Posts by Kevin Johnston 1542 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2007
Or even go back to the early 80's with the excellent (although now very very dates) series Bird of Prey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168510/.....must learn how to paste links)...actually I must see if I can get a copy of it to re-watch.
Probably mis-quoting but I am remembering some very sensible and far-seeing lines like 'so he could be changing things even as we are looking for them'
To an extent...My understanding of the US voting system (which may be totally wrong, please feel free to correct) is that while there is the possibility to have a 'write in' candidate, essentially you can only vote for the people that the parties decide to put forward. This means the deck is stacked to meet various agendas and without a massive co-ordinated effort by the population at large, they have no true choice in who gets into power.
Oh I am so with you there. My son allows me to join him and his mates because they can follow me around and shoot the people that come out to shoot me. Just a shame that I reach the high ranks through time rather than skill which led to me be higher status than him on a few games, oh how we laughed.
Ah, from memory Dublin (the county) has almost a third of the population and when you add in other cities there can't be much population left to cover a huge area of the country. Makes the rural value a small drop in a very big bucket if they count it per head (not that they would use the stats which favoured their cause the most of course)
I have been using Mint for many a moon now (4.something?) but still had a Windows box for those oddments which were Win-only. I did try WINE but it was not friendly enough to fight to get a couple of games and some old but still useful apps across.
During the update to Mint17.2 I found PlayonLinux....OMG....how simple was that? Each app/game moved across into their own little environment working at the first attempt.
Sad to end the Windows experience but that time has now come.
Been reading Boundary by Ryk Spoor where they find an ice-coated cavern below Valles Marineris. The theory being that Mars has a water table 100's of metres below the surface where fossil ice sublimes and is deposited in the caverns.
But that is just well-written and interesting fiction, isn't it?
I understand the marketing speak behind the IoT and the desire to have lots of wonderful new interconnected toys but they all still fail in the same way that ideas such as 'Speech-to text-to-speech' and suchlike do.
Yes, they are great ideas and in limited circumstances they work well and can provide value but not globally or often not even outside of a lab. The problem comes when you try to explain to Joe Public what it is for and the words just fall into a black hole. OK, so the new Internet fridge can order things for you when you run out but maybe there is no guacamole left because you decided you hate the bloody stuff. As for providing auto-updates of what everyone else in the home group is doing, words fail and so again does any need.
This all seems to be driven by the idea that Facebook is popular so everyone knowing every last detail of everyone else must be good.
Lastly, where the hell is the money coming from for everyone to throw away perfectly good home contents to convert them all the IoT contents? If you don't do it all in one go then you can be damned sure that the interfacing will have changed and your microwave will no longer talk to your hairdryer.
Said before that fines are meaningless, the one thing that would make these companies/Ad agencies behave is a ban on ANY advertising for a period based on how long the offending Ad was available. This would include Radio/TV and even Poster sites and sponsored people/vehicles etc.
THAT is how you get them to take notice.
This also seems to be missing and is normally labelled COPE, Company Owned Personal Enabled. The phone belongs to them but you can load apps and suchlike onto it.
This tends to need a layer such as Blackberry Balance (mentioned above) or Knox or similar to split the work/personal but it means that when you move on, the phone number (and the clients who use it) stays with the company.
Actually, picking up from Mark85's comment ignorance would have to become a valid defence in Georgia as they are saying that the law 'as applied in a courtroom' is not the same as the law which is documented in a Public library or any free source. This would prevent low income people from maintaining an awareness of the laws as it applies to them and therefore the state is creating an environment where they are more likely to inadvertantly commit an offence.
It's been said before, but these takedown requests are supposed to be validated and form legal documents as they are part of the evidence supporting the request. If they contain obvious junk or have been built by a robot then the originator should just have the next 10 bulk-requests binned, never mind simply de-prioritised.
I seem to recall there is an iconic set of steps with a railing down the centre somewhere in Paris that is forever appearing in films/adverts etc...and then there are all the images of the Love Lock Bridge....has anyone asked permission for this?
Was anyone aware they needed to?
I kind of agree here (and to various similar comments above) but the global nature of the Internet means that you either have to hear this case in one court and apply it globally or else it has to be heard in every jurisdiction which is just not practical.
Perhaps a reasonable approach would be to require the person wanting the de-linking/de-listing to apply in their 'normal country of residence'. Obviously no system is perfect and they can all be abused but this would be a good start point.
Fully agree and, expanding on this, if they are going to offer the ability to do all this at once then there would have to be more than one connector available at which point the idea of shoving everything through one type is pointless.
As an example, you want to feed a video loaded on your tablet onto the wonderful huuuge TV you have but need to ensure you don't kill the battery, well that is one USB-C Video and one USB-C Power compared to the current weird setup of one USB mini/micro for power and a HDMI mini/micro for the video.....definite leap forward there...NOT.
Oh the remembered joys...
I was working in Saudi Arabia for BAe many moons ago and it was well known that you never flew on the same plane as the fitters as they had a habit of working their way round the cabin looking for things to fix. Used to drive the cabin crew frantic trying to stop them taking stuff apart but the passengers seemed to consider it as the in-flight cabaret
The way I read it is that all non-US data will be hosted in the EU. If a customer is non-EU and moves data in/out of that storage there is no problem as it is their data so Safe Harbour does not apply. The problems would only come if Dropbox move it without the customer asking them to.
using the fading power of the car's battery which was shattered on impact or, as happened to me once, the frontal impact shunted the battery compartment just enough to snap the power leads.
I do hope they thought to require this unit has it's own power source. But not one of those Li-on batteries otherwise rather than save your life it could torch your car for you http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/29/boffins_blow_up_batteries_so_you_dont_have_to/
They actually do it properly on the left hand side of the pond. If you have an implement which could potential kill someone, no matter how remote the chance, then it is a deadly weapon.
Over here you have a mishmash which 'kind of' gets there with ...constructed, adapted or intended for use....says much the same but it is a little wordy and leaves loopholes where you may have to prove intent which is never easy.
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