Posts by Adrian 4

Re: She can use a computer!

It's hardly surprising. When you have to pick your government from brexit-supporting MPs you're not going to get the brightest pennies in the box. At least Farage has thoughtfully skimmed off the very worst though.

obNitpick: 60 years is "several decades"?"

Curious comment. What's your definition of 'several' ?

I'd put it as 'more than a couple / few' and 'less than many / lots'. So 6 appears nicely in scope.

Perhaps el Reg has a canonical measure ?

Or the 2019 selection of a PM

Re: Really?

So can we assume that a date for the gigabit-fibre-everywhere will now be set in concrete and promises such as 'I'd rather be dead in a ditch' made that it will be kept ?

Re: "... system that breaks down financial barriers for billions of people."

Read the background to the song 'Sixteen tons'.

The financial barriers corporations such as Facebook would like to break down are those we erected to try to protect ourselves from debt slavery. They're not barriers restricting the users : they're barriers protecting them.

So yes, they are proposing to return some of that money to users. Temporarily, in order to build up debt.

Re: 2025

"18 thumbs up & 7 thumbs down"

REALLY ? There are SEVEN actual genuine non-sock-puppet people here who think BJ isn't an oxygen thief ?

Some serious pointing and laughing is called for.

Re: "make it a crime to disable geofencing..."

the dross fed them by the lobby groups Daily Wail

ftfy

Re: Hey, snowflakes!

Or you could try to fix what's broken like a proper engineer, instead of just shifting to another model with its own failings.

Re: borders to be regularised or smoothed out by mutual agreement

"So make up your mind what you want. Do you want to let refugees apply at each country separately, or do you want your immigration policy absolutely (as opposed to just partly) dictated by foreigners? It's one or the other."

See, there's your problem,. right there. You think other members of the same superstate are foreigners. They're not., They're us.

Grow up and stop being such a parochial, insular, xenophobic child.

Re: America = a cesspit

I wouldn't bother moving to London. It's just as much a cesspit here as Trumpland these days.

Re: Don't watch this one, Mathew

It's clear that the region of space used for filming is blessed with a perfectly functional atmosphere.

Re: You can't be jocular with call-centre staff, Ted.

Or as I prefer : 'no good deed goes unpunished'

Re: Eh?

You could always cook them first. Less violence but a lot more satisfaction.

Re: Agreed

If stack exchange want to foster a community of kindness, collaboration and self-respect they could do worse than sack ALL the moderators. It has none of those characteristics, instead concentrating on cutting topics short when they're just getting interesting, pointlessly recategorising questions because they're allegedly off-topic.

I don't ever go to stack exchange to ask anything now, but on the occasion google finds a match for something I'm curious about, the useful stuff is almost always obscured by the moderators. Occasionally, the contributors give a good answer anyway, despite but never helped by the mods.

The whole organisation is so far up its own arsehole a few more feet to handle gender-appropriate pronouns won't make a scrap of difference. It will just create another element for moderators to moan about.

Lets just hope this argument kills it off once and for all. The only good thing about it is that it isn't as bad as quora, which hides its useless answers behind a login screen that isn't worth the effort of using.

Re: How many hours a week?

The basic calculation is that it might cost them too much if they get stung for income tax, or have to fight it off in the courts. The answer is to make sure that the increased fees for working PAYE mean that costs them even more.

Re: Email?

We need some scammer to try collecting on contracts that are 'verified' by an email footer, and the resulting court battle.

The legal descriptions I've read on this sort of subject all seem to hinge on intent : they feel a bunch of ascii in an email is a valid indication that you meant the email to be taken as your intent and that it's therefore as good as a signature. In other words, you can't get out of a contract by claiming your email doesn't contain your written signature.

However, they don't seem interested in considering the forgery side of things - whether it was you that sent the email. Perhaps this is because banks etc. don't really check signatures on checks any more and written signatures aren't really worth much either. But it's an area that needs discussion, not sweeping under the carpet.

Re: Paying more for ethernet cables

Preferred suppliers are just the ones with the best backhanders.

Re: Whatever

"Let me know when you have results for 10%of the population per city. I might believe the results have any significance."

Agreed.

But at least it's more realistic than the network's estimates, which count how many of the people connected to their masts have connections to their masts.

Re: Why are we even...

Surely that only shows him to be fitted for the job of politician ?

Re: "It could be worse"

Does anyone remember a PM that wasn't a lying, out-of-touch, self-centred moron ?

Re: ST225

I've heard that some people throw things away. Can't grok that.

Re: Sometimes I miss...

The travel version is great. So good I bought the big version (performance MX) for desk use. It's very disappointing : battery doesn't last, its fussy about where on the desk it is (doesn't like the shiny patch where a mouse has been used for years) and it keeps getting stuck in one axis only (obvious fault with a ball mouse but difficult to understand with an optical). Not recommended.

Re: Uncontrollable costs?

"You could also argue that less time spent fixing broken on-premises IT means more time to focus on innovation; but it is true that cloud computing is a kind of outsourcing and there are downsides."

Not really. That might be true in the short term, but in the long term the jobs will be deskilled to cut costs, so the postholders won't be able to do any more than they're required to.

Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a subject for tech/beancounter 'discussion'.

Re: it's a test of law more than penetration

But they'll only pay for time spent in custody between the hours of 6am and 6pm

K-9 ?

Re: As an idle thought, on the topic

All governments believe themselves to be above the law. It's merely a matter of which law.

Re: The Sign

Should have read "Do not interrupt remaining fingers with laser beam"

Re: Someone...

pic : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/16/maurizio-cattelan-solid-gold-toilet-america-stolen-blenheim-palace

So definitely not this one : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132771934997

Re: Cup-holding it wrong

Who needs a cup ? Give them an intravenous supply.

Re: What about telecomuting?

Smouldering bosses require workers present to justify their existence.