Posts by macjules

Re: Great solution HP...

That never stopped them yet.

Autonomy: Don’t know how to use the product? Never mind, just sue them.

EMEA President not doing as well as hoped? Hey, what are buses for if not to throw staff under them?

Re: political ?

Siri: "Apple is no more a harmful monopoly that that of, say, the East India Company. Of course at this time we have yet to assemble our own army and navy".

Re: hmm

Don’t. I did that last year with someone to prove that but only could I print to their HP Envy but also access their WiFi through it.

They called the police and I had an interesting 30 minutes explaining WIFi security to them.

Bet there were auditors then saying "Why is it taking so long to train pilots?" With the answer, "Perhaps you could ask the Luftwaffe to stop flying over England?"

Re: Unghh

Strongly suspect that he just reached 18 and was asked to pay for his bus ride, hence the anger directed towards the unfortunate bus company.

In the meantime we regret to announce that the "Public Transport Pirate Association of the United Kingdom" has been sent to his room.

Re: if the State wants your data, they’ll get it regardless of any policy.

Install Alexa (Arexa?) in every hotel room in Shanghai?

Re: Moaning Minnies

Quite so. That awfully nice man Jacob Rees-Mogg says that silly little foreigners have nothing to worry about. And he should know: he employs lots of them in his sweatshops companies.

Re: Voting and weighing

What was the volume traded in shares between the changes in price? That would give us the genuine amount that they ‘lost’.

Re: Scooter stoopid

Not to mention that the sort of cretins who use scooters, especially the electric ones, yet don’t think that they have to use them on roads. Can understand this in Holland or Germany where there are lanes, but in the UK this is court case waiting to happen. By the way, the electric ones I have seen in Vienna and Berlin can be very fast indeed.

But never mind, they are outsourcing customer service to ServiceNow in Manila. Always a sure sign of a company in the throes of major upturn ...

Not least the transgender issue, which has now been compounded by remanding her into Washington Federal Detention Center in a men's ward.

And no commenter has mentioned putting Royal Artillery troops in charge of a drone - the thing probably crashed because they saw a nice howitzer somewhere.

Then again just be thankful they don't allow the cavalry to fly drones.

Re: Stealing data

ITV perhaps? I was there when they decided that everyone should switch to G-Suite ... a complete and utter fiasco which resulted in the director responsible being escorted from the Grays Inn Road building.

Re: So to gain entry into America you MUST......

You forgot to add:

Provide your shoesize

Sign over the right to take blood from your firstborn.

Provide proof upon entry that you love Donald Trump.

If you are not white then sign a waiver in the event of your "accidental" execution by the police.

I would have thought that they would simply say to Dr Wright, "Jail until end of January 2020 when you will be required to attend this court with the provided key".

Re: So, to sum up. . .

Funny how us “Remoaners” think that BBC stands for Boris’ Brexit Channel.

Re: A bit out of date?

“Given Britain's early adoption of steam locomotives, and the resulting urban geography and social expectations, you are much more heavily invested in rail transport.”

It has something to do with us having invented it. And the later Georgian/Victorian urban geography was actually more designed around the canal infrastructure than the much later rail systems, which tended to follow the existing canal routes.

Now, if you want to talk about the original urban infrastructure of England: it tends to follow the system of “how quickly can the crap in the street flow down to the nearest river”.

Re: That's horrible.

Similar event happened to a friend in London in summer 2015 in a coffee shop in London when someone "accidentally" stumbled into him, while 'the co-defendant' grabbed the laptop and ran.

The good news was every time anyone actually switched on the laptop they saw "gimme back my laptop you thieving bastards" and so the thieves presumably could not get rid of it. After a week or so he got a call from someone saying that they had bought the computer from someone and would my friend be kind enough to give him the login password ... since, like, he had bought the computer you know.

Just for once the lads in blue did their job and all were nabbed.

Re: Marketing lies

I'm on the full-blast 350Mbps Virgin connection .. having endured 3 years of BT OpenRetch's idea of "Fast" broadband ("shaddup and accept that 2mbps in London is good"). My nearest and dearest recently phoned their customer service and, after doing the "we want to move away from Virgin" bit was awarded with a 20% discount on our existing bill, subject to agreeing to another 12 month contract in advance.

I am not objecting.

Re: When someone gets the tech to operate killer drones from thousands of miles away

Yeah, I just have to listen to one of Trump's disjointed drones and I'm already reaching for the mogadon overdose..

Re: That slobbering sound I can hear...

I think it was more along the lines of "Rolls in, rolls in, my God, how the money rolls in".

Re: So...

Egyptian?

Re: Better still, don't trust Facebook with anything

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog

For Zuck that would be:

On the internet, no one knows you're a salamander

Re: Educated guess

Well, officially it is:

Description: Mitigation work is currently underway by our Engineering Team to address the issue with authentication to Google App Engine sites, Google Cloud Console, Identity Aware Proxy, and Google OAuth 2.0 endpoints. Error rates are dropping and we're seeing service improvement. We will provide another status update by Monday, 2019-08-19 13:45 US/Pacific with current details.

Workaround: Some customers have reported success attempting to utilize an incognito window under the Chrome browser to login.

Definitely McAfee Syndrome. With complications of Muskitis and possibly Trumpophrenia.

I prescribe a long leave of absence from work, plus liberal doses of Obamacillin with perhaps a mild dose of Warrenorphine to offset the trauma.

Should be right (or left) as rain in no time.

Re: Covered by GDPR?

You are quite correct, you should be able to submit a request since it is not the Metropolitan Police that are carry out facial ID scanning in this case but a company called Argent. Elizabeth Denham is also investigating the links between the Metropolitan Police and Argent in regards to use of the data from the Kings Cross site (over 160 acres in area) plus the full facial ID scanning currently in operation over a similar area in Canary Wharf.

There is a precedent for making a request to the police, which was done recently by Liberty against South Wales Police, and which resulted in legal action against that force - the verdict is due any day,