Posts by FuzzyWuzzys

Puritan history hard at work in the 21st Century

What I love most is that 'Mericans have absolutely no issue owning lethal firearms, watching TV shows and movies where someone gets blasted away by a 12-gauge but show a bit of skin and the Puritan sensibilities that set up their great nation many moons ago, come racing to the surface and they loose their freaking minds. Show the kiddies some mean guns and a TV show where bad guys get blown away, "That's what makes a America great kids!". Show kiddies a tiny bit of flesh and it's "Scumbag, evil porn merchants are screwing up the youth of today with their filth!".

Hmmm, sure it was a "mistake"!

It was policy to blacklist people before and it then became a "mistake" when the story started getting attention and the company was put in the spotlight and made to look like what they are, a small time software company with a nasty problem that thinks they can treat their customers like dirt.

Hold on....

This isn't fair, I thought women had an advantage with small delicate tasks like those required for the game Operation, they're far better with smaller actions on small parts, something my wife tells me she excels at, not sure what she means.

Soon put a stop to that by putting on some proper music like Lamb of God, Decapitation or Slayer.

WINTER IS COMING (tm)

...something this poor sod won't be doing for quite some time if he doesn't cover it up!

We had a similar situation, we simply agreed to keep the old ones as they were and each new joiner got a new format ID. Then as people leave the old ones get phased out.

"University's Mohammed Aamir Ali, Dr Leonardus Arief, Dr Martin Emms, and professor Aad van Moorsel..."

'Dr Cooper, Dr Hofsteader, Dr Kuthrapalli and Mr Wollowitz!'

Tell all your mates to take the easy option

As most have advised, simply buy a £10 domain name off Gandi or whomever you like the look of ( except Freeparking as they're utterly useless! ) , then at the very least, if you don't their email offering, forward from your domain to your GMail. It's not tricky for most people as most domain sellers have a basic web interface, it's the last time you'll ever need to change your email. I've had the same domain for over 14 years now and probably the same 4 email addresses.

Real engineers...

...build their own CPU cores and don't buy them, ready made off the shelf!

Smut joke....

"What's the difference between porn and art? An arts council grant!"

Is it me...

...but wouldn't it better to have the default for all orders to be a max of 10 miles from an account holder's address? If you need to override that and increase the distance then you need some sort of 2FA to verify?

Can we see it?

Is this like the Data Protection Act or when the Police film a protest? That is, if I fill in a form and send in a tenner, do they have to tell me exactly what info they're keeping about me?

FFS!

Get yer backup tapes out and fecking restore the data. If you ain't got any backup tapes, a) you're a fecking eejit and 2) get a job in a different industry 'cos you shouldn't be working in ours!!!

"Just like the Moonraker goes in search of his dream of gold..."

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Some people have way too much time!

Leave these people alone FFS!

No one's forcing anyone at gunpoint to buy Apple's highly priced hipster bling. Some of it I like the look of, some I don't. What people spend their money on is their business. We all work for our money in whatever industry we choose and we all have things we like to buy. Just 'cos some of us don't want to pay £800 for mobile phone doesn't make us any better than them.

I do photography as an amateur hobbyist, I shoot with well over £10k of kit. It's just a hobby for me, I don't sell any prints or make a single penny at it, I just love shooting photos for the thrill of it. Am I mug? Most people would say I am as I could have just bought a £150 pocket camera from Argos or used my mobile phone. However I work bloody hard during 50+ hour week in my day job, my family do very well out of my wage packet and they want for nothing, it's my bloody money and I'll spend it however I wish!

If people want all 17 different variations of the iPhone, MacBook or "book of Mac", it's their money, they can spend it on those things if they wish can't they?

Yeah right!

"I don’t think people have been given enough information about what Facebook plans to do with WhatsApp users’ data," she notes, "and that’s left people concerned about how extensive the data sharing could be. And I don’t think users have been given enough control over what’s happening."

Ha ha ha! Very funny, oh wait you're serious. For a moment I thought you were saying that most users of mobile apps give more than a split-second pause about what happens to their personal data, I'm sorry but I find that incredibly hard to believe...oh shiny new game/app on the app store that all my mates have that I have to now...hang on I'll be back when I've downloaded and signed into it using 16 out of the 27 social media accounts I've signed up to....

Tesco Loan

I have 18 months left on a 5 year loan, I wish they'd zero'd the balance on that, I could do with some extra pocket money for Xmas!

Negativity central!

While I have no interest at present to wish to roll my own distro, happily been a Mint user for 2 years now, I can see this might appeal to some.

We all moan about people being spoon-fed their tech fix and the second the chance to do something for themselves and learn it from scratch, we all condemn it!! For those condemning it, here's an idea. You do the whole thing inside a VM that way you do no have to sacrifice any hardware AND you can pause/snapshot the VM at any time and take several weeks to complete your Arch Linux project, no need to sit down and do it in one sitting, take a month or two to play with it when you have time all tucked inside a handy VM container.

I can imagine if you had a bunch of GSCE kids who you'd just shown a linux install, something like Ubuntu. You might want to show them what's really going on during a distro install/build during any after hours club, this could be a perfect way to get kids who want to learn about this get deeper into "real" computer tech.

Perfect example of shite coding!

So the second the tickets at the end of the queue are no longer available, don't immediately notify all punters in the queue that there are no more tickets, nope, simply keep them queued slowly informing them one-by-one as they're dequeued that the tickets have all done! Brilliant design!

6 seconds?!

I suppose when you a spotty teenager, 6 seconds will give you 3 chances!

When you get to my age, 6 hours is more like it!

Waste of time

When I took my Oracle DBA certs about 5 years ago, having already done 13 years of actual real world work in the industry on Oracle systems, I studied the certification guides thoroughly to make sure I knew what I would need to know to pass. To be sure I found a company selling cert question papers, bought a couple and studied those too.

I arrived at the test centre, sat down and I got through 80 questions in about 8-9 minutes 'cos almost every question on the test was in the test papers I'd bought online! So the test proved absolutely nothing other than the fact that I was able to retain information and perform verbatim regurgitation.

While I was studying properly I wandered into a few forums, some shadier than others to find there were people who have something like 15 certs in Oracle, RedHat and Microsoft to their name, all they were doing was discussing the best place to buy up the latest copies of the actual exam questions and learning the Q&As off by heart, taking the tests and claiming they were qualified!

Sadly I've never trusted certs since I passed my Oracle ones back then as I know they're worthless as anyone can take the tests and pass simply by having a method to remember large numbers og Q&As.

Christmas Time is here!

Brexit is like Christmas for companies who've been desperate to put their prices up. With no real world evidence that things will be worse, 'cos no one can see 2 years into the future, they're all telling us now that they will have no choice but to screw us over with price hikes.

Never do anything remotely useful or productive on the Internet, which pretty much covers 95% of the the human race, then the spooks can have a fun time wading through emails to Auntie Joan and the kids about their last holiday and snapshots of Sharon and John who got utterly pissed last week and took photos of themselves sitting on a park bench at midnight!

The biggest problem is not what you put on the internet, most of us put nothing on the internet of much use to the spooks, the real problem is the government themselves. They have plans like putting your medical history online for Google, Yahoo or whomever to look after. The Gov put your driving license record history online, they make the schools put your kids school records online, this the stuff that needs proper control but sadly the Gov are putting stuff online, snooping on their own data ( combined with aforementioned snaps at Auntie Joan's wedding from Facebook ), putting it on USB keys and leaving it on the back of taxi cabs AND then they have the gall to tell us to be more careful without our personal data!!

Too busy...

...spying on the rest of we innocent people, tracking ANPRs and arresting kids in playground for dropping litter to bother tracing real crime like scumbag nonces.

Great marketing

Must have been marketed well, I never heard of it until now and I know at least 5 people with FitBits.

Protection?

Fleabay has a problem resolution system in place, it's shite but they have one. What's Zuck, the master data dealer, got in place to stop deals going south? Given the over zealous nature of Zuck's puritanical stormtroopers of taste removing anything with a slight amount of flesh, I would imagine he'd be all over protecting his users from themselves but I suspect this is another whim of Zuck to block out Fleabay and Craiglist and "ZuckBay" (tm) will die a slow death when no one cares!

For the last 20 off years of my daily tube commute I take great pleasure in watching people, when you make eye contact with someone it really freaks them out and they quickly dive head first back into their phone, paper or book!

The other side of the fence

My favourite phrase in internal memos, "Leaving to pursue other interests." which means "Manager XYZ is now a bloody liability, we've paid them off and told them get out ASAP before they're lynched!"

Best imaginary quote from Kate's weeding...

"So Kate, did the wedding go well?"

"Yes, apart from it being overshadowed by everyone staring at my sister's arse!"