Posts by myhandler

Banks will usually push blame back onto users - see recent reports of students getting scammed out of their funds.

Only just spotted this - upgraded the personal WP site I maintain.

Looking at Mr Ferrara's post it seems that WP still uses the mysql database driver, not PDO (or mysqli).

How long has it been deprecated ? Six years? That's inexcusable.

But I still don't see why fixing it properly should break plugins?

So is the general rule that AI pattern recognition works off perceptual hashing?

There must be more to it - that seems fundamentally not AI but just massive statistical guesswork.

They should be converting to vectors, like SVG etc, then looking for patterns.

I live in a marginal lib/con area. Got phoned by a Lib Dem canvasser the day before the vote, but he was in Canada - FFS if they can't use local companies they won't get my vote.

OTOH the young conservatives at my front door, accompanied by an obnoxious Aussie bastard who said a vote for the lib dems was a vote for Corbyn, made the choice very simple.

On the Guardian page on this report someone linked to a study suggesting electro magnetic radiation disrupts insects bio mechanics - I have no idea how valid the study is but :

https://ehtrust.org/science/bees-butterflies-wildlife-research-electromagnetic-fields-environment/

(one of the reports cited there is by a certain Cucurachi, C - he's hopping mad about it)

- joking aside if this has some truth to it it should be front page news

I bet that's a name she gave herself, by deed poll or however they do it in the US

.. and when she didn't win she did something silly to find fame

"...said Mark Hung ..."

We all know which garment he'll be sporting.

I used to train small groups of six or so who would travel miles to a training centre for the day.

Some wanted to lap up what I had to say, some couldn't be bothered at all.

Worse were the ones who simply saw it as a day to get out of the office and a nice place to chat to their buddies.

One group went to the pub at lunchtime after scoffing the complimentary luxury sandwiches, and came back pissed two hours later. I so wanted to tell them to FO home.

Is it really so bad in schools? My daughter did a bit of Python programming in year 9 ICT.

I read there was a Colossus in Bedfont, now BP labs, just west of London.. must be an article in that.

(The guy who saw it there in his youth is on a forum I frequent - slip me a fiver Mr /Ms Reg Journo and I can put you in touch)

Species diversity.. maybe they can get a cyberman to play the Doctor next?

Thanks for the clarification on 'a sun' v 'the sun.'

Was Simon Sharwood being bloody-minded or is he just crap at explaining?

It's called disambiguation, me old china.

Bandcamp seems much better for us little guys and less anonymous as you can add pictures.

And none of the stupid cross linking where you get random crap in someone's listing.

Yep live not that far from filthy, noisy Heathrow .. but Concorde would take off and do a sharp right and went directly over my street, one end to the other, engines roaring like rockets.

The house would shake, the windows rattle and every time I'd rush to try and see it.

Properly awesome.

It also happens on VPS.

Namesco did exactly this recently. It came with their generous free bonus offer of "We couldn't give a monkeys about forewarning you of any possible snafus that may arise."

So let me get this straight - Tesla uses AI hooked up to a camera to recognise obstacles?

There's no fall back with a proximity detection system like radar?

Any one read Philip K Dick's Ubik?

They have mini drones, not much bigger then bumble bees, that follow people around spouting adverts.

If I recall correctly they also have built in AI so if you to try to swat them, they plead for their life.

In another of his books your front door lock is connected to the powers that be - so if you fall behind on your bills you can't get into your apartment.

I hope Bigsby are going to sue - they may have been planning a Bigsby add on for smart phones. I can see it now...

(joke for guitar nerds)

Maybe it's the wake up call the government needs - doesn't matter what colour govt.

OTOH it gives them more ammunition to lock down access for everyone.

Search is abysmal - if they improve that I will be happy - right now I get thousands of results for a simple word - you cannot turn off the stupid whatever it's called auto sense.

Example: if you search for 'Weds' hoping for days of the week, it will also return anything with the word 'wedding'

Eh, they've forgotten to sue this lot:

PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository

https://pear.php.net/

And then Coco de Mer had a bum shaped logo based on a suggestive looking fruit.

All I care about is they raised $ 120 million. I mean really? Who are these investors?

Can I sell them my IoT poo machine.. you get ready made poop in a pack and you print it to designer dung shapes using a 3d printer - end result iStools.

No need to eat - comes complete with selfie stick.

I'm unidenitfiable on my old Vista machine, but not on my W7 - I think it's the fonts.

Firefox user and don't do social waste of time.

For plugins I have Adblock Edge, BetterPrivacy and SelectiveCookieDelete - that deletes every cookie when I close the browser, apart from any I've nominated to keep. How long before ISPs let them slurp IP to address..?

Pled? isn't it "he pleaded guily m'lud" , or do plebs pled in the US?

There was that rather good re-enactment of the test at Ally Pally (or was it Crystal Palace) on the Beeb a few months ago. Dallas wotsisname presenting. Had JLB's chief engineeer and the old tech up and running.

A hundred and one cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown.

Multiply by a thousand and it's all of 125 quid in 1960s carpet cleaner jingles.

Made a car insurance claim last year and took car to local London assessor.

Got a call a few days later from Liverpool with a dodgy geezer going on about my lovely motor and they could maybe write it off or do the repair after my sad accident - wtf?

Didn't trust him an inch and had to call insurer to verify who this random geezer was.

I bet the spam filter catches him.

Eh.. it says it's a satirical wiki - I 've never heard of it before this.

It's not the well known Wikipaedia

If he's dablling in the arse end of the internet he shouldn't expect much.. and why on earth is a councillor going to sites like this anyway?