* Posts by David Nash

1434 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2008

Three-hour outage renders Nest-equipped smart homes very dumb

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Re: Unnecessary points of failure

You answered it yourself:

"never pay another penny"

With a cloud there is recurring revenue (I assume -- I haven't signed up myself for such foolishness) which is very much the holy grail from the vendor's point of view.

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Younger brother

What kind of magic does he think is possible?

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Re: "manually adjust thermostats"

Too right.

Why do they need to adjust thermostats? The whole point is you set it to a comfortable temperature, maybe with different such temperatures at different times/days, then forget it.

If the weather is warm it won't come on. If the weather is cold it will come on just enough to maintain that comfortable temperature.

If I go on holiday I press the holiday button for the number of days I am away. That's the only manual adjustment needed. No internet required.

Your software hates you and your devices think you're stupid

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Re: There's an island somewhere...

Mine does nearly done on one side and burnt on the other side.

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Re: There's an island somewhere...

Upvoted for using the terms Portrait and Landscape for slices of bread!

Isn't there a toaster somewhere that can burn an actual portrait into your toast?

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correcting the titles

And for some reason the first CD of a double album always uses a completely different naming convention to indicate which disc it is, from the second CD from the same album.

And some people put the artist's name in the track name, especially if it's a collaboration.

etc. etc.

UPnP joins the 'just turn it off on consumer devices, already' club

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Re: Knocking on my firewall door

"But what about the Stupid Users "

Help desk/paid-for advice, etc.

Same as for all kinds of things. You want two things to work together, you need someone who knows how to make that possible.

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Re: USB cables

"use a cable that has no data connections"

And that's another thing that "normal" users have never heard of.

I don't think I've ever seen one myself either.

Google shoots Chrome 66's silencer after developer backlash

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chrome://flags

What's wrong with a proper menu?

And did somebody say RTFM? Mine didn't come with a manual.

Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet

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Re: Blown or sucked....

There's no difference in this context!

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Re: Hero ?

Sorry but "Whom" most definitely is still a word.

You just have to know when to use it.

Agree with your other points though.

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Re: Topper

Some things are pretty obviously "not being serious"...no?

Engineer crashed mega-corp's electricity billing portal, was promoted

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He wasn't promoted for failure

He made a mistake on this occasion.

He was promoted.

Who said there was a causal relationship between these two events?

Should we expect that nobody with "senior" in their job title has ever made a mistake?

Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail

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Re: Overly bright vehicle lights

"Haven't we got rid of all the cyclists yet?"

yeah...and as for those downright reckless "pedestrians" daring to go out exposed...exposed I tell you!!!

Fixing a printer ended with a dozen fire engines in the car park

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Re: Burnt Toast, try Burnt Croissant

5 minutes? Had he never used a microwave before, either?

It's Galileo Groundhog Day! You can keep asking the same question, but it won't change the answer

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Re: The UK go it alone?

"a £20 billion project that takes 15 years and then is canned"

...just in time for the UK to rejoin the EU.

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Re: "[My] iPhone will be picking up Galileo and GPS at the same time - will that need an upgrade?"

I don't think that's particularly fair - outside of tech communities like this, most people haven't even heard of the Galileo system. And even those who have will usually have no reason to know how it and other systems work with phones, everyone uses the term GPS pretty much exclusively. So asking whether an upgrade is required to use it is not unreasonable.

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Re: Aerospace Valley

@Len

So you refuted your own point about which you would choose. Not very convenient, despite the weather etc.

Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed

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Re: Shouldn’t quality and professionalism be the issue?

The article says it's in the Manual for glibc.

Not in the code.

IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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use your phone as a USB stick ?

Er, I think "removable storage" would surely include a phone. If they are monitoring logs or whatever for USB storage then it will catch a phone just as well as a USB stick.

Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law

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Re: Fob off is a very polite way of describing it

And it was pretty obvious what the original post meant.

Equifax reveals full horror of that monstrous cyber-heist of its servers

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"I do believe that Equifax should a) send letter to everyone who's data was taken along with a check for say... $100."

They already did...the letters at least. I received one. They outlined my options, which don't amount to much really, so I haven't done anything.

I've got way too much cash, thinks Jeff Bezos. Hmmm, pay more tax? Pay staff more? Nah, let's just go into space

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@RobertLongshaft

Suggesting a multi-billionaire give some of his money to improve the problems of the world is "ultra left wing leaning"?

You must be dead inside.

Capitalism is how he got his money, the article didn't say Capitalism was bad. It's just questioning his behaviour.

Money is power, as they say, and they also say that with great power comes great responsibility.

Ps. "Clown Marxists"? That's something I'd pay to see!

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata

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Re: Obama

"Healtcare Insurance. A place where the Goverment, has had no right to get into."

Too true. Insurance should be left in the private sector, the government should just provide healthcare, not insurance.

"Great the NHS is working for you. But, thats not how its done over there, and for good reason too."

The reason being, what, those who can't afford decent healthcare don't deserve it?

US citizen sues France over France-dot-com brouhaha

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Re: Looks like a travel agent website...

"There are a lot worse squatters around."

Yes and as has already been pointed out, he wasn't squatting, he was using it legitimately.

Windrush immigration papers scandal is a big fat GDPR fail for UK.gov

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Re: Obviously an election is approaching

"Lots of anti Tory sentiment above, obviously due to the upcoming election and Labour supporters trying to influence votes."

It's actually just anti-whoever was responsible for the current debacle, which usually happens to be those in power, ie. in this case the Tories.

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Re: Dry Run

"All these poor EUers are going to be in the same situation as Americans, Australians, Chinese, Koreans,Mexicans, in fact "almost everyone""

Not at all.

EU citizens don't need a visa to be in the UK. Those other groups will have visas describing what they are allowed to do. EU citizens, many of whom have made the UK their home for decades, lived, worked, paid taxes, raised children here, could suddenly be made illegal if the Gov pulls a similar stunt. In fact in the case of EU-ers there are not even any landing cards to be destroyed, so it would be easier.

Facebook confesses: Buckle up, there's plenty more privacy lapses where that came from

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Re: Facebook still has info on us

"If you search for me on Google then nothing comes up and I want to keep it that way."

Not true, I searched Google for "Anonymous Coward" and it found 490000 results.

Double double, soil and trouble, fire burn and heat shield bubble: NASA cracks rover, has dirty talk with ESA

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Mushroom

"It's time to turn this entire BUMF over to the kinds of people who can leap into the future with technology and a spirit of enterprise and exploration."

Yeah just rush it out...what could possibly go wrong?

Javid's in, Rudd's out: UK Home Sec quits over immigration targets scandal

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Re: "In the world of technology policy, Rudd will be remembered"

In which case, all of the Remaniacs who would ordinarily be highly critical of the moronic Rudd will suddenly declare her a saint right on this one point.

Even morons aren't always wrong.

Europe fires back at ICANN's delusional plan to overhaul Whois for GDPR by next, er, year

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Re: Adams on Deadlines

Nearly.

5 seconds on Google found the actual quote:

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Google Pixel 2 XL: Like paying Apple-tier prices then saying, hey, please help yourself to my data

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Re: I stopped reading at

"Eating your cake and having it" makes much more sense but I have literally never ever heard or seen it used. The standard phrase is "having your cake and eating it" and we all know what it means.

Better than saying "could care less" though.

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Re: Still with the removable storage thing?

"Using a MicroSD card in a high-end smartphone would be like buying a Lamborghini that arbitrarily has to spend most of its time in first and second gear. It makes literally no sense."

You are making the assumption that it's MicroSD vs. Internal Storage.

No, it's MicroSD vs. online storage.

What was that about speed again?

Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

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Re: Are you sure they were servers?

Maybe it was a server by nature of the work it was doing, rather than the hardware. And it was a test server.

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"the easy approach was just tug on the cable at the point I knew it was my power cable and with another hand wait for a tug at each of the plugs in the outlet.”

“After five or six tugs the plug moved."

This means he tugged the cable to feel which one it was. It didn't disconnect at that point.

" I was like ‘bingo’, and promptly pulled the plug.”

This was when he disconnected the plug that moved slightly. turns out it was the wrong one.

What's so hard to understand?

BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network

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"The hell is a blackout?"

What happened to "What"?

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

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Re: Yo Dabbsy

Buses at a..er...road station?

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Re: Education is no longer designed to teach.

"She's being taught how to pass the Biology A level exam."

This is true and it applies to all subjects. The problem is the schools are measured on exam results and targets. So they avoid any negative language at all, set the kids low targets that they will mostly achieve, the kids think they are great because they got their target, they learn a bunch of stuff by rote without having any deeper understanding of what it means, so they can't generalise, school gets the number of A-C passes they want (well they've changed them to 1-9 or whatever) teachers get their bonus (only joking) and eveyone's happy.

Guess who's still most moaned about UK ISP... Rhymes with BorkBork

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PlusNet

On the infrequent occasions that I've had to call them, they've always been helpful and friendly.

Are they not mostly at the mercy of OpenReach anyway?

Car-crash television: 'Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?' 'Yes I do,' replies AMD's CEO

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Re: F1 is shit.

Thanks for your insight.

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Re: If he was a really good reporter

He didn't assume, he asked her.

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Idiot.

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Re: F1 is a Car Crash

They still have some live ones on CH4. Next year, not so good (ie. none, IIRC).

By the way I successfully avoided the result of the Chinese GP until Monday, so it's not impossible.

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Re: F1 is a Car Crash

"Races are rarely live and even then its just once"

What does that even mean?

Net neutrality advocates freak out as lobbyists pull rug from California's draft net neutrality law

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UK BASED

Well sometimes I might tend to agree but this is a story about US politics. So fair's fair, I reckon. And some of the "political US discussion" can be educational to those of us from elsewhere, although less so the name-calling.

Apple leak: If you leak from Apple, we'll have you arrested, says Apple

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Re: Another View

"breaking the law."

The law? or just the contract?

'I crashed AOL for 19 hours and messed up global email for a week'

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"INSTEAD OF his phone number."

Do people get phone numbers from random vans in the street anyway?

I would normally look it up, back in the day in a phone book, these days online of course.

Vans don't come into it.

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

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Re: We'll be using Ivp6 as name s next

I did see a proposal a few years ago that everyone uses a phone number as their unique user identifier, since they are pretty much universal and unique now.

My PC makes ‘negative energy waves’, said user, then demanded fix

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Re: Reminds me of a story I read about

The difference with the hiss is that it's real!

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Re: Switch to...

I don't think I could remain silent in that situation. Leave various pieces of info about how Bluetooth works lying around. etc.

Actually true double-blind testing has shown that there is no such thing as sensitivity to EM radiation in the ranges that these people mean it (ie. radio, not light).