Posts by streaky

Re: Pay your tax like everyone else

"Contractors have none of that and that's why businesses pay high rates - because they know they can get rid of them at the drop of a hat"

And they have to pay tax on those earnings. Many contractors do at the standard rates. I don't know enough about the specific scheme to be able to comment directly on it but given the HMRC think they're getting money it's fair to assume they think it was obviously bullshit.

Also the HMRC doing idiotic - nay, arguably criminally corrupt - deals with the likes of Voda and many others doesn't negate your requirement to pay tax on your earnings (and yes it sucks). If everybody paid their fair share (i.e. what most other people pay) then no doubt the tax rates could come down generally; rather than the bullshit situation we've dug ourselves into.

Re: 12 Years a Wage Slave

In fairness I don't think they cared about either but caved to inevitable pressure on all occasions it was reasonably valid (and the slant one still bemuses me to this day). If we start getting worried about racist terms from other countries that we don't know we're going to have some major problems - well, we already have.

I think the issue is the constraints that they place on people regardless of all that; but how the fk should I know..

Re: Lets hope he isnt black

It's not just black americans that randomly die in the US when dealing with the police. That's the irony; actually way more white people do *AND* there's no reporting standards with regards to who/why, so naturally there's no reliable data available.

This is all stuff you want to be happening in a democracy of course.

Re: and the same tests done with

Disable js/css/all plugins and you're good to roll. It'll look like shit and be unusable but hey.. Battery right?

On this theme amazon.co.uk blows my 2KW desktop PSU every time I use it ;)

Geographical sports rights, TV show rights, movie rights; the works - this all should be up for grabs. If all this is fixed piracy will mysteriously drop and nobody will know why, but it's important to note that the two things are in no way related. You have no data proving that.

Re: Lawyer magic word...

When somebody implies there's some sort of legal action in the offing there's nowhere for the discussion to go. It's not a case of striking first or cancelling contracts but if you're sane you're not going to talk to people when they're talking about that.

Like I said, either look for a better solution or just do it.

Re: not on my network in a million years.

Win10 allows you to open programs just like the previous Windows versions

Indeed microsoft actually quickly backed away from the apple-tablet model once they figured it doesn't work at all, much less for them. People that bought into it notwithstanding.

Re: Legal advice

They're completely legal, what's more now they're going to end up with every blackhat in the world trawling though their code.

Some people never learn from the mistakes of others.

Re: Chrome sleek and fast, Firefox bloated and slow

I love firefox and I do believe it doesn't get the recognition it deserves but it does try my patience sometimes, even as a software dev.

Re: graeme@the-leggetts.org.uk

People suffering from severe pain are not renowned for their acute mental faculties and diligent decision making processes

I've always managed, if you're taking that many paracetamol you're gonna notice it and realise you have a problem that can't be resolved by self-medicating, *especially* if you're still in pain. They're not addictive, so there isn't much excuse.

There was nothing noble about the IRA, but if you're gonna bomb things I'd prefer empty buildings over people is all.

Personally I advocate heavy use of drones and carpet bombing for dealing with terrorists... but apparently we can't have that for reasons.

Re: Argies are too late @Flocke Kroes

As for "more capable militarily", I'd say the current lack of fixed wing aircraft capable of being used on ships would argue otherwise. As is the inability to bomb the runway at Port Stanley from a fixed base.

Things we have now we didn't then:

Trident.

Cruise missiles by the metric fk ton.

SAMPSON

Drones

Way more capable defensive and offensive missile systems

A military that's had some practice

The list continues but I'm bored, carriers are for halfwits.

Come to think of it when we've used all that kit and the yanks get bored of selling us tomahawks at roughly the end of time we can just start doing aa refuelling runs over the atlantic for months on end. That said there'd be nothing left of Argentina after day two but still..

Re: Queen != Government

She's well advised to keep her nose out of (nor be influenced by) political debates

Problem.

David Cameron's insane government makes the list of people to give honours to. Queen just hands them out.

I realized it would not have even paid for an apartment there even with 0 left over for living expenses

Call the chap racist then back up the argument, interesting.

Re: What prison sentence would he be looking at if found guilty? Failure to surrender

Already the sureties have lost their money

Good? Wasn't enough to make sure they fulfilled their role. My understand is it was only a part of what was offered anyway which is a joke in itself.

Re: Steelhead?

Blergh scratch everything I just said.. http://www.riverbed.com/partners/find-a-partner/find-a-partner-tool/Fujitsu.html

Re: format shift?

The law as it technically stands is unworkable in this sense, it's not a criminal offence regardless and the music industry have no legal authority to demand to see the contents of your phone, aside from the fact they'd need to look at 10 million phones in the UK alone.

That's why the change was sensible in the first place, laws that nobody wants and are unenforceable are a threat (directly) to democracy for the same reason slavery was never legal in the UK. They might have legislators in the US bent over a barrel but it's not going to happen here, even if they get a judicial review to agree with them (and they absolutely won't) parliament will just change the law directly like I said a few comments up and there's nothing they can do to stop that.

Re: Disabling/Linux

Forking Chromium as a Linux distro is a major investment of time and expertise that most can't afford.

Re: It happens

The 'star' player who refuses to write up documentation , then snoozles upto the management with ideas hes 'had'(in other words , pilfered off the rest of us) and finally can be seen working 12-14 hr days to prove to the management how valuable he is.

And the management pay him as such.

I highly recommend to people who hire people to read this book. You wouldn't believe the "oh wait.. *facepalm*" response when you read it and realise you've come across the issues described before and suddenly you realise what is actually going on.

I've read it front to back a bunch of times and I can tell you that what you're describing could easily be one of the case studies in that book.

Re: 51st state?

Britain would probably be better off joining the US than the EU if it came down to a choice

How about we just have good working relationships with both - and China and India; and anywhere else. The UK is the home of international free trade and we shouldn't be locking ourselves into dealing with any one bloc, the EU is so big and cumbersome it takes decades to put FTAs together because they themselves have to be big and cumbersome - and in the end they don't work for us anyway, look at the state of TTIP.

Protip: there's no reason the UK can't have an FTA with the EU without being an EEA member, it's something Germany is going to want.

The EU is still debating (and only in the back-burner sense) if it should even have a FTA with China - before it even gets to the decades of negotiations - whilst Australia is set to announce theirs within a few days. This is obviously an untenable state of affairs.

Re: Kaspersky Talks Shit About Viruses..

Are you talking about Kaspersky or Gemalto now? :)

Re: Nothing like reinventing the wheel...

Assuming that the existing tools are actually fit for purpose much? It's surprising how sometimes you start with a tool; thinking you're gonna modify it to be better and end up just starting from scratch because what's there is either crap or you can't get it to do what you want.

Then again even when you do some projects pointedly refuse to accept submissions.

Re: 2 million lines of FORTRAN code

I found that FORTRAN code actually ran faster than it's similarly written C equivalent

Blind benchmarks are the best benchmarks.

Errrr, Standard Fortran (note spelling) has never had a punch construct. And your history is wrong as well

Sorry I never meant to give the impression I cared about either Fortran or FORTRAN.

Re: "George, did you chop down that cherry tree?"

Still could be the UK where you get thrown in gaol for not giving out your encryption keys

Has this ever actually happened?

Re: NSA - Nice Sensible Authority

They vote themselves their own payrises, numbskull!

Like they're not into their own payroll systems anyway.

Re: For the want of another IP ...

The majority in some demographics are still using non-SNI compliant browsers (notably XP/IE8)

What demographic, is it actually true even. These numbers are based on estimation rather than direct measurement.

I own a site that's used heavily by normal people in South America, Africa and Asia; if it was salt measurements on a packet of crisps it'd say "trace". Even directly measuring this stuff is sketchy; < 1% of my IE users are using version 999.1.

999.1; let that sink in... That's measured by JS not the UA string.

Even if any of this is relevant it doesn't mean it's actually sane to pander to these people. Most people on XP should expect they have a serious security problem anyway and use Firefox/Chrome/Something Else.