Re: Balaclava anyone?
" Wonder what ads they will play for me standing there with a bike helmet on..."
Oh, any old Top Gear related tat, I reckon.
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Ads on Facebook?
Not seen any.
Well, not true - there are posts about sunglasses and trainers and training and stuff.
Oh, and this morning a request from a nice lady in Switzerland asking me to be her friend and (though I didn't translate the French) something about money and a percentage for looking after it.
Oddly enough, it appeared that several gentlemen of a certain age had befriended the lady, sad - so sad.
That particle is known as Pantomimo, it was discovered after further research in to Heisenbergs stuff, it is the one particle where the position is fixed but can never be seen unless you are some distance away from it. The usual detectors are small and sticky but very loud when they detect a Pantimimo though the experimenter will never, ever see it.
It's all quantum these days, innit?
Well, it doesn't sound much different from daytime TV.
Stuffed with ads to get you to spunk your money away and ads to borrow more money to replace that you've just lost.
Plus ads that don't tell you that the claim you made will be tiny compared to the costs they 'recover' for themselves.
"You seem to be forgetting that NOONE that has any sort of technical nous would be caught dead working on a Helldesk."
Not any more anyway -- I did helldesk for BT broadband until it all went from logic-based to screen prompt based and then to a far distant part of the old Empire.
We were told not to look and analise test returns but use the overall pass/fail message.
We could tell where a fault was on a cable, what type of fault, if there was a fault, the best way to fix it, etc.
Even to the point of clearly seeing it was not an exchange or customer issue but a line fault - but, rather that send an engineer out (costs money) best to send the job round the houses by following screen prompts.
They could never admit that the whole system was built around showing process had been followed (no matter if it was bollocks) rather than actually customer focused.
Eventually I took the money rather than follow the 'stress' route and go postal at work.
You don't really need to go that far.
Assume that HM.Gov(e) has got everyone (ish) on line.
How many people are there who have everything set to log in on start-up? 'Oh, it's so much easier, I can't remember all (or the single one) my passwords.
Unscrupulous agency carer (or builder or anyone else like a family member) finds a spare 30 seconds to send an email.
'I urge all reg readers to do the honourable thing and destroy any Facebook profile you have.'
" though the information they see on your profile will depend on how much you have shared."
Don't panic Mr Mainwaring, I am amused at the 'you haven't filled in this bit of your profile' prompts on screen.
A single click and it's gone.
My profile is almost empty -- it has a name and a free email account I set up to register with FB - I might populate it with complete rubbish sometime.
I had a call today from a friend who is a bit of a technophobe.
At home he has two machines, each running XP and IE6, IE6 that will not update as XP is the O/S.
("but I've always used Internet Explorer!")
I've already set up FFox and Chrome with bookmarks and tabs that point to Hotmail but he insists on calling IE his 'search engine' which today wasn't playing ball.
Monday I will go round and hammer a sign to his screen saying 'FFS NOT IE!' and hide the bloody thing.
"Like all men (I assume), Facebook feeds me near-constant "Meet nubile young women with loose morals in your area!" ads."
Nah, mine's locked down tighter than a camel's bum in a sand storm.
And at my age I really don''t need any nubile women to remind me what my age is.
Maybe I ought to put more total bollocks in my profile, I can't think of anything there that is real.