Posts by Potemkine

Slightly OT

This blog entry makes interesting comments about Security Policy and how to write one.

New Order in AmeriKKKa

Now that the US is becoming a fascist state, one can expect that private interests close to the new Leader will take great advantages of it, without mentioning Leader's business as well.

Plants are alive too

Why should we discriminate on the life forms we kill to use them, just because it's easier for us to put our anthropomorphic feelings on animals rather than on plants?

Also, I wonder if Vegans do remove the canine teeth Nature gave us to eat Meat?

"money is now in place to put this right". Indeed, "if they weren't up to the job then the US and French navies would not entrust them with protection of their aircraft carriers in the Gulf."

Neither US (with Aegis classes) nor French (F70 / Horizon classes) navies require the Royal Navy to protect their aircraft carriers... however what the admiral admits there is that the RN is now a second-class navy, with no aeronautical capabilities, unable to strike anywhere, anyhow.

if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle

""To protect freedom of speech and avoid censorship, unless a title is illegal we tend not to remove it from the iBooks Store," a representative at Apple told The Register."

And this has nothing to do with maximizing their profits, of course...

Redemption

Does this concept exist in Australia, or should one pay for entire life the mistakes made in young ages?

Employers should not be allowed to access criminal records, they are no cops nor judges... or the opposite should also be true, workers should be able to access the criminal records of all the management.

Profit of £7.7m => 70 people are to lose their jobs

You didn't expect the company to be loyal, supportive and faithful towards its wage slaves, did you?

BTU? Pweah!

Never heard of 'Joule' to express energy?

black, white and shades of gray

Every story has several sides but we keep having the same one described again and again in Mr. McCarthy's articles, which are heavily biased towards one direction, justly or not I can't say

It would be interesting to get another point of view to be able to weight things, like this one: "EPO President Benoît Battistelli responds to IAM criticisms of recent union official dismissal".

150 € for this? :omg:

Can't you find something in real wood in the next flea market, you could even transform as you wish to feed your needs? An old folding table for instance?

The ultra-consumerist attitude to buy and throw has to be amended. Let's reuse old things instead of making new junk.

JM2C, of course ^^

I would be surprised if Apple's earnings were growing in 2017.

It's unfair

First, a 79-year old man shouldn't be obliged to work.

Next, a 18 month sentences is not far from a life sentence for such an old man.

Finally, this guy is not only an accomplice but also a victim from this bloody scammer (may the latter have his butt itching and the arms to small to scratch!)

I buy therefore I am

Consumerism leads to emptyness. 'To have' cannot replace 'to be'.

Making IoT makers co-responsible in case of hacking if they did not reasonably secure their device could offer the incentive for these makers to do a proper job

ROTFL

Simon Bickley and Camilla Wright spent two weeks exploring the secretive state

If they had really tried to explore NK, I doubt they would have been able to depart from there alive.

Tim Crook is so disappointed

Apple was indeed having a 'special arrangement', f*cking Irish (and european) taxpayers in the process and now will have to pay taxes... Freedom / Democracy / Future / Planet Earth is at risk!

Lobbying

""In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread"

So sad there isn't any law saying that anyone should pay a fair share of tax whatever the loopholes in the tax code, is it?

Piers Morgan

Who's that guy?

The argument is that an AI might decide to hack its way out of itself. However, an AI won’t do something that goes against its purpose

That's an argument which doesn't work well with NI (Natural Intelligence), why would it work with AI?

I don't see any reason why an AI couldn't become suicidal, or be able to sacrifice itself for what it thinks being a greater good... Fear the day when your paranoid lightbulb will try to get you ^^

What's the saddest, having people being nuts enough to act like this or having a judicial system authorizing this kind of abuse?

A sum-up of advertising online

: Snake oil and security flaws.

UK armed forces are just an extension of the US Armies from military intelligence to nuclear missiles sold and controlled by the US. Having US forces on UK ships is logical on that perspective.

Don't buy Apple products until the company pays its fair share of taxes

Apple is not the only company to do so but it's no excuse. Apple blatantly exploits chinese workers to make stuff it sells with a huge margin in western countries, and does what it can not to pay taxes when using all the infrastructure paid by contributions.

We citizens are also consumers. Let make our choices really matter for big companies.

Anyway,

is there a more pleasant way to die?