Posts by GloriousVictoryForThePeople

>It can't. There is no way for Microsoft, Amazon, or Google to get round it.

Actually it is far from insoluble.

They set up a local subsidiary, with local-ish systems.

In any and all roles with data access or authority to order data access, they can only employ single citizenship locals.

The employment contract explicitly specifies that they must ignore all orders from the non approved zone.

Now the NSA might be able to engineer around that, but it stops the day to day US courts ordering Irish data to be handed over by a sysop in Redmond

Re: Dumbass mouthpiece strikes again

Is that "post organic", as in "post modern"

But how are we going to get our Brawndo?

Re: Rogue Engineer

I see on his Linkedn page that he just left his job in Poland working for a train maker. If you need him better be quick, I'll bet Boeing want him back to make some more plausibly deniable software.

Re: It ain't going to work

It is true that artists only get a sliver of what is collected, but it is also true that they actually do get that sliver, instead of nothing.

However one, if not the major factor that allows that to happen, is that big focused music corporations also get money that way that they would not otherwise get, and a diffuse cloud of corporations (your hairdresser) get milked for it. This dynamic makes it work (legally and politically).

Free software is the opposite - big focused corporations don't want to pay, unless they are going to be getting lots more money from the great mass of unfocussed corporations and consumers. They currently see "cloud taxing" and free software as the way to do this.

To see how completely unprepared to pay-up megacorps are you just have to look at the Apple - Qualcomm fight. Apple is not prepared to pay anything significant for what is the core underlying technology of their whole product. It is only by being utterly ruthless and toxic that Q can get paid royalties at all. It seems delusional that Apple would share anything but floor sweepings with people who do not carry a very big stick.

I recently was at a supplier fishing event for tradies. Someone pointed out that the plumbers turned up with raycraft, and the sparkies turned up with tinnies. It was true: electricians will undercut each others rates. plumbers don't. Who knows why, but the result was very clear down at the boat ramp. I didn't notice any free software developers - I suppose you don't have to catch ramen noodles.

Good luck with your project Bruce, but looks to me more like something that cannot really do better than put free software developers on welfare or subsistence, not a decent living, and is more likely to see a big income stream going to megacorps if it works at all.

Re: There were 1.5 remote assistance employees for every Cruise taxi

... just not for his workers

> That applies to just about the whole world and everything in it.

Except Beer. Beer was swill when I was young, and is infinitely better today. Eye wateringly more expensive too, but still better even at the price.

One upvote for a truly obscure reference

Re: Titanium and compression cycles

You have to lift it out of the water and ship and truck it around, so weight in air is a big issue.

In water you still have 100% of the mass, to accelerate and slow using battery power, and when manouvering around a wreck.

So,it is indeed a big issue.

He works for Microsoft && services are powered by Amazon, so it should be available (340/365)^2=316 days.

If he further expected his Google cloud mail to work as well, he'd be down to 294 days...

Re: Staff laid off because too many calls?

Helping the punters was starting to eat into the funding and adversely affect the executives desired outcomes and metrics.

Re: Not the first time

Or just make a new and slightly bigger one to eclipse the previous one.

Re: Never mind, the original Mayflower landed in the wrong country

the USA lives under constant threat of Cuban invasion

My son lives in Florida, and he can hardly sleep at night. I'm pretty sure a Cuban is responsible for that.

Re: Arsehole

"Hi Chris."

"Hi Sundar, Nice to hear from you. How life at the Big G"

"Oh you know, just fired 12k.

Getting a bit of blowback about my stock options though.

Could you pop out a press release asking us to fire 20k instead."

"No Problemo - Why don't I make it a round 30k, that should make them properly grateful eh?"

Corporate tussles: It's actually like WWF wrestling

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

"if you rotate a 4x2 through ninety degrees it becomes a 2x4"

Ah, I see, 2x4s are made for dwangs.

Re: Critical

So for such a critical infrastructure, the fuse needs to be built in such a way, so that a human feeling clever wouldn't be able to easily install a wire to bypass it.

You aren't familiar with Mr Darwin's theories are you?

Re: waste of money

Much as rockets and space are very cool, I think we get little payback from it.

Compare spending just on the SLS with the total US spend on fusion power.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/margraf1/

One of these things pushes the boundaries of pure science and applied engineering to the very limits, so far we are not even certain of an outcome. It might give the whole planet a way out of existential threats.

The other retreads the 1960's, but even when/if it succeeds there is no significant payoff for the people who paid for it.

Re: new samples

Take it some cold beer or hot plutonium for all it's trouble!

Re: :(

You seem to be supporting my point, not contradicting it.

Since baseload electrical generation (of the kind you describe) can't be shutdown quickly, you need to have loads that can be turned on and off at whim instead.

Process heat, augmenting existing fossil fueled furnaces with renewable electricity is that kind of of load. You can turn the heaters up and down as fast as you can send control signals. Your process always runs as normal, because it is (initially at least) a fossil fueled system anyway

This is economic because the (pre-existing) fossil fuel furnace is sunk cost - so there is no penalty for not using it when cheaper renewables are available.

Of course this is a transitional tool, in 30 years time, long after today's furnaces have been scrapped we need to do something different.

Re: This may come back to bite Google eventually

Say what you will about MS, they can and frequently do gnaw at a bone until it works. If anything that has been their strength. Surprisingly for an american megacorp, they play the long game.

Re: There goes the prime directive... Murica Successfully Saves the world AGAIN with a bomb

Assuming your figures (18km/yr) are correct, then:

To miss a 12600 diameter object you have to move 6300km / 18km/yr = 350 x 570kg=200,00kg

SpaceX Starship is ~100T dry mass and 100+T payload = 200,000kg

Coincidence??

Re: Seen it before somewhere

"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything."

Re: Before computers we used to make stuff that worked

From cars whose engines overheated when the sun came out,

I still remember shock at British Leyland when they discovered that in some parts of the world, water fell from the sky unexpectedly fouling the ignition system that was right behind the front grille. Luckily they were able to put a piece of cardboard in to stop water.

Re: Misinformation Is Cheaper Than The Truth

"Up the workers!", as we say in the Labour party.

This -> 100.5 tonnes is f-all.

And obviously wrong since 100T of carbon is ~10 truckloads of coal - not exactly going to run a power station for a year is it?

I roughly calculate that 100MW @4hrs/day average = 105,195 tonnes CO2/year for coal fired power.

At 2 years for construction energy and 25 year lifetime to 50% output, that's 1.8MT CO2

Re: Shameless repost, but it fits :)

Had one trs80 come in with cat piss.

Not a lot of tracks left, and had to sit outside and try to fix it, the smell was so bad, even after the hot detergent wash treatment.

Re: Missing the point

He is a foreign citizen charged in another countries local courts with what are styled as "treasonous" crimes.

There is unlikely to be anywhere on earth you would expect that to well for you, and certainly not the US.

Re: It is still multifunction

and it serves as an advertisement for other brands

Like Lexmark , ah HP, no I meant...

Prosecution: "Microsoft only charge 10% on their store"

Apple/Google Defense: "We rest our case your honour, no further witnesses"

Re: Working class?

> "or carry-out as my Scots relatives describe it"

Is it just me who finds this brings to mind not so much hot chips, as something moved in a wooden box or roll of old carpet?

Re: Me....or Peter Thiel?

> soon I will be forced to retrofit "phone home" technology

As long as its authentic Lucas (aka The Prince of Darkness) kit, you should be good

Re: It's today's world

pro tip: Wet the string with prussic acid to stop eavesdroppers

Re: Data under multiple jurisdictions.

Oh No! Once Aliexpress does lawyers, the US economy's monopoly on shoddy law is breached.

Re: break up after a long marriage

> Didn't cost that much to get married in the first place!

Marriage is a loss leader for the legal profession...

Re: Smoking

>4 metres on a side, with an ashtray on a 2-foot pole.

I think that's a mixed metraphor

Re: Perhaps the answer...

> drive into the back of a stationary Motorcycle in broad daylight

Oh yeah, I was stopped at a pedX for an old lady to dodder across, and (improbably) noticed a car coming up behind didn't seem to be slowing. The screaming wheelie I did at the last possible second probably saved the old lady too. I dare say she didn't think so.