Posts by Little Mouse 1449 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Dec 2014
Or better still, a network (or matrix, if you will) of people. The power output of each person being the equivalent a single C-type Duracell battery.
Mind you, you'd need to come up with some kind of distraction to keep them occupied....
"Joshua Cohen, like many mediocrities seems intent on displaying his intellect, but has no great eye, poor editing skills and is unable to fashion a coherent whole. Book of Numbers reads like a first draft, or a bad case of logorrhoea... an unedited stream of crapulence."
Sweeeet. I wanna be a critic too! Where do I sign up?
"Whatever happened to DR services?"
I suspect that they may have fallen out of favour a tad following some bad publicity some years back.
Back in the day they'd typically rent out the same bit of office space to more than one company. That's fine if your disaster is a localised issue and no-one else needs their services at the same time as you, but if lots of companies suffer a disaster simultaneously, as happened in the City a few years ago, paying customers get left high and dry.
Nice article, although I can't say I agree with the idea of "encouraging" sick people to continue working whilst at home. If you're going to be sick, do it properly. Put your feet up and get better quickly, rather than soldier on and drag it out.
That said, every office I've worked in has at least one sickness martyr who thinks they're doing the business a huge favour by coming in even when they clearly should have stayed at home, merrily spraying their infectious droplets over all and sundry, completely oblivious to the Paddington-Bear stares they get from their soon-to-be-infected colleagues.
@LaeMing +1. The security services want to spy alright, but are people still gullible enough to believe that the primary target is foreigners and terrorists?
"Instead the FBI wants a front door; a system to allow it to break encryption created by US companies"
Ever seen the film Sneakers?
Perhaps the killer robots' mystery task will be to improvise a decent disguise. Even Arnie would have failed that one.
I love the way he starts sporting a mullet partway through the original movie. Did he seriously believe that a slightly changed haircut would render him instantly unrecognisable?
"though I am not one of their customers"
But you might always be one of their targets...(!)
As I understand things, if mSpy had been UK-based then it would be legally obliged to inform people if personal data it holds on them had been breached.
"Dear X, you don't know it, but we've been snooping on you and harvesting details about your personal life....."
Once the data has been harvested, collated, indexed and analysed, South Korea will have scientific proof of what teenagers actually do. Spout angsty bollox to each other whilst streaming music & video by any chance?
It reminds me of that documentary on TV a few months back where they used science to find out what cats really get up to, only to find out that they really do spend all their time killing small animals and staring at other cats.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
