Posts by phuzz

Re: Competition and Award Suggestion

If you spend enough you can still get brick-shithouse quality HP printers, but their cheap ones are, well, cheap.

Re: English as she is corrupted

Space agencies, like militaries, make their own jargon. In this case, 'safeing' would mean the act of making something safe.

"I doubt very much the people who coded this are the same people who have to decide things impartially."

I assume that in order to get someone to create an online poll, they have to write their request on vellum, pass it to some obscure heraldic position, and hope that the raven it's tied to goes to the correct department.

Only having two questions with 'tick' instead of 'radio' selected is something of a miracle tbh.

Re: Conspiracy theories is a national sport in Russia

It took me a moment to realise which country was being described as well.

Can you even get these in the UK?

If so, where from? It would be useful to know.

Re: First language

Let me guess, it's the JOINs, UNION and INSERTs that give you such pleasure?

Re: Surely...

"for not documenting the process"

What makes you think he didn't document it? I've had people contact me begging for help, even after I've documented whatever process. Some people are just lazy/incompetent.

Re: Smarts drink tea or Drink tea makes smarts

By sterilised milk, do you mean condensed milk? Or pasteurised?

Re: A comet is what they want us to think.

Presumably they were tired of experts.

Re: Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment

Downvotes? Someone's salty. I'm just annoyed that my 3700X only boosts to 4.25MHz...

Re: Stasiland

"The last administration was too busy being engaged in spying on every America, every foreign country and every pirate, and keeping the world data found in massive databanks."

And the administration before that (it was massively expanded under Bush after 11/9, although it was still happening on a smaller scale before), and the current one, (although he's probably not realised it's still going on because that would involve listening to something without his name in it every five lines).

That said, Obama was the only one to campaign saying he'd stop that sort of thing, and, well, he didn't. (See also; promising to shut down Guantanamo Bay).

Re: The thought processes

"The thought processes involved in meeting with the police beforehand to discuss your crime are a little beyond me"

Because this way they get lots of publicity but a very light sentence, and they don't get negative publicity from actually disrupting anything.

win/win

Re: No s##t Sherlock...

This 'discounted rate' would have to be about 30-40% of the market value of the house before I could afford to buy a house.

Mind you, that would still leave our landlords making about double what they originally paid for the place fifteen years ago.

Re: Its quite simple

By the end of the year a budget of £4.36 will be 5% of UK GDP.

Or possibly it will be a budget of £5,000,000,000 but by then the pound will be worth less than loo-roll.

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere...

Re: Android

The Fairphone can run ASOP (it's supported by the manufacturer), which doesn't include any of the googly bits. You could also install any of the third party ROMs like Lineage OS (which also comes with no gapps unless you install them separately).

Re: Council..

At least these days you can report a pot hole on the council's website, rather than having to send an angry letter. In Bristol there's even a map so you can find out which parts of the city have the most whiny residents (aka, who the fuck complains about a broken speed camera?).

Re: "exploits in the wild"

"sandboxing in a VM might not be enough, especially with spectre"

Hmmm, that reminds me of something.

Re: Galileo

The high accuracy part of the signal ('CS') uses the same frequencies as amateur radio, but the main location signal uses similar frequencies as other positioning systems (ie GPS, GLONASS etc.), so it would still work fine.

Was it selling trees?

Process of elimination and all that.

Re: If the avatar is still in your email client...

"the fact that such things exist"

Was it really that much of a surprise?

Re: Banning Cyclists

Cycling on pavements has always been illegal, so is it even legal to cycle through a pedestrianised area at all?

Re: Guilty Secret

Tried logging in today, worked straight away, and yup, they've deleted any mail that might have been in that mailbox. Probably just spam though, I think only a few old school friends have ever had that address.