Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
It doesn't require much effort or much money, but it does require common sense, of which he has none. SMH
No, nor does calling a mate in Australia, we all know they are dishonest when they claim it is summer down there and time for the kids to go to bed as I write this comment ... You cannot trust Aussies or Kiwis, OK, what about Argentinians, no, cannot trust them either (Falklands!!!!!!!!), Chilians, maybe ? Maybe ? Go explain seasons, time zones on a flat earth ... good luck, matey!
@ A-nonCoward
Listen, you are not funny anymore, you are on tech site, here, not youtube ... you are wasting everybody's time with your delusion. We all know we cannot convince you because it is your faith, spherical earth is not a faith, it is common knowledge, we know, can prove by experimentation. Eratosthenes proved it over 2000 years ago ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
End of story, good bye!
I think you'll find they're still being kept quite busy.
Wow, I am sure our lone el'reg flat earther you are replying to is gonna come back at you with FBI^H^H^H,NSA^H^H^H,CIA conspiracy of some kind involving the KGB^H^H^HFSB, 610 Office, MI5, RG, Five Eyes, BND, DGSE, MSS, NTRO agencies ... these agencies all fight each other regularly, however, for some unexplained reason all agree the flat earth reality must be hidden from ordinary folks ...
@el reg: I don't think you can call out flat earthers, earth is NOT round but sort of spherical, at least, that is what I learned at school ...
Crikey, this is funny, I wonder how flat earthers can find boffins literate in rocketery ...
@ac
This will not conclude the matter I am afraid.
I would have gone further: they kipnap him and kill him in Poland or Turkey ... US' usual modus operandi ... the guy has then "vanished" ... if they trial him in the US, that will attract attention ... Stalinist unpersonification is way better...
Some people really live in TellyTubbyLand (thinks of downvoters).
PS: I am amazed at the decision, I think this is the first time in history that a UK judgement has prevented extradition to the US, but I might be wrong. I know it is not over, but still ... a landmark!
Paris, cause she likes TellyTubbies, they're as naïve as her and the downvoters ...
People willingly give their data up, it's in the T&Cs that no one ever reads.
Go read up on ghost accounts ... basically, they pilfer your email contacts (facebook), tel numbers (WhatsApp) and create accounts for each and every email address/tel number ... they then know who knows who, unless you have unique email addresses for each friend of yours. Then, your friends post photos of you, drunk in the pub, and somebody tags you ...
You apply for a job, and somebody, somewhere, finds that photo on facebook of you, whilst you have never been on that site ... oh, and facebook owns the copy of an illegal photo, sue them!
Note that to take a picture of somebody where I live, you need written consent, hardly ever honored, mind ...
Until Intel fixes their CPU cockup so we don't have to patch the current ones back to 2010 levels of computing power all of this is just laughable.
I happen to use Cygwin as I am tired of programs occasionally segfaulting in buntu/Windows 10, e.g. wget. Problem is, my build takes 2.5 times longer with the Spetre and Meltdown patches, I have no noticeable difference with ubuntu/Windows 10 (when it completes without segfaulting) as compared to Cygwin, so the claim "native speeds" for the Linux subsystem turned out to be native speeds on a raspberry pi 1 ... on an i5. So for me, more like 2005 levels of computing power ... on Linux, the time Cygwin finishes, Linux has built it 8 times in a row already.
I avoid skype like the pest ... however ... acquaintance, non-tech, quick issue with computer ...
I had skype on the system for me daughter ... so, I remember my skype password, so, I attempt to login ... impossible, on the website I can login ... ok, this update BS again (Skype frequently claimes your username/password is incorrect .... when all that is wrong is that an update is available), so download Skype from OFFICIAL website only to be told at install time, Please use the one from the Windows store ...
... They are really desperate to get us to use that piece of shit, right ? Even wanted me to select my Linux distribution for Windows 10 in the store just the other day ...
Listen, MS, your store sucks, we don't want it, please bin it ...
Keyboard, mouse, monitor - still the best way to get things done, at least for me.
My ancient Blackberry Z30 can do that, OTG and microHDMI, all you need is a powered USB hub and screen that takes DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort and appropriate cable or an additional adapter for HDMI->VGA conversion (I have one of those, and it sucks, don't need it for the Z30, though).
Mac OS X Server should have taken over ... it had a proper, clean, BSD network stack, nice polished point and click interfaces to all the FFS/ISC goodies, you know, the stuff that powers the Intertubes I use to write this comment. No reboot when TextEdit.app or Safari.app get an update, unlike Windows Server with notepad.exe and iexplore.exe or MicrosoftEdge??.exe.
They even had proper server hardware until 2010 and incredible licensing, $1000, all unlimited ... some people could not count ... then again, those who knew what was in MacOS X Server were using FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux anyway, those who did not, our Window Cleaner and Surface experts, aka point and click brigade, were stuck with MS, paying through their noses for security sieves.
Why would you use a fingerprint scanner ? The casing of your laptop and your keyboard is full of your fingerprints. Laptops make it EVEN WORSE BECAUSE OF THE PHYSICAL KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!
I would take the finger print on the letter J, transfer it to wax and be in your computer in less than 5 minutes, 5 minutes ? Well I need to wait for wax to cool and harden...
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
Do not use bio-metrics on portable devices.
How long .... how long must we sing this song!
@Dc SynTax
Any processor comes with an errata sheet
And is that a good thing?
You might excel at syntax, context is not your forte, right ?
One bug per year? What has this guy been smoking? Any processor comes with an errata sheet.
Let me explain what the above means:
Some MS guy comes along and pulls the following out of his backside:
I predict the number of bugs in CPU's will increase [...] [to] one bug per CPU per year.
The guy never heard of processor errata sheets which prove we have already long passed the 1 bug per year milestone ... more like 5 or 10, if you ask me, you don't and that's fine.
CPU errata sheets are better than "This update fixes an issue in Microsoft Windows" boilerplate patch descriptions we get in Windows Update.
Books and scientific publications come with an ERRATA sheet and I think it is good, because honest.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
@Mage
You are almost there, but I downvoted ... because sensitive accounts (HMRC, banks) should be kept in two separate physical locations if they need be recorded somewhere else than one's brain.
Also, the jacket phone thing .... women will keep phone and diary in their handbag ... then again, handbag snatchers are usually after money and ID, so they grab ID/Passport/Driver's license, any cash and the credit/debit card(s), search for papers stored in same location as cards for pin's ...I doubt they would go through the diary for online account passwords ... not their business model, yet ...
Makes me think of my English SSID, the password is a succession of German words ... why German ? Nouns in German take a capital letter, so you automatically get case right ... of course, who in France would think an English SSID would have German words in its password ...
but they are more likely to use pen and paper, so the complexity of the password is going to suffer.
Not really, if you explain a little ...
E.g. https://xkcd.com/936/
Simple passwords, almost impossible to guess, straight forward to write down.
Written-down passwords are safer than software password managers, try and hack their diary/appointment book ...
@gabor1
If you use bio-metrics to unlock a mobile device then your opinion on data security does not count.
Hint: Your phone's case IS FULL OF YOUR FINGERPRINTS! If you use facial recognition, robber points the device at the poor fellow he just stole it from, "thanks, me changing code and going shopping ..."
And without a TOS stating than even if you make a mistake, you lose control of your property....
If you legally have proprietary source code and you want to put that on "a computer that is NOT owned by the company you work for" without clearance, you are irresponsible. This is NOT a mistake, this is irresponsible! Putting it on public github even more so, as it de facto makes the source code open source. If you do not know that, what are you doing in software development ?
Road users don't get that training, so continue to fail to see things, or don't recognise them as a collision risk.
BS argument, sounds like the drivers of old that claim "When I passed my license, we did not have round abouts, so I do not know how to drive in one."
If while preparing for the driver's license you did not get special training to anticipate and keep an eye open for stationary vehicles, pedestrians etc YOU SIMPLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO BEHIND THE STEERING WHEEL ... it is as simple as that.
Autopilot is meant for highways, like cruise control, AND heavy traffic or traffic jams, UNLIKE cruise control, where the repetitive use of the pedals can induce RSI, however, it does NOT relieve you of your task, control the vehicle if needed.
Why USians don't get this is beyond me ... then again, in the US, as long as you can park a car in a 100 yard long parking slot and drive around in a circle you get your license ...
@Domquark
I would prepose that the money would be better spent on automising trains. Maybe they would run on time?
May I attract your attention to the FACT that we have had autonomous trains since 1983 in productive service ? Look through my comments, I commented on them not too long ago ... if you know the Intertubes, you might have heard of search engines named Bing, Google, or DuckDuckGo ... search for "VAL trains". If you ask nicely, I might even send you a fully prepared link to the search results of a search engine ...
Hm, how can you pass out after a SINGLE pint ???????
In California, the limit is 0.08%.
One drink equals 1.5 ounces of 80 proof liquor (40% alcohol), 12 ounces of beer (4.5% alcohol), or 5 ounces of wine (12% alcohol). Under current law, everything in red (.08 BAC and higher) is legally intoxicated.
12 ounces of beer is roughly a half pint.
Now, don't get me wrong, drink-driving is a big nonono, even after a half pint, we all, I hope, agree here ... but passing out after as much as a pint ? Crikey! That's a cheap fellow to invite over to the pub ... better, have him pay ... just have to wake him when you're thirsty, "Your turn, matey!" ... :D
Look at those, hipsters, Apple fanboys extraordinaire ...
Why does djstardust write that ? because they bought a phone for $999, forgetting that his own phone cost $750 ...
As for the vastly superior phone, well, I beg to differ ... it runs Android, 0wned. Way too expensive, for cheap Android.
It just seems to be a Open Graph protocol meta tag with weird content, pasting that into a text file makes notepad++ freeze a bit, and crashes Cygwin when you attempt to cat it ... it contains 10540255 utf-8 characters, from what I can see.
7.5 Mb in the content attribute of a meta tag!
More on Open Graph protocol can be found here: http://ogp.me/
Their always-on-infrastructure isn't perfect, but it is close enough that outages constitute major international news.
Yes, on Azure's part, almost MONTHLY outages of some kind ... IBM's cloud, on the other had seems quite stable ... admittedly, it does not have as many customers ... but, when Microsoft has to reboot each and every system every month for the system patches, some of which bork the underlying OS every now and then, well .... they cannot compete, unless they throw more hardware at the problem ... and that means that if they want to remain competitive, they have make a loss ... I am pretty sure Azure, as a whole, is a major loss-maker for MS, however, their on-premise licensing cashcow keep it well hidden from the public.
That, and, no matter how hard they try, every other year now, used to be every year, they fail to renew some certs ... ;-)
Migrating all of their machines to a different OS, and retraining people, and changing jobs that support the existing set up. Good luck with that.
BS argument, like, did we trainin everybody from W7 to W8 ? Nope! W8 to W10 ? Same, nope ... yet, the ui changed dramatically at each step! Same for Office ...
People go from iPhone to Android and back and usually do not have a problem ... anybody who needs training because [s]he cannot cope with a new OS is a useless dead-wood asset anyway ...
Who is maintaining the Open Source software?
The 50 or so devs NHS hires with a tiny fraction of the licensing cost.
Who is fixing it when faults are found (and yes, faults are found in all types of software)?
See above. Have you ever had the displeasure with MS support ? Thought so ...
Who can we lynch when it all goes wrong?
Well, same as above, good luck "lynching" MS, IBM, Oracle etc ... NHS pays for ANY F*UP on their part, anyway ...
I came across a numpty on the Intertubes YESTERDAY who was running NT4 Terminal Server, you know, the OS that has dozens of remote exec vulns unpatched ... Terminal Server, so networked ... you can write the best, most secure code .... as long as we have numpties like that around, it is pointless ... We need to clean up the industry.
Corporate fallacy, clients, pink unicorns, whatever your excuse, running EOL software is no longer an option and NO, I do not care what other excuse you can come up with, IT IS NOT AN F'ING OPTION! If your company accepts that, heads MUST FALL or your company will make headlines, sooner or later, and THAT won't be pretty!
I only hope his family is in the UK ... Middle East => dictatorships/Israel => they will get your family if they cannot get you!
PS: Israel happily punishes the families of people it has categorized as "terrorists", destroying their houses, taking their land etc ... If you do not believe me, check out Jewish Voice for Peace ... a bunch of Jews world-wide condemning Israeli government's behavior.
I do not care about downvotes ... a downvote to me means "I disagree" or " you got something wrong" ... in the latter case I expect clarification ... damn, to quote Linus, if you disagree with my above post, you are an idiot, no ifs, buts or maybes ... sorry.
Do note that I frequently post rants to harvest downvotes on this handle ... like Brexit-related ;-) (yeah, I find that fun) ... so it is not the downvotes as such that matter to me ... what does sadden, though, me is ignorance....
Companies the size of Google, apple and Microsoft have to abide by their privacy policies, the might of EU and US government would crucify them in public if they were not following them.
You should read more articles on here ... Google have abused their position and stolen punters data without consent in the past. Mighty UK courts came up ... now, if you were in Britain between some dates 5 or so years ago AND were resident in Britain on some day last year you could apply to UK courts to get some cash from mighty Google ... EU ? Could not care less .... institutions are far too slow, when they even care to react ... go look at facebook, they know most of my friends, have my phone number, one or more email addresses of me ... you name it ... am not on there ... same with WhatsApp ... then, they can buy data from La Poste (French postal service) and could get my physical address, some purchasing habits of mine were I to use "club cards" etc etc etc ... The French postal service basically has everybody's address, so they buy data from supermarkets etc and can correlate it, they then sell that data on to anything ... they know everything my neighbour purchased last year, down to when she purchases menstruation pads ... some years ago, she received incontinence underpant protection pads (or whatever you call them) because she is 60 and had bought menstruation pads for another woman in distress .... somebody, somewhere, thought she had incontinence ... In other words, we are already fucked and no government is doing anything about it ... in France, thanks to CNIL, we can ask companies to delete records on us ... how does that work when the data has been sold on to 255 different companies, some of which multinationals with head offices in some overseas tax haven ?
Where was the EU, France, Germany, or UK when slurpOS (Windows 10) was force fed to the masses ?
Worse even than all that ... younger generations consider it "normal" to pass on all data on them, they do not see a problem ...
We already have self driving trains, shit, we had them in 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_Automatique_L%C3%A9ger
1983, Lille gets driverless trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_Metro
I personally used the Toulouse version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse_Metro in 1993, still operating today ... am not sure it changes much in the equation.
The Netherlands is also densely populated, they have high quality public transport everywhere, however, the roads are packed in the morning and evening ...a lot of people simply prefer driving, even if it is more expensive and takes longer to get to work/home.
But Leahy also contradicted himself, citing global traffic growth as making larger planes a necessity for airports at major destinations like London, Frankfurt, Paris, Los Angeles and New York that will experience more passenger demand but can’t increase capacity.
No, he did not contradict himself, he claimed demand for larger planes should pick up, due to capacity problems mentioned above, HOWEVER, sales do not materialize. Absolutely ZERO contradiction ... IOW, airlines are dumb fucks for not ordering more larger aircraft which would alleviate capacity problems at larger airports.
It sounds as though mainly marketing staff are being dropped – as much as 20 per cent of that department's employees getting the chop, allegedly – with perhaps around 150 to 200 workers being axed in total
Well some marketing types must be left as somebody authored the FAQ and you can tell it was a marketing type, it is full of buzzwords, some answers make absolutely no sense at all!
At a party with so many, the drugs are usually taken up-stairs in a spare room, or round the back, out of view of the others ... you can see people going up and down stairs/to the back all evening/night. When it comes to sex, yes, it's official, girls into drugs, on average, have more sexual partners than girls that don't do drugs and also have sex more frequently, again, on average ....BTW, at parties with that many people, sex happens up stairs in another spare room ... you do not get to know this unless you pay attention and/or are into drugs also or a womanizer ... by the way, the nerdy gals that go to these parties are usually boring ... like, here we have a boring girl who wrote a book because somebody asked her for a kiss at a party ...
Anybody else remember the Microsoft party in the bay area where they were too cheap to hire hookers and thought they could get away with inviting some students ?
Since 1980 (and perhaps earlier) there has been an obsession that the only way to generate money for this country is the City at the expense of science and industry.
Exactly, note that the city is more than pleased of losing passporting rights to the EU, they'll get to move to sunnier places like Frankfurt, Paris, and Madrid. That will be fun to watch ....as is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6iJi5HXfbE
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