Posts by Ian 55

Re: The good ship HMRC Privateer. There she sails me hearties

You're not allowed to claim bribes either.

I suppose that leaves having the company libel you, a la Twiggy Ratbone.

It was bad enough when closing an account that had originally been a Home choice one - they kept insisting that various TalkTalk contract clauses applied, when they clearly didn't.

Re: Bit of a dilemma here....

Yes, I get some actual real benefit from Google tracking me / everyone in a way that I don't from GCHQ / NSA doing it.

Re: Data *is* interesting and important

"But in a post-broadcast landscape where gone are the days of broadcast surveys that showed clearly whether folks were watching or listening"

Having worked on the RAJAR listening surveys, they might have been clear, but they weren't particularly accurate.

Re: No thanks, we've already got one...

Or expect you to know US English: "crosswalk".

Re: Gah!

The result HAS to be known very quickly! Counting paper ballots would be FAR too slow (and mean various friendly and only SLIGHTLY incompetent suppliers do not get rich!)

It's not as if there's an enormous gap between, say, the vote for the president and the winner taking office...

Re: I really like Linux except :]

Stopped using Mint when they broke being able to do (as superuser or via sudo)

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

to reliably upgrade from one version to another.

Re: Memory Use

Use Firefox. Hundreds of tabs open here.

It should - the kernel moves to 4.18 which knows a *lot* more about the Ryzen 2200G and 2400G than 4.15. In the meantime, I was using packages from kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Re: GUI ?

There was a time when I used an old PC as a router. Then I saw what Mikrotik routers could do while still running off a micro USB power input. I've already got the cost of one from the electricity saving and everyone else is happier at the size saving.

That "Prostitution is legal in the UK, but not in a brothel or via a pimp" is somewhat misleading.

In England & Wales, prostitution is indeed legal and it's only the people owning or running (or allowing on property they control or assorted other things) a brothel who break those laws: both clients and prostitutes there are still behaving legally.

Similarly, when it comes to agencies, it's just those running them who are 'controlling prostitution for gain' and thus behaving illegally.

(There is an offence of paying for sex with someone who is coerced, but as far as I can see, no-one's ever been charged with it.)

Despite those, there are plenty of brothels and escort agencies. Why? The police have better things to do, such as dealing with street work (where soliciting both ways is illegal). If you don't annoy the neighbours, some forces will invite brothel owners onto a committee to discuss how to run them better rather than charging them.

Scotland used to be more or less the same. When all its police forces were combined, the one in Glasgow - which hated prostitution - ended up in charge and so they've done things like harass people working legally.

Northern Ireland has made buying sex illegal, as a pointless bit of gesture politics. Hurts the people it pretends to protect, but makes the law makers feel happy.

I don't claim sex work law makes sense. Especially as no money need be involved for somewhere to be a "brothel", just more than one person being sexual with a variety of others.

Re: Music Licensing

Point me at that law?

Re: GURU MEDITATIONS! PRESS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO SLOW DOWN 30%

/I don't think it said on the box "Guaranteed Security At Top Performance For Any Possible Kernel"/

No, but it did say in the CPU documentation that it definitely wouldn't allow this...

Re: AI is what works

Yep, he's never seemed to be able to accept that the loss of the final game was his fault.

Erm, why put the value on the card before you've actually been paid for it?

Seen the 'file by file' comment above? Any thoughts?

Re: 'Fag up'?

Troll up, surely.

Re: probs swimming against the tide but...

I'm waiting for my Death Star.

Re: Thanks!

SATA might well work. Things like the network chipset driver, the graphics driver, and much else will not. You can be stuck with the need to update a PC that has no network connection (the network driver) and will only boot into 800x600 (the graphics defaulting to VESA SVGA). Good luck.

You mean the humble..

.. 'couldn't even multiply two 16 bit numbers and get the right 32 bit result when first released 80386?'

I had one of the '16 bit only'-stamped ones in an old PC. Windows 3.x was coded to watch out for them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is bad parenting tactics: 'I would have taken you to the theme park, but I was too busy answering "are we there yet", so we're going to the bank instead'.

Re: Notional funds and software reconciliation

Their website, probably.

Re: Canadians vs Americans

Assuming they get taken prisoner rather than just killed.

Re: What about Oxygen?

Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.

Re: TV

It's always been why a large chunk of women are in prison: non payment of fines for not having a TV licence.

Re: Skype has been on the decline ever since Microsoft bought it.

Hmm, I don't think I've ever had a problem with PulseAudio, despite its author.