Posts by Mike Moyle

Re: So...

Actually, he can now spank the monkey at any time on the trip.

Re: Odd choice?

I assumed that the wet grounds were spread over the bacon as a sort of brown sauce.

Re: I'm calling bollocks here

www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-snake-oil-got-a-bad-rap/

...just sayin'.

Re: Hmm

"Hillary Clinton cannot be determined as a "centrist" based on anything but the current message her campaign is trying to sell. "

Agreed, we have nothing to go on to judge Clinton's positions.

Oh, wait... We have her Senate voting record and public statements, just like we have Sanders', Rand's, Cruz's...

@ R Callan

"If it doesn't have John Steed and Mrs. Peel I doubt that it is worth watching :<)"

The converse does not always hold true, however...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118661/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_52

Re: Funny isn't it?

@ Phil Dude:

"The difference being when I want to go home (or wherever) I simply hit the "get me home" button.

And there are no taxi's where I sometimes find myself after a night out...."

So -- and I'm not asking to be snarky; I'm honestly curious -- How is this different than having one or more cab companies' phone numbers in your phone's contacts list and hitting "dial"?

Re: I can't stand burglars

"(S)trong enough to hold a grown man."...? I was assuming he hid in the under-counter cabinets. Did I miss something?

Re: Virus writing?

A remedial programming tutor.

Re: We Internet pioneers breathe a sigh of relief

May we see your actual evidence for this?

@ Senshi

"The only advantages for subscription are for Adobe and that's it. To pretend otherwise is just foolish..."

As much as I dislike the software rental model, I'm going to have to disagree with you, here. It would actually have been quite useful and kept me from starting up smoking again a couple of years ago.

I'm the graphics geek for a government planning agency in a smallish city (population: a bit over 100,000). Every ten years, the city produces a consolidated Master Plan outlining where we think we should go for the next decade and beyond. Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign featured heavily in putting the book together on the last go-round.

At the time, I had a copy of Adobe Creative Suite (original) on my work machine, and had had since... well... since CS came out. Because, as I said: municipal government; we're not talking big budgets here. The Design Planner had bought her own copy of CS 5 for when SHE needed to produce presentations. The Neighborhood Planner/Community Development specialist, who was the coordinator and lead writer on the project, had none.

In order to incorporate he Design Planner's pages into something MY version could open -- because, while she is a REALLY GOOD urban designer, she is a REALLY BAD document designer -- I had to bring in my home laptop, with CS 4 on it, to down-save to a version that CS could open (CS 5 only would only save down to something that CS 3 could open, IIRC).

So the workflow was:

1 -- Produce template document in InDesign and start inserting the lead writer's Word files, editing and inserting photos, creating infographics, tables, etc.

2 - Design Planner produces her pages in CS 5 and down-saves to CS 4.

3 - I open her files on the laptop and down-save to CS.

4 - I open in CS on the work machine, correct her out-of-standard layout, type, graphics, tables, etc., and export a PDF for the lead writer to look at and make edits.

5 - Writer makes changes in Word. Design Planner makes edits in CS 5 and down-saves to CS 4.

6 - Repeat steps 3 - 5, up-saving and down-saving as needed.

7 - When finished, submit draft to City Manager for approval.

8 - Writer and Design Planner include Manager's edits in Word and CS 5.

9 - Repeat steps 3 - 8 as needed.

Now, let's look at how it COULD have worked:

1 -- Produce template document in InDesign Creative Cloud and start inserting the lead writer's Word files, editing and inserting photos, creating infographics, tables, etc.

2 - Design Planner produces her pages in ID. (Since she only needs InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat Pro, we rent her that subset)

3 - I open the edited files, correct any infelicities, and send to the lead writer.

4 - Writer makes text changes in the copy of InDesign that we rented her on a temporary month-by-month basis for the duration of the project.

6 - When finished, submit draft to City Manager for approval.

7 - Writer and Design Planner include Manager's edits in the CS file.

8 - I do final cleanup and export as PDF.

Granted, my local liquor store, smoke shop, and physician (I punched a lot of walls and heavy pieces of office furniture!) wouldn't make as much money from me with this more linear workflow, but my lungs and liver might be in better condition, and -- who knows? -- I might still have hair!

So, yeah... Being able to standardize and streamline workflows across multiple users on a project, and to custom-tailor software toolboxes with ONLY what you need, ONLY when you need it, DOES have certain advantages, even though I still don't like software rental as a general concept.

Re: Translated

But you didn't phrase it in proper El Reg headline form:

GOOGLE TO FEDS: "You can't snoop on users; that's OUR job!"

Re: Great Idea but.....

It seems that most microwaves that I've seen these days come with a rotating turntable. It evens out the cooking, but makes keeping a wired probe in place in the food something of a problem.

@ Phil O'Sophical

No -- THEY are the TAKERS, the others are the TAKEES.

Re: No one escapes the long arm of the paw.

Katayama thought he was fooling Felis, but now he's feeling foolish.

Re: Germany

I can't speak for Germany, but where I live in the U.S., the determining factor is whether the subject had "a reasonable expectation of privacy" at the time the photo was taken. This, in general, eliminates the hurdle of getting a signed release from everyone in a news photo. Thus, for instance, someone is allowed to take your picture on the sales floor of a clothing store, since you can't "not be seen" there, but they can't follow you into the changing booth because you SHOULD have a reasonable expectation of privacy there. In the case here, a photo taken between consenting adults for their private entertainment would fall under that reasonable expectation of privacy unless the subject specifically agreed that it could be disseminated to others,

Re: Streisand

As nice an idea as that sounds, you probably couldn't get more than two or three impacts out of her before she wasn't really useful any more, and Marriott has a LOT of buildings.

Re: Innocent until PROVEN guilty!

"Their so called "proof" and witnesses should be investigated as much as the defendant has been."

If his lawyer has been half doing his job, that will have happened by now and will be presented in evidence at the appropriate time.

@ jason 7 Re: Bye Bye MS

Well, I got at least nine years from the time I purchased my mirrored-drive-door G4 Mac in 2002 until Apple dropped PPC support with OS X 10.7 in 2011.

From then until until I retired it in '13, I just kept it patched as security patches were released. Was still doing illustration, doc layout, and music and video editing on it until I upgraded.

What was your point, again...?

@ jzlondon Re: There is no sensible way to encrypt those on a budget

...And it's those few pennies that meant it wouldn't happen.

"The answer to any question starting, 'Why do they-', or 'Why don't they-' is almost always, 'Money.'" -- Robert A. Heinlein

I used to work for a company that made antitheft devices for automobile ignitions. the idea was to harden them just enough to (depending on the model of steering column/ignition) dissuade a thief trying to smash the housing or insert a screwdriver into the keyslot to over-torque the cylinder. Our main customers were the rental fleets, since they self-insure. Being a non-car person, I once asked our national sales manager why we were even necessary. His answer: "Because the car manufacturers want the absolute best ignitions they can get... for under a dollar."

Companies HATE spending that extra .00004% if there's any way at all to pass the cost off to someone else as an "externality" and the product's security once it leaves the shop -- unless you're making security your biggest selling point -- is an externality.

@ Michael Thibault Was: Re: disguised as a system update...

Perhaps Mr. R79 was just trying to match the tone of the article, which looks as though it didn't get proofread before being posted; viz. "...access the botnet is been rented out...", "Various generations of NotCompatible has infected..."

Re: "... if you're not causing trouble, you're not doing it right."

Unfortunately,. you can be causing trouble and STILL not doing news right. Viz. Fox "News" and any number of other sh!t-stirrers.

Re: no records check?

In many states, private transfers (e.g., transfers within a family, sales not involving a licensed dealer, etc.) and sales at gun shows don't require the background check.

@ Stuart Castle: PREACH IT, BROTHER!

I spent too many years working retail gigs when actual living-wage-paying jobs were thin on the ground.

I have come to the conclusion that you can ALWAYS tell people who have never worked in service jobs by the way that they treat service/retail workers. The rude, entitled ones have never been on the receiving end; the ones that are willing to at least be polite and treat you like a fellow human being have been there -- or have, at least, had empathy inculcated in them at some point.