Posts by David Nash 1434 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008
Sounds like you're saying it's the customers' fault. If a minority stop buying, it's tough luck that the manufacturer continues doing something they can get away with because a majority didn't stop buying?
No, there are consumer protection rules for a reason and you can't go down the victim-blaming route and to say "stop whining, it's your fault for putting up with it" (or rather "it's your fault because someone else put up with it")
I think we need an over-arching law that says that all other laws which are, until now, applied to people, shall continue to apply only to people, and if a machine or other non-person apparently falls into the scope of a law, then the owner or controller, if there is one, is the applicable person, otherwise it doesn't apply at all.
When/if such day arrives that true AI or intelligent animals or aliens are present, we can re-think if needed.
If humans ever develop the technology to go to other planets where there may be life, we'd definitely want to go and see what's there, wouldn't we?
That's why they would come.
Not that I think these are aliens but I wouldn't say they wouldn't want to come if they were.
My dad was going to get a Science of Cambridge Mk14, but Sinclair's famous customer service meant that it was late and he cancelled the order and instead built a ZX80 from a kit. I learned to program by reading the manual in bed at 11 years old. I am not sure my life would have gone the same way if I had had to learn the Mk14!
The problem with the ZX80 was the flickering/black screen - it took CPU away from maintaining the display every time it ran a program, so moving graphics were impossible in normal programs (I believe using machine code you could do something but my memory is dim now).
That was the big advance in software with the ZX81, it had "slow mode" which allowed both the display and your own logic to be run at the same time (what luxury!).
The great thing about the ZX80 kit was that it came with a full circuit diagram, and that apart from the CPU and memory it was all made from discrete standard logic chips, so you could get an understanding how it worked at a hardware level.
The ZX81 replaced all those logic chips with one custom device, thereby rendering it a literal black box to the likes of curious youngsters like me.
I progressed to a Spectrum and later via fellow Z80-brethren Amstrad CPC to "proper" computers. But the ZX was where it all started, as for many.
I thought it was eleven-ona.
Given a bit of thought, yes, I-Lona is the correct interpretation but at first glance (which is what most people do before deciding) you see the first I and recognise correctly that it's an I, then see the second one, which appears to be the same, so "it must be Eye-Ona" job done.
Agree, the issue here I think is not that Atos are charging - that's what they do and to be expected by any software consultancy. The issue is that the NHS chose to outsource this kind of work, thereby incurring such costs instead of covering them in house by salaried staff.
It sounds like whoever broke this story thinks that free software "just works" and doesn't need any work to install, test, validate, etc, seems like they're looking for a stick to beat Atos.
I have no connection with any parties in this story. Just seems like Atos are not necessarily the bad guys here.
"...Using the exploits PTP found to pwn an in-flight 747 would be impossible in practice..."
"...Moreover, though PTP declined to reveal more details when we asked about the system and particular aircraft involved, we were told the IFE system is now no longer in use in any 747 still flying today..."
Do they really "lose it as they pass high gravity objects"?
I know they lose material but is it really related to high-gravity objects, the implication being that they are "sucking" material off the comet? Gravitational force is proportional to the masses of both objects so such objects would affect the comet itself just as much as the loose material, no?
AntiVax is analogous to the shouting Fire thing though, because the more people there are in a society that are not vaccinated, the more danger other members of that society are put in.
It doesn't only endanger those who are not vaccinated but also allows mutations and variants to more easily develop and endanger those who have been vaccinated.
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