Posts by John Brown (no body) 25334 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2010
"Also, why are people here weirdly puritanical about how icons can be used?"
Are they? They are commonly repurposed meanings based purely in the graphic, despite what the mouse-over text may say. On the other, sometimes they just mean what they show/say :-) ----------------->
"And yet, years later, John 1:18 claims nobody has seen God. Apparently John never read the relevant bits of scripture. But that's OK, neither do modern xtians. Making it up as you go along is much, much more lucrative."
Ah, but you missed where when John was writing, there were many, many "books" about the Christian religion, primarily based on Jewish writings in the Old Testament and strongly influenced by Jewish religion in the New Testament, neither of which existed as "collections" back then until some Roman Emperor decided he'd had enough of all this conflicting information and defined his own Omnibus Edition and declared it The One Truth. I'm not sure he ever actually read those books or properly curated the reading order due to the many discrepancies still causing confusion to this day, despite further translations, refinements and editing, all inspired of course, by God Himself according to those doing the work. There's not even consensus that the Emperor was even a Christian doing Gods Work or just an opportunistic ruler seeing a good way to control his subjects by appearing to take on the peoples latest "fad religion" :-)
"Strange that these sightings occur almost always in the US, Land of Neurosis. Could there be a connection?"
And have you listened to the recorded commentary of pilots seeing "something strange"? They are almost invariably cool, calm and professional at all times. Then you get these two "surfer doods" flying multi-million dollar US fighter jets screaming about "UFOs" and sounding like university football jocks at a toga party from Animal House, ie the so-called "tic-tac" video :-)
Several? Only two were named in the article. Do we know who the others are or has that information not been released yet? The Beeb report listed the same two Ambulance Services but only said two were affected, no hint of which, if any, others might have been affected.
"Many millions world-wide expecting a FREE service to remain usable forever is pretty fucking stupid[0], "
Is it? Do you really think these "free" services are a) actually free and b) philanthropic activities? And who said anything about "forever" apart from you?
"don't you think?"
Yes, I do. Do you?
Is americium-241 genuinely useful and the best option in this case and the element name is a serendipitous coincidence or have we got a bit of flag waving tech here?
Despite the facetious wording, it's a genuine question. I have no idea what might make the best radio-active fuel cell.
Not so sure about that specific article. MS don't really use X on it's own and Meta's is described as white and blue, so no real issue there. It's important to remember that it's not the X being trademarked since it's nigh on if not outright impossible to trademark a letter or single common word in all aspects. It's the stylised X, colour and graphics, ie the whole "look and feel" and the scope of usage, eg Windows as a GUI frontend/OS can't stop people advertising and selling generic "windows" in every other field. I still think Twitter are on a hiding to nothing with this and will inevitably be sued over this specific trademark, but not by MS or Meta, simply because their logo is too simple and generic.
Governments still want to access to encrypted messages on social media and I doubt they will connect the dots and see that this Tetra "problem" might be related in some way to the fact the not only is encryption hard, but it's not possible to design secure encryption that can be monitored the way they want. Their "solution" will probably be to pass yet more laws making it illegal to snoop on Tetra comms instead of solving the problem.
" XP64 felt not merely usable, but good: fast, responsive"
I wonder how much of the apparent speed up is because XP doesn't have the mitigations for the various CPU hardware flaws discovered since then, such as Spectre, Metldown, Rowhammer etc.
"so... basically, janitorial work." And he agreed.
I've also been to jobs like that. But, would you trust your average janitorial staff to clean up something like that? For the same reason that contracted cleaning staff are generally banned from cleaning desks or computers.
Because they are related to the subject of the story? And anyway, hairdressers do actually have a useful function, there's just so many more than any civilised place could ever need! And like hairdressers, there are man, many management consultants, except they don't actually have a useful function other than to help money flow from where it's needed to where its wanted.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
I guess they find putting a cookie notice up too technical :-)
I somehow doubt they will ever need them since their plan is for multiple gas generatorsand a grid connection. If they ever have a power cut bad enough to require "more than 150 diesel generators", it's going to be a wide area outage AND problems with their gas supply and unless they are prepared to have them "on call", ie paying monthly to ensure availability, then they will not only be paying high prices to get them but be competing with every other business in the region. And deep pockets might not be enough to get them if it means hospitals or other essential services losing out to MS greed or other companies paying retainers for contracted access to gennies.
"The short time I spent in the UK, I was impressed by how much the Queen cared about her people - unlike our leaders here."
She did. But the monarch has so little power, calling them a "leader" is a pretty long stretch. You probably mean the Prime Minister and/or Cabinet if referring to a "leader[s]" in the UK and they are not that different to those in your country in terms of caring about "the people". Maybe not as extreme as in the USA. Yet.
"What are the rules for data acquistion in FISA?"
There don't appear to be any. At least none that are enforced. The defence seems to be that so long as a human doesn't "look" at it, they're in the clear. So by extension, using a computer to analyse it and only looking at the results also seems to keep them in the clear too. If data relating to a US citizen then indicates potential wrong-doing, it becomes ok due to "probable cause". NB IANAL, least of all a USA one :-)
Back in the day, we had to have a special, locked and secure room with, at least ion our case, only two authorised people allowed to access it. The PC in that room had to be specially locked down, no network access. It was used for generating Windows key as we were an OEM. All this security was closely monitored by MS and they did surprise inspections pretty much monthly. It was highly secure and we could have been stopped by MS at any time if they decided we weren't adhering to their very strict security protocols.
Clearly they don't eat their own dog food.
"It isn't incredible that a key gets compromised. It's inevitable.
But no matter how much I keep on banging this drum, mostly I'm ignored."
Current governments, especially UK, still trying to convince the world that E2E encryption is bad for stopping child abuse/child porn and so must only be enabled if they can see and monitor the data contents without compromising the security just because they say it's possible.
In the UK, HGV are not allowed in the outside/fast/overtaking lane unless there's only two lanes or unless there is a sign stating "HGVs use all lanes", normally where there is an exit from the outside lane, which is relatively rare on the UK motorway network.
On the other hand, automated trucks running in convoy would need law changes anyway, so if/when that happens, all bets are off as to how sensible and practical any future laws may be. They may just update/adjust the existing laws regarding military convoys, ie first and last vehicle have a green or blue light (or flag, in some case still) and legally you are not allowed to insert your vehicle into the convoy, ie stay back or overtake all of them at once.
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