively evolve a rat population that was "immune" if there was a subset of rats that refused to eat the poison (for whatever reason) and passed that behaviour onto their offspring.
There are lots of examples of indirect/societal evolution like this in the animal world. It's often missed on a simple biological model
The general opinion is that Sony tanked because the engineers didn't have to listen to the greedy CEO and shareholders.
Products were created without any consideration of what they would cost to build, what they would sell for and what the market wanted.
They created proprietry standards for everything because no salesperson could tell the engineers to use standard parts rather than invent their own "better" solution.
And every engineering group within Sony saw every other part of Sony as the main competition
We got nice heavy duty metal 8socket power bars to fit to our work benches. But they needed an electrician to come and wire them up.
Some bright spark (literally) had a brilliant idea. He only needed 7 of the 8 sockets and had a spare lead with a moulded on plug, all he had to do was cut off the IEC end and wire on another plug. He then plugged it between the wall and a spare socket.
For years it happily passed PAT - well the test machine said it was earthed and the live/neutral was the right way around. Then one day somebody came along and unplugged the end plug and managed to grab the pins.
Well if you want something for a really trivial mission, like - totally autonomously search a a few sq miles of ground for a single person using visible/IR cameras and drop a package to them while automatically also staying inside aviation authority required perimeter and handling any failures in your drone and have it automatically return if it has any problem.
Then you would just need any group of students - http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/
>I wouldn't think that re-encrypting (with different keys) would weaken the crypto in any way. If it did then the first thing a cryptanalyst would do with ciphertext would be to encrypt it again to introduce that weakness.
If knowing that the inner file is a certain encryption allows you to guess the properties of certain bytes (eg checksums) then you can use this with a brute force to check when you have a hit. This is what the online truecrypt crackers do.
Obviously re-encrypting a ciphertext doesn't help crack the first layer - just the layer you have added!
Ja,
We will have to switch from importing cheap rice from poor farmers in China and selling BMWs to successful capitalists in USA - to importing cheap rice form poor American farmers and selling BMWs to successful capitalists in China
This will mean changing TWO sets of shipping labels
Then change the law.
There was a fuss when companies were advertising holidays to Thailand where you could fuck X-year olds because it was legal there.
A media fuss, and a new law banning you from doing something illegal here but legal there
