Posts by Craig 2

Re: Assange is a bellend.

Absolutely, doesn't mean he's wrong though...

Re: what does a plane autopilot do?

With aircraft autopilot you could be completely hands off and not paying attention while cruising. I'm not saying pilots actually do that, but that's the impression the public get when they hear "autopilot". Hence the confusion with Tesla's naming.

Pilot generally (not exclusively I know) refers to aircraft, you wouldn't say you "pilot a car".

Badly chosen name that would be a massive climb-down if they were forced to change it now. It is an advanced driver assist, nothing more.

No blame towards the pilots intended. Personally I believe MCAS is a flawed software `kludge` and the pilots in both cases did their very best. It's just in these cases both sides have to deny in the strongest terms whatever the reality of the situation.

What if I want to take the best picture possible, at ANY time possible? Are you suggesting carrying a DSLR 24 hours a day? Phone cameras have their place and at least they give expensive* camera owners something to feel superior about.

*The irony of calling £1000+ phone cameras INexpensive is not lost on me...

Government Gateway IDs

Please speak clearly "My penis is my password"

Re: Really useful data for phone slingers

That would be really terrible if they did favour battery designs that recharged very well over a lower number of cycles and then capacity drops off a cliff. :(

Re: The real point of interest for me...

I thought the biggest reason for AV on *nix systems was to be a good citizen and help all the clueless Windows users by increasing the collective "herd immunity".

Re: Used to be?

Used to be as in Service Packs.... now even the most minor update can be fatal of course, I suppose that's progress for you...

Re: A programming error?

"pilot errors that cause a crash are extremely rare."

In fact, pilot error is the leading cause of commercial airline accidents, with close to 80% percent of accidents caused by pilot error, according to Boeing. The other 20% are mainly due to faulty equipment and unsafe, weather-related flying conditions.

The numbers may vary, but the experts agree: Human error is the biggest cause of plane accidents. The focus is often on the pilots. PlaneCrashInfo.com analyzed 1,015 fatal accidents involving commercial aircraft, worldwide, from 1950 thru 2010, and found pilot error was a factor in 53 percent of all fatal accidents in that period.

As aircraft have become more reliable, the proportion of crashes caused by pilot error has increased and now stands at around 50%.

Re: Sensitive Data

Let this be a lesson on what happens when you think there's no need to use the joke icon. :)

Re: Here in the UK... off topic

A bit like when you fill in an online form and find it's taking longer and longer to scroll to your birth year....

Re: Is this a boiling frog experiment ?

Microsoft's ultra-long term goal: Gradually open-source Windows so they can dump it and concentrate on being a cloud company where the real money is...

Re: Landing

"and the first stage returned to the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You"

and now that fact is just a run-of-the-mill fact

"We'll give you the money if you make the law in our favor."

They call it hosting a "fund-raiser" over there..

Re: re: The cheaper model has the fingerprint reader mounted on the side of the phone

"As for the foldable... How long before 'foldgate' starts appearing on this site in relation to folding problems?"

This was the first thing I thought watching the demo, but surely they had a machine folding / unfolding a million times to test resilience.

"So what do you do to keep transnational corporations from just pulling up stakes and moving to friendlier countries that are bound to exist due to competition?"

Sales in that territory = taxed in that territory. It's the only way.

Re: Untrusted code

"How, it was a rootkit, not a format of C: drive?"

I'm not saying that people don't exaggerate in stories such as this, but that rootkit (like most) had several vulnerabilities and bugs. This had the potential to cause system crashes which in turn can cause data corruption and so on... VERY, VERY unlucky to lose everything, but not impossible.

Re: Brilliant

So your actual weight is 0.68 sysadmins, where's that on the SMI? (sysadmin mass index) Could this be a new Reg unit?

Re: mashup

While your (presumably intentional) omission of Jennifer Lawrence's notable movies is humorous, Silver Linings Playbook is also a great film. :)

Re:"thousands of inquisitive people are searching the Inetrwebs to discover who NT1 is"

Without infringing the court order, how would you go about that? I'm intrigued....

Re: Losing customer

Sounds like you're well on the path I'm just starting down. No more iPhones, mid-range Android from now on.

Incidentally, I wonder what this will do to the argument of 2nd hand Apple phones holding their price so well...

Re: Well, who'd have thought it?

"I'm not sure anyone actually understood what "Vote To Leave The EU" actually meant."

Easy: Tabloids told them migrants were the source of all our problems which would magically disappear if we left the EU.

Re: £899 - Ouch

Yea I'm never paying close to £1k for a phone! The BOM for the iPhone XS was quoted as something like 1/3 sale price so plenty of wiggle room while still making obscene profits. Hopefully this slowing in phone sales / upgrades recently is the tip of the iceberg and people will wake up to the fact that they are being fleeced.

Re: No value

They don't need to research to improve battery life, just make the average phone 1mm thicker and it will have great battery life. Ahh well, wishful thinking...

Re: Should be interesting

If the worst kind of failure simply turned it into a read-only drive I would be happy with that!

Re: So the 365 in Office 365 means...

No, it means Microsoft picked the most ironic name in software history :)