Posts by SoaG

MS guy that works in AI?

Good lord! They're making Clippy robots!

Afterwards?

"The Falkland Islands will be a barely habitable wilderness, afterwards"

Excellent expose and analysis piece.

"a pair of spectacles that nearly runs SharePoint"

As long as nobody gets any ideas about glasses that run Power Point.

Yes, yes, there's a hilt...

...but is it just me or does the blade (and mini-blades) look to be somewhere between jagged and flaming vs the all the movies/cartoons/book covers we've seen up to this point?

I'm shocked! Shocked!

To learn that an app with the sole purpose of facilitating casual sex with strangers would have a surplus of creepy guys.

The last time we heard something like this...

...vague promises of changing the world accompanied by glowing praise and financing from all kinds of tech related bigwigs and business...

...we got Segway scooters.

Heh

"That's like Barack Obama asking me for a loan."

With US federal debt an unfunded liabilities closing in on $125T I found that quote amusing.

Still, while I'm skeptical overall, there is some merit to the argument that LHM may want investors because they're looking at a spinoff as it would be very much non-core business. They'll just hold onto the patents for any custom materials developed.

Shareholder is not synonymous with investor

Investors and speculators are both shareholders but their interests are often mutually exclusive. There tend to be fewer speculators but they're usually louder and more often the ones being catered to.

Related: If the execs are pushing EBIDTA numbers as the headline rather than a footnote, SELL! Someone is trying to obscure the real health of the company

3 billion dollars...1

...worth of fraud.

Another 6 billion lawsuit settlements and 12 in lawyers fees?

No wonder Lowe's shares are up lately.

So basically...

...the iWatch is just an undersized PlayBook with a wristband attached.

Oral humming

Will work wonders for the wife too.

You're welcome.

To paraphrase Ron Swanson

Soya is the food that my food eats.

Yes, actually, carriers WILL love it

Highest monthly bundle plan available from any carrier here has a 6GB cap. Anything over that will cost you extra and it's not cheap. Of course, if enough people use their mobile for torrents the bandwidth will quickly saturate, which means more collisions and more retransmissions, which means even more billable usage. I see a big uptick in the incidence of 4 and 5 digit bills in the near future.

So much wrong with this.

But losing DHCP whenever the internet connection goes down?

Show of hands, how many people never have more than one device on their LAN?

Formatting of the poll is messed up from 2.4 onward. All text at top of each section and all selection bullets below undifferentiated.

Based on her preferred engraving, I'm guessing she'll be carrying her phone in her front pocket and set to vibrate.

I'm no fan of what Google has become, but Orlowski is out to lunch on this one. The onus of right-to-be-forgotten should be on the publisher/host of the information, no just on the biggest (of several) search engines.

They're approaching 60,000 requests so far. Probably about to get a surge due to the publicity around this story. There's no possible way for them to properly evaluate public interest for each request.

So either they leave them all up or take them all down. If they leave them up they'll be taken to court over hundreds if not thousands of them. On the extreme low end, if even 1% of current requests are contested if left up, they'd be looking costs approaching 50 million in lawyers fees. The only rational response is to take them all down.

Time, not frequency

I used to work for a telecom satellite firm and we would often get interference from unknown locations. By finding the same signal (at much lower power) on other satellites in nearby orbital slots, it was possible to triangulate the location from the time difference in when variations of the signal were observed on the different birds.

In this case, if the source material was recorded with an accurate timestamp, or on a device they had a reference timestamp for, then they would only need a few points, not thousands, on the grid to get pretty close. Maybe a block or two. Once you're in the ballpark, other techniques are a lot less work to be more exact if necessary. For a whistle blower interview though. it would probably just be a matter of looking at a map, seeing a hotel in the search zone and checking the credit cards used that day.

Addressbooks

My experience with social media invites from technically-disinclined friends and relatives is they've unwittingly authorized the site to spam not just everyone in their address book, but everyone who's been CC'd by a 3rd party in any saved email, or any address in their sent folder.

As for business Twitter, it's useful for announcements in a less spammy way than email. Odds are clients don't visit a business website except when they want something. So information there is only ever seen by those who already have cash in hand or a complaint. Title of themed sale announcement/new product line/etc. + shortened URL if they want details should easily fit in 140 characters.