Posts by deadlockvictim

Re: These new indictments could help Assange ...

The Swiss government are too scared (not to mention loath )to take him. They Swiss government come down very heavily on whistleblowers. There was panic in the corridors of power in Bern some years' ago when it was suggested that Edward Snowden be given political asylum.

One of the Swiss government was summonsed to Washington D.C. some weeks' back and he is hopeful of obtaining a free-trade treaty from the U.S. president. The party of the aformentioned Swiss minister has its base in the Swiss countryside, is against anything that reeks of Socialism and is very cosy with Big Business. This should put his political outlook into perspective. This party have also been exposed to demagogues long before Agent Orange ever rose to political prominence.

If Assange™ goes to Switzerland, it will be as a part of an onward journey to the Land of the Free™.

Re: It's suppposed to be an OS, not a fulll time job

Well then, have one machine with Linux on it (Ubuntu is nice and friendly) that is Internet ready and one machine with Windows 10 on it that has *no* Internet connection. You can transfer files via a network or via sneakernet, but as long as your Win10 box is kept off the Internet, you will have none of these problems and there is a lot that you may be able to deactivate/uninstall to boot.

Re: With apologies to Tolkein

Tolkien.

Apologies accepted.

Re: Allow me to remind you

LDC: but it's exactly people like Trump & C. only interested in maximizing their profits at the expense of everybody else

A recent investigation into the president’s taxes found that his businesses lost over $1 billion from 1985 to 1995, suggesting he lost more money in those years than nearly any other U.S. taxpayer. Trump & profits don't always go hand-in-hand.

Re: Overstatement

I stand corrected.

Thanks for this link.

Re: Detecting hidden cameras?

Unplug the wifi-router in your room, if you can?

Re: A ticket buying bot?

There is a very simple solution for Ticketmaster: put the name of the person (maybe age and sex too) who attending the concert on the ticket. Only the person who owns the credit card can change the name on a ticket and 3 changes allowed per year.

Of course, if Ticketmaster is already a part of the touting problem (SiteWave, I'm looking at you), then this won't make too much sense for them, which is probably why they haven't implemented it yet.

Re: Full stack developer +41% offers, +4.3% salary

A Full-Stack developer is a programmer who thinks that the defaults in Entity Framework are OK. Every text field is NVARCHAR(MAX), every date field is DATETIME2(7), every numerical field is INT and there are GUIDS & ROWEVERSIONs scattered everywhere.

Making a database is a developer's job. DBAs are such drama-queens.

Re: Yay, Ilya is back!

Ilya Geller: AI came from my theory of Internal Relations, which insists that there is no knowledge, and that Pythagorean theorem is wrong (there are no straight lines and right angles, they are abstractions - show me one please?)

Do you, then, reject the Pythagorean Theorem and all of its works?

What is this please ___________________________________ ?(it can't be a straight line, so what is it?)

Swiss Humour

By AI, do you mean the half-canton [1] Appenzell Inner-Rhodes?

[1] A half-canton is to a canton as a half-a-bee is to a bee, do you see?

Re: Modern times

Let me guess, 25 years' ago was 1994, you have a top-of-the-line Powermac 8100/80 running System 7.1.2?

Re: I keep filtering this story through the BOFH's eyes

Nitric acid, surely, would be a lot better?

Re: It needs to stop

Brenda McViking» This is proper capitalism - great big behemoths that deliver utter shite to their customers, are badly run and providing crap service go bust

You mean like Capita & IBM?

You miss Margaret Thatcher, don't you? She made Britain Great Again.

p.s. re: "bring it back into pubic ownership", it's already being run by a bunch of pricks, do you think this will make a difference?

Re: Twitter down?

A better metaphor for the Cloud is what happens when it comes down to earth, you get fog.

And when conditions are very foggy, you can't see where you are going and sometimes you have to stay put.

Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

To get something approximating the correct Irish spelling you need a lot of what look like superfluous vowels, gs and hs. Take 'Dunleary' as a good example, it's 'Dun Laoghaire' on the maps. 'Finlay' becomes 'Fionn Aighile' or something along those lines

If said Finlay is in Irish girls' primary school, it will become 'Siobhan' or possibly 'Sile'.

If it is to be written out by civil servants, it will become 'Finlay', as in 'Bothar Finlay'. The metropolis of Bray has a nice old name in Irish ['Briogh Chulainn' — Hostel of Culainn] and the lot in charge of the Irish railways turned it into 'Bre', so anyone, really, can write modern Irish. Just take the English word and bastardise it. It's what those who run Ireland do.

Apologies for the lack of fadas (accents), I wasn't arsed to look up the respective ASCII codes.

Re: Blakes 7

If we are to going to mix metaphors, could we at least hold the court in a quarry in south Wales please?

Zune

I expect, in a weird twist of fate, that they will be more valuable than iPods in the decades to come.

Re: Wasn't this handled last time?

This is OTT for the "First GPS Millenium", but...

You are correct. Sorry for highjacking the thread.

That's just marketing speak for 'They have a job and we are paying them.'

Of course, if you think of them emulating Steven Paul Jobs, then the passion that they are exuding in every interaction takes on a whole new light. I would pay to go and watch Apple retail teams treat addi.. customers the way SJ treated people.

Re: I doubt Pai is smart enough ...

Pai is a Repiblican appointee rather than a friend of Agent Orange, isn't he? I suspect that if the Republicans can hold the Presidency but with another incumbent, A. Pai will stay where he is.

Re: Google

I thought that too. 2001 was only a few years' ago!

*MARXISM* *FAILS* *EVERY* *TIME* *IT* *IS* *TRIED*

Could we have a 'frothing at the mouth' icon please?