Re: Bah!
But at least the Freon is up there out of harm's way, rather than in our atmosphere enabling ozone depletion.
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" instead of improving the salary of my female colleagues up to a comparable salary to those obtained by male staff, the company was proudly boasting about efforts they were making to persuade young women to apply for a job in the company"
These two approaches are targeting two distinct issues. The first addresses pay disparity, while the second addresses the number of male vs. female employees.
They could reasonably be expected to do both.
@Hans1
On that link you posted MHP etc... the writer (Ken Blake) responds to a commenter asking what he should be doing, if not running a reg cleaner:
"But there are many things you can do in this regard that are
completely safe. For example, you can run Disk Cleanup and do all of
the choices there. No problem and it gets rid of some things you don't
need, thereby saving a little (usually very little) disk space.
Similarly, you can run CCleaner, which does a lot of the same things,
perhaps a little more thoroughly. CCleaner is safe to use, as long
as you don't use its registry cleaning functionality, which is not
safe."
Interestingly he also recommends Avast, amongst other things.
Re. Also Douglas Adams...
He would have loved Mobile Phones. I was thinking the other day what would he have made of the feature of modern life where everyone* getting in a lift is looking at their phone?
*Except me - I was holding my phone but looking at the other people looking at their phones
"Family membership is pretty clear in the minds of everyone who isn't trying to take the piss. It means parents and children. Not a pair of adult brothers"
Why should that be?
Many people who are close to their siblings, or parents with grown-up children may be keen to get discounts on things like gym membership, online services (eg. Spotify, Amazon Prime) and so on.
Think of it like a discount for bulk, or for recommending to family members. Also allowing sharing of accounts between related people is handy.
Anyway gym membership for children? How many kids do you see in the gym? I bet they make a fortune in fees for children that hardly ever use the facilities.
"> Also many iPhones are used in Hifi or speaker docks
They *were* used widely in speaker docks. These days a Chromecast Audio can be had for twenty quid and, like the ubiquitous television IR controller does for TVs, allows you to control the music from anywhere "
The annoying thing about this is that you need to have the power-hungry TV screen on just to listen to music.
What happened to audio-only streaming players? I love my old Roku Soundbridge but it's getting a bit long in the tooth.
Presumably in your city the length of the journey does not affect the price charged.
In London it does, so you touch in and touch out and the system knows where you entered and where you exited and consequently the length of the journey (zone-based) for which it has to charge you.
Same applies when using contactless payment cards on London underground. You have to touch your payment card again when you leave and it figures out how much to charge.
People smile for a variety of reasons: they are experiencing pleasure; they are having an enjoyable conversation; they are greeting someone known or unknown, they are watching/listening to something enjoyable or humourous for example.
Which would apply to the "Smile" sign suggested for the tube?
"Because London Underground offer free, fast, reliable Wifi to pretty much everyone on the tube"
I have seen the ads for Virgin Media wifi and assumed that since I was not a VM customer I wouldn't get this.
Or at the very least I would have to register with them to get it.
Am I mistaken?
"Do you seriously make sure you switch wifi off every time you leave the house / office / girlfriends house / local whose wifi you use / coffee shop whose wifi you use / train station whose wifi you use / airport whose wifi you use . . . . ."
Sometimes.
"It would be like having to faff with my phone to switch bluetooth on every time I want to listen to music on my headphones. Who honestly really gives a shit whether people can see them walking around?"
I always turn BT off when not in use. It's not a faff.
If you think this kind of thing is too much hassle I don't know how you deal with real life.
"Again, data's not going anywhere." - What belongs to the data? Again an article would be useful and might have prevented the apostrophe disaster."
Actually this one is fine. It's a contraction of "Data is" in much the same way that "it's" is at the beginning of this sentence.
I hadn't heard of this so found their page. The window filled with the following explanation:
"ZeroTier delivers VPN, SDN, and SD-WAN capabilities with a single system. Network almost any kind of device or application as if the entire planet is a single cloud region."
Followed by a couple of buttons to download and/or sign-up.
What? Do they think that is sufficient information for me to decide to sign-up or download and presumably run their as-yet mysterious software?
OK I could scroll down or click to other pages to get more info but why not give me a bit more info up front before assuming I want it.
Too many web pages do this now. The home page assumes you know what it is, not appearing to consider the possibility that I visited their home page to find out that very information.
It looks like they have said, pah, users expect ads nowadays, it's fine.
And missed the far bigger point of intercepting traffic using a man-in-the-middle, with a self-signed cert,
and also as someone above pointed out, interfering with the original publisher's content.
The problem wasn't "oh noes, ads!" It was "Where TF did those ads come from?"
"In the UK we've got scientists telling us that drinking any alcohol is dangerous for our health while others tell us that moderate drinking is in fact good for our health."
No, this is the media who want everything to be black and white, binary, yes/no certain answers.
Well science isn't like that but people don't like that answer and accuse scientists of lying or (shock horror!) of changing their minds if new evidence comes up.
I just came back from a holiday in three very different parts of the USA and whilst card acceptance was pretty much universal, I didn't see anyone paying with a phone, and protocol varied quite a bit.
Some places were chip-and-pin, like we have in the UK (although they have some nice card readers that attempt to shield your keystrokes rather more effectively than UK ones), some places were chip-and-pin plus signature (what's that all about?) and some were contactless.
Most disconcerting is the fairly standard procedure in a restaurant where they take your card away and come back with a receipt for you to adjust upwards and sign. Why do they have to take your card away? Here we have portable card readers and you can see they are not skimming your card. Also, since they were expecting you to add an unknown value (tip) to the bill, they must have authorised an open or large amount, which worried me somewhat.
Still nobody using a phone for payment though, that I saw.
@ChrisBedford
"top marks for this frivolous mis-use of a futile imagination :D :D :D"
Unless I've missed a point you were making (in which case I'll get my coat) this was not from @DagD's imagination but from the end of the Austin Powers movie.
The only reason I remember is that it was on TV the other day.
"our standard roaming data speeds when in the EU. This is likely to be slower than in the UK and fast enough to use your phone as you normally would, including streaming music and standard definition video (or better)."
Sounds like they are saying that "standard data speed is not "top data speed" which is obvious if there is a premium product you are not paying for.
"removes white people from the gene pool (along with all the huge diversity already expressed within white phenotypes). A white minority is already projected in every major country across the West within mere decades "
Even if this were likely, populations evolve. Why is this a problem? Do you think white people have a natural right to be in the majority?
VM I get, fttp even, but RFoG, R-ONO, ONO, gpon, DOCISS3.1 ? You what?
I know I could google it but I don't think I should have to just to read a comment here!
I don't think these are particularly well-known abbreviations, or am I being unreasonable?
Plus you omitted an apostrophe, so not forgiven!