Posts by Captain DaFt 3821 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2007
When a corporation makes a move that's obviously wrong, its competition usually smiles quietly and starts declaring the benefits of their own offerings.
When a corporation makes a move that could possibly supersede the competition, The competition starts howling about how it's a dreadful mistake, with charts and diagrams showing how such a move can only end in disaster.
Dell's competitors have given me more confidence in the Dell acquisition.
"we're already ahead of the game with a triple-blade cold fusion laser razor. No prototype, but send us your money anyway."
Too slow, mine has Five triple action ultrasonic green powered blades, Iot capability, WiFi Stereo, and 8K video streaming!
Only $7K more needed to reach our goal!
Seriously, you're a news site, use your contacts (Wut?) to get other news agencies on board. The right (wrong?) press could do wonders with the stages of this saga:
Bureaucracy Forces British Aerospace Venture Overseas
Foreign Government Holds British Aerospace Venture Hostage; Demands Munitions Capable Facility In Exchange
Hostile EU Business Climate Forces British Aerospace Venture To Relocate To US
British Aerospace Venture Being Stymied By US Paranoia?
US Government still Mum On Why It's Holding Back British Aerospace Venture; Is Google Involved?
US Agency Maintains Secrecy Over Fate of British Aerospace Venture
Oh, and the DM version (Just as legit as the rest):
US Government Agency Refuses To Comment On Alien Space Flight From England
".brt is perfect, we can even pass it off as a homage to the A-10..."
Until some idiot objects because it's pronounced "bert" and claim it's promoting the gay agenda, or "bart" and promoting an unsuitable role model for children.
Seriously, you can't do anything publicly these days without someone finding offense in it.
Best responses to this type of thing I've seen are, "You actually managed to find a way to be offended by this? Get psychiatric help, I'm serious!"
Or, "What's it like to be so weak a mere word can harm you so badly?"
-Actually having brain failure is not limited to "users".-
Too true.
One never knows when the "brain fart" will strike, as this cartoonist chronicled about his computer's "Mouse problem".
"did I miss the Reg report of Musk's plan to continuously explode hydrogen bombs above the poles of Mars?"
Almost every time I read about someone hitting or passing the century mark, it always seems they enjoy either cigars, wine, or bacon, or some combination of the three*.
Maybe the key to a long life is really just enjoying life and indulging yourself a bit?
*Sadly, no one ever seems to credit caffeine for their long life... oh well.
-"ideation" in a non-satirical setting? That word needs to be dragged out onto tarmac and shot.-
According to the Daft Dictionary:
ideation: Noun; a deceitful echoic construction, used instead of other synonyms for "con game" by hucksters trying to conceal their intent from the less savvy.
It's use is a very useful warning that you should shield your wallet and run away swiftly.
See also: flim-lam, con, deceit, deception, hoax, bamboozle.
"The combination will help make the ads you see more valuable across the different devices and services you use."
The more ads I see, the less valuable the service cramming them down my throat becomes.
So unless their ad algorithm states, "No ads ever for this'un, or he'll scuttle right off", They're only guaranteeing more negative, IE: less value to me as a service I pay for, not more.
Therefore, no reason to do further business with them. There are other carriers out there.
"As for the second "probably not desirable" across devices: having a kernel that works in anything from routers all the way up to whatever you can think of seems to have been quite popular for the Linux kernel..."
Yes, the Linux kernel.
Now imagine trying to tweak and cram, say, a full Trusty Tahr (Or any other full distro), into all of that.
UGH!
"Imagine Assange is extradited to Sweden and found Not Guilty, then as Assange is free to roam about the country he discovers that the USA doesn't want him either.
His ego would implode!!!"
Padawan, you underestimate the power of ego.
If the above happened, he would be on every medium that'd have him, crowing, "Aha! I'm too powerful a force for them to engage!"
"My money is on an admin password on a post-it note stuck to a monitor near a window."
Nothing so esoteric. Flash back to the '90s when most breaches of this type were engineered simply by Billy Cracker phoning in and asking... err, demanding access via: "I don't have time for this, give me access right now, or clean out your desk!"
Nobody remembers the past.
"Steve Wozniak built the Macintosh in order to democratise computing
So why are they so fucking expensive?"
Well it's all a matter of scale. The iPhone may be pricy, but pales in comparison to what a Cray costed, and can out compute a room full of them.
Anyone can buy an iPhone, only governments could afford the Cray.
That looks like democratistion to me.
"(possibly performing said assembly in a rowing boat well out in international waters)"
Hmm, doesn't someone have a specially designed ocean going landing platform that he might consider letting someone use as a launching platform, just for the publicity?
http://www.space.com/27538-spacex-reusable-rocket-test.html
"A worthless company bought by idiot Execs"
Well, not worthless, but definitely not worth what HP paid for it.
Nobody else, not even Autonomy, thought it was worth near that much.
But when somebody shoves a truckload of money in your face yelling, "TAKE IT!", there are few that'd say no.
I was wondering when somebody would get the nerve to try this.
What with the lawmakers being as bad, if not worse than the badguys on the internet, it was only a matter of time until some vigilante showed up.
Next up: Stories of assault and grievous bodily harm being inflicted on commercial spammers and malware producers.
"Shit, things are so bad in The Land Of The Free that I have to listen to bagpipe music with headphones!"
I'm sure you'll find that applies anywhere in the World outside of Scotland.
"No, she said she prioritzied the NSA's server order over other customers' orders."
And why wouldn't she?
Units supposed to go to regular customers at...* say $15,00 apiece, get diverted to government contract at $500,000 apiece.
Probably only good decision she ever made for HP.
*Numbers are pulled out of my ass, but representative of difference between corporate and government pricing.
"Molecules can be cleaved when hit by right wavelength and amount of energy."
They can also be cleaved by chemical means.
So get back to me when there's a safe gel that can be rubbed on my face to remove unwanted hair, and doesn't feel like I've set my face on fire the way current products do.
Hm, interesting group there:
Windows desktop, giving it away
Windows mobile, can't give it away
Surface, Doing reeeaall well now... honest!
Xbox consoles, Dang that foot's still sore from that gunshot!
Bing, After years of work and billions spent, We finally beat Yahoo!
Is this where MS products go to die?
So 6S is faster and more efficient, which enabled them to reduce the battery and still claim battery life is no worse than the old phone?
And "no worse" is a feature they point out?
Geez guys, couldn't you at least left the battery the same size and made longer battery life a selling point?
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