Posts by HAL-9000

Re: Experts all giving advice how how to stay secure

The best one I see was Herb Lin on BBC news 24 telling people to update their PC's before switching them on? How the Fsck ... Chicken and egg or headless chicken

Re: Extradite the NSA

Alternatively, someone hit her very hard and loud with the truth...

That's some alternate reality right there

Re: Fun with statistics

Indeed, I've been through the 'process' with a loved one who was granted full benefits upon appeal. That indeed seems to be the entire point of this costly and pointless process. Possibly(robably) some accept the outcome of their ATOS decision, and never appeal. The scummy politicians think this charade is perfectly acceptable.

Ideology!

Before ATOS existed the claimant GP's word, and opinion was accepted.

Not so now

Re: don't be, Kaspersky is top-shelf security

Thnx to you too(+1upvote), will keep the K for now. God bless Eugene

Re: Finally some common sense

Couldn't agree more, and as a taxi service that it very clearly is, should be subject to all the regulation and conform to the public protections that other taxi services abide by.

Good 1 Evil 0

Re: For a real post brexit apocalypses

Even better, send 'em to Sunderland: extra-sepecially after Nisan finally decide its too much and back out ... Laugh I nearly cried

Re: The customer is doing it wrong.

Ahhh the joys of 'I'm feeling lucky', hours spent expanding my horizons ;)

PS I had to check it was still there

Re: Titanium?

You Sir sound experienced in such matters

Re: @ codejunky

They could kill the golden goose in one swift move which would not only make other companies potentially fly away

Do you honestly believe these vampiric, blood sucking vultures would flyaway from one of the lowest corporate tax hideouts in the largest market outside of the good ol' US of A, and the 'not so communist' China, to setup office in Budapest? Your conjecture is facile at best.

Or perhaps the Irish government, merely have to be seen to be opposed to the notion, while privately wondering what to spend the wind-fall monies on.

Obviously they know about batteries down under, just recently the prime minister had a rather large upgrade to his solar setup including batteries.

Do actions speak louder than words?!?

Re: "'get as much $$$ by any means and spend as little $$$$ by any means"

Can I have some of your wacky backy, pwettttty purleeaaaseeee

Re: and this has nothing to do with

... and everything to do with politics, if you belive what the tech republic article posted on the 10th has to say about this.

"At the time the report was released, the FSFE questioned why Accenture was commissioned to co-author a report assessing the use of Microsoft software, when the consultancy runs a joint venture with Microsoft called Avanade, which helps businesses implement Microsoft technologies. For its part, Accenture said it has an "independent view of the technology landscape"."

Fortunatrely avenade have an office nearby, how lucky is that for munchen council?

The citizens of Munchen must be so proud of there elected councillors, I for one feel so sorry for the poor bastards.

Re: Ok, what's the Trident money really been spent on?

Quite, MoD contracts have always represented stupendously good value for money. Plus BAE have had a good number of years to practice the dark art ;)

Re: £160m split 4 ways over 10 years.

Lets just hope the assets recovery agency does a good job, and this kind of thing isn't seen to pay well.

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That depends on your definition of realistic, and the win/loss risk assessment. They own java?, where does that leave open JDK, in the court? I read somewhere : "the jury found that Android does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java APIs is protected by fair use".

To me neither corporation is a beacon of hope, though you have to wonder what Oracle hope to achieve. Should IP be granted for abstract concepts like API interfaces? In my view that could lead us down a very murky avenue indeeed, wouldn't you agree.

Re: Does democracy work if people based their vote on lies^Wpost-facts?

' Have to agree with that, same's true on the other side of the pond. Finally the only winners will be fat cats fuelled by fat tax cuts.

Re: dataset

you could also mention the hand sifting for facial scars etc... obviously that wouldn't introduce unintended bias from the experiment designers.

Re: Quelle surprise

Point taken, but do you seriously consider the privacy invasion / snooping to be on a par with lets say windows 10, or any one of a gazillion android apps that want txt/email/phonebook access to provide the most basic unrelated function?

I smell neo-con bullshit

Facscism, or radical right wing nationalistic politcial doctrine, notably antonymous to liberal democracy. Does the hilighted bit ring any bells? Or do you need me to explain their meaning to you.

Re: Huh?

Call me simple if you will, but I like to call a spade a spade, and when I hear words like 'alt-right' what I really hear is 'nazi' or 'fascist'. Those are not a nice words, but the PR guys managed to make them

acceptable, or so it would appear. Similarly when I hear 'post-truth', I hear 'lying sheister' or 'lies like a politician'. That's just my take on it. As the old saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and only time will tell how sincere these people have been.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion ...

Re: We do not know what Trump will do or will not do

Google has enough money to buy the next president of USA the same way it "owned" this one.

Too true, they're also expanding their bases with new HQ in London, and something Andrew might be interested in. Being a bit of an old campaigner at heart, I found this pretty nice looking job.

Re: The simple fact is

I call that denialism. Facts are usually undeniable, hence the handle 'fact' aka 'a thing that is known or proved to be true'. I think you may have justifiable issues with conventional wisdom, but conventional wisdom is far from factual.

Re: He doesn't help himself..

At the same time I am deeply troubled by the imbalance between the standards of prima facie evidence that has to be provided by either the UK or the US as the case may be. In that respect the UK government has, and continues to, let its citizens down.

That'll be the special relationship, you know the drill turn around and assume the position