Posts by David Roberts

Oh FSCK!

Full integration with W10 as the only platform?

Two Words

Fuck Agile

Local utility companies?

If they are anything like the UK they will be straight through the pipe within a year.

Feet like flippers?

I felt an unusual kinship with you after reading the article (feel free to shudder slightly).

In the UK shoe manufacturers just don't seem to understand wide feet. I think they expect you to just cram your feet into their chosen style and let your bones adjust over time.

For trainers I always end up with New Balance 4E fittings. No other trainer even seems to come in width fittings.

For "proper shoes" (not that I wear them much these days) I always end up with Clarkes Extra Wide. No other manufacturer seems to do width fittings in adult shoes. Remember Start Rite? Where is the "End Rite" range?

I can't even get proper cycling shoes with pedal cleats.

Thankfully, walking boots come in more generous widths.

I also do Yoga in bare (size 11) feet, so the image you painted also resonates. Scary or what?

Compensation for loss?

I would be interested in how they came to set the damages.

Losing $115m revenue suggests a truly massive revenue stream.

Or is the rule still to pick an outrageous sum then just leave the jury to decide "megabucks or nothing"?

Upvote the article

If I could.

Much like kids discovering sex, each new generation "discovers" a way of doing things and assumes that nobody could have ever done this before.

Cue a catchy new buzz word, and kerching.

They should learn to work smarter, not harder.

University Professor

Sadly just got moved up the risk register. :-(

In the USA of course, in the UK your students are less likely to shoot you.

Blighter Surveillance Systems?

As in "We'll just keep tabs on the blighters?"

Prerequisites?

You already need access via a compromised system.

Very much like the old Victorian adverts for an infallible way of killing mice.

Pay, and receive instructions "First catch your mouse....."

Well done them.

Looks like a big step forward in building space habitats.

For those worrying about micro meteorites would you rather be outside in a space suit? I assume they did a lot of development for space suits which was applicable here.

Can take photos and packs a camera?

It also makes little girls wear a revolving halo - or at least that is all I get when trying to play the video.

So this 'robot' is a voice controlled camera? I'll take two!

Still puzzling

Over someone who has been freely given information via a "freedom of information" request being sued for publishing it. It is obviously public information.

Trying to put the information "back in the box" after it has been published is also several types of crazy.

Identifying all the people who have downloaded the information (and presumably making them reveal where they in turn have posted it and so on up the tree to identify where every single copy is held) is pushing the bounds of logical stupidity.

Then again, this is lawyers. The UK has its' own brand of stupid, for example banning publication of information in England and Wales but not Scotland (as I understand it) or the rest of the world. Still, it makes money for the obviously needy.

I assume that

Accidentally misfiled is code for "only secured by weak encryption"?

Corporate gold dust that should have been monetised!

Missed the bit

About the thousands of records judged to be illegally held being deleted.

It reads like "All these records are held illegally." "Thanks for telling us. Same time next year?"

Must have been down the back

of a very big sofa!

What puzzles me

Is that I have been filling in Self Assessment tax returns on line yea these many years without any major problems.

For a short while I was a consultancy firm, and also did the company tax and VAT online. Even had a digital certificate to authenticate myself.

So why are online tax returns suddenly seen as a new digital thing?

They may need to encourage migration from paper and expand and enhance the services they offer, but the basic stuff has been around well over a decade.

Then again, GDS have done the marketing trick and redefined digital (that is, I am pretty sure that the previous service wasn't analogue).

Hope HMRC beat GDS off with a big shitty stick with several nails in.

Modified sounding rocket?

Keep seeing this term used.

As in "Cor, that rocket sounds well modified."?

O.K......

enterprise Android?

Mentioned several times with no explanation.

Presumably no starships involved.

What?

So this T1 is wired up to the eyeballs and the cloud, but doesn't have a low blood sugar alarm as part of his kit?

So he gets a phone call from Pop, which he answers, but he completely ignores the same phone which is playing the "sugar time" warning at full blast?

Be shit out of luck if Pop's phone was turned off.

Something very not right about this scenario.

Sigh

At the moment I am favouring staying in.

So it is a shame that all the people shouting and tub thumping for remaining in are the ones you wouldn't trust to tell you if it was day or night without going outside to check first.

Then again there are some pretty dodgy geezers pushing for Brexit as well.

Difference between a ring and a box?

Be careful when visiting the States is all I can say.

Oh, and don't ask to bum a fag.

O.K. O.K. I'll get it......

TANSTAAFL?

See title