Posts by inmypjs

Re: Surprised?

"It takes all of two seconds to google "how does co2 trap heat,""

But the important question is not how but how much. CO2 is responsible for a tiny proportion of the greenhouse effect. The absorption spectrum of CO2 is narrow, once you have absorbed all the heat in that narrow part of the spectrum higher CO2 proportions will make no difference.

All the predictions of catastrophic temperature increases assume small rises from CO2 force much larger rises from increased water vapour which is all guesswork and frankly bollocks. The global climate system can not possibly have an overall +ve feedback effect. If it did a single dinosaur fart would have us burnt to a crisp by now.

""restore" - from what?"

PAR is a file based redundant storage system. 10% of PAR files generated across a whole drive could recover up to 10% of any files on that drive. It is a very efficient in storage space and inefficient in processing power method for protecting data against partial loss or corruption.

I don't see it being very useful for protection against encrypting attacks.

Re: "the removal of geo-blocking will weaken the financial value of content"

" please put the mirror down and stop talking to yourself. "

Such cutting wit, such a clever put down, you have me sobbing into my keyboard.

Still saying it you know.

Re: >>Your job might be automated within 120 years, AI experts reckon

Bring back the looms you have to pedal to create new jobs I say.

Re: Oh for Pity's Sake

"I can't see how on earth Google getting round that could ever be considered legal."

They will just buy some new laws by buying politicians that make them.

Re: What! The! Hell! Does! ImageMagick! Have! To! Do! With! Yahoo!?

Puzzled me a bit, but, I assume it runs on Yahoo servers for their web based email service.

Why anyone would still be using Yahoo for email is what confuses me.

Re: Business users

"LibreOffice is nowhere near functional parity with Microsoft Office"

Sure, but, I still see people hit tab at the start of every line when they want a paragraph indented.

Re: Inevitable

"blaming a commercial company for not patching a 13 year"

I think blaming and criticising a company that sold you buggy vulnerable crap and refuses to fix bugs because someone else didn't find and advise them of them soon enough is entirely justified.

I have some compilers from a company with a policy that finding a bug in an obsolete unsupported version of the compiler entitles you to a free upgrade to a current supported version. That would be the policy of a decent company (which Microsoft clearly isn't). Of course Microsoft's current supported version being a piece of shit that no one wants would stymie such a policy.

Re: Enough negative energy -_-

"And the thing that you guys are missing is"

And the thing you are missing is Win 10 is a steaming pile of spyware shit that thinks it is a phone and that no one really wants to run on intel never mind arm.

Windows is a shit and expensive OS supported by the volume and quality of Win32 and 64 applications written for it. Without continued development of those it is Windows that should be considered legacy not x86.

Re: Not regulated?

"> Nowadays a degree only slightly over qualifies you to fill supermarket shelves."

"And you would say that on the experience of having attained which qualifications, exactly"

I say that on the basis of UK universities accepting 532k students in 2015, and it being about ten times more than when one accepted me.

I quit half way through the course to be paid to do something more interesting and useful. I probably couldn't do that today because ironically degrees are so 2 a penny and worthless you won't be considered for anything much more demanding than stacking supermarket shelves without one.

Re: The future...

"HFT shows that the financial system is broken"

Broken? More like being abused. The trading systems should add up to 5 seconds of random delay to each trade to stop traders wasting money on technology and location trying to screw each other.

Re: Rick Dickinson

"looks like a million dollars"

Why would people want it to look like a million dollars instead of the original 19 and sixpence look?

I don't really understand why people want it at all

Re: "and brings a host of new questions surrounding the way these vehicles will...

" wtahc out for the wheelie bin in the road"

If they can't recognise a wheelie bin without being told about it then the message will be "watch out for me I am crashed into something" presumably needed because they can't recognise a crashed car either?

The rest sounds like built in and forced to use Waze.

Re: Why should a browser report extensions in use?

"since it said it only works in Chrome"

But using Chrome means you don't care about privacy anyway.

The logins and extensions usages is irrelevant anyway, their browser fingerprinting is completely rubbish.

It told me I was the same as about 680 among 5200 while this https://panopticlick.eff.org tells me my browser is unique among 213k.

Re: But sometimes, random comedy gold...

"Like the day I opened the door on a startled Hermes driver who handed me a card telling me I wasn't in."

I have had similar crap from the post office. It seems when overloaded with parcels they swap some for postcards and very quietly shove them through the letter box.

Re: The only real solution

"a large enough majority of the public stop making these crooks enough money"

The calls cost almost nothing which is why a microscopic proportion of the public responding is enough to keep them coming. A real solution would be to make calls more expensive.

Re: "Assad is a doctor"

"talk about brutal regimes and dictators"

It is not a question of him being brutal or evil it is a question of him (and presumably his advisers) being idiots choosing to do their regime significant harm.

"aircraft movements that matched the attack?"

Of course they were bombing the place they are fighting a war. The question is were the chemicals in the bombs, were the chemicals stockpiled and released by conventional bombs, were the chemicals deliberately released by the rebels. I think the middle option most likely and the last more likely than the first.

Re: I'll leave this here.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

and you trust that site not to be harvesting all the email addresses people check?

I suppose I could check the dozens of throw away email addresses I have use to join forums like this, but, why would I care even if I could remember some of them?