Posts by Jon 52 83 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Most maps will not tell you that the place you are looking for is two doors down from a pet shop, or oposite the dry cleaners.
When driving it is so much easier to have seen it all before than just try to look at the street name of every street you pass, paticulaly if the car behind thinks 30mph is the target not the limit.
just 12 years ago I had to show my 'IT' teacher how to get "the little starry thing above the 8". The IT teacher was acutally the french teacher that had done a 2day course becasue it meant they would get a bit more pay than the lousy rate teachers currently get.
My mum being a computer programmer since 70's had me programming baic on the C64 by 5 and was word processing before I could use a pen.
Christmas season excluded, a friend recently graduated from Uni with a civil engineer degree, there is very little work around, he applied to all supermarkets, they either wouldn't hire him or he was "too qualified" presumbly meaning they were worried they would pay money to train him only to see him dissapear the minute the ression picks up, where as a school leaver would be stuck there for life.
The can't sue GPS that would give a straight line distance. They probably use a calibrated odometer on the police car.
Police in some counties don't want average cameras as they cut income as drivers are more obliged to obey the limit than a gatso where people don't realise and blast past it. so it seems they really do want to cut speed.
Wasn't it El Reg that a few weeks back penned an article on how FOI requests have a "reasonable effort" clause in that means if it takes too long they can give AND this effort includes recitfying any mistakes they make and time taken to interpt the question. So maybe this is just them stalling.
What if instead of the borrowing company paying the salary. The secondee is still saleried at the lending company. The borrowing company then payes a service fee to the lending company to have a specific task carried out. It just so happens that the person needs to be on site.
At the moment don't contractors get 1-2 years before they count as working in that country. At least when I went Dublin to install a system that was the case.
Of course the main mistake is like any company M$ expects the user to read the manual. In 2003 you could surf the menus looking for a feature or even see a menu option and go "I wonder what that does" finding a new tool that you can use next time.
However the ribbon removes all discovery from the process and you get set in your ways with just a few tools, perhaps googling for the other things you really need.
There you go the ribbon increases the revenue of google...
So all I need is multiple free emails and I can keep spamming all I want.
Or I can create my own forum and like myself as much as I want
on the other hand I will cut down on the amount of forums I visit so to avoid the powertripping mods you get on some sites leaving me with negative karma
What about the right to free speech. Online was the last place you could speak your mind freely, now we have to avoid hurting others feelings.
Also sometimes it is just a bit of fun to flame especially on a site devoted to say a fictional whiny wizard, why should having fun there mean I am unworthy of commenting on the news on another forum when being serious.
There are times when I definatly don't want my password to appear on screen.
1. When at college a common cyber bullying techneque was to log in to a "friends" email account and send dodgy emails. A school pc lab is easy to glance over someone shoulder and learn their password (probably for evreything).
2. When I have my mates over to show them something on youtube say I would rather they did not know my password. Come on admit who hasn't tried to watch their mates fingers to get their password to have shifty at their email or know at least one person of the 'oh so funny' practical joke type who probably use those phone jokes in the back of lad mags would love to get their hands on your email account.
3. As mentioned above who wants their child (or perhaps PC illiterate mother) to know the unblock password for the antivirus or admin account?
4. I suppose it will make cheating harder for some rogues. It is a lot eaiser to quickly type your password and log in to your personal email than to tell the girlfriend to turn around while you log in (knowing some emails go straight to a low level folder)
Also copying and pasting a random string from a password safe program is the prefered method I thought, then you have a different unguessable password for each site?
However I do think on mobile phones there is no need for ****** especially as you are entering the password.
Lay out the welcome mat
I hope to God that M$ don't copy and try to shoehorn this into IE. Security implications are just about aceptable for opera as:
1. People who get opera tend to know more than those that just stick to "blue internet thingy"
2. Opera has low market share so less reason for malware writers to go snooping
3. M$ 'wonderful' security history and putting 'feel' before security.
The information should be free with aboslutly no blocking allowed.
If it takes more than 18hours then perhaps the requester should then have to foot the salary bill to go looking for it but the information should still have to be given, then if it is really in public interest i'm sure newspaper swill pay to get it out otherwise the msot controversial stuff will just be burried.
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