Posts by NeilPost

Re: I have said this before

This is just state sanctioned bribery.

Re: Artificial plagarism

Just 2%….,???

You missed assorted articles about best chippy too…. Then a follow-up on why no local ones made it into the UK Chippy the year comp.

Re: pizza is the perfect food

You would be surprised by the amount of Gire Service time wasted by burnt toast - though the real issue is the workplace Fire Detection/Alarm system likely just has a smoke detector, and not a heat detector in your welfare area.

It you are a BT 50 year lifer, you will have a (rare as hens teeth for any current employee) BT Final Salary pension. Make sure they tip some money into that too.

Re: Power strategy first ...

Next to Hinckley Point C then ??… Though the fab maybe completed before the power station.

… and perhaps just lay them more and they would not get poached.

Re: The dangers of certainty

‘Covid…. more or less became a non-issue’.

South Africa - 103K COVID deaths, 4.06m cases, catastrophic drop in alcohol sales.

Please discuss.

Re: Functional collision?

… until the bean-counters get at it.

The *only* UPS that should be a profit centre is the global parcel slinger.

Re: padded politicians' pockets

Maybe Kevin McCarthy can authorise a knowledge share with Fox News so we can have a full, honest and open expose.

Re: Commuting is dead

Cost of Living… who can afford to commute any more in the IT world ??

“some 2.8 million UK influencers and content creators”

… sounds like a bogus poorly labelled, I’ll-defined big number (hat doffed to BBC More or Less’).

Does it run Post Office Horizon?

Re: Another waste of UK tax payers money?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Computer_and_Telecommunications_Agency

Perhaps ???

Perhaps not …. Currently part of the Cabinet Office just interested in Procurement Framework’s.

Re: It depends on what they are trying to achieve

… and do what with the chips ??

Ship them to China/India/Taiwan/Turkey/Vietnam to the electronics factories as most of them here have already been long closed.

Full supply and manufacturing chain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-35428124.amp

Re: No trucker was involved in that design....

Wonder what boneheadtruckers have to say about it ;-)

Re: Pichai is a CFO at heart.

Private School-> Top University -> family contacts / nepotism -> Banking/Consulting -> MBA -> corporate & political lobbying / backwashing / bribery -> CEO/Prime Minister -> scandal/falailing government -> resignation -> £€$ on the speakers circuit -> UN or House or Lords

There, FIFY

Re: Unforgivable!

I think you mean the RT Broadcast news that Ofcom (UK regulator) took down because it repeated breaches of impartiality.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/supreme-court-will-not-hear-rt-appeal

Re: I can't wish Capital One well

Surely that’s a complaint to whatever Financial Regulator exists in your country?

Maybe some sort of equivalent of the UK’s Capital Gains Tax is required in the US … though the GOP would obstruct its progress through houses.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-sell-shares

The rich don’t like that either.

Re: Obsolete datacentres

More efficiency as opposed to (in a Jeremy. Claekson manner) “MORE POWER ! !”

That’s akin to junking your city streets because cars the size of a Hummer become standard.

Re: A Start

LOL they barely prosecute those who do breach it, and then reduce fines when they plead poverty.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/ico-reduces-british-airways-gdpr-fine-to-20-million-for-2018-data-breach/

They should have linked it to 10% profits over 20 years…. Not reduced it to around 15% of the original punative fine. BA must have been laughing all the way to the bank.

Simple white paint is used all over the world for this thing, not just Satellites.

Re: Project already pre-doomed

Surely crying out for a Comp Sci/Business School PhD thesis topic or research project funded by SERC (does that still exist?)

Re: Fascinating stuff

Yes….. If I wanted to watch the video, I would (and did).

An unnecessary and lengthy transcription was not required. Perhaps a link to that would be good middle ground.