Posts by Steve Barnes
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She is only old to be my Mother. :-),
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to ,
Too bloody right, so let’s not be getting above our stations here!
How ever annoying, or even insulting and patronising, you may find that to be it will still be true unless we change that fact. The discussion is not whether we like it or not, although that is an obvious precursor, but how and when we change the sovereignty of our Nation.
Apart from the fact that this thread is about Auckland and its diversity, not New Zealand and its Sovereighnty. -
so you’re saying that *some notion* of “European” NZ is legitimate?
Yes.
Strictly speaking that is correct. We are still subjects of the Queen of England, we are still regarded as members of the Commonwealth and we have the "Union Jack" on our flag.
On the subject of the flag, I think discussion of any change should be subsequent to the discussion of New Zealand becoming a republic.
Regardless of the views on both sides of the argument, surely this should be the "Roadmap" of any discussion on this subject?. -
Hard News: The Web, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Everybody on Facebook and that ain't everybody.
I, for one, refuse to bare my soul to a sole assole.
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Apparently, we are all just a little bit paranoid...
NSA says “indiscriminate” Facebook hacking allegations “are simply false”
So. Nothing to see here, move along. -
While we’re on the subject of how secure we feel….
How about these apples? or any other make of device for that matter…
NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world
With Turbine, no humans are required to exploit phones, PCs, routers, VPNs.Turbine is part of Turbulence, the collection of systems that also includes the Turmoil network surveillance system that feeds the NSA’s XKeyscore surveillance database. While it is controlled from NSA and GCHQ headquarters, it is a distributed set of attack systems equipped with packaged “exploits” that take advantage of the ability the NSA and GCHQ have to insert themselves as a “man in the middle” at Internet chokepoints.
Be afraid… Be fairly afraid…
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Sacha,
Superbly illustrated Sacha ;-)
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Russell Brown,
My memory is that most search engines had caved in to this practice and thus were becoming less and less useful.
Not only did Google not cave in but actively worked in the opposite direction. Back in 2010 they gave us "Caffine"
Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.
Then, with all this at your fingertips there were those that took advantage of this new algorithm to push their own advertising onslaught into your searches, Google fought back.
Google Revamps to Fight CheatersGoogle said it changed its mathematical formula late Thursday in order to better weed out "low-quality" sites that offer users little value. Some such sites offer just enough content to appear in search results and lure users to pages loaded with advertisements.
Not content with that They gave us...
"Hummingbird"...about a month ago, the company swapped out its search-ranking algorithm for a new one, code-named Hummingbird, that can handle more complex queries faster.
But there is more to come...
Google revamps its search engine and wants to be implanted in your brainThe mind, having boggled, boggles on.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Keir Leslie,
On yer bike, eh?
Tebbit is often misquoted as saying directly to the unemployed "get on your bike and look for work"
Bugger, I kinda hoped it was a direct quote but it is what he meant I reckon.
Bloody Tories never change their spots eh?. -
Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Sacha,
Not all services are as valuable.
Fletchers take note.