Posts by Mark 110

Re: Oh really?

Its best to ignore the downvotes unless they are mostly downvotes. When they are all or mostly downvotes you can usually work out why? And perhaps reassess your knowledge/opinion. Thats my take on it anyway.

I usually get a couple of downvotes (even when just passing on a related anecdote) which I suspect are either:

a. because I pissed people off once when I trolled a 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' or 'Linux is much more secure than anything else' thread when I was pissed

b. My views on Brexit

If its a vaguely controversial subject and you have an opinion for oneside or the other you will get downvoted.

Theres plenty of lower resolution rips from disc out there. Not sure theres enough demand for the 4k stuff particularly given the encoding time and upload bandwidth its going to cost the creator.

Re: Time matters

This just publishes a standard for DRM. Noone is forced to use it. Content publishers have just implemented their own solutions in the absence of a common standard. Not quite sure what the fuss is about.

Better the publishers implement a standard through the standards body than go off and fork their own.

Re: BoJo is very right

"but the UK government does not control that money."

I refer you to my earlier comment that our democratically agreed representatives agree how that money will be spent under treaty and budget. The UK also contributes to organisations like NATO, the UN, various Commonwealth organisations - we have very little control how they spend the money either.

Re: RE: Sabroni

"Democratic is not the same as representative. With 720-odd MEPs drawn from 28 countries the chances of any of them representing anything but their own snout in the trough is nil. The unelected European Commission decides what to do, and the members of the parliament club rubber stamp it because they'll never be able to agree on anything different."

And that differs from the UK system how exactly? At least the EU parliament uses a system of PR so most peoples votes are actually represented in the parliament.

Unlike the UK system where most people didn't vote for most of the representatives. And we seem to be going through with this silly Brexit thing even though only 37% of people voted for it.

Re: RE: Sabroni

""democratic processes"

You are joking, right?"

Nope:

- There's a democratically elected parliament that must ratify most EU regulations and budgets.

- The treaties themselves are signed by the democratically elected leaders of the members.

- I think all the members get ratification from their own parliament of treaty changes.

Which bit do you think is undemocratic?

Re: RE: Sabroni

"We don't have control over the rebated money as we're told how to use it."

We are not told how to use it. That is bollocks.

We agree how it is used with our partners in the EU following democratic processes. Don't believe everything you hear without actually getting the facts - particularly if you read it in the Mail / Express / Sun (spit) - or it comes out the mouth of a politician trying to manipulate your views.

Agree - those additional costs to the taxpayer could easily be more than £350 million a week. Theres also the increased costs to private business of trading with the EU - those costs will be deducted off the tax take.

Being correct in his wording does not mean that what he said wasn't intended to mislead. It was populist rhetoric using a truth to support a misleading argument. He was using the statistics to claim that leaving the EU will give us more money to spend - all experts agree that this is unlikely to be true.

Will the UK get full control over how the £350 million is spent?

Yes

Will the UK have a net £350 million more available to spend?

No. In actuality we are likely to have less to spend than we do now.

You beat me to it. I think El Reg's subs may have had a late one last night . .

Thats no good if the company can just wind up to avoid the fine.

There needs to be liability on company directors for all manner of criminal and civil behaviour made by comapnies. IIRC theres liability on Directors for a few things (H&S breaches I think). There should be liability on Directors for all kinds of company behaviour, particularly where its premeditated as in this case.

Re: Compare like with like

I bought a Sony Xperia windows phone at roughly the same time the iPhone came out. It was utter shite compared to the iPhone.

"VAT just gets passed on downstream onto the Customers."

Don't all taxes get passed on to the customers? VAT might work better if you couldn't claim your VAT back (not thought this through - please don't flame me too hard).

Re: Gissa job!

They will never employ you at that price . . way too cheap. If you are going to spend taxpayers money you need to do it in a manner of complete waste and decadence.

I'll do it for £5 million, benefits, share of the profits in cash, hot & cold running high class call girls and a lordship!!!

Re: Perhaps this identity tracking

I wish I could upvote that more . .

But the way our infrastructure is organised lots of people have to pass through. I live in Liverpool and have worked in Southampton for two years and Windsor for 18 months. You quickly learn how to navigate the tube most effectively to make your connection.

As others have said above, the quickest way from Euston to Paddington is to leave Euston and walk to Euston Square to get your connection - takes much longer by Tube.

Re: One thing I always failed to understand....

Who gives a stuff. People know where I am because they can see me. If I had a reason to be hidden I wouldn't go out or I would change my appearance and my phone every time I did.

Do you seriously make sure you switch wifi off every time you leave the house / office / girlfriends house / local whose wifi you use / coffee shop whose wifi you use / train station whose wifi you use / airport whose wifi you use . . . . .

It would be like having to faff with my phone to switch bluetooth on every time I want to listen to music on my headphones. Who honestly really gives a shit whether people can see them walking around?

Re: This is terrible.

I am devastated. I predict a riot!!!

@ LeeD

You are assuming its a Call centre operative that's the problem. Could be anyone. Sys admin, DBA, network tech, application admin, etc.

You can't deny everyone access to the database.