Ideal for entrapping the stupid public who have no idea which sentence they utter will prove beyond all doubt that they have broken the law when later selectively played back.
This is going to make a lot of innocent people guilty, so its not as wonderful as it sounds.
People just have no idea how their words will be used against them. Never, ever, speak to the police if you can avoid it.
From your super articulate post I am sure you don't have any trouble making your way in life. Have you ever considered what happens to people who are not as smart as you? (And why we spend a fortune to keep them in prison?)
Hey, if your lifestyle is only achievable if society uses slave labor then maybe you don't earn enough money yourself.
There is enough wealth around to pay a minimum wage and yes it does come from somewhere, its achieved by wealth re-distribution and works in most civilized countries, including the USA. But we could improve the minimum wage into a living wage without our economy crashing. After all the profits that would probably pay the living wage now just go towards the one percents increasing raft of wealth instead of being spent in the economy.
There are only two constants in life, death and taxation. Ask any civilization whether it be run by pirates, kings, governments or snow white and the Severn dwarfs.
Your view is not congruent with mine. Banking staff just increase their annual bonus following the sophisticated application of the Banks way of doing business - Basically take sweets from babies, steal, kill and burn to death anything in the way of increasing the takings and ones own three times annual salary bonus.
So no, its pointless trying to send people to jail for following the rules of the game.
The problem is that the regulators are basically working for the banks, as are academics, as are media commentators. So no surprise that they all got together and shafted main-street.
Sending Bankers to Jail is pointless until the regulators actually regulate instead of taking home bribes.
The fact that the bankers knew they were screwing, and indeed still are screwing the rest of us we will leave for their consciences to deal with.
The real blame lies with the Politicians who would rather surf the wave of the boom whilst they are in power rather than take any long term action to prevent the inevitable crash. After all boom and bust is good for the economy, its just a bit hard on all the people it fucks. Lets hope that this incompetent handling of the economy doesn't ever fuck you, as you seem quite happy for it to continue. After all you believe that the free market will be perfectly fair and will operate just like the theoretical model of a free market that seems intellectually fair and optimally successful. There is no such thing as a free market, its either run by the government regulator, the mafia, a powerful entity overseas or the local criminal who has invented their own tax on you.
Exactly, the weapon design bureau currently known as Pivdenne, one of the largest industrial enterprises in Ukraine, with 13,000 workers is located in Dnipropetrovsk in the East. Presumably this is what Russia wants to get hold of with its occupation of town halls by special forces. Given that Russian propaganda though blatant and obvious is being lapped up by the people of the world there is nothing anyone can or will do about this. The Syrian regime uses exactly the same methods and everyone sided with Putin over Syria.
The sooner the Americans get a conference together to organize handing over Eastern Ukraine to the Russians the better. The less said about the EU initiative that started this war the better.
American politics from outside seems framed in the terms of what politicians are doing about forcing your own world view on other people who do not hold that world view. In other words politics is framed as a religious war on unbelievers. In this way it is no different to the Iranian theocracy for example.
I remember being at University in Cardiff in 1979 and chatting with the Exeter or Bath or Bristol operator on the South Western University's Network or SWUN or similar. We conversed as I typed on a teleprinter terminal, each letter I typed being printed on the two foot wide paper roll scrolling out in front of me by a buzzing print head. No screen. So we had instant messaging. We also had email and 3d graphics on the textronics video display units. You could run realtime jobs on any of the computers on the network if you had a login.
The only thing that has changed is that business has taken over from academia and the military and we now use this amazing network connectivity to do other things. We order pizza on it and lose money betting through it and get instant updates on what everyone else had for breakfast. So no progress there really except for better interface hardware. We old farts invented all that stuff that the smartphone does nearly 35 years ago and boy are we bored with what it has become. A means to funnel money from people into businesses profit lines by paying for "apps" and services that remain free on older hardware.
The fledgling internet was opened up to the public in the early 90's through dial up and TCP/IP using trumpet winsock. First stop the CERN snowboard club.
It was obvious that the covers were not intended to represent future trends, they were often works of art that didn't even get the technology of the time correct.
Maybe modern journalists should be taking a cold look at the modern world instead of lazily looking for things to mock in the old.
For example the cell phone has mutated into a games machine that everyone on the planet appears to want to own. We don't need swipeable screens or flappy birds to build nuclear power stations or do open heart surgery. However Microsoft for one is attempting to destroy the tools that run the modern world because they don't look like the more profitable smartphone.
Let me remind you of the digital watch. They were popular for a few months in the late 70's and only exist now as novelty's. The smartphone is the same in that it will look laughably stupid in 30 years time.
Making consumer hardware is a fashion business and the only certainty is that today's fashion will be out of fashion tomorrow, remember that the next time you promote stuff in the smartphone toy market.
Meanwhile we 'almost' have Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from 1978. A product that accessed the entire knowledge of the galaxy, could play sound and vision, all without noticeable power needs.
Show me a poxy smartphone that doesn't need charging at the end of the day.
That is what the guy just said - Walmart competes on marketing - meaning that they dont tax everything they sell to spend on harvesting the morons who respond to advertising.
You can bet that the person who wrote this article has made or will make a ton of cash out of this sick idea. Its all over the web.
Secretly people enjoy the idea of torturing people they do not like, so its struck a rich vein. It is the antithesis of civilization and should be resisted.
Looks like the monkey cant quite get down out of the tree and forget its animal nature.
Actually no one gives a monkeys about the planetary science program, its deeply unpopular because it uses genetic medicine and genetically modifies organisms to survive drought and it supports evolution and it ends the war on drugs - it is fundamental Science.
NASA should spend more money on that Russian space station, because we get live moving pictures back which make the news. Air time gets funding.
Actually America is just about done now and the rest of us are just waiting for the Chinese to take over the role of leading the world in real science.
See they have this dictatorship that doesn't need tv ratings to do things.
I am very sorry to say that it appears to be because the cold war is over and that the reasons we fought the cold war were being constantly repeated to us to justify the cost - "they don't have free speech, they don't have independent legal systems, they oppress minorities". Apparently now we no longer have that enemy we are fighting for those reasons its OK to openly do all the things that we were supposedly fighting against. Its very sad.
I agree with you that you can do lots of entertaining things on a tablet or phone interface and that is great for domestic consumers. However they are locked out of any expectation of creative use of computing by the interface and applets. Its sad that it took only 20 years for the internet to become no more than a metro app.
In business you often present information on the status of something and then after a dialogue have to decide on actions. Without presentation of data this would not work. Powerpoint is ok as a means of showing data. A blackboard is ok for teaching abstract subjects but probably isnt suitable for subjects that require familiarity with physical objects. Anti Powerpoint crusades are a stupid concept, Powerpoint is fine for many applications.
it will certainly destroy the value of their second hand equipment.
All of my home computing is three year old refurbished corporate stuff precisely because it does have decent bug fixing and driver updates. Quite apart from being less than a third of the original sale price to buy.
Lenovo support is still free.
Wonder what is going to be done with all the thousands of tons of useless HP equipment at the end of its three year life? I hear that landfill is pretty much full these days.
It took us a decade to allow Nato to sort the thing out. The Europeans would have done it long before if they didnt have to ask permission from our American paymasters. The only reason
Americans get involved in everything is frankly because they have most of the weapons and soldiers that exist on planet earth. Its surprising that the American tax payer hasn't figured out that the reason they have shit schools and hospitals is because all the tax gets spent on cluster bombs and drones.
Spot on. All those posts advising on what tools to learn are missing the point. The world isn't hiring people with toolboxes, its hiring people who know how to use the toolbox to make stuff. Concentrate on finding the right Stuff to become expert on and you will enjoy your toil and make money doing it.
Sitting in a basement learning how to use a bunch of tools will just see you end up on a production line making dog food. Which is OK if you like the all pervasive smell of dog food I guess, but probably wasn't in your plan for life when you thought that being an Astronaut might be fun.
Its "so bullshit" that the entire manufacturing output of the planet uses the Gaussian distribution, standard deviation and Cpk to make the things that keep sprats like you alive. Everything that is manufactured is measured on control charts - 3D printed livers, Nuclear fuel rods, gate oxide thickness on silicon chips, bandwidth available on your shared DSL line.
Now if some smart bastard like you can improve on 99.999% of the manufacturing worlds assumption that the central limit theorem will reduce everything to Gaussian then you my son are going to be very rich and famous. Let me be the first to congratulate you on deploying more sophisticated statistical tools worldwide and thereby increasing the efficiency and quality of every single factory on the planet.
Of course you might just be spouting your anally retentive opinion that you are disgusted by the fact that people don't use statistics in a precise way.
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Ideal for entrapping the stupid public who have no idea which sentence they utter will prove beyond all doubt that they have broken the law when later selectively played back.
This is going to make a lot of innocent people guilty, so its not as wonderful as it sounds.
People just have no idea how their words will be used against them. Never, ever, speak to the police if you can avoid it.
From your super articulate post I am sure you don't have any trouble making your way in life. Have you ever considered what happens to people who are not as smart as you? (And why we spend a fortune to keep them in prison?)
Hey, if your lifestyle is only achievable if society uses slave labor then maybe you don't earn enough money yourself.
There is enough wealth around to pay a minimum wage and yes it does come from somewhere, its achieved by wealth re-distribution and works in most civilized countries, including the USA. But we could improve the minimum wage into a living wage without our economy crashing. After all the profits that would probably pay the living wage now just go towards the one percents increasing raft of wealth instead of being spent in the economy.
There are only two constants in life, death and taxation. Ask any civilization whether it be run by pirates, kings, governments or snow white and the Severn dwarfs.
Your view is not congruent with mine. Banking staff just increase their annual bonus following the sophisticated application of the Banks way of doing business - Basically take sweets from babies, steal, kill and burn to death anything in the way of increasing the takings and ones own three times annual salary bonus.
So no, its pointless trying to send people to jail for following the rules of the game.
The problem is that the regulators are basically working for the banks, as are academics, as are media commentators. So no surprise that they all got together and shafted main-street.
Sending Bankers to Jail is pointless until the regulators actually regulate instead of taking home bribes.
The fact that the bankers knew they were screwing, and indeed still are screwing the rest of us we will leave for their consciences to deal with.
The real blame lies with the Politicians who would rather surf the wave of the boom whilst they are in power rather than take any long term action to prevent the inevitable crash. After all boom and bust is good for the economy, its just a bit hard on all the people it fucks. Lets hope that this incompetent handling of the economy doesn't ever fuck you, as you seem quite happy for it to continue. After all you believe that the free market will be perfectly fair and will operate just like the theoretical model of a free market that seems intellectually fair and optimally successful. There is no such thing as a free market, its either run by the government regulator, the mafia, a powerful entity overseas or the local criminal who has invented their own tax on you.
Agree, my Casio with ten year battery life is all the wristwatch I need, it has non zero odds of outliving me.
I might buy a smartphone one day, though the lousy battery life has put me off so far.
I see the Sony Xperia T2 Ultra Dual claims a 46 day standby time now and even an iPhone is up to 10 days.
Exactly, the weapon design bureau currently known as Pivdenne, one of the largest industrial enterprises in Ukraine, with 13,000 workers is located in Dnipropetrovsk in the East. Presumably this is what Russia wants to get hold of with its occupation of town halls by special forces. Given that Russian propaganda though blatant and obvious is being lapped up by the people of the world there is nothing anyone can or will do about this. The Syrian regime uses exactly the same methods and everyone sided with Putin over Syria.
The sooner the Americans get a conference together to organize handing over Eastern Ukraine to the Russians the better. The less said about the EU initiative that started this war the better.
American politics from outside seems framed in the terms of what politicians are doing about forcing your own world view on other people who do not hold that world view. In other words politics is framed as a religious war on unbelievers. In this way it is no different to the Iranian theocracy for example.
I remember being at University in Cardiff in 1979 and chatting with the Exeter or Bath or Bristol operator on the South Western University's Network or SWUN or similar. We conversed as I typed on a teleprinter terminal, each letter I typed being printed on the two foot wide paper roll scrolling out in front of me by a buzzing print head. No screen. So we had instant messaging. We also had email and 3d graphics on the textronics video display units. You could run realtime jobs on any of the computers on the network if you had a login.
The only thing that has changed is that business has taken over from academia and the military and we now use this amazing network connectivity to do other things. We order pizza on it and lose money betting through it and get instant updates on what everyone else had for breakfast. So no progress there really except for better interface hardware. We old farts invented all that stuff that the smartphone does nearly 35 years ago and boy are we bored with what it has become. A means to funnel money from people into businesses profit lines by paying for "apps" and services that remain free on older hardware.
The fledgling internet was opened up to the public in the early 90's through dial up and TCP/IP using trumpet winsock. First stop the CERN snowboard club.
It was obvious that the covers were not intended to represent future trends, they were often works of art that didn't even get the technology of the time correct.
Maybe modern journalists should be taking a cold look at the modern world instead of lazily looking for things to mock in the old.
For example the cell phone has mutated into a games machine that everyone on the planet appears to want to own. We don't need swipeable screens or flappy birds to build nuclear power stations or do open heart surgery. However Microsoft for one is attempting to destroy the tools that run the modern world because they don't look like the more profitable smartphone.
Let me remind you of the digital watch. They were popular for a few months in the late 70's and only exist now as novelty's. The smartphone is the same in that it will look laughably stupid in 30 years time.
Making consumer hardware is a fashion business and the only certainty is that today's fashion will be out of fashion tomorrow, remember that the next time you promote stuff in the smartphone toy market.
Meanwhile we 'almost' have Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from 1978. A product that accessed the entire knowledge of the galaxy, could play sound and vision, all without noticeable power needs.
Show me a poxy smartphone that doesn't need charging at the end of the day.
Turns out that democracy is just as rubbish as dictatorship.
Completely agree, the bitcoin miner is just the headline. The rest of it is to scan the contents of the NAS, I wonder which government owns them?
Never mind what dialogue a clever psychologist has planted in you Pavlovian brain.
So you want to kill people.
I hope your house is the remote one that doesn't get a signal and is the first to lose POTS.
I look forward to your urgent need to call an ambulance and your untimely death.
If you don't need civilization then the rest of us can do without you.
That is what the guy just said - Walmart competes on marketing - meaning that they dont tax everything they sell to spend on harvesting the morons who respond to advertising.
You can bet that the person who wrote this article has made or will make a ton of cash out of this sick idea. Its all over the web.
Secretly people enjoy the idea of torturing people they do not like, so its struck a rich vein. It is the antithesis of civilization and should be resisted.
Looks like the monkey cant quite get down out of the tree and forget its animal nature.
Actually no one gives a monkeys about the planetary science program, its deeply unpopular because it uses genetic medicine and genetically modifies organisms to survive drought and it supports evolution and it ends the war on drugs - it is fundamental Science.
NASA should spend more money on that Russian space station, because we get live moving pictures back which make the news. Air time gets funding.
Actually America is just about done now and the rest of us are just waiting for the Chinese to take over the role of leading the world in real science.
See they have this dictatorship that doesn't need tv ratings to do things.
I despair.
I am very sorry to say that it appears to be because the cold war is over and that the reasons we fought the cold war were being constantly repeated to us to justify the cost - "they don't have free speech, they don't have independent legal systems, they oppress minorities". Apparently now we no longer have that enemy we are fighting for those reasons its OK to openly do all the things that we were supposedly fighting against. Its very sad.
This is what I keep thinking but dont say.
I agree with you that you can do lots of entertaining things on a tablet or phone interface and that is great for domestic consumers. However they are locked out of any expectation of creative use of computing by the interface and applets. Its sad that it took only 20 years for the internet to become no more than a metro app.
I think you will find that they will squash you like a bug if you make a fuss. Is this really something worth fighting for?
In business you often present information on the status of something and then after a dialogue have to decide on actions. Without presentation of data this would not work. Powerpoint is ok as a means of showing data. A blackboard is ok for teaching abstract subjects but probably isnt suitable for subjects that require familiarity with physical objects. Anti Powerpoint crusades are a stupid concept, Powerpoint is fine for many applications.
Your money stinks, most of it is debt and we don't want it.
Half the world hates you with a passion for your criminal lack of morality and arrogance.
Typical for your response to be that you can always pay for the millions of deaths you will cause with a fine.
Your culture is revolting, lets hope the Chinese behave better than you because they are clearly the future.
it will certainly destroy the value of their second hand equipment.
All of my home computing is three year old refurbished corporate stuff precisely because it does have decent bug fixing and driver updates. Quite apart from being less than a third of the original sale price to buy.
Lenovo support is still free.
Wonder what is going to be done with all the thousands of tons of useless HP equipment at the end of its three year life? I hear that landfill is pretty much full these days.
It took us a decade to allow Nato to sort the thing out. The Europeans would have done it long before if they didnt have to ask permission from our American paymasters. The only reason
Americans get involved in everything is frankly because they have most of the weapons and soldiers that exist on planet earth. Its surprising that the American tax payer hasn't figured out that the reason they have shit schools and hospitals is because all the tax gets spent on cluster bombs and drones.
Spot on. All those posts advising on what tools to learn are missing the point. The world isn't hiring people with toolboxes, its hiring people who know how to use the toolbox to make stuff. Concentrate on finding the right Stuff to become expert on and you will enjoy your toil and make money doing it.
Sitting in a basement learning how to use a bunch of tools will just see you end up on a production line making dog food. Which is OK if you like the all pervasive smell of dog food I guess, but probably wasn't in your plan for life when you thought that being an Astronaut might be fun.
Its "so bullshit" that the entire manufacturing output of the planet uses the Gaussian distribution, standard deviation and Cpk to make the things that keep sprats like you alive. Everything that is manufactured is measured on control charts - 3D printed livers, Nuclear fuel rods, gate oxide thickness on silicon chips, bandwidth available on your shared DSL line.
Now if some smart bastard like you can improve on 99.999% of the manufacturing worlds assumption that the central limit theorem will reduce everything to Gaussian then you my son are going to be very rich and famous. Let me be the first to congratulate you on deploying more sophisticated statistical tools worldwide and thereby increasing the efficiency and quality of every single factory on the planet.
Of course you might just be spouting your anally retentive opinion that you are disgusted by the fact that people don't use statistics in a precise way.