* Posts by Triggerfish

2451 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010

Alabama man gets electrocuted after sleeping with iPhone

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Re: so much wrong here...

Is it a rule that folks in Britain and Europe MUST find fault in everything American?

More of a hobby really.

Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly

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Re: Oh wonderful

Not the . A closer one would be someone goes to a casino and bets 5% of what they own on red or black. There is a risk but if you loose, it's not the end of the world...

The permanent economic stability of a country is not a 5% no harm no foul bet ffs.

Everyone said the economy would crash as soon as we voted for Brexit - it hasn't - record highs in the FTSE, outstanding economic growth

I'm moving to a country thats pegged with the dollar and I have seen a goodly amount of my savings and wages wiped because of this, now thats individual, but it reflects on the worth of our pound when we want to purchase. Also it may not help export which is what I am always told, because we need to buy raw materials in etc and guess what? They now effectively cost more.

As other posters have said share prices have dropped, and companies are getting bought up and the profits not coming back into the UK either, a weak pound isn't that great.

All we know right now is we will not be paying the EU billions net each year anymore. We might stand to gain massively from trade deals. We might stand to loose from the EU depending on what is agreed. But we don't know.

We might, we might, we might, dunno maybe it's just me but somehow I think maybe knowing what would happen or at least having a pretty damn good idea is the way to make a major descision. Basing it on some jingoistic ideas and hope is not.

What we do know is we are out for sure - once the article is invoked it's not reversible. We also know other countries are queuing up to do trade deals. Hello for instance the 52 nations / 2.3 billion people . 15 trillion GDP of the Commonwealth. Ditto, Canada, the US, India, Australia. Who mostly have forgiven us for forcing "civilisation" on them.

You mean we were not trading with Canada, the US etc before? Gosh we missed a trick there.

Or do you mean now we are out of the EU suddenly the need for British goods is going to rise for some reason, if so can you tell me what? There's only so much jam you can sell.

Do you think for example we would have more clout than the EU, for example if TTIP was happening do you think the Eu could have refused it, do you think Britain on it's own would have been able to?

We can look at our status as a global financial centre - and the regulatory advantages that not being in the EU might bring. And the ability to adjust our tax rates for corporates...

Yeah tax cuts for large corporations work so well for the common man. Suppose we can cut some things though, NHS, roads, education etc. Banking especially unregulated banking has done us all so fine in the past few years.

We can also look at similar countries that are not in the EU like say Norway and Switzerland.

The sheer ignorance of that statement and lack of understanding about the single market membership....

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Re: So let me get this right....

Although inclined to agree I also think to be fair, planes were much simpler then, and if you read accounts of people trying to fly these planes now they are supposed to be a bitch to fly, not just mossies but the single engine fighters, torque steer and such could apparently flip you trying to take off.

There was a written account of someone trying to fly a ME109 someone offered a go on at a meet, experienced pilot years of experience as a crop duster and in various aircraft, whole family history of flying commercially, didn't even get it down the runway to take off before he realised it was better to power down, live and not trash someone's million dollar plane.

Mosquito was still a shit hot plane though.

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Re: Oh wonderful

We need a 'Farages Law' no matter what the subject is being spoken about someone will always drag it to Brexit.

New plastic banknote plans now upsetting environmental campaigners

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Sustainable palm oil

Is not that much more cost wise than the bad stuff, why not just buy that?

Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users

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Re: I rather like Windows 10.

1. It tries to steal my data and sell it on.

2. It adds in adds disguised as handy apps for things like X box live and win phone.

3. It greys out the fucken option to remove these so you have to do it through powershell.

4. It forces down updates whether I want them or not or whether they are stable or not, currently my win 10 occasionally just discoonects itself from the network and needs a reboot, the only reason i can surmise for it doing this is; shits and giggles.

5. The forced updates deliberately remove all these changes I made to stop the bullshit above.

6. MS seems to think my laptop is now their laptop.

7. People who know nowt about computers keep phoning me post unwitting upgrade and saying things like this has fucked up my laptop (including trashing an SSD) and I have to deal with it.

They enough reasons?

As for innovation. Innovation does not equal good, total shite can be brand new to us as well.

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Re: I have a Win10 laptop

probably beats Win ME as well.

Creators Update gives Windows 10 a bit of an Edge, but some old annoyances remain

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Re: Aaah Win 10

As I have commented before it's a case of boiling the frog, making things super useful is the way you get people to sign up to these things and as each new tech generation comes along more are doing so, until it swings back the other way (if it ever does), this is the way it goes. As people get more and more used to the fact that their private life to some degree is out there, and if you can combine it with things that are useful. Then it becomes more and more easy to go from an inch to a mile.

There's probably not many of us who are so locked down nothing is available.

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Re: Aaah Win 10

Well I was being a bit tongue in cheek, but as a serious answer.

No I think this is driven by people who have realised that now many people will let their data be borged and know they can get away with it, thats not neccesarrily young people.

In fact I'd say it's a calculation, yeah you can turn techs off and off we all fuck to Linux, but you should expect techs to be more data wary anyway so they are bit of a lost cause to monetise.

However the people who several months ago it just updated and don't know what to do with it, the people who go I'm being tracked who cares, stuff like that totally outweigh the few who leave; so in the long run (if say you are doing the calculations) no loss there.

A wise person might know how to listen to his customers and not piss them off, a cynical bastard with experience knows how much you can get away with first.

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Aaah Win 10

You could have been so good, if you hadn't let those bastards from the marketing division* try to turn your computer into a platic pal whose fun to be with, and your customers into a revenue stream.

*mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

One in five mobile phones shipped abroad are phoney – report

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Re: Oh no!

Plus check out the rugged phone, you could take out a charging hippo with that.

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Re: Oh no!

Technology Happy Life and Shenzen Banana Technology Co, are just great names.

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Re: Whoa - bullshit detect

Those are the sort of watches I was talking about, at cost price they aren't near that the mark up is huge. Was also remarkable at how quick they kept up and changed, some of the makers change the internals slightly every now again, colour of the internal mechanism wheels stuff like that, and you would see that reflected with a change around and updating of the fakes that well impressed me as a someone who has worked in manufacturing and knows what it is like trying to get a change happen in a production environment sometimes.

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Re: Whoa - bullshit detect

Sorry might be a bit long.

You could go to factories of brands out in Asia and wait outside the buidlings at shift change an pick yourself up a nice bargain, have done that.

But also I have seen T-shirts that are of better construction, hoop stitch v the normal way they put t-shirts together by panel (can't remeber what that was called) so totaly different machine set up and factory I would have thought. Hoop stitchs means they actually wear better, lose their shape less etc. I actually still have some, they have lasted for years and are really well made.

Apparently LV bags age at a rate and the leather takes a patina on. The guy I knew selling them pointed out the bags they sold aged in the same way. The quality on the stitching and also on the zips (decent zips is definetly something you should always look for on bags anyway - read about the YKK company if you want to read some engineering geekery)

Whether these sort of things come from the same factories, and a lot of them I suspect they do, there are also dedciated factories out there churning out the goods.

The high quality stuff though seems like it's not as common to find, you would not have been able to pick these up in the usual tourist places in Bangkok for example. The shop I visited was with an expat who did that sort of thing (and who I was frineds with, otherwise I wouldn't have been taken there, he was picking up stock), it was round the back streets near the airport well away from places westerners usually went, massive steel doors and shutters like a crackhouse and when you walked in just like stepping suddenly into a designer handbag shop. The expat also said it took two years before they would accept his Thai girlfriend coming along just in case she was police.

Watches, similar really a lot bought in BKK were from the Chinese, although I also got the impression that was because the Chinese were more business orientated with price negotiations, they would allow themselves to be negotiated down more from a price because to them it was units to shift. But quality wise I know people who have taken watches to jewellers only to be directed to service centres, and even with the backs opened and now knowing they are looking at fakes have found them to be very good and take a proper sharp look.

I'd say from what I have been told a lot are reversed engineered as well, and same with textiles there's probably a fair few rejects that aren't really in a production run, but also places that will assemble the pieces after buying them or just plain make them.

The weird thing is if you took one of these good fakes, you could end up buying a watch that had sapphire glass, and self winding movement depending on who it was faking for about £15 (cost price), the straps alone would be worth more than that if you brought them back (beautiful leather, well made steel bands etc) and sold them in the UK. At least one fake Omega Seamaster I know of has gone through various navy training excercise and ended up more than a little damp and survived.

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Re: Whoa - bullshit detect

If the knock off is pretty good you can actually make a lot.

About twenty years ago I knew some people who shifted high quality fake watches (good enough to fool jewellers even when opened - doubt you'd want to try it at a proper service centre for the brand though) at about £120 a pop, a lot to people who had the originals and wanted something to wear when out, or were on a waiting list for some were among the buyers. Same with handbags, (and getting into the shops selling these units to them was eye opening they were not open to most people). They used to buy them at around £15 a unit and they did very well out of it.

Also I have seen fake t-shirts when travelling with a textiles person who knew about the making of these things that were actually better made and quality than originals.

Pirate of the Caribbean to play Hacker of the Caribbean

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It's worth reading about his campaign and policies, quite entertaining. I like the bit where he shaved his head so he could refer to the republican candidate (army crew cut) as his long haired oponent.

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I thought Depp did a pretty good job as Hunter S Thompson, and it's fair to say as nutters go Thompson was one of the best of them.

Samsung plans Galaxy Note 7 fire sale

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Re: You are overestimating PHBs

Got sold the batteries/ (or the idea of them), so decided they are bloody well going to be used. Is my bet.

I've Been Moved: IBMers in same division slapped with 2nd redundo scheme in 2 months

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Re: Fire the bottom 10%

You can keep firing the bottom ten percent every year, but at some point you probaby should look at yourself and wonder why your company is not only failing to grow and keep them employed but actually negatively growing shown by the fact you need to keep getting rid of people.

Plus if you keep doing that, don't you end up with a point where you end up sitting looking in the mirror giving yourself notice, since you are the only one left to fire?

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I Bill Monthly, is what my boss calls 'em.

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

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Re: It's crazy, but it's very Miele

If it's the Eu then I think only free parts in the second year might be wrong, pretty sure you are covered against manufacturer defect for longer then a year.

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A home grade washing machine can spin at 14,000 rpm and heat water. Water is heavy - 1 Kg for 10cm^3 - and these things can take a lot of water. There is also a large chunk of concrete inside the machine to help damp vibrations and act as inertia as required.

So what could possibly go wrong with a large electrical device in a metal case with lots of water, a powerful heater, a large piece of concrete, a large spinny thing that can go really fast and a controller that has gone to the bad?

Hmmmn are you saying we could Stuxnet washing machines?

Why do GUIs jump around like a demented terrier while starting up? Am I on my own?

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Re: @Dave, re: times.

They're epoch times.

squiggle with horns, five radiating lines

Cthulhu arrival event

splat effect

Post Cthulhu

monkey being buggered by either a space alien or Tom Cruise

Bacterial evolutionary phase

OH

Universe has recycled to original Hydrogen (restart error)

'Clearance sale' shows Apple's iPad is over. It's done

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Re: Education PC seller says Apple is no good in that market

Problem was, the iPads were bought because the IT co-ordinators assumed they could do everything they needed, but they were wrong, many educational web sites still use flash

They were handed out from a local uni for students on a occupational therapy course a couple of years ago. With exactly that problem.

Samsung's Bixby totally isn't a Siri ripoff because look – it'll go in phones, TVs, fridges, air con...

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Re: Not on any

+++out of cheese error. redo from start+++

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Re: Not on any

Yes and you haven't paid your service charge update, so this door aint opening and it's dry cornflakes for you.

Europe will fine Twitter, Facebook, Google etc unless they rip up T&Cs

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Re: Long overdue

I always find it interesting how none of these companies every allow a case to get to court if challenged on their T&Cs. Maybe it's because they know damned well that they'd lose? I see Lyft have just bought their way out of a court case too over employment.

HR equivalent of the Pinto problem; pay off in places T&C unfriendly, have massive power in places that allow it.

GCHQ dismisses Trump wiretap rumours as tosh

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Re: That was then...

Does that count for a narcissist? I always get the impression they like to feel they came out on top and the other was beaten.

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Re: That was then...

Political negotiations are a bit more subtle and complex

Considering there current idea of diplomacy is to have their whitehouse press guy Spicer accusing an allied intelligence agency of trying to influence an election, I'd say its safe to say were pretty much fucked for the hope of subtlety and complexity from them.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

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Re: Options?

You can buy a win 7 pro OEM licence in UK for about £130 stil, you'll need to buy some hardware with it, but last time I did something like that (funnily enough to buy Vista OEM) a new mouse was sufficient.l

Why is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ project so delayed?

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Re: 20 years old tech?

It's amazing the difference in graphics. I have got used to the changes without really noticing and going back to an old game it's amazing how bad the graphics I thought were brilliant before are, some games it makes them painful to play.

Still liking Age of Empires though, and there's not many games prettier than Homeworld.

Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

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Re: Top Tips For Barristers...

The original article mentioned that information about something like 250 people was involved; I have no idea what a barrister's caseload is like but that seems like an awful lot.

Not neccessarily they could be complaintants against an organisation or someone for their actions.

Microsoft's Slack-slapping 'Teams' slips into Office 365

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Re: That isn't the idea

Yeah but it thens means they tend to be half assed sometimes, or there is to much proliferation, why not one system you can snap in functionality or reduce as needed for your case.

And with all these being there it becomes a mess, for example we are looking at staffhub at the moment, which even though doesn't seem to want to link up with sharepoint, insist on creating a sharepoint group which has no other interaction with staffhub. You can save files on staffhub, but they wont be saved in the groups section of sharepoint, just somewhere else..

It just makes it messy, and you spend half your time assessing whether something is useful or not. Should we use teams, should we use team sites, should we use groups, should we use any?

Each of these little things means a user saves to them they shove files somewhere on one drive, and for an easy to admin system it makes it way more complicated than need be, don't know where a small business owner starting out would end up.

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So there's Teams, SharePoint, Skype and Yammer.

I don't need all four.

Agreed make one, intergrate it properly into all the core services you get from Office 365, concentrate on doing that one system properly.

Oh and write some bloody proper user guides and update them everytime you do another interface upgrade ffs.

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

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Re: @Rattus @Ian Michael Gumby

You slip on the ice, and hurt your back. You need PT, but you have to wait 6 months before you can see someone. But if you have private insurance, you can see a doctor right away, most of the time its the same doctor or therapist.

And if your poor in America and you slip on ice? do you just live with the injury? How quick is the treatment provided, whats the cost?

Oh and BTW, as a Yank, I was outside of the NHS but when I had to see a doctor... I got to see first hand on how the system doesn't work.

And yet it doesn't matter what money you earn you can still get treated, doesn't matter if your poor or not, you don't need paperwork to prove you are eligible to be treated as a human being and provided medical care (especially long term non life threatening but life changing), you don't have to worry about being made bankrupt, you don't get to hear stories of people living with mnor injuries becuase ethey can't qfford to have it looked at. You don't need specialists selling insurance and having to wade through all the legalese to work out whether someone can be treated, it is considered a basic human right.

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Re: @GATTACA

Fuck me after looking a some of the reasonings on here by some people on why this is a good thing. I'm glad we have the NHS, none of this bollocks.

Brit ISP TalkTalk blocks control tool TeamViewer

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Re: VPN?

OMG Downvoted!!!!

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Re: VPN?

Well I started downvoting your posts for amusement after you kept asking about why you were downvoted. Meh it's Friday it amused me.

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Re: Sounds like an executive snit

It's sweet to assume the tech was in the conversation. Let's be honest it probably would have been an order from the top to the techs.

Why ask the techs? After all what the fuck do they know about running a business?

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Re: Re : I wonder where the scammers got hold of their client telephone numbers from.. India?

Outsourcing to less civilised countries like Indian is probably a major reason why this information leaks;

I'd put it down more to just generally not giving a shit about the customers. You can see that in the way they handled the whole leaking of data fiasco.

Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard

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Re: How about..

There is two already in the culture books apprently; ROU Heavy Messing (Excession) & GCU Pure Big Mad Boat Man (Matter).

Although "HMS Stitch That" might do.

Anti-TV Licensing petition gets May date for Parliament debate

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Re: Good going cobber

I passed one the other week that went 90->70->30->70->90 in the space of 200m.

I assume its not the UK then because you can't do 90 here can you? Also are you complaining they expected you to slow down whilst crossing an old stone bridge, which had a blind enough spot to hide a large speed camera?

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Re: Good going cobber

I think you'll find that those accidents are not caused by "speeding", but by inappropriate speed for the conditions.

Well you could argue if they cannot see a big sodding orange camera and slow down before it tickets them, they were going at an innapropriate speed.

Iconic Land Rover Defender may make a comeback by 2019

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Re: Needling me?

Put a stop to slave trading we had a healthy role in establishing in the first place...

Slave trade has been around since Ug worked out if you hit the other Ug with a big stick hard enough to hurt him but not enough to kill him he will do what you want.

We didn't start it *, we did help finish it.

*OK we may have been good at it...

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Re: Why did people like the defender?

You don't need a million quid's worth of specialist electronic tools and a degree in software engineering to work out what was wrong with one and fix it.

Seen a few old school Defenders, Hilux etc in Asia, that aspect I think is one of their strongest. If the thing breaks down in England you're fine, can't imagine trying to get a modern off roader repaired in some countries.

But I'll agree with the second poster modern materials and tooling sounds fine and sensible and should give you better kit.

That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly

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I think it's because he is already dead, and is now just some dried up revenant haunting the world as a precursor to the apocalpsye.

He's one of the minor horsemen, working under Panic; dunno whether he is Misinformation, Rumour, Gossip or Denial though.

US Marines seek a few supposedly good men ... who leaked naked pics of a few good women

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@ Phil.T.Tipp

Women in combat units are a social construct, and this will not end well.

Ever thought some of them might be as good in combat as the men? And before you go all red pill rant, may I suggest you check out some of the women in fought in SOE in WW2, they were fucking nails.

Uber loses court fight over London drivers' English language tests

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Re: RE : "Living in a British/English enclave is not the way to integrate."

I can sometimes get why people want to live in enclaves, living in a foreign country as much as you can enjoy it and such can sometimes be stressful, especially if the place feels very foreign culturally (I'm thining Asia and such rather than Europe). I can get why some people want an area where going out and doing simple things like shopping can be preferable if it is eaiser and a lot of enclave areas tend to facilitate towards that, your more likely to find a Boots or Marks and Spencers* in those areas, a better grasp of English etc and sometimes you really need something easy like that.

Don't get me wrong sometimes you want the adventure but sometimes it can be knackering and stressful. I've visited friends in Thai suburbs and popped out to get lunch and it's become a mission especially as my grasp of the language is limited. Go out country where it's less cosmopoiltan, on a bad day everything feels like more work.

Sometimes you need to re-immerse in your own culture a bit for sanity or comfort, same way you can be surrounded by exotic dishes but sometimes just crave some comfort food in the form of a pie.

*A girl I know used to try and buy underwear in Thailand, size 12 UK, very sporty trim figure, she would walk into Thai shops and they would laugh and say "No your too fat".