Posts by Will Godfrey

The ultimate horror

Flat designs with frameless windows. How the hell are you supposed to find out which grey smudge closes which window?

Conflicted

Delightful though such rare events are, it's a bit frustration that usually you don't dare tell anyone!

Snowball?

Hopefully.

Newegg started it rolling, and the more that join in the better. Just hoping it reaches critical mass soon when all the weaklings will jump on.

Just as predicted

Unfortunately.

In my view, the one person who was guilty of nothing is the one that got punished.

The ones that really annoy me

... are the ones that tell you to stop doing X and to do Y instead, in spite of your measured explanations as to how that would make things worse. Then, at the predictable train crash, demand to know why you didn't do X.

Not a problem here

I stopped watching TV years ago because it all got so crap and I had more enjoyable things to do with my time.

However, I've still got an old super dumb (analogue only) set permanently plugged into an equally dumb DVD (not blueray) player which does me for the very occasional old film I like to watch.

An Observation

When you're faced with an individual who's seriously paranoid, it's not a good idea to stare at them, and if they are staring at you, the best thing you can do is quietly move away. You most certainly don't challenge them - unless of course you actually like being beaten to a pulp by someone with sudden quite unexpected strength and ferocity.

The problem here is that I'm not sure which of these two is more paranoid.

But it'll never happen to us

We don't have any enemi<click> no carrier

A little rhyme

Oh what a tangled web we weave,

when first we practice to deceive.

Is that fear I smell?

See title.

The thing is...

Commentards comment before reading the body of the article in order to ensure that they haven't forgotten what their opinion is (or risk it being changed).

As for free speech

That doesn't excuse you shouting "Fire" in a cinema,

These creatures were doing the equivalent on the Internet.

They shouldn't have bothered.

I don't need any more reasons to avoid IoT like the plague.

Won't make any difference.

We have had a series of gubbermints with a track record of ignoring any criticism, especially when it comes from the most advanced experts in the field under discussion.

Escape route?

I don't know anything like enough about either telecoms or OSs to be of any value to the spooks, but I think my response would be to appear suitably cowed, and work quite diligently, but you know, I find it remarkably common that I make mistakes when under pressure. It is just so easy to put a semicolon in the wrong place or forget the braces around a code block - or even put them on the wrong lines.

When the data inadvertently gets leaked all over the place I'd obviously be greatly upset and immediately offer to put things right, but I guess I'd be dismissed for incompetence. Shame that.

P.S. I had to make several edits of this little bit of text!

To quote Mr Asimov

"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer".

{the last question}

Interesting wording

"Chose the default".

Umm, surely the default is what you get if you don't choose at all.

Living in the past

IBM seems to think it's still the only game in town.

This Stinks

That wasn't an 'interview', it was an aggressive interrogation.

I'm reminded of that ancient quote from a certain Cardinal.

To Paraphrase

Disney, the thief that keeps on stealing.

Predictable

It's government. What do you expect?

Total Meltdown

That's the state of the USA these days.

Unfortunately I don't think the UK is far behind.

I shudder to think what kind of world today's kids will find themselves in.

Thugs

Should be in jail. The lot of them. And their so-called lawyer must have known they were operating illegally (even in the unlikely event the others didn't) so should get a life sentence - that's the maximum sentence over here for unlawful imprisonment.

Shakes head

C'mon now. Don't be hard on them. They are only doing the same as everyone else - Shoot the messenger.

/s

Unbelievable!

Important Content -> Flash

Does not compute

Pale Moon

Just got around to trying this. Boy, what a difference. Everything good that firefox used to have.

Translation

We can't at the moment find anyone to (believably) blame, so we're keeping our options open till we do.

Priceless!

I had been thinking the PFY had been getting a bit uppety lately.

Hmmmm. I can think of an office that 'needs' a couple of those desks.