Posts by Jamie Jones

Even if this happened, she didn't break Chinese law. I don't see how they can do anything other than maybe put sanctions on Huawei's US operation.

We don't have jaywalking laws in the UK. But does this mean if I cross the road in Wales, I could be extradited to the USA for breaking it's jaywalking laws? (ok, ok, I know it's not that severe a crime, but you get the jist of my argument)

I deleted my Quora account after 2 of my posts had been deleted by them.

I did have some quite detailed responses to technical queries and other stuff posted there, but I also strayed into non-techincal stuff.

I read on a religious thread a man who said he was a devout Christian who was shocked when his son came out as gay, but after trying to understand, and get to know his sons partner, he realised he'd been a close-minded bigot, and now he gets on great with both of them, and his sons parter is like a son to him.

I woman resonded "I'm like you.... My daughter came out as lesbian. I was truly sickened. It's deplorable, But she's my daughter, so I have to get along with her, even though she sickens me and is an evil sinner to the lord" [ words to that affect ]

My reply contained a line, something like "No. You are not like him. He was put into a situation where he opened his mind, realised his bigotry and grew from it. You are just an evil and horrible person"

That post was flagged and deleted for "insulting a quora member" - never mind the fact she'd just told everyone her daughter discusts her, and she finds her abhorrent.

The second post was from someone who wrote a long fox-news style report about how muslims have taken over London.

I gave a long detailed reply, including links to facts etc. but my post was deleted because somewhere along the line I called him a bigotted moron.

So I deleted my account - be polite and civil etc.. yeah, i get that, but they are so over-pc, they end up protecting the real tossers. You can say something really horrible, but if someone calls you out on it, and they flag it, strike against you.

It's why quora mainly consists of:

1) Standard questions requiring a specific answer -- the sort of thing google can solve.

2) Moronic trolling posts from fake ID's that don't care if they are banned.

3) "Debate" that is so toned down, it's useless. No-one dare say anything that upsets anyone else - to the point where it totally stiffles discussion.

Re: Amazing stuff

"It was explained to me by a Brit who lives in both the US and London that people got fed up with some non-UK citizen sitting in Brussels (I think???) telling everyone what they can and cannot do."

I'm not going to downvote you (it was unfair that anyone did!), but I will say:

Yes, that explanation is EXACTLY how the brexitters perceive the situation.

It is, of course, absolute bollocks.

For years the goverment have blamed the EU for their cockups.... And for years, some sheep have believed it.

There is a European parliament. We have British members of that parliament, that are voted for by British people (thought I bet most of the brexitters can't even name their MEP (member of the european parliament))

The UK has a strong veto in the EU. We had a lot of influence. There are 751 MEP's, representing the 28 European countries... Guess how many of them represent Britain?

73.

Almost 10% of the EU 28 is controlled by britain, so if any country should be pissed at "eu control" it's certainly not us.

Again, you can bet your last dollar the brexitters don't know this, either.

The brexitters were scared into being scared about immigrants stealing our benefits and our jobs (sound familar?) even though the EU has fuck all to do with "all those mooslims", and even though the UK is able to expell EU citizens who aren't contributing to the economy after 3 months (the UK chose not to do so)

It is very much like with trump. Scare the people into voting for the very people who will screw them more - tax breaks for the rich etc.

Jacob-rees-mogg, who's father wrote a book on how to profit from a collapsing britain [ Blood in the streets - that book, by the way, is staight out of the neocon handbook - Paul Ryan etc. would agree with it 100% ] .. has an investment company that recently moved to Ireland "to better serve a post brexit economy". His plans for brexit are:

From: Who is behind the push for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US?

The priority areas for removing “anti-competitive” EU regulations articulated in Plan A+ are unpicking data protection rules (GDPR) introduced by the EU to ensure privacy, and allowing the free flow of data across borders, which would let big tech companies use our data – or abuse it. EU regulations that require exporters using chemicals to present safety data to the European commission before obtaining authorisation for imports are a burden on business, including the plastics sector, the thinktanks say, and should go. Likewise pharmaceuticals companies find the requirements on transparency around clinical trials onerous and should be allowed longer patents – that is, more expensive drugs for the rest of us.

Anyway, if you're interested, all this information is out there, and explained far better than I could, but basically, if you think of a brexitter as a gullible scared dimwitted trump voter, you won't be far wrong.

EDIT:Blinky got in there before me, whist I was writing this!

Re: Beneath the vehicle's floor?

Before asking why, I suggest you have a look under your cars floor-mats -- especially if you have kids!

Re: Re; Moral

"But, even if that weren't the case, where would I go?"

Well, don't look at the UK, we're doing well in the same race to the bottom.

If you find an answer, let me know!

Re: Ah the Cloud

It's all cloud-cuckoo-land

Re: Well, who'd have thought it?

His claim was only amusing if you find others misfortune funny.

Because of backwards people like you, we aren't "free to go".

Hope that is clear.

Re: Well, who'd have thought it?

"David Davis was undermined COMPLETELY by Traitor Mrs May .. she even took most of his neogitiators off him and gave them to Olley Robinson. David Davis had a free trade plan.

Just look a the cr@ppy mess created by Mrs May .. a REMAINER.

A dirty little filthy disgusting traitor REMAINER."

Blimey! What a totally unhinged rant, complete with random capitalised words and everything! You are a typical brexitter!

May is defintitely not a remainer. Where have you been the last 2 years? The hypocrite pretended to support remain when she was still under Cameron. sure. but that was the obvious lie.

Anyway, where the hell do you get that we all support May? As a staunch remainer, I hate May. I'm not old enough to remember much about thatchers politics first hand, so can easily say that May is the worst and most slimey politician I've experienced (and I can even remember Blair)

The sad thing is, when everyting crashes and burns, you and your other daily mail friends will still be blaming the EU/remainers.

By the way, can you tell me why Rees-Mogg has moved all his companies assets and interests from the UK to Ireland?

"If you love the EU so much bugger off and live there .. I have for over 10 years. At least I know what Europeans think of the UK"

Trumpites use the line "if you hate the USA and freedom so much, why don't you move to North Korea?"

I'd say to you, if you don't want to live in Europe, you bugger off. You are now responsible for slowly turning us into a jingoistic nation, exploited by the rich and elite who don't actually give a crap about us - a nation where those like you who will suffer the most are the very ones that will vote for the oppressors. You didn't need to do that. You could have taken your MUKGA hat and just moved to one of those instead.

And as for what Europeans think about the UK, I've always found them to be fine. But how do you expect them to react when dealing with a blubbering manic old git who probably patronised them at every opportunity? It's little wonder your view is somewhat skewed.

Re: "3ve" (pronounced "Eve".)"

"Not familiar with l33t speak then? (however stupid it is)"

Too familiar..... Hence my post. (which would have come across as a bit twatty if I hadn't!)

That's the thing...

There's a largish shop in my village growing up, selling model railway stuff. It seemed quite specialist and out of place for a small village, but it turned out they had a strong national reputation and mail-order presence.

Now, I've no idea of their current business, or technical skills or website presence, so this is not related to them specifically, but imagine a fiicticious family company like that.

Presumably they'd by now have got a web presence, where most of their sales would be made. They need a website. They are a single store, family shop, but require a relatively decent online shop - the vast majority of orders would presumably come that way.

Now, they know nothing about the internet, but do know enough about the business to know that they need something more professional than grand-son Johnny to code it, so they search for a company to do the job, and then... the same thing as in this article happens to them.

Should they have known to use a third party transaction site? Should they have known to audit password storage methods?

They hired specialists. As John says, specialists all the way down?

By the way, I'm not writing this as a "gotcha". Presumably they have some sort of protection, but if a dodgy builder caused my house to fall down, presumably he'd be in some guild of builders than underwrite insurance on jobs?

In this case? I dunno. I'm curious, but stupid.

[ EDIT: I just googled the company I originally mentioned. They're still going, over 30 years later, but no ordering website, just some crappy front page template looking from the early 90's... There's more info on them via google maps than via their own website.. wow! ]

Re: run your own? really?

"After all, most people in the UK who want to look like they're connecting from the US probably don't own a house in the US they can stick a VPN server in. Or even have the means to run one out of a US-based colo or something"

You can get a virtual server for $2.50 a month with http://www.vultr.com/

When you buikd your server, you can load one of the various install ISOs, or one of your own, or even install a 'pre-installed' openvpn ISO.. It's virtually point-and-click to get running, but yet it's your own machine with it's own ip, and root access etc.

Generally faster than using a more expensive 'paid vpn' service.

(I'm not involved with them - I'm just a happy customer of some of their other services)

Re: Someone should tell Tesco Bank

I deal with one company (can't remember which one off hand) that sends out mails as HTML and plain text.. However, instead of the plain text being a version of the HTMLardised message, it just contains "We've attempted to contact you with this email message, but you are using an out of date email client that cannot display modern email messages. Please update it"

Great customer PR there!

Re: E-mail Client

"If you're using Firefox change network.IDN_show_punycode to true and you won't get pwned next time."

Thanks. I do sometimes use firefox, but not regularly. However, that's how I have it already: The error message I posted shows the URL just as I see it. I pasted it to show I don't get tricked by punycode!