Posts by heyrick

Re: Proof that the establishment hates the public

Citizen? Aren't we supposed to be peons who do what they're told (and, soon, won't even be able to strike to be heard)? And bend over and take it when a crazy woman elected by a miniscule subset of the population comes in, fucks the economy and people's mortgages (although certain people made huge gains by shorting the currency), then buggers off with a potential ~£100K pension for life. Not bad for a couple of weeks of causing utter chaos.

Us? Well, didn't Rishi and that other guy say taxes will have to go up and there will be eye watering decisions to make? They fuck up... or more literally hand huge amounts of money to themselves and favoured friends and... we will be expected to pay for it.

Re: Bit klunky, but...

"Musk isn't a programmer"

So he probably shouldn't be using a phrase like RPC like he knows what it means...

Re: "We all need to be more hardcore"

"We're just here to cheer you to your doom."

I feel like somebody ought to set up a live stream of a lettuce...

...well, it worked the last time!

"Some employees have to do overtime for free if the business requires it in the USA."

I thought they did away with slavery with the 13th amendment in 1865?

Re: two observations

Yeah, I've noticed the lonely downvote syndrome. It would be quite funny to imagine him hitting downvote on every single post that implies he's a bit of a wanker... but I can't help but imagine that he has more important things to do, like sticking a pin into his overinflated ego so that it bursts before his forty four billion dollar acquisition does.

As for articles like these... more please. The real world is going to hell in a rollercoaster, and we're about to get fucked by the government / bankers / mother nature so this makes for an amusing diversion from the naffness that is life.

Re: I used to use twatter

Oh, cats REALLY do not like change. They probably didn't hate you so much as the fact that certain things happen in certain ways at certain times and... you just weren't it.

One of my cats long ago used to make her disapproval of the change in time (summer time or not) quite clear. She'd turn up at the "correct" time for feeding and sit there bashing her tail on the ground for an hour. When I got home from work and got the Felix.... I had to try not to notice the death glare that was withering the flowers and making birds fall out of trees.

Allow me to point you at a briefly former British Prime a Minister called Liz Truss.

Some people have an uncanny ability to fuck up in ways that defy belief, where the only response is to sharply inhale and mutter something along the lines of "no, (s)he couldn't possibly have..." and fail to be able to even finish the sentence.

Re: I used to use twatter

Upvoted - I like cats (and I'm the pet human of one), but I respect your choice not to like cats. It doesn't offend me at all. I don't like dogs. Or llamas. To each their own preference.

Re: Cancellation procedures

"As a last resort you cans end them a registered letter instructing them to cease the service"

That's the first resort. Registered letter with signature, that comes back to me, so I know it's been received and when, and sometimes by whom. It's come in useful in the past.

It's too easy for emails to be "lost" or "was it counted as spam?", and regular letters to "never arrive". Don't give the bastards any wiggle room, and always always create a paper trial. Insist on being sent a letter or at least an email with a PDF and refuse to agree to anything over the phone (recording the conversation is helpful, you know damn well they are and it's not for staff training purposes like they claim). I state outright at the beginning that nothing said or discussed constitutes any form of agreement or acceptance of services or products. May or may not have legal weight to say that, but usually the most annoying simply hang up right away so...win?

Re: Good. Now do the same with Amazon Prime.

As above, sometimes I look for stuff on Amazon in the browser, not signed in, and the amount of Prime publicity is actually ridiculous.

Is it really "left wing" to recognise that pretty much everyone in a company is a contributing factor to the success of said company? From the CEO to the cleaner, everybody has a role.

It's just a shame that them at the top of the ladder are so often drunk on their own self importance that they neglect to understand that the <whatever> that is produced is actually produced by the little minions that so often get treated relatively poorly, and without those minions there's no production, and without production there's no product, and without a product what the hell is the point of all the management?

Re: @wolfetone

Uh, my take on this is that the salary isn't increasing in step with inflation so effectively it's a drop in pay if seen in the context of "what this amount of money actually buys".

This, coming when the head honcho gave himself a near third extra. Is it really any wonder they're annoyed?

Re: Idiot dot com'ers..someone not in the Bay Area I'd guess..

"Iraq started selling for € and Saddam was hanged"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/07/debunking-the-dumping-the-dollar-conspiracy/

Yup, there's a reason why companies over there are hostile to the idea of unionisation. It's astonishing anybody wants to go to work, but I guess it's a case of having to put up with it in order to pay the bills.

Re: Or you could...

Wasn't it 19.2°E in the analogue days, then 22.8°E in the digital days?

Or as I'm aligning the dish, aim it south then left a bit (as I'm behind it) until something happens.

Re: Hasta la vista, Faxy

Back in the day, I did tech stuff for a company selling overseas property. More than a few agents used to send us property details and photographs by fax. We had no luck trying to explain that sending a photograph by fax was an extraordinarily poor idea, but...

This was the day when my 14k4 modem was cutting edge, my "email" was Fidonet, and I think Demon was in it's infancy, with most people having no idea what the internet was. So, yeah, fax and posting floppies was how data usually got from here to there.

Downvote because back in the late '90s, we used to get junkmail faxes. The little sender ID number printed at the top? Our number.

Given these documents were received and stored on a harddisc as a TIFF image, tell me what is to stop me pixel editing the image to say something different, then tossing it to an old paper based fax machine and saying "this is what was received"?

Probably pointless for an advert, but could be interesting if it's making subtle edits to a signed contract, or something.

Fax is believed to be "secure" because it is point to point and you know that something somewhere received the copy in real time, which makes it a lot harder to fake or fudge, but not impossible.

Given this is a legal thing, it was probably designed in the day when a fax meant shoving a piece of paper into a machine and hoping that it didn't chew it up as it trundled slowly through.

In this case, a signature on a fax would be a direct copy of the actual signature on the original paper, thus the alleged "legal weight".

The rest of the world caught up, overtook, and now it's possibly to fire off a PDF with an embedded graphic of a signature at a high enough resolution that the only difference between it and the original is the lack of indent on the paper...

I have a rotary dial which works with the ADSL box thanks to a widget that translates pulses to beeps.