Posts by cd

Obviously lazy satire...

The original manual is obviously either the product of...

a) a lazy jobsworth who merely took examples from the hierarchy they worked in and typed them up, sanguinely aware that they would not be comprehended as criticism by those in charge.

b) a master satirist, perhaps descended from the Swift bloodline, who also realised that the targeted would not grok the aim and that it would serve as a subtext for all practical people.

c) all of the above, but I wasn't alive then.

On another note: One fortunate thing about 2021 is that it cannot possibly be worse than the preceding years, we are now on track to have a splendid year of great relief. The polar caps will not continue to melt, causing a rotational imbalance and a 90 degree tilt of the planet. No explosives will go off without deliberation. No further plagues or virii will visit. Those earthquakes/unexplained loud booms in the southwest United States that aren't showing up on the USGS reporting are a mere figment, not a sign of the impending separation of California from the rest of the continent along the Walker Lane and the resulting incursion of seawater on all lower elevation cities in the region.

Everything will be perfect this year.

/s (which stands for sincerity)

It's become a model

Here in the US, apart from using H1B's to get underpaid labor, there's an emerging model of "free" technical training followed by collecting a percentage of the student's paychecks after they get hired.

And now there's even an aggregator of those, careerkarma.com/, to help one choose which indenture program to enter.

I urge other countries to follow their example.

Needs a favor?

Is this the iteration of HP that wants a certain British ex-CEO extradited?

It's not that far from Moab, which is scenic and popular, but also has a uranium industry background with discarded leftovers strewn about.

There were dumps of uranium ore along some riverbeds near there even recently, and there's a processing facility south of there near Blanding, to which radioactive tailings are being brought from out-of-state as well. A search will bring up various gov't maps of reclamation efforts and plans for that area.

I see the warning as straddling a way to keep people from exploring overland in potentially unsafe directions while not killing the golden tourism goose that is Moab.

That said, I'm tempted to go look. Could be there today if I stopped posting on the Reg, certainly lots of places to car-camp and hike. Might be a good time to set up a food truck nearby.

Goes to show how clueless the cryptocurrency folks are, using GoDaddy for anything. Would you buy a virtual coin from this man?

Does no one offer an escape kit for SAP or Oracle users? Seems like it would be especially viable right now.

Some kind of quantum entanglement database...

The problem for Google is that user-agent switcher extensions and simple editing of UA are possible, making it harder for them to track and label individuals.

As always disguised as "for your benefit".

I change my UA randomly, makes no discernible diff in browsing experience.

Can they use it to see when a company is senile? They should turn it on themselves.

So naive...

Naive enough to license the OS to IBM.

Naive enough to steal money from schools, literally kids lunch money.

Such a summer child with his silver spoon.

Hopefully the Linux Foundation will be more reasonable.

If those companies paid taxes and employed more people in their own country, they'd sound less conflicted.

One word for those decorating pranksters: epoxy.

Is there a way that an email client could collect attachments into a secure local storage and reference those in the original email?

Shorts is a great name for a wholesome app. Can't see how that coukd ba misinterpreted.

Could a browser extension salt/scramble the id on the way out?

Go all the Huawei

No Play store or services running, so for so good, now sell a rooted phone with replaceable battery, physical switches for GPS, cameras, mics, etc.

I just transferred my number off VZW; they did everything to prevent me from generating the transfer PIN that they require. That generator has been moved around the customer portal, it's now at the bottom of a seemingly-unrelated page and requires scrolling to find., so my MVNO's navigation instructions were no help

When found it is easy to run out of attempts and be given a 24 hour hiatus before further attempts. None of the 2FA texts arrived, use the email option if you need to do this. Texts suddenly worked perfectly minutes later when I called CS and they wanted me to use their digital assistant instead, was practically bombarded with imprecations to talk with their AI.

Perhaps incidentally, after I made it known that I wanted to transfer, my calls to CS were routed to a long queue. yet when I put in another SIM and called their CS I was answered promptly until they associated that number with me. Eventually, after days of trying, I got a transfer PIN that worked, unlike the one given to me verbally by VZW CS that turned out to be "invalid".

Point being that things might be in place to prevent transfer, but they also might be used to prevent valid transfer if it so benefits the carrier.

If I had one of those currency accounts I'd use an MVNO SIM and keep that phone number generally out of circulation and not associated with me anywhere official. There are plenty of MVNO's, easy to have several and rotate every so often. If thieves went after my regular number it would have no effect on my accounts. Those prepay SIMs are cheap to buy and keep.

But I'm not a technology consultant, except to friends and family.

There are no longer any good commercial OS's

Assuming that Cook is Apple's Ballmer, may be a while until there are, given the financial success.