Posts by David Nash

Re: "An email address is unique to a person. "

Just curious what kind of company needs an email group for all the women and for all the men?

I've never heard of such a thing before.

Re: Dear Millennials

"Aren't unpaid internships and being paid thruppence ha'penny a kind of ageism too?"

Kind of. Unpaid work is just plain exploitation.

But the younger tend to get paid less because they are worth less (not "worthless") due to their lesser experience, depending on the area, obviously.

Re: Or you're worried about the bill?

It's not texts, it's MMS. Does anyone use them anyway? On the rare occasions that someone tried to send me one, it has hardly ever worked properly. Doesn't everyone use WhatsApp or something similar?

Can't afford to resign?

Surely resignation looks better on the CV. How does resigning cost more than being fired for breaching policy?

specific glue

The problem here is thinking it's "glue" and substituting some other strong glue. It's not really, as you said it melts the plastic surfaces together.

Re: I don't understand why we need App Stores

"Steam, GOG, Windows Store, Itunes, etc, etc, etc"

This does not invalidate the fact that Windows, Dos etc. DID manage for decades without one.

Re: How about something small

Why does it have to be something available these days? My watch was bought about 23 years ago, it's still fine, although I have changed the strap a few times.

AA mystical / religious?

Wow, is this true? I never heard this before.

Never needed them and hope I never will, but that's very surprising.

Re: No standard for epochs - @katrinab

"will there be anything outside of museums still using 32-bit Unix time?"

Of course there will. Some will be embedded or control systems built by suppliers who no longer exist. Those will be the big problems, because the users won't even be aware that a problem is coming.

Re: Keyboard ecosystems

Come Monday, a good shake to remove the remaining dust...

And the ants!

Re: Pedant Alert

"The sections of the A1 called "A1(M)" are of sufficiently motorway-like character that the law treats them as motorways (e.g. no stopping, no bicycles, no L plates except HGVs, etc.)"

And uses the term "Non-Motorway Traffic" on signs directing such vehicles away from it.

I think we can safely say that they are indeed motorways.

I think you'll find it's more complicated than that

It's not black and white. It's partly been broken by the freetards who want the latest movies for nothing etc, but also completely abused by extended copyright periods, such as the aforementioned Robert Johnson's music.

Even being a one-man business doesn't mean the ISP should pay your costs for you.

If you don't have the ability to pay the legitimate costs of doing business, including looking after your IP, then you don't have a viable business.

Re: Unfortunately necessary

"Renewable liquid fuels that can be delivered via the current infrastructure are much more practical."

Such as?

Re: Information was accessed but hasn't left their systems?

It's completely meaningless. What does "leaving the system mean"? Erased? nobody thinks that's happened. Transmitted to another party - of course, that's what "accessed" means. Unless the hacker was reading the HDD with a compass needle!

Please don't make both a comment I agree with and one I disagree with in the same post...I can't upvote and downvote!

Re: OlaM

The difference is that this is aimed at consumers, not at professional pilots.

It takes a lot more training and people take it a bit more seriously (rightly or wrongly) than learning all the controls of their car and what every bit does.

So a large number of consumers don't know precisely what an airline autopilot does and does not do? And that makes it their fault if they therefore make a mistake about the capabilities of a system aimed at them for domestic cars?

I don't think so.

Re: Gravity is an attachment force

Rather than write a book on it, why haven't you designed an experiment to prove or disprove your hypothesis?

Re: Are they zarking kidding???

Nobody said "NASA thinks a few hours notice could save lives".

This one was only detected a few hours before because it's really small and consequently of no danger (as was shown a few hours after detection).

Larger, and consequently more dangerous, ones are much easier to spot.

Re: The Real Threat is State Seizure of Corporate Surveillance Data

"Frankly I'd rather see my data in their hands than in those of the dot-coms. Just how much democracy and transparency do those dirty little moneygrubbers aspire to?"

But the point has been made several times that the dot-coms don't have the power nor the ulterior motives of governments in this regard. They just want your money, as has always been the case, even Arkwright's corner store knew plenty about his customers and their habits, but again, only to sell them stuff.

Re: If you think Faecebook is important

What would we suggest to keep in touch? Can you really not think of any other way to contact people than Facebook?

I get on well with Telephones, email, text messages.

Re: Drugs

The problem with the concept of Jaywalking is that it seems to criminalise harmless crossing the road when it's safe to do so.

If you are wandering in the road when there is traffic about, you are a danger to yourself and others and there may be a case for prosecution. If on the other hand you cross the road at a sensible time and perfectly safely, it's a waste of time and money to treat that as wrongdoing, which I have heard stories of many times.

Re: ICANN not understand how you wrote this article !!!???

To be fair, the BBC article does mention that they had years to prepare, and also finishes by saying

"cyber-criminals were never likely to have provided accurate contact details for their scam websites, and highlight that the law does provide added protection for legitimate registrants."

Re: mmm

What is a "lock box"? what is the "front" of an email? If you mean sending the key with the encrypted email, what's the point of encrypting it?

explicitly code a loop?

"For each X in Y" is pretty clear, no? Why shouldn't that be explicitly coded?

Better than "for i=0; i<total; i++" or similar involving begin() and end().

Re: Makes sense....

Even R2 brings godish people on weekend mornings. I don't see why they can't leave people to believe their own thing without getting all preachy from time to time.

Re: ``because if you uninstall rather than opt out, [...]

"Which is it?"

Read the article properly. He's saying that if you UNINSTALL as apparently recommended in these YT vids, that is not OPTING OUT, it's just removing the s/w. So a message is not sent to Canonical and consequently they don't know that you've effectively opted out.

Re: No Headphone Jack, No Sale

How much unremoveable pre installed crud?

I was waiting for this too, given much recent discussion of FB and similar I felt sure it would be mentioned.

Re: Show some understanding, people

Agreed, and should we be demanding perfection? The world isn't perfect and people aren't perfect. Just look at the various "Who-Me?" and "On Call" articles on this very website.

what form of madness?

Probably following step 1 of a multi-step procedure.

"Page 2? what page 2?"

Re: Risk vs Reward

Does anyone know whether HMRC have ever responded to this frequently-made point about benefits?

Re: Sit down wee

"Sitting down provides secure shooting and a general feeling of discontentment."

Is that what you meant to say?

Re: It's no good BT complaining 'WiFi'

It's true but they need to put in big letters that to get the full speed depends on your equipment, and Wifi frequently isn't up to it.

Many packages are sold as a Wifi Router and that's it. to your average punter Wifi is "the internet" and they don't want to mess around with cables, and most don't even know what a network cable is.

Re: Slavish copying to the last

"how many Apple fanbois do you see smashing up their phones just to get the next iPhone for $1?"

It's never been offered. I bet at least some would if it were.