Posts by heyrick

Re: Accounts with HSBC

"but as in the UK identity theft is not a crime"

I bet if somebody hijacked Priti Patel's identity, the law would change pretty bloody quickly...

But big fail to the bank as well for accepting such weak identity proof.

Re: Fantastic! (meaning wonderful)

There's a cool Japanese film about the original Hayabusa. Might be worth a watch if you can find it?

Yes, AC, but the point is that if you buy American or British or whatever, there's a pretty good chance that they are sending the pennies to China on your behalf. Hence the great difficulty in actually avoiding stuff "made in China".

Re: Old typewriter

"see the Englandspiel"

Hmm, rank incompetence in London surrounded by a complete denial that anything is wrong lest their peers be seen to best them.

So, nothing has changed then.....

Over here in France, not only is their no obligation to provide any guaranteed access to emergency services via VoIP lines, the average DSL box takes several minutes to boot up (should the power be interrupted).

And, guess what, they want to get rid of all of the traditional phones and push everything through VoIP.

Re: *cough* ...

I think the entire world would pat your friend on the back if he successfully snipes one...

About eighteen to twenty five kilometres straight up, to be out of the way of commercial aircraft.

Re: But is it practical?

Yup. In a month or so my current contract runs out and will need renewal. That's the time I can pick up a reasonable phone discounted.

I'm currently looking at a Samsung S10, after hitting gsmarena and looking at the specs. No 3.5mm jack? Next!

On rainy weekends, I listen to music and/or watch movies. The battery in my Bluetooth headphones runs for the 3ish hours it takes to do the mowing. It's not up to a Sunday of doing Sweet Fanny Adams. Or listening in bed when I can't sleep (ear buds so I can lie on my side). The jack socket is non negotiable. No socket, no interest, end of discussion.

Re: Destroy them!!!

I thought it was the source of the Illuminati mind control that is going to be propagated via the 5G network.

Uh...or something.

Re: I see no huge ambiguities in the law

"What the argument being made in the article assumes is that authorisation is a binary condition - i.e. it must either be absent or it must be unconditional."

Yeah, I was reading that and thought of Edward Snowden. I mean, the "you gave me access so I can do whatever the hell I like" angle really wouldn't fly, so why should it be any different just because the guy is a cop?

He has been given access. Part of that is being trusted to use that access (and information) correctly within the necessary capacities of performing his job. Hawking off info for a bit of cash on the side is neither part of the job or making legitimate access to the information.

Re: The guys that "found it"

<looks at map>

<zooms out>

<zooms out>

<zooms out>

<zooms out>

Bloody hell, it's like looking at Mars.

Re: Car Mechanics are not IT people

My mechanic, until he retired two years ago, used an invoicing system that worked on DOS on what looked like an original XT, with 5.25" floppies. He never saw any reason to change because what he had worked.

As for ordering, phone call with confirmation fax. Fax is still used around here as a signed piece of paper sent by fax carries legal weight, the same sent as an attachment by email does not, because it isn't a direct connection and could easily be modified en-route.

As for technophobe, he had no idea about new-fangled stuff such as ODB2. He was great at maintaing any car that predates computers inside, but sadly technology kind of left him behind. Or maybe, given the many restrictions on messing around with managed engines, he didn't think it was worthwhile even bothering?

Re: being willing to be involved in making yourself look a fool

Some are even kind of funny... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13s9vzXMbks

Re: Still don't want to fly on a MAX

"The safety certification of passenger aircraft has been an impressive success story"

You do realise that this is second time lucky, right?

Re: Illegal

"1.2TB monthly cap"

Isn't that about fifty gigabytes per day?

Re: a perfectly understandable error

Oh, we have an agreement. She'll only kill me if I cease providing Felix at regular intervals.

"something that their ISP, or someone else on the network path has injected"

How much of a problem is this in reality? I am not aware of my ISP ever messing with what I receive, and if they tried pushing adverts (given how much I pay for their service), I'd break my contact with some extremely colourful language and a report to CNIL (I live in France).

"Watch those long enough and we can start to build what might be an interesting profile of you."

Something of a non-issue given that it only counts for the one site. A much bigger privacy issue is stuff like the Facebook "Like" thumb icon and links to Google analytics and such that appear on numerous websites and can track you all over the place to build a much more detailed profile. Of course, all of this junk is served up via https so unless your browser is set to block all that rubbish, you'll still be tracked to kingdom come and back again.

Re: Lefties

Given the way politics have been going recently, I'd be inclined to define "right" as very wrong.

I'm a lefty too, and I'm offended every time I try to use a pair of scissors or a tin opener. Well, not really, there's a lot of stuff far more important to worry about than how back to front it feels using a tin opener.

Re: The Truth?

"Perhaps even he is starting to realise that it is game over."

Or maybe he's finally figured out that doing and saying what he's been doing and saying has trashed his career, his character, and any goodwill people had following his stint as mayor of New York in a particularly challenging time.

Re: They just don't get it.

Yup. I bought a shaver...

...and got spammed with adverts for shavers.

Somebody really needs to understand the difference between consumables (like coffee pods and printer ink) and one offs (like shavers and tablets).

More logical, even, would be to suggest spare shaver heads, cleaning kits, etc. But no. Just the dumbest lamest thing possible.

Re: This is such a non problem

It's the 70s. Maybe water bills were more than mortgages back then?

Re: I hear you

I recall having an argument many years ago with a college librarian who really didn't get the difference between psychology and parapsychology.

Phrenology, FFS.

Re: Walled Garden? Really!

"The Walled Garden has many exit doors."

It might have a few pre-approved exit doors, but it has no entry doors. You can't install the apps you might want, only the ones that are chosen to be placed in the central, and only, repository. So long as they follow arcane rules that may change and/or be applied randomly.

Or, as the above poster says, it's a bigger box taped shut.