Posts by 's water music

Re: "why was it written by one guy with no oversight?"

Proper testing would have revealed the problems.

This is why nobody in management likes Proper Testing

maybe they are quietly muscling in on the takeaways' drug distro market?

Re: China?

TBF I doubt that there is any country that wouldn't do this. The limiting factors are more to do with having a domestic supplier who is a material player in the networking kit market and having the geopolitical clout to be able to exploit any intelligence gleaned. I know the UK would be all over it like a rat up a drain pipe. Probably still hoping that the US might offer something in return

you ok hun?

Re: back in South Africa

to or from?

Potentially they could turn your electricity off. That could take out your alarm and will almost certainly disable your fancy remote front door camera.

Comme ci, comma ca. Power off= annoying, remote front door cam disabled=net security gain?

Attention!

I'm hoping it will be a snapchat style googly eyes filter

Re: Ah, those laser links....

dropouts....cause, a pigeon landing on the window sill and breaking the beam.

Solution - move the transmitter further up the window!

Or just don't use vegetarian shark mountings

For *hours*?!?

I thought that as well, when I read it on the beeb this morning. El Reg makes it clearer when they say it started at 0100h and the store opens at 1000h.

I like the lady with her kid who had to come back for another look using the the Pete Townshend defence.

Re: drooled the Illustrated London News in a November 1874 article.

Two pages up from the text (scan p576, ILN 1874-11-28 p504) is a full page spread of Sketches at the Central Telegraph Establishment ,General Post Office where readers may make their own, objectifying judgements of both male and female telegraphers although I imagine that the majority of commentards will be too distracted by the hardware also included to pay much attention

Re: polluting the well.

Try telling them you are Tony Hawks. I understand that tends to work out ok.

One of my email domains is invalidemail so I can be passive aggressive even when I actually need the other party to be able to contact me

Re: Open University

shut up and post the kickstarter url

Re: Secret Location

I thought car-park meets tended to be about dogging these days.

Maybe just my social circle?

you must come round for dinner some time

Re: Surely...

working with equipment that can potentially rip someone's arm off...Doesn't stop the completely idiotic ...but at least ...you can point to the process and show why they're doing it wrong.

That's easy for you to say

Re: No more call centers? What a wonderful world we live in!

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Re: Simple way to generate lots of money at Westminster

Welp, whilst that might be an effective, if splatter gun, troll in many places today you really need to focus on feminism (or addressing any structural discrimination really) to farm downvotes and troll the commentards round here. Strong opinions on Linux distros might also hit the spot

Re: Some fan of Modi used Hindu distance units?

@Evil Auditor, damn, now I have the spend teh rest of the day working out which one here is you

Re: density

No, no they don't. They use spring loaded mechanical switch.

Why on earth would my fridge manufacturer reject a tired and tested cheap reliable effective design in favour of a less effective option that costs more and consumes more energy? It doesn't make any sense at all.

Seriously, I have investigated this extensively. It's all PIRs these days. I'm worried you are just embarrassing yourself here. Some manufacturers have even produced retro-fit kits to upgrade older fridges

Re: Has there ever, in the entire history of the world...

Very few companies, for instance, don't outsource their office cleaning.

And who can put a price on outsourcing the mental stress from treating your employees how most cleaning service providers threat their 'independent contractors'?

Do doubt leaving the EU without a deal will also mean that UK plod can no longer issue European arrest warrants for criminals that flee the UK and head over to Europe.

Shirley plod can just arrest them whilst the crims are waiting for their visa to enter an EU country or during the three months they will need to queue for ferry at Dover?

Re: Why should I suffer?

"You've been listening to the mainstream media."

I genuinely have no idea whether you're agreeing with me or dissenting.

I'm not sure that an accusation of listening to the mainstream media is ever intended, other than as an insult these days but I agree, absent this heuristic, it is hard to tell

Re: So AI in this instance got it right

SO the bias is against the subset of black Americans who give their kids a certain sort of name. I suspect just class bias?

By Jove, that must be it. I was scrabbling around for any other possible explanations

do you really think that the government turning off all the phones is not going to be followed by Twitter storm of "hey, my phone was turned off !"

Not really, we haven't all got access to a smart fridge of Nintendo DS

Re: Catcha is the most annoying piece of crap ever

Finally a post where I can FULLY GET BEHIND your use of capitalisation bob.

Re: Wait a minute

It depends who is telling the truth here.

That's easy to tell. Were their lips moving?

Re: Naming

ooh, ooh, what about a naming competition?

CrashAssist

Trucky McTruckface

DeathMode

Re: £2000...

How does one crap on the roof of a car, without standing on it

A good run-up and excellent timing I would imagine

Re: That's all very well....

As it is, it's a case of "Of the accidents that occured, this many were associated with drink/drugs/etc" Which is just reporting. Not really sure how to have a control set for this.

Ratio of drunk to sober riders for all scooter journeys shirley? It seems reasonable to hypothesise that impaired scooterists will have a higher accident rate. This study fails to tell us how much higher (if any). I believe that drunk pedestrians have lower injury rates in some cases where hit by a motor vehicle. The study speculated that drunks went into a more relaxed roll on impact.