Posts by Camilla Smythe 1212 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Apr 2009
Fuck... I had to look that one up and became concerned that Capita would gain responsibility for Children learning something like word association with the result that they all end up speaking Capita Management Buzz Speak.
Having delved deeper...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-2018-materials
In particular...
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/715823/2018_phonics_pupils_materials_standard.pdf.pdf
... Yes it is a .pdf.pdf file but What The Actual Fuck is that?
Perhaps as a result of not being a Parent I could be missing some of the subtleties assuming there are any, Jub puts in an appearance, but even so I cannot see how the involvement of Capita will improve the situation.
I started out with the anticipation that this might start from the premise that sometimes it is good to make mistakes but recognise that when AI is used against Humans such mistakes might be quite damaging.
I got as far as, my dawning expectation, Men and/or Women buying socks or pantyhose and an almost subliminal glance at what looked like a graph with a blue shape and a red shape on it and instantly reached the conclusion that the author was some sort of SEO Cookie Spawning Marketing Twat who should just chain themselves to an Estate Agent and go throw themselves in some deep water somewhere on top of the rest of the dross that serve no purpose other than to waste my oxygen.
Perhaps someone else who has read the full article can advise me as to why I might be wrong. Try not to let the possibility that I am not interested stop you from doing so.
Being a non smart phone user I thought that this might be a warning of some virusy thing but... It turned out to be click bait.
However if I were to be a smart phone user I would be telling those responsible to take their notch and fuck right off with the repulsive blemish.
I would also tell those trying to find excuses for the wart to go fuck off as well.
I was forced to Google this...
https://gizmodo.com/after-just-6-months-the-phone-notch-is-already-deeply-1823469447
When Essential debuted the first-ever notched display on the PH-1, it was a bold, divisive statement about smartphone design.
No!!11!! Just Fuck Off.
With the recent trend of smartphones opting for full-view or extra-wide or whatever you want to call it displays and cutting down on bezels, the notch was really an inevitable evolution.
No!!11!! Stop insulting Darwin or at least let Darwin take its course.
"Ooooo. I see you have a notch phone."
"Yes. Bow down before its Superior Notchiness."
"Still got your Google Glass stored in your Sock Draw?"
"Fuck Off!"
"BwaHahHahHahLOL."
"Fuck Off!"
And that’s really the issue at heart, because not long after Essential and Apple made notches neat, everyone else hopped on the bandwagon and ruined it. After all, there are few things worse than running into someone and realizing you are wearing the same clothes. What a bummer.
Wait... This is Gizmodo? Maybe I missed the <sarc> tags. Are they at WeboRrhea3?
... Glad I missed that bandwagon.
"Oooooooo. Yooooou've got a 'Notch Phone'."
"Fuck Off."
"Is it still under contract?"
"Look. Just Fuck OFF!"
"Mark of the Beast LOL... Noooo Don't hit me have some Beers as a consolation."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/26/gitlab_moving_platform_to_google_cloud/
To further distance itself from suspicions that this is a reaction to the GitHub furore, GitLab pointed out in its announcement that it has maintained a secondary GitLab.com site, containing some 200TB of Git data, on the Google Cloud Platform using GitLab's own Geo mirroring technology for a "few months".
I appear to have acquired 4TB of local spinning storage as a result of a DWP error in my favour. I have fuck all idea what to do with it but, for the moment, I appear to have 3TB of unpartitioned space spare. OK it's sitting on the end of an ADSL line plus I switch the computer off when I go to bed.
It should not be beyond the classical stupidity of the Idiots involved to fuck up some script in Ruby, Twat or Python such that I can donate some storage. Stick some BlockChain on it as well for brownie points...
Don't forget "Cloud is Someone Else's Computer".
Try not to Wank It Up.
Don't bother fining the companies involved. The Tea and Muffin ICO stick the Directors in front of a Judge. The Judge ticks the Criminal Offence box. The Chocolate Tea Pot Companies House disqualifies the Directors and they are unable to set up another company. Did I miss anything?
because everyone else is using Slack. It's a bit like asking why nobody uses Google+ even though it's better than FaceBook.
I am not using Slack. As an aside I do not use Google+ or Facebook or MatterHost.... whatever that is. Assuming I exist inside the set of 'everyone else' by virtue of not being you and I do not use Slack then you are completely wrong and should delete yourself.
Glad to have been of assistance.
It's a non-starter.
Yabbut their website... http://energous.com/ has pictures of smiley happy people looking smiley and happy plus they have videos.
Shit... I have to take a break to go fiddle with my anti-grav fusion powered alien space saucer, a couple of adjustments and it will be good to go, but if there are any Angel Investors out there I have modified my toilet to transmute my piss into platinum.... I just need something more sensitive to verify that the piss in the bowl has some platinum in it and then we are good to go.
Let me just be rubbish here, feel free to down vote if I am or improve the suggestion.
Require that at all times the human driver always has to drive the car whilst the car drives autonomously.
Compare the demand from the human driver to the demand from the autonomous driver. Whilst they match inside a set of defined limits for the available inputs the autonomous driver has control.
Ideally if the inputs match the human driver will not notice and if they do then they will be able to adapt accordingly and report those differences.
If and when they differ outside that set of defined limits for the available inputs either the car stops, preferable, or the human driver takes priority.
If things are extremely out of whack then the human driver is looking at the fluff in their navel and MagnaVolt should be applied to the human driver after the vehicle has rendered itself safe. Call it an incentive.
The same NTSB paper also reported that Uber's self-driving Volvo XC90's emergency braking systems were turned off "to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behaviour". The operator of the vehicle was supposed to be watching the road and dealing with emergencies.
... "to stop the computers arguing with each other."?
Presumably Uber was too busy programming a rate hike for situations when a cyclist gets pulped and local traffic is disrupted by the emergency services to bother about asking Volvo how the apparently disparate systems might be modified to play nice with each other.
You will not be permitted entrance to the premises unless you are carrying a Wi-Fi enabled device.
"Purpose of your visit Sir?"
"I want to buy some socks."
"Hmmm. Sorry Sir. Scanner says you are not Wi-Fi enabled."
"Pardon?"
"How are we going to advertise socks at you after your purchase?"
"But... once I've bought them I do not need more."
"Not up to speed with the modern world are we Sir.?
Everyone in my street, me excepted, runs Windows and every time Windows decides to pull shit like this my grumbleflick takes 14 hours to download. Then for the next five days I cannot get down the shop to buy a bottle of Jack Daniels without one of the neighbours ambushing me from behind a garden fence or hedge to fix the resulting mess.
Anytime I end up on the associated estate I now get a blank screen until I temporarily allow things via No-Script and then Oath asks me what I want to do about their ShitVertising partners. Last I checked they are all switched off by default so 'kool'.
Goes off to Yahoo Images to view catalogue pictures of hunky blokes with six packs in Y-Fronts....
Every fucking time I go back I have to go through that shit again. I do not have 4TB of storage for all of your and your ShitVertising partners fucking cookies so I will just Bookmark the relevant sections of Marks & Spencers and Debenhams.
Thanks for the in
I shall now waste this opportunity to reply to a post, almost, at the top of the list which does not have other replies to say...
We should take this opportunity to go back to 405 line Grey and White Internet delivered via Bell 103 educated Clangers over wet string with Strict GDPR standards enforced.
and....
Every time some fucking marketing twat mings on about how much fucking money they are losing because they continue to repeatedly fail to sell me the socks I have already have bought with the expectation that I am going to pay 30% extra for my socks to cover their miserable fucking failure...
The Clangers on the Advertising Networks get to smoke more Spliffs and another range of cereals/snacks gets added to their inventory along with a new twist on Marmite Soup from The Dragon.
As you surmise I have a fixed IP address linked to a registered domain and it would be a maximum of a two step process to find out who I am.
Anyone who thinks they cannot be identified via their IP address when it is associated with the other breadcrumbs that are Hoovered by a Kirby on Turbo out of their 'Improved Browsing Experience' is being silly.
I guess we just trust to Ubuntu not to store IP addresses, some or anywhere as part of the process, or maybe they could file an RFC to propose a method whereby such data might be transmitted to their servers without including such information in the communication.
I refer you to my previous suggestion...
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3501752
I have checked my Sky Broadband Shield and it does give me the opportunity to manually enter specific domains into a list that will be blocked for me. Of course that is still a pain in the arse but would/should be simple for the ISP to set up for general use.
Put a "Block Facebook" checkbox on the main setup page, unchecked so you have to opt-in. Supply an explanation to make things even more GDPR compliant.
People who do not have a Facebook account or do not wish to take part in Mr Zuckerbergs shadow tracking sign in, check the box, update and sign out. Bye bye Mr Zuck and a big chunk of his advertising revenue.
Sorry Zuck. Don't want to answer questions or change your behaviour. Tough. Oh by the way the new service is permanent.
Oh... and before someone pipes up about all of their Firefox plug ins and host file expertise the exercise is not for you. It is for the average user who does not have your foo-bar prowess.
Otherwise no outrage because people make the choice for themselves. At a pinch he might moan about being singled out... why not do the same to Google and the others?
Tough
First they came for Facebook and Facebook did nothing.
Then they came for Google and Google did nothing.
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Then they came for me but I had paid attention and used the opportunity to set up a truly compliant, transparent and privacy centric set of services.
... is this is a load of bollocks storm in a teacup.
Can't be bothered to link directly to any particular relevant tweet. Just have a read through Glyn Moody.
https://twitter.com/glynmoody
HTML problems are already known. Other stuff has already been patched. The problem is not PGP GPG but e-mail and the way it is implemented.
self-host
I do. Unfortunately my Raspberry Pi only has a 16GB micro SD which would likely wear out before I do.
Still... I suppose it's a solution to my tennis elbow.
Not sure what Mrs May is going to do,
https://email.number10.gov.uk/
AsciiPron with a 1000 character limit?
The results follow a a decent fiscal 2017 – the first full-year results since Rimini Street was listed on the NASDAQ – in which revenue was up by 33 per cent and operating income by 58 per cent.
I guess that will be why my frozen pizza still costs £1.50 but there is less topping and it is even more for shit. Fuck knows how the rest of the economy might be suffering.
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