Posts by FuzzyWuzzys

Boring....

Face it, Facebook is stagnant as it is. You've managed to get 1/4 of humanity to enter a lifetime's shite into your poxy online database of guff, where else is there to go? People are happy to see Auntie Ethel's new dog, their mates out on the razz or your workmate's new car and that's all they want (anti)social media for.

Install all the whizz bangs you like FB and your ilk, it won't make people sit up and listen any more.

Listen up Zuck...

THE SOCIAL MEDIA NOVELTY HAS WORN OFF. WE'RE BORED WITH IT NOW.

The first time you "hooked" up with youR brother in Oz it was neat, he shared piccies of the kids and the dog and it was novel. Now FB and Twitter are just like a toaster, useful but you could probably manage without it. The toaster simply toasts bread, that's all the toaster will ever do, "I toast, therefore I am." as Talkie Toaster said to Lister, the humble toaster can have all the AI and flashy lights but all it will ever be is a hot box that burns bread products. All social media is from now on is a just a medium to send naff messages and post naff pics, it will never, ever be interesting or exciting ever again.

Additive time hog

The whole system is like those devices to test the intelligence of rats and birds, they do a simple task and get a little reward. Humans on Facebook, post a little article, get a few clicks. The more clicks you get, the more shit you post the more likes you get the more endorphins.

I use FB as I keep in contact with a lot of fellow photographers but I tend to feel way better sometimes just completely keeping away from it for a few weeks as it's a time hog and it feeds an addiction to be "liked". Treat it like the drug Ectasy, once in a rare occasion is OK and you feel great, but don't over do it else you'll get addicted and feel like crap all the time!

Only one MAC worth bothering with and that's TONY's!

Anyone else trip over that title?

I thought for a second that Ubuntu had gone all X-rated waving it's 17" about!

Amazon Prime

I'm an Amazon Primer user so I tell you what "Media Industry", you ask Amazon to bump up Amazon Prime to say £125-£150/year but let us stream any content, BBC, movies, shows, indie productions, whatever we wish all direct from Amazon to our TVs in HD format and I'll gladly pay that extra £50-£75 without any grumbles. I have the cash waiting, just bump up the Direct Debit and you'll get no quibbles from me.

Look, I don't want to have to buy 5 different subs to multiple streaming sites to get the content. I don't own nor do I wish to own a Virgin or Sky TV box, I just want to pay one source for my media and enjoy it. I don't want to keep it, I don't want to have to have a spare room full of DVDs or continue to maintain my 3 15TB NAS boxes, I just want to be able to find media at the press of a button and watch it whenever I want.

So until that very unlikely pipe-dream happens, I refuse to give my money to any streaming service as none suit my needs. I will continue to buy obscure out of print DVDs off "Fleabay" and spend time lurking on malware infested torrent sites via Tor, to get my out-of-print media fix.

Want to make some money?

With all this "Report to be passed" I'd buy shares in all the major temping agencies and clean up as the US Gov has to hire more typists and admins to handle all this extra paperwork!!

" Jim Killock, chief executive of the Open Rights Group (ORG), told The Reg: "Public-interesting whistleblowing is vital to society. Without it no one could have known the secret scale of global surveillance." "

Of course they wouldn't, and not putting too finer a point on it, I think that's the point of this Espionage Act, to stop we sheeple from finding out how deep the government's "love" goes as they're bending us over the barrel!

BREXIT...

..and from Britiain's point of view we've said ta-ta to the nice people next door and decided to be mates with the hamster-headed loony tune down the road who stands in his fenced garden shouting about invisible people who're out to get him!

Bunch of bloody whingers...

"Developers, as they report about themselves, have a lot to complain about. They don't like poor quality code, bad codebases, or refactoring. They resent code complexity, code reviews, and difficult problems. They resent technical infrastructure that constrains them and poor documentation. They can't stand vague requirements, unrealistic requirements, or the chore of code maintenance."

Try working in Ops as a DBA or sysadmin and for the 93rd time that week that the database/server is slow, wasting another 15 mins fetching the metrics ( 'cos proper software has instrumentation so we know what it's bloody well doing and don't have to guess! ) to prove once again it's a poor code release that's choking the DB/server and thus by dint annoying the users. Then getting dragged out of bed at 2am 'cos some numpty developer put a delete statement in the batch job release by mistake and the QA team were having a "Friday afternoon" moment and lost the key lookup data, which it's now your problem to restore from the backups.

Yeah, yeah we get it devs are the only poor darlings who are put upon! ( Heavy dose of sarcasm and I need the pub! )

Are you sure that's MI6?

I seem to recall the activist/comedian Mark wotnot going up to the security at the front desk and asking them if it was MI6 and they refused to say anything to him other than, "I'm afraid I can't answer that question sir.".

Fair play to the lad, I wish him the best. However he's heading into a market that already has Raspberry Pi and a slew of cheap Adruino kit sets from China, some of which are dirt cheap on Amazon. I bought an Arduino set for £40 off Amazon the other day ( when they had the £10 off offer ) bucketloads of bits in the box that allow you build loads of projects, it's going to take a brave person to try to stave off that kind of cost effective kit.

Think of the children..

Think of the children, whom judging by what my 13 year old daughter tells me happens at school, the boys are pretty much watching hardcore on their phones on a daily basis and are now pretty much numbed to it's effects.

"I'm bored with pornography.

The acting lame, the action is tame.

Explicitly dull, arousal annulled."

- Steve Wilson

Wakey wakey!

"It is disturbing to think that one of the world's most profitable corporations would try to make even more money by deceiving parents and taking advantage of Mississippi school children,"

Not when it involves the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung...

Come on mate, wake up and smell the cost of stuff! When are people going to realise that "free online X", never is and never will be free. These companies are simply ad revenue factories and nothing more, they need to recoup costs and show a profit else their shareholders start kicking off.

"to identify and eject people living illegally in the United States"

Dutch entrepreneur Colonel Parker was a wanted for murder in his homeland but emigrated to the US and didn't do too badly from ripping off a little known truck driver by the name of Presley!

All well and good the management saying that counselling and such like is available but unless you've had to deal with material like that on a daily basis for months at a time, you have no concept of how it affects your state of mind. I can only imagine it's like being constantly hit in the head, you become numb to it but it doesn't stop the long term damage from building up over time. My understanding is that the Police and NSPCC workers have to have special training first, then constant assessment and counselling throughout the work they do, then they have downtime at the end of assignments to allow them to help cope with what they've dealt with. You cannot expose people to horrific images and expect them to just talk to a psychologist for an hour and everything's hunky-dory.