Posts by Stuart 22

Gullible Twat Dribbles into Beard

My weapon of choice on railway journeys:

* No worries about battery running out, no need to carry charger

* Online 10 seconds after sitting down, just shut the lid when finished

* Email/Web/CMS/SSH stuff 100% as good/better than anything else

* Crouton gives me full Kubuntu if I ever need it

* Don't usually need it

* Use 64Gb nano USB sticks if I need more room

* Don't usually need more room

* So slim it slides into the smallest spaces, no worries about spinning disks

* ...this is getting boring ...

I have a 10" android fondleslab, 9 & 10" netbooks and a 15" laptop which implies it is the best match for my particular needs in that situation. Its £200 I did spend that I needn't but glad I did. YMMV

Yep I'm so gullible I became an over experienced SysAdmin to boot. By gum you are even stupider than me.

Re: Gravy train

"Can we stop this silly nonsense that the likes of Friends Of The Earth and Greenpeace and the WWF are poor little cash-strapped organisations"

Presuming the payment may be lightly correlated with what they pay their CEO - then how would you compare that with the income of G8 leaders and those of leading multinational CEOs?

I just think I might be a bit smarter than you in picking the guy/guyess with the fatter wallet.

"Are you kidding? Once a politician has poured money into "green" intitiatives, the last thing they want is for it to come out that that expenditure was unnecessary."

You missed the point. Certain politicians of a certain hue do not want to spend tax they do not want to pay for green initiatives. They look for any straw to undermine AGW. They become energy ministers and Nigel Lawson and his interesting perspective on science is their friend.

Little is clear cut. Its how you measure and balance the risks that is the point.

Re: "soothing mood lighting, Wi-Fi (probably) and personal storage space"

Pan Am didn't make the future. The remake will feature Ryanair on the outside. Don't even think about the inside ...

Re: re "unless you can find a better use for them"

Is there not a sound case on banning these virtual currencies on environmental grounds alone?

And don't get me started on the ethics of high frequency trading ... sad to see IT exploited by the greedy with no thought to the consequences.

Re: @asdf The desktop deadend.

I've had little problem upgrading Kubuntu since about 10.04 - which included the KDE 3.5 to KDE4 transition.

AFAIK Ubuntu is great - unless you actually choose the Ubuntu desktop of the day.

Re: Protect?

Protect themselves.

The Twitter claim of knowing nothing until public disclosure is breathtaking. I mean by April 7th a patch had been written and committed for 1.0.1e, heartbleed.com had been registered for 3 days, there had been considerable correspondence between the Finnish company and the authors. Google had allegedly already patched it servers.

And the NSA had not known this?

Which leads to the conclusion they are incredibly incompetent or barefaced liars. Your choice.

And if they lied about 2 days or 2 weeks how can one believe it wasn't two years?

Re: Um, Co-op Bank now 70% owned by US Hedge Funds and VC investors.

"Yout might also note their CEO turned out to be a Ketamine popping (among other things) Methodist minister with a liking for hookers of both sexes."

Flowers was the chair not CEO. His expertise was supposed to be liaising and cajoling the myriad of independent co-ops and labyrinth processes. For all his failings he was more successful at it than the banker's banker!

Horses for courses.

But it is an awful shame they have screwed up so badly and the management lacks the guts to sort themselves out. As ever its the employees and members who will suffer most. That's why i'm keeping my money in the Bank at the moment. The staff have been great, they don't deserve this.

Talking sense ain't going to get you anywhere when the most popular papers are The Sun & Daily Mail. They are the real villains.

Judging by the Turkish election results I guess they must be replicated over there.

Re: A worrying precedent

On the assumption that either administrators or the upstream provider is in control then this preserves some small incoming payment whilst removing new costs. It may also be an OFCOM requirement (and if not, should be).

Indeed the role of OFCOM regulating what appears to be a blatant Ponzi scheme by MVNO is a question that should be answered. Mobiles are pretty important in many people's lives these days and there should be some better way of handling the customers of failed operators.

An obvious one would be for operators to lodge a bond covering, say, a forward month's worth of revenue to the network supplier giving time for people to rearrange their mobile supplier without too much disruption.

Re: What if it was ditched and sunk intact?

The danger in landing on anything other than on the undercarriage on a flat hard surface is one of the wings or engines touching down before the other. The sudden enormous asymmetrical drag will spin the plane into oblivion. The trick is to pancake it perfectly flat. Not easy to do on a flat surface (and the Hudson was effectively flat) but in any swell next to impossible if you think about it. The middle of the Indian Ocean is likely to have quite a swell whether the surface is rough or smooth.

There is no way a pilot could plan to ditch with any confidence of success. It would make "Miracle on the Hudson" look like landing a Tiger Moth on a deserted JFK.

Re: We of the Rest Of England Liberation Front salute this

".. outside TFL Zone 6 seen?"

Frankly I think it an outrage that anyone beyond zone 3 gets better than .sticks

Re: This time Microsoft has gone too far

"Because they're stopping providing free support for an 12 year old product?"

No - a 4 year old product - when m$ were very anxious to displace Linux as the OS of non-choice on netbooks and take your money.

Throw away a perfectly good modern netbook? Maybe m$ values landfill more than their green credentials. Downgrade to Win 8.x as they don't fully support the screen size and pay more than the original netbook cost?

Well no. M$ have forced me to leave their tender embrace. Which reminds me I must get to grips with Python ...

Re: Not Even Close to NASA

AFAIR only one. But they paid the passenger rather than the other way round. Virgin take note ...

Re: More likely...

Nope.

OK so in a millennium not to far distant we always registered the com/net/org.uk/co.uk variants for safety for ourselves and our clients.

Then came biz/ws/mobi ... and we all decided to call it a day. Now we only bother with com/co.uk. The more there are the greater incentive not to defensibly register. So great, a London business that missed out on a co.uk can get its name in lights. but that's it. The domain party is over.

Re: Yeah...

I'll pass on the foreign SIMs as long as it will play my Region 3 DVDs.

The Chinese (& LG) must be laughing (again).

Re: Tested a drivers skill...

Why did not the first line read drink driving IS AS DANGEROUS as using a phone?

Those of us who have had several life threatening moments due to the inattention of someone driving using a phone can actually see that and consider the penalties, or rather lack of enforcement, for these offences are insufficient. Drink drivers are invisible unless tested hence enforcement is even more hit and miss.

Driving is inherently dangerous to other vulnerable road users. Whilst it is economically and socially unacceptable to restrict responsible driving that does not mean that unnecessary indulgences such as illegal drinking and mobile use in making it even more dangerous should not be treated extremely harshly and not mollified on the basis of one is not particularly 'more' dangerous than the other.