Posts by Steve Davies 3

The old saying..

You don't configure SAP to fit your business, you configure your business to fit SAP is still true then????

Re: Pointless

You obviously didn't see his handle 'A_Yank_lurker'. They are indeed from the USofA then it is no surprise that they are wary. Conspiracy Theories are rife.

I worked over there for a couple of years. My Boss (a Harvard Grad) said that the US Moon Landings never took place. It was all filmed in a USAF Base in the Nevada Desert. An otherwise intellegent man but...

Elvis is still Alive

JFK was murdered by the CIA

etc

etc

The place has more than the average number of nutjobs (IMHO). Just look at Trump.

So be kind on them eh?

Re: Send the VCs & hipsters over

Nah, just send the 'Rug'[1] to deal with them.

He'll go in all guns blazing which seems to be SOP for the US Military.

[1] Donald 'ban them muslims' Trump.

Re: Signs for Parents

counting in Hex? Nah, Octal is where it is at.

Or...

End up in a ditch facing the way you came

Thankfully said ditch was not filled with water unlike a cousin of mine who put his XR3i into a fenland drain near Ramsey. He had an early bath.

Re: Sigh...

Sadly no. Far too many sites demand to use Flash.

Come on Beeb, make good your promise and move to HTML5. consign Flash to history.... Please.

Re: So would it be possible?

No I'm not suggesting that opening the code makes it insecure.

What I was asking was,

Does the availability of the TEST suite possibly make the product being tested less secure.

If you can see in detail how something is tested then it is possibly easier to break the thing.

Consider the VW Emissions scandal. The test spec is commonly available so VW were able to detect that the vehicle was being tested and ... well you know the rest.

If it can be done for cars then can it be done for a tool like Powershell? (or any tool for that matter)

I think you owe me a fiver...

Re: "people that really understand what's happening."

The same can be said for just about each and every politician. Total waste of space on this planet.

Re: Why no change?

Perhaps Mr Clapper has {cough cough} enough dirt on all the congress critters to stop them going after him. If they did then how would getting a dose of 'The Clap' look on their CV's eh?

sorry, could not resist it.

Hmmm?

I asked an Imam about this. His words were something like

"There are many places in the Holy Book where if things are taken out of context they can be made to say just about anything you want."

He went on to say,

"I teach my students that we have to live together and respect each other's differences. In Islam our biggest problem is not with other religions but is with the different sects within the faith."

Re: Are people really still using huge heat pipe CPU cooler towers instead of water cooling?

Not to mention the noise. I've tried a few liquid cooling systems and they are really noisy when compared to the likes of a 25dBa cooler with two large slow moving fans. Barely audible,

Re: NSA help?

The NSA is a big black hole that sucks up the worlds data. Sorta like Sharepoint. What goes in never comes out (in any recognisable form)

Re: Buy a mac

And expose yourself to a whole different set of problems.

At least you can decide to ignore updates with OSX, just like Windows 7.

And.... you can download a copy of the OS and create installation media which, I something that seems to be a diminishing feature in the windows world.

And no license keys!!!! and phone home authentication.

But...

1) Mac's are horrendiously expensive (Apparently)

2) Apple is doomed

So you decide...

There are plenty of worse places to work

Perhaps 'Fallbarrow' you might like to reveal where you live/work then we can avoid it like the plague

No, I don't come from Manchester. I am a stinking southerner but I do know that you are wrong about the city.

Re: not sure that follows

Have you forgotten the 747 that used to carry the Space Shuttle on its back?

Now theres a lot of really screwed up aerodynamics. Not a piddly thing slung inder the wing. After all, it has two much larger things already slung under each of the wings. i.e. the Engines.

Catering for standoff weaponry is SOP for military Autopilots. Not that difficult to even cater for one 500lb bomb being released when two should have gone.

Re: Silly Peeps

Don't be silly. They have the master keys to your encryption.

Well that my impression until they come out and make a public statement along the lines that Apple has done w.r.t iPhone data encryption.

But... even if they did just that how many here would believe them eh?

Re: Somebody's already taken the reigns

You ask...

What makes FF so special to Mozilla that TB is seen as a poor relation to be shut away like this?

simple really.

Mozilla has new masters that will increasingly call the tune since it broke its ties to Google last year

http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/

Perhaps one of them has a vested interest so the TB devs are being pink slipped and had better be on the """"Lookout"""" for a new job. (Hint,Hint)

For me, TB is not Outlook. That is all I need to know. It runs on the three platforms that I use. Like most people I probably only use 10% of its features but it does the job I want it to.

Re: @asdf

Slightly modify that statement

Kill all the lawyers who are politicians, (then all the lawyers)

That might prevent a few from thinking that Hardard Law, Law Firm, Partner with corner office, Politician, President/Govenor

is their ONLY career path.

Re: So When is Oracle Removed

Perhapy the poster is slighlty cynical of these seeminglty endless 'Best Intentions' things that come out of Redmond.

yopu must know the sort of thing

- Seems like a good idea on paper but in practice... err sorry, we goofed.

Who will control what programs are on the 'nuke' list? If is is only MS then who will stop them from accidentally putting a competitors product on the list eh?

Remember, to err is human, it takes a computer to really fuck things up.

Lets see what happens in reality eh?

If that make me one of his 'sheeple' friends then fine. I would not like to have to come back and say 'we told you so...' in a few months time.

Re: 5 years is a long time

Customer Confidence in that everythnig you do on an MS Tablet will be slurped and sent to the Motherships in Redmond and Virginia/Cheltenham.

I see businesses really jumping on that bandwagon.

Don't forget the Advertising that MS will make sure that you don't miss out on at all times.

Cynical? Moi?

Come on MS do the decent thing and stop all this tracking/data slurping. Then you might have a chance to get a decent market share.

Re: sigh

IoT

As is said in a thread yesterday stands for

Idiots or Twats

Can decide which (or both).

Re: Can't find it?

Dear User,

You seem to forget that you no longer OWN your computer. You relinqished ownership when you installed W10. Part of the license you accepted (in 3pt white on white on page 9999) gave title of your Computer to Microsoft plc.

We are sorry but preferences don't count any more when they interfer with our stated data collection priorities.

Yours (smugly)

Microsoft