Posts by Alistair

I could just shrug.

But then, my names not Galt.

Publicly traded corporations do NOT by definition serve their customers. Their customers are wallets. Such corporations must serve their stockholders. And in cases like the fortune 1000 most of those stockholders are either other corporations or they are banks or they are investment firms. These entities are interested only in cash coming into their pockets, so they can pay *their* shareholders. Which are mostly corporate entities.... Taxes, they just get in the way. Thus spending a small crapton of money to own the politicians that write the tax laws to make the corporations more money is a good ROI.

Apparetly we are doing something a bit better up here.

I am in suburbia in Canuckistan.

I can sign up with any one of 9 DSL providers (I'm on DSL with an off brand provider) - I have a $4.80 surcharge on my DSL bill for LLU.

I *could* sign up with any one of 5 Cable internet providers. 3 of those insist you have to buy cable and would like to sell you VOIP home phone too. With these there is a one time transfer fee to change the owner of the cable loop. (This does *not* apply universally, it seems to be local to this area)

I'm getting 25MB/11MB *officially* but I'm quite often seeing far better numbers than that. I am however getting pissed with the modem, after the last firmware update it *appears* to be capping individual xfers at 4MB. This is NOT a puma6, but is a BSD based modem. Eventually I'll have the spare system to set it up in passthrough mode. (PS total bill, unlimited volume 25/11 *with* surcharge CA$69.50/mo)

Roses are red

what colour is Gru?

And googles cheap phones

Are here to track you.

Lets approach this from an application design perspective

App does encrypted end to end voice comms.

Either end has a unique key.

App (FB Chat tool) is installed on both ends

FBI wants to listen to chat.

FB needs to clone unique keys off both ends and hand them to FBI.

FBI now has access to comms.

Soooo -- FBI warrant was "FB, steal unique keys from user A and user B and hand them to us please" OR "FB please collect the unique keys from *ALL* your encrypted chat voice comms users and hand them to us with Usernames as an index"

I'm sorry your honor, but clueless morons the tech world is NOT.

urrr.

Don't run privileged containers for anything that doesn't need the privilege.

Just like all those dolts that run java applications as root.

/shakes head, wanders down hall muttering under breath, slopping coffee all over the carpet.

not having yet had brekkie

All this talk of pancakes and nuts is making me hungry.

Since I'm north of the 52nd, I'll be making myself nice hot,gooey oatmeal.

Pancakes are for sundays.

I'll leave you nuts here in the forum discussing odd shaped things floating about in the outer reaches of the solar system.

) possibility? -> Ultima and Thule were moving in substantially different ways, possibly on drastically different paths at one time, and the intersection of their paths, the resulting impact put them roughly where they are now. This might explain the difference in planar form between the two objects and why they are so 'slim'. -- I'll note I'm still working on first coffee and first breakfast. I'll think on it more after third coffee.

Dammit you guys!!!!

I got this thing I'm selling. Its my living you know. And it does the thing it says. So stop picking on me!!!! Its not that big a problem really!!! I've never met someone that could break into my kids watch thing!!! Stop picking on me!!!! I need to make a living here. Stop picking on me!!!!

/sarc /whine

In other words, basically, "I think its okay, what the hell is all this shit about standards? Why should I have to follow some sort of standard. I'm just trying to make a buck here."

I'll bet he's read atlas shrugged. Twice. And made notes.

I'm not sure we've really that many trolls here. And I'm rather guessing neither BJ or BB are to be found on the UK rail system, although they may well be found in an Amtrak rail station bathroom on occasion. AMfM however, may well be a permanent resident of one of the carriages of the UK rail system. Or perhaps a switch. Somewhere in the Midlands. Downwind of a chemical factory perhaps.

Perhaps a corporate rebranding is in order

Accompanied by whalesong and joss stick flaunting vegetarian baristas dressed in non-offensive gucci sweaters

We Work will now be called Wee Work(house)

Y'know, the UK does have an option here. Collapse the United Kingdom, and secceed to Canada. We already have a pretty decent trade agreement wirh the EU. Y'all could be the 11th province.

Phone app development nutshell.

Dudes, yer cramping the ad income style here......

*cough*

A little dome away from home?

Considering the external appearance is so similar to a sports stadium I'm wondering if this was a shot at the stuperbowl.

Trojans

I can't recall if it was the leading trojans or the trailing trojans that were causing all the problems in Mote.

I'm sure we'll figure that all out when Lucy gets there.....

Speaking of which, I need to make more coffee.

About two years ago we had a barn owl move into the local stream/park valley. The park is about a klick away, but he/she/it seems to have a patrol range of about 4 or 5k. There's been a dearth of pidgeons, seagulls and starlings since. Although it seems the crows like to give the owl a hard time.

Huge bird, and quite handsome.

I'm wondering if the military types found it active on their hardware, and brought in the FBI to help with the legal bits, and turned it into a 'lets do the right thing .....'

Okay maybe 'lets see if we can steal someone else's military secrets while we're at it.....'

Moose

... in most times of the year, are *not* your friend. Unless of course they're looking for a 'friend'. Then, well, your car might be in trouble.

International non governmental organization with influence on financial tools

Seems to suffer from corruption issues at the top.

Hmmm. Understatement of the decade perhaps?

All the chuckles aside, I'm wondering about the real world uses like most here ?hear? ....

I know a couple of folks who *really* cannot wear headphones or earbuds. (autism can have some wonderful quirks) but would love to have music whilst working (I share this trait of being able to focus better while having music playing .... it helps with my ADD), and generally cannot have this as it becomes an environment conflict. (i.e they are allowed to have headphones or earbuds, cannot wear them due to physical reaction or as in my SO's case earbuds just *do not* stay in place due to the shape of her ears)

I actually wonder if the arrangement could be made light enough and non-constrictive enough to solve their issues.

But then I am a bit weird.

I suppose the other application would be to communicate verbally with the herd of laser equipped sharks.

..... Somewhere, deep in the heart of England, there is a polyethylene prop, popped up from under the instrument panel, gently waving in the breeze from the damaged cockpit window, and a fellow named Victor asking Clarence why Gatwick wont give him clearance to land.

"Dammit Clarence, its just a $#%@#% drone, all I need is clearance to land......"

Antecedents perhaps. No report about any of their descendants would be appropriate.

---- ZFS.

/drops mic.

Its still not intelligent.

Its a well trained algorthm. This and no more.

And its a microphone in my house, managed, controlled and tracked by a corporation that has *already* made mistakes.

Much like the "my ipone camera is SOooo much better than that dslr. I mean if you did all sorts of post work on the DSLR it might look so good". Your shitty little ipone camera *DOES* all sorts of post work on the image, before you see it you tit.

I'll just drop this press release on the forum floor.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-drives-unified-foundation-kubernetes-and-virtual-machines-red-hat-openstack-platform-14

Accumulations of cosmic radiation?

Urrrr. I think there's a translation slip there - I'm guessing RosCosMos would be better than that - Accumulated affects of cosmic radiation perhaps?

Oddly, having worked with a couple of young folks from Singapore a ways back, I 'm thinking this is to be expected. They appear to raise their offspring with an uttlerly different attitude toward 'responsibility' and 'integrity'. Mind you it was only a couple of youngsters, but I appreciated their candor and integrity at the time. And it (only slightly) changed my attitude toward the rest of the world for the better.

)there *is* a reason I use the Grumpy Old Fart icon so liberally(