Posts by Just Enough

Re: her lawyers want to know what data was copied and want it returned to her

They burn a DVD and give it to their lawyers. They keep that for their records, and burn a copy to give back to her lawyers. Her lawyers copy it and give her a copy. She gets a copy of the data she already has on her phone, lawyers have their copies and border agents keep their copy. The law is upheld and everyone is happy.

Except American citizen Rejhane Lazoja, who thinks maybe next time she should demand that the data be deleted and not returned to anyone.

Re: Lack of detail?

Oracle make transportation management software. They are therefore in a similar market.

Re: Slow BLOB's in Azure? I think I know why...

Azure BLOB storage has nothing to do with SQL Server BLOB storage.

Re: And this my friends

You're not my friend.

Re: How about some simple logic ?

This would be an interesting development in internet domain purchases. Some authority gets to decide whether you "need" a domain, whether you can justify its name, and whether what you're doing with it is a "viable" business.

No problem I can see there. None at all.

Re: Bye bye.....

I was with demon until they got bought over and all support went to India, including their finance department. I had constant problems with their bizarre new invoicing process, paying off the wrong bill with the wrong money and then threatening to disconnect me. It was almost like they had designed a system guaranteed to make it difficult for you to pay them. I left them soon after.

It's a pity. They were the gold standard of ISPs in the early days.

Re: Just say "Yes Sir"

"Getting my laptop stolen would be a nightmare for work reasons."

If your security and work relies on your laptop not getting stolen, then you're doing it wrong.

"If you want to insult someone .. .. Much easier to target insults by race or sex"

That's besides the point. People shouldn't be allowed to target anyone for insults, of any kind, just because they want to insult them. Fine, take issue with what they have said or done, but dishing out abuse using things that are irrelevant is not on.

Re: Strangely in the last week or so....

"She was told she couldn't get a deal - - - she got one."

In what way is getting a deal difficult? Getting a deal is easy. Getting a *good* deal.. somewhat harder.

I shall have no need of a "satellite" once we have taken back control. When lost, I shall just lift my blue passport aloft and her Majesty will guide my way across all parts of the great new British Empire. Let's have no more talk about these ridiculous fancies about crafts flying in space. We read Dickens, not Verne.

Re: Muhahahaha...

"I am sure the hard brexiters are saying this will be the easiest computer program ever written."

There will be a program, and the EU will pay for it!

Anything is possible when you're living in rainbows and unicorns Brexitland.

valid use

And what if using USB drives are an active and valid part of business operations?

Re: Of course...

"What I would be interested in finding out is how much Google's search results for "Anthony Levandowski" have changed since (say) a month before this whole thing kicked off to how they appear now. "

Well totally different, of course. Before he was relatively nobody, and now he's getting news articles written about him. But let's not that stand in the way of a good conspiracy theory, shall we?

Re: Maybe just

Forcing password changes just ensures that people use weak passwords. And doubles the support calls to your help desk.

Just tell users not to re-use passwords. For pity sake, do not re-use passwords!!

Meanwhile, in America..

Equifax has been fined a massive $0.00. Zero, nil, not a sausage. They've been told they are naughty and not to do it again.

Because profits > people.

Too many scripts from too many places

Running uBlock, or similar, seems like good idea. The problem is that many eCommerce sites have scripts running from so many locations, you can't tell which ones are irrelevant crap, and which are necessary for the purchase to proceed. So you end up inching through the purchase, playing guess the script, enabling each one in turn. All the time hoping that your purchase doesn't disappear with the next page reload, or end up debiting your credit card twice.

Online retail sites need to get it through to their thick heads that I have never, ever, found the need to relay news of my online purchases to some social media account. And I am not interested in being tracked by anyone while I am on a page entering my credit card details. For any reason.

At the point of purchase that is all I want to do; purchase. The only people involved in that exchange should be me, the website I'm on, and the relevant bank. That is all.

Re: Women-give-better-directions-than-men

"carry on until you get to the A454, turn left, 500 yards, your're there"

Which road will I be on to get to the A454?

Will it say A454 on the sign, or will it be the name of the road, or the name of the town it leads to?

How far do I go until I reach the A454? 1 mile? 50? 100? How will I know if I've missed it if I've no idea how far to go?

Do I turn left on the A454? Or turn left onto the A454? Or is the left turn simply at the same place as the A454 ?

Your succinct directions suck.

Re: And service providers...

What you choose to tell service providers is your mother's maiden name can be a secret. If you want it to be.

Re: And for the rest of the world?

You honestly think that Russia/China aren't implementing the same?

Re: Phones too

"What you're inferring in your sentence"

* Implying

And he's not implying that at all. He's saying he is not going to cover the risk of damage to company equipment. It's their phone, not his, so they're the ones who should insure it. If they're not prepared to insure their property, why should he cover it for them?

So he's saying he would refuse to accept the phone and the liability for it.

Re: "Ad experiences"

>ad experiences

I think I just had a nausea experience. It's just ruined my day experience.

Re: Solicitors from London law firm Pinsent Masons

"I was gonna comment on the descriptions of what the complainant was wearing."

I wondered about that. I assume we are supposed to draw some insight from the fact the guy was wearing "mismatched jacket and trousers", but I'm at a loss to what it is. Apart from anything else "mismatched" is a matter of opinion, and I don't read El Reg for the fashion.

an anarchic term

"Why Britons are so obsessed with banks to name even holidays after them???"

The basis for the holidays were that all the banks closed for the day. If the banks were shut that meant many businesses couldn't do business. So they took the same days as holidays. This meant other companies couldn't work. So, by the end, everyone effectively got the day off.

It's an anarchic term nowadays, of course. Banks don't all shut (although most branches will) and many companies work right through them, though maybe with a skeleton staff. Employees often get the option; Take the bank holiday, or get another day off in lieu.

All You Can Eat

I went to an "all you can eat" restaurant the other day. You could describe it as "unlimited" food.

Imagine my surprise when after I'd consumed my first starter, (a rather dry bruschetta, to be honest) I was informed that I could indeed eat all I wished, but the kitchen would only be serving one pea an hour from then on.

To be fair, they didn't say I could "eat at any speed". So I have absolutely nothing to complain about.

Cushy job

It could be a very cushy job. It obviously can't be done in the timeframe available. So you either wait for it to spectacularly fail, and walk away (accurately) blaming the Government, or you quit before it happens saying it can't be done.

Either way you've got half a year's salary out of 100k, with no expectation of delivering anything and no blame allocated your way. Just a pity the entire country gets screwed in the process, but that appears to be standard Brexit policy.

Or, just maybe, we can only hope, sense prevails and the whole thing is cancelled and you've still got your 50k.

Which are all good reason why Mars will never be terraformed. At least not in the next thousand years.

Planets are gravity wells that are a pain to climb out of. Expansion in the solar system is going to bypass them.

Re: Tee hee. Trump is to Putin as --

I genuinely fear for Putin's health. His sides must be splitting and his face ache from grinning.

And the Russian Federal Assembly will wet themselves laughing when he recounts the tale of his trip to Finland.

Re: WTF!!

"The entire enterprise is premised on the idea that water is magic and has a memory of compounds it has been in contact with."

It's more magic than that. It relies on water have a memory of *some* of the compounds it has been in contact with (i.e. the ones that homeopaths are charging for) and no memory at all of all the others.

Otherwise every glass of water on the planet would contain a homeopathic remedy for every ailment known to medicine, at really powerfully diluted concentrations, for free.

A better Idea

Here's a better idea. Now that the truly enormous clusterf***ck that Brexit is has become obvious to anyone paying attention, and now we know that the Leave campaign lied about the facts, their funding, and their motives, why can't it be put to the vote?

If it's too much to expect the Tories to grow a backbone, risk their political careers, and save the country, then why can't they allow the country to decide for itself?

Re: Really?

I think you've lost sight of the purpose of the event.

Re: What does it mean to me?

And yet here you are. Reading and commenting.

Aside from that, it's very silly to assume that changes in the IT landscape in the US have no effect on the UK. It being the information age where national boundaries have less and less significance.

Re: Microsoft 'Shill' (the product)

"Shill" - definition: Anyone who disagrees with me and holds an opinion that doesn't treat all corporate bodies as sons of satan. Since it is impossible for any right-thinking person to disagree with me, they therefore must be in the pay of said corporate body. Stands to reason.

Any online forum that doesn't recognise, and immediately ban, those with these opinions are also obviously in the pay of said corporate body. All online forums should be group-think hives where right thinking developers are safe from evil sons of satan and their obviously paid-for opinions.

QA's fault

That's an interesting position to take. Programmer gets leeway to make mistakes, QA doesn't.

I'd suggest they're both at fault.