Posts by Phil O'Sophical 7408 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2011
Have you any evidence at all that there's been even one such injury?
There's lots:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/paris-scooters-lime-electric-trottinettes-accidents-a8955561.html
"Isabelle Vanbrabant was walking home through a park one spring evening in Paris when an electric scooter crashed into her, breaking the pianist’s wrist in two places. Beronique Kilebasa was crossing a street with her seven-week-old baby strapped to her chest when a man riding a similar scooter collided into her, knocking them both to the ground. In another incident, a scooter sped through a red light and straight into an 81-year-old man, killing him."
Only real hope we had was a labour government tempered by an SNP and Liberal alliance.
That would be some new definition of "tempered", meaning "preventing it from doing anything"? Look back on the past year, and imagine 5 more years of that. It would make an Italian government look stable and constructive.
bunch of self motivated highly skled people were about to descend and show me up for the work shy rest-upon-my laurels slacker and bullies you really are
Personally I've seen many work-shy contractors that jump ship as soon as the job gets sticky, leaving a pile of deep shit behind, and I've also seen many permanent staff who work far beyond their expected roles to solve a customer problem. In a decent company both get the reward that they merit.
Contractors fill an important need for short-term skilled work that a company doesn't have (or need) the skills for in-house full-time. The reasoning behind IR35 is to stop companies hiring permanent staff, but disguising them as contractors to avoid their legal obligations to pay permanent-staff benefits. It has nothing to do with competence, indeed the "contractors" that are being targeted aren't contractors at all, they are permies in all but name.
In response to this drop, Hornsea One and Little Barford disconnected from the grid to protect their equipment.
Wasn't that sort of reaction also a cause of the big US east coat blackout years ago? Aren't managed grids supposed to shed load in such circumstances, not self-disconnect generating capacity (which will only make the situation worse)?
Back in the 80s I was doing some work with another company office. They guy I worked with offered to take me out for a pint, but as he pulled his coat on he carefully searched through all the pockets. I asked if he'd lost car keys, but he said he was just checking for a pager. Seems that the favourite game for the unlucky on-callee was to 'accidentally' drop the pager into some random coat pocket in the cloakroom as they left for the evening. If you forgot to check your pockets before leaving you could find yourself elected...
A good reason never to be the last to leave. See icon.
I had a VHS VCR (JVC I think) that was not Y2K-ish compliant, you couldn't set the internal clock past a certain date (not sure if it was 31/12/1999, or a later year, might have been 2004) and therefore couldn't set up timed recordings after that date.
Each January 1st I had to find another year in the 1990-2003 range with the same date/day-of-week mapping & set the clock to that. Worked fine well into the 2000's
Also had a genny, so those accessories had better not be too thirsty.
At least it was then easy to swap the whole car to -ve earth. Much harder with an alternator with diodes & other electronics, you couldn't just swap the residual magnetism by tapping a wire to the battery briefly.
Moved into a new house. Put hand under floorboards when trying to put in some network cable, came back with a bundle of open-ended live twin-and-earth that fed nothing
Sounds familiar. My parents moved into an older house that had once been fitted with overnight storage heaters, but now had a gas boiler. In the roof space I found a long length of 4mm T&E, bare-ended, coming out of the wall and just lying across the boards, connected to nothing. Seeing no point in leaving it like that I cut it with a pair of (fortunately) well-insulated pliers. Large bang, melted plier jaws.
Heading back downstairs to explain why the power had gone off, I realised that it hadn't, and no-one had noticed the 'event'. A check in the fuse box revealed many horrors. A nail in one, in another the correct fuse wire had been used - but looped 3-4 times across the contacts (presumably to make a nice solid connection!).
I spent the rest of the afternoon tracing and disconnecting the storage heater wiring, testng everything, and fixing the fuses.
France has both 2-pin and 3-pin plugs/sockets. The pins on the 16A 3-pin are thicker, so that they shouldn't fit into a 2-pin non-earthed socket. The sockets have no guaranteed position for live and neutral, and some 3-pin dual sockets and adapters are internally wired in such a way that one of the pair will have live on the left, and the other will have live on the right. IIRC 3-contact plugs can be inserted into German earthed sockets either way round, there's no key.
I've never heard of the BNP, the Credit Mutuel or the Sogenal having problems with their online banking for years.
Credit Mutuel & CIC, October 2019
They're just as bad.
I think this started out as a New Yorker cartoon, but their website isn't so easy to access from Europe: https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/w/woofer.asp.
(Perfectly SFW, if you're worried)
If you can inject it into the local network of the system, and that system is configured to forward packets (which may be the default if it has multiple interfaces), the routing software will kindly forward it to the VPN device for you. It'll be encrypted on the way just like a local packet. This is presumably what the reverse path filtering would have mitigated.
I'd have thought that doing so wouldn't be OPTIONAL, if you're following those guidelines?
With words like " "WELCOME", "EMPHASISE", "REAFFIRM" and "STRESS" it all reads like a typical political "Me Too" kind of response, rather than giving any actual direction. Just someone wanting to be seen doing something.
pretty ironic they offer you "privacy", as long as you give it up to them
Yes, when I read "FPN creates a secure tunnel from the user's browser or device to the internet," my first thought was "to which particular bit of the internet?". A VPN needs two endpoints, and I'm not convinced that one which terminates on a Mozilla host will necessarily improve things in terms of tracking and marketing.
Except in a lot of cases they don't actually receive the benefits such as sick pay, holiday pay, etc. They stay employed as a contractor and retain all the risks that entails...
If they are genuinely self-employed contractors then it is up to their employer (i.e. themselves) to arrange holiday pay, sick pay, pensions etc., and to factor those costs into their rates. Just like the employer of a permie would have to do.
I think the original poster is conflating two things. There was the Marshall Plan and lend-lease to finance the war, which was not paid back.
IIRC there was also a separate $4.3bn loan from the US to help post-war rebuilding, that was indeed paid back finishing in 2006
Early 80s we had a VAX 11/780 delivered to our office. When it arrived it was clear that the packing crate wouldn't fit in the ordinary lift, but measurements suggested that the uncrated unit would just squeeze in. It was a bit over the lift's max weight, but the supplier reckoned that there would be at least a 50% safety margin for the quoted value, so all would be OK.
The VAX was uncrated in the lobby, slid into the lift, someone reached round and pushed the button for the 2nd floor and then sprinted up the stairs to wait for it. The doors opened to reveal the lift stopped about 5cm below floor level. 5cm may not seem like much, but when you have to lift a 700kg CPU unit which has about 3cm clearance all round for access, things get tricky...
They managed it, eventually, with some creative levering and much pulling and swearing.
it is therefore a simple logical fact that there can be no such thing as a backwards-compatible new version. You can't invent a way for a machine that believes all addresses are 32 bits long to receive or send packets with longer addresses.
That's not quite correct. There's certainly no way for a machine that believes all addresses are 32 bits long to correctly interpret longer addresses, but it can certainly process them to some extent if it thinks those longer addresses are just part of the data, say in a header extension.
The trick with any backwards-compatible protocol is to create packet formats that new-version systems can fully understand, and old-version systems can at least process enough to get them to some translator or gateway system from where they can be routed. It usually looks like a horrible kludge, which is why the IETF academics ruled it out, but it need not be impossible, at least as a transition measure.
The big problem has always been that if you plug an IPv6 device onto a network that is 100% IPv4, it's just a doorstop. There's no way, not even a kludgy, inefficient, way, that an unmodified IPv4 router can get an IPv6 packet to somewhere where it can be processed correctly.
As long as it has a FORTRAN IV compiler the biggest problem would be memory size. I remember porting ADVENT (the Jack Pike version) in the late 70s, it wanted 40K memory and the ICL system I was using had 25K max. Took a lot of tweaking with DA files to hold the message arrays but I got there in the end! As long as their system has 24-32K it should be doable. Happy memories!
