Posts by Anon

Re: Maybe I am too American

"Human resources" sounds too much like a supplier to the Soylent Corporation.

Re: Where do you live?

It'll need a new belt by now, and probably also the rubber suspension band that holds the motor will need to be replaced, if my Planar 3 from the 80s is anything to go by. New belts/bands are cheap. Careful of the screws: they are only plastic. Oh, and have a look at the capacitor too—they used those infamous RIFA ones. A safe replacement one is cheap from RS.

Re: Well that's probably that, then

Well yes, but isn't there precedent for England sending supposed criminals to Australia, the native land of the accused in this case? (Sorry, if you don't want him either, Australia. Maybe there's some foundation that could pay the internment costs.)

Re: FWIW

It's OK, they aren't OCZ Synapse SSDs. Great for the few months they worked... But that's all over and done with now.

Re: Brilliant!

Macromedia Flash!

Re: The "inspector"

Definite marriage material!!!

Re: If you value your security get a hardware random number generator -- or two

Why do you trust trust TrueRNG? How can I trust your reply?

Re: The government should own its own cloud

I thought that the government was meant to be the consolidation and supplying of the people's requirements, for the benefit of the people. (And the people include those suppliers.)

Re: the big four

> the big four of enterprise email (Gmail, Outlook, Notes)

I don't think I want any of those three to account for two...

Loius Rossmann, who repairs Macs and is a proponent of right-to-repair in the US on his YouTube channel, seems to find that the only thing that doesn't fail in Apple laptops is the fuses.

Re: I won’t be able to use what I’ve paid for

What are the published uncertainties/error bounds/spread/confidence levels in PWC's predictions?

The report you appear to quote from,

https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/uk-could-remain-top-10global-economy-in-2050.html

says that the UK could fall from 9th to 10th or 5th to 9th place in the world by 2050, depending on the measure chosen.

FALL.

Re: I have working 5G

Just wait until your government makes them tear out all the Huawei kit that makes that work...

Re: I have the only key

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." -- A.C. Doyle

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- Peter Steiner

Put the two together, and... who's a good boy, Jake? Yes, you’re a good boy! Yes you are!

Re: Accident or intent?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ CK FU knows?

Using Linux

That's the beauty of using Linux - you can simply write any driver that you need and then make it available to everyone else.

Re: "My first programming language, at age 9, was a Lisp dialect."

Oh aye, lickin' the user input: first stage garbage collection. Next step were th' cleaning out th' next generation shite wi' owse toes, down th' sewers if we'se were lucky. T'urd generation garbage? That's only rich kids, wi' their fancy grammar 'n' some idea of a consistent accent.

Re: HP problems

"good printers ... based on hardware that was" ... made by Canon.

Re: QAnus

'"QAnus" Love. It. Can I use it?'

Well, at least take it out for a nice meal first...

--hidden-backdoors=-1

--hidden-backdoors=-1 ... and then they go and interpret it as an unsigned integer and you get a sieve delivered.

Re: Thats my first guffaw in delight for a while.

Try clotted cream on dark chocolate digestives. You can pretend it is to keep the crumbs under control (it doesn't).

Are you asking for a failure which trumps all other failures?

Re: It's rude to keep the drugs to your self, pass the duchy 'pon the left hand side..

The delivery date is movable, but some people in the U.K. government want to impose their bizarre notions of reality on the rest of us.

Re: SNAFU

The bank could have made a few tens of millions on the money that was delayed in transit, so bonuses and trebles all round (no, not for us).