Re: Not a 'thermal' printer...
So, could it be used to print paper circuit boards?
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is enough to kill anyone's libido. Shagging inside one of those would be like having sexual fantasies about a teletubby. The bubble car on the other hand, though small, does at least have the cool factor of looking like the escape pod from Flash Gordon's rocket. I do hope the advent of self-driving cars doesn't mean they all end up looking like sexless, style-less blobs
The addition to the bill says, "ACCESS ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS OF MOTOR VEHICLE TO OBTAIN DATA OR CONTROL OF VEHICLE".
Nothing about illegally, unlawfully, etc. IANAL but wouldn't that cover just driving the flipping thing? I believe they are proposing to make it illegal to drive your own car (unless of course it has no electronics, so your Stanley Steamer is safe).
A few public hiccups?
They've delivered a website. They've claimed credit for a bunch of transactional services that predate their existence and which they had no part in. They claim to have delivered many more services that are still vapourware. Their ID project is years behind schedule and over budget. They fucked up Universal Credit. They fucked up Defra so much, Defra reverted to paper.
If this was one of the big outsourcers, questions would have been asked in Parliament and contracts torn up.
They are so incompetent, they make the aircraftless carriers project look like a model of efficiency. They are the most useless, unproductive, arrogant, lying, unprofessional bunch of jumped up tossers I have ever encountered. It is a complete mystery to me how they manage to continue existing and getting people to believe their bullshit.
And yet, they still act surprised and hurt when a few sceptics don't genuflect to their superior wisdom.
There is a story of wasted taxpayers' money and breathtakingly bad management crying out to be told here but I'm not optimistic we'll ever hear it
That's their mission statement. "We can do it better than you."
It drives their agile methodology of: badmouth the status quo; design a new web front end; issue press release; deliver broken system; test; gather requirements; then leave for higher pay.
Typically they go something like this (and you have to imagine I'm speaking in a monotone with absolutely no affect):
Me: Burn Toffering speaking
Caller: Can I speak to Burn Toffering? [Don't ask me why they do this. They always, always do it]
Me: [Long pause] Burn Toffering speaking
Caller: Hi, my name is Damien Scrod and I'm phoning from Advanced Cyberdianetics. How are you today Burn?
Me: [Longer pause] Good.
Caller: Err ... OK then. The reason I'm phoning today s to ask you, is your DNS fully protected against marsupial attacks? It would be great if I could come in and touch base with you about how Fortune 500 companies are using our solution to protect against this emerging threat vector. When would be a good time for you?
Me: [Long pause] No
Caller: Err ... OK. Well, I have a white paper with some case studies
Me, interrupting: Goodbye
I always feel quite chirpy after one of these calls. I'd love to know how Mr Scrod feels
You're missing the point. You could try reading the article. The amazing innovation is spending resources and time on software engineering to provide system wide tools for professional colour management for those who care about that kind of things (eg photographers, designers and artists) and not shouting about it so ignorant people can carry on bargling about Apple shiny toys. Of course Samsung et all also do similar things but you'd think Reg readers of all people would understand that any new smartphone is a product of many, many amazing and uncredited incremental innovations produced by hard working and talented engineers, programmers, designers, etc. We are living in an age of miraculous technological innovation and the response is tired, hackneyed rants about rounded corners. You lot wouldn't recognise innovation if it was shoved diagonally up the direct channel to your brains.