Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: I've done it

You may well have 'done it'.

Ask yourself if the average user could do what you did?

The answer is certainly a big fat NO.

Us smartarses here can do all sorts of tricks that just bamboozle the average user. There is no way that that can do that. So they are left to suffer at the hands of the Ad slingers unless we can persuade them to move platform.

Re: 57 M&A's?

Nope it was not 57 M&A's as the "M" stands for Merger and Facebork does not merge with anyone.

57 Varieties of Gobble more likely. I'd normally say 'slurp' but that is reserved for MS.

Gobble because Zuck likes to cluck about his [redacted]

Re: And force everyone to use those auto insurance monitoring devices too.

The won't have to do anything except grab your discarded Starbuck cup from the trash. You left your DNA on it and in a gazillions other places.

As to the legality of this? They've got bigger lawyers than you. Next question?

so what happens to

"The caller withheld their number"?

Like what about half the NHS Trusts do? All in the interests of Patient Confidentiality. WTF!

What about those who spoof genuine numbers? SS7 allows this.

There is no one panacea.

Re: Agile Payoff

Your mistake is that there is never any time to 'clean up' or remove Technical Debt in an Agile process.

It is always the next bit of Shiny-shiny to be delivered.

Agreed

I'm sure that there is a picture of some Neapoitian Ice Cream that El Reg could have used.

Alternatively one of Pompeii/Vesuvius would do nicely as it is not that far away.

Re: "no less than 5% of the workforce"

Yes there would be a price hike. The Wages (salary/NI) would go back to HMG so offsetting the cost of bringing back the service to the UK.

Didn't some call centres move back last year because it wasn't making economic sense?

If HMG mandated that the service had to be delivered here and the staff paying UK Taxes/NI then I'm sure the voters would accept a small price rise.

The big issue is the obscene salaries of those at the top. Even the NHS is not immune from this.

Re: why would you believe a government "statement"

You forget the stigma attached to 'losing face' in many societies.

In Japan people in the past have been known to take their own life to avoid this sort of thing.

In India people do not question orders given to them by their superiors even if they are clearly stupid.

The do this for fear of looking weak to their peers.

It will be interesting to see the data (or a snippet of it).

Then we need to keep an eye on who is being escorted from what buildings by the Polis.

Re: Wow

You forgot

FORTH

Re: That would explain

so the local council/plod get in one and get it to take them to somewhere in the other direction from London.

If they agree then they are operating illegally.

How about getting the driver to take them to the Police Station?

Re: Relieved? Maybe not.

You might be right but the staff at El Reg seem to have a big thing for posts on Storage Companies.

I don't see any sign of that changing anytime soon.

Re: oblig:

Shouldn't that the Audi? Aren't they the new BMW? I see more pricks driving Audi's than Beemers these days.

Re: Caddy

How about preparing something like this using Caddy? Then we can directly compare the two.

Re: First it's optional...

Quotr It'll never happen anyway for a long list of reasons.

People said that about METRO/or whateved it is called this week.

Then look what happened

People said that about the forced updates

Then look what happened

This will come, as sure as tomorrow is Wednesday (writing this on a Tuesday)

Then????

The daily tithe for MS so that they will graciously let you get at your data (of which they probable have gleaned everything their AD partners need).

Probably not until 2020 but it will come. Downvote this all you like but MS's stockholders will demand OS licensing revenue returns to its old levels. There only so much blood that can be extracted from the Server OS Licensing.

Also, as Office will be only subsctiption based by then, adding another $5.00/day won't seem too much of a hardship now will it eh?

Re: Capita.

Even worse

the words

"Capita has fallen short..."

SOP for them really.

Re: Optional

The other side of the coin is that I recieved this very day THREE letters all identical telling me that an appintment I have at the Hospital in May is cancelled.

Piss up in brewery anyone?

Perhaps the press should all boycott the briefings

Then the Dear Leader can shout and rant for all he is worth but there will be no one there to hear him or to report on his Fake News releases and rants about massacres that didn't happen.

A few weeks of that and they might come to their senses.

Hmmm. on second thoughts pehaps they won't. He just loves to hear the sound of his own voice.

Re: You could be a touch more sceptical, please

And exactly what effect will this 'extra computing' have on battery life?