Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
Make Every Thing Awful will fit too.
Or for Zuck, My Entry To Absurdity.
Is Zuck losing his grip on reality and creating his own fugue to escape into while hoping everyone else wants to go with him.
Incidently, autism has nothing to do with this, try understanding a condition before using it as an insult.
However, as was pointed out almost two millennia ago by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (AD 121 - 180) "The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject"
Hence, the appalling results of so many democratic elections.
The study in the article makes it clear that the time is right for a globe spanning Ministry of Truth, nothing can be published on any platform until it has had the approval and relevant certification of truth from the ministry.
I am sure it would be easy to find staff who would religiously ascertain the truth or not of anything that has been submitted for approval.
Now, where did I put that sarcasm icon?
In the late sixties as a teenager, I worked for a short while at Muirheads in Beckenham.
They made faxes for sending and printing out whole newspapers.
Their most hi-tech effort was developing a fax so that the Saudi airforce could send updated tactical maps to their Lightning jets.
I always thought that by the time the fax had printed the map the plane would be back on the ground refueling.
Wisdom is something you can only acquire with age and experience and the wisest thing you can do with it is keep it to yourself. Younger people won't recognise it or its value, plus their own fuck ups will embed in their memories with far more strength. Or kill them.
There are few investors who put the ethics of a company before the profits it can make for them, they are all about the money.
It seems to be more and more prevalent for investors or groups of investors to sue the companies they have bought shares in, if the company is not making enough profit for them or worse, losing them money.
Still, if this group gets big enough and can win sufficient recompense, they could kill the golden goose, I won't hold my breath though.
I wonder if someone has read some of the Reg comments from the previous article?
I call BS on serving a child in 5 seconds as a consistent average in a school dinner line.
Or are they issuing dinner ladies with cattle prods nowadays?
The tendency in schools to treat kids like criminals never seems to go away, many school administrators seem to share similarities with the chap in the icon.
This has the potential to go further, with at least 38 states involved and the fact that the Sherman act provides for engagement with anti-trust agencies in other countries, this could end up as a full on anti-monopoly.
With so many attorneys general involved, it seems clear a lot of people in a lot of states are missing out on $, if those same companies and others with influence are operating in other countries and also suffering there, it becomes international.
This is useful re the legalities: https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/cartels-laws-and-regulations/usa#chaptercontent9
The UK gov shut down the best radio stations decades ago. I haven't really bothered with radio since Radio London went off the air and that was before most reading this were born.
If I listen to music in the house, it's from the vast store of my own CDs or recordings on my PC, if it's in my workshop I have a Chinese I pod thingy that holds elleventy nine gigas of stuff I have saved on it.
Either way there are no ads, breaks in signal or anything I don't want to listen to.
Oh and the radio stations here in Spain are great if you like Hotel California several times a day every day for years but very little of anything new.
Windows insists on calling each new incarnation an upgrade, despite most of them in the early part of each release, have been buggy and relied on the users/customers feedback and problems.
So the upgrades have been a move to an OS that is not an improvement on what they have just left.
Vista and 8 never even became good enough to last whatever ms could describe as a full life.
Alternative suggestions to 'upgrade' would be nice.
Nothing cheap materials wise with Boeing and so far not much to be cheery about.
Ever since Boeing and SpaceX were award contracts, Boeing has been receiving nearly double the money and wanted to up the cost per seat, something that in 2019 was assessed bu NASA to already be 60% higher than SpaceX.
When you consider what the Starliner has cost so far without delivering and comparing its performance with the new boy, one wonders why the contract is still going?
I suspect the army of Boeing lawyers waiting in the wings is the main reason.
As things are at the current rate of success, Bezos will be delivering before Boeing.
At least that's better than the school aged groupies we had to deal with when I worked for some pop stars in the seventies.
They would climb over the (high) garden walls and would frequently offer themselves to the star of their dreams.
We had a hot line to the local nick who would send a police woman or two to deal with them.
Hysterical teenies are not easy to deal with online or off.
If they are unexpected events how do they know where to look?
Silly questions aside, there are a lot of organisations down here who could learn from the resourcefulness of sattelite and space probe teams who get amazing results from kit such as this.
In the article it says the money paid is a settlement so not a fine, I presume that once again FB gets away with not having to admit it has done wrong.
I don't understand why it was sued and not charged with breaking federal law, also why the settlent/fine is so relatively small. A fine would be a punishment but a punishment needs to be significant such as a percentage of turnover or profit.
SPECTRE seems to be a favourite from the Reg choices, I can't remember the original wirds for the acronym but this seems to fit:
Stealing
People's
Every
Communication
To
Render
Evil
As mentioned above a change of boss would help immensely, a change of existence would be even better
I prefer to own my own media, the nearest transmitter that provides my internet is 5 or 6 Kilometers away and subject to the vagaries of the weather and tree growth between it and me.
I would wouldn't touchAlexa and family with a barge pole anyway.
I have a huge collection of CDs and digital recordings that are perfectly fine for me.
I also have a Hotbird sattelite receiver that most of the time gives me a huge range of music from all over the Med', Middle East and Europe and is usually at a decent quality.
So streaming? Nah!
There you have it!
Whenever any human concept is overwhelmed by a monolithic, inward thinking monopoly whether it is an IT giant or a church, the end result is a stifling of innovation and out of the box thinking in preference of whatever it is that profits the monolith most and what enables it's continued control.
Nearly 2000 in my school in the sixties, we had lunch from 12:40- 2:00pm, two sittings of 40 minutes each with a set menu for each day.
We paid the dinner money in class on a Monday morning when the register was called out and recieved the meal tickets then.
Each table of eight had one older boy in charge (boys only school) who made sure all dishes went to the hatch where they were taken and cleaned in the biggest dishwasher I have ever seen.
Simples!
I can see FR becoming normalised in schools leading to mission creep, monitoring the kids every step from arrival to end of day, 'For their own benefit and safety' of course.
I live 16Km from the town that is my post code, in the region in which I live, it is standard to try to arrange collection rather than delivery.
My Spanish neighbour moved in two years ago and came to ask me if I recieved Amazon packets so I replied the only courier service who delivers without a hitch is DHL.
The others vary from not very good to not at all.
One company that is psrt of a Europe wide group is renowned for return to sender for any address that is not on a main road or in a town, regardles of sending whatsapp or any other locations.
Luxury! Spanish couriers will use any excuse not to deliver and return a packet to it's country of origin, including (but not limited to), recipient was out when the recipient was waiting at the gate for 4hours and saw the van drive past, house marked with wrong number, no answer to phone call, Google maps location does not exist and don't like the colour of the house.
I try to arrange to not have deliveries but prefer to collect items from the relevant depot, oddly some of them won't disclose the whereabouts of the depot.
Even in the sixties, I had to wonder what Patrick McGoohan was smoking when he wrote The Prisoner, he could have made more money selling that than from acting.
There is no guarantee that evolution will result in anything superior, only that whatever survives is fit for its environment.
Looking at the current social media infested environment and the eloquence of some of the vaccine protesters, I can only assume that in order to survive in such a situation requires retrogression. Or, perhaps nature is considering a new start?
Cats seem to be taking over the internet, maybe they are the next dominant species.
The Germans in WWII realised that lethality had less strategic value than wounding and maiming the enemy, thus forcing the enemy to recover wounded and then treat them, a way to deplete resources.
That is one if the reasons the schumine was made mostky of wood to escape detection and only a small charge in it.
Lethality makes martyrs
It appears the august assembly at the White House have few solid ideas other than the usual safe practices to combat ransomeware so are using crypto regulation as a stick to try and beat the crim's with.
At the same time ransomeware makes a handy stick to beat some regulation into crypto-coins, something that was always going to happen but now has a good reason for doing so.
There may well be smart people in NHS Digital but I am fairly sure none of them are policy makers, or even listened to.
Relying on a huge organisation like the NHS to safeguard anonymised data that is reversible when they can't even develop and operate an acceptable track and trace system regardless off vast sums of money and hordes of consultants tells me I couldn't trust them at all.
Interesting that they made no mention of vanadium, batteries based on vanadium technology promise to be more efficient and easier to scale according to the application.
There is about double the amount of vanadium in the Earth's crust too, much of it in Australia.
Personally, I don't see EVs as much greener than fossil driven vehicles overall, modern vehicles have more electronics, more plastics and still need tyres, a major source of pollution that is rarely mentioned,along with the tons of asbestos brake and clutch dust that older cars dumped into the environment.
The reason old batteries should go into a seperate bin, so far, is less about recycling than avoiding landfill disposal.
A lot of the constituents in batteries are bad fot the evironment, cadmium is highly toxic and relatively low levels of it getting into the ground water can cause a huge range of problems.
Umicore, a Belgian company specialising in metal refining was one of the pioneers in recycling lithium and rare earths, I believe they had plans to go large scale in 2025.
I was also under the impression that shielding was grounded, in yhis case that would help to eliminate induced current in the shielding which I guess may be readable with the right gear.
I was also under the impression that an air gap was no connection to anything that could communicate with external comms, or is this exploit referring to lan on internal networks?
When searching online for something, Amazon pops up usually in the top three, often it is the top three, then when opening one of their offers, I usually find a page with 'Out of stock, we don't know when or if this product will be back in stock'.
Amazon pays to achieve high search ranking just to get you through the door
I also find if a vendor had an eBay page as well, the same product will be significantly cheaper on eBay or the vendor's own website, so why would I use Amazon for anything unless it is the sole source of a thing I want?
And don't get me started on their non-delivering delivery people.
That depends on what the consultants were asked to do.
Typically when hiring any kind of expert, there are a set of parameters to describe what is required and some kind of guidance.
In this instance, having a 'boss' who has no experience in the realm of track and trace I suspect the parameters were along the lines of 'Build me a track and trace system' .
What really bothers me, is where is the accountability for such a vast sum spent so quickly?
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