Posts by Khaptain

Re: Scapegoats

"If that doesn't make your blood boil from either a moral or an ethical standpoint, then you've totally lost me."

Apple et al are doing what they are doing because people in very high places put these practices in place to hide their own damn dirty work. I believe that Apple are being used as a scapegoat in order that attention is drawn away from the real dirty doers.

The sums of money that you mention are probably insignificant compared to what the banks, fro example, are capable of hiding.

If you want to start talking big money, let's have a look at Rothchilds, VISA; Mastercard, Defence contracts, Space contracts, the Oil business, Pharmaceutical companies, Cocaine and drugs at the international level etc , all of whom we never seem to mention. Undoubtedly they are being protected, but by whom, the damned governments/ministers/bankers ?

What makes my blood boil is that the focus of these affairs only remains wherever the "media" point their fingers and that is all that people seem to be able to focus their attention on. I really don't believe that Apple are the worst of the bunch, they are only playing the same game as a hundred other un-mediatised and protected companies/organisations/governments.

As I stated, Apple are being used as a Scapegoat, they are probably only the tip of a very, vary large iceberg.

The governments and co control the media to a level whereby the populations are drip feed enough material to keep their hunger at bay.

Re: Who is buying this?

I had never heard of Veblen before and it is very intersting that his major work "Theory_of_the_leisure_class" was published around 1925. ( according to the Wikipedia ref)

The link to the first chapter as follows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen#/media/File:Veblen_-_Theory_of_the_leisure_class,_19

Just goes to show that society never really changes...

Re: From a week or so ago

If Godwin's still around he needs a new law, to cover the fact that any comment thread on any "internet forum" Reg will deteriorate really, really quickly until some moron irrelevantly invokes the Daily Mail as the fount of all evil.

TFTFY

Re: They have to be joking

<Quote>Add to your complaints that some people will get sick from using these devices.

Have to agree, everyone that tries the 3D Goggles at work feels a lttle queasy after a certain time, 15 mins is usually quite enough.

Spatial awareness is fundamental to our perception of where we are in the real 3d world, or should I say multi-dimensional world, and I believe that "virtual" reality or AR , regardless of it's usage ,disturbs this fundamental requirement, unless of course we are completely stationary and bored, and as such will never be taken on. Ok a few minutes here and there but certainly not for hours at a time. Even a transparent headset will disturb what your brain can percieve and eventually digest..

Many of us already have mutiple screens and it can be diifficult to keep track of what's where, and all this by using even small eye movements, I can't imagine spending my day continually turning my whole head to keep track or the untrackable...

As much as many people would like to have us believe we are definately not that very efficient at MultiTasking, so adding another dimension wouldn't appear to add any real advantage.. At least not to the average day in front of the screen.

And lastly, "tangible" is good.. Virtuelle women, no thanks, tangible one on the other hands are so much more delicious. [Swap woman for man, dog or whatever turns you on]

Re: Single point of failure

This is what Nicolas Taleb described as the Black Swan Theory, he has his way of seeing things, which is usually quite rational.

Re: When the robot uprising arrives...

Replace the following words to achieve the contemporary équivalant.

Robot uprising = Any 1st world Government

Primitive AIs = Soldiers

Re: Virtuality

"Gold is not real money. Seriously."

According to various sources Krugerands are legal tender , and yes, they are made from Gold..

http://www.randrefinery.com/products_krugerrands.htm

Re: A human not a car

"It's only when the conscious mind takes over a few seconds later you assess the threat and realise you are in danger and would then do the best to avoid this new threat."

Exactly, and what would you do in that case, hit the pedal, run the gunman down or least try to escape whereas the logic of the car would not allow you to move as it still detects an obstacle.

But I digress most people would simply panic and probably get shot and that damned robotic car won't give a damn either way..

Re: Munitions

>Second paragraph, first line: :)

>Dubbed Riffle, the system was developed by MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in "Switzerland."

The problem here is the "MIT" part of the equation. The EPFL are obviously in Switzerland but Swiss laws don't have any holding the USA.

MIT are not a Swiss based university and I am pretty much sure that the Feds are capable of requesting whatever they want on the grounds of "Anti-Terrorism" laws, or one of those George Bush "Weapons of mass destruction" declarations..

Re: @ Khaptain our national animal, the unicorn

"Look on your passport."

Just did a quick Wikipedia, the Unicorn on the passport is actually part of the Royal Arms and therefore represents the Queen. Scotland is represented in the second quarter of the sheld, by a "Rampant Lion".

I did see that the Unicorn changes sides when using the Scottish variant, but again this is still part of the "Royal Arms"..

Very confusing to those of us who have not studied Heraldry...

"They all got complacent, because revenue was rolling in, then someone else makes a new gadget, or develops a better way to do what they do, and the wall(street) comes crashing down."

I could possibly see that happening to Apple but who or what is going to knock down Google ?

Re: "We don't know if the pilots were looking at our wimmin"

@DAM

Yes, and I think that the word is commonly known as "retribution"... and we can probably thank Mr Bush and Mr Blair.....

Think yourself lucky that it wasn't the GrandFather...

Re: Needle in an database stack

"In an environment where no one ever records what they do, how will you ever know that something was accessed inappropriately."

As soon as a computer is used, then it is usually very well known who is doing what. Giving the information out is another matter.

Re: Easy

All that it would take would be to point the cannon "towards the exercise yard/cell blocks" and explain that the next drone that comes over-head will automatically initiate the Phalanx..

Re: Arrows go in quivers, bows have extra strings

Yes, becuse it is a DLL exploit and the fact that you run keepass.exe is all that is required on your behalf ( it also requires that the program/hack be in memory)... The physical support has not bearing in the hack.

In fact that very hack/virus/proof of concept could actually be hiding on your USBKey....just waiting for delivery......

Re: It's the Viking thing

"Why would the "Sarah Sharp sympathisers" (it ain't just Sarah Sharp, come on) be "up in arms" about this."

Because they like to take this at face value, do not care about the rest of the details.

Personally I do not believe that a softly, softly approach is a good solution when faced with difficult situations. Linus takes his job seriously and expects those around him to be the same, this is a well known fact "before" you take on the job....If you don't want to be in that situaiton then you don't take on the job. Up until now I would say that Linus has done far better than anyone else that I can imagine regardless of his attitude or usage of big bad swear words....

A softly softly approach would more than likely lead to disastrous results as that shitty code would have eventually been accepted in order to keep the peace...

Re: @ Your alien overlord - fear me

Hang on a moment there guys before hanging the Alien Overlord, are you all sure that he was being serious, I read the post as an attempt at sarcasm not as a fact... ( I could be wrong but this is El Reg after all)

Re: Wooo!

And of course the EULA contains a clause where Microsoft decline all responsibility for damage caused by the strobe effects.

Behold bad knight and kneel before me before I smite thee down and blind with my mighty silverlight flash.

Re: Even happier I chose a PS4

@Michael Habel

It's all about stats and habits.

* They know your age, location and language.

* They know what you play.

* How long you play.

* They know from where you play. Wifi, Cabled , therefore probably also know your ISP.

* They know how many games you possess and what genres you prefer.

* They can see the evolution of what you are buying, playing, winning losing.

* They can see what music, films, media you like to watch, buy, download.

* etc etc etc

Sony can learn a lot about you even through a simple games console. And that's only the stats that I can imagine, they might have much more sophisticated algorithms... "Shaky wrist" detection for example..