Posts by sabroni

Re: care to cite any references for that?

Read his manifesto. I did.

Re: The responses speak volumes

The you go braw, just in case people didn't believe your summary someone's posted a perfect example as a reply!

Re: You want us to become a suburb of London?!!

I thought you were offering to become imaginary.....

Re: FFS. OK, let me hold your hand.

"The feature is a working prototype for community development and not recommended for production"

Me too, I'd hate if those targetted ads stopped.

Re: Their behaviour towards employees is still based upon slave and master..

Bad day at the office?

Re: Good to know the old Microsoft play book of dubious business practices is still alive & well

This is nothing to do with Microsoft. Change the fucking record.

Re: First written in Perl then rewritten in C.

Why's that? Not enough potential for buffer overruns in Perl?

Re: Its offensive that I must treat people who claim to believe in a sky fairy...

.... with respect and not ridicule.

Maybe if your post showed that you'd made any effort to think about this beyond parroting Dawkins et al I'd respect your opinion. But you don't, so I don't. Note I don't need to ridicule you to disagree with your opinion, however ridiculous it may seem to me.

Many of the famous names in science believed in God. They were clear on what science is about and what religion is about and realised that they don't really cross over. A point that the fundamentalist scientists on this board seem to consistently miss.

Re: Microsoft 365?

MS' figures are here, supposedly: https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-operations

Got any history documentation for your 40 days claim?

Re: The point is, someone noticed it.

The point is it took 9 years for someone to notice it.

Re: if the apps remained on the websites where they belong

If you've got infinite server capacity that's fine. If you're concerned about server load then using the processing power of the client machines is a sensible way to scale out. Why would you call the server to do an animation, or filter a list that's already in memory as the user types? You can do a round trip per keystroke, but if all you're doing is string matching it's pretty inefficient.

There are certain functions that should live on the server (authentication and data persistence being two of the main ones) there's another set of application functions that make much more sense running on the client.

Re: They've just asked for a commercial company to define 'fair' for them

The alternative being that Google define fair for themselves? They're a "commercial company" too....

Re: If THIS isn't a reason to hate systemd...

Getting rid of systemd won't stop buffer overruns. This vulnerability is handy for the systemd haters but the real problem here is coding in a language that allows overruns to happen, isn't it?

re: I need sysadmin to do my job

Otherwise I'd have to learn how to do it properly....

"If I start a new company selling widgets then just because they are the best widget ever (IMHO) doesn't mean that Googel should actively send me to the top of all links just because I say so."

But it's ok for Google to start a widget business that sells poor quality widgets and put themselves at the top of the search results? Because that's what they're being fined for.

I'm not envious of "successful people", i know what they give up to get success and i'm not prepared to focus on money that much. I don't believe that when you earn more the percentage of your income that's taxed should be higher, you pay more tax because you earn more, but it should be a fixed percentage. I do believe that everyone should contribute according to their means and i know paying yourself through dividends is just a way of avoiding that obligation.

If you make a million you should pay yourself a million and be taxed on income of a million. It's not tricky.

(And making tons of cash isn't really what i'd class as being successful, seems like a pretty shallow target for a lifetime...)

Re: Why am I not surprised to see sudo there?

Seems to me that, no matter how well you can lock sudo down, it's more secure to remove it.

Why can't you just give the permissions you need to the relevant user? Reliance on sudo seems pretty hacky....

Re: whatever it is.

Massive arrogance?

When I was a teenager I used to believe that all the political parties were exactly the same, none of them had anyone else's best interests at heart and "Whoever you vote for, government wins". Of course I had no idea what a better system would look like, I just knew what was wrong with the existing set up.

You seem pretty confident in yourself werdsmith, what specifically are you proposing as an alternative?

Re: his life will be a misery with Capita from now until the end of time

And that's changed how?

Re: We, US taxpayers don't want to pay for other countries' bad air.

Happy to supply it though, obv.

Re: So, very cleverly, Apple makes exceptions to the rule

Securing something then drilling holes in it because it's too slow isn't clever, it's insecure. MS used to do very similar things to favour their own products over third parties. I don't remember it ever being called clever when they did it....

Also, there's a big difference between a patching mechanism and code that dynamically modifies itself while running. It's the code that dynamically modifies itself that is nearly always a shit idea. Patching software to remove bugs/vulnerabilities is considered a good thing by most users.

re: The fault is with whoever created the documentation

Really? I'd say it was with whoever configured the database Why has a new starter got permissions to blat the production database anyway? The documentation shouldn't be capable of leaking enough information for this to happen.

Re: And Microsoft is more than happy to oblige (for the right payment of course).

What would you prefer?

Re: Bah!

This is clearly an INCREDIBLY serious matter! Frivolity will not be tolerated. Especially not M$ related frivolity....

Re: It's hard not to sympathize with Gianforte

Bollocks. It's easy to not sympathise with him. He's a politician who can't handle awkward questions, and as such totally unsuited for the role he's going for.