Re: Wasn't it Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek?
They were being used as plot devices in SF long before Star Trek, at least in print.
25355 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2010
From the article, it's in North Yorkshire. That should narrow it down a bit. If not, try this "dumped at the side of the B6479 between Horton In Ribblesdale and Selside.", also from the article. (B6479 is a road number, Google maps should locate it for you, especially given the two village name)
"Florida Man is a term used to describe somebody who's in trouble with the law for a stupid or unusual reason."
And there was I thinking it was a sub-species description, something similar to Java Man or Neanderthal Man, or maybe more like Piltdown Man.
"One of my employers had installed, at great cost, 10Base2 networking using make-before-break plug in cables, so in theory you could connect and disconnect individual machines without killing the whole network segment."
One of our customers had that. But they were in an old Victorian building with the original heating pipes. Yes, pipes, not radiators. Cast iron pipes about 4" in diameter, running along all the office walls about 3' off the ground. Just below the trunking and wall points of this expensive make before break system. Bendy metal contacts just inches above a nice heat source that went on and off during the day. And we all know what bendy metal and varying temperatures leads to, don't we boys and girls?
"The EU has rules, of course."
The dilemma I see is that the UK was often the leader in drafting new EU rules. Said new rules were then submitted to each national government to implement as they saw fit, within the bounds of credibility. The UK always seemed to be the one that implemented them in the most draconian way possibly, to the letter and beyond. Then UK.gov blamed the EU for the new draconian rules. It's almost as if there has been a decades long plan to discredit the EU on behalf of the UK ot the UK has been using the EU while it could to get more power and now the EU or it's newer members, having lived under oppressive regimes, are no longer playing ball, hence Brexit.
"Yes, but IP traffic from the ISS is carried over proprietary links from the USA (at least, on the US side of the thing) and so is akin to an internal network like the one you probably have at home. Except moving faster. As such, rules governing ISPs are not relevant."
But the internet is a network of networks, so any network that is connected is part of the thing, including your home LAN :-)
"I have no idea of the accuracy of that example. I don't know enough about all the other USA presidents. On the other hand, it says "PRESIDENT", and though it mentions "AMERICAN HISTORY", it's not specific that it means "USA PRESIDENT". There are likely much worse and much more hated presidents of other countries, even of some other American countries."
That sounds like lawyer-logic :-)
"Amateur, flame thrower for the win..."
Is that an Elon Musk Boring Company Flamethrower?
"It just sounds a lot like what Demo[n,c][R,r]ats say. Shouldn't be any of THAT coming from Trump's phone."
Why would you assume that anyone criticising Trump is a Democrat? Some vocal critics are senior republicans, others are just amused outsiders who don't even live in the US and are watching the soap opera. Yet others are just so jaded by politics that we criticise all of them, saving our votes for the currently least worst evil and then criticise them anyway.
"p.s. I can give you advice for the future. Do not enter your passwords on unsafe sites."
That does raise an interesting point I'd not thought of before. I wonder how many people, on setting up and account somewhere and being asked for their email address then go on to use their email account password rather than create a new one?
"They all use the same throwaway password I only use on websites that insist on registration but hold no other information beyond an email address, password and login name."
Yeah, I got one like that too the other week. Most interestingly, it was addressed to SVP@mydomain, an address used exclusively for dealing with SVP. I stopped using that address and dealing with SVP after I started getting spam to that address and on contacting them, they claimed they'd not been hacked. The webcam spam, as with yours and others, included the password I used there too. That pretty much proves they did get hacked and then lied to me about it. svp.co.uk are still in business, but I'd certainly never deal with them again.
"The flip side of that is that the burden of proof is on the one making that positive claim. It's up to the ones saying there are spy chips on the boards to produce one as evidence. That would be meaningful."
Or it's an elaborate stock swindle. Is anyone buying SuperMicro stock right now?
"Please please please give me the non cloud version of speech to text."
Me too! I've often wondered why no one tried to do something like this sooner. My theory is there a very few programmers and too many code monkeys season with tight deadlines and no budget. Too often, good and elegant code is forgone in favour of "doing what works" and getting it out the door.
There's no indication that his business is crap or that the derogatory reviews were real and genuine. That may all be true, but based on the information given, they are just assumptions. For all we know he's a just a small honest trader being victimised by competitors or some keyboard warrior with a grudge. On the other hand, he could be a slimy shit trying to rip off customers and hire their honest and genuine complaints.
They can already do that with open source code and probably have been since forever.
It's quite likely that most closed source code has chunks of open source mixed in, whether it breaks licence conditions or not. After all, who's going to know?
Yes, I know you can do code fingerprinting on object code, but I doubt most people would be daft enough to just steal wholesale. Different compilers, different compiler settings and re-jigging the code to work the "corporate way" would probably hide most of it.)
"Then there's the UK charges for skipping bail, but we could just ignore those and ask him to leave the UK."
I think that last is unlikely. The judiciary take a very, very dim view of contempt of court. Only an enormous amount of political pressure could even begin to change their minds and I very much doubt any politician(s) care enough to put that pressure on. Especially since a recalcitrant judge might just bump it up to the supreme court who, in law, would almost certainly back the judge.
"The current state of affairs is government propaganda 101, it's an old trick to call someone a rapist/paedo/etc."
We all know what the charges are in Sweden, and even by their own standards, it's a mild[1] form of rape.
If this was govt. propaganda, I would expect there to be much stronger charges. And anyway, what most people are against is his stupidity and self-aggrandisement. We all know what wikileak is (or used to be, it's hard to tell what their agenda is these days), but it looks like their biggest problem is Assange himself and the way he treats the people who help him. Biting the Hand That Feeds IT might make an amusing strap-line for El-Reg, but it's not an instruction on how to live your life. Maybe it's time the biter was bit? After all, look at the hollow promises made to Bradly/Chelsea Manning and other?
[1]Yeah, I know, but how else to describe it?
@bombastic bob: " 'Statute of Limitations' most likely applies here. "
No it doesn't.
You can't dodge criminal charges by playing hide and seek for a few years.
The clock doesn't run out, and you don't get off with "time served". Duh.
Not sure why you got downvoted here. The UK doesn't have a statute of limitations as such. If a case is started and the defendant pisses off, all proceedings and clocks are stopped until the defendant is apprehended or presents him/herself back at court. No time limits.
Remember Ronnie Biggs of the great train robbery. He was in Brazil for something like 40 years "on the run".
"Now hes having a go at the people who have kindly kept him out of an American spooks prison cell. I would not be surprised if they kicked him out the embassy."
Yes, whatever the feelings about him and his "case", shitting on the people who granted him asylum probably isn't a good move. They can un-grant it just as easily.
"Until that point no one had realised how noisy the server actually was and it seemed eerily quiet in the office for weeks afterwards."
It's only a few years ago that most PCs had constant full speed fan coolers. Nowadays, the slightest hint of fan noise from a PC and the user is complaining about the noise! How quickly people forget and adapt.
"Ah, brings back memories of the cron job that played "cuckoo!" the appropriate number of times on the hour. You could see people's stress levels rising through the morning, waiting..."
Maybe it's just the bottle of red I got through reading these comments here, but that made me LOL
"If appeal is successful Apple will get it back, if not the money, I believe, will go to the Irish government."
Not forgetting that this wodge of cash, if ending up in Irelands treasury, affects their GDP for the relevant years and in turn ups the the payments made to the EU for those years too. So not all of it will end up in Ireland if the Apple appeal fails. The EU will want their pound of flesh too.
"Why do you even have a reference to Krispy Kremes in a headline?"
I did wonder that too, however they do seem to be available everywhere across the UK these days. Personally, the name alone puts me right off them. "Krispy" sounds like advertising lawyer speak for "well, it's not really crispy" and "Kreme" reminds me of the horrible fake cream you used to get in iced buns and the like. Together, Krispy Kreme sounds vomit inducing to me.
"And the problem is?"
...that the internet has made us into a global community so why should an english[*] speaking nation need to wait 6-8 months for english speaking programmes to be made available? It's not like they need to add subtitles or voice over dubbing. Many of us with internet access have friends and family all over the world and it's nice to conversations about common interests such as films and TV shows. Except when there's an artificially enforced delay in release in some parts of the world.
[*[ Other languages are available, your mileage may vary
"IF a competitor has a better product, then compete with a better product. "
Yeah, right. So the start-up trying to compete with Google needs millions of not billions in cash to burn while they compete with a free product. The USA went through this same process over 100 years ago with the "robber barons". Google, MS and their ilk are the new robber barons. Regulation is what fixed the problem last time around.