Posts by Mark 85

Re: Let it go

Won't happen. There's too many politicos and their constituents who won't compromise or negotiate much less see any rational points from the other side. Both parties are to blame for the current messes, but everyone points fingers and no one says "let's sit down and sort this out". We've gone all shouty closed our minds.

This country needs it's elected officials AND the constituents (voters) to actually be rational on everything and not just blindly follow the party line.

Re: My Village

So people over 50 or 65 don't have sex? Don't have affairs? I've always heard the hotspot for random sex were "retirement homes". When I hit that age, I'll report back.

Re: Effing H1B

There's also the bit about "long-term employees" getting the axe. A lot of companies dump employees beyond a certain number of years because the pay and benefits cost the company profit. In the very short term it works. The loss of experienced people who know the systems, etc. will always come back to bite the company later.

And yeah.. the H1B is just a means of boosting short term profits. No loyalty, no reason to go the extra mile for the company. A pox on this.

Re: Microsoft's real fail…

IE11 may be part of the reason. There's an awful lot of forums that IE11 won't work with. Copy/paste, image uploading, even some forums function such as "quote" don't work. The people with these issues have moved over to Chrome/Firefox and many think Edge won't be any better than IE11. MS refuses to even acknowledge there's a problem with IE11 and suggests you "upgrade" to Win10 and Edge.

I'm seriously wondering if IE11 was broken intentionally.

@John Robson -- Re: Whose fault is this?

They don't have "blind spots", they don't have tempers, they don't start sneezing.

Good points. However, fresh from the factory, I think you're right on the above for the most part. But there are some vehicles that have issues even fresh from the factory. And as the car ages, sensors fail, hardware gets iffy.

OTOH, there might be some AI to monitor all this at some point and reliably predict failures on a given vehicle.

"Why must every insignificant landmass which pokes its head above sea level have its own top-level domain?"

Because...profit! Or at least a tax write-off.

Re: If this lot can get hold of it ...

Can't be. These are civil servants. It might also be a Powerpoint.

Re: "trialing"

Not a marketing droid are you? They've been turning nouns into verbs for decades and it's getting worse.

Re: Smarter than us

Or they're on their way...

Re: ISP level protection

could an ISP simply route all traffic (except BBC iPlayer :)) through a different company located in a civilised nation?

So not the US then? I'm not sure you'll find any civilized nations.

I think the turd polishing part has been outsourced to a certain software company who's latest polishing job is Win 10. <runs><ducks for cover>

Re: What do I think?

I think the FBI is pushing the issue. They have 2 cases now, with opposing viewpoints and orders. This is going to get escalated via appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. And it should be, there's some serious Constitutional questions that the FBI are messing with.

The FBI still requires a law degree as far as I know for agents so there's probably more than few internally questioning things. Or at least I'd hope they are.

@Roq D. Kasba -- Re: @a ghost

As an US citizen and voter, I think you pretty much nailed it.

The TLA's feel it is their "right" and "duty" to force this type of thing. It possibly also goes back to the cop jumping on the running board and telling the driver to "follow that car"... whether the driver is late for work or whatever. Ok.. that's a stretch.

I'm looking at this as good thing. We have a judge saying "no" and another judge saying "yes". Once the appeals start, they willl probably end up in the Supreme Court. The questions then are: "which case will be first to set the precedent?" and "what's the makeup of the Court -- hard-core-Constitutionalists or the-Constitution-is-a-living-document-believers".

This is bound to get murkier and more divisive as more of these cases go to trial.

This was inevitable, someone wants this power and doesn't care how they get it.

My question is "who is following who"? or maybe "whom"? Over here in the States, it appears that each of us are trying to top the other in their killing off democracy.

Re: Completely wrong

Tis a pity to say the least. Here I was hoping that this might sound the death knell of patent trolls. They are tough little bastards to kill.

Re: This is precisely why...

I think most people weigh the chances of being caught against the benefit and make value judgements.

I tend to agree with this otherwise there would be piles of carpet rolls from manglement offices deep in the woods. It also applies even to the minor infraction laws like speeding.

Re: Could you use it legally?

Unless it was paid by AOL, I don't recall getting charged for using Gopher or any tools back then. ISTR that there were some shareware tools available but being shareware most people never paid for them.

Re: Win-10-nic lowering new PC sales (as expected)

Printing for home is dead.

Maybe in your world it is. I use mine daily for check prints before laser cutting. There's lots of people still printing at home... recipes, photos, etc. Just maybe printing less..

Re: Verizon's accused criminality

Well.. yeah. Forgot. So now they'll be asking for more money.

It depends on what city you're in or even if you're in a city. Much is underground, much is hanging in the air overall. Where I am, there's almost nothing on poles... except dancers.

Re: Whoops

Yes, the government can be sued but only it allows itself to be. I don't there's been a whole lot of success with citizens suing the government over the years.

OTOH, why sue... free credit monitoring and a 4 digit PIN (wtf?) will make up for all the heartbreak, right?

Maybe one of NASA's listening posts picked up something and they know the invasion fleet is on it's way? If that's not it, then one should wonder about the status of the treaty.

Re: hold on..

Stranger things have happened so I'll hold off with ordering a tinfoil hat for now. But... it was the court=judge who invalidated the patent. Maybe.... or the judge/court got a clue that two invalidated were "obvious". Needless to say, I'm surprised also.

I'm actually wondering if a few of my conservative Christian acquaintances are correct, these are the "end times" and so cats and dogs will be living together.

Re: The amount of times

That's the trouble with some members of the public, they will accept that changing a tyre, then 4 weeks later their brake light bulb blowing is not a connected issue,

I quite disagree. I replaced a leaking radiator hose on my former mother-in-law's car and two days later the radio died. It was a rather old car that should have seen the scrap heap a decade earlier. But, guess who was to blame?

I've been around far too many people who want to blame everyone else for their a) own stupidity b) lack of knowledge and/or c) just won't take any responsibility for their actions. It's those people who keep the ambulance chasers in business.