Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
Every joke about Govt. Digital projects failing has been used, re-used, turned into a horse, been killed,.....
Every joke about Govt. Digital projects failing has, gone platinum, played in west end and Broadway for several centuries and broadcast for all twelve days of christmas since the alleged birth of a sun god (morning and matinee) and chorasters have toured the country in hot air balloons reciting it end to end in high and plain chant.
We just need new material (I'm sure they'll be new failures), new writers, (a new government preferably) it's still a bloody joke.
Just because one or two idiots misquoted its meaning and were corrected, it did not mean the NHS were going to get £305M a week
It was designed to be mis-interpreted as 'NHS could have £350M a week' that was the whole point of the advert.
It wasn't aimed at the truth, it was aimed to persuade voters the NHS would be better funded if the UK exited the EU. i.e a lie.
It's not a tired old quote, it was dead from the moment it was 'born', people just cart the corpse around to remind the guilty.
Yes but in balance, they have pagan crap by the likes of Astrologists on in the afternoon
Hmm, Daily paper 'Sun sign' garbage is like being able to do macros on word and calling yourself a programmer.
Also not exclusively or particularly 'pagan' by neither the old roman or the modern interpretation.
him thanking God by praying out loud every time his code compiled.
Almost but not quite, I've often been presented with code and thought 'it's a miracle this compiled at all'.
Most programmers do their praying while compilation is in progress though, not after. After, all bets off, all promised forgotten and it's off to the pub to indulge in some sin*
* Or at least as close as degrees of afflicted nerdy-types can come to their interpretation of sin*
* gotos instead of procedures, or procedures instead of functions (presumably). & beer/ale
At least BBC TV no longer closes down for an hour at 6pm so that people will go to Evensong. Nor do they end the evening's broadcast with a cleric delivering "The Epilogue".
The Angelus on RTE used to creep me out as a kid. They're still doing it, I'm surprised to learn.
...mind you, I think for a while I thought the Anglia TV logo was the English version.
I'd have 'voted' for the 'Venice is Sinking' (by Rondo Veneziano, I found out, decades later) that used to be broadcast occasionally (due to a gap in the schedule, but you don't know about these things as a wee nipper).
'You are a true believer, blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man by the masses for the masses.'
'Be thankful you have an occupation to fulfil. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.'
'Buy more, buy more now, and be happy'
Well, it'll probably not fit my consumer.
I'd imagine the Yanks are laughing about how small our data breaches are....
And if you count the difference in population scale.
Of course the U.S ones are big, for one reason or another, they end up hoovering data up from the rest of the planet as well as their own.
UK data breaches affect UK, US data breaches also seem to end up affecting UK too....
If they applied UK law to UK residents then it would have been a free-for-all from age 0.
If the current crop had any say, the Internet would consist of 'lies told to children' also for adults and nothing else. You wouldn't be able to see any adult content outside of government offices or without signing a register.
At least they asked when it came to UK sovereignty and membership in the EU.
The UK has never usually gone in for offering the public a choice outside the carefully choreographed Elections.
Which may go a long way to explain how badly handled the EU one was.
Wasn't talking about the good linx distro side. I was just referring to the household name bit.
You say kleenex, everyone knows it's a tissue, you say hoover, everyone knows its a vacuum cleaner.
You say android, it's a phone to most, unaware as many are that it runs on the linux kernel.
Linux may be all around, but like a popular brand of sewer plumbing it doesn't get much upfront advertising, it's not a popular enough household product to have a household name.
aka the 'Microsoft of the Linux World'.
sorry, No, just No.
Linux and BSD were once the only places you could go to avoid the OS Snooping. No longer.
Memo to self, block all Ubuntu and Canonical Domains in home firewall.
If thine own hand offends thee, cut off your own head with a spoon and nuke the vegetable garden.
"Canonical makes an easy target for this sort of thing because it's the closest thing Linux has to a household name."
I would have said Android.
There you have it, at least one 'housewife' 'can't tell the difference between whizzo butter and a dead crab'
Android isn't a good household name for 'Linux as it throws the Gnu out with the bathwater and replaces it with private googlies.
The rant was to counter the oft-held notion that the EU is some glorious club fighting tirelessly for the rights of the little man.
Hardly, but still think everyone in the UK would be better off in than out.
Checks and Balances as the Americans (U.S) like to say. The U.K gov (or all of Europe) least likes Europe, be it EHCR EU or ECJ sticking it's continental nose in.
How it must gall them that their 'Snoopers' legislation keeps getting declared illegal and them having to actually do something about it, when clearly the United Kingdom is worth three United Europes. [where's the sarcasm icon].
The Italians used to like Europe as they thought it kept their politicians in line, we're about to learn the same lesson soon enough - I give it twenty years, if that.
I apologise to any lowlife libertarians whose precious feelings were hurt by this.
Don't bother apologising, they are a 'Goldstein' delusion by to target your ire toward 'whomever' by those who are really exploiting you.
And 'liberty' is not something they think you should have, so they've built a maze with illusionary cheese and 'scary libertarian cats' to direct you down the paths they want you to follow.
security cameras waking up and recording as soon as someone enters view, saving power and storage space until when it's necessary. Also start playing ads when an 'audience' is detected.
Digital or so-called smart TVs that automatically pause when you stand up to pop to the kitchen, and play again when you return and sit down And If I get up to adjust my trouser region and a bit of a man-scratch?
or blank the screen if a kid wanders into the room when you're watching something primarily for adults.
I'd honestly prefer it to blank on modern kids programs when an adult enters the room too a) so the 'wee bastards' have no excuse not to pay attention b) Having seen what passes for kids programs these days, it's just drivel I'd rather not have to make sense of.
As to everything having cameras? Not bloody likely, it'll be tape or poked out with a sharp implement.
British MPs will ask the really tough questions
Well, that is clearly wishful thinking or self-delusion.
Chances are they'll be several 'will my iphone need an upgrade?' questions by MPs who've staggered in from the bar, and will stagger back again afterwards with the undeserved inflated ego feeling that they've asked some probing questions and made a contribution and that it didn't tax their brain as much as they thought it might so they must have a knack for this 'IT' thing.
Except that after a while you realise that you don't have any new music, because you're only listening to the stuff you bought & ripped years ago.
I found, not long into my thirties, I didn't really care for 'the new music', Never been a radio user. Might be the odd track when I tune in while driving, but the next song, or the song after that will inevitably make me want to either re-tune, turn-off or rip the stereo from the dash and fling it out the window in disgust.
My tastes are far too obscure for radio to cater to (even today with a million and one channels on the internet, I can still find nothing I don't want to nuke, irradiate and sow the ground with salt on after a couple of tracks).
@45RPM. No doubt you'll find out in twenty or thirty years, but also if someone were to (say for lack of a better example) took offence to your ignorance and smashed out most of your front teeth in a freak bicycling accident at a nunnery during a St. Stephens day carwash jumble sale and bake-off, a dentist might give you a set of dentures to fill in the missing fronties, hence you'd still have your own and false teeth.
As to people voting for idiots not learning from history, from what I've noted, a lot of people don't have any interest in history longer than their lifetimes. If it happened before they were born, it can't be of any interest as they are the centre of their universe, and that spinning top has trouble comprehending anything outside their spin.
Wow. They really don't understand war, do they? It's basically an "unpleasant effect on civilians" by definition.
More so in the last century or so than earlier when mostly* all they had to worry is a new overlord with an axe to grind or being called up by the local lord for cannonfodder/press-ganged/drafted when the armies would meet on 'the field of battle'.
Kind of like how it used to be considered good form to take pub fights outside first.
* Except when invaders laid siege to towns and punitively massacred everyone for making them sit outside for months.
And if Facebook doesn't get into the porn industry
I thought they already were, It spaffs peoples privates at me constantly, not allowed near it at work and I feel intense shame of even thinking about going near it.
Same thing, whether pink danglies are involved or not
Even if such a magic machine were possible, can you imagine the size of the thing? It'd never be finished being built!
Whether or not it could be built (and whether or not, as a government I.T. project it could be built, which has a much more complex set of probabilities, but generally can be summarised as "no, no, fail, fail, lob another couple of billion tax money on the bonfire then scrap it until after next election"), such practicalities are not of any interest to the current political crop.
If they decide they wants it, it must be made to happen, and they'll keep on harping about it until they either get it or changes in technology/society/nefarious agenda result in a change in tack.
I don't know how... They've nailed it with the pr0n verification, this is surely just a bit of scope creep to that project...
They've nailed pron verification?
That's already a serious air crash of Lockerbie proportions (yes, bad taste, hence 'coat'), it's just the airplane's not finished yet, but they're already thinking about boarding while congratulating themselves on another safe flight and lining up exciting new routes, but thousands (possibly tens of thousands) are already hideously burned, it just hasn't happened yet.
Facebook (also owns Instagram and Whatsapp)
Oath (owns AOL, Tumblr, and Yahoo!)
Bebo
Snap Chat
Blackberry Messenger
Google Plus
Is that list from a couple of years ago?
I wasn't even aware Bebo was still going? And you left out LinkedIn - it's getting more annoying than FB (and if you are of working age, harder to ignore).
What I find interesting is the "social sites should police themselves" attitude. Neatly allows you to wash your hands of the issue, doesn't it ?
Nonsense. They know perfectly well that's not going to fly.
The object here is to hopefully push it until it becomes a (flawed) reality, then use the failure as an excuse to implement further censorship/blocking/report abusive material - shop in your neighbours, [facebook] friends and family (fabulous prizes to be won) 'for the public good'.
Why? No matter how you vote, its always the government that gets in.
Well, that's not particularly profound.
And neither really is the disappointing reality that's it's usually the same type of numpties standing for election every time.
It's like having only one local store which only sells a couple of brands of sour milk, and you can't take it or leave it as it's delivered to your door and poured on your cereal anyway.
So that's "Making Britain stronger" as one of my British friends put it when they voted Leave.
Apparently, Europe are going to realise they need the UK and accede to all Brexit wishlist demands
Or so most the Cabinet seem to believe anyway.
"Microsoft is all about backwards-compatibility"
Why then, was it running on a 'Linux variant?
When Microsoft started it was mostly all about 'buy it in',now it's borrowed.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue - wayhay!, microsoft can get married, which is apropriate, you'd have to pay me a dowry to use that old maid of a Desktop....
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