Posts by Chris G

Re: Fridges in Space

In a fridge?

You want to keep him fresh I assume?

Re: To do list

Since Musk has fingers in the EV pie, perhaps he could throw in a Moon Rover as well.

putting a Tesla up there would be something of an advertising coup.

Re: The last straw

In the early nineties, the farmer I used to deal with for horse feed told me how his brother was writing his own software for precision farming, using GPS and satellite photos to improve fertiliser and pesticide use.

Nearly all farmers are good engineers finding and making improvement to equipment and like any industry where margins can be low or affected by sudden unknowns like weather, they are quick to take up anything that may be of help.

Re: "a freelancer feels the urge to seek solace in full-time employment"

Me neither! I have been retired a couple of years now. After the last 'proper' gig I had running a project when I finished I did a few of the agency rabbit holes including a couple where agencies tried to tell me I was being head hunter but they didn't even have a clue of what I could do.

I got sick of it and finally spent my last four years working doing something I really like, carpentry! It paid a bit less but I was virtually my own boss and got to be creative.

As far back as I can remember ( and that's a long way) agencies have been useless at providing anyone with a job they were applying for and usually try to get you to go for totally unsuitable positions that they actually have on the books.

Re: Picking on the big guys again

My experience in Spain tells me that the majority of sites think it is OK for site visitors to be told they can limit tracking cookies vie their browser or make it as confusing as possible to opt out.

In fact lately, I visit more US Sites that offer simple opt outs than either UK or European ones.

Perhaps GDPR needs a new set of teeth and regulators who will actively employ them.

Re: Impressive, but...

I wonder where exactly the Emperor Wang comes into all this?

@Barrie Shepherd

I agree one hundred percent, many councils have a penchant for closed meetings that for one reason or another they consider 'sensitive' and online facilitates that attitude.

Councils are elected and paid for by the residents, no matter where the money comes from and local politics even more than national should be completely open.

Re: At Chris G, re: English...

Can't waste good beer, so I'll down the pint and then use the mug to smash the bugger.

As a lad from South London, some decades back I doubt that speech recognition would have made much sense of my accent, I have improved somewhat since then.

Re: network investment

Smoke signals? We couldn't afford lookshuries like matches, we 'ad t' wait fer a sunny day and send signals reflected off me grandda's polished 'ed an 'e wasn't even bald.

Re: Oh dear....

It's equally likely his friends in GCHQ live in Mountain View.

Re: What this needs

@Peter2

Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351

at the bottom of the third paragraph in the section headed CONTENT.

I originally found the reference to the 1405 update to the Statute of Labourers on a site called Atlas Obscura dated 2/7/2016 something to do with a town called Thame and a councillor called Bretherton.

Re: What's so controversial?

The notion that carrying everyone on public transport will be cleaner for the environment depends on the transport, electric trams or a Metro system would probably improve a city centre but just changing over from the usual range of private vehicles (some of which may be very modern and low impact) to diesel buses just demonstrates an inability to think things through on behalf of the authorities.

Bus companies typically cut as many corners as they legally can in operating a service, they are there to make a profit and maximising profit is normal so anyone thinking that buses would be less polluting when the numbers are increased to serve a population that has been denied their personal transport is not thinking. More large diesel vehicles stopping and starting every few yards will never be cleaner.

Re: Clippy MD

Brings a new meaning to BSOD!

Re: Ziebart.

DON'T mention Yugos, they rusted faster than a bean tin on a beach. A friend's girlfriend bought a Yugo in the early nineties and drove it to his stableyard, as far as I know there might be a dirty stain where she parked it, probably all that's left of it by now, it only went the one time.

Re: Christian Militia Terrorist

From the definition I gave the Spanish Inquisition and certainly all others was there to intimidate the population in order to further political and/or social gains, it couldn't be clearer.

Your handle appears to be rather apt.

Re: @GrumpenKraut

"You just smoked too much math, and couldn't see the basic fault:"

Curious to know what your preference is for smoking and the device you use to smoke it?

Assumption and random correlation is not science and mind expanding drugs don't!

Facial reset

You could always use the Lector system.

All it requires is a sharp knife and a random face.

Although short term for both it would work for fingerprint readers too.

In the real world, I suspect that the majority who went for What Three Words, using a not their own address approach would use mostly memorable landmarks, their mum's house or somewhere close by etc.

Re: Not necessarily conspiracy nuts

Nano-zombies?

I would read the book, if only to find out how you cut their teeny tiny heads off.

The main Aussie miner for rare earths is Luna's, they have been having a spat with Malaysia over a processing plant they have there because the locals are not happy with the amounts of low level radioactive waste it produces and allegations of pollution.

There was talk about having to process in Oz where the stuff is mined so I expect the Greenlanders are aware of that.

Considering REs are the new oil on some respects, I wonder what the US will do to protect its valuable and handy neighbour?

Re: Seems that generators are a bit of danger

At the offices of a military contractor, they had a huge gender in a container mounted on a trailer.

One winter the power went off and the Genny fired up flawlessly for about five minutes, a delivery truck pulled into the carpark and sailed straight across the tarmac, nudging a couple of cars out of the way and finally bowling over the genset trailer.

The day was so cold black ice had formed on the carpark.

Re: That's what you get when software has to cost nothing

From my point of view, I have to buy a phone that needs an OS, if the phone comes with an OS, as far as I am concerned I have paid for the OS at the same time I bought the phone.

I have little choice so from my point of view the OS is not free, the phone maker may not pay Google directly for it but the cost of it being loaded to the phone is also built into the phone price. So again, it is not free for me and I don't see that Google or anyone else has the right to invade my privacy.

Re: Ban chips in cars

I agree 100%, if you drop them, they make the seats greasy and your fingers are slippy on the steering wheel.

Re: Why?

I suspect 'one of the chaps' didn't have a job but was interested in this kind of thing.

Then he was given a desk and told to give it a go.

Re: Tut, tut, tut

World back up day?

Does that have anything to do with sheep on the edge of a Welsh cliff?

Reached out, I assume has spread from touchy feely California, the other misuse that currently winds me up is gifted instead of given.