Re: And another thing ...
HHGTG icon? I thought we already had one. --->
Posts by Swarthy
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Project Gollum: Because NHS Caring means NHS Sharing
Proposed PATCH Act forces US snoops to quit hoarding code exploits
Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science
Go, GoDaddy! Domain-slinger decapitates email patent troll in court
Could US appeals court save us all from 10 years of net neutrality yelling?
Thursday 11th May 2017 17:36 GMT
Role-based permissions? I seem to remember that being a thing when I was studying InfoSec. I think that role-based legislation would be an outstanding way of defining accountability and responsibilities, without defining technology or picking winners/losers.
If you do X, you are answerable to Y; if you commit A, B will decide your chastisement. If it is implemented as "Duck Rules" (IE: "It looks like one, and quacks like one") it may even help curtail some of the more egregious arguments from CableCo's that they are, and at the same time are not, utilities. (the particular case involved not rolling out more network because they were under no obligation, not being a utility; but also blocking a competitive install, because as a utility, they were contracted as the sole provider of infrastructure in the area.)
OpenWRT and LEDE agree on Linux-for-routers peace plan
FBI boss James Comey was probing Trump's team for Russia links. You're fired, says Donald
Thursday 11th May 2017 11:34 GMT
Re: "Bikini Girls With Machine Guns"
Austin Powers did it first...
Only in the Apple meaning of "first". Bikini Girls With Machine Guns was a UK hit single in 1989, 8 years before Austin Powers. Now the album was re-released in 2001, with Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (live) as a bonus track, so an Apple attorney (or really, any patent lawyer) <u>could</u> argue that Austin Powers did it "first" (if you paid them enough).
Microsoft's .NET-mare for developers: ASP.NET Core 2.0 won't work on Windows-only .NET
Take a sneak peek at Google's Android replacement, Fuchsia
'Crazy bad' bug in Microsoft's Windows malware scanner can be used to install malware
Amazon tweaks so-called 'assisted suicide' publishing contracts to ink EU deal
It's Russian hackers, FBI and Wikileaks wot won it – Hillary Clinton on her devastating election loss
How would you pronounce 'Cyxtera'?
Republicans go all Braveheart again with anti-net neutrality bill
Net neutrality blowback: Cities say no. Court says whoa. Trumpster blames Canada for not going slow
Zeiss, ASML hit back at Nikon in chip-printing patent row
Lyrebird steals your voice to make you say things you didn't – and we hate this future
Drunk user blow-dried laptop after dog lifted its leg over the keyboard
Monday 24th April 2017 19:26 GMT
Bollocks to your Bollocks!
And why should I, or Jim, have to get/buy a thick towel (because, I just have those those lying around the office), rubbing alcohol, nitrile gloves, cotton swabs, cotton balls, and a surgical mask? If your system is so messed up that it needs those things, then you had best supply them. I don't (officially) know where to get that kind of stuff, I don't work in medicine or hazmat remediation.
Zuckerberg's absolutely mental: Brain sensors that read YOUR MIND at 100 words a minute
Google's healthcare cousin to stick 10,000 human guinea pigs under the microscope
Silicon Valley tech CEO admits beating software engineer wife, offered just 13 days in the clink
Wednesday 19th April 2017 18:25 GMT
Re: Grr.
I am inclined to think that Judge Allison Danner is not a wife-beater. The prosecutor was probably just hungry for quick close - "Sign here, dot there, convict here... And we're done" and has not known anyone in an abusive relationship; so when the defense offered a plea (as is their job) he just accepted it without even listening to the evidence.
After all, why do you need evidence when you have a signed plea deal? Soon to be as ubiquitous as "To Protect and Serve"
PACK YOUR BAGS! Boffins spot Earth-size planet most likeliest yet to harbor alien life
Trump signs exec order signaling foreign H-1B visa techie crackdown
Wednesday 19th April 2017 17:32 GMT
Re: If he slammed the lottery
That might freeze out some academicsPerhaps the better route would be to prioritize applications based on the ratio of H1B price to local market, with priority going to higher numbers (in cases where the local market doesn't exist the ratio would be infinite, which is a damn high number).
'Nobody's got to use the internet,' argues idiot congressman in row over ISP privacy rules
Tuesday 18th April 2017 20:26 GMT
Re: Editor strikes
That is a different question. I was replying to Archtech correcting TFA; I was agreeing with you, in that there is a difference between one and zero ISP choices. One is a Hobson's Choice, Zero is a lack of choice.
And I know that the dead spaces exist, as I have family in one; not even 4G connectivity - satellite, or nothing.
Tuesday 18th April 2017 13:33 GMT
Re: term linits
Kurt, Term limits would not tell you who you could/could not vote for, but rather they would limit who could run. Running for office is not speech. [Free] Speech applies while running, but not the actual submission/nomination.
Saying that term limits impinges on free speech is akin to saying that having to file honest and complete tax forms is a violation of free speech.
'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back
Monday 17th April 2017 15:23 GMT
Re: Personal opinion
Just be sure you go back to before April 2007.
But if you promise to actually enforce your patent I will donate to the Time Travel Fund.
Amazon touts Echo voice-recog tech to world's gizmo makers
Boss swore by 'For Dummies' book about an OS his org didn't run
HMRC beer duty bungle leaves breweries struggling to pay online
TCP/IP headers leak info about what you're watching on Netflix
Mark Shuttleworth says some free software folk are 'deeply anti-social' and 'love to hate'
Google fumes after US Dept of Labor accuses ad giant of lowballing pay for women
Tuesday 11th April 2017 13:07 GMT
Re: I propose two things to women:
Evidence, not so much. The pay gap (or lack there of) is a statistical emergent that appears and disappears, like Brigadoon, depending on who is massaging compiling the numbers.
However, the fact that the pay gap has been "25 cents on the dollar" for alt least the past 30 years leads me to conclude that it's crap. No social or economic indicator has been that stable for that long. If it were 17% one year, 30% a few years later, dropping to 10% after that, I would be less skeptical, but 25%, solid, for 30+ years makes me inclined to doubt the veracity of the figures.
Tuesday 11th April 2017 12:56 GMT
Re: But you can avoid the courts altogether
If you just pay all your workers fairly -- equal pay for work of equal value -- then you will never fear being dragged into court, or embarrassed, or anything. You just show your jobs and pay grades and that's that.Did you realize, as you were writing it, that it translated directly into "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"?
FCC kills plan to allow phone calls on planes – good idea or terrible?
Tuesday 11th April 2017 12:26 GMT
FCC Pai says "No" to all.
Re: +1
I agree, phone calls on planes are a bad idea. I have a lot of issues with FCC but I think they (or 'he', given the statement wording) got it right. Either that or make it $100/minute.It seems that you didn't realize that the FCC controls the use of radio frequencies - and that Voice and data (email and text) use the same radio.Email and text are fine, they're nice and quiet and don't disturb others.
Your argument is that planes are cramped, noisy and uncomfortable, and the FCC should keep cellphones banned for the good of the many, and if you want data you should pay for the Airlines' as-crap-as-it-is-expensive data. The equal and opposite argument is that the airlines should sell noise cancelling headphones, and if you want peace and quiet you should buy it from them.
It almost makes me want to pay for the airline's WiFi, and use WiFi Calling - Just to annoy short-sighted people.
Tuesday 11th April 2017 12:18 GMT
Re: +1
But, but, but... I thought the Republicans were all about removing onerous regulation that inhibited freedoms?!
Oh! Sorry, I mis-remembered. Its regulations that inhibit businesses that they have a hate-on for. Since the use of mobile/cellular frequencies (which includes the data needed for e-mail/messaging) would compete with the airlines $£¥ WiFi.
We know what you're thinking: Where the hell is all the antimatter?
FCC Commish: Hey, don't look at me – Congress should sort out net neutrality mess
Thursday 6th April 2017 15:32 GMT
Re: "Google dominates desktop search"
I loved that bit! "Verizon only holds 35% of their market" - Where market is defined as internet access over the whole country. If the market were defined as "broadband(wired) internet in the locations in which Verizon offer services" we would see a much higher number.
Thursday 6th April 2017 15:04 GMT
Re: Ultimate Responsibility (@BillG)
I'm not one of your downvoters, but I think you missed a large chunk of your civics class back in school. The FCC, FTC, EPA, etc. were created by congress to enforce (execute) the law(s) that created the agency. The law as it was written may have been vague (EG "ensure clean air and water" - with out defining "clean") and the respective agencies may have taken the bit in their teeth and run past what was expected of them; but a standard part of the laws to create a new agency is to designate them as a rule making body. That is to say, they cannot pass laws, but they can make rules to aid/improve enforce of a law. (This is Congress giving them approval, by the way)
Let's go with an EPA-type example. They were created with the purpose to ensure clean air and water; and given some laws to enforce - No dumping chemical waste into rivers - That's a law. The EPA creates a "ruling" that says you must document where your chem. waste goes. That rule is for the enforcement of the law.
Adblock Plus owners commandeer Pirate Bay man's tip jar Flattr
ICO fines 11 big charities over dirty data donor-squeezing deeds
Thursday 6th April 2017 12:29 GMT
Re: Stop donating, it makes no sense.
My philosophy is that if I have ever heard of a charity (other than being involved with their cause and hearing about them from the community) then I will not donate to them; as that means they have been promoting and advertising, and have crossed the line from charity to tax-free self promoters.
It happens (eventually) to almost all of 'em. They stop raising money to do good, and switch to doing good to raise money.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
