Posts by nijam

Re: My BS-o-meter just shot off the scale

> ...possibly a hardcoded amount in a COBOL program ...

We're all quite fed up of being told how vital COBOL is, thank you.

Re: Lets take the "morality" out of the comments

> ... i do not think allowing the big players to do whatever they want ... is better.

In this case it appears "big players" means "with friends(1) in government".

(1) for some value of "friends".

Re: What a bunch of assets

> Which is why, you're going to do home automation, it should be local.

I believe we say "on-prem" rather than "local"...

Re: Purity is nice, but where do you stop?

> But then it would be obvious and visible to the world just how poor the hardware actually is and we'd all be able to see the badly written kludges in the driver software that has to work around those hardware failings.

And, I've heard it suggested, we'd also see exactly how many other patents and licences the manaufacturers are infringing.

Re: site stupidity.

> The ruling stops LinkedIn from putting up blocks to stop scraping.

Not quite.

It stops LinkedIn from putting up blocks to stop scraping "public" (i.e. visible to a casual user browsing the site) data.

Re: Which brings to mind this...

... and that is how capitalism works.

Re: I just have to LAUGH at the level of cluelessness here...

> ... what it means is that extreme events, be it storms, extreme cold or hot events will be more frequent

No, it's not that either.

In the UK, we recently started giving "storms" names. (Not that enyone from a region with proper storms would think they're that bad.) The intention is to create the impression that storms here are now more serious and more frequent that they used to be. It is a fairly blatant marketing technique. As an exercise for the reader: what is being marketed?

Re: @Spaceman9

> disappointing damp squib for ... fanatical remainers

There were no fanatical remainers, of course. The benefits of brexit though... that really is a damp - positively drenched, in fact - squib.

Re: Here we go again

> And great bolshy yarblockos to those who give me thumbs down for pointing out a few unpleasant truths.

And great bolshy yarblockos to those who give me thumbs down for making up a few unpleasant pieces of drivel.

FTFY

> Think about all the data that Chrome slurps...

But that won't be what they're stopping, I expect.

Re: Password Manager

Welcome to the NatWest login page, which is carefully and deliberately designed to prevent the use of password managers.

But then, who'd want to try breaking into a NatWest account?

Re: COBOL IS DEAD!

> ... there are more functional lines of COBOL and Fortran working...

Prolixity rules.

> . pretty much ubiquitous in big business ...

Like PHBs, then.

> just click it and upsize the instance

Is it that easy to downsize it again, I wonder?

Re: An energy responsible solution.

> Have a trusted third party to mediate who owns the coins and which coins are genuine.

Well, of course history reveals that such third parties are sometimes less than trustworthy. Not to mention that none of them mediate ownership.

Re: How the mighty have fallen

> The king is dead, and the kingdom was raped, pillaged, then split asunder. (These views are my statements of my opinion in case any legal beagles are reading this.)

If they read it and object, that's pretty much evidence that your opinion is justified, I'd say.

> Repeat after me...

No-one is allowed to repeat it, it's patented.

Re: No Sendmail?!

> Keeps the door open in the summer.

And blocks the doorway completely in winter.

> are we shafted more than EU?

Yes, in this and many other respects.

Re: Dear Microsoft.....

> Rule#1: If it ain't broke ...

Not relevant to Microsoft products.

> Then we can see what tossers most of them really are.

But who'd watch?