Posts by MooseMonkey 65 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2011
These comments are unfortunate, our Armed Services were the last branch of the government that didn’t seem to be run by utter twunts who were just in it for themselves. At one point this year, when the vaccine distribution needed to be done, I was all in favour for the army just taking over for a couple of years.
From what I remember, it was the votes from the countryside that pushed Brexit over the line, now all I can hear is farmers moaning, both that they can't get labour and that they have to fill in a million forms to export food. All predicatable, all expected, and I suppose that many "Jonny foreigners" have headed home, so at least the racist element of those who voted for Brexit are happy.
I feel that some beancounters may have been involved.
25 years ago, I used to work in large electricity substations, the large indoor ones were all protected by CO2 systems, all mechanical and a right pain in the arse to disengage when you were working in them.
Some beancounter worked out that the CO2 systems cost so much, it would be financially beneficial to take them all out, and if a substation burned it burned.
That bean counter didn't seem to give a shit that it would take over six weeks to rebuild such a big substation, and many electricity customers would be powered off for three or so weeks whilst alternatives were put in place.
Considering that Garmin users have been subjected to years and years of bad releases to their devices, literally re-imposing bugs fixed two or three releases ago, I'm not surprised that their servers were a little bit open to the bad people. Garmin seem to think that they are a hardware company, and do not understand software as well as they should. I back up all of my garmin activities elsewhere, but it will still be a pain in the ass if all my history is gone from their site.
My take from this article, politicians aroud the world act like little children. "Hoots of laughter", stupid tweets about the missing zeros. They all seem to be from a breed so far detached from the real world, its no wonder that everyone thinks that they are arrogant idiots. In the business world someone would have mentioned it, had a little laugh "with" the person who made the error and moved on. Childish aresoles all of them, for some reason I would have hoped for better from the Austrians.
I think some of the middle aged iPhones may have been too well made, my iphone 6 looks like new, and is just about to have it's sixth birthday. It almost does all that I want, and absolutely does all that I need. That said, it's on it's way to the great iPhone recycling centre in the sky, as through some drastic overstocking of the iPhone 8, I have secured a deal that would make Apple cry this week. I wouldn't have changed, but the water resistant nature of the iPhone 8 is useful for me when I'm out paddleboarding.
I think that yet again Volvo get it... Their new systems in development have cameras etc INSIDE the car to check what the driver is doing. If it looks like the driver is distracted, or nodding off, or drunk, or ill, or just driving like a knob, the car takes over and parks in a safe place. Distracted includes looking at phone, sat nav, pretty lady on the pavement etc.
The only things that melted down more quickly than the O2 network were the O2 customers! I saw no end of "my phone is critical to my business" whinging going on, demands for huge compensation and stories of life changing events.
To that I say, my £100 smartphone has two SIM cards in it, one O2, one EE.
I thank you, good night.
I'm a long sufferer of illness, but also try to exercise as much as I can. My Garmin smartwatch reads an approximation of my heart rate all day. I can tell two things from my stats..
1) The day before my recurring illness flares up, resting HR increases, which notifies me to ease off abit
2) Recovery heart rate decreases before a flare up too, so if I'm exercising, I know to knock it on the head.
It also tells time, which is slightly useful too.
You lot must have much better lives than me. I have a few echo devices in my home, and I can't think of one thing that has occurred there in the last 12 months that was slightly interesting.
I did have the hallway painted, so there was some paint drying at some point, lets call that the highlight.
Without scorning the Greek people, but aimed at successive Greek governments... You shouldn't pay off someone's debts until they have learned the way not to just rack up another one. It's like those damn consolidation loans, you learn nothing, but then "get off the hook", except this time you've used your house as security on previously un-secured loans!!!
Also slightly apple related... I think they may a mistake with the iPad, they don't self destruct after 23.9 months like the iPhone does... I've lost count of the number of iPad2 and iPad3 my friends use, they just keep going and going. That's why sales are dropping in my mind.
When I buy a tree book, I read it, if its good maybe twice, then give it away to my neighbours or a charity.
That's why I don't care if Amazon crash or take away titles i've bought, the risk is generally the book I'm reading. Add to that I'm cheap, and mainly read the thousands of free books, the risk is even lower.
Music is different, that's why I buy and back up.
Not everyone who doesn't think the same way as you is an idiot.
Some "high up" in UK Customs told me they try to be friendly and polite at UK border points, because it helps them catch bad people.
If your "entry guards" are known to be angry, arrogant, power hungry idiots, even the innocent are nervous, sweaty and showing signs of fear. If you are friendly and polite, the person in front of you who's a bit sweaty is the one you want to talk to.
They had several knowledge exchanges with US Customs, and pointed out this simple fact, but they don't get it do they.
I had the misfortune of three hours in the airport in New York, my crime was only having a small rucksac for luggage, so they assumed I was going to not go home again, or had something nasty in my small rucksac. They scanned that rucksac so many times it still glows in the dark. They didn't understand a two day trip to New Yorks doesn't need a huge suitcase.
Yes, when I moved into my house, the previous owner was on cable, I tried to connect onto it a few years later, they have removed the cable somewhere between the repeater cabinet and my house! FFS, it's like Yorkshire Water digging up the water main when I turn off the tap.
As you'll need to keep your eyes on the till, to make sure they aren't signing you up to a support contract for what you are buying, without telling you!!
Did it to me a few years ago, told me it was a warranty. I should have read it, but as it had taken them 45 mins to get the bloody laptop through the till in the first place, I'd lost the will to live. They lost about £2000 a year of custom for that one...
I know it's more difficult in Spain, because my experience is that the UK has much better supermarkets, but buying a loaf of bread for a euro when you are on a restricted budget, madness.
ASDA will sell you 1.5kg of bread flour for 80p, you can make a sour dough starter and have three loaves for the price of one shop bought one. You just need to add a pinch or two of salt, some water and find somewhere to bake it. Again, in Spain, you should be able to build a clay oven and use spare wood lying around :)
I'm not going to mention names, I don' t want them to come and get me. I worked for a large utility that had gone to the effort of having two centres, six miles apart, away from known aircraft routes, fault lines, rivers, volcanos, lay lines and crop circles. They then built their billing machines over in the sites, 100% redundancy of everything, right down to power from different grid supply points (we're talking 400,000V network tracing). As a utility, they billed millions a day at sod all margin, so they needed the cash flow to pay suppliers quickly, we used to talk about 10 days without billing means even the banks would stop lending money.
I was a grad given a project to check the business continuity, what was expected to be another pointless exercise they ran every year to keep the useless grads busy for a month. They were in for a shock, a factory that was halfway between our sites and used to process nothing in particular had changed hands, so I wrote to them asking what they did for business contiuity and if we could learn anything, seemed like something to do in my month to write this report.
The start of paragraph two said it all "As a processor of chemicals who have a statutory 10 mile exclusion zone should there be a confirmed leak......"
Absolutley right. I have and electrical engineering degree, was trained by an electricity company to be a distribution engineer (able to work on 240v to 132,000v) and I still have to pay some half assed monkey to check my work.
That wouldn't be so bad, but when I moved into this house, 19 of the 23 light switches weren't wired correctly, and half of the lights in the place ran from a plug fed from the downstairs sockets ringmain. I know the person who lived here before, he doesn't even own a screwdriver and a hammer, so it wasn't him who did it, it was the original builders electrician and the "qualified idiots" that were hired afterwards.
When Part P was proposed, I looked up in the HSE website how many fatalities had been caused by DIY electrical work in the last 5 years, it was something like 3, more people died in Bagel related accidents than that.
Just paper for papers sake..
I'm not overly worried about hackers going after my stored personal files, they aren't of any use to the average person. I'm more worried that in the good old US of A, any local sheriff seems to be able to get a court order (or whatever they call them over there) and get all your data on a whim.
My files are hosted in Germany, at least the courts make the security forces turn up before they hand all my files over. The best security of course is the fact my documents are crap, and anyone reading them will implode with boredom.
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