Posts by Will Godfrey

A hard choice

Should we expect a review of the quality of this research, or just accept it on the basis of reputation.

It's a disease

A virulent one that unfortunately seems to be spreading across the world.

Form over function?

This is what happens when a company run by the {cough} elite {cough} focuses on image instead of products.

Two words

"Google", "managed". Either of those would be enough to put me off. Combined leaves me running for the hills.

Thanks for this

I stand in awe at the far-sightedness of the people who designed, built and continue to track these craft.

They are in dramatic contrast to the so-called leaders we have.

Excuse me sir,

There is a lady on the phone who would like to talk to you. Her name? Barbra.

Not much doubt

It was pretty clear to me that google had become an aggressive nightmare organisation. This just puts the tin hat on.

Oh dear

Well I suppose it's nice that we have a choice as to which engine pulls the train as it comes off the rails.

Hmmm

Were they Tesla's contractors or Walmarts?

I've been on jobs where the customer has insisted on supplying their own fitters, then tried to screw over our people when the inevitable disaster happened. On one occasion where I had a personal interest (as I designed the kit), I kept a very detailed diary of events. It ran for two years! When it came to legal threats, I mentioned it to our solicitor. She took one look at it and quite literally danced round the room.

Only 6?

Maybe they're saving some for later.

Makes me wonder why they don't scrap the lot and start again, without TLA 'help' this time.

Joke icon, 'cos they really are one.

It does what I want

I'll replace when it doesn't. I don't buy anything as a fashion statement - in fact, I never did. That's it. End of story.

A latecomer to version control

The project I work on was already on git (some 6 years ago) so I never really got to see any alternatives. There's an element of not missing what I don't know of course, but in the main git seems to be OK, However, I have fallen foul of messed up merges, and 6 months ago ended up having to do a complete tear down and rebuild (three merges from different contributors).

Prolly using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but now if something looks like being at all contentious I make a backup of the complete repository, and the plan is that if it goes Total Inability To Supply Uncorrupted Project I just drag the backup over the mess.

P.S. not actually had to do that... yet!

Witchhunt time?

They'll have to find the {cough} single rogue engineer {cough} and do nasty things to him/her, then they can all forget it.

Back to the bad old days?

With world+dog sniffing round chrome, are we heading for monoculture browser again - but this time with much more access into the underlying OS.

I feel cheated

When I was a kid there was no such thing as 'social media', and I didn't have any imaginary friends either. I missed out big-time.

Bittersweet

Not a bad age, for anyone, but a truly horrible way to go - to slowly lose physical control while still being fully alert.

R.I.P indeed.

Vultures are so cruel

{snigger}

My second choice

My fave. is Openbox with RoxFiler, but I can't remember the last time either of those was updated. I'm dreading the day either of them breaks!

This has to be a scam

At multiple levels. There is no benefit at all to voting integrity, and no shortage of costs (of every type).

Obligatory...

https://xkcd.com/927/

Crazy

All these reported situations are so mind numbingly ridiculous that...

They must be completely true!

But... But...

These weren't ordinary drones. They were 'everyone knows' drones, so nobody actually needed to see them to know they were there.

I guess they're off the Christmas list now

The worrying thing is that all these exposures (apart from making the expose-ees unpopular) don't seem to do anything. They don't make the slightest dent in the shitsorm of unsecured data.

A new idea?

Although the content of the article seems good, I seem to remember the Boy Scouts had the motto "Be Prepared". This seems to be padding on the same concept.

Oh and if my holiday included a one-off event my answer would be a flat 'No'. It would also be a 'No' if they weren't prepared to give a written offer to fully reimburse my costs, and arrange (at their expense) a similar holiday within a reasonable time frame.

P.S.

But then that's prolly why cheapskates firm only employs kids they can lean on.

I would say I was surprised

... but I prefer to tell the truth.

Unfortunately I'm the only one in my entire extended family not caught in the Microsoft headlights. You know they are lost when they refer to this as the official office software.

Secure?

Will these be the same smart{spit}phones that only the gubbermint will be able to 'supervise'?

Doing a deal with the Devil?

Remember kids, the Devil can re-write the contract at any time without warning.

Equality

I suppose I'd better learn how to do makeup. Never even thought of it up till now - us older guys don't tend to.

Hmmm

Yet another Boris promise. Anyone else notice he seems to be making a lot of these (expensive) promises - one might be led to think he doesn't expect to be in the position to have to put them into practice.

Take away their spade

It seems they only way to stop them digging the hole they're in ever deeper.