Posts by Tom 38

Re: "the opportunities created by Brexit".

Since joining the common market Britain has been in steady economic decline, we've lost many large companies, run up a huge trade defecit, seen our relative world standing fade, while in real terms our young people are poorer than they were. So in hindsight we didn't join for selfish gain, but to assist the economic development of other EU countries. So why complain now if leaving the EU causes some short term pain, from your short-termist selfish perspective?

Because, Mr AC, he wasn't saying its going to cause them pain. Something affecting our EU exports is going to cause job losses and recession here. Jacob Rees-Smug lounging on the front benches and Bloody Stupid Johnson calling Corbyn "Caracas" is not "winning", its the last death throws of the Tory party.

"No deal" would cause awful economic problems for the UK, and the probable break-up of the UK.

May's deal is like staying in the EU, but with none of the benefits.

PS: GDP growth since joining the EC. Oh look, we're all connected in one global economy, who the fuck knew.

Re: Not to be mean but,

It won't work with properly compliant cables and chargers that provide dual cc-line. The way the Pi is wired, it advertises itself as an audio device, and so chargers/cables that detect how a device is advertised will not send power to it. Cheaper cables don't detect, and always send the power.

Ward's original blog post describing the issue explains it better, I'm probably misdescribing something.

Re: Scooter stoopid

That't false. With a bicycle you can make 10km long daily commutes to the office. With a scooter you can't travel those distances.

I was in Hackney Wick on Sunday, where there are many men with beards drinking craft beers*. There is also an electric skateboard shop called Wick Boards, and happened upon some bearded chaps setting out for a jaunt. I asked him what the range on one of these boards is, and was surprised to learn they can go up to 28km on a single charge, which is very much in the commute to work and back range.

* I also have a beard and drink craft beer. No connection to the store and my lady friend promptly told me that I will never be allowed to have one of these fancy looking boards :/

Re: Are you f**king kidding me?

All it means is that instead of the existing situation where at the moment you fill up with petrol, then park up and walk to the building, then hit the toilets and then get a coffee or food you change the first step to "plug in".

This is not my usual petrol station experience, which involves driving up, getting out, putting petrol in the car, paying at the pump and driving off. Toilet, drink, snack - three things which are better done anywhere other than a petrol station.

Re: Radicalization

Alt right is just a label thrown around far too easily at the moment, Peterson isn't Alt Right for starters IMHO, if anything he's more a centrist.

Almost everyone believes that they are themselves centrists, along with the people whose thoughts they identify with. I have no position on Peterson, but note that he has accepted ~C$200k funding from Rebel Media, a Canadian Breitbart clone.

Re: Time

ts possible that Craig Wright is actually a time traveler.

My Physics teacher told me that we are all time travellers.

Re: So, to sum up. . .

I think you're a little confused on this referendum thing. How is left to the government and Parliament,

Nice to read a staunch Brexiteer admit that Parliament should decide how we exit.

Re: Windows 10S...as useful as a chocolate teapot

The most annoying thing is that you still have to support the POS that they bought without telling you. I spent 3 months struggling with a landfill HP Stream laptop that my lady friend bought from PC World - non expandable 32GB primary storage, with W10 and Office installed it had <1GB free space, every windows update would use all that space and then fail to install as there wasn't enough free space.

"Why did you buy it?"

"Its a nice blue colour, and the guy at the store said it was perfect for office and web"

"Let me take it back, its not fit for purpose"

"Oh no, I don't want to make a fuss"

Bought her a proper Dell refurb for £50 more.

Re: That's horrible.

It used to be that Apple refused to spend money on product placement in TV/movies - like a point of principle*, but I guess that has probably changed - and any Apple kit that you saw was because the plot called for a laptop, and that's what they have around.

I'm much more annoyed/amused by Microsoft product placement, which happens a lot on CBS shows. "Oh my god, the killer is getting away. Let me open up my Surface Pro (close up of the folding) and use Bing to find the route he is taking to the dogs. Quick McGarrett, I've skyped you the co-ordinates!"

* Hey, they got to start having principles somewhere

Re: DV's only

Did you see yesterday that chrome will display EV certs the same as DV certs?

Re: @AC - The SFC can kiss my taint...

ZFS is filesystem, disk and archive/backup management wrapped up in one coherent and high performance package. Its like comparing a hand crank car to one with a start button.

What are these simpler, less complex tools? For every task I can think of for disk, filesystem, archival or backup task, the zfs way of doing it is simpler and requires only one tool. Even to get close to ZFS features under linux without ZFS you would have to use multiple complex tools.

Specifically for desktops, the ability to take snapshots for free - basically no compute or disk cost - allows you to take and discard thousands of snapshots. Oracle have for a while had a GNOME extension that acts as a time slider on the directory being viewed, and there exist tools for linux to do similar - although currently without the GUI integration that Oracle have done.

Once it starts making it in to more desktop installs, features like that will start to come more rapidly.

Probably consent.

Re: I'm not so sure.

Employee parcels in our office go in one big room, and wait there to be collected. No-one is opening it.

Besides, you would want to make it look like something else. It should look like something that you ordered online, except you didn't. Inside the brown packaging box, you'd have some kind of shrink wrapped box containing the actual device ("huh, I didn't order a big box of vibrators, best check with H/SWMBO tonight/return it, I'll just hide it quickly so no-one in the office sees it")

So many ways to do this.

Didn't know he had a paper.

Re: Ah yes... the Big Lie that the English were subsidising the Scots

It's Scotland's Money when we talk about the oil, but then its all Our Money when it comes to talking about Barnett Formula eh. This country would be even more shit if tax revenues stayed where they were generated.

Re: Try a Lathe

Craft, Design and Technology

Re: "Under VCAP, ... collect IP addresses of prolific prates."

They join the torrent and ask for peers. Or rather, they pay a company to do that for them and give them lists of IP addresses for films they distribute.

Re: Fair Play to the Felly

Journalists, writing about the odious things a politician does? How fucking dare they start fights like that. They should suck at his teat and never be critical of the God-Emperor Trump. I think they should just get rid of term limits now, and turn the presidency in to a hereditary-life role - Ivanka next!

Re: Keep the tubes quiet

The eastern part of the Jubilee is the modern extension, as lines go I think that's pretty quiet. Central between Liverpool St and Stratford (but particularly Liverpool St to Bethnal Green), you can feel your hearing being damaged as you go round the most stupidly shaped tunnel in the world. Straight lines; we've heard of them.

Until bits get magically transported from one CPU to the next, however you provide your services is at risk of having their connectivity removed, whether that's cloud or on-prem.

If your service is mission critical, you should have it in multiple regions and availability zones - each which has multiple independent power, cooling and backhaul and be physically separated - and design your applications and data storage around not relying on any one region/AZ being up.

"Cloud" is more than running your programs on other people's computers.

Try bartering for drugs and see how far you get.

Petty dealers (particularly weed) do this all the time, they exchange their time to bag and sell a portion of a weight, and keep/sell the rest themselves, paying the upstream dealer their share afterwards.

Re: "Most people had dial-up"

Sorry to interrupt the Yorkshiremen sketch, but a lot of the programs I got were from magazine listings, you'd sit there for hours typing in to get some really quite crappy games.

Re: Abandon Ship...

We've switched all our servers to AmigaOS 1.3!

Re: Hmm

But if we want users then data will be collected and there is always a possibility of compromise. All you can do is best practices.

Which they didn't do, which is why they get the big fine, and about fucking time.

Re: This is only the start

retraining the thing to do the same to men of all ages, with the aim of being able to embarrass and undermine prominent politicians

Alas, there is no readily available training set of "middle aged men in suits, clothed/unclothed, same pose", whilst the "attractive 20-30s woman, clothed/unclothed, same pose" is almost limitless.

Re: One of my favourite quotes ever

Is it not? He's arguing that "New Labour ruined Britain", and his argument is that Tony Blair is stupid. How is that not an ad-hominem?

They already aren't allowed to put it in sensitive areas (edge and not core).

It's all bullshit anyway, the only sensitive thing is qualcomm's ego.

Re: So what is the blockchain for?

ZFS is a Merkle tree of blocks. Blockchain is a Merkle tree of blocks. ZFS is not blockchain.

I am a collection of cells. An amoeba is a collection of cells. I am not an amoeba.

Re: "We all want to see hard proof—" No, we don't.

In your analogy, being injected in the toe is as lethal as being injected in the jugular, because they both flow to the heart. In reality, the "heart" is the security services infrastructure. How does their information flow to my phone so that the "injection" can poison it?

Why would you need a powerful PC? I ran a mythtv instance for many years around that time, and it certainly didn't run in to thousands in build costs. The most powerful component you needed was a video card capable of vdpau (feature set B) - I used a GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 with a fanless heatsink, £20 in 2007 - and a CPU and hard drive capable of reading and writing at bitrates not greater than 20Mbit. The first one I built used junk bits from my desktop PC, and a few quiet fans.