Posts by Richard 12

Re: This should be repeated

Boris decided the money should come from the lower classes.

So that's that then.

To be fair

Land doesn't use the Internet, people do.

The real problem is that they're only bothering with the highest density housing - flats and some HMOs.

It's also basically impossible to find out where they're planning to install until they start digging up the road - and often not even then.

Worst, most new build estates are not being set up with FTTP even though it'd be really cheap to do.

Re: Full face gas mask.

5V green LED tape is cheap and runs for days on one of those external phone batteries.

It was sort of the original idea

The original idea was to give an inventor a state-protected monopoly for a time in return for publishing how their machine works.

Otherwise they would have no protection from a competitor reverse-engineering their machine and taking their market away.

It broke when the USPTO stopped doing their job and decided the courts should do it instead.

gcc Is right to warn you about unsigned >= 0.

Writing that implies you think it's signed, which leads to other mistakes.

Warnings in 3rd party libraries is why cmake (and other build systems) allow you to give subprojects (and their headers) different warnings levels.

Of course, the same technique also gives you some new footguns, which is nice...

Re: Commentards seem to miss the point..............

When a company kills your partner via an obviously unsafe working practice, prosecution doesn't restore them to life either.

Laws cannot ever un-do an event, they aren't time travel machines.

Safety equipment and safe methods of work aren't free, so companies do the minimum they think they can get away with. Making the cost of not doing something too high is basically the only way a government can force a corporation to do it.

The theory is that GDPR should make it too expensive for companies to collect unnecessary data or to ignore properly securing it.

In practice, it seems only Luxembourg and Germany are bothering to enforce GDPR. That's the actual problem.

Re: Epic Greed

No, the judge did not say that, and there is another court case on that specific question.

Apple's media statement is highly misleading. No, I take that back - it's a lie.

Each seat has its own Linux box

They're basically Chromecast-like things, providing a local UI and streaming from a NAS somewhere on the plane. It's almost always Linux now because that runs decently on really cheap underpowered ARM that has guaranteed long-term hardware availability.

When they reboot the system they reboot all the little boxes.

They can also reboot individual "screens" if just one or two are misbehaving.

Ending as a Vassal State of the USA

Or possibly Russia or China, it's hard to say for sure.

With a future UK government that has less ability to affect UK policy than (eg) Puerto Rico. Just do whatever they say.

And of course the VAT figure is irrelevant, because Amazon don't pay VAT. They collect on behalf of the Government.

So lumping that in is definitely at attempt to hide something.

Well, obviously?

For a start it's a touch keyboard, so the keyboard itself could be compromised.

There have been well publicised incidents where the endpoint was compromised to monitor messages sent and received by that endpoint passing them on elsewhere.

One thing that is not clear is what is actually sent when you make an abuse report. Are you giving them the last five messages, last five days, back to the dawn of time, or even access to future messages?

Eg if it sends the key then your report effectively contains everything, both past and future.

Re: Jumping To Conclusions

And that's why it's dead.

If it was a RAD wrapper around a "real" language then it might have a future, because they'd be spending all their effort on making the RAD easier to use and directly supporting more concepts. Plus users would be able to write their own extensions using the same language - thus creating the possibility of an actual community around it.

Instead, their effort is split between writing the RAD, the language constructs, runtime and compiler. Thus all suffer, as each of those is a very large job.

Re: Precedent set?

You aren't thinking.

What is the point of holding a patent if your owner has just torn off your head to fiddle with the bits inside?

Unless the "strong" AI (or alien) is declared a Natural Person, it has no protection whatsoever.

Re: And if they had aborted ...

TBH I don't blame the pilots for continuing. It's certainly plausible, nay, likely that it was the safest option.

Speed is life, altitude is life insurance and all that.

More likely, nobody properly considered non-optimal flight paths when filing the paperwork planning the flight.

Re: I'm willing to bet

No, it's going to stash the pack of sample tubes in an easily collected bucket, and leave the bucket partially-buried in a well-marked location.

The sample return mission simply has to land within a few km (but not too close!), then send out a small collection rover to pick up the bucket with its robot arm, and drive back to the landing site.

This part is well-proven, all been done before several times. The landing ellipse is quite small - Perseverance was well within its 7.7 x 6.6km ellipse.

Then it has to reach orbit and come back to Earth.

This part is difficult, but only in degree, not in kind.

Re: SquidGuard Logs

I'd draw a diagram, but this is a company phone.

Re: NHS Data skills

Delay just makes the cost rise to astronomical levels, and increases the risk of personal consequences for those involved - contempt of court is a real thing

The rest of the world is rapidly approaching the same point. There are far more pensioners per worker in eg Europe than there have ever been before, and the ratio is getting worse.

If you're under 50, don't plan on ever retiring unless you are a politician, civil servant or "top" banker. You won't be able to afford to.

Re: Two observations:

I've seen more than one that uses a mix 3mm of and 3.5mm lengths.

Presumably because they were contractually required to publish a disassembly manual but wanted to ensure nobody would ever actually use it.

Revenue is ego, it doesn't mean anything

Profit is reality.

Their gross margin is 26% though, which is huge!

Why are they so desperate, when the published financials look like that?

Re: GDPR

Cookie banners arendesigned to be annoying and as obnoxious as possible.

99% of them are probably illegal too, but it seems Germany is the only place trying to enforce the actual rules.

The ICO could end them in about a year if they took a few smaller places to court.

Re: What about people just using the language, and not talking about it?

I see the shills are out. Le sigh.

If there's a Python IDE which you like and does that, please suggest it.

Most stolen TVs vanish from the back of vans - they have a box!

A modern TV is very large, very thin and very fragile. When installed in your home the box gets thrown away or hidden in the loft/cellar/cupboard of hiding.

A burglar isn't going to bother - it's not worth much without a box, and they'll probably obviously break it.

Re: Wonderment in words...

Who is paying them, anyway?

The spam I get promising "market infomations" is generally more accurate, and that gets (manually) tossed into the dumpster until the spam filter learns the patterns of the latest hype cycle.

Re: Conversely . . .

The PPR is the sorting machine, so your parcel will be just as mangled.

And possibly also run over, while the robot insists that it definitely delivered the parcel and it's not at fault that the box was both flat and empty.

Film directors, other top creatives and principal cast aren't substitutable, so does IR35 kill the entire UK film industry?

Re: International Standards Organization

I've been more places than you've had hot dinners, as they say.

20 US fluid ounces isn't a US pint. It's 20 US fluid ounces. Check with federal weights and measures.

It is however slightly larger than an Imperial pint. I'm undecided whether I like the extra 23ml or not.

Either way, 1 litre is definitely too much beer in one go.

This is actively encouraging abuse

If such people think that they are very likely to be caught if they download "old" CSAM, then they will try to get - and create - new material.

The goal should be to prevent abuse, not to encourage more abuse.

Re: Two questions

Most likely not designed as a server room, so got the generic fire suppression kit.

It'll work just fine, the problem is any false trips due to broken aircon and similar will destroy all the very expensive kit in the room.