Posts by SW10 225 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2013
There are some excellent threads on Twitter advising responsible citizens to avoid:
- pointing lasers or bright lights at it;
- spreading oil or slippery substances in front of it
- confronting it with a mirror
- throwing a blanket over it
- pressing and holding the On/Off button on its rump
Also, should you fall down near the mutt, be careful not to pull the handles on its ´belly’, as this could dislodge the battery
Well, the quote is from the brief penned by the American Civil Liberties Union, so I imagine it's a gridiron field.
And, a rest-of-the-world football terrain would be a "pitch", not a "field"
Moreover, this is the new, all-American terminology El Reg
unless they are forced to pay out, expect no changes
Not quite. For the moment they’re claiming it’s all legit - and there’s nothing to prove them wrong. Might be illegal. Might not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once a court finds against them, it’s neither here nor there if the fine is £1 or £1B, they’ll be demonstrably breaking the law if they continue
which location your Office 365 tenancy resides
That's only part of the problem. It's the 'free' element that they're not happy about.
It's actually illegal to sell something for less than cost in France, except during prescribed sales periods because it is considered to create 'unfair competition.'
…and yet a certain subset of commentards will happily believe their half-arsed brain farts will pierce Apple’s Lockdown Mode.
Lockdown Mode being a feature (lest we forget) designed specifically for Apple’s very own operating system; running on, well, what can only be described as proprietary Apple hardware; and rustled up by actual Apple-pays-their-salary engineers
Stroll on
I know a bit about this stuff - ahem - I pioneered a lot of the data gathering that went on when North Sea wells started going horizontal
The limiting factor here in my view is the weight of the in-hole assembly, and therefore the strength, size, and, um, weight of the pipe (cable in some cases) - to say nothing of the horsepower needed to drag the bloody thing in and out the hole
It’s kinda like the rocket fuel/weight conundrum- without the luxury of jettisoning stages
a digital title detailing ACTUAL ownership of the the ACTUAL Mona Lisa painting, … is massively valuable.
No, it really isn’t.
The painting is valuable, the digital title is little more than a receipt. If the title for the Mona Lisa ever goes missing, that doesn’t mean the Louvre no longer owns the artwork
It looks impressive enough - reading the exchanges I even wondered if Lemoine was being bluffed by a mechanical Turk arrangement.
While I'm sure that isn't the case, and however good the interpretation and subsequent selection of phrases and words might be, it's surprising someone in his job would describe LaMDA as sentient
In my country of work, I am covered for having sex with strangers on business trips
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49662134
A French company has been found liable for the death of an employee who had a cardiac arrest while having sex with a stranger on a business trip.A Paris court ruled that his death was an industrial accident and that the family was entitled to compensation.
I see no sense in limiting the candidate pool to a few select universities
Because it's all fizz, pop, and bang.
How many people graduating from those Top 50 universities are going to want to enter the UK?
It's like having a door policy that allows trainers - provided you wear Louis Vuitton
I once used my Blackberry to take a call on the train and an older guy standing a couple of metres from me practically fell to the ground, groaning and holding his head.
His wife* looked daggers at me, then hissed at me that her husband suffered instand migraines when a mobile phone was active.
The call was over in seconds anyway, and as I slipped the phone back into my pocket, the guy miraculously recovered. As the smug owner of this early "always-connected" device I wanted to call him out, but realised that being the only person who had seen through the illusionist's trick was somehow more satisfying.
* I did feel sorry for her, obviously fiercely loyal and I wondered what other bullshit she had to put up with
...create a world-class data rights regime that will allow us to create a new pro-growth and trusted UK data protection framework that reduces burdens on businesses, boosts the economy, helps scientists to innovate and improves the lives of people in the UK...
Let me FTFY:
...create a world-class tail that will allow us to wag the dog, reduce burdens on pigs such that they drift aloft, boost magic bean production, help tailors to innovate the finest silks visible to all but fools, and improve the lives of hedge-fund owning Ministers
It is the early 90s. The scene is a common work space, with the boss esconced in a goldfish bowl office
He seems to spend an inordinate time on the phone and, suspicions aroused, a colleague approaches the door while he is away at lunch.
<Jiggle> in the lock
The door opens. A quick scout around, followed by <jiggle> in the desk lock.
Cutting after cutting after cutting of black-and-white line drawings and photos accompanied by 0898 numbers promising exchanges on almost any subject.
Powder is kept dry until a few months later, when itemised billing by extension number is introduced...
Whatever the benefits of GDPR’s privacy protection, it appears to have been accompanied by substantial costs to consumers
They've overlooked the fact that it's effectively a zero-sum game - either the consumers pay with their hard-earned cash, or they pay with their hard-to-keep privacy.
Arguably consumers pay more with the "free" model, losing time and mental processing as they steer round the ads
Why do investors persist in suing themselves
They're not. Yesterday's investors are suing today's investors - and are unlikely to be the same people.
So rather than routing money from themselves to themselves, they're rather hoping to route money from today's share price to yesterday's share price
A contract most certainly does not have to be mutually-negotiated, nor are you entitled to negotiate during, not to renegotiate after.
I’ll confidently bet that you have entered into a number of one sided "take it or leave it" contracts - the “leave it” part is the choice you’re generally granted and perhaps feel peeved about missing in this case
Even the Zuckerverse has in-house disasters
Then there's BA, NHS (WannaCry), TSB, HSBC...
Your own kit is still subject to software written by other people, chips manufactured by others (Meltdown, Spectre), and your own daft employees who will be writing Who Me? columns 20 years hence...
Some context, perhaps…
A few years ago I was at a family gathering and got chatting to an old guy and discovered we had both worked in the same building in the City of London.
As he explained his job to me I was aghast to realise that he and perhaps hundreds of colleagues were simply human calculators.
The big shots upstairs would request a calculation, which would then be sent down to be worked on, using what sounded like drafting boards from his description
Surely to maximise returns for your favourite charity, the trick is to sell the NFT of the incredibly collectible and historic bit of paper first. Then when the hubbub dies down, sell the extraordinarily rare and covetable physical object.
Crown Commercial Services Technology, which takes a 1 per cent fee on contracts it facilitates.
If I were naïve, I'd say that looks like an incentive to have higher costs. Luckily, I realise that all Crown servants are actually 100% irreproachable.
Instead of referring to the autopilot and using words like “apparently”, “‘suggests”, and “seems”; why don’t you start with pages 8, 9, and 10 of the FAA crash report, and take it from there?
https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_reading_room/boeing_reading_room/media/737_RTS_Summary.pdf
MCAS fed by a single-point-of-failure sensor is the issue; moreover it worked behind the pilots’ backs in a manner that wasn’t properly documented in order to falsely convince regulators that a 2020s jet was essentially the same as its 50 year-old grandfather
Do continue.
Your bank is effectively in the cloud, along with tens of other repositories of sensitive information. Moreover, so is your real Achilles heel; your email account to which all password resets are sent.
You may be some kind of infosec ninja, but my mum isn’t, neither are millions of others who need to move away from Password123, or my initials and birth date
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