Posts by h4rm0ny

Re: Why not the Moon?

What about He3? The lunar surface has a tonne of that, no?

Re: Offshore wind farms

We could stick rockets on the bases of them and launch them into the air when the planes approach?

True in many ways, but counterpoint - the heroes who save the day are a group of four small farmers who nobody takes seriously and whose 'noble ancestry' consists of one of them having a great grandfather who allegedly cut the head off a goblin and two others belonging to a family notorious for causing trouble.

Re: Troll gets tossed under bridge

I suspect he rather over-estimates his importance to the day to day running of the company. I wouldn't be surprised if efficiency went up during his absence. Fewer demands for arbitrary statistics and updates. ;)

Re: fixed hazards will be the real challenge

Presumably once it finds it can't progress it will ping low-paid controllers at HQ who log in remotely and navigate it manually using its cameras until its able to resume.

Re: At least make sure your contract include TOIL

>>"have you ever asked for these clauses to be removed?"

I have. Specifically, I wanted explicit agreement that something I was willing to do which was out of spec for my role I would have IP rights to. Went back and forth for nearly a month with my direct manager giving me lots of verbal assurances but refusing to put anything in written form ever. Until I went over her head to the board and told them flat out I would leave if they didn't agree to this and they told her to sign an agreement. She was extremely unhappy. I got what I wanted.

Re: "the fire retardants in the modern car ABS do not fire retard"

Because of course you're retarded if you don't spend your life online reading news sites that report on mobile phone recalls.

Sheesh! Love the smell of elitism in the morning. :/

Groucho

I was going to say something very similar. Namely that I will trust El. Reg to report on Apple for as long as they're not allowed to.

Re: Your Spanish mate

And to add to the above posts, I'd like to see some specific examples of these "German standards" that are so problematic. I've seen several cases where people complain about "bureaucracy" or "standards" encumbering their business only to find that the specific requirements are there for a very good reason (worker's safety, environmental standards, et al.). Whilst it could just be the hassle of certification and I'm not accusing this person specifically, complaints about "regulations" by employers have often turned out to be complaints about "not being able to treat people / environment / safety however the Hell I want" on examination.

Re: Horrible company

Someone once described M&S as the modern version of the potlach in that it's just a visible way of throwing away your money. Their quality is not very good for food, imo. Waitrose are the ones that actually do good quality food and ingredients in fancy boxes. M&S just do mediocre quality food and ingredients in fancy boxes.

Re: Why Bitcoin ?

It's only one extra party having access to your credit card details. The idea is that you make a single macro payment to the plugin maker (or browser maker in this instance), and then they make a payment to the website owners representing a bundle of micropayments from many visitors.

I've wanted something like this for ages, though I want it to be a general protocol / plugin across browsers rather than a dedicated browser - that is a mistake.

Re: @kraggy

I take it you have never downloaded a GNU/Linux distribution via BitTorrent, then?

Re: So, to sum up...

>>No - just above them should be "Project Managers". They are overpaid worthless parasites. They are the wasps of the engineering world - they have no reason to exist."

Yes, because you do developers really want to spend all your time in meetings with upper management discussing timescales and explaining features, organizing project plans and coordinating releases with Operations and a dozen other things rather than focus on your coding. What's that - you don't? Then who do you think will do all that?

Re: Really?

I don't know, lets test it.

Q. What do people go on about most in Windows articles?

A. Linux.

Hmmm, seems it is.

Re: "It was a real eye opener ..."

They're probably the only people in the world that it IS a surprise to seeing as everyone in the IT world had been shouting that this is a bad idea since its inception.

Put the voting results in a database and rigging an election immediately becomes staggeringly more viable by its very nature. Whether by outside independent hackers as this sheriff seems concerned with, or by corrupt officials which all the rest of us are actually more scared of. If there's a paper trail then theoretically you can at least verify. But you have to establish a pretty high level of suspicion to get the state to undertake that level of effort - especially given the partisan nature of US politics where one winning party will be fighting tooth and nail to block it (there were actually Republican supporters physically breaking into places to stop the recount in the W. Bush election) and the possibility the incumbent may be complicit.

Re: The protophobic X boson

No, but it's a pretty negative trait.

Re: Where are all the MS apologists?

Serious answer to a humorous question, many of us who got labelled "MS apologists" such as myself - I had endless arguments with people on these forums - simply aren't as inclined to defend Windows 10 because it has alienated us for one reason or another. For example, I despise the way it has become so hard to prevent your system reporting your behaviour back to Microsoft (I had to edit the registry to turn off the sending of how I was using my computer to them). So whilst there's still a lot I greatly like about Windows - such as the ACLs and Powershell, I'm just not really inclined to leap to MS's defence against all those who attack it. I used to - because I was a systems programmer and I know how much work and talent goes into an OS like Linux or Windows. But really, after basically receiving a big Up Yours from MS over the past year with privacy and control of my own computer, I just don't find it in me to argue in its defence anymore.

Re: If One-Time Pads could self-regenerate...

And if I had a pound for every time someone sent me the PRIVATE key for their entire organizations authentication servers instead of the public key, I'd have £1.00.

But it was a good one pound.

Re: meh.

It's worse than Prohibition. Firstly, Prohibition did actually have SOME positive effects, e.g. incidents of domestic violence fell sharply when alcohol was banned. Secondly, it was introduced in an era of severe depression when people turned to alcohol out of desperation and alcoholism was rampant. Like with drugs such as heroin, the problem isn't just the physical effect, but that the addicts / alcoholics life sucks so badly that there seems little gain from coming off it. I.e. it's an escape as much as it's an addiction.

So like I say, flawed though it was, Prohibition did have some supportable rationale behind it. This? I think closing them down is actively harmful. On Silk Road you had Amazon-style ratings, buyer-feedback and you also didn't have to go and seek out contact with some people you might rather avoid in some cases. In short, safety was markedly increased.

Plus it allows better market-feedback. Sick of roller-coaster skunk and want something mellower and more traditional? On Silk Road you can not only find it, but it can be demonstrated that it's actually preferred by many and the market adapts to meet that need.

A podcast is just too slow for me. Voice is for friends and socializing. Written form is something I can blast through far more quickly than someone can verbalize.

There's a logic to what you say, but I would take someone to small claims even if the money they were fined was given to a charity for lonely nazis. If someone tries to get away with cheating you, there's a pleasure to be had in watching them pay that goes beyond money.

Re: Huh?

It's an article on a Microsoft technology. And you're damning it for using the word Microsoft?

Re: Lewis Page

I couldn't have put any of that better myself. Great points. Airships and nuclear power are too of the technologies I would ardently love to see more of.

Re: Download Only From Sources You Can Trust

Software doesn't need to be from the MS Store to be signed. As this story shows, Classic Shell normally is signed and a different and quite clear warning was displayed for the pirated version.

Re: Well done for trying to find the good points of Win10 @h4rm0ny

Thanks for the response. I didn't know that. But can I use Edge without being signed into Bing with any account? Because the issue is that I don't want Bing/MS building a running profile of me in my online activity and whether I am signed in with one account or another, that profile is still being built and is easily attachable to me as a real person at any point they feel the desire to do so, given the wealth of personal details, account settings, IP addresses, locations and times included in such a profile. The browser is only acceptable to me if I'm not signed into Bing / MS at all.