Posts by phuzz

Re: I assume...

My first thought that if they're scanning the laser with a moving mirror, that you'd probably be able to hear a faint sound from the mirror itself.

Re: Possible quick fix

Did you realise that Exchange isn't just 'an email server'? At least recommend something like Zimbra to cover calenders and a web ui, then you might as well use Samba v4 (I assume we're ignoring the fact it's based on Microsoft code) to give you proper single sign on, and there's not really any equivalent to Group Policy, but I suppose we could use something like Puppet to provide consistency across users desktops.

So, once you've hooked up all those different Open Source programs and got them all working (probably not as turn-key as setting up a Windows domain), what's the betting that you've inadvertently left a similarly glaring security hole?

Re: Hardly surprising.

It's worse than that. PDF was invented specifically to sidestep the complexity of full PostScript documents. (Because apparently people didn't need a language that could be used to make your printer compute fractals)

Twenty five years later, how do you think that "simpler than PostScript" idea is working out?

But if part of the spec for the program is that it must inter-operate with other systems, then some kind of API is a must have...

"Do they have plans for orbital insertion[?]"

Not with this rocket no, this one is designed for sub-orbital tourist hops, and as a technology demonstrator/test for a much (much) larger orbital rocket, called New Glen.

Re: Its pretty obvious

"They based it on ability to pay, and difficulty in meeting people the ordinary way. Those under 30 have less of both."

The money part, sure, but I'd have thought that 'the usual way' of meeting people would involve going out to pubs/bars etc. which is generally done more by the under-thirties (at least in my experience). The young 'uns are the only ones who can hack the hangovers.

Re: "...Current And Former Directors Owe £38,000..."

Now that they're being dinged for £38k, maybe he'll want to acknowledge them as directors so he can split the costs with them?

"Guidance systems aren't cheap."

Historically they haven't been, but now that you can run image recognition on a RPi, perhaps there's much easier ways to home in on a drone?

Re: But what if you don't have an account at all?

Presumably FB know who your friends are because they were the ones that clicked "please import all of my contacts into facebook" button when they first signed up. As long as one or two of your friends did that then FB know at least a bit about your social circles.

Re: I love WSL, since it made scripting on Windows usable after 30 years :)

You can use aliases in pretty much the same way as you would on Linux, but yes, by default the command names are verbose.

Perhaps the Windows devs still haven't calmed down from finally being able to use more than 8.3 filenames?

Re: Up The Chain

Lowly assistants are employed for blaming things on.

Management, on the other hand, is employed for taking credit for things that haven't (yet) been cocked up.

It's the circle of life.

Re: you have the Channel.

Your idea makes almost as much sense as what's actually being proposed...

"Celeron or Pentium based mini-PCs with 8GB"

Oooh, fancy. Our end users get Atom based machines with 4GB or RAM and that's us being generous.

Re: "grassing" in British English or "snitching"

In the Manchester Evening News there was some speculation that as Fellows was going down for a long time whatever happened, it's possible he allowed Boyle to spill the beans and reduce his own sentence.

Mobile Mapping Mules?

Saddles and Spectrum?

Speed Steeds?

"So, when I put my Sage data and spreadsheets on a zfs share about 10 years ago, that means I had implemented a blockchain based accounting system."

If you'd said that you were planning to do that only two years ago you'd have had VCs throwing their money at you.

Re: Get burned?

"What is the percentage threshold that has to be reached?"

Turns out, in the UK it's 25% of the market, so both Amazon and Microsoft would be considered monopolies (in the cloud market) in the UK. Mea culpa.

Re: upper-bracket millennials

That was when I graduated, I 'only' owed SLC about £9k.

Of course, by the time I was earning enough to actually pay that off, it was up to £11,000...

Re: Looks like...

It's a dick swastika.

Israel still maintain that they don't have any nuclear weapons.

Re: Is it easier to start with a walled garden

I realise it's a metaphor, but a wall isn't going to stop a squirrel from trying to get into your garden. And probably not a cat either.

(src)

Re: Actually...

If I was feeling really cynical, I'd say that it is just the another step of the ongoing attempts to privatise the entire British state.

First you underfund a public utility, then when they're not performing as well, you give big chunks of their day to day operations to crapita. Then once the whole organisation is in the toilet, you privatise it, and sell the valuable bits (eg the land or the buildings) off to your mates for cheap. Then retire from government to a cosy directorship...

Re: Social media "campaign" versus legal challenge

"they could challenge the legality of the clause in the courts"

If they can afford it sure, but taking a massive company to court is generally not cheap. Certainly not as cheap as making a fuss on the internet. Which approach seems to have worked, as it's made both you and I think about it.

Re: they soon found out when Doctorow reached out to colleagues at the EFF

"if he'd been ANY non-connected blogger, this would be his end, as not many ordinary folk would take the hard, expensive and very long-lasting route of going to court."

He never went to court, all the did that someone else couldn't do was to get a lawyer to write a letter for him for free. Given how many inaccuracies the original nasty-gram contained I don't thing even a non lawyer would be that scared. It's just a company trying to throw it's weight around, nothing that would stand up in court (well, it might in the US money==justice system I suppose).

Re: Star bangled banner

You only need enough wall to look good on a TV camera,. Stick it on Fox and he wouldn't know any different.

I still get ID occasionally, a while ago when I was still 35 I was asked for ID in the supermarket when buying beer.

I handed over my drivers license, and enjoyed the little double take when she realised how old I really was.

"Oh, you don't look like you're in your thirties at all"

"Oh thanks", I say, and smile.

"Actually, I can see your age when you smile"

Cheeky sod :(