Posts by Lionel Baden 1622 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2008
Got unfreinded pretty damn quick !
apart from this one. This one i did repost
Please put this on your status if you know or are related to someone killed on Alderaan when it was obliterated by the Death Star. My wish is that people will understand that the Empire is a band of murdering scum. The Rebel Alliance wants only to bring peace to the galaxy, but the evil empire continues to kill innocent civilians.
93% won't copy/paste this.
Good thing I'm not a secretary, I will side with you on that battle. I do actually try to spell correctly, it just isn't in my skill set im afraid.
I had / Have no quibble with their English or grammar, only that they have been known to believe that a headline that they cant make italic is an IT issue.
I shall edit this as it has been re-iterated many time above me.
So instead, I personally drive a 2cv, love the basic driving style, I don't really want to loose the ability to use my car as a daily driver, but alas it will happen. Probably not in my lifetime though, you don't all really expect the government to get this sorted do you !!!!
Much simpler fix,
When a patent is granted the company has to produce and sell products that utilise the patent, after a 2 year period after manufacturing has stopped, they loose rights to the patent, and it becomes free for all to use.
@john Robson.
It will be an event which will be analysed thoroughly and the lesson(s) learnt will be taken on board by all other vehicles on the road, and *never* repeated.
You put way to much trust in corporations, how many times have they been caught covering up defects as it was cheaper to pay the odd legal battle.
El-Reg was the reason I got ABP, I dont mind adverts, just keep them responsible. It was when they started filling the entire background and you couldnt click on the sides to scroll down, that was when I got irritated enough to do something.
Considering It's El-Reg they should think about offering a Ad-free version.
I would say that the selection criteria is completely different.
You pick men who are already all in the field, so you end up with average Joe Bloggs,
Advertise select position for 1 or two female staff ... Get the elite.
Either way, who cares how many are in the profession, so long as its open as a choice to all.
Cars that drive themselves ?
Terrorists wet dream I would of thought, how many cars on the road at any one time? OK lets just put every single one on full acceleration. Job done country is absolutely completely crippled.
closer to this story, how good is the security at radio stations? take over station quietly, please play this track from blah blah.
"In sum, a person who knowingly operates a device that is capable of inadvertently exposing his conversations to third-party listeners, and fails to take simple precautions to prevent such exposure, does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to statements that are exposed to an outsider by the inadvertent operation of that device."
In reality, I don't think he knowingly operated the device !!!
1980_coder, That is a bit unfair, replacing a stereo and laying down a cable with camera on the end isn't exactly more complex than Ikea furniture. You could safely assume 98% of the population could figure it out.
most tech luddites I know, are not stupid or incompetent, they are Lazy and would rather somebody else did it for them.
@ X7
"First, I have to ask why are you not booting and installing over the network for 1000+ PCs"
1) large number of sites - the upgrades were being carried out at the user locations
2) decentralised network - not all the sites had access to the same part of the local NHS COIN, we would have had problems finding a server available to all sites with enough bandwidth
3) because the guys who planned the rollout had limited degrees of freedom of thought and simply "wanted it done that way"........because they considered it more secure. Yes, really, Don't look at me like that......not my decision
In reality you're right - because it was a COIN network we should have been able to find a way, but weren't allowed to. But we've had other cases where it simply isn't possible - e.g. thousands of machines covering all the GP surgeries in an entire county, all on local domains, maybe a couple of hundred. Not something that can be done from a central server -the N3 network isn't fast enough
TL/DR
"I work for the NHS"
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