* Posts by TheVogon

3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013

I predict a riot: Amazon UK chief foresees 'civil unrest' for no-deal Brexit

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Re: Vogon

"Unless your particular democracy uses FPTP"

Those are still individual elections where the majority of voters wins.

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Re: Vogon

"especially when one of the key demands of the Indian government is that we take MORE migrants in exchange for improved trade deals?"

Easy. Go for the UAE / Bermuda model where you never get residency rights and have to leave as soon as you don't have a job that is sponsoring you.

TheVogon

Re: eh?

"a number of sectors could be very severely impacted including transport, food and beverage service, construction, health care, and agriculture."

You mean they will have to pay market wages for a change to attract employees? Shocking!

TheVogon

"one that avoided the tendency to shift employment to the cheapest location."

Instead of which it moved the cheapest (often illegal) resources to the location and undercut the indigenous population.

TheVogon

Re: Vogon

"It wasn't an election, if it were, we would get a chance to vote again in a couple of years..."

Maybe you will. But just like any other election that will be after the vote from the previous election has been implemented.

TheVogon

Re: eh?

"Not in Scotland and Northern Ireland and any kind of hard Brexit will facilitate losing both."

The benefits of Brexit just keep coming! Both Scotland and Northern Ireland are a drain on the rest of the country. Scotland for instance has a larger budget deficit than Greece.

TheVogon

Re: eh?

"Unless you're stockpiling champagne now"

No need. Thanks to AGW, Kent now makes some of the best sparkling wine in Europe.

TheVogon

Re: Vogon

"Hardly a majority of any sort."

It was a majority of voters just like wins any other democratic election. If you dont vote, your opinion doesnt count.

And if the rest had voted it would have been an even larger majority for Brexit.

TheVogon

Re: "Where is the evidence to suggest that would happen?"

"there is going to be a LOT less enthusiasm for looking the other way while they raise money and buy guns in the U.S."

Yes, all those buckets 'for the cause' every St Patrick's day disappeared rather rapidly when they found out what comes around goes around on 11/9.

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Re: Vogon

"17.5m v 16m is not exactly a majority anyone should be celebrating"

Just about everyone I know did.

TheVogon

Re: eh?

"According to WTO rules, goods must be checked at ports of entry and tariffs must be applied"

That doesnt mean you have to physically inspect every shipment. Just like now.

TheVogon

Re: eh?

The only civil unrest will be if the celebration parties get out of hand. This is exactly what the majority of voters voted for.

Oracle Database 18: Now in downloadable Linux flavour

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Re: Unknown reasons?

Thank you god for SQL Server AAG that means I no longer need anything Oracle.

In Microsoft land, cloud comes to you! Office 365 stuff to be bled into on-prem Office 2019 Server

TheVogon

Re: So...????

"those Office 2019 installations will also need Windows 10"

No LTSB support though. It won't run on that at all. But seeing as LTSB is specifically not for standard desktops that run MS Office that shouldn't be a problem for anyone that listened!

Intel Xeon workhorses boot evil maids out of the hotel: USB-based spying thwarted by fix

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Re: and in other news

"since that maid can just as well replace the mainboard."

But then the system wouldn't boot as your encryption keys for Secure Boot are in the TPM.

Quantum, Linux and Dynamics: That's the week at Microsoft, not a '70s prog rock band

TheVogon

Re: Powershell on Linux

"vSphere never used bash."

Yes it did and still does. They used to call it the ESXi shell. Now it is called the vcsa Bash shell. It's disabled by default, because you would normally use Powershell remoting.

Google's Alphabet hit by Europe's other GDPR: Global Domination = Profit Reduction

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Re: Oh, we "customers" or "products" always pay

"Companies never actually pay these little skims on their cost of doing business, costs are all pass-through, historically"

They are made to pay in the EU at least. And cry me a river that advertisers will have to pay more for Google's Spyware as a Service output.

Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year

TheVogon

Re: Lets get real

"all with many nines reliability"

I'm not sure 3 is "many". But otherwise correct.

TheVogon

Re: Loads of Money

"Can't for the life of me understand why"

Lowest TCO for most use cases, lowest risk, largest application and integration choice.

"but at least it isn't Amazon and especially Oracle."

Or Google.

TheVogon

Re: Rebirth of the phoenix

"Sounds like they will soon be giving AWS a run for their money"

Microsoft's cloud division revenue run rate exceeded AWS's revenue over a year ago now and is still growing faster.

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

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"Over-reliance on economic theory. If a ruble is worth what Stalin says it is"

No, because then it doesnt function as currency in a normal market economy. It's effectively a scrip from a truck system of payment.

TheVogon

Re: Devaluation of the Ruble

"That's the ruble that Comrade Lenin specified the value of?"

He controlled the official foreign exchange rates and many prices. No one given a choice stuck to the official exchange rates. Or the Rouble for that matter.

The point was that the devaluation effect does not require consumer knowledge that additional currency has been issued.

TheVogon

"Wouldn't that only happen if people knew? I mean, print a run for the government, print some duplicates for you..."

No, it it's basic economics that printing more currency will devalue it:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/634/economics/the-problem-with-printing-money/

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"Who's to say they didn't do the same for banknotes?"

No one. But it would have devalued the currency exactly the same.

People hate hot-desking. Google thinks they’ll love hot-Chromebooking

TheVogon

Re: lowest common denominator

"I prefer Google Apps to MS-Office"

If your requirements are so limited that you can use Google Apps then Microsoft do free Web Craps too: https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online

"I'd greatly prefer if my kids' school switched to G-Suite"

Yes but most parents want their kids to have skills they are actually likely to use in the workplace.

TheVogon

Re: lowest common denominator

"And yet I can still see three mac's within line of sight. --->"

They were probably bought under the aesthetic furniture budget.

Azure running out of internets in UK South, starts rationing VMs

TheVogon

Re: Its not so grim up here

"We got space and comms, and cooling will generally be easier, and staff generally cheaper"

And given a few more decades of AGW, might even be pleasant to visit!.

Azure promises to keep your backups safe and snug for up to 10 years

TheVogon

I think you are confusing Microsoft with Google.

Notes/Domino is alive! Second beta of version 10 is imminent

TheVogon

Re: It's actually used a lot

"Try that with Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora..."

It's easy to do that on Outlook at least.

TheVogon

Re: The way things are going with Office 36x (where x >>> 0)

"We're currently handling about 35 different companies (/O's) and 100+ mail domains aggregated into a single Domino domain. It's actually rather easy to manage all things aside in compared to what would need to be done in Microsoft world."

Not true for at least a decade. Exchange is specifically built to support multiple tenants. You can easily run it as a shared hosted service with multiple tenants that are utterly unaware of each other.

TheVogon

Re: The way things are going with Office 36x (where x >>> 0)

"Microsoft is very committed to O365, and that means that future versions of Exchange will both lag behind in features"

Seeing as they are based on the same core application servers, no it doesn't.

TheVogon

Re: Notes - The Marmite of software

"Notes/Domino is alive!?"

Presumably in the same way that Mike the chicken was alive.

Windows 10 IoT Core Services unleashed to public preview

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Re: Wow, that's appealing

"Soon to be known as the Expensive Decade of Hell."

For those that ignored Microsoft's comments that the LTSB was not for standard desktops (defined as anything that runs MS Office) anyway.

TheVogon

Re: tried and tested windows update

"Compared to setting up a .deb repo and creating debs which is a sinch and pretty solid tech."

Versus simply clicking on an update button?

It's 2018 so, of course, climate.news is sold to climate change deniers

TheVogon

Re: And so began the climate wars..

"Nope, based on assumptions wrt the potential effects of elevated CO2. Which is the crux of the ECS debate"

It's not an assumption that increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the temperature. It's a scientific fact that is not disputed by a single recognised scientific institution on the planet. The first paper on CO2 increases causing global warming was published in 1896.

"ie if CO2=X then how much warming?""

Like the IPCCs climate projections of CO2 level over time versus temperature you mean? That higher atmospheric CO2 will heat the planet is not in any scientific doubt whatsoever.

"Climate scientists use a 30yr interval to describe climates"

No they don't. There is no fixed interval.

Things have change in the decade since your article was published. For an accurate comparison, see:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction

TheVogon

"I've seen the code that comprises the computer models used to make predictions and it is complete and utter crap that I would fail big time if it came to me for code review. "

You don't need to look at the projections of the future. Just look at recent history - www.woodfortrees.org

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"and questioning the accepted "truth" that mankind is the ONLY cause."

The position accepted by >97% of climate scientists is that the planet is warming and that humans are at least a SIGNIFICANT cause of that.

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"Read this: "

Yes, perfect example of fake news.

TheVogon

Re: "decried as 'fake news' because it's written by well known climate 'deniers'"

"Predictions typically have run hot compared to reality. "

Not any more. If you look at say the IPCCs predictions versus the current rate of rise they were extremely conservative.

http://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TimeSeries2017.png

TheVogon

Re: And so began the climate wars..

"where he showed a simple model predicting global warming based on a set of assumptions. "

To put it a bit more precisely, he calculated and described several scenarios of what might happen if CO2 levels kept rising at different rates based on well known science - that CO2 in the atmosphere was increasing due to human activities was well known and CO2 had been known to be a greenhouse gas for over 100 years.

Google to build private trans-Atlantic cable from US to France

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Re: Google braced for giant Android fine from EU

"Is the release or timing of the story about 'laying trans-atlantic cables' really about dangling a carrot in front of the EU? "

I can't imagine that the EU gives a crap about one fibre cable among many.

"The commission's approach... would mean less innovation from Google, less choice from Google, less competition from Google, and higher prices from Google"

TFTFY.

Submarine cables at risk from sea water, boffins warn. Wait, what?

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Re: Total Malarky. This is abject stupidity

"Sea levels are rising -- but slowly."

Yes but the rate of rise is increasing. And the rate of the rate of rise is also increasing, and is expected to continue to do so. Expected sea level rise by 2100 is 60cm - 2m plus. Likely on the higher side of that from much of the recent analysis.

TheVogon

Re: Not really a big issue

"Florida is sinking faster than sea level is rising"

So the problem is that much worse then.

TheVogon

Re: Not really a big issue

"Sea level rises slowly"

Clearly not slowly enough. It's currently rising at about 3.3mm a year and accelerating - and the rate of acceleration is increasing.

Azure certifications are awful, Microsoft admits, so it has made new ones

TheVogon

Re: Certifications, pah !

"My experience with Windows-minded colleagues is they are more inclined to memorize a list of letters and fill in a multiple guess test "

You can't easily guess or learn the Microsoft exams. They construct the scenarios and answers at random from a selection of options so no two exams are the same.

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

TheVogon

"No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?"

Perfectly normal when you want to send a cleavage shot via Skype.

Two-factor auth totally locks down Office 365? You may want to check all your services...

TheVogon

Re: Wow. Click bait.

"Exchange can't even get SPF right."

? SPF worked just fine in the many organisations I have worked for.

TheVogon

"The only way to keep a secret between two people is to kill one of them. This holds true with computer security."

You could have half the secret each?

Indictment bombshell: 'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked Hillary's emails same day Trump asked Russia for help

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Re: Gullible?

"Are peeps gullible enough to believe one fake news? Prolly not"

Only 73% of Americans believe in climate change. That's largely due to fake news.