Posts by PTW

Re: Gunpowder filled?

Ken, I came here to say exactly that! Have a beer. Guess Gaz is too busy with crApple's super snooping

Sorry Jude, I was going to go back and search but I had the tap on the shoulder to actually go and do some work, pfft, the temerity of it!! And thanks @quxinot. Have a beer on me, both.

Re: The door

Not an urban myth, there was some odd UK law at least up into the 60s, where a 16 year old could drive a 3 wheeler, but only if it didn't have reverse. Quite why anyone thought reverse was such a huge danger between the ages of 16 and 17 I have no idea!

I remember my farther telling me of one of his friends who re-enabled reverse but had a bolt he could drop through a hole and lock out reverse should he ever be stopped by the Police.

Why the AC?

Things that get covered in sweat stink, no? But they say a fox never smells it's own den. AC do you notice people get up and move when you sit down on the bus/train/park bench?

Re: MasterCard babbling with response

Hubris! They thought they were so big that India would never dare do anything like they just have. Now I'm sure the Indian government are more likely doing it to spy on their citizens than for any idea of data protection.

But, I'm so glad it's happened.

Sorry, that'll be me with the overlap!

Re: blah, blah, blah

Was it a 60% margin to join, you know when the British public were lied to and told it was only a trading block?

Edited to add: BTW 45RPM you do sound rather condescending in your last sentence old boy. Sort of the way labour treated their voters calling them thick racists if they voted for Brexit, that worked out well

Re: Down voted...

'cos you're a miserable curmudgeon! You do realise that almost anyone that knew that command is an old fart like me, and it took them back to the early days of home computing. That's what got most of us here [both el reg, and in IT as a profession]. And it made me smile, and think of simpler, happier times.

Anonymous South African Coward have a beer on me, I went from a ZX81 to a C64, but plenty of friends had Speccies. There was also a weird POKE command on a 32k BBC B that would make it 16k and it'd persist across reboots. It needed another POKE to fix it, thankfully the Comp Sci Master saw the funny side in the end.

Re: engine blocks

Or an XUD

Re: Well tried and comprehensively already field tested .....

Err, or it COULD be that one is based in the UK and the other in Ireland?

So, I for one welcome the UK government giving the contract to a UK company, not an Irish one

Re: countermeasures:

Yes, but...

Us commentards are not the norm, and my mother, aunt, son, should not need to be tech wizards or rely on me. I'm with Dave 15 here, start with the beeb, just look at any of their Android apps and see how much tracking they do!

Re: Location Services

Android requires location services to be enabled to "scan for" [read connect to] BLE devices, cos "reasons" - mainly being BLE beacons in shops, etc.

Obvs. icon for that whole can of spying, tracking, BS

^^^ This!

It was cloudy here anyway, but I completely agree. Have a pint in commiseration

Re: It feels better now ...

Rather that than let her anywhere near the NHS! Bit of downtime never hurt anyone, although you'd think it was life threatening they way the yoof carry on. Anyway, have a beer, you made me chuckle

Re: critical thinking

Mr. Boyd, sir, have a pint! But I fear critical thinking, like common sense, is not very common, even in supposedly educated people.

Re: Merceded

And Citroen, fuel injectors are coded to the ECU, the exact same engine in a Peugeot they are not.

On the C5 X7 you can't even check the oil level for the suspension without connecting to the ECU and depressurising the system.

Thankfully knock off Chinese OBD-II interfaces and software are available.

Xiaomi

Did this with one or more releases of MIUI on their droid phones! "...for your protection, as many apps have access to the clipboard" Yeah, like Keepass, Lastpass and 1Password, morons!

And of course, having used all of the above, meant typing in something like MV64BPb*bBFPpQgT0G7%$Gi7Lvw9wMW$JcP% anytime I wanted to login anywhere