Posts by The Boojum

Re: "you are bombarded with motorbike insurance advertising on every platform you go to"

Oh, bless him!

Re: Shades of Friday by Heinlein

And one of his favourites when discussing legislators and the electorate was "vote to make pi equal to 3."

Re: I am a bit worried

Yahoo! Mail being put down would be the best thing that has happened for internet security in years. Just about every scam email I've received has its origins in a Yahoo! email account.

Re: Nice Rant

Have 'pocket'ed to show to colleagues. Should be required reading.

Re: Slurping and Subscription? ...Time to boot Adobe, M$_Win10, Autodesk etc...

Thanks for that. I've just, with extreme reluctance, bought Lightroom on the basis that it was the least worst application for my photo catalogue management needs. Not being available for Windows is a pain, but it is another weight on the scales in favour of an eventual move to Linux.

Re: Don't get me started......

Agree with you about the statistics. My exchange is now wired for SuperFast, but my cabinet is not, and there's no indication of when, or even if, it ever will be.

Re: Malgorithms

Then Google's (m)algorithm© needs to take on board the 'six degrees of separation' theory. If they're doing that kind of linking then they could end up with anything!

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++Agree.

I can get most of my devices to stream to Sonos most of the time, but it's a bit unreliable, has huge latency and uses clunky third-party software.

And for anyone who has a music collection that extends beyond whatever's popular at this micro-instant, it's music player is primitive.

With this announcement I don't see either of these being improved any time, let alone soon.

Re: Evil Personified

You are too kind.

Far too kind.

Re: that public lotteries [are] hard to manipulate.

Have a read of the following: absolutely fascinating.

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/

It's probably because these markets are nowhere near big enough.

In the UK they do. Corporate Governance at the larger listed company level all but requires the separation of the roles and any such company trying to combine them has some serious and public explaining to so.

Re: Optional wisdoms

A paltry $1m bonus? I don't think so. As a senior exec, her bonus will be a large integer multiple of her salary.

In your use case, as you say, simples.

In other use cases with other family structures, not so simples. I will actually find this functionality rather useful, whereas your solution, to me, would be an absolute #fail.

And on a more practical note, if you keep bank login credentials in Lastpass, your bank would treat your approach as having disclosed your PIN to someone else if you are the victim of fraud. The fact that it's your significant other and that you trust her will matter not one whit to them.

Re: Nice buildings, good location

And that last is reason enough to pull the plug.

No, no. Just forward to Ashley Madison, marked 'For the Attention of Accounts Payable.'

Or, rather than getting a bonus for meeting various targets, it was more likely that they would have fired for not meeting the targets. Heard a story about Ferdinand Piesch in which he promised exactly that. And the same to their successor, presumably ad infinitum.

Re: 10 year olds..

Disagree completely (the comment that is). I will/can not play any game that takes more than about 15 seconds to learn so I need a 10±2 year old to tell me how to work Minecraft. And when they show me round their creations they do so at a speed approaching that of light, so I'm completely lost.

As a (single) parent to two such objects I found the paragraph in the article completely, absolutely, 100% on target.

Re: pretty impressive

Sounds waaaay below his level of ability.

And whenif the recipient has burned through all the money?

I have to say that I'm not familiar with the details of how KS operates, but if the recipient of the money is a limited company then the contributors are stuffed and if the recipient is an individual I would guess the most likely outcome is that they have no money, get made bankrupt and the contributors are stuffed.

Re: It is time for a PSA

Yet another reason never to use a landline for anything (other than being ripped off by the telco so that you can have broadband).

Re: So....

Personally, didn't give a damn. I just installed and used whichever browser(s) I wanted.

Re: Both right?

Good, clear summary Richard.

What I find interesting / curious / worrying * is the various Governments' apparent addiction to rhetoric rather than action in the current climate.

Nearly 20 years ago I worked with some high-end management consultants whose previous assignment had been to be paid a medium sized fortune by a global car manufacturer to provide a large, detailed, fact-and-data-heavy report to a government's Revenue department who suspected them of playing tricks with transfer pricing. The Revenue very much held the whip hand, the company was extremely worried and the onus was very much on it to prove that it wasn't playing games with its internal pricing because if it failed then the government would come down on it like a ton of bricks.

It would be nice to see the same today, rather than the vast amount of hot air and appeal to morality that seems to be the current favoured approach.

* Delete according to preference

Re: Temporal crime

From a copy of the Encylopedia Galactica that I found after it fell through a time warp from 50 years in the future:

"Games Workshop were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."