Posts by Alister

Re: So....

Sigh... The same old comparison being drawn.

This is NOT the same. Nobody is forced to use Google as a search engine. It is a personal choice. Indeed, for IE / Windows users, it requires a user to consciously change from the default which is Bing.

And even if you do use Google as your search engine, no one is forced to click on any particular one of the search results returned.

If a company wants to appear at the top of a particular set of results, they can pay for a sponsored link, but even if they don't do that, they will still appear in the organic results depending on their relevance.

Google does not hide or refuse to show links to competitors. What Google may do is give preference to their own services, but it does not force you to select them.

Re: Oops...

When the full scope of this gets out, HSBC will be scurrying to find a new business to be in, such as dog poop collector!

I am saddened by your trusting naivete.

What HSBC will be doing, after all this has come out, is just what they are doing now. No action will be taken, and they will swan along as before.

Re: Another question

would a few cluster bombs in Dallas sort out the troll problem

But then you would wake up, and find it was all a dream.

within 10m .... come on Reg, would that be minutes? miles? metres?

The SI unit of length is the metre, denoted by the symbol "m".

HTH, HAND.

oooh....posh words. On all the sites I've worked on, it was called a "wacker"

:-)

Given the debauched nature of the majority of commentards, I hesitated to type "hit repeatedly with a whacker"...

Re: Paper or plastic

The bag bang? Are you suggesting that some playful Creator 'startled' the universe into being?

Absolutely, there are traces of the Universal Crisp Packet going back right to the moment before the Bag Bang, although scientists are unsure at this moment whether Salt-and-Vinegar, or Cheese-and-Onion were the catalytic ingredients.

If I break into your house or car, but don't steal or break anything, were you harmed?

Err, well presumably you've done some damage by breaking in, so yes I would be harmed.

If not, then I wouldn't know about it, so no, I wouldn't be harmed.

You can't equate data slurping to breaking into a house though.

Re: I have to say a big thumbs up for............

I think Arctic Fox was referring to the article sub-heading, not the previous poster.

@Marketing Hack

One of the "features" of the new aircraft carriers, is the total lack of catapults installed...

So I'm afraid any "black sheep" would have to be shoved overboard by hand, unless they could find a plank to walk off...

Other than that, your plan sounds good.

:)

That said, I'm so used to the German voices for certain actors that watching films and series in English is often funny. For example, I was watching NCIS LA on Prime and noticed about half way through the first season, that it was also available in English, I switched and the actors' voices were so high pitched and squeaky, compared to their German voice overs, they suddenly didn't sound half so tough!

I wonder if this is the old time compression issue? Older American TV shows and movies were filmed at 24 frames per second, but to play them back over the European PAL TV system, they have to be speeded up by 4% - which makes the voices slightly higher pitched. The dubbed German voices will be at the correct pitch.

"your wait is over"

I'm sorry, but there's a couple of opportunities on the second video where you can see that the bloke is steering - and therefore I would assume, driving

The manouver where he cuts in front of the bus to turn right is clearly a human move, an autonomous car would not have left it until last minute to be in the correct lane.

Re: None

but on my iPhone or iPad I click on one button in the photo app, select the images to send, click on email, type in the email address and that's it.

Ahuh, and how many full size jpegs does it take before your email provider blocks the attachment?

Well, I've just finished re-configuring all the web servers for one of our client's sites.

It's a high traffic public ecommerce site for a travel company, and after discussion they took the decision that the 2 or 3 percent of users still on XP (taken from web analytics of the site) were not as important as the security of the other 97 percent.

According to the Qualsys SSL Labs site test, the site is now safe against FREAK, Poodle and Heartbleed, but is unable to be connected to over SSL by any version of IE running on XP, plus any client running OpenSSL 0.98 or below, or any client running Java 6.4.5.

We'll see what that does to overall hits over the next week...

Re: Chinese Concerns

Superfish

U.S. Headquarters:

E. Bayshore Road, #150,

Palo Alto, CA 94303

650-***-****

question, is a flange benefit greater or lesser than a fringe benefit?

Re: Could be okay...

If you put the same effort in breaking out of the lock-in as you do trying to make Windows work, the outcome would be much better in the long run.

I notice you post this as AC...

Some of us work for companies that use Windows, some for companies that develop Windows software, are you suggesting that we should "break out of the lock-in"? If I go to my company directors, and say "That Anonymous Coward says we should stop using Windows software, change our core business, because it'll be better in the long run" do you think I will still have a job?

As it happens, I administer Windows, Linux, and Apple hardware and software. They are all of them, in different ways, painful to manage, and particularly to get them all to work together.

Comments like yours are borne of ignorance or arrogance, either way they are stupid.

Re: Brilliant!

I have never, knowingly, mislabeled a goat.

Re: You best hope they don't really stop any time soon

Proof, or GTFO, you fearmongering fuckpopsicle.

I always enjoy Trevor's posts, full of gentle understated humour and written in the most elegant and erudite language...

In full agreement with you, btw. Just wanted to make a silly comment...

Oh, and +1 for fuckpopsicle, definitely worthy of inclusion in my vocabulary

Re: Well they would say that

You must be Mandy Rice-Davis...

BT put battery backups / external supplies into their cabinets for you.

Um, no, they don't. the line is powered from the exchange, 50V DC with 80V AC ringing current. The exchanges have nice big diesel gen packs though.

Re: HP?

even hand-made tomato sauce doesn't work too well with bacon.

Oh come on, bacon and tomato is one of those combinations that are set in stone, like lamb and mint sauce and beef and horseradish, they just work.