Posts by Will Godfrey

What a lovely day

First BOFH and now this. What more could I ask for?

Hmmm.

How about monster May having an accident with an orange ladder, and the private hospital she's taken to having a data breach, revealing it was in breach of GDPR

So True

All of it. The HSE wonks really are that crazy... but then you all knew that anyway.

Time for (another) beer.

Missed opportunity

About 30 years ago I was given an offer that would have involved moving to Germany.

Why, oh why, did I turn it down?

Hmmm

Very poor vid this time, and none at all of the satelites themselves. We've had much better ones. Makes me wonder if there was something else going on.

And another thing

With FM radio you get the advance warning of increasing background noise before the signal actually fails, so if you're moving and really want to hear something (breaking news?) you'll usually just lose the odd word or two, and there's no catch-up/re-initialise issue. DAB just throws the toys out of the pram.

Hi Snoops

Sites like El Reg are as close as I get to social media, and I only carry a battery-sipping dumb phone. The American surveillance wonks are so paranoid that they'd probably conclude I was a Drugs/Porn/Terror overlord. Good job I've no desire to go there.

Oh... Somebody at the door.

Creative Commons

That's my remedy. I haven't bought any copyrighted music for years. I pick up far better and more original music from all over the world, and when I've got some spare dosh I push it to those with donation links.

Hands up all who didn't expect this

What, no hands?

The changes that will actually be made

{crickets}

Mud on a wall

So just try anything at random. Is that the message?

Yes some might stick, but you'll have no real idea why.

No Surprise

They have no respect for anyone in their own country, let alone a 'foreign' government.

You're over-thinking this

It is just one click

... except they don't tell you which one

... or where

OK-ish

But I'm concerned about the proliferation of laws that don't require any intent.

Business Model

Red Hat have definitely taken a lurch to the dark side in recent years. It seems to be the way businesses go.

They start off providing a service to customers.

As they grow the customers become users.

Once they reach a certain point the users become consumers, and at this point it is the 'consumers' that provide a service for the business.

SystemD is just a symptom of this regression.

Selection Bias

Clearly they have no idea at all how to run a survey. Either that, or they tailored it to give the result they wanted. They sort of mashed quite disparate ideas in to give one overall impression, ignoring the fact that half of this required the use of software that some people either couldn't or objected to downloading.

Spooky

On April 1, I posted a spoof article on several forums based on the idea of memory aging and slowing down, and attempts to monitor it, and possibly 'refresh' it.

Totally Lost

As the farmer said when being asked directions.

"If I be goin' there, I be-n't start from here."

Don't Want

Next thing they'll be trying to deprecate phones that can handle voice.

Insanity

I'm tempted to ask if they are trying to profile the entire country.

... but I'm not sure I want to know the answer!

Too Late

After all this time I doubt there is anything left to shred show.

Te plan is...

There is no plan.

My Dad was right

I well remember him complaining loud and long about excessive complexity for very little real benefit. Oh would he be crowing now! It seems to apply to everything in modern life - not just IT. We are drowning in stuff that is just two arcane for anyone to get a grip on.

Idiots

The NHS is on critical life support.

Food banks and homeless shelters are swamped with demand.

Hardly a road in the country is free of potholes.

Yet this totally insane government thinks it can afford to start up it's own satnav system.

The value of IoT

square root of -1

Worried

The thing that concerns me is that it is getting progressively harder to buy any goods that aren't stuffed with this crap. I don't want it, and never will, but what do I do when I want a new car and all of them are splurting reams of data (that I can't block) to anything that's listening?

You can't even block GPS tracking - it's all part of the entertainment/ car controls interface.

Very helpful NSA

Now you've told us which professionals have some integrity - the ones you are trying to discredit.

Great Stuff

Excellent article. Very informative. Told me a lot I didn't know anything about.

They simply don't get it (or IT)

See title!

Odd, very odd

I'm wondering who all these people are who've suddenly taken an interest in streaming. Nobody I know does, and I personally have hours of exactly the music I like instantly available without any external connection.

Still, if the 'industry' is happy, maybe they'll leave the rest of us alone.

Is there a pattern here?

British company get's bought from abroad, then screws up.

Not had one of these for years

I feel quite cheated. Everyone else gets all the fun.

A Special Manager

Someone who can effectively manage the department's funding to ensure the bulk of it enters the correct pockets. Ability to negotiate a budget increase would be highly desirable.

No other requirements.