Posts by Tom 38

Re: What Is The Point of Facebook ?

Yes, easily. Your arguments to the contrary are nonsensical. At best you are just pointing out that people are lazy creatures of habit and unwilling to learn anything new.

Your social network is "email" and the people using facebook are the flies wallowing in shit unable to learn anything new? We get it, you don't like facebook, and are insular enough in your own life in order to reject communication with anyone who does use facebook as a means of communication.

In my age group(s), 25-34 and 35-44 - I'm on the cusp - it is the usual method of arranging things between multiple people. Having a party? Going camping? Its a facebook event, with its own page, map to the venue, information, list of guests etc. We invite people to our parties whose emails and phone numbers we don't have nor want, and they don't have to share them. We don't have problems that someone invited last minute is missing the first 100 emails in the thread.

We also don't do this horrific practise of sitting down with people and tediously passing them our holiday snaps, like they could give a fuck. We don't email them around or create mailing lists to distribute them, we just post them to facebook and anyone of our friends who cares to view them can do so.

Facebook does a bunch of things that I don't like, but it does a lot of things that simplify communicating with my extended friends and family. I'm capable of learning new things (like this "email" thing, do you have a link?), but I'm also capable of utilising a tool that provides benefits whilst minimising its negative aspects.

Re: Cough

London, with more cameras than anywhere else in the world [..] unfortunately still gets attacked.

Surveillance only works if you are looking in the right place, at the right people.

During the June London Bridge attack, armed police were dispatched before the first 999 call came in because of CCTV monitoring, which probably saved lives.

@Gruezi

Have you found any settings for your PC that can maybe help with errant designers? I wonder if it is possible to fuck around with colour settings so that when a program requests X shade, it instead displays Y shade, that is less pastelly and more likely to have good contrast.

Re: So?

Yeah, God forbid you have to spend an extra 10 seconds at a checkout, when you could be using that time to make the world a better place.

Let's be f***ing serious here, coal mining is an onerous and time consuming task.

Foam a bit more, you completely missed the point. Compared to swipe and leave [kudos on trimming the quotation to omit that part], chip + pin is onerous, but that doesn't mean that we should move to swipe and leave. There is more to choosing authorization mechanisms for payment cards than convenience.

But no, keep frothing, a bit more hyperbole. Sigh.

My latest work dell (Latitude E7470) has a clit mouse and 3 mouse buttons above the trackpad and 2 mouse buttons below the trackpad. Keyboard is still rubbish for vim users though, the escape key is the size of a microdot.

Re: I wonder if...

But Sales you want to be competitive. Because daily, they are going out and trying to snatch the meat from the jaws of your rivals. They're your front line. So you have a pay structure that rewards competitiveness.

Yeah but no. Sales people stealing leads from other sales people within the company? Extremely poor form. The only thing they should be competitive on is on how much new money/renewals they bring in, which is based upon how good at convincing the various people within the target company that the deal is good.

There is huge variance of luck involved, you are allocated leads and if the leads allocated to you are more likely to buy than the ones allocated to your colleague, you won't have to do as much work to land them. A sales person working hard should hit 100% of target; a sales person working hard and getting lucky might hit 900% of target; they aren't working 9 times as hard as the person hitting 100% of target, they just got lucky.

However spin that around; the one making 100% of target is working flat out to do that, because one of these days he's going to be the lucky one and have a massive quarter; it encourages them to all work like dogs.

And by work, I mean swan around drinking coffees and talking to people on the phone 24x7. I couldn't do it.

Re: Obession with (free) Wi-Fi

But what happens to traffic generated before the VPN is established? Does it get routed insecurely, or is it blocked until the VPN is up?

Yes, insecurely, unfortunately. Same as if the VPN happens to disconnect temporarily, or you lose coverage, etc etc.

Re: Just stop buying Chinese made kit...

won't stop them nicking evey bit of IP developed in the rest of the world and then suing the companies they nicked it from in China to stop them from using 'our Red Flag Developed IP illegally'

Shocking!

Also, identical to how the US used to behave; before they had much of their own IP, they thought using and abusing European IP was a-OK.

And yet arrests per thousand attendees are higher at Glastonbury than at Notting Hill.

Re: a matter of pride?

But injecting someone with a substance that they do not want to be injected with is assault. If it's done by the government, that's still assault.

This is really not that tricky a concept; in society, it is a dick move to endanger other people. Not vaccinating your spawn endangers other people. Don't be a dick.

Re: Please

I think the Sir Pterry logo should be just the words "Millenium Hand & Shrimp", and it would not be a selectable logo, but would instead be applied to whomever the community votes as their current Foul Old Ron, eg aManFromMars.

Re: "some 90 MegaPhones in Q4, 2016."

Wireless charging - would not touch anything without it.

Isn't that the point?

Re: Slippery slope?

It has to be hate specifically directed at a person because of their ownership/association of a protected characteristic

Case law would differ, R v Viscount St Davids, convicted of menacing communications for a post in a private facebook group of which the victim was not a member.

Although I guess not specifically a "hate crime"...

Re: Are there now so many versions because

All these coins have value as long as people are prepared to accept them in return for goods. Most of them work quite well. It is actually irrelevant how much a crypto-coin is worth, because the most common use of it is as a transient token for conveying wealth. If you are only holding the resource transiently, then there is no comparison to a pyramid scheme.

Re: Something worth remembering

Extra fresh

Re: Political Correctness "key words" and "tricky phrases"

You don't turn up to a peaceful rally wearing combat gear and carrying assault rifles. I'm just saying, that's an unpeaceful rally.

Trump isn't a racist because he burns crosses, or uses pejorative racist language; he is a racist because he gives his tacit approval to those who do by refusing to condemn them. This isn't speculation, it is what these fascists themselves reported after he first spoke on the matter on Saturday - encouraged and relieved.

Re: Today has been the 53rd day since my last Camel

404, you can make it even cheaper and mix your own ejuice. You can get "bottle shots" these days, 500ml bottles filled with 100ml of flavourings, you squirt in the %age nicotine you want from "nicotine shots", add VG and/or PG, shake well and then leave in the cupboard for a week, shaking it occasionally. This comes out to about £30/L, compared to £500/L for "premium" juices sold in 10ml bottles. Even if you are just using 6ml a day, its the difference between a £3/day habit to a £0.20/day habit.

Google for "bottle shots" or "hack shots" or "one shots"; each manufacturer uses a slightly different name.

Cloud is a state of mind? If we define a cloudy app:

* Stateless

* Cattle not pet

* Auto deployed and provisioned using some sort of assembly tool producing disk images

* Auto failover/recovery

* Geographically resilient

* Add your own qualities here

then our cloud is anything that runs our cloudy app. If we configure a rack with have in house to be chock full of openstack instances, that could be considered an on-prem cloud.

Re: YaCy

Lucene++ is an "up to date" port of Lucene 3 to C++.

Which is all well and good, but we're using Lucene 7 now..

Re: Police shooting black folks? Really?

Do you know that the police shoot more white people than they do black people? In fact, nearly twice as many so far this year.

Twice as many! Why are they still complaining about #blacklivesmatter eh? Perhaps it has something to do with there being almost 6 times as many white people as black people in America?

"External" == "Managed by a third party"

"In house" == "Managed by us"

An in house AWS cloud is one you are managing yourself, rather than paying someone to do it for you.

Aircon isn't possible on the deep lines (Red, black, blue), without drilling many many vents throughout central London. The Lizzie Line will have aircon.

Re: You forgot CRAPTO

Cool project names are a colour and a noun, both entirely unrelated to the project. I think this might have been a military thing?

Re: Wow

a hacking group was willing to invest 6 months and at least half a million Dollars

Allegedly; for all we know they spent half an afternoon and £5 and are just trying to justify what they are asking for

Re: Why do iGet the feeling...

Intel licensed the tech from Qualcomm, and made chips that Intel sold to Apple to put in devices. Qualcomm feel that Apple should also pay a license fee, I think they are high.

Re: Calls whilst running

And if that run is a jog, what you are trying to achieve is a pace that you can still talk at, it's the fucking definition.