Posts by Teiwaz

Re: The complaint seems confused

If you want to be targetting your tampon adverts, you need to do it by sex, not by gender.

Well, advertisers have long been convinced sex sells - although in this case....

Don't forget West of the river Bann.

The servers will need overclocking just to have a chance of keeping up.

Re: Chrome on Linux the telemetry and snooping is far more than on WIndows

Why would they bother?

It's not as if a Linux user, even one deranged enough to want to use Chrome on it, would be a large enough demographic to interest most their advertising customers.

Re: Yellow Duck? Part anagram: dell.co.uk!

Lemon Curry?

Re: Football

Are you absolutely sure Professional Football itself is not a huge Scam?

From new kit every season so the wee nippers want the latest to the TV broadcast rights to the fat old FIFA geezers....

It might be sub-standard but it has powered the PC revolution and even the wider IT revolution. Could something better have done that? Sure. Might it have turned out better if another company had been the major driving force?

If you excised MS from time, the PC revolution would still have happened, perhaps a little differently, remaining a little more fragmented for longer (such as the early Commodore, Amstrad, Sinclair etc era).

That we might be in a better place is just as likely as an a worse.

Re: White board good, black board bad?

IME:

Black board, chalky,

White board, ruined by use of permanent marker by some numpty.

Re: Artificial Competence

Given the typical failure rate of most AI projects, Artificial Incompetence seems more apt. So still AI.Just not the "I" we are led to believe.

Given that the typical failures are often implemented anyway, I suggest 'Annoying Incompetence'

missed misuses

Sounds like plod doesn't know how to use computers. Is that not a computer misuse crime in itself?

Of course they do, a fair few officers are caught in misuse every year, often using it in stalking.

Personally, I'd count flagrant use of facial recognition as misuse.

Re: But of course

Maybe not but COVID-19 has shown that here in Scotland, over the water in Northern Ireland and doon a bit in Wales we all have more competant governments than the UK.

Very scary, having lived in N.I, I find the thought that the N.I. Assembly could be considered competent extremely hard to imagine. It wasn't that long ago they spent an awful long time not doing anything.

I see

I see a beautiful woman and I want to make babies.

I see a beautiful woman and I want to make pornart.

Spend too much time in life drawing, it'll happen to you.

Re: Not How Satanism Works

Didn't necessarily used to need to be an actual Satanist to be considered a heretic.

Heretics were considered anyone who diverged from the prescribed doctrine of those who could wield enough authority to impose chastisement.

Re: Brexit is coming

Don't you remember a tearful Margaret Thatcher

Hmm, the only tearful Margaret Thatcher I can recall was when her party booted her out the door of No. 10.

Re: Pay tax where users reside

the prime reason I see very well off people and companies dodge tax like a devil dodges holy water is because it just keeps going up.

Or maybe very well off people and companies dodge tax like a devil dodges holy water is because they can, and not matter how much they are asked to pay, they'll do their darndest to avoid paying any at all.

And you can add Coprolations to that too.

How much of the French population is using US digital services vs. the population of the US buying designer french handbags and cheeses anyway....

Re: I did some IT consultancy...

almost every one of the senior managers at these banks considered IT to be an "overhead" rather like its cleaning services

Honestly, I've gotten the impression that most management at most companies thought the same way.

Re: girls won't be particularly impressed

This kind of comment implies a male audience, bro's at that, and is juvenile and sexist.

Can't think why the industry is still failing to draw in a more balanced workforce.

I was going for a certain humorous exaggeration of possible motivations.

Congratulations on taking me much, much too literally. So literally in fact, you completely missed the actual message.

Re: Trump

Why? He is condemning the thugs, terrorists and criminals tearing things down and wrecking livelihoods and actually causing serious physical harm to people.

Yes, but to Trump, anyone who disagrees with him or merely gets in the way of a photo-op is a thug, terrorist and/or criminal.

Re: Don't be silly.

Fountain Pen?

My Primary school mandated fountain pens when time came to learn joined-up writing.

I came in first day with a Parker rollerball, but that wasn't good enough apparently.

Thick, slow drying ink is a bugger for left handers - not much legible after the hand following the nib smears the ink.

I did the best I could, learnt to write with my hand at a weird angle.

Re: Data not at risk?

Gross incompetence really needs to be added as an offence on the Computer Misuse Act.

Re: News flash!

5G is perfectly fine, but I heard that 6G will make you impotent and ugly.

I heard that 6G will interconnect all of humanity and usher in a world of peace and harmony....

....of course, we'll all be wading hip deep in broken Smart devices and failed IOT rubbish by then.

Re: How did they learn he was Dalit?

A semi-popular pub game in Northern Ireland was to take turns guessing at the religion of people as they came in the door of the pub.

(Not a true pub game, as you never truly knew the answer, so no forfeits).

And yet

ECHR isnt part of of the EU either, and not mentioned in the but the current Slovenes in Westminster want us out of that too.

Re: No Sh*t Sherlock

MIT guys were supposed to be intelligent

Intelligent doesn't necessarily mean mature or even wise.

Re: "In the interim, the British government has been forced to adopt human-powered contact tracing"

I think the British Government should be pushing ahead with the development of the Mark II Travel Machine as the superior solution in exterminating the virus threat.

Best Wishes, Davros

Qt

due to no support for Qt

For some time after Plasma 5/Frameworks 5, other desktops had theme problems with Qt due to no QPA Platform theme set or setup.

Mostly fixed for desktops now, but purist Window Manager users might still encounter problems.

Re: "COBOL programmers of the 2030s?

I don't know about COBOL. but I challenge anyone to name another language that's as portable as 'C'

That sounds like a direct comparison.

COBOL is no threat to 'C', and vice-versa. They both have totally different ideal uses.

You wouldn't dream of trying to write drivers in COBOL, and anyone trying to write the sort of business logic you can easily do in COBOL in 'C' needs their pointers extracted.

Re: This is why we can't have nice things.

animorphism I can somewhat understand.

But Princesses singing duets with clocks and candlesticks?

I'm always half expecting a reveal that said young lady is actually really barefoot, straightjacketed and drooling in a padded room banging her head off a padded wall.

Re: And hopefully the summary

Where as old squadies from operation Banner get dragged into court regardless of the time since the alledged offense....

You know why, don't you?

It's 'cause the interested public in NI has kept up the pressure doggedly.

It's up to the concerned UK citizens to keep the pressure on the Gov over the P.O. managements behaviour, and keep the demand up that the management responsible are held to account.

But you expect Whitewash from Whitehall, and you'll shrug and 'move on' as they want after a coat or two is licked over the stain.

Re: As a child of the 1970s, I have a fear of savoury dishes involving fruit...

I don't think my primary ever served tapioca.

But I recall semolina, custard (and probably most, now I come to think of it) puddings that could have been used as trampolines.

I only continue to use Skype because MS release a Linux version,

Isn't the only choice for Skype on Linux, an Electron app?

I used to use Skype for the off contact linux to windows, but it got worse when the old linux client was dropped for an Electron app (and it was never good to start with).

I don't know why we haven't cracked the multi platform video chat thing years ago

Well, where Skype is concerned, there's little impetus by the owner to make other platforms (and especially Linux) in any way more interoperable with theirs.