Posts by 's water music

Re: Think of the chiildren!

number five lifted the OP from hilarious to legendary

The legislation makes the assumption that fault will only ever be on the part of the publisher

I think the assumption it makes is that the scenario is always a private (naive and under-funded) individual complainant going up against a well funded media organisation where the likely potential costs are not material to the publisher but ruinous to the complainant. The arrangement makes some sense in this scenario

Re: I'm with 123reg

I renewed for several years last time around and assumed that meant I was locked in but I see that transfers are EUR0* on Gandi. Does that mean that they just take the hit of giving you free service for the balance of your reg period in expectation of renewals and to make the market fluid, Is that how all registrars work? I agree with Wolfetone below. I only use 123-reg for registration and mail/web forwarding and have never knowingly been affected by their crapness

*EUR12 for my .org I notice

> Why did Enterprise get the £400k? Was it to run more crap adverts on TV?

Opportunity cost of of being told to "no thanks, we have it already" when they tried to sell the data themselves?

Re: Common sense.

>> "made of gold plated unobtainium"

> Why would you gold plate unobtainium?

To make it less attractive to thieves

Re: Use the Raspberry Pi-Hole

damnit, I just spent a couple of days struggling through getting BIND and Apache set up to do this and then crunching up several different blackhole lists to do this and pi-hole has nice reporting too. If only they used SEO to get picked up by my online research beforehand

Re: Oh, here we go again!

Guys, you are forgetting the sarcasm tags.

That's not even the point any more. The argument has segued into one about the EU 'fining national govs for VW cheating' when the fine is actually threatened against national govs for not penalising VW for cheating. That's the point to argue against if you (in a general sense) want to.

Re: Because PWC is run by accountants and management consultants

Any good technologists got sold off to IBM when PWC got rid of PWCC.

Hahahahahahahahah. Wait wat?

we have a couple of carriers with lots of spare space...

Don't use Watchkeepers then (suggested rename: Warm Milk & Cookies?). Presumably HMS Brenda will be even more likely to have a wet runway than a Welsh airfield. (assuming it doesn't turn out to require cripplingly expensive 'upgrades' to make it float or something)

Re: Hashes?

defeated by a single pixel alteration, or a hidden comment, or removal of exif data/ gps, resizing, border added etc...

Thank fuck for you. Given the google shaped hole in the initiative, it seems doubtful that any of them will have been able to stumble across a service such as PhotoDNA or something similar. Saved a few red faces there.

Re: Tell you what then,

Vegan - lifestyle choice rammed down the throats of every poor sod who comes into close contact

I think your case study design may carry a risk of selection bias...

Re: Out of interest

I believe it was an assumption made in MoD in the early stages of the project. Ie the replacement for a VSTOL carrier is a VSTOL carrier.

To be fair, they did specify that the carriers should be capable of being reconfigured for catapults. They simply forgot to agree a price cap for this lower than the cost of simply ordering a brand-new ship. You don;t win defence contracts without being smart enough to spot an opportunity like that.

Re: Nope

I've had one-and-a-half free tvs and three free radios out of Nectar Card

I had half a TV once. I'm not saying it wasn't cheap but it was a bit shit all told and I don't think I would go for it again.

Quite how the screen *definitely* had a green light and *definitely* had a "C:\" prompt is still a mystery 20 years later!!

Ambient light and screen burn?

Re: CRUISE CONTROL FOR TRUTH

Duh, you forgot to mention the "importance" of teh scare "quotes"

Re: Ancient Greek option.

and maybe dust down the plans for Archimedes' heat ray like the 'Merkins have been working on

Re: Poorly designed application

Project Manager to Team: Can I have a note of the days off you are intending to take at Christmas please

I DON'T CARE!!!!!

How else will you know what days you can harvest the good stationery, less stained chairs and other good stuff?

Re: Seems obvious to me.

Goodness knows what the Scouts have been getting up to on Brownsea Island

Yikes

Re: £350 million?

a for a couple of laptops and a printer, £5000

not falling down the stairs or going on fire, priceless (=£349,995,00)

Re: Given current reporting

The blame must be (in order): Trump, Brexit, misogynist white men, Windows 10, off-shoring.

Wait what? Are Apple off the hook now?

Re: @4ecks - If we can solve the power supply issue…

Seems like on El Reg there must be either a) a lot of idiotic pedestrians or b) a lot of car drivers who think that if they have to sit in a queue then so should everyone else!

I don;t think you made it clear enough that you had in mind a scenario where the traffic light was green but a stationary queue of motor vehicles was present with adequate space between lanes for a cyclist to filter. It is legitimate for either a crossing pedestrian (uk, no jaywalking laws) or a road using cyclist (green light) to proceed. Both have a responsibility to avoid collisions. In the hierarchy of vulnerable road users the cyclist probably has a little more. You could make an argument of courtesy for the pedestrians to yield to the cyclist. You could also make an argument about relative levels or responsibility for either party dependent on how foreseeable it was for the other party to be there. I can only control my own behaviour so when crossing a road on foot or filtering through traffic on a bike I always try to look first and proceed at a pace where I can stop if another road user isn't taking the same amount of care. I found commuting became less stressful if I focused less on feeling wronged and more on how I could cooperate with other road users whilst still making reasonable progress. But yes, like gender politics, OS and smartphone wars, cycling issues tend to attract bloc voters (in both directions) around here

Re: Night Terrors and cats falling over from these things!

I know several people who have independently reported having "night terrors" ...Also, another friend has a cat that stopped being able to walk properly ...

Could this be "a thing" or just a massive coincidence?

Definitely a thing. Probably witchcraft. I would suggest that anyone affected should immediately unscrew the devil meter from wall and dunk it in a bucket of water to see whether or not it floats

6 seconds? How do you make it last that long? :)

Include time to remove trousers and possibly clean up on aisle one afterwards

Re: Its a Joke

Why would anyone other than US use this plane? Sounds like the start of Skynet!

If Skynet was shit and didn't work

Re: Simple.

You can't automate shoes since it's the legs that do the actual locomotion, and legs can be some powerful things making them hard to control.

The Wrong Trousers