Posts by VinceH

Re: Vince

I understand that, Chris - but what I'm getting at is that the fundamental issue is that Uber are overcharging the passengers. If the drivers are to be paid based on what Uber charge the passengers, the drivers will be part of the same problem: The passengers will be overcharged, and both Uber and the drivers will be getting a cut of the overcharge.

If this is to be put right, it isn't that the drivers should be paid more, it is that the passengers should be charged the correct amount.

Re: I'll buy it

"Otherwise PS4"

Nope. I'll stick with my PS3, thanks.

Re: What next?

There was a time when companies took the view that "the customer is always right" - but sometimes it seems these days, especially with cloud or internet of shit stuff, it's a case of them adopting "The customer may be right, but we are in control!"

Re: The algorithm is clearly flawed

And/or on what it recognises more easily and more quickly. Possibly.

i,e, if it was flipped - so using the example described in the article, if it was a video about a car, with the odd frame of a tiger inserted, I suspect it would correctly identify it as a video about a car. It needs to be programmed (I won't say taught at this stage) to use the predominant subject matter.

Re: Dear Mr Assange ..

I suspect 'challenge' would have been a more suitable word than 'leave' - because to leave this country, he'd first have leave the embassy - at which point he'll be arrested.

No, that was Kerplunk.

Splunk, according to the urban dictionary, is "A mixture of spunk and splooge. This is formed by the combined semen during a bukkake session."

Re: Formatted email messages

"Does anybody ever actually see the linked images in emails? I certainly don't, and I don't ever plan to enable them"

Generally speaking, no. I will grudgingly display images in a specific email if I feel I need to see them in that particular instance, but that's very rare.

However, on the subject of HTML emails, I'm just going to leave this thing I've noticed happening amongst some of my clients here.

Re: The good things...

"It seems an odd way to proceed."

Something about lunatics and asylums.

Re: 'you now get a list showing which service belongs to which process'

"Windows Update. That's one hell of an invasive feature!"

For many people, an invasive feature is exactly what it became on 29th July 2015.

Re: Jealousy

"As for the Gor books, I figured out they were shite 30 years ago after reading the 5 that my local library stocked."

I've always thought my ability to tolerate utter rubbish books, and actually finish reading them is pretty damned good. The one Gor book I tried to read, though, is one of the rare examples I can think of where my tolerance was defeated.

So that you managed to read five - given that you presumably realised they were shite after (during?) just one - shames me. I am clearly not as tolerant (or stubborn?) when it comes to crap books as I thought.

Re: best practices?

"Most of my non-sensitive passwords are happily stored in the browsers.

For those who do use PMs, what are your recommendations?"

I personally stick to something local - KeePass - rather than some cloudy solution that means my passwords are stored in some remote location on the intertubes, subject to someone else's security.

And as you say, I do let my browser hold less sensitive passwords - more on my desktop machine than my laptop, because the laptop stands a better chance of ending up in the wrong hands. But the browser's own password database is also behind (and encrypted with) a password.

Re: And just to add to the confusion...

Surely, those would all be the Star Wars spin off TV series. The films would include titles like "The Search for Ewoks".

@Solarflare

Those sound reasonable and sensible.

So they'll never happen.

Re: Just remember...

"...Windows 10 is so shit that they literally havestruggled to give it away, and had to resort to underhand tactics in order to try forcing it onto people."

FTFY!

Re: What to use?

"On what desktop platform is Google planning to provide a reasonable experience for Drive? RiscOS?"

Please - no.

Re: A company

"Translation is that they are sorry that their attempt at monetizing the stream further didn't go off so well, and they'll think of other ways to further profit from your device."

I think the original statement from them is the big clue:

This isn't an ad; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partners to be our guest and share their tales.

The cynic in me is suggesting the (perhaps longer term) plan is to have adverts that are more subtle, in the hope that people wouldn't recognise them as adverts - and that the above is therefore a canned statement ready for when someone inevitably spots and points out that they're using it for advertising.

Re: "We need to promote women disproportionately, pay them equally or better..."

@A non e-mouse

You do know what you've done there? Perpetuated the stereotype that women are the "home makers" and men are the "bread winners".

The article itself does that right after the bit where it suggests positive discrimination:

" We need to promote women disproportionately, pay them equally or better, offer them the flexibility that comes with shouldering the lion’s share of the childcare and housework."

Re: Clarification required

"Oh, sorry - did I say I work for the Home Office? My mistake, I meant to say I work from my home-office."

Re: Why does anybody treat passwords as ASCII FFS

*banana* *house* *covering-ears* *apple-pie* *rocket*

Re: Palemoon

"While we're talking about Palemoon, their Thunderbird version, Fossamail, similar;y resolves Thunderbird issues, like CPU hogging and constant activity."

Now that's a handy thing - I use Palemoon, but didn't know about Fossamail. I'll give it a try.

Re: thanks to EU regulations

"So regardless where it is made, if it is to be ever sold in Europe, it will not have the classic square front any more."

So designing one with spikes on the front is off the cards, then?

Re: I used cloud based accounting software for two years

"My accountant has always told me that you need nothing more than excel to do your accounts and he's kinda right (bells and whistles aside)"

He's kind of right... but only up to a point. I could do my own accounts in a spreadsheet (but it would never be Excel!), but I don't - meanwhile, where I am today, doing so would be insane.

In fact I use Sage 50 for both - but the desktop version, none of this cloudy crap.

Re: My money's on Facebook

On the one hand, I don't want it to be Facebook or any of the big names, because that's a lot of innocent users affected...

On the other hand, I want it to be Facebook or any of the big names, because that's a lot of ignorant¹ people who might learn a lesson.

^{1. Come on. I'll bet most of us reading this site know people who we endlessly try to convince they need more than just a single password across every website going, but who steadfastly refuse to listen. Not to mention the amount of data that's given to these sites unnecessarily.}

Re: Hmmm....

"Didn't hit me.....but I'd probably not have noticed....just would've logged back in."

It didn't hit me because I'm very rarely logged in - I only do so when I need to log in for something.

Re: Am I Getting Old?

"They don't but marketers saw something shiny d and demanded it."

s/demanded it/convinced the gullible they needed it/

And could see the potential for gain for them and the companies they work for, with all the lovely data they'd get, and more potential control over those customers.

To slightly misquote Gary Numan's (Dark) lyrics:

"I need hostility connectivity to lead the faithful and the blind."

Re: Get a cat.

No.

But I won't be getting one of these daft mouse traps either. £1300, FFS.

And I bet they charge a fee for responding when the trap has been triggered.