* Posts by MJI

6874 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

Software dev-turned-councillor launches rubbish* chatbot

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Oh great

I can get onto them about fly tipping down local BOATs

But then have to use FaecesBook

"Not far from the road"

"Who put all this s**t in the way!?!?!"

Reverse, turn around and drive all the way back. And yes I have decided if I catch a fly tipper in the act I will ram their vehicle into the ditch and drive off.

Google is 20, Chrome is 10, and Microsoft would rather ignore the Nokia deal's 5th birthday

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Re: Alta Vista?

And alta-vista was porn

First time I ever came across internet porn as well

Still trying to work out when Yahoo dropped the ball and I am sure wildcards were better supported many years ago.

Fast food, slow user – techie tears hair out over crashed drive-thru till

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Re: Sad times

I work near 2 fast food places, smelly unpleasant oil smells drift into the office.

Their customers block the road in.

And one of them has a huge picture of Rolf Harris outside, the other a doubled up Arch computer logo.

Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’

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Will this be in ESR?

Some of us NEED menus and prefer windows to look like windows

UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

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More to the point

If the UK is kicked out they will be entitled to a refund.

Also what about the encryption technology?

I have read we can disable it as UK technology.

I get the feeling kicking UK out will cost EU more than UK building a new one.

Surprise! VAT, customs likely to get a bit trickier in a Brexit no-deal world

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Re: And yes I do consider the Vote Leave team traitors.

Well look at them.

Farage, generally a fool (and never stood up for the UK)

BoJo, only in it for himself, 100%

Gove, at least was honourable with his intentions (fisheries)

I cannot remember the rest.

But prepared to sacrifice our financial industry, which brings in a large part of our GDP, the EU financial centre WAS City of London

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I Think "Brexit" will sign the death warrant for the Pound

Why?

In around 10 - 20 or so years the UK will be wanting to rejoin, lots of hard exit people died off and young wanting to be in EU people out numbering the ones left.

To rejoin we will have to accept new terms which would include adopting the Euro.

And yes I do consider the Vote Leave team traitors.

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Good job the UK has

A HUGE number of deserted coves and quiet spots to bring in and export goods.

Just one short stretch of Cornish coastline has around 30 quiet, road accessable coves, beaches and quays. Slightly more if you can carry your loads on a trail bike.

Roughly one per mile.

Devon coast from Plymouth to Dartmouth, so many routes out, Slapton.

So many places to bring in imports without paperwork.

.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently

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Re: I have never come across C£

I have heard of C hash and it is pretty usefull

To be honest should be called C noughts & crosses

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I have never come across C£

What is this language you speak of?

Security MadLibs: Your IoT electrical outlet can now pwn your smart TV

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My mains stuff

Is staying basic BS1363 except for a couple of surge protectors.

None of this smart nonsense

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

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And Ree smogg as

a magic lantern, but is it old enough?

I wish I could quit you, but cookies find a way: How to sidestep browser tracking protections

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Creepiest ever ads

Person at work standing near two women discussing adoption, friends of his. For a while and clearly. Phone in pocket.

Later on went on Facebook and got adverts about adoption.

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TV What ads?

I record and watch those.

Most channels I watch no ads or just a set of irritating ones. ( I HATE the brexit ad). The others I skip over.

Modern adverts to me are as known as soap actors and reality show participants.

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Re: I get very aggressive.

One forum I use moved from local adverts to ones supplied by a banned admonger (due to malware), so I lost the adverts on a site I was happy to see as they were VERY targetted.

They were targetted at people performing that hobby.

Another forum has a banner ad for GLASS

That was interesting.

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I get very aggressive.

As many as possibly admonger domains are in hosts, combined with ABP and NoScript.

Why? Because ads started to move, popup, make noises, and not just sit there as a banner.

Go Zuck Yourself: Facebook destroys patent suit over timeline

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When does the hunting season

Start for patent trolls?

That would solve the problem

If you drop a tablet in a forest of smartphones, will anyone hear it fall?

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I want a tablet as

Phone screen is too small for sensible use. And I want to use it for maps as well.

Not sure what I would buy but I have noticed

ASUS do some

Sony one is very old

I do tend to like the usabilty of Sony stuff, So was surprised only 1 old tablet.

Definately could do with something though. I suppose another check of ASUS

Ad watchdog: Amazon 'misleading' over Prime next-day delivery ads

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Re: James T?

I thought it was James M

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Re: The Prime Directive

Funny but I signed up due to him!

When TG with CHM was your favourite TV programme you will do things like that.

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For me

Grand Tour was the tipping point.

Also watched a few other series exclusive to them, or only available elsewhere on pay channels, and unlike TPBTV the US stuff is logo free.

For viewers like me Prime is excellent, and expect to see the streamers (them and Netflix mainly) hurt the established pay satellite companies.

Next and same day is a nice bonus.

Hi-de-Hack! Redcoats red-faced as Butlin's holiday camp admits data breach hit 34,000

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Those places fill me with horror

Never stayed at one, but it looks too much like a prison camp

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

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Trump is an alien

And he rides around on the top of a bald old animated corpse

Facebook insists it has 'no plans' to exploit your personal banking info for ads – just as we have 'no plans' to trust it

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Re: Huh?

I wanted to today, voice system wanted to take money out, I wanted to make sure my pay had FINALLY gone through.

Just mashed the 0 until it offered a person.

Phew!

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Re: There goes the neighbourhood

If on Windows chuck all the facebook domanins into your HOSTS file.

Worked perfectly

Greybeard greebos do runner from care home to attend world's largest heavy metal fest Wacken

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Scorpions are HM don't worry.

Very good band but live they sound like a record, they are that tight and good.

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Re: Care Homes had better get used to it

As a fan of NWOBHM I expect I would be with my contemporaries.

Future care homes have to be ready for all this!

Basic bigot bait: Build big black broad bots – non-white, female 'droids get all the abuse

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Humanoid robots

Do not trust at all.

They always have motives, no I do not want to get locked in a room to starve to death, or get chased by one with lots of guns.

Seen too many documentries.

Microsoft devises new way of making you feel old: Windows NT is 25

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Re: 16MB?

And he is getting a new 10 PC today

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Re: "It took Redmond until 2000 to create a usable server edition."

Netware was brilliant, Windows networking was such a let down afterwards.

How do you make a Windows NT server 4x quicker? Stick Netware on it.

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Re: 16MB?

I went

WFW -> 98OSR2 -> XP -> XP -> 7

boss went

WFW -> ME -> Vista - > 8.x

Support chap (more recent)

XP -> 7 -> 7 -> 10

Who has had the least pain?

My 7 PC hangs on well

Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered

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Pint

Light drinking

I always feel better when I have had a small amount of drink, stress tends to drop, feel more relaxed.

I do like red wine as well, so that is more goodness.

And I do get less stressed than the office hardly ever drink alcohol person, and tons less than Mr energy drinks and coffee.

Not drinking at all to me is a bit perverse.

You want to know which is the best smartphone this season? Tbh, it's tricky to tell 'em apart

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Re: Some peoples wants are my hates

Not restart the phone but software running on it.

Took 5 minutes to stop all the blody pay shite before it was back to annoying.

And I am also unable to delete the icon for it.

None of the children want it either, they have the two previous HTCs.

I'd been happy to have still used the N8 from before the landfill Androids.

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Some peoples wants are my hates

I detest force installed crap I would not want to use, even worse when force restarted and forced to run when you are trying to use said device. I had to use my phone this morning and it took me 5 minutes to get it usable.

Samsung are really bad at this, enough that if my next work phone is one it will go unopened to CEX.

So what is there with

Decent camera

As little forced installed crap as possible

Facebook not even installed.

Shock Land Rover Discovery: Sellers could meddle with connected cars if not unbound

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Proper ones don't

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Re: A least mine is fine

We just take the pee out of the Ford engines.

My 5 cylinders (basic remap) puts out roughly same power as the Ford V6 and is very unlikely to snap its crank.

Rusty ones are now being used as engine donors to replace late Defender Transit engines.

Just realised I have identfied myself as a Discovery 2 owner!

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Re: As long as they're still using Lucas...

Mine has a Lucas engine ECU. Other ECUs from other companies.

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A least mine is fine

Too old and no fragile Ford engine either

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

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Re: Unpaid walking advert for someone else's company

About 13 yeara ago I spent £5000 on an Omega and it lasted me 8 years.

Did around 100,000 miles in it!

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Re: Be braver

Worst thing I can think of car wise are body kits that let your premium quality car from good manufacturer look like a premium car from a knob manufacturer.

Why would you want a top end Opel to look like an Audi?

(Only rebrands people liked were Cadillacs as Opel and Vauxhalls as Holden)

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Re: They Live....

Severe myopia, need special computer glasses, but night vision is cat quality.

And close up work, who needs magnifying glasses.

Only issue is car maintenance when you need to focus on an unsupported distance and the glasses you need are indoors.

Fix is a LOT of light

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Re: Be braver

But mine is so obvious what it is.

And I would rather people knew what it was rather than some import

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Re: Advertising from mobile 'phones

When I first built this PC I used to reply

Sent from my Q8200 with 2TB of HDD

BTW now 4.5TB

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Independent

Completely unusable currently I find.

Had to reinstall FF ESR with CTR and I have not yet installed noscript.

Completely locks up FF that I have to kill it.

Before FF got messed up I had to block around 20 scripts.

Some of you really don't want Windows 10's April 2018 update on your rigs

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Still on 7 here

And no intention of 10

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Re: Use Linux...

Our current software has code going back around 30 years.

A lot of code was ported twice. Took a decade to get a decent WIN32 version.

Big systems take a while to write

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Re: Stop breaking stuff

>>XBox update

What happens if you have a Playstation?

Bill Clinton's cyber-attack novel: The airport haxploit-blockbuster you knew it would be

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Re: Spitting Image got there first?

Neeed to relaunch for the current numpty!

IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'

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One of my bosses is 4 desks up from me

The other on site somewhere.

The one in same office is the only person messier than me desk wise.

HTC U12+: You said we should wait and review the retail product. Hate to break it to you, but...

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Re: Usual errors

Do you really trust faceache to FULLY disable and not do a thing?

I don't. Just why did they go to the hassle of force install just to allow full disable?