Posts by Steve Davies 3 7145 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Scariest Junction?
Surely it has to be that one in Swindon where it seems that anything goes?
IMHO and as a Motocycle rider, Handy Cross is more scary than Hanger Lane. The reason is the GP start to try to beat the lights going red in front of you. (M40South and turning right towards Maindenhead/Marlow)
How far?
In London it seems that they stop every 100m. They were not always that close. In one stretch of the old 253 Route (Warren St to Stamfrd Hill and beyond) where there was two stops there are now four. Two extra ones have been added in between the others. The same goes elswhere. IT takes even longer to get anywhere in London if you go by Bus than it did 50 years ago and not all of that is down to traffic as back then there were no bus lanes.
But it still leaves them free to sell all that data to Ad agencies and Ad slingers (other than Google or Facebook)
Hyprocrites the lot of them.
But... notice who is missing?
Yep, that fruity company.
Has HMG given up on them or are they going to get special treatment/punishment (depending upon your POV)
We deserve to know don't we?
Good luck banning VPN's
Far too many {cough,cough} companies who donated to El Trumpo's campaign use VPN's on a daily basis. Most remote workers and even remote sites use VPN's to feed data back to Head office in a secure manner.
The CEO's and probably a good number of Senators/Congress critters use VPN's to mask their 20th hole activities so how do you expect a ban to get passed into law?
What you the really paranoid need is for the VPN's to
1) run to endpoints in different countries
2) switch between those endpoints every minute or so.
That will make it harder for the TLA's to track them but it will stop the plots of US TV Dramas showing that it takes only a few seconds to decrypt a fully encrypted hard drive when they don't have the key.
Mines the one with an invisibity cloak in the pocket.
Are already used to make travelling less effficient and slower.
Sadly, Traffic Planners seem to have been told that the only way to manager traffic is to make it stop more. Hang the extra fuel used and the extra pollution. Those stop lights look nice and pretty.
There is one city where there are hardly any traffic lights. Amman in Jordan. Traffic seems to move quite freely there but hey, NIH rules and traffic lights are oh so pretty. Pretty, pretty lights.
What you describe is exactly what Elon Musk is aiming for.
Tesla will be the test bed for this. It is needed to make a colony on Mars viable (i.e. self sufficient) but the side effect will be to make tens of millions of workers redundant within 10 years.
Prepare to spend your life jobless. Unless we have a new Luddite revolution.
you don't have to upgrade your Apple iDevice on day 1 of the release you know.
Most really savvy tech people let others do the final testing for them and you know wait a week or even a month before applying the update.
Also, unlike a certain PC Operating system, while Apple might nag you a bit (well sometimes a lot) they don't force the update on you. You can ignore it if you so choose.
As they say, the jury is out on the new Filesystem. I'm sure this site will {gleefully} report any issues people experience with it. Then we can all make up our own minds as to if it is a POS or not.
Airlines will still not let you fly with one so why bother.
Unless the owner has 'My Note 7 is refurbed' tattoed on their forehead how can they be expected to know that this device is not an unrefurbed one?
Yes, this device has caused a massive dent in the bottom line but have Samsung given any thought to the total shitstorm that will hit them if even on refurbed device goes badly wrong?
That could signal the end of the company, well certainly in the mobile space.
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and build a school.
And they will tear it down in a flash. It will have been built using the wrong materials using people of the wrong religion and face in the wrong direction.
Some of the terrorists want to take the area they control back to the time when Mohammed was alive. No education past the age of 13, none for women, women married as soon as they hit puberty.
Building a school won't matter at all. IT is just one more thing that shows them that the infidels are weak and need eradicating.
Once an ideology gets that ingrained it is next to impossible to get it out again.
There will be a market for 'cough-cough' devices that stop your vehicle from sending back all sorts of data to the manufacturers. As this will no doubt include GPS information the TLA's (and Plod, GCHQ, local councils, dog catchers and joe who lives down the street) will be after that data in a flash.
Then there are the insurance companies who have an interest in you driving everywhere at a snails pace.
They do not take '10 laps of Brands Hatch on a Track Day' kindly even though their insurance isn't valid for that sort of thing.
No, no and thrice no.
I don't think I am alone in thinking that it is time to call a halt to this surveilance.
Yes I know that the terroists and all that but there has to be a limit.
See Icon.
I have a BOSCH Dishwasher. 13 going on 14 years old. Not needed any maintenance.
There goes your argument. A properly designed and made device should last for years.
No need for a £9.99/month service plan/warranty that is not worth the paper it is written on.
If it breaks tomorrow and can't be repaired then I'll just buy another one.
The ROCI for the DW works out at around £30/year.
How many skinny half-cafe Latte's in Starbucks is that?
Paid for itself which would lead me towards getting another of the same make.
It is a frigging kitchen appliance for heavens sake.
Is that proper cave aged Cheddar from er.... Somerset or that rubber crap that is sold in the USA using the Cheddar label?
I an enjoying a delightful 'Tomme de Savior' at the moment. I bought it from the farmer in the mountains near Annecy a couple of weeks ago. It can take the roof off your mouth if you even make a cheese sarni with it. Small shavings only.
There are many cheeses made on farms in both the UK and France that are simply wonderful. If you are in the UK, then find out where/when your local farmers market is. There may well be a local cheese maker selling there wares at such an event.
Soon it will be just the BOD and a Secretary. Everything else will be outsourced to India. All the outsourcing contracts will be managed by the Crapita/TCS join venture.
No branches needed as they won't have any customers left but hey, they will still declare a huge profit and the BOD will take home their bonuses singing, 'aren't we all jolly good fellows'.
As must as it hates me to say this but we need to stop this leeching of jobs and therefore money to India.
It hurts our ballance of payments and trade. Time to bring those jobs home.
You miss one thing.
All the crap code will be developed (sic) in India and fuck the cost saving being passed onto the Government Department.
Then they will use the T&M part of the contract to charge them twice, a third or even a fourth time to fix the shoddy stuff written in their Indian sweatshops.
Welcome to the world. I wanna get off.
California sales tax records show a 100,000% rise in VPN Subscriptions.
Don't these people have even half a brain? If they did they would know that anyone with more that that could defeat the whole plan by using a VPN?
Oh wait, it is a ploy by the ISP's to get more revenue.
Dear Joe Sixpack,
As of 1st April 2017 we will be selling your internet browsing history to Ad Agencies. We have a new service where for the measly sum of $19.99/per month we can channel all your internet activity through the PRC and therefore hide it from our history collection system. Click the link below to sign up to the service today.
Yours
Comcast
PS
Does Jan Sixpack know about your frequent visits to ******.sex? We can stop her finding out for another $19.99 (+tax) per month. Click this other link to sign up for both services.
Agreed.
Boycott the companies that send everything to India. Tell them why you are leaving. Tell the press.
Perhaps if enough do it then the beancounters might start to realise that reducing your cost base this way is not always the answer.
Perhaps reducing those (to use an american term) who occupy the corner offices might be more productive?
At the start, Apple did indeed use commodity SOC's but not now.
Please don't try to make out that the A10X ARM CPU is a commodity part. The Apple investments in thi area allow them to use far less CPU Cores than any of the competition.
The benchmarks give lie to your claim about commodity parts use.
Apple is by no means perfect and to many, on the surface it might appear that they don't innovate but under the hood they are doing a lot. The 'Secure Vault' concept is very well engineered and the simplicity of Apple Pay is innovation in my eyes.
I see C&D letters being sent to the owners of the 'Trumpton' series any day now.
Then next will be banning bridge players from bidding '7NT' (seven No Trumps).
Then they'll have a go at 'Nellie the elephant' who packed her 'Trump' at least that is how my granddaughter sings it.
You gotta protect that name not haven't you?
The name Trump is already verging on being an object of derision already. I'd hate to think what it will be like by the time he gets booted from office.
Have an upvote for mentioning a piece of history.
All you young whippersnappers won't be old enough to remember the joys of licking the sheets of stamps and sticking them into the books.
The six day war (if my memory serves me right) efficively killed them off but it might have been a later conflict in that area.
So phone calls will be VOIP then.
BT won't be getting rid of wired connections anytime soon. How else will the country meet it Broadband target? 3G/4G/5G won't hack it I'm afraid. Far too many of us live at the limits of Mobile Cells and the NIMBYS (who drive the 400yds to take their kiddiwinks to school) won't let anymore cell towers be built.
So for us, it is landline or nothing. 4G? Are you joking.... On a good day (with no leaves on the trees) my 3G data speed is hardly more than dialup.
Many years ago, I interviewed for a job at ***. Their contract had this clause. At the time I was helping develop a donation system for a charity (this was pre Gift-Aid). By signing my UK contract, I gave ** the rights to the system code even though it had nothing to do with my work or even the technology at ***.
To their credit, *** agreed to a change to exclude this work but AFAIK, that standard contract remained in place for several years.
I got a better offer so I never worked at *** so their benevolance (or lack of) didn't get tested.
I'm sure that there are some UK arms of US companies who would try this on over here.
Sadly, I don't think it has been tested in court.
No one flies with anything. No hand baggage, no hold baggage and not even the clothes on your back.
At least you might get to the other end but who would want to eh?
So no one flies.
At least Greenpeace etc will be happy. But the economic hit would be huge so it won't happen.
I guess that no hold baggage and no hand baggage might be next. Countries like Spain, Greece and Cyprus would go bust overnight.
The Terrorists would have won without actually doing anything.
Brilliant Mr Bond, Brilliant.
and yet people still don't use Seatbelts. I witnessed a crash last year where a car rolled at least three times after losing it on a bend in the wet. The driver was killed yet the three passengers walked away. Guess who was not wearing their seatbelt?
As for the IoT debacle.
I won't have any in my home. Even my smart TV is never connected to my network.
Anyone who does use this load of dung and given the current state of their security, all I can say that
"Here there be Dragons"
Just don't do it if you value anything about your private life.
also affected is Royal Jordanian who, in case you don't know is a codeshare partner with American. many passengers on the RJ flights to the USA (American does not operate to AMM) are flying on American Airlines tickets issued for a flight with an AA flight number.
Neither Delta not United directly operate to AMM. Air France and Lufthansa (codeshare partners with DL and UA respectively ) to operate to AMM.
That drives a huge great Dreamliner through the Grauniads argument.
{RJ use Dreamliners on the US routes}
just rolls on. The Execs get richer with their bonuses for reducing headcount.
When will we see a mass clear out of Execs? There must be a lot of PHB's and above who are completely useless and need to be let go now. Each one of them going could save a few real workers their jobs.
And pigs might fly.
Microsoft's choices regarding Windows 10 have ruined the brand name, and there's no need to carry any baggage or expectations forward to this new platform.
I guess that Microsoft will now join Apple (and no doubt a few others) in NOT inviting representatives of this site to Press junkets. How dare anyone criticise Windows 10, the Windows to end all other Windows for everyone on the planet? /s /s /s
The acceptance of ARM as a server platform rests no with MS but with all the application vendors out there. If they don't port the likes of SAP, WebSphere, Oracle DB and the multitude of other applications that businesses use to any ARM platform then it won't matter a jot if that platform runs Linux or Windows or something else.
Intel should be very worried about X86 but its day might be gone. At least (AFAIK) they have an ARM license but I would sense that inside Intel that there is a huge feeling of NIH , DejaVu and 'if only' all mixed up together.
now only if some of this lovely ARM Server H/W was available to us mere mortals at prices that were compatible to i5/i7 systems and off the shelf. That may be sometime coming though.
Er? I don't think that 'complete disaster' is in The Donald's vocabulary.
I'm sure he'll see this as a great weapon to stop the Mexicans from scaling that wall he's gonna build so this bit of kit will surely be described as
Tremendous and Fantastic and 'they're gonna pay for it'
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