Posts by Phil.T.Tipp

Oh Snap! How intelligent people make themselves stupid for Snapchat

Re: Optic nerve taps

"Till then, mine's the burqa." I think you're on the right track - but medieval sand people masks aren't the answer.

I suspect, as you correctly imagine, that future generational tech-creep and the mass-adoption/mass-acceptance model will put many more of these perma-recording digi devices into the public arena. However, there is, quite demonstrably even now, a market for the opposite - for privacy and decorum - grown-up attributes.

My suspicion is that with the rise of the SnapHoles and whatever always-on spyware that follows, there will be a profitable reactionary leap in counter-technology which can obfuscate, blind, confuse, mis-direct or otherwise negate the mindless soul-stealing of the all-seeing eyes.

Til then, mine's the one with the portable jammer in the pocket.

Silicon Valley’s top exorcist rushed off his feet as Demons infest California

Bronze-age Superstitions & Medieval Fairy Stories

Or perhaps Aramaic, or Levantine Semitic, the Syro-Palestinian dialect or even early Proto-Levantine Arabic?

Making us pay tax will DESTROY EUROPE, roars Apple's Tim Cook

Shirley you're a slavering statist bootlick, secretly in love with the stamping jackboots of the unelected eurostazi and their grossly undemocratic anti-sovereign overreach. Naturally, given your flagrantly europhile proclivities you mean insisting on a high-tax, high-spend regime - intent on propping up the unsustainable 'progressive welfare state' - 'Do the right thing', my arse.

New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership

Re: Get over it

Godwin's Law invoked. You play no further part in this debate. Get. In. The. Sea.

Re: Really ....

Bingo, sir.

Re: Really ....

How one can be so historically ignorant is quite beyond me. I suspect the period of 'greatness' with which you are wilfully avoiding is the height of Empire at the end of the C19th and beginning of the C20th, railways and telegraphs across the world? Or perhaps it was the global influence in the C17th and C18th as that Empire spread, mapping the world as it went, sending ships to all the corners of the known and unknown world, trading and civilising as it went? It's certainly been a long and painful nosedive into penury and misery, since the end of the last great European Unpleasantness, Britain has been a penniless pauper since 1945 - all fur coat and nae knickers. Membership of neither the Common Market nor the EU have bettered life for ordinary folk in this country, not one iota. About time something changed. Oh wait, it already has!

Re: Really ....

Only those made by crazed muzzies. Get a grip.

The return of (drone) robot wars: Beware of low-flying freezers

Re: Drone Delivery? Sign me up!

"whez da box?" slapstic chaos

lolz and upvote for putting the Laurel and Hardy theme tune in my head again. I sometimes whistle it at work when various mouth-breathers are out on patrol - they have no idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQqC6_6Wf0M

BBC will ‘retain your viewing history’

Hmmm. The BBC have sent me threatening letters with the possibility of imprisonment behind them for not wanting to use their service.

I once owned a TV, via which I viewed DVDs and digital video from my Mac and cable TV from Virgin. As a TV owner the BBC demanded that I must be compelled to pay a punitive tax, for not wanting to use their service. I refused, the BBC didn't think this was acceptable, and and the threatening began.

Think about it.

By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

Re: Cut to the chase

Bingo! Ditto the delirious runaway warming catastrophists, the deluded polar ursine salvation crybabies, the salivating saline inundation anxiety hamsters and all manner of publicly funded tax-hungry pressure group miserablists of every stripe, everywhere.

Facebook deleted my post and made me confirm pics of my kids weren't sexually explicit

Re: Enough

Accuracy.

Lost in the obits: Intel's Andy Grove's great warning to Silicon Valley

Re: The problem is the natural outgrowth of legislation, at least in the US.

Kids' jobs are still going strong. Think the supermarket kids, the burger flippers and pizza delivery types. Those are not jobs for responsible adults, can't raise a family on kids' wages.

Disagreed. It's both a topical and factually valid statement.

Is China dumping smartphones on world+dog?

Re: use of "denier"

I would suggest usage of the ridiculous term is more effective in tarring the sender rather than the intended recipient.

Re: Rightwards Ho

The climate cares not for your poxy politics.

Apple pulls Civil War games in Confederate flag takedown

Re: Meanwhile, far from the moral panic, in the history books...

He was correct - and the fact still stands.

Oh, hi there, SKYNET: US military wants self-enhancing software that will outlive its creators

Re: feather an egg?

+1 Eggzackly. Beat me to it. All yolking aside, these dim DARPA types need to unscramble their metaphors.

SCREW you, GLASSHOLES! Microsoft unveils HoloLens

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HoloStory

Bought an iPhone 6 Plus? Odds are you've binned the iPad

Re: Please note and do not apply willy nilly

Indeed. There is also a complete lack of citation regarding numbers etc. This is meaningless twaddle of the first water.

DEATH fails to end mobile contract: Widow forced to take HUBBY's ASHES into shop

Re: Shops are jsut for selling, not support.

Sir, I wish I could upvote this post many, many times.

They expect you to be compliant.

They have programmed you not to question.

They expect you to have a victim mentality.

Just say, 'No.' It's easy. Take control, take action and tell them where to get off.

Secondly, and most importantly - the lady in the story needn't have worried at all. The person with the contract had died (the contract also dies with either party passing away), she had NO CONTRACT with T-mobile. She had NO CONTRACT with the bailiffs. Without contract there is no further business to discuss.

Trolls pop malformed heads above bridge to sling abuse at Tim Cook

Re: I refer you all

Absolutely. Why the fvck should I care Tim? I don't. I don't applaud your personal choices, nor can I condemn them, as they're your choices to make. Just keep that gay shit to yourself. Enough of this gay shit already. Shut up and get on with it.

Trips to Mars may be OFF: The SUN has changed in a way we've NEVER SEEN

Re: Nuclear

"However, at some point the oceans will start emitting that stored heat and sunspots will show up again. If we haven't solved the heat retention problem at that point then we'll cook."

Not buying it. This is pure, unadulterated speculation. The oceans have stubbornly resisted every warmist attempt to discern heat storage (to explain away the utter lack of warming for 18 years plus), and we need the sun's activity to remain high enough to stave off another ice-age. The real incoming threat to mankind (or less dramatically - life as we know it) is of the very cold and icy variety. The 'heat retention problem' and 'cooking' to which you refer is gobbledegook.

Boffins who stare at goats: I do believe they’re shrinking

Oh FFS

From the abstract of results at Frontiers of Zoology (link in the article): "We find strong evidence that increasing population density and warming temperatures during spring and summer are linked to the mass declines. We find no evidence that the timing or productivity of resources have been altered during this period."

Sooo, it's population density (due to decreased predation, human and non-human) - which is causing the effect. More chamois competing for the same amount of resources, which, if the warming baloney were physically and statistically significant, would naturally bloom and multiply, earlier in the longer warm season, which they do not. Alpine plants love both warming (less ice, more water) and elevated levels of CO2. Of which there are neither physically nor statistically significantly elevated amounts present or detectable.

The risible anthropgenic global warming canard has been tacked on in a speculative stab to attract grant money for further research. Carry on.

Inequality increasing? BOLLOCKS! You heard me: 'Screw the 1%'

Re: Ditch the white cat, please

@ Cipher : I wish I could upvote this comment many, many times.

YES: Scotland declares independence ... from the dot co dot uk empire

Re: I hate nationalism

I'm going to poorly plagiarise Sir Frankie Boyle, in an effort to expose the stupidity of political union:

"Unionism is the belief that two separate countries are better together, unless they're Ireland."

Frankie Boyle

NASA: ALIENS and NEW EARTHS will be ours inside 20 years

Re: A quote from Hawking

It makes absolute sense that there are no travelling intelligent life forms within reasonable travel distance/time, as their lack of presence clearly illustrates. Neither are we present in the locales of any alien species within reasonable travel distance/time, so the same applies for them. We simply don't exist outside our tiny bubble of planetary atmosphere, in our quiet backwater of the universe.

However, getting there is more of a problem in 2014 than it appeared in 1969. NASA is more interested in promulgating nonsense climate propaganda in order to maintain its umbilical link to the US federal coffers - space travel, off-world engineering, future fiction imagineering - not so much. Distinct lack of progress, wouldn't you say?

NSW government agencies bend over and take it from telcos

Re: business as usual

Observation based comment, observation of both ends of the spectrum - the efficient, ordered and results oriented private sector - and the sloth, nose-picking, tea-break Marxists gathering dust in council and government. Wind yer neck in - I take it you're on the gravy train then?

Re: business as usual

Rot. The public sector never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. It's staffed by incompetent, bumbling mumblers who wouldn't last out in the real world, in a real job, spending a real budget made of actual money. As they're in trades-union protected jobs-for-life, they can piss away tax-payers' cash like there's no fecking tomorrow, and nothing will come of it. They are unanswerable, unelected and undeniably under-equipped in the balls and brains departments, both.

Slimy mercantilist leveraging of the public sector notwithstanding - how do you think the fork-tongued politicos get elected in the first fecking place? Hang 'em all from the lampposts.

Report: Climate change has already hit USA - and time is RUNNING OUT

Re: Marvin would love this news

"It's "Global Population is out of control."."

Oh really? I think you'll find it's Third World, not Global Population which is on the increase. So if you think there's an 'out of control' problem, then surely that makes you a hideous racist? All those pesky brown people having more children every 5 minutes? Any answer to that, my eugenically challenged chum?

New .london domains touted tomorrow amid usual tech hypegasm

Re: why .london instead of...

.nodnol +1 sir

Selfies are so 2013. Get ready for DRONIES – the next hipster-cam-gasm

Re: Manual labour

+1 thx for the lolz sir

Previously stable Greenland glaciers now rushing to the sea

Re: Right or Wrong......

Don't panic. The earth's mind-bogglingly clever and complicatedly humungous weather, bio and climate system will do what it has always done, and keep things, well, more or less the same. Chin up and carry on.

Re: Models

Yep, validate one's results - not validate one's opinion of self or one's own belief system.

Re: Models

FluffyBunny merely pointed out the very salient fact that 'climate science' simply ain't so. There is no science in evidence. It's some maths and stats and computer modelling, masquerading as science, fuelled by politics and careerism - not by ethics and the search for a deeper understanding of the nature of things.

That search in real science comes laden with the concomitant truth that one's current understanding may well be trumped by another's research or technology - one's view of the matter at hand may well be re-informed and thus is subject to change, and in no way ever, is any science 'settled'. This 'science' of climate has extended no experiments to replicate, no theories to test, no results of any new scientific value added to the pantheon whatsoever.

Also, real science has no call to self-validate, it just is. Climate 'science' just can't put the megaphone down for two minutes, as we'll all forget they ever existed if they do so. Their models are broken, the results fudged and lied about, their aspirations are purely political and self-serving.

Re: Get Active!

lol, trolly troll is obvious. Get away with ye.

Re: sooo.....

My head's always buried in the sane - it's the enviro-loons who are drawn to the insane. Insane science-free-science and proto-marxist, trendy-anti, sound-bite-pop-psych, idiot ideology - for example "The science is settled", "There is scientific consensus", "to disagree is to be mentally unstable" (an old Soviet trick that one) and on, and on, ad nauseam.

Re: sooo.....

Don't panic. It's only the usual Chicken Licken doom-and-bother mongers, ensuring the steady future flow of grant money and justifying their pointless existence by insisting that the sky is falling. Again.

Meanwhile, in the realm of real, actual, ideology-free, a-political sciencey science - the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation! That's science news worth reporting.

Britain's costliest mistake? Lord Stern defends his climate maths

Re: one small problem : "both halves of the debate"

"This is just ignorant. Show me a correlation between *any* solar parameter and average temperatures."

I d i o t.

I spelt it slowly so you'd understand, John Hughes.

Big Beardie's watching: Alan Sugar robots spy on Tesco petrol queue

Re: Motorcycle Helmets

No worries.

Gave the horror meat pr0n link a miss though. Already seen enough to last a lifetime.

I left the septic isles and live in the southerly sub-tropics now - just try and get through rush-hour in a full-face lid when it's pegged at 23degC with 80% humidity. Not possible mein freund.

BP fuel forecourts are the same the world over btw - at least here I can ignore the Stickers for the Stupid at the pump, and sit on the bike to level the tank whilst filling without some red-faced moustache yelling at me across the tannoy.

Re: Motorcycle Helmets

They get arsey in case you've got a sawn-off up yer jumper. Nevermind the salient fact that your plates have been snapped on the forecourt.

This is not covered in law. You don't have to remove your lid if you don't want to. If they don't want to take your money - they've failed to establish contract, so you're clear to walk away, get back on the bike and ride away unhindered with your free petrol.

I revealed this nugget to a red-faced pointy-headed man in a petrol station recently. I was wearing an open-faced lid and sunnies with a stretchy-buff thing tucked in and folded up over my nose and gob to keep the beasties out. He shut up and took the cash.

Remember your rights people, contract is everything, you have an obligation to yourself to understand the nature of contract law and you have the right to say no whenever you wish. Be free.

Re: This of course complies with all the necessary consents and legislation:

Rubbish - that's not even close to Implied Terms - which is the only unspoken contract type - walking into a business premises does not imply contract nor consent.

The contract is everything. No contract, no consent, simple as that. Three conditions in order to make a contract:

1. An offer made

2. Acceptance of the offer

3. Consideration - each side must give something

In order for a contract to exist, at minimum, four conditions must be met:

1. Both parties intended to make the contract.

2. Both parties agree about what is in the contract.

3. The contract is legal. Contracts to buy or sell anything illegal are not enforceable.

4. The contract must be made by people who are legally capable. This is called ‘capacity’. (Read minors and those of unsound mind.)

More:

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Reality+of+Consent

"There will be no binding contract without the real consent of the parties. Apparent consent may be vitiated because of mistake, fraud, innocent misrepresentation, duress, or undue influence, all of which are defenses to the enforcement of the contract."

Google's new Glass: Now with audio connection INSIDE the SKULL

Re: If people who look that good

+1 for dorkpocalypse

Trademark that right away :o)

lol srsly?

The bluetooth headset is surely the cringe-worthy territory of sweaty van man, bloaty taxi driver and sales-rep middley-management BMW stressed-guy. None of whom are attractive role models.

The Goggleglass will also no-doubt, in time - in a ruthless race to the bottom - find its own unattractive niche. Most probably on the roundly-punched heads of narcissistic fashionistas and their polar-opposites, the self-unaware über-nerds, but also on sweaty van-man, bloaty taxi driver and of course the BMW jockeys. None of whom are attractive role models.

Google's Schmidt calls climate-change deniers 'liars'

Re: Cuts both ways, Schmidt.

Watermelons are green on the outside red on the inside. That's a political metaphor. Radical marxists in green clothing. There's no insinuation of race in that statement.

The usage of lefty-whine touchstones, a glib association of 'deniers' with 'racists' paints a very clear picture of your shallow hate-thought - as ever, this subject brings the green ideologue bile to the surface.

Dontcha just hate it when rightfully held alternative opinion, science and fact gets in the way of agenda and diktat comrade?

Cuts both ways, Schmidt.

"You can lie about the effects of climate change, but eventually you'll be seen as a liar."

The angry watermelons and angsty chicken-licken hippies ought to take note.