* Posts by David Nash

1434 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008

My PC makes ‘negative energy waves’, said user, then demanded fix

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Joke

Re: Negative energy waves

If they are waves then it's likely and plausible that they are alternating between negative and positive anyway. So on average nothing.

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Re: brainectomy and what it does to your intellect

I can't bring myself to open that link, I will get too annoyed.

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Re: A solution

Stale electricity? Amusing, but in that instance, why would he not have told the real reason?

Which? leads decrepit email service behind barn, single shot rings out over valley

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Re: What other Which

They may need your bank details but they don't need a DD mandate in force to credit you. The clue is in the name. One of the Ds stands for Debit!

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Re: Which Which?

They do seem to be in love with Apple too. It often seems to get the top rating just because it's Apple. Although recently even they've baulked a little at the price.

Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?

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Re: Jaywalking

That is what "jaywalking" is. Crossing a road outside of a designated pedestrian crossing.

So much for "freedom". What if the pedestrian is carrying a gun, is it alright then?

What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs

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Re: Skype

"Mastodon is like Twitter, it is for public chat groups, not for private conversations."

Except that people seem to use public twitter for private conversations anyway.

Meet the open sorcerers who have vowed to make Facebook history

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Re: Please just don't care enough

"Convenience has trumped maintaining control"

It always does and always will, because people are lazy, and just want something that "works".

Edit: And free, of course.

Prof Stephen Hawking's ashes will be interred alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

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Nobody mentioned...

That the catholic tweet in the article spelled both Stephen and Hawking wrong.

Bunch of useless idiots who can't even bother to get his name right even while claiming he came over to their side. Oh and liars too, as the article pointed out.

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Re: Lack of belief in an immortal soul

If you believe in resurrection what else is being resurrected but an immortal soul?

You're grasping at technicalities to try to justify the fact that you claim (by way of being Christian) to believe in magic, which is clearly unjustifiable except via the fact that lots of other people claim the same.

Personally I suspect that many of them believe no such thing and are therefore not actually Christian at all.

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"science can never prove (or disprove) the existence of God.."

The burden of proof is on those making the claim, not on others to disprove it.

Anyway, if a scientist set up something that he claimed would invoke God, and a big hand came out of the sky and shot a lightning bolt, and that was repeatable and got published and peer reviewed....perhaps that would be Science proving the existence of God.

But then the religious would probably redefine God to get out of it. As Douglas said, "Without faith I am nothing said God, and disappeared in a puff of logic."

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Re: Leap of faith

"what matters to most members of a religion is the community, not the theology"

I have seen no evidence to suggest that at all.

Why build the big towers pointing to the man in the sky then? or all the images and statues of the supposed miracles and messiah? Why pray/sing to God when people get married in church? Why have "thanksgiving" as someone else pointed out, thanking whom?

What you've said it not true at all. If someone said "I am religious but don't believe in God (or A God)" they'd be laughed out of church or the equivalent (if they were lucky).

UK Court of Appeal settles reseller's question: Is software a good?

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Re: A digital watch?

A pretty neat idea!

That long-awaited Mark Zuckerberg response: Everything's fine! Mostly fixed! Facebook's great! All good in the hoodie!

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Re: <<< Isn't it time for Kalanick 2.0 to go >>>

Good point...I always remember the last two lines of that quote, but I think these days the first two are equally important!

Hip hop-eration: Hopless Franken-beer will bring you hoppiness

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Cognotive Dissonance

So many environmentally-concerned folk may also be anti-GMO for no reason than it's the latest fashion and it's a new invention so must be bad.

But good for the environment?

but GMO?

<head explodes!>

Personally although I am concerned that our environment is looked after, I have never heard of hops being a problem. And I have no problem at all with GMO, whether natural (yes it happens naturally) or man-induced.

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

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"If the software is free then how can you complain when it forces you to use it's own browser rather another free browser?"

I'm in two minds about whether they should be doing this, but Win10 isn't free. You either buy it as a retail package or pay for it inclusive of your new PC cost, or paid for Win7 which was "upgraded" with no additional fee (but you had to have a valid Win 7 install, which was not free).

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WTF?

Re: "no problem giving Apple a pass" - One major difference

Huge difference: People choose to use Apple.

Or they choose to use MS. What's the difference?

Here is how Google handles Right To Be Forgotten requests

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I am not particularly defending anyone, let alone Google, but that article seems unnecessarily sarcastic.

"Google also have lawyers on standby to scrutinise RTBF requests as well. Just in case those definitely-not-prescriptive rules aren't clear enough, you see."

That seems reasonable. As mentioned, it's not a legal process yet, but may need legal input.

" internal case management and correspondence tool, imaginatively named Cases"

It's got to be called something.

Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

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Re: Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

Also - this headline is really nothing to do with the problem described in the article.

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Re: Lost count...

Let's not get started on recruitment agents. That's a whole Friday afternoon gone and too OT for this page!

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Re: It's printing upside down!

We all know what it means, but why doesn't it just print on A4 anyway?

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Re: Ah, the "good old days" ...

Can't you just print it 3 times?

Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation

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Re: Its a guess and nothing more

Not true, we know there's at least one in the universe so it's reasonable to take that as the lower bound.

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Re: Is it even worth thinking about?

If we are in a simulation would we be able to tell the difference between that and the religious version of events?

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Re: Why hasn't Earth been visited yet?

"So behave yourself. You are under observation."

What is the alien version of good behaviour?

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"I have every faith in civilisations existing outside of our our solar system are very much a live and kicking, and that the only thing dead here is that bloody equation."

Faith shouldn't enter into it.

On what do you base such faith in the face of zero evidence?

Stephen Hawking dies, aged 76

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"With Ken Dodd, and now Stephen Hawking, God is recalling his geniuses"

Jim Bowen too today!

RIP all and condolences to their families.

Elon Musk invents bus stop, waits for applause, internet LOLs

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Re: RE: Crossrail

@handleoclast

He didn't claim the truth, he claimed all tube stations are equivalent to 15 floors which is clearly not the truth and the video proves it. The *joke* is that all tube stations are 15 floors.

The video didn't need to be so long to show it, and the OP could have indicated that it was a joke rather than bluntly stating it as fact. Twice.

Also it's not "famous".

Developer mistakenly deleted data - so thoroughly nobody could pin it on him!

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Re: Two years ago

It's not blank/empty, it's "/".

A ghoulish tale of pigs, devs and docs revived from the dead

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WTF?

Re: Back in the 90s...

"S&M elements"

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YOU ARE LATE FOR A MEETING

Because email is famous for getting someone's attention in real-time

Bots don't spread fake news on Twitter, people do, say MIT eggheads

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Choosing to believe...

The odd thing is, I have always maintained that I can't choose what to believe, rather I am either convinced by the evidence or other persuasion, or I am not. That's not a choice.

Is that not the case for most people?

Does Parliament or Google decide when your criminal past is forgotten?

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Re: If this goes against Google

"Google allows you to access the Web version"

No, Google has no influence on your ability to access the Web version. It only makes it easier to find it by reference to its content. Delisting NT1 from Google does not remove the original or mean you can't access it, in the same way that the local library might have a copy of the newspaper but does not have an index connecting NT1 to it (probably!).

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Re: If this goes against Google

"have to go and delete every single crime report older than x years,"

It seems you are wilfully misunderstanding the point. It's been said several times that the original news sources are not threatened with deletion, only Google's linking of NT1's name to them.

Sci-tech wants skilled worker cap on PhD and shortage jobs scrapped

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Re: I wonder....

"most people in the UK don't realise how low the salaries actually are"

*most* people probably do, because they are the ones earning the low salaries.

It's the top 10% who don't realise that they are in such a small minority.

Sacked saleswoman told to pay Intel £45k after losing discrim case

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Chip on her shoulder

I am trying to work out whether that was supposed to be a pun or not!

UK.gov told: Scrap immigration exemption from Data Protection Bill or we'll see you in court

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I am sure that many non-immigrants in Germany also learn English.

And why not?

10 PRINT "ZX81 at 37" 20 GOTO 10

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Re: The best thing about the ZX81...

Yes, I was an 11-year old kid and I learned to program in BASIC from the ZX80 manual which I read in bed. I had to wait for the actual computer until my dad had finished soldering the kit together. But when he did, it worked, and I knew what to do.

The kits also came with circuit schematics, which for the ZX80 was a marvellous education, as it was all implemented in standard logic chips, nothing custom.

The ZX81 replaced something like 21 chips with one big custom black box, not much you could learn from that!

Copper feel, fibre it ain't: Ads regulator could face court for playing hard and fast with definitions

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Nice idea but they'd never be able to guarantee it so they wouldn't do so.

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Re: Alternative naming?

"HD Fibre" of course

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Nothing wrong with those who have a vested interest pushing for clarity if it benefits them. Nobody else will. In this case they have a fair point.

Although there is a distinction between FTTC and FTTP, so the FTTP guys should start pushing that difference. Get someone advertising it as "I need a P" or something!

Swiss see Telly Tax as a Big Plus, vote against scrapping it

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Re: BBC from the days of Yes Minister and Spitting Image - yes

"If it was the BBC from the days of Yes Minister...

...Terry Pratchet Night Watch characters"

I did read a story over the weekend which claimed that there is going to be a TV production of Pratchett's Night Watch stories, on the BBC.

Feel happier to pay it now? It's encouraging, for me at least.

Europe plans special tax for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

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Targeting specific companies

Is that allowed?

When Ireland got done by the EU for targeting specific companies for tax breaks, it was bad. Are France allowed to target specific companies for extra taxes?

Or will it apply to all companies? I suppose where turnover>X where X=min(Google, Facebook, Amazon...)

Boffins baffled as AI training leaks secrets to canny thieves

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[1] who puts credit card numbers in emails

[2] what kind of system needs to be trained with emails containing such data?

My PC is broken, said user typing in white on a white background

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Re: No computer experience in 2005?

If the volume of work and the archiving requirements don't necessitate a computer, why change a system that has worked for years?

Twitter cries for help to solve existential crisis of whether it's Good

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tweeting the train company, etc

Part of the problem is that people use it, a broadcast mechanism, to ask one-to-one questions.

Why should the idiots who don't know me, have to see questions I am asking the customer services of train or other big companies?

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It's also not censorship for Twitter, a private company, to decide what it wants on its web pages and online services.

TVEyes blindsided: Fox News defeats search engine in copyright spat

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Re: EFF WTF?

Agree.

"this week's ruling is likely to derail TVEyes' operations. "

Yes. that's the point!

Google powers up latest app it'll cancel in two years: Hangouts Chat

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Re: ...but why?

Aren't there enough chat apps already?