Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
If you have to rely on the Internet to feed your pet, you shouldn't have a pet. Sadly, there's a lot of owners who are merely owners and not a bud with their pet. It's a possession that they haven't a clue about.
One of the pure joys in life is when I feed our dog. You'd think she won the lottery or something. And when she's done, she comes and lays on my feet or asks to sit on my lap.
Also carry a packet of honey from one of the fast food joints. After the clamping, squirt some honey on it to draw some flies and maybe ants. Then go outside, have a cup of coffee, maybe a cigarette or two and then call the cops.
However, in the US atmosphere lately, one could probably be sued for using the vice grips... so maybe, clamp, honey, and leave....
Icon... I'm feeling a bit evil today....
I won't be at all surprised if we eventually do see a report of a death as a result of someone venturing somewhere stupid to 'catch' a Pokemon.
We're getting close now to this. There's been reports of robbings, beatings, people being hit by cars. There's also reports of drivers playing the game and racing to the next Pokémon. I saw a vid where a guy walked off a pier into a harbor. They fished him out and it turned out there was another guy already in the water from doing the same thing. Sorry... no sympathy here for those Darwin candidates.
For a bit of romance, it's sometimes useful to set something in-between...
For that, there's dimmer switches. Generally they cost less to buy and install than a couple of "smart bulbs". Been around for years and work very well and are totally secure from those outside of the house.
Valid points on the rest of your post.
I'm in America. I've been watching these shenanigans for way too long. Everything from local politics up to the top. Both parties heavily engage in this. If think otherwise, then you've not paid attention to any campaign ads. Negative campaigning isn't anything new.
But finger-pointing is American politic's basic modus operandi. It's all a blame game... blame the previous office holder... blame the opposition.... blame the schools, the media... etc. etc. etc. The result if the blame sticks is that the finger pointer gets elected.
Add to that for charging the batteries on the ground before take-off if for no other reason than to take-off and run into cloudy weather. Wouldn't want to do that with low battery power.
Actually, this type of plane might well work for private aviation and small, charter firms. I can't see a scheduled airline using them until there's some advancements to make them all-weather aircraft.
How do you know that you're opted out?
You don't know until you've tested it with a "push". I'm thinking of taking out old travel laptop (Win7) and doing the.... ahem... upgrade. Then open up browser windows for say.... the fundamentalist Christian preacher of the week, some radical Muslim site, maybe 2 or 3 porn sites of different varieties. Then watch see what ads come my way. Or maybe the FBI....
We know they do telemetry for a lot of reasons and what is been monitored never fully explained. Nor have they explained what they do with said telemetry. I'm almost curious enough to see what happens.
The new board should have a majority of non-executive directors, who should not be affiliated to BT Group in any way but would be both appointed and removed by BT in consultation with Ofcom.
So they get to pick directors.... "Honest, he's my brother-in-law, but we don't talk to each other... honest, it's a family feud thing.".
Where would we go beyond that limit?
Well the quantum computer that everyone is promoting but doesn't actually exist. Time and space are meaningless... wires not needed.. or something like that. Maybe it's a virtual quantum computer...
Mine's the one with the PR Manual on Quantum Computers in the pocket.
Says a load about the collective IQ of the people running the country.
It doesn't say anything about their intelligence, but it speaks volumes about their integrity.
Well.. that is where most of the Microsoft Tech Support "You have many viruses" calls seem to originate....
Got me coat, I'll go quietly.
I recognise all the words but have a problem extracting meaning.
Try this... "We have lots of meetings. The morning pastries are excellent and the lunch and beer are perfect. We also get write all this off our taxes and have a few manager types not on the premises so the worker bees get a few more things done."
So from the article and the email... is she going with the dinosaur? Or with the holding company? It appears that she's in the group going to Verizon which would leave more dosh for the shareholders. Maybe she is the poison pill we here about in the world of mergers and acquisitions?
Isn't that what celebs do? A quick look-around and listen-to will tell you that probably 99% of them are blowing smoke out their butt and haven't clue what they're talking about. Sometimes there's disastrous results such as the "vaccines cause autism" bit.. They should just do whatever it is they do.. be famous and vacuous and keep their mouths shut.
I propose that we take these opinion spewing celebs (or has-been celebs), put them in a trebuchet. When someone yells "pull", everyone else can open fire on the screaming pigeon.
Oh, not quite, he wasn't employing any family members and hadn't put a claim in to get his moat cleaned
Well.. as far as I know, there's next to zero moats in Texas*. If he had one, that might be a tip-off that things are not on the up and up...
*There might be a few around certain well-off oil types.
Up-to-date malware protection should be blocking the attack, Microsoft's post states
I see that the operative words are "should be"... The other thing is, since most users have file extensions turned off by default, they won't see the double dots or the extensions.
Seriously, MS, how hard would it be to set extensions on by default? It would save a lot of people a lot of grief.
Really? What this usually means is that "we're going to have fewer and fewer employees doing the same amount of work that many more used to do.". In other words... "row faster you scurvy dogs".
When companies start spouting this and the ever popular "we're adjusting ourselves to industry standards" it's usually time to bail out and look for something else.
Wasn't that the law of Kansas?
Also many others. Funny how the Religious Right here in the States want to implement what for all intents and purposes are laws that are the same as many in Radical Islam, but have different names.
I doubt they read the T&Cs but relied on a salesperson assuring them that they'd get a brand new replacement if anything went wrong.
That probably also applies to the lawyers as well.... greedy bastards that they are. Or they're going to try to challenge the warranty. If so, they're still greedy bastards... just maybe not as much a bastard.
Must be just one or two lonely types or someone doing "research". Rumor has it the party conventions are rather notorious for their randiness. A bit yelling, shouting, music to get people hyped up and they hit the night spots as soon as evening's events are over. Then their main event for being there starts...
Paris.. well because....
It's been two years. All of the relatives know their loved ones are dead. Time to move on.
They may "know" it (for some value of "know") but many don't believe it. Just look at some of the comments here on El Reg with all sorts of explanations for Apollo, plane crashes, 9/11,etc. People are conditioned in many places to needing to see the body. By now, I'm sure there's little that remains of the people on board that plane... but there are those that will insist.
Both Google and FB are presented with an advertising opportunity. Google could sell space on the side of it's balloon like they used to here in the States with the Goodyear blimp. Probably not very effective though due to the altitude and moving with the winds.
But FB has the solid gold method.... use lasers to write on the clouds.... or on buildings, or just about anywhere. There would be minimal drift since the aircraft would fly "on station" so they could saturate an area with laser light show type ads.
And where there's advertising, there's profit.
While I applaud the CNIL for their effort, There's little hope anything of substance will be changed. It might change for the French and the EU, but won't here in the States. That is unless MS does a massive re-think on this which is probably unlikely. Most likely, they'll just promise to keep the data in their data center in the EU.
On the surface, I agree totally and especially for the data broker part.. For example, lately, I've been getting calls from "Windows Tech Support".. on phone that isn't in my name. Yet they address me by name or if my lady picks it up, they ask for me. Now how in the hell a bunch of crims got my name at that phone number is strange. The only answer is that some place I've done business with* sold my info to a data broker. And that data broker didn't care who bought it, just so long as he/she got money.
*I do try not to give out the phone number to people I don't know. On websites, I use a throwaway cell phone. Just puzzling.
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