Posts by Dazed and Confused

Re: Only if they happened to be for sale.

Aren't they listed on the stock market?

That means they are permanently up for sale to anyone with the readies.

Re: Testing is too expensive !!!

Shouldn't that be "Management is too expensive !!!"

Re: Oversold it, major fail!

But the Mrs is a Red Dwarf fan too, I know she must be she bought me all the boxed sets and she never buys my videos that she isn't keener to see than me. She even introduced the kids to Red Dwarf.

As for post beer munchies, back in the pre-married days the favourite was the good old cheese toasty. The question is how much cheese can you actually get to cook under the grill? How many times do you need to cook a layer before removing it from the grill, adding the next layer of cheese and toasting the next layer? How much thicker can you make the cheese layer than the bread? And I like doorsteps when it comes to bread.

Of course you can't transport good cheese is the ex-Sellafield transporters, it eats it's way out before it gets to Drigg.

> So tell me Dave,

I think this is a question of ignorance on their part. They don't understand that it is not possible to have a secure conversation with your bank while not being able to have a secure conversation with other people. They don't understand that having a back door that GCHQ can open means that every other government around the world and half the criminal gangs too can also open at will.

The whole political class just doesn't seem to have the faintest clue about how technology works and they seem to be determined to listen to "advisers" who will tell them what they want to hear. This week it might be Dave, in a few weeks it might be Ed or Nigel or Nick, they all seem to act in the same way once they get a whiff of power.

Re: "Live HD Video"

> Too many engineers fail to consider latency.

It's all bandwidth bandwidth bandwidth and so often its latency that counts.

No putting the proxy server for the Sydney office in London is not a good idea, really it isn't. No I know you think you've got a fast Internet connection, but...

Re: What about the workers

Believe me, I chose those words very carefully. I wasn't trying to be tactful there. If you think of people as human resourses and you can see that an alternative cheaper resource can be used instead, then the business decision has to be to take out the costs. This has been being done for years, firstly it was people who used to do calculations by hand. Later we saw many people on assembly lines being replaced by automated equipment and if that didn't work, well there are cheaper people in another countries. But many tradishional "white collar" jobs have thought themselves safe. What Mark Carney was warning about was that those types of jobs will be in the firing line next and he finds the thought too close to home for comfort. Others have been in the firing line for years.

Re: @Stuart

I'll wager if we can change the range to 15 years instead of 20.

I'll bet you one pint of beer that the temperature over the next 15 years will be the within the margin of error the same as it was over the last 15 years.

15 years ago I'd have bet you that the temperature would have continued to rise. I would have been proved wrong and we could be happily sitting somewhere enjoying a jar together.

Both bets would have been made on the basis that this is the prevailing trend, and is therefore most likely to continue.

They'll get sued

> One day CEOs of geek companies will say "why the hell are we giving all our money to lawyers. Lets stop suing each other and we can make some actual money"

The lawyers will then sue them for acting like a cartel and cutting the lawyers out of their gravy train.

Re: "...police, who are working a theory that a gang might be involved..."

> Even the Register still think he was a she.

Women have been playing these style games for aeons too, don't make the mistake of thinking all criminals are men.

Re: Easy fix

> It was working properly in Linux, and then ...

Done of my Linux boxes had any problems and all the ones that would have been running would have been on pretty vanilla releases, mostly CentOS.

Re: Oh FFS!

How many people out there are sad gits like me running blocks of routed IPv4 at home (I've had a /64 IPv6 for at least 10 years too A&A have long supported IPv6). Most ISP only provide a single IP address, then you run NAT after that. So why should it matter if the ISP provides you with an IPv6 address for the router. Inside you could still run IPv4 for your old kit, everyone will continue to need to be able to talk to IPv4 addresses in the big outside world.

Just issue the edict and be done with it.

Re: ROFLMAO

In the comments to last weeks article on this Dan55 posted a nice piece on how this law is supposed to work. Publishers can't opt out, because opting out would mean that a Spanish QANGO called CEDRO wouldn't make any money.

Re: Uber is a Bubble

> Seriously, with more and more cities directly outlawing Uber, I fully expect a huge lawsuit against them from Uber.

I think you might be looking at this the wrong way around. With that sort of market cap. I think we can see a huge number of lawsuits against Uber. Up until now the lawyers weren't really interested since there was no money, so no point in trying to sue them. The action has only been trying to ban them, but the existing taxi firms couldn't afford a big fight.Now someone has mentioned the all important magic word Billllliiiiioooooooooonnnnnsssssss so the no win no fee get rich quick bottom feeders of the legal world will now be very keen to make sure that any Billllliiiiioooooooooonnnnnsssssss that do exist only exist in the back pocket of the lawyers. So where the cities deem Uber to be competing illegally with existing taxi services, the existing taxi services will now be looking for compensation for lost earning.

Re: Elf and safety

Perhaps they should have a simulator based test first.

One advantage of a simulator test is that it would be easier to control, give everyone the same test and not give you testers who say things like "turn left there" just as you go past the road.

The disadvantage of a simulator based test would that it wouldn't be anything like actually driving a car.

Re: cranking in the wrong direction.

Nah, stop being a wimp and use the grown up version, what you really need is the Rolls-Royce Griffon. Sod the mere 27L, the Griffon is a full 37L and due to its history being linked with the Fleet Air Arm it rotates in the other direction (I guess the Navy liked to turn the other way).

The difference in rotation direction was a major shock to many pilots when transitioning from the small block Merlins to the grown up Griffons.

Re: Xerox, anyone?

Yes please, I've often bought both the Kindle and hardcopy version of a book. The Kindle is convenient in many ways, but I like books.

Re: A Brussels fonctionnaire writes:

> Gosh, you mean these interweb thingies spread outside Europe? Who knew??

Can't be a real Brusselsite then, they don't accept there is anywhere outside of Europe.

Re: Stop using landlines.

Firstly my wife's mobile get loads of these shit calls, fortunately mines currently get few, but for how long?

Secondly living without a landline rather depends on where you live and other factors in your environment. Vodafone's signal round here is crap these days whereas it used to be quite good, a little way down the road the is a hole where no-ones mobile signal works. My office at home seemingly has magic glass that cuts off the signal on all the networks. I can damn near see an O2 mast, open the door - 5bars, shut the door 1 on a good day.

As for relying on VoIP, not sure how that solves any of the problems since you still have a phone number the bastards can hook onto. But even with a pair of bonded ADSL lines the reliability is no where near good enough if you NEED to be in contact with the world. I have the landlines connected up as a backup for the VoIP phones.

Besides with no landlines there would be no Internet connection. 3G or 4G doesn't cut it I'm afraid, have that as a backup with a proper external antenna attached to the router but latency times are much longer than the ADSL and while peak bandwidth might be OK, it rather depends on who else is working locally. No "cable" here since the stupid cable companies tried to get the builders to pay them to fit the wiring, when at the same time they were digging up half the country and laying string down the holes for free, so no other way of getting online.

And I'm lucky, try living outside of towns/cities and people are in a much worse situation.

Re: Wait, Alan Turing was a Victorian now?

His early life was largely based on what was expected of the child of a Victorian/Raj official.

Re: 4K televisions are themselves a ridiculous concept

I suggest you go and look at one

They might be stupid money now, but it wasn't that long ago that the same could be said for flat screen normal res tellys, then HD. Soon they'll be cheap. I've already seen them sub £800.