Posts by macjules 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2014
Agree to an extent. The fact that he is being told that he faces 99 years in jail, millions of dollars in fines plus all the other nasty things that the FBI can promise him should be enough to make anyone seriously think of suicide, not just an Asperger's (politically correct = 'minor spectrum autism') sufferer.
But perhaps he should not have allegedly boasted about it (“You have no idea how much we can fuck with the us government if we wanted to.”). That said, the vulnerability he exploited was something that had been raised a countless number of times before and most notably by Uber's Chris Gates - I don't see him being arrested now, do you?
HAH! Your surrealist argument pales into globular fractal distortions when we can mention such luminaries as The Clangers and Pogles' Wood (Oliver Postgate, you are my God .. well, almost), The Banana Splits, Camberwick Green, Crystal Tipps and Alistair (cry Scott Adams, I know where you got Dilbert from), Trumpton or The Wobbles.
Why not combine the 2? Someone in the back of the taxi is bound, at some point or other, to park the parochial custard so to speak. Why not profit from this and deliver the resultant product in a box saying "Your PizzaHUT delivery is here, Sir". Hell, it sure will not taste THAT different from their product.
If you are so desperate for publicly that you need to attack anyone and everyone for stealing the limelight during your conference then you really might want to rethink your PR strategy.
Perhaps Apple should hire Kim Kardashian as a PR consultant: she knows ALL about not only how to get full media attention, but also how to hang on to it.
Dear valued LinkedIn customer,
First of all let me promise you that Microsoft will never to reveal your profile to any other of our trusted marketing partners. However we will require you to download and move your existing LinkedIn profile over to our new Microsoft Business Connect app. This is not only for your own convenience but also for the convenience of just about every single UK 'IT Specialist' Job Agency, who think they know all about the LinkedIn API.
Did I mention that all those really annoying agencies are now our trusted marketing partners? Oops, sorry about that, but hell, I bet you already knew that.
I once did a contract for a certain huge accounting firm developing their SSO portal. Instead of working at their London offices, or even simply WFH, they flew the development team every week to the only office with sufficient IT resources and space, which just happened to be in central Amsterdam. It was a 9 month contract for work which we pretty much completed in just over 2 weeks and so spent the rest of the time inventing novel reasons why we needed to test the portal against intrusion. Personally I went from senior dev to 'Penetration And Non Detected Attack consultant (PANDA - security testing). Everyone else adopted even more ridiculous acronyms such as SHEEP aka Senior Hyper Envelope Evaluation Person or email response developer. And yes, it was one hell of a lot of money (£700 per day plus expenses) for 9 months of not very much work.
I received my book. Unfortunately it came in this weird 'folio' format with lots of pieces of paper stuck inside it. I have tried to swipe from right to left but I only seem to get a glimpse of the page underneath and then the red folio cover swipes back. Also I tried to swipe down in order to access the bookmarks and the contents index and nothing happened.
Please help.
Classic ambulance chaser tactics,
Shannon Liss-Riordan, the drivers’ lawyer, told the judge a company such as Uber “will only come to the table if they can get global peace.” She said she made a strategic decision to focus on mileage reimbursement and tips claims because they were most likely to succeed.
The 'strategic decision' being that she is on a 25% no win, no fee arrangement with O’Connor et al, and she decided that that was more than enough for her.
SleepofDeathGate? SODGate? Even though I am not a Windows/Surface user, and not much of a Mac user now (despite the name), and I would certainly not fork out $4k on a laptop, but is there not any setting in the Control Panel that specifies the sleep behaviour, i.e. 'close the lid' or 'push the power button'.
Perhaps this might be the problem, but it should have been fixed by Microsoft and they should not be hiding in the metaphorical bathroom hoping that the problem will go away.
I thought 5 years was the elegant balance between safely being able to predict the state of things to come and a 'Tomorrow's World' level of idiotic fantasy; the sort of fantasy where we all drive electric cars, use something called the 'interweb', can travel to another country cheaper than using our own public transport and no longer talk to each other except via small devices we call 'cellphones'.
I knew there was something screwy about that update. And as for allowing Samaritan GCHQ/NRO/CIA interference, well I shall never buy a Mac again, or at least not until the next MacbookAir comes out.
And just in case you think you can change my mind with orbital laser beams, I have my tin foil hat on and so does my cat.
Interesting how HMRC refuses most responses for FOI requests on the grounds that such requests would cost more than the stipulated £600 to the taxpayer to fulfil. An example can be viewed here.
On a positive note, £1.3Bn overhead to raise £1Bn - HMRC are starting to get better. Soon they will be down to just £1.05Bn costs to raise £1Bn.
That is one way to hinder progress. Lets take loads of money away from someone who did a job and did it so well that everyone uses them.
You have pretty much summed up the European Commission in one sentence. "You have lots and lots of spare cash. We want some of it. Give it to us now."
Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects are pretty much the original products and are still (Final Cut Pro notwithstanding) pretty much the market leaders. Illustrator used to be like wading through treacle compared to Freehand, until Adobe bought Macromedia Freehand and merged it into Illustrator. Pagemaker was ok with Aldus, but certainly not so afterwards; but then Indesign *sort* of made up for it. Dreamweaver was fantastic if only because it made Adobe trash the truly awful experience of GUI editors - GoLive.
The crock of Trump in all of this is Flash. Under Macromedia's umbrella Flash was actually pretty stable, regularly maintained and you didn't get the weekly 'Flash Installer needs your attention', which to me is the new MS Word paperclip. Since then, well ...
But thanks anyway Adobe: if it had not been for GoLive I might never have gone onto using BBEdit so quickly in the late 1990's..
You're probably safer running a Windows 98 box than a modern Windows flavor with Flash installed.,
Oh come on, it is not that bad surely? Then again you are dealing with a monolithic corporation that is highly protective of its product, regularly threatens anyone finding bugs (and there are a LOT of bugs) with both civil and criminal action yet steadfastly refuses to fix any issues raised by the community as a whole. No, not Microsoft … Adobe.
Bloomberg reports the departures of production VP Greg Reichow and manufacturing VP Josh Ensign.
Apple perchance? Dear Mr Cook, if you are nicking Tesla staff could you please, PLEASE also purloin the guys who developed the downtime software updater? I really could not get in an Apple car that demands you connect to WiFi halfway along the M4 and install the latest (of many) security updates.
Ah, but there IS (geddit!) an iOS app out there. It's known as Muslim Kids Games and it masquerades as harmless fun teaching your children salat times, movements, iqra and so on. You know there is something wrong with it when halfway through it is asking your children "Would you like to kill Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or both?"
I rather think you forgot to add the bit about wrapping any and all existing technology in lead foil, and donning a leadfoil-lined hat so that those pesky quantum, mind-penetrating beams on the KH-series satellites can not read your every thought.
Personally I would opt for the 'move to within a 1/2 mile of GCHQ/Fort Meade and use their WiFi, then the NSA will never think of watching you'.
That's strange. I used the new Cortana Medibot last week and first of all it told me all about how f**king great Donald Trump was, then called me a f**king Jew and suggested I take 2 aspirins and f**k off. I suspect that Microsoft have a Tay infection throughout their BotAI network infrastructure.
I wondered when someone was going to mention engine stress-testing. If you had 2 determined and well-trained Jihadi Jonathans, each commanding a 3D Robotics Solo with, say, a couple of grenades attached then you might just be able to bring down a twin-engined jet on final approach, but those are big enough for a pilot to see in advance. Given that the failure risk though is so high as to make this unworkable it would be far easier to station a flatbed truck directly under the approach and fire a series of large, home-made rockets into the wings or fuselage.
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