Posts by cd

Re: No naming please?

I've been calling him Dunning Kruger for some time now.

Re: Surely if you're an internet company ...

I just highlighted "moz://a" in your comment (as well as the first part of this sentence), and chose "Search DuckDuckGo for moz://a" (more edited copy/paste, since we're signaling our amazing skills).

The Bugzilla thread about Firefox came in third. First two are a company called Moz, who are in for a windfall, looks like.

Like Apple, Mozilla is focused on the wrong things these days.

Re: If only...

Perhaps SAP or Salesforce could help with that.

Re: Off topic (a bit) but...

"The APIs

That you despise

Can now be run

On Raspberry Pis"

Burma Shave

Re: A Typical Scam Call I Get

True in the US as well. Not sure why you were downvoted.

Signed up for Verizon landline/DSL at a different location for temporary project. Telemarketers start calling as soon as I plug it in. Verizon rep says the number is being gotten from the directory, that they don't sell numbers. I point out that the calls came before the account was even billed, much less published. I had looked myself up on Verizon's own online white pages and I wasn't there yet.

Filed a complaint with that state and FCC, Verizon suddenly calling me to apologise. Telemarketing calls stop.

First step: remove fox from henhouse.

Re: Shocking!

Unfortunately, outgoing president Neville Chamberlain II missed his chances.

Re: The Wordpress of Databases

That disdain is a primary contributor to the problem. Fix your own car, do you? Could build one on your own? Know how to run a lathe and CNC? Forge metal parts? No problem fixing anything in your domicile that goes wrong? Never need a service call, correct?

If you need any help with those, you must be less than a burger flipper.

Many people just want to drive somewhere. Many just want to turn on the heat or take a shower and have it work. And the same with online publishing. Lots of people have very high skills in other aareas besides programming (yes, they exist) and don't care how the web works, they have stuff they want to share or discuss. And the people who could help most shit on them instead.

So we have Facebook and Wordpress and Flickr and other low-entry crap polluting the web. It's really your fault for not doing better. You are an expert in human interface, correct? Don't need any help with that, I hope. Should be easy then.

If you think WP is crap, make something better and help the world with your expertise.

Let us know when it's done. We could use it.

Re: The time has come .......

Don't worry, there's already a solution which is even more risible. Signing up with most telco's means signing away all tort rights and submitting to binding arbitration for all disputes. So when the telco really does FUBAR your life you can't do anything about it.

As we all know, telcos never commit errors in security or billing, and competent customer service reps are right there to help. So there's no need for the customer to have a hammer to hold in case they don't oblige.

Isn't that better? You did want a solution.

Re: So...

I was at an outfitter shop one day, listened in on a conversation about a roof rack.

Salesman demonstrates why a certain (expensive) rack is the best because it's so easy to just open the clips and remove it when not needed. Why drive around with a rack when you don't need to, only a few seconds and it's gone from the roof.

Customer says that sounds very good.

Then salesman points out that a thief could also easily open those clips and make off with it, so for only $40 extra per lock he could buy 4 locks to protect each clip.

At this point I drifted off, no need to spoil lunch.

Re: You say...

Notice that the Play Store does nothing about that situation, so that users become accustomed to ridiculous permissions creep being the norm. There's no rating system for that, no mention of it until one goes to Install. One might wonder such behavior is being enabled by the proprietor.

Re: Replacements?

If you have a shared hosting account, Owncloud and other options can be had as part of the package. Some have installer as well, although I'd change the default options on directory names and places.

Re: deja vu

There is an American term for this; a wall job.

Customer drives automobile to garage with problem, mechanic parks it by wall. Customer comes back, pays mechanic, "all done, it's over there by the wall".

Not that I used Evernote, amused that people still trust the Si Valley Psychos © with anything personal.

Article prompted me to look at the cpanel interface on my lowly shared server account. Softalicious will install Owncloud with a few clicks, although I'd suggest mods from the default directory names for the app and the data. Mere minutes and I have my own cloud. who'da thought?

There are better ways if you don't need the app, remote editing text processor for one. Of all the sites that ought to have no Evernote users, this ought to be one of them.

Re: Vocational training

The large trucking companies in the US have over 100% turnover rates. Every day craigslist and other job boards are splattered with their offers of a new career, complete with training. US gov pays for that vocational training at their company schools. Then the companies screw the driver by not letting them go home for months until they quit. The question is whether they make more delivering freight or doing vocational training.

We're close to Mark Twain's way of getting by; by taking in each others laundry.

Late the beeb seems written and laid out by fuckwits. I read a para and the same words are repeated in larger type right below it. Further down, there's larger type I haven't read, until later when it shows up in the article itself, this time in the correct logical place instead of several lines ahead. I imagine that the kind of people who read newspapers with small pages and large type find it useful to only read the large bits.

Re: Mandatory Voting

I rarely vote. I live where my vote won't count because of the electoral college. A drop of water in the ocean would desalinate more than my vote would count. The upshot of the EC is that lots of logical people don't bother.

The EC won't go away because every time a party wins by gaming it they aren't going to turn around and wreck it. If everyone elected in US at every level was one party, the EC would still be there next election. Thus the parties put themselves ahead of the country they purport to represent.

The media and polls reinforce stereotypes on both sides, making this more entrenched.

Then there's cynicism: There were two candidates who spoke from the heart, one of them galvanised young voters like no other. But he was yanked aside and replaced by a monotonous corporate drone. The dems need to learn the difference between a visionary and a functionary.

So does Apple, for that matter.

Re: No holding back PayPal when responding to security issues

They can't move fast because Thiel's hair would get blown out of place. Once hairspray becomes sufficiently advanced you will see amazing changes. They're using that beach as a testing area, thus off-limits to people who might be scarred by the sight of...something.

Americans are devops, thus the F-35.

Nah, it's just a mile or so from the statue of Elvis.

Re: Get some perspective.

Everyone talks about earthquakes and computer security, but no one does anything about them.

Why Indeed

I never buy Applecare or take my machines in for service. I fix them myself, so far have been fortunate not to have to redo any SMD issues. I do have a board to reflow someday when my nerves are of steel. If I take my MBP back to Apple because of a not-quite-dead hard drive, they essentially have my data. Yes, Filevault *may* not have a back door and so it would be perfectly safe to return a drive so encrypted.

So now there is no choice other than purchasing a new machine. If your company feels fine with returning the machine complete with data to Apple that's fine, but I won't do it with my mere personal data. Apple is building lots of data silos just like all the other farmers.

Best thing to do with a new mac is remove all the Apple crapware first thing. I have a feeling that scheisse like iTunes will now be considered integral system software if MDM is fully implemented. Mr. Cook is starting to resemble a certain character in a notorious commercial aired in the 1980's by a fledgling computer company that was going to change the rules for the good.

There is no one at Apple who has the vision required to make the changes they are making, it is mere blind striking out and technical frustration that lead to the monoport idea.