Posts by mevets 600 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Mar 2012
The US R's, at least the vastly influential Christian Nationalist sub-cult, are locked on WWIII bringing about the Second Coming.
They don't want a spine, they want apocalypse, soon!
They have been playing this game out for decades, and are moving towards the endgame.
The price of polished sand is likely the least of our worries.
`IDC forecasts that smart glasses are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.3% from 2025 to 2029.`
Maybe somebody out there wants to take a nibble at the hand that feeds, and make a little chart of IDC's historical predictions vs outcome.
Doesn't have to be IDC-specific; could also humiliate Gardner, BRI, McKinsey.
Could be an annual / quarterly event to publish these *push predictions*, and give the reg hacks a chance to vote on alternative predictions.
5 +- 3 -- I may have lost a few to offspring dorm-room decorations.
Why did I buy so many? I kept wearing them out!
Was it just me? No DSoM consistently remained on the top 100 album sales from its introduction until CDs took a foothold.
I only have 1 CD copy.
I really don't imagine PF thought that 53 years after publication, millions of young people would still be getting high to this content.
Oh, and their parents too.
To properly compensate such stellar and undying works can't be achieved by any of the models.
In classic economics, the assets held by two actors (A, B) are assumed to be independent.
In ponzi economics, they are not, either A's value depends on B's, or vise a versa, or both.
So, when swil-i-con valley asserts a 1TB backfill to the gaping void; are we talking like $100 or something?
Its not about treaties; it is about bad business behaviour.
If OVH capitulates, the story is over.
If OVH asserts that it has a spine ( which is why you are reading this ), the RCMP will have to do some actual investigation, rather than merely fishing.
Its a bit of an epidemic here; Canada has relatively tight rules about information, but that doesn't stop banks from handing over financial records without a shred of process.
duh -- the innocent people who weren't in on the scam.
Remember all the outrage about the vast banking / investment fraud in 2007 ?
47 people in seven countries went to jail; 1 of them in the USA, and they were a lone lowly trader.
Over 10 000 suicides, at least according to Forbes, which, as a boot licker to the investment industry, has no clear reason to inflate it.
The widespread losses likely accelerated the failure of democracy around the world, particularly in the USA.
What, exactly, is meant by one point? I can only imagine the traditional maths definition of infinitely small; as opposed to some belief in a historical period ( Make MS Great Again ?) where this was true.
I am not sure who, but certainly someone great, first defined nostalgia as a longing for a past that never occurred.
I don't want something to select things I might like, negotiate deals, parking spaces, or pretty much anything.
I would be quite keen on an agent I could activate as a shield against other agents.
Something that could notice an irritating robot calling or trying to invade my peaceful browsing.
That would be quite fitting with tech history -- create a solution to nothing, then create a new solution to battle the original.
Step 4. Profit!
I don't know who you have worked for; but I have worked for RACAL, QNX, Sun Microsystems, myself, Apple, vmWARE, SIemens.
None of them had executives smart enough to work their way out of a paper bag, much less plan a weird surround game like you describe.
Mainly the management were just preening wonks who would burn in a fire staring at their own images if their assistants didn't move them away.
They aren't smart enough to do what you describe.
Maybe Actual Indians are?
I do not see this discussion capturing unions; or more properly capturing anything more than a stereotype of some corrupt unions.
Corrupt unions have, and likely do exist; but they are far from the norm.
Corrupt corporations have, and likely do exist; but they are also far from the norm.
Unions are primarily interested in the success of the organizations which their members work in.
Unions are the primary whistle blowers of corrupt corporation.
Corporations which eschew unions have fewer accusations of corruption.
Corporations with unions exist longer than those without [ although there is a bit of before->after there ].
Blaming the messenger is so lame that everyone should avoid it just to not be a sad stereotype.
The whinge about everybody playing with their toys could have come straight out of the mouth of Mango Mussolini.
There is a cost to maintaining "Pax Intel-icana", which leaders must bear.
Whittling down on these sorts of supports, similar to eating your own foot because you are hungry, is a sign of a steep decline.
A savvy investor would short intel on these sorts of admissions.
You are using two different notions of "take" -- most activities can continue under a solar panel and / or wind farm. For some crops and livestock, the reduced sun intensity can be quite beneficial.
While there is infrastructure in renewables, because of area; there are no ongoing costs for fuel.
Of course that is the real issue that many interests have against renewable -- no way to wedge themselves into the supply chain.
I don't think I would rest on a study, commissioned for Ontario Power Generation, as evidence of much.
OPG started life as a swindle, based on the Enron model.
Enron collapsed before the fix was in, forcing a quick retreat and an ongoing mess of incompetence and corruption for over two decades.
OPG only has eyes for non-renewable energy, the same way most syndicate's operate.
Having an energy source with no where to launder and divert public funds is neither in OPGs interest, nor the fabulously shady Ontario government.
The deck is loaded against renewable energy, yet it keeps collecting wins. I wonder why.
Funny, when he unveiled Windows NT at Usenix Micro Kernels and Other Architectures Symposium, he said that he didn't know why he was there. WiNT was neither a micro kernel nor a non traditional architecture.
Thus cementing * ['V', 'M', 'S'] + [ 1, 1, 1 ] = [ 'W', 'N', 'T' ].
Not wanting to be controversial, but......
If you are interested in Privacy, why would you want (whatever a) *banking app* (is) on an electronic device?
It seems you are just setting yourself up to be powned.
I don't know you, but your probably aren't worth enough for an attack group to be seriously interested in your finances.
On the other hand, your bank, which is collecting all this juicy info and access, is very likely to be a target for such groups.
So, they exploit your bank, and will find details of you; however, if you have denied all electronic commerce, you are in a better position than so many others.
Fine; rejecting all e-commerce is a stretch, but it isn't if you filter it through a few well defined portals ( visa, paypal, interac-e-xfer ), you can substantially limit your surface.
That isn't a recipe, just a guideline.
I don't think it is exactly a radical message : " Do Not Trust The F-ing Banks "; especially their apps which hold you accountable for their breaches via TOS.
The long standing, admittedly insider, joke about Apple being the A in ARM stems from them buying a 40+% interest in Acorn to finance and secure the supply chain for the Newton and form ARM Tech Ltd.
That 1990 investment saved what would become ARM from the scrap yard, where it was heading fast.
This yielded, among other things, the long term royalty free IP deal, which also permitted the A-series SOCs to vastly outpower their competitors; and the ability of Jobs to perform a seemingly miraculous turn around of Apple -- based on selling of the post-1998 IPO stake in ARM for some 38x what it paid -- and fuelling it ascendance.
It should be in the mac basic survival guide, that you can turn off most of the bling via Accessibility extensions.
By fiddling with them, you can revert any of the pompous poop emoji releases back into something reasonable.
Try hard enough, you can make it look seriously like an original Mac -- albeit with a much larger screen.
We used to use the accessibility allowances to short cut the ~~brainwashing~~ education classes.
In Canada a utility bill can pass as confirmation of address, and to a degree identity. For example, to vote, you have to provide some sort of proof that you reside where you claim to. For most, a drivers license fits the requirement.
For those without a drivers license, nor a government ID, a utility bill is sufficient to establish your right to vote.
So, the utility companies do have reason to have a bit more information than "Heywould J Bloughme; 1 1st St; Halifax".
The real issue is that they are don't seem to understand the responsibility they have.
They don't even see the irony in '..and admitted the crooks leaked data... '.
If the crooks are identified as the ones who leaked the data; then Nova Scotia Power are the crooks.
Want to put ransomware (privacy consulting?) in the rear view mirror - start putting the BOFHs who leak this stuff in jail.
I have been a remote worker for 22 of the last 25 years.
Sun Micro taught me the ropes -- I remember thinking as I left : "I never want to work for a company again".
But I cooled it after 13 years; I only work remotely, and prefer not having to dig up clients.
The crux is that if you are working remotely, it is entirely transactional.
You aren't going to lunches, beer blasts, or humiliatingly cringe-worthy 'organized fun'.
You get a pay-cheque for work done, and if the gig ends, you fedex your gear back.
At my previous gig, my office access had expired, so when I went to drop off my gear, I couldn't get in.
I fedex'd it from across the street.
Sweet memories.
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