Posts by John Tserkezis

Re: Counter productive

"Not after 20 years with First Direct. I can tell them any "nth" character without thinking."

So you haven't changed your passphrase for 20 years?

Good to know.

Re: I find the best way to avoid adverts on Farcebook...

"And what if the only point of contact you have with someone important (like a member of your family) is through Farcebook because they don't have e-mail or a reliable telephone?"

Then I tell them, if they want to get in touch with me, they can either by 7 different email addresses, or, three regular phone numbers, or, two SIP voip addresses, or, two Skype addresses, or they can leave me alone - there is only so far I'll go, and Facebook is NOT anywhere I'm going.

Deal with it.

Re: The 'We thought you might like' conundrum

"Now if I open amazon @work I can see penises!!"

Way back in the MySpace days, a friend of mine said a MySpace friend bought a dildo.

Soon afterwards _all_ her friends received a message saying "so-and-so just bought a dildo, would you like to buy one too?"

Very classy. And it appears no-one has learned anything since then either. Idiots.

"I left the form as instructed and when I came home it was still there so I took it back inside. It still hasn't been collected."

Same here, and what we've heard from the neighbours, same for them too.

"I still have the original platter which I retrieved from the rubbish bin. The head crash had gone through the oxide right down to the base metal"

I've seen one that went through the magnetic layer, and all the way though the aluminium base in a section (Yep, you could see right through). Somehow, it was still balanced enough to be spinning.

What stumped us, was not that the drive failed in this manner, but that it was in this failed state for long enough to gouge the platter without anyone noticing.

Re: Clearly an idiot

"Unfortunately there are plenty of politicians who will jump on his bandwagon solely in order to get a few sound bites and some air time."

I doubt they're smart enough to realise.

Re: I didn't even want contactless

"I took a chisel to my card and cut the antenna - result: no contactless."

Kinda like taking the water out of your pool to prevent any drownings.

It's a bit drastic, and there are better ways of doing it.

Re: A few bad apples

"If I am paying for a certain amount I should be entitled to continue paying for that amount at the "contracted" rate."

And as the saying goes: "Good luck with that".

Re: Confucious say

"Repeated, tragic data loss convinces family members to take periodic backups."

Sadly, for some of my relatives, even THAT won't convince them.

"How does one sniff out porn exactly ?"

Look for the fishy smell.

Re: Double standards?

"Strange that while the self-proclaimed 'Wise Ones' want to ban WiFi in schools, the same folks list a mobile phone number"

WiFi, and cellular transmissions are not the same. That means "do as we say, not as we do".

If you think that makes sense, then you're looking at the class of retard who can't be helped. Nuke 'em from orbit just to be on the safe side.

Re: How exactly does this execute?

Otherwise: it sounds like it requires a Javascript environment which

Yes.

(a) executes outside a browser,

Yes.

(b) has the ability to read and write files directly on the host filesystem.

Yes.

Surely most PCs don't have this by default?

Aside from the JVM which is sometimes optional, Otherwise, shockingly, yes.

Re: >> giving the update the "Priority 1" ranking

by Flash, tends to get a Priority -1, as in "Do This Or You'll Never Work in This Town Again."

I choose never to work in this town again. In other words, I don't know who is going to screw up, but it won't be me.

Re: Trouble figuring out how it worked?

"Like all manuals, you have first to "interpret" them to understand what they actually mean."

"This product comes pre-installed with Windws 10".

Correction:

If a good BOFH is involved, there's no way to tell.

Re: I've read the original article

"(why does this article merit a place on an IT website if it is not for that purpose??)"

Because for me, buying Polo Mints at the cheapest price is of upmost importance.

"As an aside, I lost 3 spinning hard drives in two years on a two drive RAID server so spinning is not much more reliable."

Yeah, so did I, till I realised that I shouldn't have been using desktop drives in an array environment. Now, with RAID or Enterprise grade drives, they're still going fine.

You can't just throw any old drives in your array and magically expect them to last.

Re: Ob: Pournelle

"Except the Thunderbirds are a figment of imagination. Where as this is real life."

Blasphemy!

I downvoted you, not because I don't agree, it's that your suggestions won't work.

"Like adjusting the brakes so the pads don't grip the wheel"

He would notice right away - I press my brakes early on to stop the bike from rolling off whereever. You would feel the lever distance and pressure right away.

"then supergluing them in place"

You do realise that a form of superglue is used as a threadlocker? And a loose seat would be immediately obvious by twisting? Would be a good idea otherwise..

"cutting most of the spokes"

Going on what spoke setups I've seen, it would become really obvious by the wheels becoming bent.

"What was actually done just sounds like petty vandalism"

The basis of that would be ideal: Don't make it look like vandalism, and lean towards making it look like an accident. Because accidents happen you know...

Re: Once a drivers ID is stolen?

"Over in Blighty they're going to give us an online driving license"

Never mind, they're thinking of the same here in Australia. Conditional, not across the board, but still thinking about it.

Re: Batshit crazy

"To pay extra for a box"

Think of it this way: You'll be the coolest nerd on the block.

Re: Suing?

"Whether Apple deliberately set out to deprive iPhone owners of use of the phone or not is something I don't think we will ever be able to prove (knowing it is not the same as proving it), as they would always be able to argue (as they have) that it is a bug."

It doesn't matter. It's sorta like someone kicks your butt without telling you why. You have no way to prove for or against why they did it, and they're not saying.

Again, it doesn't matter, the fact remains that butts were kicked, and you want payment.

"I'd be beyond extremely impressed if you can accurately count your pulse with your finger while engaged in strenuous exercise that has got your pulse into the 130 or 140 range,"

Exactly right. I max out 200bpm, and if you try to poke and prod me when I doing that, I'm going to get quite cross.

"to a country of real British people smoking packs of real cigarettes"

You do realise that cigarettes were long considered very feminine, and since that was half the market of the already established manly cigars, the tobacco industry started a grass-roots PR campaign to market the cigarettes to men as well.

So, if you're male and smoke cigarettes and you think you're manly, you're not, you were once considered quite a poof. Better change over to cigars right now. Yes do it now, because you're manly.

Re: The Skyhigh guys again

"If they know, and got in without permission, they should be charged and fed porridge for several years."

You are implying that Skyhigh is in the wrong here because they *did* obtain data that way.

You should be implying that the fact that Skyhigh got in, indicates the user in question are idiots for at least expecting security on a medium that doesn't promise it..