Posts by macjules

I am sure we could get Boris to start sniffing tonic water and wearing his underwear on his head. The Sarah Cooper impressions might not be so great though.

Re: Proudly ignorant

My understanding is that the phrase originates (and is still used) in London clubs where members voting on a new joiner could select a white ball to allow or a black ball to reject. Hence the phrase "blackballed". Clubs shared a list of those blackballed members and so you get the phrase "blacklist": nothing whatsoever to do with slavery.

Next Mac OS update: removal of the green light so that you can not watch us watching you to help make our displays even thinner.

Re: My normal response to Tony Blair

And his missus. Though usually prefixed by “He’s made me a shedload of money”.

Re: Session ID?

You could use HTML5 SessionStorage (window.sessionStorage) to differentiate between each tab's activity.If you want to ensure the same session ID in each you can use 'Duplicate tab'.

Or, in Sainsbury's case, you probably do not want to see an "Out of cheese error"

Re: No doubt

More like "We sneaked a look in Super Spy Steele's drawers: you won't believe what we found!"

Re: So what happened?

After all, if you're developing some top-secret military aircraft, an engine is an engine; and the sub-contractor is none the wiser.

Oh dear. "That engine looks like it could run at Mach 15: are we going to put it in a Project X jet? No, its just an engine - we are fitting it in a 737MAX."

Those would be: Larry's cat, Larry's dog and Larry's pet tortoise named Donald.

Re: No problem with most of it, but...

Shh, Remember: Vampire Unlives Matter

Re: Data not at risk?

No, in this day and age you admit that a "very small percentage of our customers might have experienced some inconvenience". You then go on to say that, "we will be offering them credit monitoring options via Equifax" and "we reported this to the ICO within the 72 hour timescale permitted".

Re: Mouse mats with logos -avoid, avoid, avoid

I was given a mousemat by a now long since defunct hardware distributor (Frontline Computers in Basingstoke IIRC). Had to send it back as it was mirrored ... not the best surface for an optical mouse.

Re: That will be 244 people looking for a job very soon

I think that they have been in trouble for some time. Their biggest problem is a seemingly inability to deliver small online goods in less than 5-7 working days or that larger items that might require installation or recycling collection can take 21 days or more to deliver. Even Curry's can do this faster, and Curry's will price match JLP.

Re: In the interim, the British government has been forced to adopt human-powered contact tracing

Is that 'runs down street after infected person yelling, "Oi YOU, what's your telephone number?".?

Oh, I thought it was because the DLR "train captains" just wanted to look like they were doing something important, instead of leaving the fully automated trains to run themselves.

Those are former BMW drivers who got sick of writing off their car every time the timing belt snapped.

Re: Do you recall the smell of burning UPSes in the morning?

+ 1 Was wondering if someone might mention a simple thing such as overload protection.

Re: Comments from a Yank

They are not voting for Trump, they are voting for anything that is Republican.