Posts by Patrician

Re: Not an angry place .

The swivel eyed loons have always been there; the internet, and social media in particular, has allowed them to find each other.

Re: "I don't know who makes the profit"

"Here's a hint for you: where does Google make over 100% of its profit from? (over 100% because collectively they lose money on everything else) Advertising, duh!"

Google Workspace accounts do not get ads "slung" at the users; it's a paid subscription service just like Office 365. Retail chrome book users will get ads as they are using Googles "free" services, but businesses and education establishments using Workspace do not.

Atheism is not a belief system.

Re: High level security features

I also question how they are so sure that these encrypted services are being used for "serious offences such as child sexual exploitation and abuse or terrorism"? As they're encrypted how do they know this, or are they just guessing?

Re: Microsoft Lumia 650

So you're not using as a smartphone?

Re: No corruption here.

And it takes up to ten working days too.

The problem is that for some uses Windows is the only option; gaming is the first that comes to mind for instance.

Re: Pissup/brewery

When taking off from the Moon Starship will not need to use as much thrust as on Earth as the Moon's gravity is roughly one sixth that of the Earth, and Mars roughly one quarter.

Re: Tips and Tricks

"Last but not least we have stock"

It would appear that Tesco's do not, as my delivery today was sans toilet roll; out of stock.

Re: Hmmmm....

Not great but still better than Outlook

Re: To be fair...

it depends on your definition of "smart" of course; it would need to be a really long range sensor for it to be considered a proximity sensor.

It's supposed to be "smart" because it "learns" from your routine, despite what ever schedule you setup; not really noticed any evidence that it has been doing this though.

Re: Questions II?

There are algorithms associated with a search that generates a "profile" of the searcher apparently, so I suppose two people could get different results for the same search term in theory. Maybe.

Re: IDE not SCSI but the hack worked

Yep, been forced to do that quite a few times in years gone by.

Re: Good, good.

You've obviously done your research and come an informed decision on how you voted, however, based on the people I know that voted the same way, I don't believe there were many as diligent as you were for voting "leave", and were primarily driven by racism and xenophobia.

Re: "the number of attacks has dropped by 93 per cent"

What games have "paywalls" that prevent you from "playing and/or get the required stats to progress"?

I'm no expert on Ubisoft game but have/do play a few "free to play" games and they are all fully playable with no payments. Planetside II, Aion and Lord of The Rings Online mainly, and it's perfectly feasible to play all three without paying anything, albeit it might require a bit of grinding in the case of LoTRO; you, pretty much, have to do every quest, task and achievement in each area to be able to use in game currency to buy access to the next area.

But none of the above have any "paywalls" that stop you from playing, just your time.

Re: The mind boggles

"Why is it always the idiots who have no clue how things work that demand that those who do understand "find a way"?"

Simply because they are ignorant of how encryption works, what it is and why it's used. To them it's something implemented by a tech company, say Apple, so Apple must have control of it and if so, can un-encrypt at their whim.

Re: Not a new idea

"Quite apart from which, moving like locusts to another place because we're wrecking Earth will likely result in us wrecking that as well, as it's the attitude that needs changing, not the place".

You can't really wreck space, it's a little too big .....

"Additonally you can see a movie without leaving a history in the amazon profile"

And leave one with the company that owns the kiosk instead

Re: Only have one thing to say to Lenovo....

Okay, what games do you play then run natively in Linux? This isn't a challenge, I am really interested, because when I looked into this, the majority of the games in my library are not supported under Linux without messing around with a "wrapper" type tool such as Wine.

"Which is still questionable to this day"

No. it's not "questionable" if you understood the engineering and science; have a read here:-

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Re: "And if your house burns down?"

Agreed; my docs and photo's are stored on my server, backed up to rotated USB drives, and then synchronised via Onedrive between my PC and my server (I don't have my gaming PC setup on my domain). That Onedrive account is synchronised back down to a Synolgy NAS that synchronises those same docs and photo's back up to a "Box" a "Google Drive" and a "Mega" account (all free). The NAS is running RAID 5 that is also backed up to two external USB drives that are rotated monthly with the offline drive kept in my works firesafe. Photo's have an addition backup in that they are also synchronised back to a different location, to the docs and photo's, via Plex Camera Sync system.

Paranoid, me? Never...

Re: harmonising the guns

Spitfire and Hurricanes were fitted with about 15 seconds worth of ammunition.

Re: move to a better deal

Same choice here, decent Virgin Media connection, but expensive and increasing yearly or ADSL+ with crap speeds. So, no choice really.

Re: "The age of digital money has arrived"

I was married and at that time it was pointless having a wallet, there was never anything in it.

Re: The most expensive conspiracy theory in history

No it's not, it's the same as all the other shadows and is in alignment with the astronauts shadow, therefore cannot be seen as a separate shadow.

Re: Accurate Ads

Yes, I used the bargain site to give me a list of hotels in the area of London I wanted to stay and then did a Google search to find the websites of the ones I was interested in. I compared prices and booked directly with the hotel, as it was around 10% cheaper than the bargain sites for the same stay. Doesn't everyone do this, or do people assume that because the sites claim tom be "bargains", that they are without verifying that?

And there you have it; as I said, targeted advertising does not, nor can it ever, work in any way that is remotely useful unless you act like an unthinking idiot and just book at the first site you come to.

Re: Amazing...

Why are you so ready to accept what is written on conspiracy websites and YouTube videos but not to accept scientific sites? Is it that you simply don't understand the science, and so reject it for something "else"?