Posts by phuzz

Re: "engage on a PAYE basis"

"even though they have the overheads relating to the company as I explained previously"

And as everyone else has been trying to explain to you, they won't have those overheads, because they'll be paid for by the employer.

For example, as a PAYE employee, you don't need to pay an accountant to make sure you're paying the correct taxes, because your employer's accounts department will have already done that and paid the tax before your pay cheque hits your bank account.

Re: "why it believes the Iranian government is behind the hacks"

"Clearly you haven't read the script on which nation is today's bad guy."

You could pick up any script from the last thirty years and Iran would still be a baddie. The US government has had a hate-on for them since their friendly Shah was deposed.

Re: President of the US clueless

"it's simply inaccurate to characterize him as "just an actor"."

I didn't say he was 'just' and actor, I said that he was an actor turned politician, (and then said he was a b-rate actor but that wasn't your complaint).

Re: SIPping

There's TFM TLAs

Re: A bit late to the party

I guess Dropbox have the name recognition. I'm sure there's people out there who've only heard of Dropbox when it comes to file syncing.

Between different customers, I've got things spread across Dropbox (two different ones), Google Drive (or whatever it's called this week), Microsoft Teams, and some straight-forward Samba/SMB based shares. So I generally have no idea where a particular file lives or should be saved.

Sure, but I'm almost in my forties and have never yet needed a receipt that I've thrown away.

I understand why I might need to keep one, I just never have needed to (except for expenses).

Re: Deal of the century

"Who agreed to the 35 year fixed price plan and do they now have a comfy well paid seat on someone's board or are happily retired?"

Anyone from elReg looking for a good story to investigate?

Re: wun != one

On the other hand, a self published book is exactly where I'd expect to see it.

As they say in the States, reality has a well known liberal bias.

Re: subtly different article

No no no, you misheard, it's 'break three', when Scotland and Northern Ireland head off to become separate countries.

Re: Environmental issues

Occasionally I've had optical mice where a hair has managed to lodge itself in the opening for the sensor, causing a stranger flickering motion of the cursor, but only when you move the mouse in certain directions. Of course, a single hair isn't that obvious, so troubleshooting isn't always that easy.

Re: Congratulations! You've been pardoned! We're connecting you to an operator now...

That would work both ways, he'd be getting annoying spam calls, and he could explain to the spammers the consequences of their actions.

I don't think I've ever heard of a place having redundant air-con.

Actually, now I say that, the last place I worked the 'server room' was just a disused office with a couple of racks in and a lock on the door. Because the room was big enough for two overhead aircon units, technically it was redundant (they weren't UPS powered though). Handy for when they had to be turned off for maintenance.

Re: It's all fun and games...

"extra long vinyl gloves"

The shoulder-length ones that vets use?

"Brexit is scheduled to happen in 6 weeks"

FTFY

Who knows if/when it's actually going to happen? (Bookies maybe?)

Re: Lifetime warranty

"not the lifetime of the individual who bought it"

Could work out better in some circumstances:

"Hey, our network card has failed, can we get a replacement"

"Where's Alex?"

"Alex was run over by a last week I'm afraid, I've taken over"

"No replacement for you then sorry, it's too late"

"It's only six months old!"

"Lifetime means lifetime pal"

I think I could live with 10MB. It's certainly better than the <1MB we used to get in my parents place in the countryside.

These days they have fibre (the whole village got together and paid for the install), but only pay for the lowest tier (20MB iirc), and for two elderly people, that's more than enough. Mostly all it's used for is pictures of the grandkids.

Re: Bobbies on the Beat

"Now they are saying, if there are more bobbies on the beat, there will be MORE crime??"

The level of crime that's reported to the police (and thus becomes statistics) is not always the same as the actual level of crime. More coppers might lead to people reporting small crimes (eg a car break-in) that they wouldn't have bothered with before.

Of course, depending on your level of respect for police, one might assume that more cops on the street would lead to more illegal stop-and-searchs and more police brutality etc, which certainly should be classed as crimes.

Re: no data would be stored for longer than a few seconds

Depends if you count 10⁶s as 'a few' I suppose.

Re: Smarts drink tea or Drink tea makes smarts

I know people who used condensed milk in coffee. I am in no way condoning this practise.

And yes, I know that's how to make toffee, and I also know the importance of not letting the pan boil dry, especially when it's a very large pan with about twenty/thirty cans in it, in order to make a pub sized batch of banoffee pie.

I managed to get the gas off, but there was stains on the ceiling for years.

Re: Conspiracy theories is a national sport in Russia

If the Antarctic counted as a country, then possibly there?