Posts by Mark 65

Re: Who can access the metadata without a warrant?

10Mbit/1Mbit isn't really all that slow on a VPN. If you think a VPN is unnecessary then you are George Brandis and I claim my $5.

I switched from Firefox when it started freezing, becoming a massive memory and CPU hog and just running a bit shitty - I generally leave my machine up and running until a restart is mandated by patching or it becomes a bit treacle-like in use and have 30+ tabs open normally. I moved to Chrome, not something I wanted to do, but it was the only real option at the time. It is much better at one tab not screwing the whole thing up but I now find that it becomes a bit of a resource pig on occasion - normally the Google Chrome Helper process. Wonder where to next?

Re: Uber is just the first...

It's the gig economy, stupid! Climb on-board and take part in the serfdom.

Re: You say "sophisticated algorithmic trading models"

Most of the "as close to the exchange" stuff is gone since the advent of co-lo which earns the exchanges big $$$$. There can still be shenanigans around "where in the room" your servers end up but the distance part is mostly solved. The main areas seem to be getting your indicators faster (various methods depending on market - layering, public vs private feeds etc) and making your quoting and execution as sharp as possible (hit "bad" quotes without getting picked off yourself).

If you're referring to Knight Capital with that last statement they failed because they fucked up royally with a system release.

Re: Oh wonderful

You Sure!? Threatening the EU to sending the entire British fleet consisting of HMS-MIssile-Sponge, HMS-Weapon-Less and HMS-Rust-Bucket

Don't forget the HMS "hides under the water and can fire missiles at you all day because all you have are fishing trawlers".

Re: Possible plan

Are you so sure they are necessarily copying stuff off rather than putting something on? The more empty phones they see the more likely they are to start adding shit to them rather than cloning.

Re: What MS giveth MS taketh away

Except this bit...

The CU release will warn the user when they're switching from an unmetered connection like Wi-Fi, to a potentially metered connection

Both ethernet and wi-fi can be on a metered connection, especially when it comes to moving gigs of data, if either of those is just to your household router.

Was the Nimrod named after the head of MoD procurement?

Given she wants "no place for terrorists to hide", will she also be banning wardrobes?

Re: Keeping the seas safe, to ensure customs frauds while importing Chinese goods?

The problem with sending someone a large bill after they've told you to fuck off is principally that they've just told you to fuck off.

Re: Marissa

You laugh, but I could see someone of her delusion levels turning to politics.

Re: There's more to it that that...

Put lights and darks in at the same time and I guarantee you'll end up with grey "whites".

Given it was built by BAE I can only assume Ms Johnston-Burt is entering service in 2018.

May God bless her and all who sail in her.

Re: But when I am in the doo-doo

And how often is the average El Reg reader under hostile fire?

Seemingly every time they take to the keyboard to express an opposing viewpoint these days - these forums are a dangerous place, I only frequent them in daylight.

Re: All walled gardens turn into ghettos

Surely what most other operating systems need is Linux like package management so I can add a trusted "store" (repository) from a developer for a product I want and updates feed into the general update mechanism. This is the one thing I think FOSS has nailed. You can add a store concept much like Mint or Ubuntu have the software browser but also allow users to add their own resources. After all, what we really desire is that flawed software is patched.

Re: Darwinian selection in Government IT

Regarding

"In response to this, HMRC are developing an online tool that will help public sector bodies to determine whether or not the rules apply.”

bool doesRuleApply(object doesntFuckingMatterItWontBeConsidered) {

return true;

}

Re: Stupid dick.

@inmypjs: "So at a stroke Manedleson has decided all ADSL2 equipment in the country is scrap"

As he stated, his intent was to mandate something suitable for the future and not for the past. Given how long such services take to roll out you don't want to mandate something that will easily become obsolete by the time the people have access to it. 10Mb/s is pretty obsolete. Not if you're currently struggling on 1Mb/s ADSL, admittedly, but that's more of a damning statement of the status quo in 2017.

Re: My condolences.

To be fair, the responsiveness and ability to drag to scroll was what switched me from Streetmap to Google. The natural language search just topped it off. Streetmap was great at first, very useful, but the problem with being one of the first is that you need to keep innovating because the challenger can see what they have to beat - you get no such insight into them. They didn't innovate in my opinion and died on their arse for usability reasons.

Gas only produces if price spikes above $300 or thereabouts. It also needs to be a predicted spike sustained for long enough to justify turning the unit on. You then need to make sure you have enough fuel to run it. Given they lost $17m related to the plant the previous year it was mothballed so there would likely be no fuel contracted for it. Hence they had no appetite for switching it on.

Re: The long term plan

I have noscript and abblock, 16GB RAM, SSD etc. Doesn't make any difference. You may get some mileage out of a fresh installation but it isn't long before it starts it's shenanigans. Chrome is no angel but I've found it to be more tolerable.

Re: Careful there...

The reason Uber can charge you €5 rather than €20 for the journey is because the ride is subsidised by all the VC money flowing into the company. They don't make a profit and lost over $3bn in 2016. When the line of VC numpties runs out, so will Uber. Make the most of it whilst it lasts.

For anyone that is interested the following site has run an 8 part story looking into the world of Uber...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-eight-brad-stones-uber-book-upstarts-prpropaganda-masquerading-journalism.html

Re: "We'll know more in March, when the PwC report into the incident emerges"

I'd have to think that, for this level of technical investigation, PWC would be on the letterhead but they'd have drafted in an outside SME to consult on the issue and write the contents.

Re: This

Not sure there's too much wrong with capitalism. The problem is that we actually don't have capitalism. We have oligarchs, monopolists and bought-and-paid-for politicians.

Re: 'I read that in the original article.'

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence. Or, in this case, people like flashy, vacuous, it's so easy phone unlocking methods and the manufacturers couldn't give a shit either way. Banks only care when something forces liability for losses onto them, or rather they are unable to offload those losses onto the customer.

Re: Return of the Deathstar

It was only a matter of time until the takeover resulted in the quality of HGST products descending to meet WD ones rather than the latter rising.

Re: Just the beginning

Given the Oz ruling elites love of monopoly, falling back to oligopoly as last resort, I would bet more on an excuse for massive price rises in "electrical network infrastructure".

This raises an interesting point in the case of QLD which owns both major generators and the transmission networks and takes large dividends from both. They want 50% renewables which will undermine their generators value quicker than would normally occur. I guess they think they'll make it up on the gold plating that will need to occur on the transmission side. Never mind whether the lights are on or not.

Re: Poor NHS

Presumably they tested this update on a suitable standalone SOE or test lab before general deployment? Personally I wouldn't take 3rd party anti-malware to a shit-fight.

Re: By The Short and Curlies

Interesting that they always tout currency movements as the reason for price rises but don't give you the option to pay in $US and hence take on the currency risk yourself. Arseholes.

Re: I liked VB

Replacing VBA is likely too much of a pain in the arse. ExcelDna is your friend here.

His comment about 'knowing how to prrogram Excel' is wrong.

What he likely means is "everyone will have a crack at record-macro programming in Excel".

Re: Errm ...

Think of the children