* Posts by dom_f

17 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2012

'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint

dom_f

Eating your own dog food....

I wonder if DoNotPay will use DoNotPay to respond, or a real lawyer.....

Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory

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Re: Material damage in the cyber world

Curious as to how this could be considered "under duress"?

threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing something against their will or better judgement

DigitalOcean drowned my startup! 'We lost everything, our servers, and one year of database backups' says biz boss

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Re: DigitalOcean hosts hackers

I did.....

Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

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Re: File a support request?

At the moment you get " We are experiencing a problem with our support system. Some features are currently unavailable at this time. An azure support agent will reach out to you." and a support ticket reference beginning "TMP-".......

EUROCONTROL outage causes flight delays across Europe

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Better than "four nines five" is pretty impressive TBH....

Meltdown/Spectre week three: World still knee-deep in something nasty

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Re: One step at a time

Moore's law is about the number of transistors, not execution speed, so no they haven't.....

'Don't Google Google, Googling Google is wrong', says Google

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Re: re: Contacting someone implies you were successful;...

So should be ICMP/IP to follow the same naming? Not that I see UDP/IP used much!

Google can't spare 113 seconds of revenue to compile data on its gender pay gap

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So it'll cost $100k but it has already spent $500k. Something wrong with these numbers...

Rollout of smart meters continues at a snail's pace

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I wonder how many are already unused. Bought a new house with a smart meter provided by British Gas. Changed supplier 3 months later and so it stops working..... Waste of time and money.

Why does Skype only show me from the chin down?

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Re: Ethernet fan out

And drilling the cable was scary.... (yes you had to drill a hole in it to add a device)....

Mercedes answers autonomous car moral dilemma: Yeah, we'll just run over pedestrians

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Re: Presumed knowledge.

That simply means you are driving too fast - you should be able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear (or half that if not wide enough for 2 vehicles)....

As the US realises it's been PWNED, when will OPM heads roll?

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you forgot the two copies for filing....

Zero-knowledge proof crypto scheme divines truths from nothing

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Re: Microsoft Sortware and Nuclear Weapons?

brings a whole new meaning to the Blue screen of Death....

Peak Apple: Has ANYONE at all ordered a new iPhone 5c?

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Re: Fury

richard?

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Re: Fury

so as someone who also dumped Linux (Ubuntu in my case) as a desktop and also uses the command line extensively (fancy an awk competition?) I'm down voting this as it's unfair to say Linux has many Kernel panics -it doesn't on decent hardware. In fact my Macbook Pro (which has died very infrequently) is still probably less stable than my Centos/Ubntu VMs....

Dom

Punter strikes back at cold callers - by charging THEM to call HIM

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yes...

4G hobonet stunt was riddled with flaws, doomed to ridicule

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Really?

"The heavy demand on the mobile network is more than normal infrastructure is designed to cope with, and Homeless Hotspots adds a useful temporary mobile infrastructure."

So how does that work given the homeless hotspots are sharing the same overloaded mobile infrastructure?