Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1355 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2007
Why the **** didn't someone write that before the ****** who put that stuff about doge memes put that stuff about doge memes on and stole most of my bloody morning?
OH shit. And half my afternoon!
And I haven't got time to copy the damn thing now!
Shit shit shit!!!!!
Oh hang on. That's like a bomb like too, innit?
OK that'll do.
Ta!
Is this a case of poacher turned gamekeeper?
Yes it is part of the great game and we plebs are in the sights.
But it is all in a good cause and it is all in America. And it all a massive improvement on the communications they would have had had Guilliane got in. Can you imagine Motorola write-offs being issued to his secret services... oh wait...
That sounds good... hang on.. I meant...
3<<< Don't let anyone with his credentials anywhere near your email accounts.
Yes folks [s]Presidunce George the thickest[/s] the idiot that didn't know that he had to keep all his emails for posterity had an advisor from the NSA. And today he's offering you secure email (that can track your contacts through your mail, and their contacts through theirs AND delete your messages from not only their computer but anyone else they send it on to as well.)
I love it.
Only on the interweb pipe thingy...
All I get is ads for feckunding old ladies.
How do they know how old we are?
I almost never use faecebook. And only then to make a commnet on a blog that isn't on faecebook as far as I know.
If they threw me the occasional young one, I wouldn't feel so bloody old! (I might even be tempted.)
Lee Harvey Oswald tried to inform the powers that be the Presidunce was going to be shot.
The Presidunce was shot.
Several people tried to get the various authorities to look out for the attack on the twin towers.
The houses all came a tumbling down.
The ****wit George Bush set up some smoke and mirrors everyone protested is illegal
The courts have ruled it is illegal.
With all the best will in the world-which they already don't have, the US secret services are never going to get the best will in the world. And if there is another warning of a threat it will all go pear shaped again because that is how things go in places like the USA.
It really is time we invented a legal process where the opposite sides each pick a lawyer that has to be tortured until they can come up with a mutually acceptable agreement the adversaries are willing to agree to. I am sure arbitration would become compulsive television viewing.
Even the fanbois would get organised for that.
I wonder how famous team players could become before they died of industrial illnesses?
I can't believe this legalese gobbledegook:
"There must exist a direct and intimate nexus or connection of development of software done abroad with the eligible units set up in India and such development of software should be pursuant to a contract between the client and the eligible unit."
occurred in whatever language the Indian legal system uses or had to be incurred with translating it into English.
"The spec for this feature needs to be "disabled in all windows by default, can be explicitly enabled in a single window, that window cannot enable other windows". If Google just impelemented that I'm sure the "living standard" would follow...."
What standard of living would that be for blind people?
I was pleasantly surprised to read that, then on further reading about US requests being in the nature of one size fits all, I realised that the 386 calls were to Germany, the USA and the other 100 or so countries and the rest must have been to all Britain's ISPs, banks, and local area authorities.
Said calls saying:
"Give me your clothes, your boots and the key to your motorcycle."
Edit:
And those are just data requests. We don't know how much patting down was also going on. Area authorities being the nexus of all their desires; police, schools and social security benefits agencies etc.
Which leaves me wondering what protocols they use to spy on employers and the private sector.
Cold air -even the CO2 rich ones. Even the ones likely to be at just the angle to permit the most sunlight absorbtion possible. Even on a cool night where cloud fall means pneumatic heating.
Even the ones over environmentlists being attacked by lobbyists for the oil industry. And visa versa.
In all fairness to the shits who own the company...
how can you tell it isn't contributing if it bleeds stuff in from outside it's home planet?
Not that I believe for one moment that the half scared / half promoted because I covered my own arse, bullies working there, I don't believe it is adding anything it wouldn't crow about.
I get internet only for £11.25 plus fees charges and credits(?) bringing it to £13. The service is good but a paper bill costing me £1.75 smacks of the Chinese sending out bills for bullets to the next of kin for executing their only children.
There again, someone has to pay for all the small books they send out as spam.
"You can't price a service at the price they do if you have everyone on it downloading 500GB a month and still want to provide a usable service during peak hours."
What you do is make it easier for everyone on your server able to dowload at slotted times. Then when they have all filled all their hard drives they will be so busy watching thousands of hours of rubbish that their will nobody online.
That means they will have all those bill payers every month only occasionally downloading the odd film they didn't get in the mad rush.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XAU4aZVrYv4C&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=Eric+Laithwaite+defies+Newton&source=bl&ots=ROtmWVCPqq&sig=daKKO7vlABUdZ9Eocd_KVwF9Xf0&hl=en&ei=wIzITeSuDYnpOe-G8dQH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=white%20paper%20data%20banks%20lord%20harris&f=false
A google morass but second paragraph down on the article:
White paper for the TV-less.
"While most other highly computerised countries have seen the need to impose strict legislative controls on data banks, Britain is so wonderful that no such legislation will be needed here"
The article goes on to discuss the agency that has my name on its data base and uses it to send me threatening letters regularly. It has also opened overt and covert investigations on me.
It is the BBC license data bank.
I'm guessing that the first customers will be governments. I would insist that the first and second editions are sold in large batches at very high prices until those with the money have a surfeit.
After that they can bring the prices down so the people they sold the expensive ones to can't hear the people they sold the cheaper ones to. That way the bad guys will pay for the R&D.
The USA lost the Vietnamese war and it was all over bar the shouting in a very few short years.
Before WW2 the USA was broke. Just before the war the rich were getting richer as usual then during WW2 they became the richest nation in the world and bought up all the bits that Britain hadn't given to the Russians.
China has only become rich because those earlier rich people decided to use slave labour instead of bolshie natives. Or do you think Amazon would still be hiring the people it does if it were possible to outsource their manual labour?
"Most of the citizenry eligible to vote are too ignorant / lazy / stupid to bother."
I think you have that barse ackwards.
IIRC Thatcher got in after a 40% turn out and the electoral turn out has been at about that level here ever since. (Excuse me for not being interested enough to know the figures.) What that means is the 60% of British electors knew what to expect from politics and 40% are stupid/optimistic/unamerican.
So what is the electrolyte in modern batteries?
Old fashioned dry cells had a paste of some sort. These spontanious combustion types must also have a fluid, do they?
I imagine the huge wells needed by sulphuric acid batteries as well as being dangerous in aircraft were just too damned heavy?
Wonderful coolant though. Especially if they spilled or leaked.
I think the problem with a petrol engine is that they would have two sorts fof fuel although a reciprical engine is a lot more efficient than a jet. You would have problems with vibration too, worse in a diesel. There is no reason a paraffin fired genny couldn't be employed though. Early farm tractors used them (Tractor Vapourising Oil.) Vibrated like buggery though. Mind one, that was a fair few years ago.
I imagine a majority of the problem is that aircraft tend to tick over for hours on the ground. Not having to carry fuel for ticking over on the ground would save a lot of lolly as would the smaller petroops... fuel tanks I imagine. I dare say that in the good old days they could just use one small engine to run facilities when parked. By the look of it, with jet engines the bigger the better though, hence just two of them.
Any one have an idea how fast the turn around is on international flights?
What other problems are associated with running gigantic engines on the floor?
I've worked for them. None of you have touched on what is happening in even more enlightened warehouses.
Think pig farms run by bastards.
Now think of Amazon as a nasty version of a pig farm run by horrible bastards.
And the pigs are cannibal.
Thinking about it now, it is a perfect Dosadi Experiment.
And proof that evolution is a baaad thing.
Someone tell me it got started in 1984.
That would cap it all.
As far as unions go, in the 1970's (not counting US dirty tricks and the like) large manufacturers when they reached a production peak and needed to scale back, used to look at the line and find faults that would go unnoticed when their product was selling well. They would find a snag and make the proles at that part of the line suffer.
This would bring the unions in trying to get it sorted out. But no dice, the bean counters wanted them all out on strike. You can find recollections of this from any large manufactury. They are ony anecdotes now but they happened. Globalisation only happened because the ploy was unsustainable. That and the fact that there was no health and safety for people in India (for example) where the garment industry fled after it was found out that the managers had been cooking the books about cotton worker mortality.
Yes unionisation can be unsustainable and corruption gets in everywhere as does incompetence. The alternative is the high turnover at Amazon. That only happens for a reason. Most people will work in atrocious conditions for basic pay if there is no alternative as long as they have hope.
That's what keeps Amazon going.
I don't have an answer. I have an opinion:
When they have screwed everyone enough times where they are, assuming the market remains the same, they will just move elsewhere when the workers unite or individually, just refuse to eat any more shit.
At face value the authorities(?) didn't already know what was on the drive?
How stupid do you want us to be?
Homer Simpson stupid?
Or Arab Terrrst stupid?
None of us like terrorism but when the police state is the terrorist it is too late to do much about it.
If you really want to go back to the core, then you must give the Palestinians their country back, unkill all the innocent men women and children whose families want revenge and then sort out the US of A and the damned, perfidious British.
I'm pretty sure that if you could just give back Palestine and beat George Dumarse to a pulp then hang him on a strangefruit tree, things would settle down.
The original Bletchley Park hackers were working on a simple substitution scheme a lifetime ago -in precomputer days, and cracking them. And they weren't just working on a 12 character word. The machine they were trying to crack was capable of changinging each character 26(?) x 3^n ways every time the key was used. And that was just the three wheels, not including the cross-wiring permutations nor including the 4 wheeled machines used later.
The data the codebreakers worked on was recieved over the air by young women not told what they were doing nor how important it was that what they wrote down had to be spelled correctly; writing direct radio transcripts, not recorded. And the quesrtion mark bracketed is because they were doing it in a foreign language. (and I am not sure how many letters there were to a wheel.)
It is preposterous that the Germans only used German letters. Fortunately they did (I am presuming it was possible to frame other letters in morse?) and also fortunately they only used one frequency, did not record and speed up their messages and the interceptors could identify the hand the morse was sent in and tended to send their messages at predictable times.)
I think he has just cause for claiming the police withheld evidence. But I very much doubt he can prove it.
Maybe he can find a case where the experts that failed to crack the password managed to crack a similar one in times past?
Or can claim they must have already known it?
How much would it cost him to appeal?
The trick is to hide it down the back of a sofa and wipe it clean before dropping it there. But you must do all this before you are convicted and have a seemingly identical USB that is also password protected (but obviously doesn't contain evidence against you) and has a different password. A GIANT! fail for the fool.
But at least after reading all this, the others will know better. (Or not, as the case will be.)
Why the hell did he need a USB to tell him what he'd been up to?
And why was any reference to any crime clearly identifiable?
What an absolute mutt!
Why do we need draconian laws to deal with idiots like that?
They seem to have been the worst bunglers anyone could possibly imagine.
The worst we could imagine having had a shot at Britain were the green and orange ****ers that Blair bought off by letting George Bush bugger us.
I can't think of a more badly managed episode since Blair introduced martial law into the UK. At least when the Irish bungled a threat and blew themselves up they did it by accident :) These monkeys couldn't peel a banana.
As for GCHQ not decoding that silly password...
His password was unlocked immediately and the police failed to inform him of the fact, thus adding to his incarceration. No doubt the secondary case brought against him after the sell by date for the password one lapsed was framed -as in framed; to suit the mentality of the imbecile.
after so many days unattended. Assuming that the GCHQs antics wouldn't count.
He should have kept his mouth shut. And he should have put the USB in a timelock device where it would blank itself after so many days unattended (assuming that GCHQ's antics wouldn't count) and blanked if mishandled in some way al la Cryptonomicon
In the world of terrorism and espionage are there no memory sticks that are designed to lose all their data when attacked?
Is that not irredemably inept?
It's about as inept as an Arab terrorist using dollar signs in his password. He should have used some non Latin characters. And burned the keyboard every time he used it. A foreign keyboard that required three or so keys to produce each character would be difficult to force, especially if it didn't exist. It might take a few seconds as opposed to instantaneous.
What we want in the free world is a password that is time dependent as well as having any imaginable character in it. Only the characters must be home made. How long do you think it would be before owning such a device would be deemed and act of terrorism?
Despite the fact that to be a terrorist means you have to be unimaginably stupid enough to use a blown password that is easily forced.
Ah well, it takes all sorts, الحمد الله.
"You can read my summary of today's proceedings along with all the court documents:
http://www.googlelawsuit.co.uk/high-court-creates-new-privacy-tort-as-google-lose-safari-hearing"
When I was reading that, I was thinking this guy could be the British Groklawyer.
Then I got to the comments section:
https://twitter.com/GoogleLawsuit
<face/palm>WTF?</face/palm>
It would appear from your comment that a firm stealing data here is exempt from all laws if they are not based here?
If they can be sued in USAmerica instead, then it wouldn't be out and out piracy on the high seas -which Britain used to patrol and quash pirates on in the good old days.
Wouldn't the US be a better place to nail them?
They would get decent legal facilities and bloody silly payouts. (US) This contrasts sharply with what would happen here. (They could get decent legal facilities and bloody silly payouts. (UK))
I don't doubt that "Waco is actually a very nice city that's home to some very nice folks". The same might be said for Tulia and even parts of Preston Hollow -though I can't imagine many dark skinned people living there feel the same way.
However:
"Public outcry over Ruby Ridge and the subsequent Waco siege involving many of the same agencies and even the same personnel fueled the widening of the militia movement."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
Just like in the movies, the bad guys get around a lot.
"Rome was big, powerful and subjugated people. Then Rome grew fat and lazy and thought they could keep their enemies at bay by reversing the whole process and paying 'tribute' to them. Of course, the Goths and the Vandals and the Huns saw this for what it was - weakness. And the rest is history."
Get your history right.
A powerful state can take what it wants and do what it likes no matter how fat and lazy it gets. (If it can just magically handle that waive. I think you have a ghost in your machine.) What happens is thast internicene shenanigans takes the steam out of good politics and you end up with dimwits and hooligans who drive the ship of state onto the rocks.
"The NSA and US govt lost the "right to privacy" when they decided to start spying on allied leaders,"
No the US government lost that right when the powers that were decided to overfly Russia and anywhere else they wanted with their U2 aircraft. All my hero, Mr Snowden, has exposed is that highly illegal misuse of drone aircraft is only the tip of the iceberg.
I thought their submarine cable splicing activities, that were such a massive fail a few years ago, was the wake up call but no, it appears some of us are still in an African river full of crocodiles, hippopotami and bilharzia ...and loving IT.
I always wondered why some of my porn was so slow loading. It's GCHQ sluping my genitalia for use when I become a threat or when I am able to serve a political purpose.
I'd better ease off my effort to expose Glowballs as a Thatcherite threat designed to thwart Arthur Scargil. ...Oops!
It shoud be all quite a simple matter.
On the one hand we have a grasping, greedy, evil bastard who went west with his empire in the manner of Going to Texas for much the same reasons was the ticket 150 years ago.
And on the other we have a decent British girl who was trying to run a decent business in hard times when eight and an half thousand pounds finances piracy as it says on all the DVDs.
Now, so long as she can afford to sign up in Germany or Greece or wherever, she is allowed to show her television to all comers for what it obviously costs to make a profit for everybody except the puddings we call superstars that can't put a little hollow sphere in a big wide net once in an international or so.
"What really pisses me off is that they claim they are doing all this nonsense for our own good."
I sent them a reply I doubt they will ever open to sort out their Usenet problems before they continue to ruin the rest of their services. Maybe if I had been polite about it wouldn't make the slightest difference?
It was well known as soon as the first nuclear physicists got their hands on nuclear fule sized quantities of the metals required to build a bomb that uranium expands like lead.
That is, it won't put itself back in the bottle on cooling. Which makes what happened at that disaster plant at focujimy all the more pathetic. Once uranium reaches 700 C it becomes a different phase state metal. Not sure of the physics so no suitable icon.
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