Posts by Will Godfrey

Odd that

Every time I see G4S, I think 'gas'

Daft

If you can see the drone I suspect it would be much simpler (and cheaper) to use a much bigger drone to snatch it by it's rotors and bring it back to base, where you can then examine it at leisure.

If you can't see the drone WTF do you think you're playing at!

Hmmm

I've no love for Goobook or Faceool but I find these gubbernint demands somewhat concerning.

Where does it end?

Who exactly are the extremists?

About time

This is just so overdue. I hear plenty of complaints directly from people who have been caught out by this.

Bingo!

You really hit a rich stream of frustration with this one. I so feel your pain...

and all the other commentards pain...

and it's getting me too, now I find I'm shouting at the 'pooter.

High Tech

My dear old mum solved the problem with drippy milk jugs and teapots in highly scientific manner. She put a rubber band round them just below the spout. Came up with that idea entirely by herself too.

Frankien-license

A perfect example of why developers shouldn't try to create their own.

The no-challenge clause would be no impediment to a patent troll, as they would have no intention of using the software. Also if, as implied, only one attempt was made to contact contributors (with assumed consent) I would expect them to be on shaky ground if anyone made a serious legal complaint.

Linked Out

I did a runner as soon as I read that Linked in was up for sale. The results were entirely predictable.

Interesting

I wonder why so many commentards came to exactly the same instant conclusion about those nice Microsoft people.

Funny that. So did I.

To paraphrase

Anyone who wants to be a police officer is psychologically unfit to be one.

On the other hand...

I had an outage the other day. Lost email for, oh, about 2 hours. Everything else was fine.

I sort of feel cheated now. Why can't I have proper outages like everyone else?

Pointless

I don't need any more reasons to avoid both like the plague.

Nice one

Enjoyed that and...

Oh look, it's beer O'clock

Oh dear

There is nothing more excruciating than officialdom trying to be 'one of the lads'.

Not Surprised

In fact, pretty much what I expected.

The original ones were too good

What's the point of a meter that will run reliably for decades without any maintenance. How can the makers profiteer offer a decent service like that?

Seriously bad news

Having witnessed the Internet's birth, it looks like I'll be attending it's wake in the not too distant future.

No excuse

As a very minor developer, I regularly test my code on three completely different systems. I'm getting a Raspberry Pi soon so I can also test on that.

How can anyone working towards something as important as the Linux kernel not do at least at much?

Daft!

So, let's see if I've got this right.

Don't bother sorting out the cause. Let's just try to mask the symptom.

Slap?

No. That's barely a tickle

I, for one,

welcome our new? stripey overlords.

The way it seems to me

As I understand hashes, the smaller the change being made, the harder it is to find a usable collision. So if you want to sneak in something unnoticeable (and that will compile) you're going to have to really work for it.

I've got a very effective little trap.

Runs off 4 AA batteries and electrocutes the buggers, then flashes an LED to advise there is an occupant. Had it for years.

Phew!

Only a month ago I went through the pain of changing to SHA 256. When your system is so old even the spiders won't grace it with their webs, it's difficult to remember how you set it up, and what you need to do to update it.

Why?

Just, why?

And now the bad news

You can get ladder logic emulators so you can run your favourite {haha} control programs on a conventional PC - with suitable I/O connected.

Great, the worst of both worlds for no benefit at all.

Still a streemap user.

It's is um... streets ahead of google for mixed walking and driving research.

Also, a few years ago I notified them of a change in a public footpath route. The appropriate tiles were updated within a week

Well that's a first

First time I've ever felt sympathy for a sales person. If only a fraction of what's claimed is true, then Oracle are even bigger bastards than I thought.

Bugritt

Apologies for my earlier comment about Australia. Our lot are much further down the road to insanity.

Looks interesting. Must have a play with this.

Scary

After reading this I was going to ask "Is the whole world going mad", but now I'm not sure I want to hear the answer. It's quite astonishing how far Australia has fallen in a comparatively short time span.

Priorities

The important thing is to remember you're supposed to play with them - rather like a cat with a mouse.

So the stories were in fact predictions

You know, all those 1950s SciFi ones where the USA is isolated from the rest of the world/universe.

No Surprise

Considering all the insane, evil executive orders Rump is firing off, this is just a comic side show - and to think monster May is talking about closer relationships. I'd be getting as far away as possible. Who wants to be on the train when the driver is going full speed for the land slide?

Even when everything else is proven

There's no accounting for a 3 phase supply for an entire factory complex hidden behind a thin partition where you are instructed to mount the main control panel.

I know of this by direct personal experience. We only got a clue as to the source of the problem when one of our engineers complained his laptop kept locking up when he was trying to fault-find there.