Posts by Mike Moyle

Re: WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE IT ABOUT POLITICS!?

"Donald, is that you?"

Absolutely not! It's publicist John Baron, who is totally NOT anyone named Donald!!

Re: Good

Thank you, Bob, for another well-reasoned, not-in-the-least-ad-hominem (ad-statem?) comment.

Let's hear it for Bob, everybody; wasn't he delightful?

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Re: So good they named it twice.

They charged him with one count (at least) of access fraud (doing it himself) and one (at least) of conspiracy to commit (working with/facilitating others to do it).

With the "conspiracy to commit" conviction in hand, should they manage to catch anyone else in the group, the Feds can lean on him to rat on his co-conspirator, with the carrot of reducing his sentence. That might not have been possible without establishing that he, in fact, HAD conspired with the prospective "X".

Re: Gordon Gekko takeover

It won't take anywhere near that long, since Icahn's strategy has perennially been to lumber the victim with the debt to pay for its own unwanted takeover, strip-mine it of anything salable to pay dividends to the stockholders, and leave the husk to declare bankruptcy and screw the employees, retirees, and other unsecured debts. It'll all be over in a year or two.

Re: You don't eat your support animal!

Well, he "was apparently given a (now removed) tracking number for his faithful friend," which implies to me that only the one for which he applied was approved, just the same as how one couldn't really claim that some dog picked up off the street was the same animal as one's fully-trained service dog.

Re: He need some new friends

"if they get their social life updates by patrolling the graveyard."

Honestly, that *IS*, increasingly, where I have to go if I want to visit some of my closest friends from my college days... :-(

Re: "Productize"?

Exactly! I'm pretty tolerant of neologisms and generally easy to get along with (despite what everyone who knows mw says!), but one MUST draw the line somewhere and, for me, "productize" not only CROSSES that line, but leaves it sitting in the dust a mile back, shaking its head and saying "What the hell just happened...?"!

Re: Which one is the bad apple?

"It comes down to FBI being the bad apple."

I see what you did there.

Re: Innovation and 'rights' cannot co-exist

Obligatory "The Oatmeal" post:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure

Not being familiar with UKIP's internal organization (We've got our own problems on THIS side of the pond!), my first thought was that "Braine" seemed wholly inappropriate for a member of that party. Having just looked him up online and confirmed that he really IS a Dick Braine, I now withdraw my original objection.

Re: 54 security bugs?

You forgot: "Is it because sales has promised bug feature 'X' to the potential customer and the engineers don't find out until after the contract is signed and they have to rush things out without adequate testing to meet the contracted (unrealistic) delivery deadline?"

Re: I feel sorry for the defence lawyer...

...as opposed to when it was run by Newt Gingrich...?

Re: There was a time....

Well, automobile batteries run 30 - 50% sul[ f | ph ]uric in water, so you're that far along, anyway. ISTR the US Special Forces Improvised Munitions Handbook giving instructions for using battery acid for that purpose. (It also rather strongly recommended that you DON'T do this unless you really, REALLY need to -- but that warning pretty much holds true for ANY home-brewed explosives.)

Re: Color me skeptical

The law should require the FCC to announce annually how many of the fines assessed had actually been collected -- both in terms of number of penalties assigned and dollar values.

Having to explicitly state how little they are doing / how ineffective they've been MIGHT have had a salutary effect on the FCC's activity levels; without that, I'm not expecting much change.

Don't know. Didn't hear anything that sounded like broken crockery when I picked it up. I took the box downstairs unopened, knocked and handed it over with an explanation of where I found it, and went back upstairs.

Just pointing out that the guy shooting hoops on my porch apparently had a far greater faith in people's packing abilities and the structural integrity of cardboard boxes than I do.

Re: 20/20

"Bed"...? Pfaugh!

It don't count as drunk until you have to hold on to the floor to keep from falling off!

A DeLorean with none of the charm.

"I'm sorry, sir --They burst through by putting money in me hands!" -- Willium "Mate" Cobblers

Re: But HP are shift.... and I may be completly out of the loop here.

And, of course, it has to be remembered that it's being supported by Carl Icahn whose lifelong strategy involves getting control of ailing companies, loading them up with debt to pay for the buyout, strip-mining every salable asset, and leaving everyone but the preferred-level stockholders both broke AND holding the bag for the debt. So, from a stockholder's POV, the deal makes perfect sense.

From everyone else's, not so much.

"But it's exactly the sort of thing that some people will be willing to believe, or pretend to believe, and retweet."

A commonly-spread story in Massachusetts is that Boston's famously corrupt mayor (He served part of one term while in Federal prison on mail fraud charges!) James Michael Curley was the originator of the phrase "Vote early and often!"

A friend of mine had an uncle who had been politically connected to Curley and the Boston Machine who once chided him for attributing the quote to Curley: "Never happened...! Hizzoner was WAY too smart a politician to EVER say something like that... in front of anyone who would be likely to quote him on it!"

Re: The best notebook keyboard ever

"Every - EVERY - Apple laptop keyboard I've ever used has offered about the same tactile reward as typing in cat excrement."

Morbid curiosity ALMOST tempts me to ask how you would possibly know to make this particular comparison, but "discretion being the better part...", etc., etc.

Re: Not a Yotaphone

If both screens were available at once, you could play Battleship with your seat mate on the train.

Re: What to do with Sprint?

I can't speak to Sprint's namesake service but, as a customer of Sprint's PAYG "Boost Mobile"-branded service, FWIW, I have to say that I've been quite satisfied with the service, the coverage, and the price.

It would be lovely to think that that will all remain once T-M gets their hooks in, but I'm having difficulty believing it.

Re: Do Peregrines hunt pork?

Well, it sounds sexier than a "Murmuration of Starlings" attack, which is what I assume they're actually going for.

Re: whisper campaign

"Do not start whisper campaigns. That's defamation and slander."

Only if you can prove that what's being said is not true.

"The problem is not in private APIs or not. The problem is the rule said do not use them, developers used them and got away with it for a while, building their base and reputation, and now boom, no more private APIs."

I'm not a developer and have no idea how long it can take to recode an app, so this is genuine curiosity: How long SHOULD a company wait after saying "Coding Thing X is prohibited and all apps which use it will be removed from our repository"? Because, honestly, I've seen Apple get ripped by commentards here if they say something is prohibited and ban it and remove affected apps immediately, and here they are getting it because they didn't enforce the rule "soon enough".

So, is there a time-frame between banning a thing and actively enforcing that ban that is acceptable to the general community (ignoring the knee-jerk "AppleSux!" brigade who will always fault them)?

Well, appearances would seem to indicate that his boss doesn't like to hire people who might give the appearance of being smarter than him -- and any time he does (when blinded by his adoration for "strong" military generals, frex), they don't last long.

So-o-o-o-o-o-o... Yeah... Giuliani as cybersecurity czar makes total sense.