Posts by TeeCee

Pricing.

...comparable to existing premium ride-hailing services.

So they don't have to pay a driver, but they're going to charge the same anyway.

My, naked corporate greed really has caught on over there, hasn't it?

Change ends...

...new handbags please.

Hmm.

With only one really fast core and the rest of the priority process' threads relegated to slightly slower ones, there is one thing this will do really well.

It'll shine a searchlight on any lurking race conditions in software...

Aha! Found the problem.

That required consultants.

Wurp, wurp! Pull Up!

Wurp wurp! Massive cost overrun approaching!

As soon as somebody decides that getting in consultants is a good idea, the wheels are off and it's time to pull the eject lever. The alternative is moving the contents of your bank account into the consultancy's bank account.

Ahem!

There is a real problem here.

If the correct and secure function of your web application relies on well behaved software hiding the easily visible source when told to, you should be fired and never be allowed to touch anything sensitive ever again.

As for the organisations running tests this way; you hired Mr quick 'n dirty to build it, look in the mirror for whose fault it is.

Pronunciation.

SpaceX Crew-2

That's pronounced as; SpaceX Crew number two.

...you can take a four-year course in computer and never have a class in intellectual property,"

Try studying Law. You'll learn more about it than you ever wanted to know. This is like complaining that there's not enough about Jesus in Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, etc ad nauseum. License compatibility is for the legal eagles in procurement to wade through.

This very article just goes to illustrate what a bloody minefield of conflicting and competing terminology and licensing the whole Open Source field is. Almost as if the whole business were dreamed up by lawyers as a perpetual cash cow...

II have heard...

...that if you pay a sub, once every year one will de-orbit, fly over your fence and knock over the dustbin in your back garden.

...dictator-type entities using CPU architectures as a means of control.

OI, KETTLE! You're black.

Pot.

I'm not sure which of corporate greed or the global dominance ambitions of the CCP is the lesser of the two evils.

What a wonderful feeling.

My not giving a rat's arse about farceberk and my not giving a flying fuck what Apple does just coalesced into a magical, warm glow of meh.

Hopefully enough to get me through the day without my blood boiling at the latest round of eco-cobblers from Boris and co in lala land (formerly Scotland).

Not funny.

You know that "One China" policy?

Right. Imagine a globe. Now imagine it were all the land areas to be red and have "China" written on them.

Now you've got it...

"...real-time crowdsourced content rating scheme..."

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

I mean it's not like the internet has a large number of arsehats with l33t d00d sk1llz to g4m3 the thing and sod-all better to do now, is it?

Never thought I'd see the day.

Someone's defined an API for the Golden Screwdriver.

Ah!

Another newspik edict from the Ministry of Truth.

I'm beginning to think that Orwell was on to something, he just had the wrong excuse for the petty little fascists to get their hooves in the door.

Yes, but...

The outage comes at a terrible time for Facebook...

1) There's a good time to drop your entire business on the floor with an almighty crash? Who knew?

2) Presumably nobody on the inside can leak stuff while the network is titsup.com, so if there is a good time, this might be it..

It's a gift horse...

...take your head out of its gob.

What you have there is some actual, honest-to-god, by-a-known-artist "art" that's waaay more wall / display / saleroom friendly than pretty much everything ever produced by the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

And it only cost you $85k. You should be really bloody grateful.

At the current COMP token value.... that's more than 90m US dollars.

And at tomorrow's value, the square root of fuck all.

Funny what mahoosive oversupply does...

Like they give a shit.

Corps went from XP to 7 to 10 almost without exception.

11 won't be on their radar anyway, they always skip a release as the support cycles are good for it and there's no business benefit in having the latest shiny when what's in place works.

I have a problem with the entire concept.

Having my phone tell me where I've lost ${thing} sounds like a good idea, apart from one massive snag.

The only ${thing} that I really give enough of a toss about to spend money on being able to find it is, er, my phone.

This does seem to be a generic problem though. You try logging into your account from a handy machine to use the "find my phone" function when the 2FA login check on new devices requires the authenticator app on your phone(!) Found that one the hard way. Driving all the way home to log in, only to find that yes, your phone is indeed quite close to the machine you couldn't log in to really sucks, but not as much as driving all the way back to get it.

Public sector purchasing 101.

Ticks all the boxes. Overpriced, bloody terrible and there are much better products available for far less money (Hint: Next time, try Thorntons).

...How many contractors have been hit by this and what can they do to get paid?"...

Well, I suppose they could go back to the pre-IR35, umbrellaless days.

Bill directly, submit invoices and actually get paid some time after hell's frozen over, with sod-all chance of anything remotely like an apology or an interim payment.

Just remember, the "Good Old Days" had things like the Three Day Week, British Leyland cars, British Rail and GPO telephony in them.

See also: Rose tinted spectacles, repeating the mistakes of history.