Posts by Jon Blund

Re: I don't understand

"the law suit has no chance of winning on any basis"?

Donald Trump had no chance of winning on any basis either but still he's the POTUS. The US and the UK have slipped into an alternate reality where logic no longer applies.

Re: Proper lash up

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution.

"What does puzzle me is that so many of these organisations fall for this magic wand con again and again (and it seems to be largely the middle east, though other countries have too*)."

Magic wands are all in day's work in a theocracy. Add "military intelligence" and Bob's your uncle.

Re: But I don't have a so-called "smart" phone.

Pretty sure GCHQ, Google, Apple and a few others can track you even if you think you turned your phone off.

Re: It may not be a full resolution image...

Someone has done something seriously wrong with this image. I can't imagine Samsung releasing something this embarassing. Probably the website compressed it.

It's rather naive to assume the mobile operators haven't already made an agreement, they are among the most rapacious of legal enterprises.

Re: debuggability

Seriously, English has been a mongrel since day one.

Languages evolve, debuggabilty is a reasonable attribute in the software development universe.

Re: Are We Getting a Bit too Sensitive

I think you experience the odour differently if you're not eating yourself. I often think hamburgers eaten by others, on the go, have a smell reminiscent of sweat.

Re: Toothless

Well I guess if you insist on voting for twats and cleptocrats you will find yourselves in a bad place.

Re: I'm torn

@pascal monett Have you tried that in practice? I find the BBC cleverer than that, there are other ways of working out where you are like asking your browser, and Google is always ready to spill the beans...

Seeing as how they've managed to get a quantum computer up and running I expect they have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Re: Can you help?

You have to drop the concept of the adverts being targeted at you in order to influence you. They are targeted at you so that the companies involved in the distribution of the ads can invoice their customers with reasonably good consciences.

Re: Thus guaranteeing

There's a big difference between asking people who want to move permanently to prove they will make a useful contribution before you give them permission, and wanting to increase short-term tourism."

What politicians claim to want is neither here nor there, the xenophobic 50% of the population who despise Polish construction workers or Indian doctors will be just as resentful towards tourists from "abroad".

Re: Nothing new under the Sun

I think most people accept being jerked around, face to face, by a real salesperson as being normal behaviour, having it hardcoded into business logic raises it to a higher level of "nefariousness".

But...these are gynecologists, the monsters from outer space might object to being inseminated with alien sperm.

Re: Cloud - Isn't it such a lovely, comfy place to put stuff...

How can you abuse storage? If you're given 30 G and you fill it up, is that abuse?