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Comment Re:The UK Government Are Massively Out Of Touch (Score 2, Informative) 191

Its amusing how all four of the points you raise are false:

1. The initial prosecutor threw the case out, but a second senior prosecutor took up the case on request from the victims.

2. Assange was not told he was free to leave Sweden, infact his lawyer was specifically told they wanted to talk to him again and he should contact the police before leaving Sweden.

3. No Swedish or Interpol law was contravened by the issuance of Assanges warrant - infact, this is exactly the sort of use they are for.

4. All UK courts where this case has been argued has actually both affirmed the legality of the arrest warrant, and affirmed the right of the Swedish to issue it. No UK court has ruled it illegal, and most certainly no UK court has said what you claim they have said.

How about you get your facts in order before claiming bullshit, k?

Comment Re:Really (Score 2, Insightful) 191

Assange fled UK jurisdiction to avoid being legally extradited by a recognised court of the land - so yes, he is a fugitive. So your example is complete rubbish because its not equivalent to the Assange situation at all - if the chief justice of Scotland appeared in front of a court in Iran and the court ruled against him, and then he fled Iran, then yes he would be a fugitive.

Comment Re:People are tribal even when they don't realize (Score 1, Flamebait) 247

What Google should be investigated for is linking their search service to their failed social media service - in order for Google to establish canonical authorship on content, you have to link the page to a Google+ account, no other well known public profile (Twitter, Facebook etc) will do, you have to have an account on Google+.

That's something worth looking hard at.

Comment Re:Developers, Developer, Developers (Score 3, Interesting) 125

How did Ballmer push developers aside? Under the latter part of his reign, Microsoft started open sourcing a lot of their developer frameworks etc (ASP.Net MVC in 2012, Entity Framework in 2013 etc) and we saw fairly large shifts in developer conferences and support.

Comment Re:Ambiguous (Score 2) 342

From reading various articles on this, the person in question entered the room under the auspices of carrying out legitimate maintenance work, but had doctored the surveillance camera so it only recorded one second a minute rather than continuously - getting the other person to look the other way for a few minutes is a simple matter of social engineering ("hey, I forgot X and I'm right in the middle of this, could you get it?") and doesn't mean they were in on it.

Comment Re:Completely dumb (Score 1) 342

Because *he* never intended to claim the prize - the prize was claimed by a lawyer representing a shell company out of Belize. This bloke himself was exempt from being allowed to take part in the lottery due to the fact he worked on it - if he had claimed it, the prize wouldn't have been handed over.

Comment Re:Retarded reviews too (Score 1) 126

There are reviews which really really baffle me as well - I did a review for a TV I bought off of Amazon.co.uk in the Black Friday sales - it was a Seiki 4K 39" TV at a reasonable price.

It arrived, I set it up and the sound was terrible, so I used an external sound bar - but there was horrific video lag regardless of the input used, it was between a third and half a second behind the audio. Also there was no way to set the TV audio to just optical out, you had to either mute the sound entirely (which left a mute symbol on screen) or turn the sound down to 0 (which wasnt actually off, you could still hear it). Moving the audio out to the Sky box reduced the audio lag but didn't eliminate it, but at least you could set a delay on the audio out on the Sky box which brought it into line - but didnt solve issues if you have a second device such as a console etc.

There was also horrific tearing and artifacts on the screen - someone moved and they left a wake behind them.

Testing it all with the no-name TV I was replacing had the soundbar working fine, the Sky box working fine etc - no setup needed, no lag involved, no tearing of the picture etc.

So back it went, and I replaced it with a slightly more expensive TV which has had no issues whatsoever since.

But what I don't get is all the "works great!" "Brilliant!" reviews the TV is getting...

Comment Re:Awesome.. (Score 1) 95

Deploying ASP.NET apps has always been a real pain in the neck. Sure, in theory it's as easy as xcopy, but once your apps start growing and your configuration grows it rapidly becomes a bigger thing to maintain. It takes a lot of time, there's lots of stuffing around, it's very fiddly and generally a PITA.
 

Why aren't you using a build and deployment system? We use Team City and Octopus Deploy to deploy ASP.Net websites, and once its set up (5 minutes for TC, a few minutes for OD) deployment is a zero friction issue - it just works.

Comment Re:Yet again (Score 1, Informative) 95

You obviously didn't read the article - its Docker for Windows, the main management system for this is Docker, its just using the existing HyperV virtualisation system rather than expending effort porting Dockers virtualisation subsystem to Windows. Portability doesn't really matter here, because of the way Docker works (sharing kernels, virtual filesystems etc) - so you will rather run a Unix container on a Unix host, and a Windows container on a Windows host. The benefit here is that you can manage both using the same system - how Docker accomplishes what it does on each platform is an implementation detail you don't need to know about, its just Docker to you.

Comment Re:Sensors wrong (Score 1) 460

No, it really does not - are you a pilot at all? Because it doesn't sound like one.

Runways for large civil aircraft are 3000+ meters of reasonably flat concrete or tarmac without any obstructions. The only place you may find something like that is in a flat desert, a long river or the sea, because everywhere else either isn't 3000+ meters of flat whatever, or it has obstacles. And its rare that you have a handy flat desert around when you need one.

With a river you still have to watch out for obstacles such as other river users, and you have absolutely no idea what lurks just under the surface - just because it looks flat on the surface doesnt mean theres a huge rock just under the surface which will rip the belly out of your aircraft the moment you touch down. What about that lightweight river boat that the radar is proving difficult to make out against the scatter off the water?

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