Posts by phuzz

"They are actually no more dysfunctional then american courts"

I assume you meant that as a complement, but as a non-American it really makes me worried.

Re: Tor

TOR was never a 'tool' in that sense. Anyone looking for suspicious activity will spot it straight away.

This isn't something that their spooks would use, it's something they might pass to a source who they didn't much care about.

Now that it's used more widely, it's possible their spooks might use it as an extra layer of obfuscation.

Re: It's always DNS unless, of course, it's some ham-fisted wiring.

Mind you, a lot of cert problems are caused by DNS. problems

Are you sure? Politicians keep blaming everything on illegal aliens.

Re: "Arcadia Planitia [..] has [..] a thicker atmosphere"

It's a relatively low lying area (up to 3km below datum), so the air pressure is higher.

Basically the opposite of air pressure being lower on top of a mountain, it's thin at the top, thick at the bottom.

Re: Thankfully..

"Labour always blame the Tories for everything so why not?"

Only one of those parties has been in power for the last nine years.

Re: Can ERP actually be a perfect fit for any company ?

The UK branch was a 'wholly owned subsidiary' whatever that is, so as I understood it (ie not much), none of the money came from our company.

Either way, they didn't have to make anyone redundant which is the important thing.

Re: "We could never ever put our customers at risk"

I've not heard of an attack that can get access to data from a separate CPU in a multi-CPU machine. Any links you can point me towards?

Re: How is it possible

Scams will stop working the day after the human race goes extinct.

This particular scam revolved around crypto currencies, but Ponzi schemes have been around for years*, and they'll keep on suckering people for years to come.

* technically they were around for at least a hundred years before Charles Ponzi was even born.

Re: Well

Then Apple's marketing department has failed! You're supposed to feel inadequate about your puny iMac, and ready to drop ten times as much on a Mac Pro.

Then next year they show you the new shiny and expect you to haemorrhage your wallet yet again.

Re: Lots of bog-standard locks are easy to bypass.

Every lock can be bypassed, the important part is, how long will it take, and how much noise and commotion will a potential thief make doing so?

Re: London's finest subsurface transit system

Would a pedestrian tunnel count? There's a few of those. And a few car tunnels too.

Re: " how this works? "

My brother's got a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard+trackpad, and that works really well. It looks like there's quite a few different models out there though (although no left handed models that I've seen).

Re: Cheap stuff actually not too bad

"Gartner : What a load of crock, what do they really do ? Just lift some numbers from Amazon's current high selling list and then publish an article, cmon most of us here could do that within a few minutes..."

Yes, but we wouldn't have the chutzpah to invent spurious 'trends' based on the data, and then sell that hogwash to clueless companies.

Re: All or nothing logic

Hey, can I borrow a fiver? There's a 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that I'll pay it back, but it's not an 'all or nothing' thing right?

Re: AR in table top games

"Though I suppose it will allow different players to game with each other without the need to actually go to one of the players houses, clubs etc."

That's a pretty big deal for a lot of people. Either your friends have moved far away, or they've settled down with a family, and getting together to play a board game is pretty tricky, with weeks of organising to find a time when everyone can actually get together.

Doing it online (eg, via Tabletop simulator) is one way around that.

Re: AKA Libertarians

"hairdressers in most of the world don't have to be licensed"

And for professions where sometimes licensing is actually a useful idea, which can include engineers, those people can call themselves 'licensed engineers', or 'certified', to differentiate themselves from anyone who managed to pass an engineering degree.

This way you get the best of both worlds, licensing and certification where necessary, without making it pointlessly difficult for someone to use the word 'engineer' in their job title.

Re: More lipstick on the old OS

Well, I suppose this is what we get when there's no one in the thread complaining how a Microsoft update broke their software. Instead complaints that Microsoft aren't changing their OS enough.

Re: If politicians were mathematically literate

It's not really an enforceable debt if you are a country with it's own military, and your creditors are not.

Re: Same old reason

To run on Windows 10 requires cash to pay for new versions of software...assuming that it is possible to even buy an updated version of the software, and that the original vendors haven't long gone out of business.

FTFY

Mind you, it's amazing what you can do with the app compatibility shims.

Release deliberately flawed publicity pictures.

Re: Second of his name.

It does make me wonder how ego-centric someone has to be, to name their kid with their exact same name.

Is giving them 50% of their DNA, and probably much of their upbringing, not enough?

One other advantage is that it will be much easier to waterproof the phones.

Of course, it will also make them even harder for repairers to open. I wonder if iFixit's scale can go negative?

Re: Wow

"Both of whom got stitched up like kippers"

What was the downside for the Conservatives? They had to have a referendum on proportional voting (which kept the status quo, so no impact really), and they introduced the plastic bag tax (which doesn't seem to have had much political fallout), but as far as I know that was the only concessions they made to the Lib Dems.

The LibDems on the other hand, ended up losing most of their voters (most of whom in my experience would have been happy with anything except forming a coalition with the Torys). They went from 57 seats in 2010, to 8 in 2015.

The Lib Dems came off much worse from that team-up.

As for you comments on Corbyn, I'd broadly agree, but don't forget that he has managed to inspire a (very) hardcore bunch of people who weren't Labour voters before. Almost certainly not enough to win an election, but significant none the less.