Posts by nijam

Re: ME capability should be fused

> You absolutely did pay for the capability... we all have, whether we wanted to or not

Sooner or later, we're all going to pay very heavily for this kind of idiocy.

Re: Yet another Apple "problem" click-bait article

> ... every other in the domain has same problem...

Well, unlike Apple, they don't say they're selling you the movie (implicitly, since it's what you get when you pay them money) as opposed to a subscription that let's you stream it.

Re: The layers keep piling up

Maybe changing an injector was that simple 20 years ago, not so much these days.

> I own a car it is my duty to know how it works.

I doubt many people have the time or mental capacity to apply that principle to everything they own. Knowing how something works is - very obviously - not the same as being able to repair it; how far down the rabbit hole do you think people should be expected to go, I wonder?

> ... users claimed they were being scammed out of money ...

Err... isn't that what gambling is, actually?

Re: --->Götterdämmerung.

> ... many of the ancient scholars seemed to have believed that the search for secular knowledge led to perdition...

Well, they would, wouldn't they?

Re: It's just a test.

> They'll be deploying stuff like the "right to be forgotten"

Actually, this is indeed a variant of the "right to be forgotten" - namely the right to have someone/something else "forgotten".

Re: Good idea.

> ... those who should know better are often the worst offenders ...

You expect the "Director" to know better?

Re: That's the advantage of running Windows...

> Sixty upvotes: you all do realize he's being sarcastic ?

Hmmm... Are you completely sure about that?

Re: BFH

> Majority of the UK population? Growing support?

Maybe not now, but at the time, definitely so. Don't forget they polled more votes than the SNP, who have many more seats in Parliament.

The only reason they imploded is because they were set up to fight the battle, not clear up the mess afterwards. Neither UKIP, nor Cameron, nor any sensible person, expected the vote to go in favour of brexit. Cameron thought, along with apparently politically-informed people, that offering the brexit referendum was an empty promise to silence the whingers. Not his fault he was wrong about that, though you seem convinced that blaming him as an easy target (because he's doing something else now?) is better than blaming those more directly responsible. There's a long enough list still active in UK politics, after all.

Re: Dual use is hard.

Yes, better knives meant better swords, better engineering meant better guns, ...

Always has, always will. It's human nature.

Re: What is autonomous?

> Many weapon systems, both complex and simple, once deployed are autonomous.

This. An arrow, once released from the archer's bow, is autonomous.

As you say, the whole thing is meaningless PR. But then, so is AI.

Re: Mainframe?

> ...Microsoft's cunning plan too. Computing as a service...

Computing as an obstruction, more like.

Re: Aladdin

> They'll want to monetise it somehow...

N..., No..., Nokia

> What is a "drone" when it comes to this legislation?

Same as for all other new legislation - a Government spokesman brought in to make fatuous and ill-informed claims about the need for the legislation and to claim that it won't affect anyone except terrorists/paedophiles/tax evaders/...

Re: Waiting for the EU is a waste of time

> ... fund reduced taxes for everyone ...

Hahahahaha. Hahaha.

No.

Re: shipping it around

> What was wrong with old fashioned paper bags anyway?

By some measures (not all, obviously) they are worse for the environment, apparently.

Re: plus ça change ...

> unless you read ... the average person had very little knowledge of what went on behind the Iron Curtain

I think you might well know even less about it if you *did* read the Morning Star.

Re: Civil laws

> ... Plod just doesn't have the resources

They seem to have plenty of resources for lots of things that don't matter very much.

> ... I am now wondering if there are any in Paris

Don't worry, I'm sure you haven't been left out.

Re: No right to conceal information

> There is no way to read the original court order to imply that it asked for anything remotely resembling a "universal skeleton key..."

And yet, as should be evident to all readers of this august journal, the court order was based on a request from the FIB that they knew full well could only be done in such a way as to be a universal lockpick. I'm surprised that even needs to be pointed out.

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> if you had a Notes "evangelist" in the company you would find pockets of little Notes based apps all over the place doing clever (and sometimes not so clever)

Yeah, we had one of those. "Sometimes not so clever"? In fact, usually not so clever, we found.

> ... because there was no easy replacement for what those apps did

Our experience was that the main difficulty was in finding out what they did (what they were meant to do was often somewhat different), so they could be ported to an actually-supported system.

> Might as give up any attempts at rehabilitation.

In this particular case, it's been stated that the SELF-PUBLICIST gave interviews about his activities after being convicted. Rehabilitation may well have ridden off into the sunset at that point.

It may also be a sound reason for this case not to set a general precedent.

> I'm assuming Apple will get their hands on one of these devices, figure out what zero-day it is exploiting and issue a patch?

I'm assuming Apple will get their hands on one of these devices, figure out what zero-day it is exploiting, and deny it's possible to exploit it.

> They only go off script when you start being a dick

They only go off script when they start being a dick

> Like many here I was deeply involved in fixing Y2K issues

Whereas, like many others here, I was involved in wasting my time confirming that none of our software or IT equipment would be affected by the Y2K issues. (And just to make the point, I'll point out that it was repeatedly hyped as a "millennium bug", when it was merely a "century bug".)

Re: the $5 part that blew up the rocket

> ... might only need, say, $100 of paper trail ...

Oh, how quaint! An optimist!

Re: In Loco Parentis

> A school's monitoring of its pupils should reflect that.

Not quite equivalent to behaving like the STASI, surely?

Re: Slack? IRC?

> ... it's a no brainer.

I've never been quite clear what that is being used to mean. Is it "the obvious solution", or is it "only something a person with no brain would do"

Re: Both sides are wrong here

> Thompson and Venables WERE given the right to be forgotten by the trial judge...

...which makes a mockery of the system.

Re: And the reverse is...

> Even Microsoft waits for you to log off/shut down before borking your system.

No, they install the bork first, *then* tell you to "restart to bork your system" (may not be the exact wording of the message, not sure).

> Wonder what happens when the thing misses its target and then goes off hunting for another nice lump of orbiting metal to hump with?

Or, more plausibly, falls back to earth...

Re: Optional

> I'm too fed up to tell you why you are so wrong bringing this up (YET AGAIN!)

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> So here is a Wiki article

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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

Can't help noticing that the link very clearly says "patent". So your point is?

Re: "its in the public interest to know of old business fraud"

> I'm quite sure Google pick up the fight with a very dislikeable person

No, it's (once again) a dislikeable person picking a fight with Google.