Posts by Stevie 7282 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2008
Interesting. I just sat in a tech discussion in which an Oracle representative explained "off the record" how to game the oracle support (US) so as to not get frustrated bpy the mis-match between their support window model and our business scenario. There was talk of being shunted into problematic time zones if we weren't careful. I guess that means Romania.
Well you could have done a better job marking it up.
Personally I don't get why you are all being such dickheads. The first AC answered the post with an informative response. Job done, done nice and concisely.
The rest of you added about as much value as this borked certificate adds to the Dell Security Profile. No wonder people don't come to the community to educate themselves on issues like this. Some community.
Yeah, kudos for the memory of reading The Silver Locusts after A-Levels were done.
Of course, Bradbury's house was not networked to Hellenbach with WiFi IoT spamosity, had an independent power supply and ran smarts courtesy of vacuum tubes. In the same scenario, a subminiature semiconductor-based IoT-riddled house would be mercifully dark and silent owing to every single appliance's smartstuff being fried by EMP.
I imagine it will come as a blessing to be honest. I'd welcome the IoT but it just looks like a reason to waste power for specious reasons to me. I can't think of a single benefit to owning web-aware lightbulbs that can't be achieved cheaper, simpler and safer another way.
Not the whole story about the batteries. In 1957-ish my father was rebuilding a Ford Model C 10 once owned by his father around the time of WWII (and of unquestionably older vintage even then), and the A/C power for the radio was supplied by an electromagnetic relay designed to switch on and off continuously very quickly.
I used to play with that and a spare trafficator of a Sunday morning when he took me to the lockup the car sat in. No doubt had he ever restored the vehicle to working condition I'd have gotten a belt round the ear for losing or damaging the Electromechanical Vibratory Veeblefetzer, rendering the car's occupants incapable of hearing the reassuring tones of Alvar Riddel on the old Vidor three-valve superheterodyne receiver (or whatever model was fitted).
I've always found airlines to be very forthcoming about the reasons for delays.
The staff of some at given airports are a disaster, but I put that down to boredom and the need for staff entertainment rather than systemic indifference.
Now if you want to experience unexplained delays almost every day, ride the Long Island Rail Road. They turn it from an art into a science.
What an exellent and most British response to the situation.
I suggest, in order that the BBFC do not simply set the poor bloody tea boy to watch it he paint letters that just *could* be some sort of rebus or code or something, but aren't of course.
And call it "Subversive Thoughts On The Government of Great Britain".
"It's a bit like American censorship - you can see people getting killed left right and centre but a naked breast or a mild swear word like shit? DEAR GAAAAAAAAAD NO!!!"
No specificity in original demonstrably specious claim.
Point stands, especially as most people these days watch more cable and on-demand programming than broadcast TV, at least in the Metro NY area.
The cultural difference between the UK and America are a fact of life. Gun violence is acceptable. Go to Japan and images that would be considered kiddy-porn in the US, but don't raise an eyebrow there are plastered on billboards. And in the UK they now say "shit" on TV a lot more than they do in the US. So what?
For the record, I've not noticed that the post 90's relaxation on the use of "shit" in UK TV dialog has improved the quality of whatever it is. In fact, it has seemed to make the scriptwriters much lazier in my opinion.
For comedy, I think it's actually MUCH funnier to bleep out cusswords. After all, what could Buster Bluth have possibly said about his mother that was so shocking that the entire family would be struck speechless? Bleep it out and it's funny. Script in a string of the usual suspects and, well, meh, only what you get in any workday when the printer jams.
Indeed, The Young Ones was only as funny as it was because the scriptwriters, hamstrung by 80s BBC censor restrictions went to the other extreme, using childish language (along with the lost art of the side-splitting innuendo that seemed to be second nature in them days) to create the unforgettable Rik and Vivian exchanges that basically made that show happen.
Kicking into tech projects is always dodgy. Most of the ones I've looked at have had "pie in sky" writ large in the description.
Even if the concept is seemingly watertight, tech has a way of seducing would-be designers into making grandiose claims they haven't actually tried to implement or into "improving" the product as part of the initial build.
Hence the Peachy Printer - an intriguing idea for a 3D printer (a really basic one; comparing it to even a mediocre commercially available printer is akin to comparing a Pi to a full-sized mini tower but we knew that going in - or should have done) . It is still in development over a year later than anticipated due to tech improvement creep.
Will I be crushed if I don't see my $100 pay off? Yeah, sorta. Will I be surprised? Only a little. As soon as they started telling us they were changing the design (for the best of reasons) I knew they had gone seriously off the rails. When kickstarted projects go into R&D post-funding it is a bad sign.
Tech isn't the only product class that suffers from over-claiming and under-delivering. Look at the mess Chaosium has gotten into with their stupidly over-funded Call of Cthulhu rewrite. And they *know* about publishing stuff.
It is hard sometimes to sort out the sudden onrush of incompetence from the sudden de-cloaking of a bad actor prior to his heading for the Neutral Zone, but I have to say that the overblown claims for the Zano Drone had to be ringing alarm bells in any real engineer's head long ago.
Go on then. There are thousands of people silly enough to buy that line and kick in it seems, so funding won't be a problem.
Or shall I just call shenanigans now?
Because I think you can't build such a machine, any more than the guys at Airware Subminiature Fully-Automated Drone Products Inc. could.
No, all the officer did was provide his credentials, which he is obliged to do by law.
I suspect the rest is the result of lax procedures that don't have a second party authentication requirement, or not following those procedures that do.
None of which was done by the officer whose creds had been stolen.
If there is an idiot in the room, it ain't the agent.
Actually, the lesson of CHBS was that using a memory trick used by stage magicians, making a picture show in your head, you can remember a long series of words easily, and that doing so gives you a high entropy password easy for a human to remember but hard(er) for a computer to brute force (than eight uper,lower,numbers,spec-char). CHBS methods do not preclude numbers, dollar signs or anything else you can type and from which you can make a head cartoon.
CHBS methodology is subject to the dreaded "typo" fail in spades, though.
Only a lawyer could think that making calls on a wireless cell phone would be "privileged' - and secret.
Dumbest collection of human rock I ever met, lawyers. I used to think they had to be very smart but the ones I've met in person have been walking adverts for culling the herd. I guess they only have to shine twice: for their law school final and when they sit the bar.
at least in the early stages of "the war" is that a tape wasn't long enough for an entire film.
You remember incorrectly.
My first experience with Betamax was recording The Revenge of the Pink Panther on Christmas Day, then watching it over on Boxing Day with the family.
Best feature? Being able to bookmark the good bits so if you were in the mood to see a bit of Clouseau vs Kato action you could cut to the chase with the touch of a button.
Yes.
PAL recordings I made in the early 80s still played with broadcast quality years later, something I never saw once in VHS, which had difficulty even getting close to the original picture quality on the first playing.
Why? You only had to pick up the recorders to find out. A VHS machine was easily lifted and ported about with one hand. A Betamax was sometimes a two-person job. The chassis and electronics were streets ahead of the cheap and cheerful VHS (which was the essence of the difference, not the shape of the tape cartridges).
But just as IBM and Apple were to find out a few years later, the public will go for cheap over quality every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I reckon the Talk Talk Advertising and Hard Sums Division are the victims of the same cabal of Rogue Technicians who are solely to blame for the Volkswagen Engine Emissions Debacle, and furthermore that these diabolical swine are none other than the infamous Masked Scouts, last seen on The Goodies sometime in the early 70s.
A plan with no downside if all inmates are forced to sign a waiver concerning being eaten by giant mutant spiders.
This could be in the fine print of a paper that reads "Sign at the bottom if you would prefer to serve out your sentence in a domestic prison as opposed to the covert facility on an island in the South Atlantic reserved for terrorists and enemy secret agents, to which food can only be delivered six months in any year".
Those who don't sign can be sent to the island in the South Atlantic where the only drones flying are of the sort that were sent to get Jeremy Renner.
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