Posts by Chris G

Re: I would expect a longer process for re-certification

This is beginning to look like the 'Volkswagen effect'

To save time and money while getting around legislation and maintaining a competitive edge they have taken short cuts without thinking the whole thing through or possibly without caring enough.

Being the biggest kid on the American block and too big to fail, helps to engender that kind of attitude.

I wonder if this goes to criminal charges, if the company will have an engineering patsy ready to fo some bird while the executives still get their bonuses?

Re: Basic Logistics

It may be that gravity which is an enemy to parts of female anatomy on Earth is virtually non existent in orbit, so the need to 'lift and separate' is replaced by the need to ' support and restrain.

In my defence, this suggestion is a result of consultation with my wife who has a more intimate understanding of the potential issues.

Re: Wait so HPE overpaid by almost 9 billion because of $20m?

I suspect a lot of the absurd prices paid for many of the dot com takeovers are as much vanity as corporate business acumen.

' I've got the money and I want it' kind of thing.

How many emerging tech companies that were not even that wel established have been snapped up for ridiculous sums of money?

Re: Be careful where you tread

I think you'll find this baby is a cuckoo or a changeling. Whatsapp may have had it's uses just like Friends Reunited but now it is a part of the pandemic that is Faecebook it needs surgery.

There are other flavours of communication that don't leave an aftertaste.

Re: One silver lining is that most of the programs encrypted this data while in transit

I suspect the main reason for encryption is to protect their data not yours, once your data is in their hands it's a part of the product fr sale, so they don't want to lose it in transit.

Re: Been waiting...

So no goo? For this year's 'fully immersive' holiday experience?

I get the feeling that a full on VR is going to need a full-on AI to run it as well as a whole range of better physiological interfaces.

Re: Let's report every case of this to the ICO

Even more annoying are those sites that have a box to untick but whrn you do, they just go back to the previous page. Or, those sites that tell you you can change preferences but provide no links or pages where you can actually do something.

@AC. It is not evasion or avoidance if she is being taxed wrongfully by an organisation that either doesn't comply with or understand it's own rules.

She has a services company that undoubtedly pays it's legally required taxes based on declared income and audited accounts. So don't cut people off with 'Fuck off before yo start' if you are speaking via an anterior sphincter.

No such thing as a private beach in Ibiza or anywhere else in Spain, even the beach in front of the King's summer house in Palma can be accessed by anyone.

Regarding ' The picturesque London Boroughof Croydon' photos or it doesn't exist.

How much paper to remove a borough sized skidmark?

Re: There are more vulnerable than you think

My father passed away at the age of 92 three years ago. The bank, hospital, social services were all appalled that he had no access to the internet. When he would tell them he had no intention of buying a pc or learning how tuse one they would roll their eyes and say surely a family member or neighbour could helpyou learn.Nobody listening t what he wanted only interested in what they wanted. So stuff the UC online government should be for the people not the other way round.

Re: It's a marvelous place

With three eyes and assorted extra parts.

Re: You have to run GCHQ code

I think it may come to the point where, if you are not using Government sanctioned apps, you will be automatically considered to be hiding something.

BBLY!

Stop bleating around the bush.

Re: It's been done before...

I worked with a bloke who had been trained as a brickie in one of Her Majestie's Colleges. He went on to specialise in smash and grab!

Re: Not surprising

Speaking of Motorhead, my brother and I were.on the door at one of their first gigs in London at the Saxon Tavern the in the '70s.

Lemmy and the band were as nice as pie, the only trouble we had were fans who were so far out of it on barbs they kept falling down the stairs.

Plus of course the chief executive will have a drive that's yooge!

Re: Blame it on the thrusters

I think it's part of the braking effect as it gets ready to rendezvous with humanity.

Re: Is it stable yet?

I think I misread the question as ' is it A stable?'

Well yes, I think it is a stable, it smells a bit and quite often there's a lot of shit to shovel out.

Re: Already a patch available?

If I had relatives on either of those two flights I think I might be testing that question in court.

Re: Very optimistic

Defra hasn't coped with anything new ever, in any if its incarnations. I have a few farming friends and their lives no matter what they farm are always at odds with a ministry who will listen to anyone as long as it's not a farmer.