Posts by Missing Semicolon 970 posts • joined 18 Nov 2013
The efficiency rules for vacuum cleaners are rubbish. The result is cleaners that don't work properly. His particular beef was with the tests where cleaners under test could go into "eco mode" that met the power requirements, but didn't actually clean anything. He refuses to sell a product designed not to work.
You need 1500W or more to really shift embedded crumbs and fluff.
Is a real pain on local networks. Type (say) http://inkjet into the browser address bar, and if the HP inkjet to which I have assigned that name is having a sulk, instead of just producing an error, it a) Tries https://inkjet and then b) tries searching on google.
I now can't retry, as the original http://inkjet URL is gone. I must retype the damned thing.
The silly thing is, of course, that even with VAG cheating on their emissions, the total amount of NOx and particulates has not gone up, it's just not gone down as much as we expected.
If you check out graphs based in the 70's you'll see that the air in our cities has never been cleaner. I suspect due to a large degree on the replacement of ageing HGV and bus engines with Euro-6 compliant ones. (Stood round the back of a new bus recently? It doesn't stink nearly as bad as it used to).
The recent alarms on air quality is because the limits have been going down faster than engines can improve.
You say that, but across the various massive SNAFUs reported in this august publication, failing to do the bloomin' obvious seems to feature highly. Doing things badly/cheaply/dangerously is often caused by management pressure to get stuff out the door. Sometimes it's inexperience of the developers. Only occasionally is it "advanced nation-state actors deploying highly specialised tools".
Any one of the usual commentards here would have come up with an arrangement that involved the ticket machines being on a VPN connecting them to the central server, with a separate link to the web front-end and the account management. So the actual ticket machine network would have been nowhere near the internet (even though the data is carried over it). So that means that either this isn't the case - they were relying on secure authentication of machines to server over the open internet, or the web front-end in is on the same network as the machines. Ouch.
However, it could be worse. The network could be secure, but Network Railway's network has been compromised, and the ticket machines are the visible part of a wider infection.
Because the current driver (at least, the way it seems to be integrated into the Ubuntu variants) trashes any NTFS volume you browse to.
The old read-only driver just ignored NTFS permissions, so you could happily browse a mounted Windows system drive with impunity. The FUSE driver gives you the same experience, but it does it by replacing the owner of every file and directory you view with some internally-generated random generated UID. With the result that a mounted Windows system volume rapidly becomes unbootable. I'm amazed more noise isn't made about it.I know you can manually mount the volume read-only, but the default desktop auto-mounter mounts it read-write, with destructive results.
But exposure is judged by Bluetooth proximity. And that might be to a phone in another room, though a wall that lets 2.4GHz through.
Or, you could have your phone in your right pocket, and be to the right of someone. The Bluetooth signal gets completely absorbed by the wet salty meatbag in the way. There's a reason 2.4GHz is unlicensed, it's the peak absorption frequency for water, and thus useless for long-distance comms. And gets jammed by a microwave oven.
Is that still a borked hot mess of nerdly uselessness?
With an inability to simply tie a document to a spreadsheet, then merge the spreadsheet data?
The current mess requires that the data in the spreadsheet has to be bound to a database schema. And then the database is the source for data for the merge. Sort-of-ok, but if I give you the doc and the spreadsheet, you can't then do a merge, without a load of geek-level stuff to re-establish the link.
Deffo incompetent. What sensible person would see a leak enquiry starting to point at your mates, and then go "No, it was that Dom character, blame him!" and not realise that someone as smart as him (and as angry as him) is likely to know where the bodies are buried and what their email addresses are?
If it's about the "business as usual" at Health Trusts, you can bet that the Case Officer has a special deep in-tray, in another building, especially for those.
The big failure (I do wonder if this was deliberate) is that liability is purely corporate. perhaps there was a naive assumption that a company dinged with a GDPR fine would fire those responsible. In practice, medium-to-large companies just circle the wagons. Only with personal liability would things really change.
None of the extremely highly paid execs have ever had an idea to actually fix anything. Just like Governments, they just observe events, and call it policy.
Hardware business going badly? Fix the bad management? Noooo... declare it unfixable and sell it off.
Now we are Software and Services! But they can't do that so....
Now we are The Cloud! Only they can't do that either.
Anybody that hires IBM for anything must have been bribed.
Don't be daft. The low assets are because the directors will keep cash out of the company as much as possible, in order to prevent it being hoovered up in fines. Presumably the revenue from making these calls is already elsewhere.
The sole director will simply wave and smile at the receivers, as they consume the remaining assets in fees. Limited liability means just that - the Director and Sole shareholder's liability is limited to the initial investment. Mr Jones lost his £1.
Mostly laziness, I guess.
If they really enforced all of the dire penalties on directors who do this, I'm guessing that these lowlifes might be bit less inclined to take the money for the signature on the Companies House paperwork.
There's not enough available solar energy, in the right place, to power all of this stuff.
Plus it's a bit iffy at night.
And it covers up land that you might, say, grow food one.
And PV cells aren't the cleanest things to make, either.
So it's not just a matter of W/m2
I also notice that they are not switching off advertising until they've fixed the algorithm, they are continuing to use the infringing behaviour until they get around to fixing the code.
It's almost as if they think they have a basic right to whatever they have decided their business model is.
Like not manually-moderating Youtube because it's expensive, rather than admitting that in fact, fee video as a product is only viable whilst breaking content and copyright laws in most countries.
It's more like Heinz paying to have their beans in a prime location (aisle end, facing the door, say) and Tesco then putting a big sign in front of the display saying "Tesco Finest beans are even better, and cost less! just look here!"
So the advertiser thinks they are paying for a prime ad, only to discover that Tesco/Google products are always ahead of them, however much they've paid.
A couple of academics from UCNW Bangor proposed that building a set of medium-sized plants (around 400MW, IIRC) was actually more sensible that one or two mega-plants. I can't find the article right now...
It seems that some things don't scale infinitely larger. Aeroplanes and bridges come to mind.
The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing
Biting the hand that feeds IT © 1998–2021
