Posts by jasper pepper

No need to waste all that kit. If they wanted a spectacle they could have put those responsible under the roller.

Re: [we] "have taken a lot of time to do things right"

What do you mean by 'shouting' to make oneself understood? Isn't that the standard method for language teaching in UK schools? From what I remember I spent most of my time in language classes being shouted at, we all did.

Gary is safe

At least Gary is safe in the US. I mean the US doesn't take kindly to foreign jurisdictions harassing its citizens. Gary is at liberty to tell DART crossing and everything to do with DART crossing, their appeals process, their debt collectors, their kangaroo court and their bailiffs to go fuck themselves. I envy Gary, you may wonder why. Well one day your plates may be cloned by rogues who use that crossing - then you will understand.

You do know tvlicensing fabricate evidence, don't you?

Capita tried to prosecute this guy using fabricated evidence, a doctored video that puported to show a still tv image from a "live" broadcast.

http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/9867463.Man_wins_TV_licence_battle/

It isn't just the councils, it is endemic in the public sector. For instance why is it necessary to record so many traffic movements at so many locations? Hell, they might be speeding or they might use the Dartford crossing without paying. But mustn't grumble, could be worse, the bbc could demand they film me at home, just to make sure I'm not watching live tv without a licence.

It is one thing to have the US hacking Angela Merkel's phone but quite beyond the pale for the Russians and Chines to hack us isn't it?

Dear volunteer testers...

The GWX debacle should have been enough to demonstrate beyond reasonable that doubt that setting automatic updates on was not in your interests. How many more times does microsoft need to c o ck things up before everyone gets the message?

Are you sure?

Are you sure you have captured all the steps needed to complete this task?

You need time to discover all the consequences of this management meddling, er initiative. Then once you have listed them all you need to test. Days become weeks and could be months. Well, does the manager want it done properly or not? And don't forget to consider how backups taken under the old regime may be restored using the new regime.

Just asking

How many of those on here calling Dwayne dim could do as Dwayne did? ie "He then illegally accessed two accounts at JP Morgan that were owned by the unnamed bank and transferred $134,000 into the account."

Please explain

Why do people use vodafone (and the others) when competitively priced alternatives exist (eg giff-gaff)?

Really

He wants to eliminate crime. Why not call for criminals to be eliminated, rather than wanting to fiddle about with cars?

Well, that's just fine now isn't it.

Except it isn't is it?

If microsoft think this will restore their reputation they are going to be disappointed.

The whole win 10 fiasco destroyed what trust remained in the microsoft brand.

It really isn't good for business if your customers :

a) Don't trust your brand.

b) Think your brand ignores their needs.

c) Use your products under sufferance.

It leads to :

d) Your products are only chosen as a last resort in the absence of a viable alternative.

Of course, it will take a while but as with the once mighty IBM I think microsoft is destined to dwindle from industry giant to industry also-ran.

Make them prove it.

Maybe if the onus was put on the providers to demonstrate at least one user in the quoted post-code regularly achieves the "up to speed" then this "up to speed" nonsense would cease.

What to do

Yes, of course the police should move away from ancient and unsupported XP, perhaps to the more secure win 10 where any data and all data can and will be sent direct to microsoft.

Good

Amazon next... please.

Usual bollox spouted by management, it was ever so....

Lack of people with the skills they seek? No.

Inadequate salaries offered to those they seek? Yes.

What!

"Microsoft was in the right place at the right time when command lines were superseded by GUIs,"

Really?

The GUIs were put together by Xerox before the hardware was cheap/powerful to support them.

Some years later Apple "appropriated" Xerox's ideas in the Lisa then and only then did Microsoft think they would have GUI too. Have you never heard of the court case, Apple sued Microsoft for copying their idea - they lost but for reasons other than it being an original idea by Microsoft.

Challenge.

Has Microsoft ever devised anything truly original?

By original I mean something Microsoft didn't buy in from an outside innovator. Neither do I mean something they developed after a smaller innovator got it first only for Microsoft to bludgeon them into insignificance.

It's their own fault

Surely the publishers have only themselves to blame.

In the case of the paper press the ads are embedded in the page, you see the page, you see the ads, it is one.

Now, for whatever reasons, publishers have chosen to implement online ads such in a way they can be easily removed. It is a analogous to those "inserts" the paper press put in their publications; the ones I drop into the nearest bin, the ones I don't hear them whining about me or anyone else discarding.

So, why do publishers expect the consumer to behave any differently just because the content is online?

If in doubt go to the act-

Communications Act 2003

Part 4 Licensing of TV reception

363Licence required for use of TV receiver

(1)A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence under this Part.

(2)A person who installs or uses a television receiver in contravention of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

(3)A person with a television receiver in his possession or under his control who—

(a)intends to install or use it in contravention of subsection (1), or

(b)knows, or has reasonable grounds for believing, that another person intends to install or use it in contravention of that subsection, is guilty of an offence.

In other words the crime is USING the tv to receive signals, not owning the tv.

hosts

Ad-blockers illegal?

I guess the ad-clowns would say editing your own hosts file to block their crap was illegal too.